Happy Halloween!

You will get a new Nightmare Night chapter tonight or tomorrow morning. The second chapter, unfortunately, is only half-finished and might take another week. The main issue this time is work--I have a slew of intensive online training modules to go through, and I’m way behind on them. It’s a good skill to know, so I’ll do it, for the sake of my next job if my current one. For those curious, I’m learning about The Cloud, which is something all pegasus programmers would no doubt know how to do instinctively.

For the second chapter, it’ll be four sections, in the usual M-rated/interlude/M-rated/next-chapter-setup sequence I’ve used previously. The two M-rated chapters will conclude the Discord scenes and show one final one regarding our new Dragon Lord and Cyber Belle, who decides to give him a human-inspired treat while teasing and tweaking her big sister in the process. The interlude scenes, by contrast, will shift viewpoints to Sunset Shimmer as she enters the Friendship Castle and has her initial meetings with cursed ponies--namely, our post office crew--followed by the start of the confrontation between her and Eclipse.

You know, I’ve given the spotlight to pretty much everycreature else by now, so now it’s finally time for Sunset to shine and show what she can do. What kind of powers did she possess as a unicorn? What arcane and perhaps even forbidden spells did she learn to plot her path to power and hide her intentions from Celly? This chapter will begin to answer those questions, including why she’s so confident--or if you ask Delta Requiem, overconfident. Needless to say, Sunset Shimmer is not a mare you want to fuck with, either then or now. Eclipse knows this, but it’s quite possible the cursed ponies greeting Sunset do not...

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[Implausible Deniability]

What kind of powers did she possess as a unicorn? What arcane and perhaps even forbidden spells did she learn to plot her path to power and hide her intentions from Celly?

And, perhaps most importantly, which ones does she still remember how to cast?

"It's fine. It's like riding a bike."
"Do ponies have bikes?"
"That is entirely besides the point. I know those spells like the back of my hand."
"... Do I even—?"
"No, no, that one's on me."

[Firesight]

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And, perhaps most importantly, which ones does she still remember how to cast?

All of them, but I have a perfect explanation as to how.

"It's fine. It's like riding a bike."
"Do ponies have bikes?"
"That is entirely besides the point. I know those spells like the back of my hand."
"... Do I even—?"
"No, no, that one's on me."

Nice. I’ll have to see if I can incorporate that somewhere.