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This story is a sequel to Midnight's Shadow: Tainted Legacies
Magus Midnight Sparkle answers a summons to Swampy Bottom Bog as an evil spirit has taken residence deep within the depths of the swamp and is starting to corrupt the land. Midnight finds herself facing annoying haunts, malicious creatures disrupting her work, and irritating teenagers without any survival instincts. And most horrifying of all, she must face her true nemesis: mud.
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Poor Middy. She can be very silly sometimes.
A shame, perhaps if Sunbeam had listened to her warnings about the Perfidious Filly, we could've avoided Cozy Glow...
Yessss more Middy adventures, gimme, yesss.
Ah yes, a conflict years in the making. This will end in many, many baths.
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Indeed. Midnight's not crazy, just centuries ahead of her time.
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It is Winningverse canon that Cozy Glow is the Perfidious Filly's distant descendant.
first part is so short when is the 2 part
who is that on the cover
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That should be out in a couple of weeks.
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That is Midnight.
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wait wat
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OK most of it i get but whats with the hat
Ah it feels like it's been too long since we had a Midnight adventure. If only Sunbeam were around to witness what the Perfidious Filly's progeny has wrought in the present. Come to think of it, with the existence of the Phoenix Empire AU, Sunbeam vs Cozy Glow is entirely possible.
9913330she looks like a plague doctor
As always, I wish you well on another writing endeavor
So excited to read a new Midnight story!
Also, it's been a while since I read the previous stories. Anyone care to remind me of who the Perfidious Filly is and what she did? The name was familiar, but I can't remember exactly what she did, and I'm too lazy to read all three of the other stories to find out.
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She first showed up in The Great Snowball War where she pegged Midnight with a snowball after getting pinned by Midnight and begging her no to tag her. She also had a brief cameo in Tainted Legacies I believe where she accidentally splashed Midnight with water while playing in the rain. One of the “authors notes” mentioned that Midnight would apparently spend the rest of her life believing the filly was some great evil and threat to Equestria. Evidently this is what that looks like.
Ah, Midnight, we have missed you.
And while Midnight's paranoia about the Perfidious Filly seems excessive, she does have a legitimate concern, which her mother and everypony else is going out of their way to ignore.
9913268 Is Starlight Glimmer also a descendant of the Perfidious Filly? After all, evil plots and malicious time travel are right up Starlight's alley ....
Ahh yes, time for muddy Midnight. She's gonna build so much character.
Did you...make a conspiracy theory string chart about yourself, Midnight?
Oh wait, it's someone else. The kid from the snowball fight, I think?
There's dirt everywhere, Midnight.
It'll be easier to light them all on fire if they're stacked up together. Though maybe her mother wouldn't be quite that mean.
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That is actually hilarious. Thank you for this information.
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Ah ok, now I remember. Thanks, bro!
Oh boy, a new adventure with Middy. This looks like it’ll be interesting.
Glad we finally get the chance to meet Mossy Banks soon as well.
I don't think I'll be calm until I see her summon crows again.
......... Oh this is going to be fun
CABIN IN THE WOODS. CABIN IN THE WOODS.
I may have just went to see Evil Dead the musical, whoops.
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im sorry what musical are you for real
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I am very serious.
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holy shit
Not turn on Equestria, but on Unicornia ... interesting ....
Midnight trying to give warning = terrifying ponies and sending them into danger to escape her.
Lol, I missed Midnights total lack of awareness how most ponies view her and her interests. Also it probably doesn't help that there is a mind effecting curse in the area.
Ah, classic Midnight.
A pattern that continues even in the modern era.
I'm sure that won't be a theme of the story or anything.
Ah, Midnight's a black mana filtration system. Makes sense to me.
The only way it could be better would be if it had a skull on it.
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At the time of the Lunar Rebellion, Equestria was very much three nations under one flag. Unification efforts are still ongoing.
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Oh, well. That ended up much differently than I thought it would.
I love ponies reactions to Midnight.
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It depends on your interpretation of just what's going on or missing with that filly. But while Glimmer's a natural rebel who could plausibly come into conflict with any greater system (whether government, physics, or causality), Cozy Glow might be quite easily manageable by someone not bound by the limitations of treating her as a filly. Or as a person. It's more likely Sunbeam would find her a useful resource than an adversary - although either way I somehow doubt she'd reach adulthood.
Oh lord Midnight just unwittingly became a horror movie antagonist. It's Tucker and Dale all over again.
It seems like Midnight actually has a legitimate phobia of mud. I'm sure there's a technical term for it but I can't be bothered to look it up right now.
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http://common-phobias.com/rupo/phobia.htm
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you got to admit thou middy would make a good horror villain
in fact i actually have the basis for a story with middy being a serial killer and killing all her friends and relatives shame i cant write for nothing
free real estate if any of yins want it just drop me a pm
Given the proximity of the bog to future Ponyville, this feels a bit like a parallel to S1E1 and that is wonderful.
Seems reasonable.
Those pigs are lucky they didn't get eaten by crows for their trouble. That pig driver, too.
The indignities will be legion.
Thanks, Luna.
Nice! Properly thematic.
A dead bog is apparently far worse than a living one.
So, do we have to rescue those idiots, or can we just assume the swap will take care of them?
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Well, of course, Unicornia, because unicorns are the most important kind of ponies, followed by pegasi who remained loyal to their horned masters and the earth ponies can honestly go fuck themselves.
....A for effort, Midnight, A for effort
so far this bog gives me Lovecraft vibes like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKKTqB_Lzv0
Rich nobles going to their family's cabin in the woods, blonde maned alabaster unicorn, bog masks, the weed smoker... yeah, this doesn't reek of Friday the 13th (2009), Evil Dead, Cabin Fever (don't drink the bog water!), and a whole bunch of others. In a good way, of course.
And Midnight Sparkle unwittingly dives into her role as the Cassandra.
Poor Midnight. Things always conspire to make her day harder.
Like mud. And idiot teenagers. Also dark, demonic magic but the first two are definitely worse.
Any camps or crystal lakes anywhere near this bog with that Jason-like griffon?
Also Midnight continues to horrifically misidentify what normal ponies would find comforting! Gotta love her!
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Oh? What did you hear?
The story of how midnight became a ghost story
Midnight's letter was absolutely hilarious. I don't think she'll ever learn why people find her unsettling, but it's funnier that way.
Wording Midnight, wording.
I wonder if we will see the origin of Twikught's rapidash form?
Oh Discord, that note, that note!
So, we have the cabin from Evil Dead, a Jason-esque Revenant, and a mysterious puzzle box (found under the porch of said cabin) ... and Mossy Banks (who knows about the cabin at the very least) apparently can not be bothered to deal with the matter, nor has he seen fit to summon a Magus Conclave (or ask Celestia for help) if it is simply that the entities are too strong for him to deal with on his own ... yeah. Maybe it's just my cynicism speaking, but this sounds like Midnight is being set-up ... again.
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I’ll admit it seems heavily implied in the previous chapter Mossy Banks is testing Midnight in some capacity. In fairness to him though, all we know he was aware of was that a local dark spirit was testing its wards and he could use a little backup. We don’t know if he knew about Diet Jason or the Tucker and Dale v. Evil club.
10082767 Considering that Mossy went out of his way to not explain why he has not permanently dealt with an evil spirit that has inhabited his swamp, with his full knowledge, for what I believe was years, I think Mossy may well have used up his Fairness allotment already.