Twilight sipped her coffee while staring absently at her checklist, a process which caused a slight twitch in her left eye—or maybe it was all the coffee she’d been drinking lately. Unlike her normal checklists, this one was a mess, with whole lines crossed out and new items penned in. Try as she might, she was unable to find any books that provided much more than the barest guideline for welcoming completely alien visitors to Equestria and getting everypony to like them in the shortest period of time possible.