Though perhaps not in their final form as I'm still waiting for a preread from Silentwoodfire and Denim_Blue. They'll get to it later, but Part 38, you may recall, was the first all-new bonus chapter I wrote back in the day, and it remains one of my favorites for showing what happened the second morning before trial. I didn't think it needed much updating except to correct my violet unicorn syndrome (seriously, all my usages of it are painful to read now!) and also to tone down Phoenix's charm

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Part 46 - Eye of the Storm remains my favorite standalone bonus chapter, detailing what was happening during the recess between Fluttershy's testimony and Sonata's. It showcased everything I was trying to do with the expanded story, from the shipping to the explorations of what was happening around the trial, taking a peek in at everyone from Twilight's friends to Lenora and Cruise

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You may recall that in the videos, Trixie convinced The Judge to limit Phoenix's first cross-examination of Gilda based on the simple fact that she 'had an important job' and 'was very busy'. In reality, not even The Judge is so big a pushover he would let her get away with something so brazenly in defiance of court rules, so in Part 40 - A Mythological Witness I changed the

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Thanks go to Denim_Blue, AJ_Aficionado and Silentwoodfire for getting to all this so quickly. There were three major upgrades to Part 53 - Fight or Flight, which is Sonata's confession chapter. Taking them all in order:

1. How did Sonata evade the Magatama?

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In all the rush to get a second Firefly chapter completed by September's end, I forgot to announce that I had a couple more TAS chapters updated as well.

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A lot of cleanup, one big new sequence, and a brand new trial graphic added in these chapters.

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Nothing too major changed this time, just a lot of editing, smoothing, and the usual removal of 'violet unicorn' and 'human lawyer'. I've also learned a trick I'll share with you here:

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...bringing us to the point of Sonata’s confession. Significant changes were made to both chapters, including some new graphics.

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With Part 59 - Of Mares and Men seeing some hefty additions to the attorney misconduct board scenes.

Before, the hearings were too short, and a major figure was not heard from--The Judge. Now, he has some very pointed things to say about both Phoenix and Trixie's performance during Rainbow Dash's trial, and Fluttershy makes a plea on Phoenix's behalf as well:

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Part 57 - Revealed Racers is the chapter that you'll either remember for Phoenix's long talk with Trixie, or all the Frozen references. As I agree with the benefit of hindsight that I royally overdid the latter, all but one has been removed. And the only reason I kept that one was so I could turn around and subvert it:

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Not a winner, but I had a blast (pictures will be available in a future post), and I made some headway on Turnabout Storm chapter revamps as well. No less than four updated chapters were posted last night, meaning the entire story through Part 37 is now updated. Aside from the usual edits, I added some additional details in several places, including how and why Pinkie is able to do metalwork and regarding how exactly Twilight summoned Phoenix and The Judge originally:

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Part 42 - Fluttershy: Lost and Found, you may recall, was the second bonus chapter I wrote, detailing Twilight's efforts to find Fluttershy after she was told off by Rainbow and left the courthouse crying. It was originally suggested by TheGoldCrow as a possible bonus topic, and Raven asked me to include the OCs of herself and her friends (including me) in it as a gift to

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After some discussion with my prereaders as to how best redo the climactic scene, most notably AJ_Aficionado who offered some very good advice, I believe I have settled on a new approach.

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Hello, Five Star Service fans. As promised, I'm going to redo the two chapters regarding the man who would become known as The Attorney near the end of the story (Parts 26 and 27) and release them as new chapters. I will not be deleting the old ones right away as that would mean I lose the comments (I haven't decided if I really want to do that) but for now I will clearly mark them as deprecated and move the author's notes up front to explain why.

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