Update time! We've got 5 in the queue this time around. Get em down below.
[Adventure][Sci-fi]
Author: Insipidious
Description: Sanctaphrax, the city of knowledge. Wherever there's a question, there you can find the answer. For the right price. Unlike most of the citizens of The Ivory Island, the Admiral doesn't concern herself with economics. Her wealth comes in knowledge and the never-ending struggle to pull the future into the present. As long as she has the bits to keep Algol's Shadow running and its crew fed, she dives, and Sanctaphrax pay is more than enough. When a routine salvage job leads to a discovery that could change the way the world sees the sunken ruins of Equestria forever, she can't help but get a little excited. She can hear the future knocking, just another dive away. The very stars themselves might as well be in her grasp.Empty Horizons: Sea of Stars (New Part 12!)
[Crossover]
Author: Wanderer D
Description:Sunset's Isekai (New Parts 29-30)
Somewhere in the multiverse, there is a bar. It's small—the kind-of a hole-in-the wall place which you might find open late at night while walking down the streets of Canterlot City in the 1920's.
But unlike most bars, this one is not actually there… or rather, not where you think it is.
The entrance to Sunset's Isekai will be found in passing; an archway made of stone, emerging from a wall that you could have sworn had nothing there before, and in fact seems impossible to actually lead anywhere.
There, a door of solid oak—lovingly worked and stained to look almost golden-red—with a thick, crystal version of her cutie mark at eye level awaits visitors under the soft light of a gas lamp.
This door opens to all worlds, and can only be found by those that need that drink to be just the right type of different.
[Adventure][Dark][Alternate Universe]
Author: Takarashi282
Description: From the dawn of recorded history, accounts were vivid and for the most part consistent until the Celestial rule. Under Celestia, a fifty year period of history disappeared without a trace. These are called the Lost Histories. Twilight Sparkle is keen to know what exactly happened during this period, and she succeeds to a degree. However, when reporting her findings to select friends, a bomb is set off in their midst, sending the castle up in flames. Enter Trixie Lulamoon and Discord, who see the chaos from ground level. Enlisting each other's help, they try their best to help in the moment, but in the end, there was nothing much they could do to alleviate the tragedy. With Starlight in critical condition, Trixie is useless, and with Fluttershy's life hanging by a thread, Discord's desire to see justice served to the culprit rages like fire. So when Discord extends an offer to Trixie to hunt down the culprit, who is she to refuse?
Ballad of the Dawn (New Part 15)
[Adventure][Alternate Universe]
Author: Goldenwing
Description:Empty Horizons
The surface isn't safe anymore.
Over a thousand years after the triumphant return of Princess of Luna, ponykind has abandoned the surface of Equestria. They now live on great floating islands, held aloft by powerful spells cast so long ago that none alive can remember their origin.
Magic is slipping away from ponykind, with most born completely lacking in cutie marks. There are no alicorns. The pegasi cannot fly, the earth ponies are weak, and the unicorns have no spells. Those Gifted who are lucky enough to be born with marks go on dangerous expeditions into the land below, salvaging magic and materials from the wreckage of the world long past.
It is on one of these expeditions that six mares are found, long forgotten but miraculously preserved. Though they cannot remember what happened to the world, they still possess the powerful magic of the old times. On the empty horizons of the brave new world, an unknown threat closes in, steadily wiping out entire cities at a time as it advances.
It's up to the Elements of Harmony to discover what happened to their world, save it from this new threat, and search for some way to bring things back to how they once were.
It isn't going to be easy.
[Adventure][Drama][Sci-fi]
Author: GMBlackjack
Description:
The scope of the multiverse is so tremendously beyond the comprehension of most beings that, if they were to truly know what it meant, they would break down and be unable to live their lives the way they wished. Most worlds are lucky to be blissfully unaware of the true picture of reality, never to encounter the higher forces and civilizations.
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However, when one of those higher forces make contact with one of those unaware worlds - intentionally or not, peacefully or not - everything will change drastically. Sometimes the change is slow, sometimes rapid. Regardless of the pacing, like all change, it is both good and bad. Civilizations have risen from simple worlds overnight and have crumbled just as quickly. Many can't handle the revelation, and those that can are not always the best examples of honor and dignity.
It is often said that each world - each universe - has a Song, and that all these Songs are related, intertwining together in a mesh of powerful destiny among the Spheres of the multiverse.
This is the story of how a certain world inhabited by Technicolor ponies found their Song and how it interwove itself in the Songs of so many others.
This is a story of how everything can change in a single moment.Songs of the Spheres (Update Part 137!)
