Because Equestrian magic has a knack for showing up at the most inconvenient moments, Sunset and her friends find themselves trapped in their new video game. They don't know how to get out, they don't know how to win the game, and some of them don't even know that they're in a game in the first place.
But don't worry, because if Sunset had a plan it wouldn't last five minutes in this pseudo-political mess anyway.
Written for FanOfMostEverything's Imposing Sovereign Contest
Ork Pinkie is best Pinkie
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A friend just told me that I'd accidentally made a 40K reference there even though I've never read anything of it.
Amusing as that is, I was actually going for a reference to your brain being a dirty, dirty liar.
("Us orks are too smart for our own brains!" )
I wonder what that refers to...
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It's Purple for 40k Orks (therefore bookhorse is sneaky ork horse ), but double references are awesome. Specially when not intended
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Well if Pinkie isn't an Orc she sure does a good impression. Orcs are even slightly psychic: if you could convince enough of them that a stick was a gun, it would shoot. Pinkie theory number 512...
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I'm not saying she isn't an orc, she's just not specifically a 40K orc because I know pretty much nothing about it. They're generic orcs; if anything they're vaguely inspired by LotR, but to be honest Pinkie was inspired by many things other than any actual orc.
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It’s just wonderful that you managed to independent come up with the same crazy logic.
Meanwhile, I’m The Bad Guy is just great for Darth Sparkle. Let’s hope she never feels the need to go that route.
Delightful stuff... though Twilight really should be careful with these blind trials. No one likes getting their chain yanked on a frequent basis, even for science.
Still, a most entertaining tale of swords, sorcery, and silicon, with a most intriguing stinger. Thank you for it, and best of luck in the judging.
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I'm glad you enjoyed it.
(And I maybe could've made it clearer in the story but there were a couple weeks between the main story and the epilogue. Twilight didn't have anything to do with them being trapped in the game.)
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Oh my god, just take my fave already. This fic is bloody brilliant. XD
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Good to see you again and glad you enjoyed it.
(I'm taking your fave already, you're the one who took a week to hand it over. )
Heh! Excellent Pinkieism!
Spike-the-dog is superbly written. The best dog-who's-sentient-and-playing-a-human-in-a-game I've ever read.
It's the Hearth's Warming Eve play all over again.
Lots of fun. As soon as they started to think there must be a big bad I had a vague guess, but couldn't quite see how it would work. I love the surface-level explanation of Twilight roleplaying as an atheist white mage who just uses items because that is the kind of thing she'd do, and the eventual reveal of her not being an elf subject to Rarity's command was nicely done as well. By the time of the final boss fight I was pretty much expecting that actually there was no Equestrian magic, it was all just Sci-Twi hacking the VR game... but that's probably because I have a soft spot for Sci-Twi hacking VR games to make surprisingly-realistic adventure games for her friends
Thanks for the fic!
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And thank you for the comment. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
No hacking involved, but Twilight did have those plans long before magic came into play. Introverted nerds and their overly contrived show-them-all power fantasies, amirite.
I liked it, but I'm confused by the epilogue - what's going on there? I'm not familiar with Wander over Yonder, so the music doesn't mean much to me.
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I guess Sci-Twi's evil now? :B
So Twilight saved the day by becomeing the DM.