Sunset Shimmer and Twilight Sparkle have been living together for two years away from Canterlot City for college. Instead of coming home for the break, Twilight elected to do a cram December mini-mester to stay on track for her first double majors.
Knowing her roommate and girlfriend well enough not to fight with her about such things like school, Sunset instead makes arrangements to have Twilight's family all fly out to visit them instead.
Food. Fun. Family. Everything her adorable, hardworking nerd needs to keep from burning out.
Written for fun and for Bicyclette's 2023 SciSet contest.
Chapters (1)
Spike is getting neutered, right?
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He clearly needs some of his enthusiasm curbed.
Spike, you dirty dog...
Though to be fair, he merely played on Sunset's idea.
I can't believe that this wonderful little slice-of-life/fantasy-action story doesn't have more likes! It's sweet, wholesome, yet also alittle pervy in just the right ways. It's not often to mix the genres that you did and come out feeling coherent, especially in just a single chapter, but you did! You even included cool artwork! Kudos to you and have an upvote!
(Honestly, I wouldn't mind if this became a series of stories based on different games and different holidays).
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Thank you! I have plans to release several single chapter shorts soon, not all of them related to this, but maybe I can come up with something more along these lines as well.
Fun stuff, though the lavish description didn't work as well in the real world as it did in the fantasy setting. Still good fun all around... but seriously, Spike, dirty pool.
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Thank you for reading.
This was definitely an intriguing read, one that takes advantage of the depth in storytelling offered by D&D-style roleplay to provide two different worlds to explore SciSet in. There’s a bit of a weakness in that framing in that it doesn’t feel like there’s much thematically linking the two narratives, especially once Spike begins hijacking the gameplay (which definitely has some odd moments for Spike, but perhaps befitting of a dog who’s still growing into human intelligence and human maturity — or lack thereof), and some of the writing could benefit from one more editing pass. But I did appreciate the worldbuilding, particularly in the real side of things, and the SciSet is as charming as it should be, as is the family dynamic overall.
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Thank you for the comments. You're not the first one to point it out that this feels a bit incomplete. I think what I might do is revisit this in a little bit and add more lead in to better congeal the live story with the role play that they have the fact that it just jumps in probably didn't help overall. Nevertheless it was fun and I enjoyed participating.
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Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed.
it’s an interesting idea, to narrate a roleplaying session as a main story and then cut between it and the players. certainly, a lot of thought went into the setup and the descriptions, but everything with Spike and how everyone else is reacting to it just feels off and unpleasant on the whole. really clashes with the wholesome vibe that the story otherwise has, which makes the offness even stronger. thank you for writing, but it was not for me.
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Sometimes we try something different and sometimes it doesn't work. Thank you for reading.