MGP Vignettes

**MGP Vignettes** is a collection of short stories by Taralynn Andrews that accompany *Magical Girl Policy*. The vignettes are available for download on Andrews's Patreon page, but require backing Andrews on Patreon for access, unlike the freely available *Magical Girl Policy*. The series had mostly regular monthly releases from March of 2015 to December of 2016. The vignettes explore new and lesser-seen aspects of the world of MGP. Main series protagonist Rob makes no direct appearances, and the stories instead focus on various new characters and ones that are supporting characters in MGP.

## Plot

*For a complete synopsis of each vignette, see MGP Vignettes/Plot.*
* **Monster Insurance:** After Loose Change is wrecked from the Spirit Guard's fight with Polygal, Mr. Parker, the arcade's owner, has to go through the process of receiving insurance payouts. He meets with Overwatch Insurance agent Ms. Chamis.
* **Officer Hester:** Police officers Hester and Sanders have just finished directing and interviewing people fleeing from Day LaMode's attack on Rale Valley Mall, and are finally allowed to enter the building now that the battle is over. Hester is dissatisfied with how little the Kessia City Police Department does to combat the threat of monsters.
* **Dungeon Direct Response:** Devon is speaking with regular Dungeon Direct customer Frank when Day LaMode and the Spirit Guard appear to battle. The pair now has to figure out how to escape the danger.
* **Round Object Enthusiasts:** Two years ago during Club Week, SFEERS president Esper is working at the club's booth with OmniDrive. OmniDrive shows off the new sign she made, and the pair wonders about the future of SFEERS and themselves.
* **A Sign of Things To Come:** One year ago during Club Week, SaltStorm and Fretribution find OmniDrive in tears at the SFEERS booth, as a Student Association member showed up and took the sign she had made.
* **Call It A Knight:** Six months ago, SaltStorm has to resolve a conflict within the Knights of the Spherical Table, once again caused by the troublemaking BlackNovember antagonizing the short-tempered NightKnight.
* **Cheer Itself:** One month ago, summer tryouts for the cheer team have finished. Stacy has worked hard to stand out to Cammy and is eager to see who made the team.
* **Questing Solo:** An unrelated short story set in a world governed by tabletop RPG rules. The paladin Edgewood Lightblade infiltrates the hideout of dark priest Cortesh Dawnfall in order to rescue Levina Lovelock.
* **Crashed Party:** One year ago\*, Todd Walker laments having to abandon a long-running roleplaying campaign due to the DM, DataMiner becoming too busy. At the suggestion of his roommate Fretribution, Todd begins thinking up a new campaign he can lead himself.
* **After Party:** One year ago, Todd has now had several sessions of his new *Keeps and Kobolds* campaign. The players haven't been very engaged, however, so Todd and Fretribution brainstorm ways to change that.
* **Party Hard:** Ten months ago, Todd is shown employing ideas thought of in "After Party". Travesty's character Rook has received a cursed axe that ends up altering how the players engage with the game.
* **Life of the Party:** Eight months ago, Todd's campaign is shown to have completely succeeded in drawing the players in. The other players are forced to oppose Travesty as Rook refuses to part with his cursed axe.
* **Blood-stained Curtains:** Greg meets with the rest of Free Unsecured Network to practice before tomorrow's gig. Dale tells his bandmates about Robynne, the latest girl he's fallen for after meeting her yesterday.
* **Housewarming Party:** The game session shown in "Life of the Party" concludes and the players leave Todd's dorm. AegisBloom doesn't go right away, however, and surprises Todd by asking him out on a date.
* **Back To Basics:** While running the *Mega Mash Family* setup at the SFEERS opening social, Ignition is greeted by graduated member AcidicBase. They talk about how much the club has changed.
* **Image Problems:** Lihua Lo has obtained a photo her friend took of Spirit Guard Felicity at the Day LaMode scene. Lihua is eager to post it to her Spirit Guard blog, but finds that all of her images of the heroes are missing.
* **Knight Shift:** Two days after the Polygal attack, NightKnight is writing a message to SaltStorm, apologizing for his outburst during yesterday's *Aspect Realms* session. He is visited by Fretribution, who advises him how to handle the situation.
* **Missing Pieces:** Sanvi has just finished spying on the computer component delivery Robynne had ordered, and she is certain Dale is the one the "Bluster" addressee refers to. Sanvi wonders how Cammy knew of the package and why she ordered Sanvi to watch it, but feels continuing to please the captain will only help in the long term.
* **Clean Up:** One week after the Polygal attack, Travis and the rest of the Harris Restoration company go to Loose Change to repair the damaged arcade.
* **Black Cats:** Last October, Lauren is frustrated at her Poltergeist Halloween job. A strange cat decoration reveals itself as a monster called Tricky Streetcat, and Spirit Guard Valor shows up to battle it.
* **Holiday Memories:** Last December, Donovan hides from Winter's Wrap's battle with Spirit Guards Valor and Tenacity at K.D. Schilling's Department Store. After the fight is over, he ends up overhearing some details of their personal lives and is caught by Noriko.

## Characters

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The following characters debuted in MGP Vignettes.

* Mr. Parker
* Ms. Chamis
* Hester
* Sanders
* Mitchell
* Devin Dante
* Frank
* Esper
* OmniDrive
* BlackNovember
* SaltStorm
* AcidicBase
* Ignition
* Travesty
* Tanya Tell
* Edgewood Lightblade
* Cortesh Dawnfall
* Levina Lovelock
* Todd Walker
* DataMiner
* Hambone
* BugReport
* AegisBloom
* Greg
* Marco
* Rex
* Lihua Lo
* Travis
* Mr. Harris
* Roger Harris
* Lauren
* Tricky Streetcat
* Donovan
* Winter's Wrap

## Setting

*Main article: Magical Girl Policy#Setting*
With the exception of "Questing Solo", all of the vignettes take place in the same world as *Magical Girl Policy*. The start of each vignette lists the location and time relative to certain events in the main series it takes place in. The vignettes are near-evenly split between taking place in the present and the past.

"Questing Solo" is unusual in that it doesn't take place in the world of MGP at all and is an original setting. It is set in a medieval fantasy world with tabletop role-playing game mechanics like stats and dice rolls for determining success of various actions. Elements of "Questing Solo" were later incorporated into MGP as part of a *Keeps and Kobolds* roleplay campaign created by DataMiner.

## Conception and creation

Taralynn Andrews created MGP Vignettes as a reward for subscribing to her on Patreon. She felt that access to exclusive stories was a suitable perk for Patreon backers, but didn't want them to be essential to enjoying the main story of *Magical Girl Policy*, which can be read for free. To this end, the vignettes mainly focus on minor characters and their stories. Andrews also considered having vignettes explore alternate versions of the MGP world. The short length of the vignettes would allow Andrews to establish a mostly consistent monthly release for both it and the main series.

"Questing Solo" is an original story set in a world governed by tabletop role-playing game rules, a concept that Andrews enjoyed in the webcomic *The Order of the Stick* and wished to explore.

## Release

MGP Vignettes had a monthly release schedule and ran from March of 2015 to December of 2016. The release was more consistent than that of the main series, with there being a vignette for every month except for July 2016. "Crashed Party" and "After Party" each released a month later than scheduled, but are officially listed under their intended release months of November 2015 and December 2015, respectively. Following "Holiday Memories", Andrews announced that the series would not continue, as she has exhausted ideas for vignettes.

### List of vignettes

* "Officer Hester" (April 1, 2015)
* "Dungeon Direct Response" (May 1, 2015)
* "Round Object Enthusiasts" (June 1, 2015)
* "A Sign of Things To Come" (July 1, 2015)
* "Call It A Knight" (August 1, 2015)
* "Cheer Itself" (September 5, 2015)
* "Crashed Party" (December 25, 2015)\*
* "After Party" (January 1, 2016)\*
* "Party Hard" (January 17, 2016)
* "Life of the Party" (February 1, 2016)
* "Blood-stained Curtains" (March 7, 2016)
* "Housewarming Party" (April 3, 2016)
* "Image Problems" (June 11, 2016)
* "Knight Shift" (August 16, 2016)
* "Missing Pieces" (September 19, 2016)
* "Clean Up" (October 18, 2016)
* "Black Cats" (November 15, 2016)
* "Holiday Memories" (December 15, 2016)

## Trivia

* Certain characters and items in MGP Vignettes have names that would be changed in the main series:
	+ The cola called "Col. Moxie" appears to be the MGP counterpart to Dr. Pepper, and gets replaced by "Pep MD" in the main series.
	+ "Tanya West" was changed to "Tanya Tell" in the main series.
	+ Fretribution's real name is "Eddie Korus" here, but it is now "Eddie Hales".
	+ NightKnight's real name is "John Harvey" here, but was changed to "Connor" (no last name given) in the main series.
* The story of "Blood-stained Curtains" was originally intended to appear in the main series, but was cut because Taralynn Andrews felt it did not sufficiently advance the plot.