
:"Eh, alright. Name's Applejack, my family's been growin' apples for generations."

:"There shall be precious little light for growing apples. What can you grow in darkness, farmer?"

:"Uh, mushrooms, I guess, the ain't too hard to keep around."

:"
you just keep 'em in the dark and feed 'em sh-"

:"Very well. Go now Mushroom Jack of the Mushroom clan ... NEXT!"

:"The
what now?"

:"Hey de hey, Queen Meanie, I'm Pinkie Pie! I can frost cupcakes and throw parties, sing songs, juggle plates, and I even have the first ten minutes of a standup routine I'm workshopping to a few clubs around town!"

:"There shall be none of
that in my empire! To the Cheese Mines with you!"

:"Ooooooooo - now that sounds like fun, Black Snooty! Thanks!"

:"Glad you like it. NEXT!"

:"Name's Rainbow Dash, and I'm the meanest toughest fastest Pegasus from here to Whinnyapolis."

:"I like your spirit. Welcome to the Royal Guard. Next!"


*eek*

:"Cheese Mines. Next!"



:"Meh, it's probably not so bad - get to work in a cheese mine, mining cheese, in a mine."

:"
AAAAUUUUUGHHHHWWAAAAA"

:"I am Rarity, owner and operator Carousel Boutique, purveyor of the finest
haute couture to Canterlot's best dressed-"

:"And where do you think
they are?"

:"Cheeee..."

:"WELL! Your highness, if I may so bold so as to draw your attention to the condition of the castle we are sitting in."

:"Simply crumbling to pieces from the weight of what must clearly be millennia of neglect!"

:"Viewing these tapestries alone in their unrestored state hurts me to the core, so please, for the sake of all that is beautiful in this wondrous eternal night of ours, let me bring them back to their former glory!"

:"Laying it on a little thick there..."

:"Very well. Prove yourself. Don't disappoint me."
~Later~

:"
Et Voila! Fully restored neo-classical tapestries rewoven with fibres dyed with the juice of darkest nightshade, and inlaid with obsidian and sapphire!"

:"Congratulations. You are now head of castle decor. Next!"

:"Oooooh! Thank you-thank you-thank you! You won't regret it! If these walls could speak, they would be
singing of your glorious return of your Royal Highness ... "

:"And of the marvelous wall decorations!"

:"Tear these tapestries down, they remind me of my sister. How soon can you make new ones?"

:"F-f-f-five - five days..."

:"I expect new ones in three. Get to it!"
...
...

:"Who does she think she is, rushing me like that?"

:"Ungrateful Nightmare Moon..."

:"Not to mention what an ungrateful cahstle!"