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Obsequiosity — [Comic Script] Alchemy by-nc-sa
Published: 2013-08-25 23:12:26 +0000 UTC; Views: 361; Favourites: 3; Downloads: 0
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Description ==Alchemy==

RARITY enters library, sees BERRY PUNCH at table reading, approaches TWILIGHT SPARKLE by the shelving.

RARITY:
Twilight, you are aware that she is in your library, are you not?  I thought she was banned permanently after the, uh...incident...

TWILIGHT:
Who, Berry Punch?  It's OK, Rarity!  Turns out it was a simple misunderstanding that could be fixed with a proper labeling system.  

RARITY looks on as TWILIGHT affixes a label to a shelf reading:  "Shelving not to be used for micturition purposes."

TWILIGHT:
Besides, I need her help for a magic spell I'm working on.

From the background RARITY looks disdainfully at BERRY PUNCH in the foreground as the latter drains a bottle of wine while reading "The Grapes of Wrath".

RARITY:
She's helping you with magic?

TWILIGHT and RARITY talking heads, while Twilight motions to complicated diagrams and periodic tables.

TWILIGHT:
Yes!  I've been assigned a classic alchemy problem: turning lead into gold!  But it's never been done before because the starting material is all wrong.  So I'm using a combination of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen, but it needs to be in a specific configuration to speed up the process.  What's more,since gold is so much denser, I'll need at least three quarters of a pound of material to make an ounce of gold, and that doesn't count material to practice with...

BERRY PUNCH approaches TWILIGHT and RARITY and tosses a small object to Twilight.

BERRY PUNCH:
Here'sh anudder'n.  How many more *hic* do you think you're gonna need?

TWILIGHT places the object, a wine cork, on a scale as RARITY looks on.

TWILIGHT:
At least five.

RARITY:
Wine corks?

BERRY PUNCH lines up a fresh bottle with the cork screw she's holding in her teeth.

BERRY PUNCH:
Hot damn!  Only two more hoursh 'till quittin' time!  Then we can go get shomethin' to drink...
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Comments: 3

Dragonjek [2015-07-03 17:59:10 +0000 UTC]

Er... what is the point of the corks, exactly?

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TheWrongestTrousers [2013-09-27 10:36:45 +0000 UTC]

Beautiful.

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Obsequiosity In reply to TheWrongestTrousers [2013-09-27 12:22:14 +0000 UTC]

It amuses me, but when the throwaway gag about labelling the shelves is funnier than the punchline, you have to shelve it until something better shakes out of the concept...

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