A drop-out mage that meddles in things forbidden should take care not to be caught, and if one is, the last thing you'd want to get caught by is a trickster god with a sense of humor.
Add a unicorn lost in limbo in need of help getting back home, and the beginning of a journey fraught with danger, mystery and trickery is set. A journey to find the way to the ultimate goal he's been chasing for years, but which can only be found if he learns the answer to the question of what it means to be a trickster.
Chapters (4)
This still exists?
Well this was an unexpected notification to get. Exciting.
I could have sworn I had the old story saved somewhere
Lemme go check my desktop
I sent the old version I had saved to the author using the site's mail function
the file was like 9 years old, christ
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No worries dude, I have the old copy myself. I'm just redoing the story. But thank you for effort, hope you enjoy the new version. Maybe I should rename it Machinations of a trickster 2.0 or something to avoid confusion.
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Idk, man. It's your story, and I honestly forgot it existed, until this popped up
It was in the files I copied from a laptop of mine that was giving warning popups that the hard drive was failing.
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I lost my backup years ago and I would really like to revisit the old version. If you both agree, would you be willing to share the epub or whatever form of backup you guys have?
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I've just got a .txt file. Come to think of it, it might be in one of the fimfiction archives that I've seen people maintaining. It was like a 7 gig zip last I looked
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Do you have a link?
This is quite interesting. Can’t wait to see more:D
I'm sorry... What? I had COMPLETELY written this one off. I remember loving this story back in its original version, and I am very interested in seeing how the re-vised one does.
Oh, WOW. I thought this was dead! Awesome! It's been one of my favorite fanfic series of all time, FiMFic or no. Looking forward to more!
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I do not
I knew you would return one day! Glad I picked today to check my 400+ feed items lol.
Going to check this out tonight, the original was one of my fav fics from back in the day so I look forward to visiting the world again. Anyway, happy to see you back Deviance
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Oh my dear sweet lord above it lives again.
...Well, I hope. Gonna look forward to reading through this again, that's for sure!
Story aside, how are you doing, Deviance? It's been quite a long time.
Thanks for coming back!
It begins!
Once again I just want to say I'm stoked to see this coming back.
No lie, some of the concepts in this and the later stories inspired some things in my own fic so for anyone new to this story I can tell you it's well worth reading!
Well, must say I'm shocked, I was in the middle of reading this years ago and it just disappeared, I had slowly convinced myself it never existed. Glad it's back though, I'm excited to rediscover this story. Just kinda shocking to be blindsided by a ghost memory from back then, very surreal feeling.
This is like what, the 3rd or 4th iteration of the story? It's always nice to see an old favorite still putting stuff out there, but at the same time it's a shame the old story is gone unless you can find it archived somewhere or someone happens to have a copy to send over. I almost wish you would just republish the old and completed first story for people to enjoy. While I remember this fondly, at this point this story gets deleted and republished so many times randomly that I think I'll only bother if it actually gets completed this time around. Would be cool to see you instead continue the saga with the planned, but never published sequels.
Hope you have been doing well!
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Understandable. Back in those days it was a little different and I was just making it up as I went along. The later iterations was a way for me to try and go back and refine my skills since I couldn't even begin to read it without cringing so hard it felt like physical pain sometimes. I've had plenty of time to consider Karon at different moments since then and am in a much better position to write a final/complete version of it.
Although for the moment I only have time to write on my Sundays so progress is slow, but I'm trudging on. Got some cool shit planned for poor old Karon.
And for those that want the old story you can find it on fimfetch. Just google "Machinations of a trickster fimfetch" or similar and it should be first hit or thereabouts. Same with "Starlit Paths."
Nice chapter. Seems odd that you'd change the art after just 1 chapter though.
I can imagine escaping from proverbial or maybe literal snakes dripping venom on you, might be a little troublesome, even if some obstinate little mortal is calling your name :P
Ah yes, the "library". I recall that now. All sorts of interesting things seen and smokeyfirey unseen.
Twilight is best magical brain tumor.
Boy, nothing makes things interesting like trifling with the rules of realms of much higher powers.
Nice chapter. I wonder if this'll end up with what'shisface turning into some demon thing while repeatedly failing to turn it to his own ends, again.
I was disappointed last time that we never saw him succeed the trial, or whatever it was
Crazy to see this again I was just thinking about this story some weeks ago.
It's been years so it certainly left a lasting impression.
Looking forward to rereading this
Sometimes the only way out is through, even if it's not a very fun "through".
I can't quite even begin to imagine the words needed to convey the sheer "oh fuck" feeling going on here. But uh...yeah.
Now here’s where things are really gonna get interesting. (I think)
Karon is SO lucky
cannot understand his words .
It's been a while , so I don't remember the previous solution, but since the god named him after the ferry man, maybe the way out is collecting energy for another body and astral projecting through another afterlife?
Or perhaps building some kind of magic boat?
Yep. The "I come in peace" approach certainly didn't last long.
Hehehe stalker Lyra.
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I don't recall either but I think it was a fairly big event that got him back to the other side if memory serves.
I'm trying to remember the significance of the inner voice because I think I recall it being a little bit more than Karon having internal dialogue?
It's nice to read this story anew.
I distinctly recall that communication was easy with no language barriers in the original, but I really quite like that this time they ARE present.
I don't know if it is his sense of reality getting shook and acting more on dream logic, but he seems... more than a little stupid in the way he's acting in the library. Not even trying to communicate with anything other than words. Let's hope get knock some sense into him. Maybe with force.
Old timer here. I think I still have the old version catalogued somewhere. It's been a few years...
I'm liking the flow of your writing more than what I can remember of the old story. It's got a tad bit more... character? It feels more descriptive maybe. Not sure. Either way, glad you're revisiting this and still tackling it.
I'll be around for more, I check this site probably once a month or so just to see if there's any updates since I've basically abandoned this fandom, but there's stories like this I still enjoy. So I'll be back.