Setting: Sweet Apple Acres has changed. Once the heart of Ponyville’s warmth and community, it now feels... off. The orchard trees are taller, darker, and seem to lean in unnaturally. The Apple family, especially Applejack, have become distant, almost robotic in speech. The Apple Sleep Project, a supposed “health initiative” by the Apple family, is said to help ponies with sleep problems by using "natural remedies" harvested from a mysterious new apple variety—Duskgold Apples.

Premise: Ponies who consume these apples fall into deep sleep... but they don’t wake up.

Local ponies start disappearing. The townsfolk are told they’ve moved or are simply “resting peacefully” at the Apple Sleep Center, a newly built barn on the edge of the orchard, always sealed tight and guarded by Big Mac and Granny Smith—who also seem... wrong. Their eyes are dull, and they speak in eerie unison at times.

Your Character’s Role (Optional): You are a close friend of Applejack—perhaps Rainbow Dash or even an OC—and you haven’t heard from her in weeks. Worried, you investigate Sweet Apple Acres at night and discover that the Sleep Project is a cover for something darker: the apples are enchanted with ancient sleep magic, tied to the Wendigos. The Apple family made a pact to save their dying farm—but at the cost of feeding the orchard with ponies’ life energy. The ponies under the spell become part of the land—trapped in eternal sleep beneath the roots.

Twist: You find a journal written by Apple Bloom, the only family member who resisted. Her final entry warns: "Don’t eat the apples. Don’t sleep under their trees. And whatever you do… don’t let them catch you near the barn at midnight."

Midnight is fast approaching.