Chapter 19: Published April 13th 2013 was on a Saturday and was in week 15 of 2013.
As of this writing it was 2926 days ago
MLP FiM would air Season 5, epi 4 "Bloom & Gloom" on April 18th 2015
Right out the gate the Scholar makes a comment about how one of the worst things that could happen is some students being overzealous journalist and causing a political scandal. Hmm.. that sounds an awful lot like the Season 2, epi 23 Ponyville Confidential you got to love the little nods back to the show. Like I've said, you don't need to like or even know about MLP or FiM to enjoy the story, I feel like it just gives a premade background full of fun things to go look up.
Did I remember that ‘magical contamination’ can mean damn near anything it wants to?
LOL Point
Hmm, herded into the boiler room hum?
The heart in my pocket began to thump so hard it was rocking in my coat. I put my hoof on the box, petting the wooden surface, and the heart quieted somewhat. Not for the first time, I wondered why I wasn’t more disturbed by its presence. Simply having it on me felt perfectly natural. I had a growing suspicion that if somepony attempted to separate me from it, we might have a problem. Briefly, I wondered if the heart had a similar effect on King Cosmo.
Oh man, I forgot about High Spirits. His diary reminds me so much of those stories you can find in the Fallout series. You know, the ones that aren't important to the plot but still fascinating? I put the diary entries under High Spirits Who's Who page.
Oh hey look, the chapter ended. Lets have a peek at the comments, 43
This chapter has a lot of the same feel as a Stable chapter from Fallout Equestria, very similar tone of days-gone-by mixed with the erosion of the pillars of society due to mad tinkering.
My driver made the motions of playing a piano. “It’s calliope music.”
YEP. CREEPY. DUNNO WHAT I WAS EXPECTING.
Wait, Calliope music is actually a thing? What?
With a name literally meaning "beautiful-voiced" (from kallos, meaning "beauty," and ops, meaning "voice"), Calliope was the most prominent of the Muses-the nine sister goddesses who in Greek mythology presided over poetry, song, and the arts and sciences.
Chessie really likes to pull from Greek mythology, but that is also a pony thing.
A calliope (see below for pronunciation) is a musical instrument that produces sound by sending a gas, originally steam or, more recently, compressed air, through large whistles—originally locomotive whistles.
... hmmm
learn something new every chapter
How delightfully macabre, master Chessie.
The elementary school I attended when I wert but a boy (situated but a wee distance from the old house) had a teacher whose favorite phrase included the words 'high spirits'.
Hence, this chapter is particularly choice.
Chapter 19: "The Cruel Tutelage of High Spirits" - well "The Cruel Tutelage of" can refer to a few things that also include things from kill bill.
And I'm still waiting on finding out who the father of that egg is!
What? Someone down voted a siggy vote? WHAT? WHY
Damn...I had a massive mishmash of chills and feels when everything came together with the boiler and the callioupe music...
nice chapter here, one of the twins (i can't remember the other's name, only boil) reciting sciency jargon reminded me of Oleg from saints row 3, va bene mi amici.
i have a bad feeling about that heart
ChessieForget I said that. I just had to get used to reading first person (or should I say pony!?!) again.
Also,
“Whyfor would you wish to cure it?
Needs a space.
And lastly I really like the way you described high spirits fall to insanity. At first, he described how happy he was to be there and it would be great even though he was sleeping (living?) in the boiler room. Then as his life falls apart between losing his lover, misbehaving foals and a principal that's a total b*tch. The way you described the writing of the diary as he fell to madness is awesome as well. (How is horn writing just turned to scrawling) (just going to point out, in my mind I believe it was from over-exertion of his magic)
2452747 Heh, you know, Gypsy was actually an incidental thing? We needed a character to help us world-build things as they happened to ponies besides Hardy. I didn't realize how much like Homage from Fallout Equestria she sounded until after I'd written her and gone back to read F:E again.
I'm going to give her another segment in an upcoming chapter, just to make sure nobody forgets about her.
-Chessie
I am just a first couple pages in, but it looks great and hilarious already. A main character in a noir tale named SWIFT CUDDLES? That's just about priceless 
Ok, back to Detrot now...
There are a thousand stories in the naked, hooved city.
Chessie and Kasen tell ALL of them 
Just plan ahead, guys—go as dark as you want, I trust you, as long as it leads toward a purpose. I notice Hardy's bonding with the heart—definite HMMM there. 'Even then' he suspected?
Still a wonder, and I'm still hanging on every word 
Applejinx We've actually only told a fraction of the ones we've come up with. If we were to really try to tell EVERY tale that we've had an idea for, we'd be out of our minds by now.
Keep in mind, you guys know next to nothing about the main characters as yet and we still haven't introduced the fourth one.
-Chessie
Poor guy, I also feel bad for Calliope, she was just trying to help. 
Detrot claims another ponys' sanity. Is it just me or is Detrot sounding more and more like a place that needs to be nuked with a megaspell? After you get Swift our of there of course. 
meerkat8472 That Scootaloo emoticon looks WAY too much like Swift.
Yeah, Detrot's a horrible place, but that's kind of the point. Keep reading. I promise it's not all darkness.
-Chessie
I say the last part of Spirit's spell made him bind himself to the school. A ghost that has lost its marbles is even worse than a vengeful one. The vengeful one can be counted on to act a sertain way, the crazy one can do anything and everything nasty.
So, Detective Hard Boiled and a group of pleasure ponies stumble across an eldritch nth-dimensional structure accompanied by a notebook with feverish scrawlings? Looks like a real... 
H.B. & Lovecraft situation.
I want to smack you, but I want to kiss you.
CONFOUND THESE PONY PUNS, THEY DRIVE ME TO EMOTIONAL CONFLICT
Was this chapter inspired by Edgar Allan Poe? I felt a serious Gothic vibe from this one.
YES
Clearly, once High Spirits fixed the leak, he was finally able to get some rest, after which he won the lottery and moved to the Bahaymas, where he met a nice pegasus mare named Coconut Colada who made him forget all about Calliope. Yes, that is exactly what happened. 
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