Resources are dwindling, the three tribes are getting worried so ideas are being put out there. Digging for more became the new plan. It became the new trend, the fashion, the statement of the century. Then, before they knew it, they dug too far.
Sunny Starscout lives in a world of fear and darkness. Time for her to live up to her name.
Inspired by the video game of the same name, several youtube videos I happened upon, and the prompts of Bean's Writing Group.
Written for both the A Thousand Word Contest and The New Blood Contest
Bonus prompts are 1: "From the beginning, you know the end.." and 2: "Include a bug."
For the record, this is not really a crossover. No prior knowledge, characters, or even technically the world comes from the inspiration. It's just that, inspiration.
Knock em both out with a single story, hurrah!
Why isn’t there a crossover tag?
The fact that you didn't use a Balrog is massively disappointing. But nope. You devolved changelings back into these things...
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I have so many questions here. Mostly just who the mom is. Royal title narrows it massively down to Zipp or Pipp.
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I know, I knoooooow. I wanted to use a balrog, but then there would be two crossovers! Also, I needed to use a bug, part of the assignment.
As for the mom, who knoooooows
oh dang, what happened here?
oof, that explains it! a fascinating idea for the future of this setting
rip (literally (to Pipp))
oof! turns out that all of the horrors of the world of G4 were a bit too much for the fledgling civilization of the G5 ponies, which makes a lot of sense
ooh, i like that!
oh that is getting real meta real fast
and ending on a very meta note! an intriguing mix of ideas, thank you for writing!
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Thank you! Glad you liked it
Ooh, double entry. Very daring.
An intriguing concept, but it stops rather than ends. There’s no resolution to the mysterious mare’s proclamation. Heck, there’s not even a response. The entire story stops mid-conversation and leaves nothing resolved. (Possibly because Sunny understood the message and blasted you for putting her through this frozen hell. Rude, but understandable.
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The big challenge for the Thousand Words contest was fitting an entire story into that single kilowrd, and I’m sad to say you didn’t manage that here. That said, you do have the start of something intriguing. I hope you build on it.
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It was an experiment. I think I did alright in terms of storybuilding, but yeah. There are some stories best to no word limits.