There's a new amusement park near Canterlot, catering the nobility, the rich, and the elite.

This is nothing new. Canterlot is the city of the wealthy and the gullible, two things that draw entertainers and con men like flies to honey. The Golden Beach is different though. The owners of the park somehow managed to turn a worthless spigot of land into an artificial inland sea with a tropical island attached, with a regular old assortment of rides on the borders and the outskirts. The common ponies come for the circus attractions, the nobles for the equine-made vacation spot, away from the stress of being expected to do something the modern world.

Thing is though, there's a reason it's called the Eighth Wonder of Equestria. By all rights, the caliber of magical engineering used to transform a large area of a fairly cool climate into a subtropical paradise, even in winter, is...rather advanced for modern sorcery. Though that may be because the coldness gets displaced into the staff, who just seem to close themselves out from the outside world after a while, helped by the fact that most of them live in provided housing that they are allowed-neigh, encouraged-to bring their families in. And the wildlife seems really tame for creatures from Everfree.

But it's not like there's anything wrong, right? It's not like the hidden bosses of the park are servants of an utterly amoral alien supercomputer that fully deserves the title of God-Machine, is it?

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A New World of Darkness crossover.