Following Through now complete · 4:56am Dec 14th, 2015
I decided not to wait until after Christmas, and spent most of today finishing the writing for Following Through. And as an added bonus, it has made a (sure to be short) appearance in the recurring stories section of the feature box!
Memo to self: A 29:0 rating can be good enough.
I'm left with several story ideas based on what I've written here. There's the direct sequel, which would be a Pony on Earth story. There's an exploration of the interaction of humans and changelings. And there's the following more random idea:
I'm living the dream. I'm commuting to Equestria, building a career there, earning a good salary. I get to be a pony, use magic, and do what I love. On weekends and holidays, I go home, so I don't have to abandon my human relationships.
It's perfect.
Except now the FBI and IRS are investigating me.
It seems that earning a good salary with no company recorded as employing me raises a few red flags.
Now how do I report income earned in a fictional universe?
So how are you bringing this money back? Gold coins? If so, yeah the Feds will get a little squirrelly about strange foreign coins showing up. Secret service too perhaps.
3617498 In these stories, I've established a magical law that says value cannot be created or destroyed when changing universes. So any bits he brings with him will automatically be converted to the equivalent value in the local currency. Thus, no inter-dimensional arbitrage.
3617515 That popping sound you heard was from the entire Secret Service agency, as every one of the agents in the counterfeiting section exploded.
Agent: Sir, you need to see this.
Chief: What, you have a new counterfeit bill?
Agent: No, sir. I don't think so. It matches every test except...
Chief: What is it? Go on, spit it out.
Agent: We won't print this serial number until next week.
Sounds good. I can see shenanigans approaching!