This story is a sequel to SHMM: Fairy An-tricks
When working with others, it's important to take into account what is being brought together. Their strengths, skills, weaknesses, these are important factors that a team needs to keep in mind if they wish to achieve anything that comes their way. However, can working together accomplish something that was never fated to overcome? It's up to Truffles and a cast of other monsterponies to challenge the stars that are in favor for a phantom thief, predestined to forever be uncatchable.
This is a story similar to one you may see with 'hard-boiled' detectives, but it's meant to be a lot more lighthearted and humorous. It's a sequel, but first timers just need to know three things...
1. The world is filled with monster ponies (of various degrees).
2. The main character is a Mushroom Mare detective with poor facial muscles.
3. Keeping an open mind is the key to solving cases.
This story will be in first person (kinda), but be prepared for inner-monologues that speak in past tense. It's recommended to take your time at reading this story instead of listening to it through some text-to-audio program, especially for this entry of SHMM as there are visual cues that indicate speakers.
An unentered entry originally intended for the '3rd Monster Mare Story Contest (Mythical Creatures)', this is now a completed story being entered into the 'The Whodunnit? Youdunnit! Contest'. The prior contest gave me 8.5k words as its limit while this new one gave 20k words as its limit, so I split the difference (rounding down) and gave this story a 14k word limit... no, this bit of info has no importance.
This was seriously great. I just read your three Shroomlock Holmes stories and each reads better and better than the last. Loved this story a lot and especially loved your main duo. They're fun characters and the bounce off of each other nicely.
Nice job with this!
WOOOO! finally got to finish this, it was really good! thanks so much for continuing these characters, i love their personalities! :D
i think its cool you added in your bunnies as characters they where great! haha
i hope to see more in the future :3
This was fun! It's not technically a whodunnit, really, but I'll allow it with a few points docked. The twist of the riddle of the calling card was neat, and the writing and characters were overall quite enjoyable. I did notice you tend to use the word "sense" instead of "since" sometimes, so just a heads up there. All in all, a solid entry.
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Thanks, it's been an idea that I placed a lot of thought in for years now. I'm happy to finally have a reason to get it out there. Never realized how long of a story it would've been with that 8500 word limit the prior contest had.
Traditionally, no, this isn't a 'whodunnit' story (especially at the fact that the 'who' part was answered right in the beginning), but it's still intended to be a mystery with plenty of other questions that I feel could fill in what I believe would be very difficult to answer with the limited clues available.
How can one catch something deemed unactable by fate? How can one enter a place that seems impenetrable? How can someone steal something that nearly no one knows the location of? What can best a thief with a set of skills that feel broken when challenging?
Not to mention, when you replied to Reily, all you said was...
I interpret 'sense' and 'since' as 'mental' and 'time'. When I get to lines like...
...it sounds to me like it's trying to reason through logic, leading me to think that the proper word needed is 'sense'. However, at the end of the day, 'since' would be the proper choice as it's indicating a prior knowledge fact.
English... my first, only, and worst language. I'll edit it after the contest is finished.