(Transcript taken from AFTER EIGHT and SKETCHY SOUNDS)

AE: How did they hear about the floods? I haven’t scripted anything mentioning it?

SS: Maybe from some other source? We aren’t the only ponies sending messages out to the humans, after all. There are other blogs, heck, other mascots too.

AE: Nothing official I’ve heard. As far as the D.I.D.R are concerned we need to reinforce the glamour Equestria has for these creatures. A city-wide disaster won’t do much to help that image of us as the wonderful magical kingdom they take us for.

SS: What do they take us for, exactly?

SLIGHTLY ECCENTRIC trots in.

SE: Hey guys, could you come lend a hoof? The barricade around the palace has breached and we need help shifting sandbags! It’s threatening to take the archives now! Come on! (receding hoofsteps)

SS: Right, let’s go. Afters, we can wrap this all up later. Should we go and get her to come along too? Could probably do with a magic user on hoof. Would be nice to see her actually do something useful as well.

AE: No, leave her to it. This really isn’t her area of expertise.

SS: Isn’t really ours either…that’s the definition of a crisis, dude. Question is whether we choose to make use of what we can. Come on, I think the exercise will do you good. Sitting at a computer for days on end has not been doing you any good.

AE: I’m not sure whether it’s doing any of us any good any more.

(Transcript ends here)