So I'm working on two stories in parallel as I trudge along with Norpak. One is GrimDark, Lovecraft-inspired, and full of magic and secrets and death and dooooom. The other is only slightly dark and more adventure-oriented. The first is a spin off of a mildly succesful trilogy of GrimDark stories on FiMFiction, and the other is just an OC and co. story.
Yeah, it's pony. However, the first is actually sort of tennuous in it's connection to that world. As in, all the characters are humans.
Moon Diary Supplemental: Black Box (GrimDark, Sad, OCs,)
The story of Luna's descent into madness, recorded in her diaries, ended with unspeakable destruction. But in the aftermath, what had once been Luna but was now simply the Nightmare slept, and the world recovered from that terribly final holocaust. Life scurries about below, and the world on the Moon's horizon is green again. Man's excursions on the Lunar surface have awakened her, and his technology has provided her a new and more terrible visage. The Nightmare is coming, and the fate of the world rests on a meeting of Light and Dark in the halls of a lost and forlorn civilization and on the cold shores of the Alaskan wilds.
Sepulcher of the Lonely Night (Adventure, SlightDark)
Poets Corner, writer and curator of the Corner Books branch in Ponyville, has been planning a vacation down south to see jungles and ruins to do some research for his next novel, a comeback after his recent flop... and perhaps just because he's always wanted to go. But on the eave of the departure, he is summoned to the Palace and given a simple, if strange assignment by Celestia: Take Luna and a package ... on his trip with him and deliver both to one Twilight Sparkle, currently doing research in some rather mysterious ruins.
Bewildered and honored, he agrees despite his misgivings. Why can't Celestia trust her own postal service? What strange things hold her student's attention? And most importantly... why hasn't anyone seen Twilight in a week?
Secrets and memories, artifacts of dubious origin and sinister intent... Those who seek for the Sepulcher of the Lonely Night do not know what it is that they are looking for, not at all.