Night of the Living Apples started on October 19, 2018 and ended on November 2, 2018 and is a Holiday Event for Halloween. It was also active from July 18, 2019 to July 25, 2019.
Pinkie Pie: You know... if there's one thing I don't like about how evil sentient apples came to life and took over Ponyville and are gonna conquer the rest of Equestria... Well, it's EVERYTHING!
Applejack: Uh... You don't have to tell US that, Pinkie. That's why we're all hidin' down here in Fluttershy's root cellar! Remember?
Pinkie Pie: Of course I do! But SOMEPONY needs to do the exposition, don't they? THIS ADVENTURE ISN'T GONNA SUMMARIZE ITSELF, BY CRIMINY!
Twilight Sparkle: Um... anyway. I don't like all this, either... but I have an idea about how we can fix it.
Quest #1: Really in a Jam
Quest #1: Really in a Jam
"I think I remember a spell that will let me temporarily turn a pony into an apple... then, she can infiltrate the Apples' camp. Maybe even free Spike and let us send a message to Princess Celestia!"
Task/Skip
Task requirement
Rewards
Send Twilight Sparkle to research an Apple-fication spell. Skip: 5
Grown-Up Spike: Oh, no... it's one of the guards. Give it up, apple! You won't get anything out of me except my name, rank, and serial number... and I don't even have those last two things!
Apple Pinkie Pie: Spike -- it's me, Pinkie Pie! I'm just disguised as an apple now -- I promise! Cross my heart, hope to fly, sticka cupcake in my eye!
Grown-Up Spike: Pinkie's Promise... I believe you -- now get me out of here! I'm starting to go stir-crazy already!
Apple Pinkie Pie: You betcha, Spikey-Wikey! I'll just bounce up to this lock here and... Hrrrngh... Mpfff...
Milestone #1: Maybe Call a Cobbler?
Milestone #1: Maybe Call a Cobbler?
"... Gah! How do apples even WORK locks without useful appendages like hooves? Will somepony find a lockpick and put it in my mouth or something?!"
"Seeing Apple Pinkie try to unlock this cage with her teeth would be hilarious... if I wasn't the one in here! Why isn't it opening?!"
Good Apple: It is no use, Pink Apple... Only a true apple can open that cage.
Apple Pinkie Pie: Only Apples can use apple products? That seems really limiting to me... Wait. Just who ARE you, anyway? And why are you locked up like Spike?
Good Apple: Call me... Good Apple. For that is my name... The force that created us... created me differently. I am not like my brother and sister Apples. I don't yearn for conquest the way they do...
Good Apple: ... And they only seek war because Bad Apple is leading them. My first memory is of a battle between siblings... and then we found ourselves HERE.
"(Pssst! Pinkie! Wake up! I think he's almost done talking, and-- Wait. DID YOU ACTUALLY FALL ASLEEP IN THE MIDDLE OF TRYING TO RESCUE ME?!)"
Wait Time goes down for everyone and so does the cost (the wait and skip cost you see here is if you skipped all the quests up to this point at the start of the event).
Good Apple: ... And so he locked me away, never to see the sun again!
Pinkie Pie: ZzzzzSNRK! Oh... uh... absolutely! What an extremely long and very interesting backstory that I definitely listened to all of. Now, if we could just get back to breaking you out--
Apple Infantry: HEY! What's that pony doing with the prisoner?! Someone GET HER!!!
Pinkie Pie: ... Aw, muffins. I turned back into a pony in the middle of Good Apple's story, didn't I?
Quest #4: Make like an Apple Tree: Leaf!
Quest #4: Make like an Apple Tree: Leaf!
"Spike -- we'll be back as soon as we can, but for now, I gotta get out of here before those apple guards catch me! HOOVES, DON'T FAIL ME NOW!"
Task/Skip
Task requirement
Rewards
Send Pinkie Pie to find a way out of the Apple Base. Skip: 4
"Hurry back, Pinkie! I can't do hard time!!! I BARELY EVEN KNOW HOW TO PLAY THE HARMONICA!"
Pinkie Pie: Aaaahahahaaa! You can't stop me! You can only hope to contain me! Also -- please don't contain me!
Apple Infantry: Hold it right there! You're not going ANYWHERE.
Pinkie Pie: Am I, though? Your job is to keep ponies from ENTERING the camp without permission, right? Well, I'm not trying to ENTER. I'm trying to leave!
Apple Infantry: Hmm... You DO have a point. Bad Apple was pretty clear! ?No one gets in."
Pinkie Pie: EXACTLY! You CERTAINLY wouldn't want to overstep your authority here, would you? That way lies anarchy!
Apple Infantry: ... It does! You know what? Sure! Go ahead.
Quest #5: Hip, Hip, Puree!
Quest #5: Hip, Hip, Puree!
"THANKS! Lemme just dance on past you to the gate, then... Keep up the good work, though! Apples rule!!!"
Pinkie Pie: I couldn't get him free in time... I'm sorry. But I met a very different Apple who might be able to help us!
Applejack: Well, that makes at least ONE Apple who doesn't wanna conquer Equestria... Y'know, I've never actually missed those vampire fruit bats before, but now I wish they'd come back.
Applejack: Say, Fluttershy... Could YOU get a message to them? We could enlist them to eat up all those Apples, and--
Fluttershy: I wish I could... but I'm not sure I could even communicate with them... The only time I spoke anything close to their language was when I was one of them!
Twilight Sparkle: Wait... That gives me an idea. TWO ideas, in fact! We don't need the fruit bats -- we have the next best thing!
Quest #6: This "Butter" Work...
Quest #6: This "Butter" Work...
"But I have to go out and get the right spell components, first... And Fluttershy? You're going to have to trust me. ... A lot."
"I know I'm still locked up... but I swear I heard otherworldly shrieking coming from the other side of town. That... That's bad, right?"
Wait Time goes down for everyone and so does the cost (the wait and skip cost you see here is if you skipped all the quests up to this point at the start of the event).
Appledrac: Okay... She's secure, but... THIS is your plan, Twilight?! Bringing back Flutterbat? How's that gonna take care of the living Apple army?
Twilight Sparkle: Don't worry... That's just the first half of my plan. Unfortunately, Flutterbat is too wild and too much of a monster to be truly useful...
Twilight Sparkle: ...But I can use her as a template for a shape-changing spell to turn us into vampire ponies. And unlike Flutterbat, we'd still retain our personalities and intelligence.
Quest #9: The Beasts Awaken...
Quest #9: The Beasts Awaken...
"If everypony is ready... I can cast that spell right now! That Bad Apple that Pinkie mentioned may have an army... but they won't stand a chance against Vampire Pony powers!"
Task/Skip
Task requirement
Rewards
Send Twilight Sparkle to cast her Vampire pony-fication Spell. Skip: 6
Appledrac: Yes! Let's get rid of those Apples... Those delicious, DELICIOUS Apples!
Rainbow Bite: You said it! I thought I liked cider before... Now, I CRAVE it!
Nosfurarity: (And I finally have an excuse to wear this cape!)
Drinkie Pie: Ooh! Can I turn to smoke, too?! That'd be SUPER COOL!!!
Quest #10: Battle Within the Mind:
Quest #10: Battle Within the Mind:
"It sure is sad that Flutterbat has to be tied up in her own basement having a dramatic internal struggle with her dark side right now... She's missing a REALLY fun time!"
"Okay, so Pinkie Pie just broke me and Good Apple out of our cells with her vampire strength? So... I'm pretty sure I know what's going on now."
Flutterbat: So... hungry... I want to FEED... I want to be FREE...
Fluttershy: No... You're too wild! You need to... to control...
Flutterbat: I am not control... I am HUNGER! I will... I WILL BE FREE!
Fluttershy: You're nothing but an animal... but I know how to talk to animals.
Flutterbat: I... I... Wait. I'm me... I'm Fluttershy! I'm the one in charge again... Well, pretty much, at least. (Even if I DID break my restraints while I was talking to myself...)
Quest #11: Into the Night Sky
Quest #11: Into the Night Sky
"Oh, dear... I remember now. My friends flew off to fight the Apples without me! They're not used to being Vampire Ponies, like I am... They could be in trouble! I have to go help them!"
Task/Skip
Task requirement
Rewards
Send Flutterbat to race to save her Friends! Skip: 5
"Can't talk! Running away from a swarm of evil Apples with five of my vampire-ized friends! Wait... What's that shadowy figure up in the sky...?"
Twilight Sparkling: It's no use... The Apples are on to us! Without the element of surprise, there are too many of them... I don't know what to do! I don't...
Twilight Sparkling: Fluttershy?! Is that you? You... you're helping us! What happened?!
Flutterbat: While I was tied up, I had lots of time to think... and to fight for control over my vampire self. And I think I finally got it!
Flutterbat: But best of all... Do you see that flock of vampire fruit bats? In this form, I can talk to them! And they've agreed to help us fight back against Bad Apple and his army!
Milestone #3: Fly, My Pretties!
Milestone #3: Fly, My Pretties!
"Whoo-EE! Then what are we waitin' for? Let's go clear the field! The sooner we take those Apple soldiers, the sooner we can take the fight to Bad Apple himself!"
Drinkie Pie: They're retreating! We did it! YAY US!!! Uh... What do we do now, though?
Grown-Up Spike: Oh -- I know! I know! There's this meteor that landed in the orchard... that's what changed the apples! I heard them talking about it when I was locked up...
Twilight Sparkling: So... you're saying if we destroy that meteor, it might stop bringing new apples to life? That's a great idea!
Twilight Sparkling: Now that the Apples ran off, that meteor should be unguarded, too... Let's regroup and make a coordinated assault on it as soon as we can.
Quest #12: Victory...?
Quest #12: Victory...?
"Solid plan, Twilight! But I can't help but feel like somethin's not right... Those apples are almost bein' TOO quiet, now."
"Okay! We're just about ready to make a run on that meteor, and... Wait. What's that ominous rumbling sound?"
Wait Time goes down for everyone and so does the cost (the wait and skip cost you see here is if you skipped all the quests up to this point at the start of the event).
Bad Apple: NO! We are not finished! We have not yet BEGUN to fight! Come, my Apple army... gather to me! If we cannot have Ponyville...
Grown-Up Spike: Whoa... Bad Apple combined all of the other Apples into a giant, sort of... familiar-looking, strangely handsome Apple thing! With him in the middle!
Good Apple: One thing's for sure: You have to get rid of that meteor before it's too late! That's the only way we can be sure that it doesn't create any more Apples ever again...
Quest #13: It came From Out There...
Quest #13: It came From Out There...
"Good point. Drinkie Pie, Spike? Take all the meteor shards you've found so far and come with me to the Crystal Mine. The rest of the meteor should have landed there... That's where we'll deal with it!"
"Meteor blasted into space with one of Drinkie Pie's party cannons: CHECK! Now all we have to do is figure out how to beat that monster..."
Quest #14: Look Within...
Quest #14: Look Within...
"I hope Twilight and the others were able to handle the meteor... My vampire fruit bats have been attacking the giant apple monster all this time, but that will only stall it! We need a better solution..."
"*pant... pant...* Is the giant apple monster gone yet? I've been running back to Ponyville as fast as I can... but now I'm scared to look!"
Mighty Apples: RUN! RUN BEFORE THE MIGHT OF BAD APPLE!!!
Good Apple: Wait... I've got it! ALL the Apples are in that giant monster... so if someone can switch ME with Bad Apple, I should be able to influence the other Apples to stop destroying everything!
Rainbow Bite: Ooh! I call dibs! That monster won't know what hit it... aside from my trademark Sonic Rainboom and ponies doubtlessly chanting my name.
Milestone #4: Long Night's End
Milestone #4: Long Night's End
"I'm only gonna get one shot at this... Gotta get the angle exactly right -- or else Ponyville's gonna need a LOT more un-stomped-on houses!"
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