Resounding Silence · 4:35pm Mar 28th, 2015
You may have noticed that I've published a new story, which has been tagged for easy access. If you've read it, you may have noticed the following lines:
"There's just no getting around it," said the other. "We need a third pony to make the song airtight."
"Just thinking about how that old nag took a verse for herself—"
As you might have gathered, this refers to Granny Smith's part of the song "The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000" in the episode of the same name. However, you may be wondering why it was so bad that she got a chance to have her say.
The reason for this is the concept of the versebreaker, developed by horizon.* Versebreakers disrupt spontaneous musical numbers, and one with Granny Smith's opportunity** could have ended the sales pitch faster than you could say "monorail." They do their jobs through a blend of magic, sudden rhythm changes, unrhymable words, and numerous other techniques that are still being developed.
That's what this blog is about. There's a collaborative anthology in the works. If you have an idea for a paranormal response team that uses strategically applied disharmony at the behest of the Equestrian Crown, then you can find the planning blog post here and a status update here. There are already a few stories in the former, including one by me.
*I think. I'm pretty sure he came up with it, but he thought he got the idea from me. I'm citing it as a Prachettian inspiration particle.
**In that very community.
Or, alternatively, a pony that just enjoys ruining other ponies' fun because she's a jerk.
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Darn self-righteous vigilantes, trying to take the law into their own hooves.
2918680 Trixie's Second Job.
Resounding silence 2B
Instant
Split second.
Destroy all songs.
With one last note, the harmonies faded, all is still.
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Er, actually, it's this. As a rule of thumb, my blog titles probably have a Magic card worked in them somewhere. Also, black doesn't get to destroy enchantments.
2919100 I should probably think out my cards more, not sure why it costed that way. When thinking about the I thought of just a sheer sudden absence of sound. Should cost some amount of colorless, four or five probably.
So...Discord as Venkman, Spike as Stantz, Twilight as Spengler?
I'm down wit dat.
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Twilight: There's something very important I forgot to tell you.
Discord: What?
Twilight: Don't change your key.
Discord: Why?
Twilight: It would be bad.
Discord: I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, "bad"?
Twilight: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every thaum in your body exploding at the speed of light.
Spike: Total harmonic reversal.
Discord: Well, I could do that any time I wanted, but still, important safety tip. Thanks, Twilight.
Thank you for the signal boost!
It's great to see the anthology coming together.