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This story is a sequel to Three Letters
Twilight Sparkle has come unstuck in time and place, but she is not alone. Her companion in a strange land tries to keep her spirits up as they race across a continent towards her only shot at returning home.
Commissioned by: Horizon
This story was written as a sequel of sorts to this: Three Letters
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I was pretty much obligated to enjoy this one. And I did! Kind of funny how Twilight points out something that Mark Rosewater has lamented about: Red is the color of so much more than just various forms of weaponized plasma, but it's hard to represent joy and love and positive spontaneity in cardboard form (especially when you're trying to stay in red's part of the color pie.) At least they manage it now and again with the likes of Cathartic Reunion.
In any case, an excellent sequel to the original, following the same themes with some brilliant innovations. The recontextualized flavor text for Lightning Bolt was brilliant, and the way you tied together everything in the end was outstanding. Thank you for this.
As not only the commissioner but also the author of the piece which Cyne asked to write a sequel to, I am happy to report that this is Horizon Approved (tm). I basically gave her complete free rein, and I found a lot to think about in the results, and this feels extremely true to the vision in my head of the original story’s characters.
True story: when the idea of Twilight and the narrator playing a game came up in the story, my first thought was, “Trivial Pursuit! Wait, no, that would be six colors.” And boy howdy would that have gone wrong in an entirely different direction.
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Heck, even the red cards with soulbond, which could have easily been a flavor win in that area, are 'Knight with Large Pointy Stick', 'Dude with Big Rock Fists', and Lightning Mauler.
EDIT: Even the occasionally used 'this creature can't attack or block alone' mechanic is only used on dumb beasts that require direction as opposed to talented people that just need some emotional support.
"Three Letters" is one of my favorite short stories on this site, and this is a worthy sequel. I could read on and on and on about this human just traveling and talking with Twilight.
Unsummon? Wind Drake? I'm pretty sure I have that deck...
I always imagined red as passionate within the context of the game. You're trying to win the game, so red usually says: "Ok I'll deal damage to their face as fast as I can and win". It doesn't have to mean outright aggression and anger in general, but that's how it's expressed in the cards.
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Wojek Bodyguard, my dude
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They were originally based on some pre-cons. And then I instead just shuffled through my longboz of cards from when I first started playing around m10ish
Unstuck in time, eh?
Guess they need Zathrus to repair their time stabilizers.
No no, not 'Za-thrus', it's the other guy 'Zzzathrus'.
(The test of true B5 fans...)
Only when you exclude all the beautiful things no one fears and all the fearsome things few consider beautiful.
I cannot recall ever being terrified by a daffodil.
kayfabe and buggies in one paragraph? I think we found a southern wrastlin’ fan.
A fun story and a good read. Thanks.
AAAAAAHHH
I LOVE THIS
PLEASE MORE
Also, I had never tought of red that way.
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Mark Rosewatwr’s blog on WOTC’s site is good
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Belated thanks for the compliment, by the way!
The flavor text on lightning bolt is actually a meta joke. No one had expected them to reprint the gold standard of lightning cards again.
Next up: "Nine Tokens", wherein Jeff buys a Monopoly board to help pass the time.
Oh, man, I should not have made that joke.
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Haha I know. That’s why I had him connect with it, but figured it was too esoteric to include that factoid
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Zathrus. Zathrus. Zathrus. Zathrus.
As in those are supposed to be two different names alternating, so you can tell the difference.
I love it because someone actually used the RPG trope of "I'll bring in an exact duplicate of my last character" in a real serious show. Before Colbert did his identical twin cousin.
The funny thing about monopoly? If both/all players have lots of hotels, and a reasonable balance, then the money can go back and forth an average of forever, and it's just a case of who gets the luck streak first.
A far better strategy for what Twilight wants is to stop all construction at 2 houses. Then you are trading sums of money back and forth that are so low you don't run the risk of a bad streak.
But if you want to win, stop at 4 houses. Whoever has the bigger supply of the fixed number (and not enough) supply of houses will win.
9672315 I have the entire show's DVD box set.
Why did the show work, even with its simple 90's CGI?
The storytelling and characters were deeply linked, the continuity was practically flawless, every detail in the meta-story was planned ahead of time, and the actors put their all into their performances.
Actually had the chance to chat with Ed Wasser (Mr Morden) when he was active on Twitter some time ago. We were discussing how crucial characterization is, and the variations required for particular types of characters to work. Things like how a good actor can't usually do anything with a bad script (other than ham it up and have fun), and a great script won't be of any use on a bad actor. Wonder what he's up to now.
I never saw the DVD box set for B5. I'm watching it now on Amazon prime. It finally came back to television on a new satellite channel, "Comet" -- tag line "it's out of this world". Mostly old scifi movies and shows, heavy on repetition, but expected for just starting and needing to fill "broadcast" hours.
Oh, and I friggen hate the decision to generate 16:9 formats of the first few seasons by cutting the top and bottoms off. Should have left those in 4:3.
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I officially declare it too late for regrets.
(Tagging 9666719 for Never The Final Word purposes.)
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Next next up: Sixty-Four Squares, wherein Jeff introduces Twilight to the classic game of Chess.
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And "121 Holes," all about Chinese Checkers!
At the end of the grand expanded saga Twilight tries to squeeze through the rift but cannot because her saddlebags are filled with a metric ton of license plates, decks of cards and board games.
This is amazing
And I loved this line. It's cool to see how a different viewpoint on the same game says a lot about us.
OoOh! Two things I thought would never touch! Also, very nice message.
OoOh! Two things I thought would never touch! Also, very nice message there at the end.
I enjoyed this, but was hoping for more discussion about the philosophies of the pie. Mainly how black doesn’t always mean evil and white doesn’t mean good.
Edit: *doesn’t
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Im assuming you meant not always on black—kamigawa Block’s hero was mono black!
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Yes, thank you. That was embarrassing.
Personally I like to point to Yahenni as a goodly aligned mono-black character. He reminds me a lot of Rarity, and not just because they both use “darling” far too often for comfort.
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My wife adores Yahenni and uses them in her Marchesa commander deck! It’s a fun card. All the aetherborn are neat
Finally got around to reading this. Well, didn't expect Five Colors to be a "Twilight in the human world and humans suck" story, but it was good. Read a bit then read the first story then finished it. You did well connecting the philosophies of Magic to Twilight's emotional dilemma.
I will say I was confused by the decks he found. Jackal Pup in a 2019 deck? But messing around with cards you own is enough reason to make that the decks.
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The decks are VERY loosely based on vague memories of cards I had laying around in about 2010-2012.
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If it isn't already, this definitely needs to be in one of those comment-fic compilations.
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I think it did make it in there, eventually.