You know the drill. Comicon. Cosplay. Merchant. Boom, Equestria.

I woke up not in a land of technicolor ponies, but within the lands of their dreams. They had no protector, no one to stave off the nightmares and keep them safe. So I took on that role, and watched over them as if they were my own.

Until recently, when their previous protector finally came back.

A thousand years ago, the Protector of Dreams, Princess Luna was banished to the moon. And tonight she finally returned.

Thanks to Arxsys for the wonderful cover art work!

My name is Eric, Eric James Carlson if you want to be formal and this is my story of how I got sent to Equestria by the Eris, the greek God of Chaos because Discord presented her with a game but i find out that Equestria isn't the land of sunshine and puppy dogs that it is on the TV show. Now i have to figure out what I'm gonna do while I'm here and stuck in the middle of a three-sided war. Admittedly I took a few ideas from Rust and Blackwing's Chess Game of the Gods world in that outside of Equestria sucks, the gods who like to mess around with mortals and a few of the weapons used but it is a different universe. Picture isn't mine but it matches pretty well what is in my head. This is my first fanfic and I know my grammer probably isn't the best but I'm not a professional writer so be gentle. Will add characters as they appear.

An unofficial part of the Chess-verse.

Life is a maelstrom of truths and lies. None know this lesson better than the Players of the Game. Some of the smarter people actually ask what they're getting into before they sign on for something.

Well, not me.

If someone asks you if you want to live again, you'd say yes, right? That's what I did (though I think I should have been more clear when I wanted to go back to Earth). Sucks to be me, especially since my Sponsor isn't even a god. I still had one thing, though: the twisted truths of friendships and the lonely lies of life.

Thanks to recycledhearts1900 on deviantart for the cover image.

On one of her rare (very much so) days off from royal duties, Princess Twilight just wants a little time to herself without having to resolve any crazy shenanigans of her subjects (magic, science, magical science, and the always informative sex-ed). Of course, such a blessing is mere wishful thinking in Ponyville.

Discord drops by looking to show the lavender alicorn his newest invention; Chaos Ball, a game for the whole family which combines all the greatness of bowling, chess, and dodgeball (hail the almighty bag of randomness). She doesn't want to play, of course, but the spirit of chaos has ways (many involving five-eyed, mini-skirt wearing, winged lizard/squirrel hybrids) of getting ponies to do what he wants.

Can Princess Twilight beat the draconequus at his own game, or will she suffer permanent psychological damage from playing?

Survey: "She's screwed."

Bob has had his job of shuffling about the various billions of dead in his hometown for nearly four-thousand years now. In all those years, he has learned three important things:

1). Most gods disapprove of Liches handling their dead worshipers.
2). Find one Jermlaine, and there's bound to be more.
3). Beating a god at chess does not mean you have 'conquered' them, and saying so is likely to get you smote.

Because of numbers one and three, Bob is about to be taking another trip to some place very far away, and meeting some folks that honestly aren't the strangest or most unusual he has met. Once there, he'll find out some things he'd rather wish he didn't know, browbeat some princesses into spiritual reform, and find out precisely why Equestria has such a lack of real evil.

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Crossover with Dungeons and Dragons, specifically a campaign setting of my own design.

Yes, Bob has a character sheet. Yes, there will be a link to it once it's cleaned up a bit.

ALSO: Looking for a drawfriend willing to pony up (har har) some art of Bob for the cover image.

Discord is balance between good and bad. Light and Dark. So whenever there's an imbalance, he must counteract that imbalance. What happens when the imbalance is a pony? And... he gives them a choice. Either he stays, to wreck havoc. Or they both go to stone.

Only, it's not her choice.

It's Celestia's.

Twilight discovers that she is a direct descendant of Discord. (Takes place before S3... Obviously.)

It was a day just like any other, Fluttershy was feeding her animal friends just like every day, looking forward to afternoon tea with Discord. When a bird she has never seen before waddles out of the Everfree Forest, and starts trying to eat her bear's fish. Confused, she takes the bird inside and calls for Twilight's help hoping she might know what has wandered into her backyard, she does. When Discord arrives, he and the bizarre flightless bird quickly become attached.

I don't own the cover image, duh.
I give full credit for the birds name to LightningBass94 who won 15 internets in my poll a while back.

With the invention of the magical radio, ponies from across Equestria await the first public radio broadcast, which will come from Princess Celestia herself. However, one week before the presentation an unauthorized broadcast powerful enough to reach every corner of Equestria appears. Its host? Discord.

The Multiverse. It is a strange place in which there are worlds where things taste like purple and two plus two equals fish and if you divide that by three you get salmon... truly a weird place.

My memory is awful, but after moving around so much in the Multiverse, I had thought I had pretty much done it all.

At least, I thought I had. You see, the Multiverse is like that. It will lull you into a false sense of security, make you think you know what to expect and BAM! You’re a black kitten in a world full of ponies that are every color of the rainbow and the pet of a baby dragon...

Honestly though, this isn’t even on the top ten of the weirdest lives I’ve ever lead... I think.

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Cover art was found on google, who ever made it is amazing and completely deserves all the credit. That person is not me, this is that person.