This story is a sequel to Where Loyalties Lie: Honor Guard

After risking her own life in a daring adventure across the world to save Princess Luna, Rainbow Dash wants nothing more than for her life to return to normal. In her mind, what happened is in the past, and she wants nothing more to do with it. But a past abandoned is doomed to be repeated, and with an ancient threat rising beneath the snows, Rainbow may be the only mare who can truly save Equestria.

A Price of Loyalty story.
No longer canon to the 'PoL' universe; see author's note on chapter 1.

Sweetie Belle literally goes to Tartarus and back in an effort to find her favorite socks. Location of socks will be revealed in thousandth chapter. In the meantime, please leave suggestions for where Sweetie should look next in the comments.

This is totally just 4:00AM anti-writer's block fluff.
Sufjan Stevens

In these dark times, King Golud Thebilstetar has sent out several parties to begin scouring the lands for new viable mining settlements. This is the story of The Light of Dawn, a group of seven volunteers from the homeland Coupledye, searching out new resources in the king's name. It has been some months since they set out on their journey, and now, with supplies running low, the expedition leader Virtue has called for the party to set up camp. I'll let her tell the story herself. But first, here's the seven starting ponies:

(Left to right in cover art)
Ashwood (Male Pegasus) (Taken: Heavy Weapons Pony) - Woodcutter - Sociable, nervous, modest.
Saw Dust (Male Earth Pony) (Taken: WolfeyS) - Carpenter / Mason - Open minded, a bit reserved, dutiful.
Longshot (Male Pegasus) (Taken: ansontan2000) - Hunter - Self conscious, non confrontational, enjoys thrills.
Virtue (Female Earth Pony) (Taken: Telgin) - Expedition Leader - Slow to anger, assertive, but doesn't handle stress well
Harvest Moon (Male Pegasus) (Taken: Nyxalinth) - Farmer - Very self confident, open minded, slow to trust others
Panacea (Female Pegasus) (Taken: UnHerpers) - Doctor - Very calm demeanor, unassertive, likes helping others
Halberd (Male Earth Pony) (Taken: The Master) - Axe Pony armed escort - Confident under pressure, avoids crowds, often discouraged

Authors Note: This is a transcription of a Community Game from Dwarf Fortress. I am unable to claim any responsibility for the storyline itself, or any of the Pictures, as I attempted to join right at the end (Page 141 out of 143 at 25 posts per page). Had a pony picked out and everything.

Note by Telgin, The OP of Dawnpick, on the fort's chronology:

I'm also borrowing a bit from KingStrongbeard's backstory (hope he doesn't mind!) in that this would presumably take place quite some time before the events of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Celestia and Luna probably aren't born yet, and Discord (among other bad things) still runs rampant across the land.

The original thread can be found here.

A sequal, named Duskfields, can be found here.

A wiki for Dawnpick and it's fellow Dwarf Fortress Pony Mod Community Fort Glitterglen exists here. Please contribute if you have the time and energy.

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From the OP:

As of today, June 9th, 2013, this game has been over for almost a year. For anyone interested, I hereby grant permission to use the world of Dawnpick and any content produced by me in relation to it in the use of any further stories, games, artwork or any other media.

(Roleplay ran 11/19/11 to 2/8/13)

The night of the Gala was meant to be the greatest night of her life.

Then that mare ruined everything.

Octavia doesn't want to hear Pinkie Pie's apologies. They always fall flat.

After getting blasted by a wave of happiness, Sombra wakes up months later with a completely different personality and is forced to live with the memories of what he did and what he was. However, with a little patience, and a lot of help, maybe he can change that, and become something a bit better.

Story inspired by the coverart, courtesy the lovely GigaSparkle on DeviantArt.

Fun Fact: This is the first story (and currently one of only three) on this website tagged with Redheart and Sombra.

To say that Snails has always been a little different from most ponies would certainly not come as a surprise to most. But is it what's on the outside that marks him as different, or what goes on on the inside?

Commissioned by: Jake The Army Guy

Detective Babs Seed has lived in Manehattan her entire life. Nothing really much surprises her anymore. She's seen good, she's seen bad. What she hasn't seen is a dragon from Ponyville in a very long time.

After a request by her cousin, Babs lets Spike stay with her over time. When it's clear he's having issues of his own, Babs decides to give him the Manehattan treatment in order to learn more about him. However, she may be learning more then just a new friend in this case. She might be learning what it means to fall in love.

Every night, shunned and on her own, Luna watches the moon. Little more than a cold silhouette to the mortal lives on the ground below, she watches over Equestria in her own way. Despite her misery, she will not give up her post.

Rated "Teen" for suicidal themes.

Written for the Weekly Contests Prompt #10, though the idea had come a while before that. Original cover art by LethalAuroraMage. All credits go to her.

Unfortunately, since I deleted the old story, all comments were deleted. I apologize for the inconvenience, and I hope I won't discover that I need to rewrite the whole thing again. There were parts that were left alone, but a lot of changes were made.

On a train at night, anything can happen. Especially, when it happens in Manehattan.

A stream of consciousness, inspired by the song Elektrichka by Kino. May or may not be set in the same universe as Manehattan Blues.
🇺🇦Russian translation🇺🇦 by FoxcubRandy, edited by ColdSky.

The day music died so did my career. I can't say I'm mad, but damn, it could have waited till I was prepared to stop making music. Well, I'm not ready to stop. I have to do something to get back on the public's good side. Something...crazy...something... drastic..something... idiotic...something involving a sunglasses wearing, pony DJ.