@KtarraMoon
I just finished playing it not long ago. It’s a pretty good game :D

In reference to my previous post: in A Link Between Worlds, Hyrule has a linked mirror world known as Lorule. A wizard from that world restores Ganon and essentially does a 7 sages steal to force Hyrule’s Triforce to come to Lorule and save it from destruction. Their version of the Triforce was destroyed by the royal family to stop a war. But because the Triforce is intimately connected to Lorule, and subsequently Hyrule, Lorule started to self destruct. Link’s counterpart was too cowardly to help with Hilda (Zelda’s counterpart) and Lorule, so he helps Link by being an item salesman and gives him a magic bracelet that can make Link go between 3d and 2d once activated. He can use rifts to go between the two worlds. So essentially, Star’s “curse bracelet” would allow him to temporarily become a hieroglyph pony and escape any trouble he gets into.

@KtarraMoon
They’re very tricky. Star is just lucky they’ve decided he’s a friend. Sure they still tease him, but at least it’s loving XD

@Badumsquish
Also, IIRC, hieroglyph ponies can travel via walls. If they consider ducts to be walls and part of the “tomb” as well, they can instantly teleport to his location. Shame he can’t assimilate the “curse”, though. Then Star can be like A Link Between Worlds Link and meld with the walls to get out.

@koschyy
Totally. One of the best adaptations of that novel ever, even though it also borrows a bit from Bride of Frankenstein, is Junji Ito’s comic adaptation :D

@Badumsquish
So Young Frankenstein was actually more accurate to the original story, then? No wonder I thought it had a better story than the 1931 Frankenstein film did.

@WanderingHolyKnight
Those old movies actually messed up a lot of stories. Like, the original novel of Frankenstein had the monster actually be really intelligent and well-spoken in spite of how horrid he looked, while the movie had him be this shambling zombie-like monster :D

@Badumsquish
I can’t help but be reminded of the scene in Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark where people’s faces melt off from looking at whatever was inside of the Ark of the Covenant.

@Badumsquish
Really? I didn’t know that.

@WanderingHolyKnight
That’s the neat thing about the mummy mythology, too. Originally mummies were attractive, seductive, and romantic, and original stories in the 19th century usually revolved around the protagonist meeting one and falling in love. It wasn’t until Boris Karloff’s The Mummy in 1932 that the whole “rotting zombie in bandages” became the predominant idea of what a mummy is :D

@Badumsquish
What you just described,to me,is a D&D Mummy Lord, which are super powerful mummies that can cast powerful spells and curses.

Of course, the pharaoh is clearly not evil, not to mention a lot cuter than a typical mummy lord would be.

@koschyy
Sphinxy’s off on her own. That pharaoh and her guardians are a different faction. She was a normal pony once, but she’s immensely powerful now since she’s a mummy who is thousands of years old. Her specialty are curses though, which use their victim’s own inherent magic against them :D

@Badumsquish
So is Sphinxy guarding her tomb as well, then? I guess that all makes a degree of sense.

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@koschyy
@Background Pony #E623
It’s not something they have the power to do, unfortunately. Their creator on the other hand is an expert on casting Somnambulan curses so she could probably turn him into one, but she’s busy sleeping off a hundred-year-long hangover right now :D

@koschyy
Because magic, that’s how. As for why? Doesn’t matter.

How and why would that even work?

Star Tracker is a lucky stallion for having a monster pony like him intimately.
But, I wonder how long it’ll be before he gets turned into a hieroglyph himself.

That’s a really lucky hieroglyph! :3c

@Twifan
They’re pretty quick, and can be pretty fierce when they want to be :D

While it is good that Star Tracker has so many protectors for him, I’d still be worried about that vent. Those Guardiangoyles don’t look nimble if something dragged Star Tracker into there. And I’m sure no one would try destroying the vents/walls if there was a chance it could hurt Star Tracker.

@FanOfMostEverything
@Dirty Bit
They love to put up random safety posters :D

@Setsugekka
@Background Pony #572F
@Background Pony #26A2
@Clever Clovers
Especially when it’s cuddling with a monster pone :D

@Twifan
Nothing’s going to touch Star Tracker here. Remember those living hieroglyphs are cute and irreverent, but they’re also temple guardians akin to the Guardiangoyles and even Ahuizotl himself: if anything actually tried to harm Star Tracker, they’d utterly destroy it since this is the first time ever the shy glyph has warmed up to someone :D

@Just Wayne
He enjoyed being dressed up in their outfit, so they were basically like “this guy’s alright” and warmed up to him. They do still tease him, but that’s the extent of it. Especially now that he’s involved with one of them :D

@koschyy
They and the rest of the things living in that museum actually behave themselves quite a bit around Star Tracker. He’s nice to them and turns a blind eye to all their shenanigans, so they have to behave themselves enough that it still looks like he’s doing a really good job as a night guard. Otherwise he might get fired, and the museum might hire a pony who actually cracks down on them XD

@WanderingHolyKnight
There was :D

Kinda wonder if there’s a cuddle pile version? That’d be cuteness overload!

Cute

Same

@Clever Clovers
Who says they aren’t working together to look for trespassers?

Glad to see Star Tracker still has that job monitoring those hieroglyph pones.

That job is worth it for wholesome moments like these.