Thou shalt not mix procedural magic with purely functional magic, lest you miss a semi-colon and then have to balance seven layers of parentheses in your head... :)
So, the impossibility that made her evolve into an alicorn is time magic? Fucking ace!
I'm sad to see that Linda is dead. Is she dead? I want to believe that it's just a copy that was brought over by the anchor spell and that real Linda is back at the dnd table or something but even a copy dying is still a person dying.
2300-700=1600 so shes now roughly 1600 years past Discord? Does that mean shes 600 years post return of NMM? Or did Tia and Luna have ~600 years of rule together before the Nightmare? Is she at present time now?? Is the drunk alicorn mare gonna be reported to the Canterlot guard?? Is she gonna wake in prison?!?!
WHY DID YOU CHOOSE THIS SPOT TO FINISH THIS CHAPTER?!? I NEED MOAAAR!!
At least we know where the name "Faust" comes from now.
6910777 I like to think that there was a period of time between the two sisters ascending and The Nightmare. Assuming this story goes along with my headcanon, there's a very real possibility that Tamara is in the present day, give or take a century.
Hopefully the next update comes quickly because that's one hell of a mean cliffhanger to leave us on. :c
Oh that is just PERFECT, you get called "The Mother's Fist" but over then somehow it gets changed to "The Mother Faust" so your character becomes Lauren Fausticon, Mother of Celestia and Luna. Oh I can't wait to see what happens once your character appears in the timeline with Twilight and the rest of the Mane 6 and all the other characters, I bet Pinkie will have a BLAST of trying to set up a Party for you, of course I wonder how they will react once you tell them you are their old HUMAN friend now turned into a Pony.
6910599 6910934 Correct on the timing, my adorable little readers. I figured Luna had to have had a few centuries on her before the crazy set in, or else the sisters' "realtime" ages would be something like... 30 versus 1030? Ish? Given I don't think moon time counts...
And I hate to say that Linda is, in fact, dead. Don't worry, she avoided tree beetles, so led a long and healthy life for the most part.
Minus being a mushroom for a while. For a tree person, that's basically like having to live in a motel for a couple weeks, I think.
And we're back in the 'present' with this next chapter, yes. Poor Tamara wound up on the roof of an inn roughly six months after Twilight and company scryed her, by their timeline. Of course, it was a lot longer for Fausticorn...
It turned out to be a sapling. Not... quite the threat I'd been expecting. Curiously, I prodded at it, expecting some small bird to explode out of it and give me a minor heart attack. Instead, I heard a giggle.
From behind me.
I whirled round again, only to see nothing at all. Again. The laughter, light and bell-like, echoed from absolutely everywhere, this time.
"Alright, you can come out at any time," I said, letting my voice fill the space.
"Hello, pony..."
"Yes, pretty prancing pony, prestidigitating precisely, presently," I said, letting some simple script write itself in the air around me.
"Ooh... that was six! That earns you a cookie!"
i would use a Guy Fawkes mask joke here, (joking) but i'm not nearly classy enough for that.
Now that I think about it, if she was a mushroom for a while, well - the Moochick did live in a mushroom, and the Rainbow of Light is suspiciously similar to the Elements of Harmony in form and function...
So was that another bit of subtle weaving everything together?
A dirt clod was caught by the cruel whims of gravity and, much like a certain book had a long time ago, clocked me in the back of the head. I stumbled at the impact, drunkenly shouting, "Have at thee, fucker!" as I stumbled over clumsy legs into the ground, face-first.
And got stuck there.
And got stuck there.
I whimpered, pulled back with an audible 'pop!', and fell on my rear. I touched my head, through the thick layer of soil caked there, and almost cried. I glanced back at the cave, then back to myself, and then back again. That 'gem' had been a cut piece, I suspected, of cosmic spectrum crystal.
I'd pushed myself to do something new and nearly impossible with my special talent.
I'd nearly died, all to fuel one great work of magic, and done so while stepping on this world's strongest example of natural magic.
Maybe an hour passed as I quietly panicked. I may have cried. I definitely giggled like a madmare, and possible cackled like the witch I was.
'No wonder I was moving like a drunk,' my less useful thoughts went. 'My legs are about half a foot longer!'
Ok I’m stopping here just for a second so I can write my hilarious reaction to this. I didn’t realize what was happening in this scene until I read the longer legs part. And then I responded intelligently by puffing out my cheeks in thought and saying ‘oh....tha...wel...mmmm....huh.’
More!!!
Thou shalt not mix procedural magic with purely functional magic, lest you miss a semi-colon and then have to balance seven layers of parentheses in your head... :)
Seriously, though, more please.
my only regret is that i can only like this story once, so all I can say is Mooar!!!!
You leave us hungering for more!
So, the impossibility that made her evolve into an alicorn is time magic? Fucking ace!
I'm sad to see that Linda is dead. Is she dead? I want to believe that it's just a copy that was brought over by the anchor spell and that real Linda is back at the dnd table or something but even a copy dying is still a person dying.
2300-700=1600 so shes now roughly 1600 years past Discord? Does that mean shes 600 years post return of NMM? Or did Tia and Luna have ~600 years of rule together before the Nightmare? Is she at present time now?? Is the drunk alicorn mare gonna be reported to the Canterlot guard?? Is she gonna wake in prison?!?!
WHY DID YOU CHOOSE THIS SPOT TO FINISH THIS CHAPTER?!? I NEED MOAAAR!!
At least we know where the name "Faust" comes from now.
6910777 I like to think that there was a period of time between the two sisters ascending and The Nightmare. Assuming this story goes along with my headcanon, there's a very real possibility that Tamara is in the present day, give or take a century.
Hopefully the next update comes quickly because that's one hell of a mean cliffhanger to leave us on. :c
LOVE IT!!!
"And as my first act as tham'ra'corn, I shall let loose a string of expletives worthy of my royal physique."
Oh that is just PERFECT, you get called "The Mother's Fist" but over then somehow it gets changed to "The Mother Faust" so your character becomes Lauren Fausticon, Mother of Celestia and Luna. Oh I can't wait to see what happens once your character appears in the timeline with Twilight and the rest of the Mane 6 and all the other characters, I bet Pinkie will have a BLAST of trying to set up a Party for you, of course I wonder how they will react once you tell them you are their old HUMAN friend now turned into a Pony.
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Correct on the timing, my adorable little readers. I figured Luna had to have had a few centuries on her before the crazy set in, or else the sisters' "realtime" ages would be something like... 30 versus 1030? Ish? Given I don't think moon time counts...
And I hate to say that Linda is, in fact, dead. Don't worry, she avoided tree beetles, so led a long and healthy life for the most part.
Minus being a mushroom for a while. For a tree person, that's basically like having to live in a motel for a couple weeks, I think.
And we're back in the 'present' with this next chapter, yes. Poor Tamara wound up on the roof of an inn roughly six months after Twilight and company scryed her, by their timeline. Of course, it was a lot longer for Fausticorn...
Update up Wednesday afternoon!
6945665 Looking forward to it!
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So, like, a week?!
Eeeeeeeeeeeeee
I'm looking forward to it. I want Wednesday to be here now!
Poor Linda :(
6949934 Wednesday afternoon was yesterday.
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I was thinking next week wednesday since there hasn't been an update yet.
6950052 Goof posted his reply on Tuesday night so I was thinking this week. I hope we don't have to wait until next week...
i would use a Guy Fawkes mask joke here, (joking) but i'm not nearly classy enough for that.
now this i DO have a joke for.
What delightful... bittersweet. I am legitimately sad now. Well done.
Awesome!
divots
Piffle. English [and German] work well; you can just throw on more layers of modal verb tenses and adverbs. "Where she was to have been originally."
Biceratops.
Drat, looks like an overshot? But, the red hair suggested to me this truth beforehand…
Double alicorn? You get three pair of wings like Angelmon and three horns?
Oh, such wonderfully chaotic amazing time travel.
I mean, just, wow. Discord, you're evil. And oh, Harmony, this is a lovely tale.
Now that I think about it, if she was a mushroom for a while, well - the Moochick did live in a mushroom, and the Rainbow of Light is suspiciously similar to the Elements of Harmony in form and function...
So was that another bit of subtle weaving everything together?
Ok I’m stopping here just for a second so I can write my hilarious reaction to this.
I didn’t realize what was happening in this scene until I read the longer legs part. And then I responded intelligently by puffing out my cheeks in thought and saying ‘oh....tha...wel...mmmm....huh.’
23 hundred years!?!? XD I THINK SHE OVERSHOT!!!
Gryphons becoming Griffins, I guess. (Not everybody knows the difference.)