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
A Twilight Landing
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, My Little Marriage : Mary is a Mare, that point is now. You must go and read A Twilight Landing 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!
It's happening.
IT'S HAPPENING.
GET HYPE!
This reminds me of a strange and whimsical magical signboard from a game I'm not sure actually exists...
You just dumped me 326k words to read, because I have an obsessive sense of completion. I love you.
I don't know what So Many Wonders and Abhorsen can contain; not knowing what to expect, not sure if I want to read them.
MLM Mary is a Mare is the only one that interests me. Ponies turning into humans I could care less about. You had me excited that you may have dropped another chapter... yet it was only a ploy to shoot a shameless plug for your other stories... Shame on you. That's why there is a thing called blog posts for this very reason.
Thanks for that warning. Obviously going to have to start on Twilight Landing now.
Thank you for posting this in conjunction with a real chapter. That's the responsible thing to do.
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Except the blog post function is broken!
"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."
This seems conflicting to me. If all five fics are going to come together into some sort of 'final act'-fic, wouldn't that require knowledge from the four I haven't read to completely make sense? Or is it not a 'final act'-fic so much as a sequel fic, whose story is potentially related to this one, but self-contained? I'll admit that the possibility of having to skip over to another fanfic to continue reading this one irks me — that's one reason why I've avoided reading the other four, I don't want to read multiple fanfics dealing with the same overarching event. Of course, the bigger reason is because it's this story's premise of human-mother-turned-pony-on-earth that really catches my interest, and the other stories aren't likely to have this premise... but that's neither here nor there. Point is, it kind'a sucks that I'm not wanting to read other fanfics just to get this fanfics full story, and it sounds like I'm going to HAVE to read at least this one other 'final act'-fic to get a suitable conclusion to Mary's story. I understand that that's pretty much unavoidable with how these are all being written as separate fanfics but apparently with the same conclusion, but it still kind'a sucks.
Is it at least you who are writing this 'final act'-fic? Or is it some kind of conglomeration of all the writers helping to write it? Because that sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. Or at least an irritation waiting to happen, lol.
So, does this part of the story connect with just A Twilight Landing, or more than one of the other stories? Because I've been reading A Twilight Landing, but if I were to read the other ones before I continue with this one it would take forever to get back to this one!
You're working on five fics at the same time? What sort of crazy person are you?!
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Yes he is writing these fics. He is a mad man.
He has shown very fine control in between all of his fics as well. This isn't like the chess game of the gods were a loose collaboration of authors sometimes step on each others toes or go off on a tangent that cannot be reconciled. He is a veteran writer in my opinion.
I am only slightly disappointed to learn that he is not including his sweetiebot story into the mix.... but I have a feeling that is good thing. My heart says yes but my head says my heart is an idiot..... You don't even want to know what my gut has to say about all this. I don't either but it had something to do with beer, steak and pie.... Further investigation maybe needed.
Worlds are colliding!
I am hype!
I got really worried when I read 'Node' though. I through you had developed some sort of medical condition or other and were posting in your story about it! Good to know that's not the case!
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Twilight is the only pony turned into a human. The rest of the gang are all natural.
3393821 The Sweetiebot one really wouldn't fit the continuity. It's about a human on Earth who built a pony-shaped robot that got zapped and gained self-awareness.
It's basically ponified "Short Circuit"... and since he knows that movie it means he's as old as me!
HA!! YOU'RE OLD MERLOS!!
Wait.. so am I...
Hey.... so these other stories... um. I dont even know if you wrote them really. So, how much do I exactly do I have to read, like chapters? To which point should I Stop to continue reading this story?
What.. so.. Ch24 of this and Ch27 of ATL occur simultaneously, or I should read ATL #27 first, or Ch24 of this first?
I -think- you are saying that Ch24 of this and Ch27 of ATL occur simultaneously, so I'll just flip a coin on that.
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I still like this picture....
Oh, god. Now I have to read this other story, because I hate not following author's directions on stuff like this because I know they worked hard on it. And, of course, the other story is even longer than this one is.
Welp, I'll see you all in a week, I'm going in.
and now I have 389 unread chapters in my favorites... curse you merlos. I should never have taken a break from fics
Ok, the little warning post is great, but the problem is that I get to one, and then I just find myself leading into one of the other stories. I've already gotten to them in ATL and MLM...today. Literary crack, bro. Keep it up.
Aww nuts. I've been reading this for a day or 2 now and Now I gotta go read the others?
*sigh*
Brb, I gotta go do the thing with reading and my head hurts so I'm gonna stop sense cause brain pain.
I was sent here from ATL so I'm gonna keep reading til the next signpost.
So this is where I shuld switch over to ATL? Okay I'll do so then.
ps. There will be an informative signpost for when I shuld switch over to the other stories as well right?
3399725 I'm not that old and I remember some of it, weeeee, culture.
Posted on Author's Node #1:
Wait, there's 5 stories, linked together, and you plan on making a sixth one, which is the result of all the others.
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6 stories, 6 Elements. The first 5 will reveal the last one. HARMONY CONFIRMED!!!!!!!
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I'm not old at all, and I've seen that movie many times.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFh1axTPUsU
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That is correct.
Gaaaaaaah... On the one hand, thanks for the direction, but on the other... Sisters damn it, thus was getting really good! I've been reading this in the spare time I've had over the past few days (and your Sweetie Bot story before this) and you know, you just have a certain way with your stories that I just find irresistible.
See you when I get to the Author's Node in Twilight Landing. I guess.
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