Hidden in Plain Sight
Apr. 3rd, 2015 07:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twilightponyI am still pondering the dynamics of the Canterlot High world.
With time swinging back and forth, a pony without a tether would not know that they are reliving the same situation over and over again, the only changes being the changes mirrored from Equestria.
But unless that short swing in time is just a short while in the night, it still doesn't explain how there haven't been visitors from Canterlot High. It's in plain sight in a busy area. It wouldn't take long for some-body to accidentally bump into it and fall through. (Not a long time when there has been one thousand years of opportunities with it opening, like clockwork, every 30 moons.) At Equestria's end, it was in the Canterlot Throne Room. At the Canterlot High end, people disappearing into a glossy wall right in front of the school would have created a buzz that would have attracted the Sirens.
I wonder if Starswirl temporarily blinded the Sirens prior to leading them through the gateway and then moved the gateway at the Canterlot High end so they couldn't find it in the short swings of Canterlot High time? The best way would be to move it magically from one glossy surface to another in the Canterlot High World.
As for learning more about this puzzle without performing tests like removing Sunset Shimmer's tether, I fear I may be out of luck. Princess Celestia is very vague about the nature of this gateway and the world it leads to. She does know much that she doesn't reveal, as part of her way of nurturing all of Equestria and shaping events. But I fear that Starswirl the Bearded's notes about it are either lost, hidden or misfiled.
With time swinging back and forth, a pony without a tether would not know that they are reliving the same situation over and over again, the only changes being the changes mirrored from Equestria.
But unless that short swing in time is just a short while in the night, it still doesn't explain how there haven't been visitors from Canterlot High. It's in plain sight in a busy area. It wouldn't take long for some-body to accidentally bump into it and fall through. (Not a long time when there has been one thousand years of opportunities with it opening, like clockwork, every 30 moons.) At Equestria's end, it was in the Canterlot Throne Room. At the Canterlot High end, people disappearing into a glossy wall right in front of the school would have created a buzz that would have attracted the Sirens.
I wonder if Starswirl temporarily blinded the Sirens prior to leading them through the gateway and then moved the gateway at the Canterlot High end so they couldn't find it in the short swings of Canterlot High time? The best way would be to move it magically from one glossy surface to another in the Canterlot High World.
As for learning more about this puzzle without performing tests like removing Sunset Shimmer's tether, I fear I may be out of luck. Princess Celestia is very vague about the nature of this gateway and the world it leads to. She does know much that she doesn't reveal, as part of her way of nurturing all of Equestria and shaping events. But I fear that Starswirl the Bearded's notes about it are either lost, hidden or misfiled.
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Date: 2015-04-05 10:23 am (UTC)And hopefully not all his notes on it would be missing in some way.
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Date: 2015-04-05 08:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-04-05 11:33 pm (UTC)