I like a massive metamagical masterstroke as much as the next guy, but I feel like the story's getting a little lost in the weeds. This chapter feels more like something from the sequel given how little screentime Canterlot High is getting. The original version of this story had very tight pacing and escalation as it went from victim to victim until the climax. This is starting to feel aimless, though that may be my own biases speaking.

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I like a massive metamagical masterstroke as much as the next guy, but I feel like the story's getting a little lost in the weeds. This chapter feels more like something from the sequel given how little screentime Canterlot High is getting. The original version of this story had very tight pacing and escalation as it went from victim to victim until the climax. This is starting to feel aimless, though that may be my own biases speaking.

I see. Then I would simply ask that you enjoy it for the massive metamagical masterstroke that it is, and I’ll also point you to what I keep saying in my blogs: I’m using these chapters to set something up for the coming climax of Nightmare Night. So no, it’s not aimless, as there’s a very specific purpose in mind here. It would be a lie to say I’m not enjoying the hell out of writing it, though!

And that’s the other thing. Even in moving from v1 to v2, this story holds the same purpose for me that it did originally: it allows me to completely cut loose in a clopfic and do whatever the hell I want. The difference is that my interests and the lore I can draw upon are much broader now, so the story has broadened as well.

After all my work on Firefly and now Feathered Hearts, I love the griffies. I really wanted to do something like this involving them, and this story was the perfect vessel for it. The Shadowbolt girls (and now guys) still get theirs, and don’t think for a second I’m going to neglect Zesty’s comeuppance or Sunset’s coming ascension.

Yes, the original was much tighter paced, but it also moved too quickly at times and neglected to let the individual personalities shine through—with the possible exception of Zesty, that is. Secondary characters also got short shrift. Now everyone gets theirs and then some but still never lose their attitudes, and some may earn interesting post-Nightmare Night fates when memories and altered forms are restored.

So just sit back and enjoy the ride (or I hope you do, anyway), and understand that there is a method to my madness. It’ll eventually be revealed over in the climax of Nightmare Night, but for now, I hope it at least shows how much I enjoyed writing this. I promise the story will shift back focus to CHS for the final part of the next chapter, and will remain there until the end.

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Fair enough. This is what I get for not paying attention to the progress blogs. Good to know it's all part of the plan.

Things are definitely getting going in intresting ways.

Due to the time of year as well, was looking at something that was bothering me as not explored as much, or somewhere else in closly related AU to canon, as in it can exist even as bad as it was, but when it never came up in usual light interaction talks, the knowledge didnt have to be known?

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/461542/unorthodox-job [Fimfic NSFW] The off hand way Silverstream just casually mentioned that she would get a unicorn to deal with healing her up afterwards made me think of firstly, what if Discord decided to help Silverstream only a little by tweaking her Sea Pearl, but then I thought, what if things were so horrific that the origional Sea Pearl had the effect as well? That is, instead of on transforming between two states, the Sea Pearl didnt store the last state, which might be damaged or injured or worse, and which shifting back would change them back to, but transformed them into the First saved state? Like Sixth Day, the body state is totally seperate from the mind state? In th worst case, this means that during the origional evacuation, those population that were injured could never return to land or even worse, couldnt handle the transformation at all? Whereas Silverstream would be totally content in exploring Everything because she would always be returned to a prior saved healthy form? Also, Arthur C Clarke, Richter 10, uploading a mind state during a building collapse? She would have intresting times with dragons, and dragon lands?

The other idea was pondering the Three Stages Of Ossification of Dragons. Egg, Moult, and The Long Sleep. And why Spike was so different, until he went to the dragonlands, and was slightly less different, and after processing canon and fanon, for the theme of horror, I reason to propose that Dragons have Parasitic Symbiotes. And the reason Spike was like he was, is because he hadnt picked up the parasites from his egg, hatching location or accompanying dragons. Based on the idea that most dragon eggs dont even start out viable, and all dragons are delicious, along with toxic metals and compounds, poisonous toads and plants exuding hazarsdous materials to the sacrificial surface, and earthworms etc in soil. That is, in dragons, basic cellular immune system is no longer capable of handling the load, so a parasite or combination has been coopted to consume excessively loaded cellular material and convert it to comounds that the existing body systems can either dispose of, or if like earthworms, eject concentrated waste minerals through the body surface? In extremis, would be intresting if that was the reason the egg was so thick walled and resiliant, and scales fell off during moult? It could also go a long way explaining why only very few dragons are not extremely angry and irritable, as those would be the masochists and fetishists etc?

Sorry.. lots of fics to get through to sift out ideas that could be in the harder canon background at best if not total AU mostly.

Poor Spike, all those draggies and kitties, and there he is, a draggy doggy, stuck outside the happy place fence, with not even a ball to play with?

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Fair enough. This is what I get for not paying attention to the progress blogs. Good to know it's all part of the plan.

Yep. I try very hard to keep readers updated on what I’m doing via blog post, so be looking for them in your feed. Just posted another blog, too, this time regarding the upcoming Halloween release of a new Nightmare Night chapter. Check it out.

And since I didn’t say so before, thank you very much for calling this a massive metamagical masterstroke! Hope you enjoyed the action within. I assume you can tell from the ending what’s next.

More degeneracy, yay!
Midnight's fun is about to hit the crescendo.

Also, because the gag never gets old: insert furious notetaking from a maniacal hornypocalypse causing bookhorse here

This is another great chapter and i greatly enjoyed what Midnight did with the griffons even though I have less of an interested in them than the author.

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Things are definitely getting going in intresting ways.

I guess that’s one way to put it!

Due to the time of year as well, was looking at something that was bothering me as not explored as much, or somewhere else in closly related AU to canon, as in it can exist even as bad as it was, but when it never came up in usual light interaction talks, the knowledge didnt have to be known?

I’m having some trouble parsing that, but I think you’re saying that you thought of something we hadn’t already discussed?

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/461542/unorthodox-job [Fimfic NSFW] The off hand way Silverstream just casually mentioned that she would get a unicorn to deal with healing her up afterwards made me think of firstly, what if Discord decided to help Silverstream only a little by tweaking her Sea Pearl, but then I thought, what if things were so horrific that the origional Sea Pearl had the effect as well? That is, instead of on transforming between two states, the Sea Pearl didnt store the last state, which might be damaged or injured or worse, and which shifting back would change them back to, but transformed them into the First saved state? Like Sixth Day, the body state is totally seperate from the mind state? In th worst case, this means that during the origional evacuation, those population that were injured could never return to land or even worse, couldnt handle the transformation at all? Whereas Silverstream would be totally content in exploring Everything because she would always be returned to a prior saved healthy form? Also, Arthur C Clarke, Richter 10, uploading a mind state during a building collapse? She would have intresting times with dragons, and dragon lands?

So in other words, what if all the hippogrifs except her had their sea and surface creature states locked in by the fact that their prior state was too badly injured by the evacuation to survive and were thus forced to live apart? I’d pity them in that case and I’m sure Twilight would do everything in her power to help them. The Hippogriffs are my favorite canon race from the show, while the griffons are my favorite headcanon race. I don’t like the show version of them at all.

The other idea was pondering the Three Stages Of Ossification of Dragons. Egg, Moult, and The Long Sleep. And why Spike was so different, until he went to the dragonlands, and was slightly less different, and after processing canon and fanon, for the theme of horror, I reason to propose that Dragons have Parasitic Symbiotes.

Okay, but I’m *really* not interested in horror, either writing or reading it as a rule.

And the reason Spike was like he was, is because he hadnt picked up the parasites from his egg, hatching location or accompanying dragons. Based on the idea that most dragon eggs dont even start out viable, and all dragons are delicious, along with toxic metals and compounds, poisonous toads and plants exuding hazarsdous materials to the sacrificial surface, and earthworms etc in soil. That is, in dragons, basic cellular immune system is no longer capable of handling the load, so a parasite or combination has been coopted to consume excessively loaded cellular material and convert it to comounds that the existing body systems can either dispose of, or if like earthworms, eject concentrated waste minerals through the body surface?

So they need help to hatch from a symbiotic parasite that processes all the toxic materials in their eggs and bodies, which aren’t generally available outside of the dragon lands? And then it excretes them to form a thicker shell casing or tougher scales? Interesting idea.

In extremis, would be intresting if that was the reason the egg was so thick walled and resiliant, and scales fell off during moult? It could also go a long way explaining why only very few dragons are not extremely angry and irritable, as those would be the masochists and fetishists etc?

Interesting idea, and it could certainly explain losing scales. But I’m not sure how you connect that to being angry and irritable, or not in the case of Spike.

Sorry.. lots of fics to get through to sift out ideas that could be in the harder canon background at best if not total AU mostly.

Definitely AU.

Poor Spike, all those draggies and kitties, and there he is, a draggy doggy, stuck outside the happy place fence, with not even a ball to play with?

Heh. Well, in the original story (and in the movie, for that matter), Spike didn’t appear again until the end of the duel between Daydream and Midnight, when he provided a critical distraction for Midnight that allowed Daydream to overwhelm her. I left him unaffected in the original version by all the mating magic because I figured nobody wanted to see him be part of this. But now, with all this amped-up insanity...?

When the time comes, I’ll see what I can do.

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This is another great chapter and i greatly enjoyed what Midnight did with the griffons even though I have less of an interested in them than the author.

Thanks! In the end, that’s all I ask or hope for. Well, that and getting feedback where folks tell me exactly what they liked the most.

Glad to see you're not dead mate, looking forward to Lemon Zest getting hers. I hope you feed her to the Changelings with xenomorph themes.

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Glad to see you're not dead mate, looking forward to Lemon Zest getting hers.

Thanks! Her time is coming, and hope you’re enjoying the all-griffie action in the meantime.

I hope you feed her to the Changelings with xenomorph themes.

You know, I guess I should consider it a compliment that I’ve made her so unlikeable that everyone has a different idea on the form Middie’s retribution against her should take! I haven’t figured out everything yet, but her punishment will take the same theme while being a lot more involved than before.

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More degeneracy, yay!

Just a *little* more.

Midnight's fun is about to hit the crescendo.

It is for the griffies! And especially their Queen. Hope you enjoyed the chapter’s action and the promise of more to come!

Also, because the gag never gets old: insert furious notetaking from a maniacal hornypocalypse causing bookhorse here

She’ll wish she had taken notes when it comes time to face down Midnight! Speaking of whom, look for the first new Nightmare Night chapter release in a year this coming Monday.

Midnight Sparkle está OP

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Midnight Sparkle está OP

Sim, e ela deveria ser.