This story is a sequel to An Extended Performance
Having fled Manehattan after first saving the city and then wrecking Bottom Billing's office, the Great and Powerful Trixie attempts to make her way alone on the open road, building up her reputation and making contacts. She hopes to be able to one day return to Baltimare (and perhaps one special somepony) as a success in her own right. But a combination of bad luck, old enemies and her own unique personality seem to thwart her at every twist and turn. Can Trixie surmount fate and achieve fame by her own efforts? Or will her journey end in humiliating failure?
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A direct sequel to An Extended Performance and (to a lesser degree) of A Long Night at the Hippodrome. Takes place roughly from Season 1, from Episodes 3 "Ticket Masters" to 7 "Dragonshy," (June 25th to Late September, YOH 1500).
Darn you! You're writing these faster than I can read them!
This is looking promising. Will follow. Nothing to comment on at the moment.
Ah. The stage is set, the players in their places. Now let's light some powder kegs and make things really interesting!
I love how most of the action seems to be going on without Trixie. Whether it's the trio she passed in the diner or the drama in Manehattan, actual adventure seems to follow in Trixie's wake, while she's blissfully unaware of it. Silly blue horse.
Looking forward to more, as with all your work.
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Trixie is living her life as the heroine of an epic fantasy series that is mostly taking place in her own mind. This sometimes intersects with the epic fantasy series which is taking place in her outside world.
Piercing Gaze is going to be horrified when the Night Watch show up on his doorstep and he finds out that the brilliant, fascinating but very naive mare he's been hoping to hear back from for the past year is really and truly being chased by evil cultists.
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I can't wait for this. Trixie wandering around Equestria and just barely skirting by any Bad Stuff while once in a while really sticking her neck out there without fully recognizing the consequences of her actions makes me think of a rather vain, but just as innocently lucky, Mr Magoo.
"Trixie Lulamoon and the Alicorn Illusion" has a very Prog-Rock sound to it.
This has in me inspired the headcanon that Canterlot is so poorly built in a structural-defense sense because it's actually built as a spell matrix, Amestris-style. The entire city is built to help focus alicorns and high-level mages to accomplish certain tasks, such as raising the moon when it isn't your talent.
Or making a shield-bubble the size of a mountain. 
Stuff like that.
Then I thought that, perhaps, the Crystal City could be the same. The I thought that, actually, the Crystal City is that way. If you check the moments before the Heart lights up 'ol tall, dark and billowy, you can see the city streets light up in a giant spell matrix. The entire city is just an amplifier for the crystal-ponies' psionic love-energy; the city streets are a gigantic collection-grid, the Castle is a lens to deliver the energy to the center, and the Heart is the focus for the whole thing...
And like many of the small things you bring up in this 'verse, this is completely irrefutable canon.
Gosh I can't wait for more of this.
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