Greetings! This Magic Node is an informative sign post, a way point if you will, to guide and assist you along the way of Merlos The Mad's calamitous story environment.
As you may have noticed (or may not have noticed,) this story is one of five stories that all happen at the same time!
Here are the other four.
So Many Wonders
My Little Marriage : Mary Is A Mare
Abhorsen
The Mane Two : Contrail
Now, my advice to you (and I'm an information sign, so this is good advice) is to read the others as well, simply to stay on the up and up, stopping when you come across a message like this to see what it says.
All five stories are self contained, and will not spoil one another, up until a certain point, of course. You will see events and other things that give hints or flat out give away facts to the other stories if you continue. For this story, A Twilight Landing, that point is now. You must go and read My Little Marriage if you do not want spoilers when you read that story at a later date, or the other three. If you only plan to read this fic, though, then continue on.
You do not need all of the fics for this story, or the rest of it, to make sense. Eventually, they will all converge into a separate fic altogether from the five. Some things will be confusing I imagine at that point, possibly, but we'll write that sixth story fresh so as to keep everypony in the loop.
Again, I repeat you will get a complete story by only staying in this story and its continuity, but the others have pieces from the other girls and their point of view, too.
That concludes this message from the author! Thank you everypony for your patience and support, and please, enjoy!
I'm confused... you say to go and read a twilight landing, like this is on mary is a mare, but mary is a mare is on the links list and twilight landing isn't...
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Hah, not so my friend, a mere mistake of the text is all. Thank you for reporting that to me.
So how would the order go then? If you want to start on one, then catch up with the other that the former led onto?
Jeez, I'm not certain I'd even be able to find the time to read all of these.
3406754 I usually read them on my breaks during work, myself.
Good thing I'm already reading all of them
You have officially blown my mind. This amazing fic is part of a group? @_@ Dear god, my head's gonna be spinning trying to catch up! XD ^_^
Honestly... Out of the whole list, the only other story I've attempted to read was My Little Marriage -- and it really didn't work for me, I couldn't stick with it. It seemed muddled and aimless.
Thank you Mr. Signpost!
3409048 Of course it did. A human mysteriously transformed into a pony and had to somehow survive in this metastable state of quasi-thaumatic flux.
And then there's life to get through on top of that.
All while trying to fond out what forces are playing games with the multiverse.
And now the time-lines are converging... two players paths are about to cross.
But we still know nothing of the game-master! (I suspect it's some evil insane wizard names Merlos who loves trolling multiple dimensions at once!)
So as the wizard commands. Though I suggest checking up on Alex first, seems the story's been inactive since August.
Now I'm conflicted. I didn't want to read the other stories because "So Many Wonders" and "Abhorsen" crossover with things I don't know of and "Mary is a Mare" and "Contrails" don't seem that interesting to me. But this whole epic idea of having these five independent stories come together into one epic crossover thing... I would read just out of respect for its sheer epicness. Because I like epic!
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And honestly, is there anyone alive who doesn't like epic?
Ah I came here with a squee to continue last weeks' late night binge-reading, and was denied from doing so.
You Evil Author, You!
Well if the others are anywhere near as good as this, I'll survive.
Barely.
So... Basically I have 300k words of reading to do to catch up with everything at this point. I'm tempted to just give up right now.
I do have a week off work coming up, but I wanted to spend some of it writing, not all of it reading...
I love you so much! Thanks for considering my advice Oh great one!
Once more the dread hub chapter confronts me. Now there are only three stories I need to catch up on before I can finally read more of this one, or of Mary is a Mare for that matter. *wants to read ahead so badly, but needs to get the rest of the background in place first*
Not to imply that reading three more madverse stories would be a chore, far from it. I've greatly enjoyed Mary is a Mare and A Twilight Landing so far, and think your portrayal of Twilight Sparkle's bookish and analytical personality is probably one of my all-time favorites on this site. I'm just anxiously awaiting the time when I can finally advance past the hub chapter that I assume all five stories will have and see how they all start coming together.
*picture Rainbow Dash waiting for the next Daring Do book*
On to the next madverse story!
I HAVE ARRIVED!
At last! Mary is a Mare and A Twilight Landing have converged!
Now what would be best at this juncture? Read a chapter of each at a time? Or as the chronology dictates? if its chronological, then i would need to continue here till the phonecall....and see where I need to go from there.
Wich road shuld I continue walking on now? I've walked down both the MLM road and the ATL road and now I am back by the sign at the crossroad and wonders, where to next? Shuld I keep on walking down the ATL road or shuld I continue on the MLM road wich I initially started out on?
Well, off to Mary is a Mare...
...Hello information sign, how are you speaking o me audibly...?
Whee, made it to the Author's Node from MLM. Question: assuming that these fics eventually also tie in with the other four, are there Nodes up ahead that direct me to the other stories at the appropriate time? Or has that not happened yet?
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Hasnt happened yet.
Oh my... You've just doomed me to a week of binge reading