While Celestia runs the Day Court with the important business of keeping Equestria running smoothly, that leaves Luna to deal with the business of the Night Court. Sadly, this means dealing with those ponies and issues that could be charitably described as "nuttier than a fruitcake."
Such is the case when Princess Luna, her faithful court clerk Night Audit, and rookie night guard Star Cluster have to deal with a moose that unexpectedly arrives at Night Court just hours before an important ambassador is scheduled to arrive. Where did the moose come from? Why is it there? Will it stop eating all the royal ficuses? Will Celestia notice the chili powder in her toothpaste?
Cover image by Peetz
Chapters (7)
Hmm.. this has potential for more insanity and I like insanity.
This could be fun. Tracking
This is one of the better comedies I've read on this site. But why did Luna deny him the catapult money? Dread space wolves from Canis are going to be a major problem in thirty years!
-SoI
This is great.There were multiple points where I laughed out loud. Luna and Audit's banter is hilarious. Looking forward to more.
Thumbed, read later'd!
Darn it, not the ficus!
“There is, indeed, a moose eating the ficus.”
The banter is really, really good. Tracking.
Edit: I'm just going to drop this here...
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Heh. That's actually what inspired this fic in the first place. I was going to do a straight up parody, then the concept refined itself as I thought about it.
Thanks for all the feedback, guys. Rest assured, the insanity will continue, because you haven't met Star Cluster yet.
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MOAR!!!!
Not the legendary moose
I'll just leave this here
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I wondered how long it was going to take before that showed up.
I'll just leave this here....
Oh wait, I already did that, nevermind.
Fantastic.
Few things.
1. Spotted a typo.
Luna and Ngiht Audit looked at each other again, then chuckled - Night?
2. Star Cluster - Like. A. Boss.
3. Why in the name of all things Orchards and Apples has this not been featured yet?
4. MOAR!!!
Edit: Have you submitted this to EQD yet? http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/09/how-to-submit-to-equestria-daily.html
the moose will destroy us all
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A Møøse once bit my sister ...
No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse
with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given
her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and
star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo
Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst
Nordfink".
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So, I took your suggestion and submitted it, reluctantly, to EQD. The reason I say reluctantly is I've had bad experiences with submitting to EQD in the past, to the point that it killed any desire I had to work on one of my other fics.
This one didn't even make it to the pre-readers, being rejected for "excessive grammatical errors."
I have had pieces professionally published. Getting those pieces in print was easier than getting a fic posted to EQD. I'm sorry, I don't consider fanfiction something to stress that much over. So, yeah, pretty much my position is that I don't need the exposure that badly. Especially at the expense of the fun of writing the story.
Thanks for the suggestion though.
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Likewise. I delve more into the realm of poetry and prose then stories and I know that pain all to well. Make one wonder if they bother to read it half the time.
I also 100% agree that the pleasure tends to be more in the creation of the expression then the actual result.
FWIW, this is among the better humorous pieces I've read in a long while. Just something about it clicks for me. Also, the repeated use of a ficus is brilliant stroke of genius.
*Facepalms* oh this is gonna be good.
Another chapter?
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After reading, I forgot how much I missed this series.
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Love it!
Ahh, a magic moose. The must elusive of all moose.
"Official Annual Cheesecake Bake-Off Judge...”
SEQUEL!!
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It's a reference to a game similar to chess in Terry Pratchett's "Discworld" novels. I plan on going into detail in another story.
1886891 It is basically a game that makes me think of a game of chess but with fewer unique pieces (Only two types one side dwarves, the other side trolls) and that to win you must play two games, one as trolls and one as dwarves and the points from both games are totaled.
A more in dept summary is here
1886891 hmm. Interesting.
*Grins* Oh you are bloody evil
Also you put cop when you mean copy while discussing marshmallow fluff on encyclopedias
Is it a chocolate mousse?
That's a fast moving moose.
I thought this fic was dead.
An indeterminate moose. Sounds lke it evolved on the Disc.
Thud? THUD? Oh that is the greatest reference ever. Do you thus associate The sisters and Vetinari?
That is taken from 'science of the discworld' isn't it? The Bursar caught the magical disease uncertainty, which has precisely the same effect.
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No, actually. I've never read any of the Science of the Discworld books. I just thought the idea of a quantum moose was hilarious and came up with a suitably Equestrian name for it.
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Good Grief. You must think an awful lot like Sir Terry then. That name is more Discworldian than Equestrian, given the Ambiguous Puzuma, an animal that moves at near light speed, and thus cannot be proven to exist at any given time, and tends to suffer from quantum anxiety about whether or not it exists, or the Shadowing Lemma, an animal that exists in 2-dimensions and eats mathematicians, or the Quantum Weather Butterfly, which has wings with fractal edges of infinite length, and create freak weather for self-defence and as part of their courting rituals, or the .303 bookworm, which can go through a shelf of grimoires so fast it bounces off the opposite wall, or even re-annual crops, which are harvested the year before they are planted, and if made into alcohol give you a hangover the morning BEFORE, meaning you have to drink quite a lot to get over it. Sir Terry would be proud of you, I'm quite sure.
This made me laugh ridiculously loudly. I agree with King Kenya that the indeterminate moose really is a creation worthy of Pratchett.
This is very silly. I like it~