Exactly what it says on the tin. These are all choose-your-own-adventure shorts written as part of Ponyville CiderFest 2023's Interactive Storytelling Adventure. There are thirty-nine in total. The chapters have been jumbled up in the tradition of choose-your-own-adventures.
More stories from PVCF's 2023 Interactive Storytelling Experience can be found here.
Includes fics for G1, G3, G3.5, G4, Pony Life, & G5. A G2 character even sneaks into one story. Celebrating all generations of ponies for MLP's 40th anniversary!
Thank you to the entire Ponyville CiderFest Interactive Storytelling team (Vivid Syntax, Nyronus, Sonicsuns, Note Worthy, SteelTheWarrior, Snowday, Aria E. Diamond, SoloBrony, Skywriter, Ellwyn, Ghost Note, Overlord Pony, RQK, Shade Hunter, Shottsy, Celestilune). You pulled it off, and it was amazing!
Special thanks to Admiral Biscuit for pre-reading and for being the liaison on this with the PVCF staff.
There's a new ending option (hero) for The Young Mage And The Lighthouse that wasn't part of the app. This was one of the last stories written, when we needed more chaos/villain entries to even out the choices. So this hero option is bonus content!
Air Supremacy: (G4) (Adventure) (Lightning Dust, Wind Rider, Wind Sprint, Rolling Thunder, Short Fuse)
Wayward Mail: (G3) (Romance/Slice-of-Life) (2nd person) (Star Catcher, Skywishes)
Quick Trip: (G3) (Adventure) (2nd person) (Shenanigans)
Snowball Fight: (G4) (Slice-of-Life) (Snowcatcher, Flitterheart, Sunny Rays, Dewdrop Dazzle)
Disco Dash: (G3.5) (Slice-of-Life) (Starsong)
Hedging Her Bets: (G4) (Slice-of-Life) (2nd person) (Cozy Glow)
Dog Gone: (G4) (Slice-of-Life) (2nd person) (Diamond Rose)
Bumble Buzz: (G4) (Slice-of-Life) (2nd person) (Honeybuzz, Bumblesweet)
Holding Out For A Hero: (G1) (Adventure) (2nd person) (Wind Whistler)
Lost In Lava: (G1) (Adventure) (Lavan, Princess Tiffany, Sludge)
Taste The Rainbow: (G1) (Adventure) (North Star, Lavan, Princess Tiffany, Sludge)
Dig It: (G4) (Slice-of-Life) (2nd person) (Petunia Paleo)
Escape: (Pony Life) (Slice-of-Life) (2nd person) (Potion Nova)
Daring Do And The Temple Of Syrinx: (G4) (Adventure) (Daring Do, Flitter, a sphynx named Mr. Jinks)
Alone: (G4) (Slice-of-Life) (Sweetie Swirl)
Overcast: (G3) (Slice-of-Life) (2nd person) (Thistle Whistle)
Stone In Love: (G4) (Romance) (Queen Chrysalis, Lord Tirek, Cozy Glow)
My New Statue: (G4) (Slice-of-Life) (Toola Roola, Cozy Glow)
Creative Differences: (G5) (Slice-of-Life) (The Dreamlands: Minty, Blue Belle, Snuzzle)
Love Or Something Like It: (G1) (2nd person) (Romance) (Heart Throb, Sweet Stuff, Sundance)
Mintzilla: (G3) (Adventure) (Comedy) (2nd person) (Minty, Kimono)
Ghosts Of The Past: (G4) (Slice-of-Life) (Starbeam Twinkle, Flitterheart)
Against All Odds: (G3) (Slice-of-Life) (Razzaroo, Sparkleworks, Sunny Daze, Merriweather)
Exchange Student: (G4) (Slice-of-Life) (2nd person) (Daisy Dreams)
Daring Do And The Blue Pearl Of Baytona Beach: (G1, G2, & G4) (Adventure) (2nd person) (Daring Do, Squirk, Crank)
Where Everypony Knows Your Name: (G1, G3, G4, & G5) (Adventure) (Fizzy Glitch, Fizzy (G1 unicorn), Green Apple, Wysteria)
The Cutie Mark Database: (G4) (Slice-of-Life) (Sweetie Belle, Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, Featherweight, Mayor Mare)
No Shirt, No Shoes...: (G4) (Slice-of-Life) (2nd person) (Rainbow Flash, Feathermay, Lily Blossom)
Cherry Pie, Pet Unicorn: (G4) (Comedy) (2nd person) (Cherry Pie)
Unfair Advantage: (G4) (Slice-of-Life) (2nd person) (Ploomette)
Never Fade Away: (G4) (Comedy) (Slice-of-Life) (Minty, Cozy Glow)
Rogue Storm: (G4) (Slice-of-Life) (2nd person) (Sunny Rays)
Sweets & Treats: (G3 & G4) (Slice-of-Life) (Plumsweet, Sweetberry, Triple Treat, Cotton Candy, Port-o-bella, Tropical Storm)
Iron & Porcelain: (G4) (Comedy) (Iron Will, Bifröst)
Nopony Beats The Whizz (G1) (Slice-of-Life) (Whizzer)
Frazzle Dazzle: (G1) (Adventure) (2nd person) (Katrina, Ember, Heart Throb, Frazzits)
The Young Mage And The Lighthouse: (G4) (Adventure) (Dewdrop Dazzle)
Vehicle...Allegedly: (G4) (Slice-of-Life) (Lulu Luck)
Passion For Fashion: (G3) (Slice-of-Life) (2nd person) (Rainbow Dash, Zipzee)
What are app stories?
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Ponyville Ciderfest had an interactive app (which is still up, more on that later). Basically, you'd find codes at the convention, enter them into the app, and you'd be presented with a story with two or three choices between Chaos, Villain, and Hero. Whichever faction got the most votes by the end of the con affected the overarching con story, and the theme for next year's com.
There were over a hundred participants to make it happen, writing stories, editing stories, cosplaying, and so forth, and the con had over 900,000 words of original fiction written for it, which is a lot! (more than the King James Bible, slightly less than Lord of the Rings and Chronicles of Narnia combined)
As for the app, it's still available. HERE is a link.
You'll need to get codewords to use it, though. Some authors are providing them, if you want to read them in the app.
This is an interesting setup. Wind Rider and Lightning Dust could form a believable partnership on their mutual hatred of Dash.