The story you know as A Rather Large Adventure was not always like that at first. My original plan for the story was wildly different. At the time this idea was formed, it was just a daydream. But as the details got more and more complicated and vivid, I resolved upon myself to craft a coherent story and look for similar examples, which is how I got onto this website in the first place.

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I’m done calling myself a brony. There are a ton of reasons why that’s the case, and I’ll do my best to address them below.

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How many more chapters are there? How much more do I have to put myself through?

Ten. Ten more chapters. The story will have ninety-five of them. Technically, there will be eleven uploads, since one of the chapters is a two-parter. And lemme tell you, these chapters are dense with material. It's honestly a miracle I got everything connected as well as it is. All the pieces are in place, and the final climax is ready to explode.

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On Monday, I'll release the next two chapters of A Rather Large Adventure. The first is Turning Hearts, dealing with the, uh, turning of hearts from evil to good... and from good to evil. Even more character reunions abound.

The second is called The Corrupted Element. Starlight and Tempest witness a ceremony conducted by the unfeeling and evil High Priest Ajax, but it's interrupted by the most unlikely individual imaginable.

Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me, happy birthday dear Braden, happy birthday to me.

We got that out if the way, right? Now I'm not a teenager, but I still can't buy alcohol. Weird. But irrelevant. Alcohol's kinda cringe anyway. (I already talked with GivingSpider about this.)

Anyway, woohoo me. Thanks for all the wishes you guys have already sent me. You make me feel special.

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But I'll release it in three days on Monday. It just so happens to be my birthday that day, and that'll be my present to you guys, but mostly to myself.

It's gonna be called Friends And Devils. But who's the real devil here?

They probably dragged on a lot longer than they needed to. There was too much dialogue, and a lot of it was corny. I could have handled prospective romance way better and fleshed out each of the characters. There were plot elements I introduced that had no real payoff. If I really wanted to, I would redo it all.

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"So, Brady, what's in it this time?"

Oh, you know, it's a little dark, a little gloomy, and as always, he-hey, full of dead ponies. Minor character deaths, intense PVP combat, general drama, man vs self, that sort of thing. Oh, and a new location to be discovered: The Temple of Mount Doom! (Or something.) I mean, the chapter's literally going to be called Mount Nevermore, so... Yeah. Uh, check out the story? Please?

Feels like it's been forever, huh? I get it. I lost my mojo for a while. Preoccupied with other things. But I finally finished a new chapter! Releasing very soon.

Finally! This one is short, but it took a lot outta me to figure out how it'll work.

I mean, I look at my earlier work and I'm shocked. Did I really use to be so verbose and overdramatic? I tried to not emulate the blandfics I've read before (you know the ones-- seventh Element, romance with one or more of the Main Six, weak characters, edgy characters, a long Slice-of-Life portion, sympathy points, slow humor, paragraph blocks, etc) but I ended up becoming the very thing I swore to destroy.

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Read it in the tagged story now!

The next few chapters are ready for deployment. Stormkeeper part 1 will release early tomorrow morning. Stormkeeper part 2 will release a little bit later in the afternoon. Finally, the chapter following that will release on Tuesday. I won't say the title of it, because that'd be a pretty big spoiler.

Gosh, this was an endeavor. Each chapter is over 9000 words long, and I've rewritten and revised and added so much to these guys. Trust me, you're gonna like 'em.

And I'll post it tomorrow, I promise. It's called The Siege of Foal Mountain. About 9k words, and a ton of rewrites. I wrote seventeen pages of material in three days. Yay me, I guess.

After months and months of waiting, writing, rewriting, editing, adjusting, adding, subtracting, and multiplying negative integers, I have finally released the next chapter: Elemental Fury.

Man, action scenes are hard to write.

First off, my Starlight Glimmer ASMR fic is in the queue right now. So that's nice, I guess.

Second, the next two chapters of A Rather Large Adventure are nearing completion and will be released tomorrow. Noble Blade loses his legs. And sword. Wait, what?

Third, where I live the cases of the virus have gone waaaaaaay way up, and unless you're a social worker, we're under orders to not go outside for any reason at all.

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And two of them are two-parters as well, so you already know it's gonna go down hard. I've worked on these more in the past few weeks, but they're not entirely complete yet. New chapters are still on the way, though!

Note: none of the following pictures are in order, either. They could be in any order!

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I'm working on it, I promise. I know I left you all on a pretty big cliffhanger on the last chapter as they're all charging into battle and whatnot. But I don't intend to leave you anticipating it forever.

I'm actually working on the next half-dozen chapters at the moment. I just have the right ideas for it all in succession. Sometimes I'll work on one chapter, then the next. It's hard with my current college work, but I swear I'm doing my best.

The next chapter's titles are as follows:

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Noble had lifted the book off the table to look at the title and Firestorm had sat up in his seat abruptly. Noble saw the title of the book and put it back down on the table, and Firestorm snatched it up quickly. “What was that for?”

“I only wanted to know what you were reading,” Noble simply said. And he then smiled. “Les Miser Stables?”

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