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River Road


Writing Comedy, Adventure and Slice Of Life. Desperately trying to keep up with all the crazy stories my brain comes up with.

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Because Equestrian magic has a knack for showing up at the most inconvenient moments, Sunset and her friends find themselves trapped in their new video game. They don't know how to get out, they don't know how to win the game, and some of them don't even know that they're in a game in the first place.

But don't worry, because if Sunset had a plan it wouldn't last five minutes in this pseudo-political mess anyway.

Written for FanOfMostEverything's Imposing Sovereign Contest

Chapters (2)
Comments ( 17 )

"(...) And everyone knows that magenta doesn't exist so it's perfect for stealth."

Ork Pinkie is best Pinkie :pinkiecrazy:

9935717
A friend just told me that I'd accidentally made a 40K reference there even though I've never read anything of it. :twilightsheepish:
Amusing as that is, I was actually going for a reference to your brain being a dirty, dirty liar.

("Us orks are too smart for our own brains!" :pinkiehappy: )

“We don't know that though.” Twilight glared at her over the console. “This isn't some overly serious book or cartoon. There's no proof or even much reason why losing the game wouldn't just have us end up out here again. The least we can do is try and confirm that much.”

I wonder what that refers to...

9935887
It's Purple for 40k Orks (therefore bookhorse is sneaky ork horse :pinkiecrazy:), but double references are awesome. Specially when not intended :rainbowlaugh:

9935887
Well if Pinkie isn't an Orc she sure does a good impression. Orcs are even slightly psychic: if you could convince enough of them that a stick was a gun, it would shoot. Pinkie theory number 512...

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I'm not saying she isn't an orc, she's just not specifically a 40K orc because I know pretty much nothing about it. They're generic orcs; if anything they're vaguely inspired by LotR, but to be honest Pinkie was inspired by many things other than any actual orc.

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It’s just wonderful that you managed to independent come up with the same crazy logic.

Meanwhile, I’m The Bad Guy is just great for Darth Sparkle. Let’s hope she never feels the need to go that route.

Delightful stuff... though Twilight really should be careful with these blind trials. No one likes getting their chain yanked on a frequent basis, even for science.

Still, a most entertaining tale of swords, sorcery, and silicon, with a most intriguing stinger. Thank you for it, and best of luck in the judging.

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I'm glad you enjoyed it. :twilightsmile:

(And I maybe could've made it clearer in the story but there were a couple weeks between the main story and the epilogue. Twilight didn't have anything to do with them being trapped in the game.)

Everyone turned to Sunset expectantly only to see her give them the driest look they'd seen yet, the look of someone who'd been trying to set them on fire with her eyes before remembering that she was a fire mage and was now trying to not set them on fire with her eyes.

Oh my god, just take my fave already. This fic is bloody brilliant. XD

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Good to see you again and glad you enjoyed it.
(I'm taking your fave already, you're the one who took a week to hand it over. :ajsmug: )

Do we have to kick some butt and chew some bubblegum because I’m aaaaall about bubblegum.”

Heh! Excellent Pinkieism!

Spike-the-dog is superbly written. The best dog-who's-sentient-and-playing-a-human-in-a-game I've ever read.

“So, all of us are right hands while the other four are all leaders of some kind?”
Pinkie hummed and batted at one of her bells. “So you think it’s basically main cast versus supporting cast?”

It's the Hearth's Warming Eve play all over again.

Lots of fun. As soon as they started to think there must be a big bad I had a vague guess, but couldn't quite see how it would work. I love the surface-level explanation of Twilight roleplaying as an atheist white mage who just uses items because that is the kind of thing she'd do, and the eventual reveal of her not being an elf subject to Rarity's command was nicely done as well. By the time of the final boss fight I was pretty much expecting that actually there was no Equestrian magic, it was all just Sci-Twi hacking the VR game... but that's probably because I have a soft spot for Sci-Twi hacking VR games to make surprisingly-realistic adventure games for her friends :pinkiehappy:

Thanks for the fic!

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And thank you for the comment. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
No hacking involved, but Twilight did have those plans long before magic came into play. Introverted nerds and their overly contrived show-them-all power fantasies, amirite. :scootangel:

I liked it, but I'm confused by the epilogue - what's going on there? I'm not familiar with Wander over Yonder, so the music doesn't mean much to me.

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I guess Sci-Twi's evil now? :B

So Twilight saved the day by becomeing the DM.

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