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And you'll have to scour the entirety of the thread for the rest...
*looks through archives* Good grief, it's almost been exactly two years since this thread was first started...
*looks through archives* Good grief, it's almost been exactly two years since this thread was first started...
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Yeah, pretty sure I don't. It looks like I probably started saving them sometime in the 40s. Anything from EQD wouldn't be included.swicked wrote:Well, if he has them all, he's the only one that does. Those that didn't get put on deviantart were never saved anywhere.Meleagridis wrote:Any chance that’s a publicly viewable gdocs file or something?Icy Shake wrote: hell, I love your sketches and have made a habit of saving them off to a readily accessible file.
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Borsuq wrote:But... wasn't it mentioned in the original Fallout: Equestria that starmetal is poisonous for ponies?
'Fraid not. Dr. Glue expressed dismay in his usual... colorful idiom at the idea of using it for experimentation, cybernetics, or armor without fully understanding its properties. However, the twisted corpses in Glue's lab were due to simple Taint exposure.
That pompous prick Red Eye got ahold of some pre-war fancy-mane’s recipe for the crap that Taint is made out of, the shit that the Goddess uses to fucking create alicorns. So far, four out of five test subjects have responded with the most grotesque, body-warping deaths. But that last one-in-five? Very promising indeed!
Starmetal's poisonous qualities, as far as I know, came out of Heroes.
(Sorry if someone already replied this... I'm still like a week behind.)
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Ah, thank you very much as always.Icy Shake wrote:I'll try to keep this short, but I'll say my interpretation of the abdication is closer to swicked's than Scienza's. If nothing else, I'd expect something motivated by a rational judgement that she was less capable of governing than Luna would involve a more structured transfer of power than "effective immediately, she's in charge." On the point that Goldenblood only needed to make some soft pushes against her ego to keep her from interfering, I'd go one further: that was probably all he could do—or at least all he felt safe doing—because if he pushed back hard enough for her to try to force her way to Twilight, her seeing his treatment of her beloved mentor would likely cause a real morale problem at a level the Ministry apparatus may not have been able to handle.
Interestingly, the FoE governance model of Celestia having complete control and Luna being a space filler whom Celestia may occasionally listen to has been borne out pretty well by seasons two through four so far (and the comics). Luna has only ever appeared in a personal capacity, sometimes didn't even show up to things you'd expect her to even if only as a figurehead (e.g., the royal wedding), and in the only instance she tried to affect a government decision on screen—the season three premiere—Celestia's response wasn't so far from "who said you get an opinion?" So as far as the blame game goes, I'd say that likewise weighs against her: part of the problem was that, contrary to what she said was how they were meant to be upon Luna's exorcism by the Elements, they did not rule together, which deprived them of the ability to share the infrastructure and responsibility of governance, and incidentally facilitated the Nightmare Moon propaganda of the late war period.
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Ch 34:
We’re staying put unless we get a proper sendoff!
"sendoff" should be hyphenated
Ch 38:
She disengaged her jaws enough for an agonised roar, thrashing wildly as I pushed and shoved her away.
"agonized"
Ch 39:
From throughout the facility came the distant booming of mechanised doors closing.
"mechanized"
Ch 51:
Then the gate opened a crack, and a yellow pegasus with a brilliant orange mane stepped out. Lightning Dancer wore her power armor but had her helmet hooked to her shoulder. Her grave blue eyes met mine.
Lightning Dancer's eyes are orange ("citrine")
Ch 52:
She immediately opened her helmet, and I saw the orange features of Lightning Dancer. A
Lighting Dancer's coat is yellow
Ch 60:
‘PBT’, I realised, was ‘PipBuck Tag’.
"realized"
And as for Luna, good point. She hasn't even gotten a throne yet.
Yes, we all thought that that was a good one.Meleagridis wrote:I um really like this for some reason
Nice name.Meleagridis wrote:The Last Stand of the Broken Monsters
:DMeleagridis wrote:...I completely forgot that swicked was going to help write Psycho's dialogue now. All we need is Rampage.
The way I see Steel Rain is being very clever in most ways and until now not being in a position where his blind spots were especially problematic. I mean, look at how well most of what he does keeps to the Evil Overlord List. It's just that he couldn't bear, could not bear the idea of surrendering to Blackjack and walking out a prisoner.Meleagridis wrote:While I don’t like how he suddenly went from the only bad guy who was a threat because of only his wits to a petulant child with the foresight of a mosquito, he was clever where it counted.
Ooh, nice.Icy Shake wrote:It is now. Roughly, it's in blog format, with page breaks between (what I believe were) separate instances of him publishing them, in reverse chronological order.Meleagridis wrote:Any chance that’s a publicly viewable gdocs file or something?Icy Shake wrote: hell, I love your sketches and have made a habit of saving them off to a readily accessible file.
[rereads]
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I think that means he caused them to seek out the Elements, which made them not just keepers of the sun and moon, but protectors of Equestria and the world. That event also happens to have cemented their place as the rulers of Equestria, but that's a different matter.Icy Shake wrote:Okay, so he's been around well over a thousand years. Wonder just what he meant by "elevated the Princesses," though. Just the same as legitimizing their roles?
I don't think so. The Four Stars were implied to be the ones that aided in Nightmare Moon's escape. But, on the other hand, that's all Zebra legend; from our Equestriacentric perspective, Celestia was apparently able to calculate Nightmare Moon's release down to the day, and indeed, a thousand years of imprisonment to the day sounds a lot like a very specific sentence. It's not like some star slipped Nightmare Moon a file hidden in a cake; she "escaped" on a pre-appointed day, on which the destined Bearer of Magic (with the image of the Element of Magic right there on her flank) was as close to the Elements of Harmony as was reasonable, with all the resources she needed right there in her library. If anything, the stars were Nightmare Moon's wardens, strolling up with the key to say, "Time's up. You're a free mare."Silver136 wrote:So I was rereading FoE and I came across something rather odd. After Littlepip asks about the alien pistol that Homage owns, Homage tells her about zebras view of the sky and what they believe. As she explains, she talks about four specific stars that have malicious intent and I couldn't help but wonder, is the Eater supposed to be one of those stars?
Be careful about taking zebra legend as stone-cold fact. From Midnight Shower's journal:
In return, the old zebra mare told me plenty, albeit in hushed tones and only after pulling me into a back room and closing up her store.
She spoke of how the zebras believe that the stars themselves are the visible avatars of unholy entities so unfathomable that our minds would crack should we perceive more than a notion of them. Beings of such primordial and loathsome will that all the evils of our world are no match for their vileness and cruelty.
Zebras don't differentiate between friendly stars, hostile stars, and the things that live in the vast dark between, be they zombie stars or eldrich entities we can't even begin to fathom. They take the simplistic view that space = bad. The meteor strike that wiped out ancient Hoofington clearly had a strong effect on their culture. They're not wrong, per se, but they lack the perspective to understand what was done by whom and why. They're insects trying to comprehend the actions of gods, with only their limited perception of events to put it all in context.
Homage, on the other hoof, takes a more balanced view:
“I believe that most all religion is born of a mixture of truth and fantasy, hope and fear. How much truth is in any one mythology is hard to say. But I believe that the amount of truth in the zebra’s legends is a good bit more than zero. I don’t believe that your ancient ancestors understood the stars nearly as much as they believed they did… But I have seen enough to be certain that the void beyond the moon holds wonders and terrors far beyond our imaginations. And that at least some of what is out there is malicious beyond our conception of evil, and is looking this way with hostile intentions.”
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I am very much not the one to ask about such things. I got up to the part where Silver Hired Gun Storm gets her cyberleg, and I've sort of let the story lay there for... a year and a half now.swicked wrote:Did that ever come to anything? I mean, was starmetal ever used again in the story or do anything more significant than directly lead to Hired getting a free mech arm? Or was it just a stand-in for any other kind of poisonous plotonium?
It didn't hook me.
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I skimmed that a while back out of curiosity actually. If I recall correctly, the whole point of that was finally revealed in one of the newer chapters.
It didn't hook me either.
It didn't hook me either.
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The starmetal bullets used to poisen Hired were found in an armory, and defending them from raiders killed her mother. It helps advance the plot, and it did result in Hired's new leg.
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So, Lovecraft-esque cosmicism is yet another thread of philosophy that we're seeing in PH.SilentCarto wrote:I think that means he caused them to seek out the Elements, which made them not just keepers of the sun and moon, but protectors of Equestria and the world. That event also happens to have cemented their place as the rulers of Equestria, but that's a different matter.Icy Shake wrote:Okay, so he's been around well over a thousand years. Wonder just what he meant by "elevated the Princesses," though. Just the same as legitimizing their roles?I don't think so. The Four Stars were implied to be the ones that aided in Nightmare Moon's escape. But, on the other hand, that's all Zebra legend; from our Equestriacentric perspective, Celestia was apparently able to calculate Nightmare Moon's release down to the day, and indeed, a thousand years of imprisonment to the day sounds a lot like a very specific sentence. It's not like some star slipped Nightmare Moon a file hidden in a cake; she "escaped" on a pre-appointed day, on which the destined Bearer of Magic (with the image of the Element of Magic right there on her flank) was as close to the Elements of Harmony as was reasonable, with all the resources she needed right there in her library. If anything, the stars were Nightmare Moon's wardens, strolling up with the key to say, "Time's up. You're a free mare."Silver136 wrote:So I was rereading FoE and I came across something rather odd. After Littlepip asks about the alien pistol that Homage owns, Homage tells her about zebras view of the sky and what they believe. As she explains, she talks about four specific stars that have malicious intent and I couldn't help but wonder, is the Eater supposed to be one of those stars?
Be careful about taking zebra legend as stone-cold fact. From Midnight Shower's journal:
In return, the old zebra mare told me plenty, albeit in hushed tones and only after pulling me into a back room and closing up her store.
She spoke of how the zebras believe that the stars themselves are the visible avatars of unholy entities so unfathomable that our minds would crack should we perceive more than a notion of them. Beings of such primordial and loathsome will that all the evils of our world are no match for their vileness and cruelty.
Zebras don't differentiate between friendly stars, hostile stars, and the things that live in the vast dark between, be they zombie stars or eldrich entities we can't even begin to fathom. They take the simplistic view that space = bad. The meteor strike that wiped out ancient Hoofington clearly had a strong effect on their culture. They're not wrong, per se, but they lack the perspective to understand what was done by whom and why. They're insects trying to comprehend the actions of gods, with only their limited perception of events to put it all in context.
Homage, on the other hoof, takes a more balanced view:
“I believe that most all religion is born of a mixture of truth and fantasy, hope and fear. How much truth is in any one mythology is hard to say. But I believe that the amount of truth in the zebra’s legends is a good bit more than zero. I don’t believe that your ancient ancestors understood the stars nearly as much as they believed they did… But I have seen enough to be certain that the void beyond the moon holds wonders and terrors far beyond our imaginations. And that at least some of what is out there is malicious beyond our conception of evil, and is looking this way with hostile intentions.”
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Well there were experiments done prewar with that goal. The injury gave a group of scientists the option to test it on her. As to what it does, no one knows yet. Chapter isn't out that tells us. But the starmetal plays a key role in influencing Hired's personality directly from the injury and indirectly with her mothers death.swicked wrote:The mech arm did, or the starmetal did?Silver136 wrote:The starmetal bullets used to poisen Hired were found in an armory, and defending them from raiders killed her mother. It helps advance the plot, and it did result in Hired's new leg.
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And it also allows her to be infused with a megaspell
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Scienza wrote:So, Lovecraft-esque cosmicism is yet another thread of philosophy that we're seeing in PH.
Somber took one of the evil stars in the distant
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It's not really heavy metal, but I do like this song for at least one of the early-on theme songs. Juuuuuust saaaaayin'Derpmind wrote:Scienza wrote:So, Lovecraft-esque cosmicism is yet another thread of philosophy that we're seeing in PH.
Somber took one of the evil stars in the distantbackstorysky, killed it, brought it down to Equis and buried its undead corpse right under the middle of a city. Then the world ended. *A guitar screeches, then the heavy metal PH theme song begins.*
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swicked wrote:...her mom becomes relevant? I barely remember her being mentioned in the beginning before Hired went off to "save" her brother, killing dozens and more of their colony's soldiers with that one random mare that joined her.
Did the mom die because their colony no longer had an adequate force to protect it after Hired's tantrum? I hope so, though Hired's actions having actual, lasting, non-beneficial consequences might be a little weird for the fic :P
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- Hireds mom was actually killed long before her tantrum. If you read further in it becomes more relevant. In fact further into the story a lot of seemingly inconsequential info becomes relevant or just pops up in flashbacks. But her mom was killed the same time her brother was kidnapped.
Also that mare is a lot less random than you think. What makes her relevant is really sad, but it comes into play later in flashbacks. And a good amount of the story so far revolves around the non-beneficial effects of Hired's actions.
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:Dswicked wrote:I'll post here the stuff you're missing, at least as much as has been posted to my deviantart.Icy Shake wrote:It is now. Roughly, it's in blog format, with page breaks between (what I believe were) separate instances of him publishing them, in reverse chronological order.Meleagridis wrote:Any chance that’s a publicly viewable gdocs file or something?Icy Shake wrote: hell, I love your sketches and have made a habit of saving them off to a readily accessible file.
- My first and second post of this nature on EQD, from which somber pulled some skits:
Blackjack reminded me SO MUCH of the topper from Dilbert. I only mourn the lost opportunities XD
So I'm gonna post scenes I would have liked to see!
The railcar jumps the tracks after they've made their escape. They take a tumble in it before it finally stops.
"Ugh, so THIS is what having a boxcar dropped on you feels like."
"Hey, at least it wasn't another battleship."
"…"
"What? Oh, don't tell me you haven't had a couple ships dropped on you. I swear, it's like every other week out in the Hoof…"
***
*later, in a fight*
"Blackjack, did you just…"
"What? Are you telling me you've never gelded a pony?"
*littlepip blushes furiously*
"Hey, at least this time it was with a blade. At one point all I had was an old dragon claw, and believe me, that can get pretty messy… "
*littlepip nearly dies from the imagery*
" especially when the guy you're doing it to is a ten foot tall cyberpony monster with junk the size of your head."
*littlepip is now rolling on the ground, frothing at the mouth, twitching and covering her ears*
"It feels weird to have that guy inside of me, now."
*littlepip finally, mercifully, passes out from the horror*
***
Later, relating their taint experiences after Splendid Valley (I know it can't happen canonically, which is all the more reason to mourn)
"…and then I saw my leg had just grown back! I don't know if I'm even a real pony anymore…"
"…wow, a brand new leg? All I ever seem to grow is freaky eye tentacle penises."
*Littlepip's eyes widen to nearly larger than her head*
"…what? Don't you find that sexy?" *grin*
"…I… I don't even know what to say."
"Yeah, I wish you had been there, too."
"You are the most horrifying… anything I have ever met."
***
littlepip takes a bobby pin and screwdriver out of her saddlebag to pick a lock
"Ah, your saddlebag. That's one place to put it."
"What are you even-"
"My friend prefers to keep his in his butt."
Littlepip looks at Blackjack, then at the screwdriver, then back to Blackjack, then vomits.
***
"You know, it feels weird thinking they replaced my entire digestive system."
"Yeah, that sounds pretty rough." Littlepip replies, trying to ignore her.
"Lemme tell you, the last time my intestines were pulled out of me, it wasn't NEARLY so pleasant. Or sanitary."
"Blackjack, for the love Celestia, stop telling me these things."
"…but it's nice not to have legs made out of fleshy jelly anymore."
"Stop it!"
"Because, this one time, when I was in this room made of living pony flesh-"
"LUNA'S OVERFLOWING MAREMOON, STOP TALKING!!"
***
"You know, sometimes I miss those old, withered apples from my stable. They weren't the best, but at least they were fresh. Not this two hundred year old packaged stuff."
"Yeah, I know what you mean. Every now and then I crave a few recycled waste chips. My mouth still waters a little every time I go to the bathroom."
"…I am never speaking to you again."
"Oh com-"
'NEVER!"
"…"
"…and now I've lost my appetite!"
"Awesome! Hey, Glory! Littlepip doesn't want her snack cakes anymore! Can you fix them up how I like them?"
"You mean soak them in Nukacola with a side of radroach meat with radaway glaze? Sure!"
"You're the best, Glory!"
"WHY! WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY!!" Littlepip rolls on the ground crying.
"Er, can yah make it two? That sounds interestin'…"
"Sure thing, Calamity."
To which Velvet groans and goes back into her Fluttershy orb.
***
P-21 and Littlepip catch each other checking out Calamity and Blackjack's butts, respectively, as the two chat about guns.
Littlepip shivers and walks away creeped out. P-21 just rolls his eyes and continues looking.
"Mares…"
***
Littlepip – "…you… do you… REALLY keep your screwdriver in your-"
P-21 – *silently reaches back and pulls the screwdriver out with his mouth, like usual*
*Littlepip vomits all over again*
P-21 – *puts it back and walks off muttering "Mares…" again*
***
Velvet - "But… but, Calamity, you're a GOOD cook!"
Calamity – "Hey, come on, try it! I was mighty surprised, too, but this bloatsprite with sugar apple bomb stuffing en… how did'ja say it, again? En flambé? Anyway, it actually ain't half bad!"
Glory – "Yeah, I make it all the time."
Velvet – "And you all just put up with it?"
Rampage - "Well, I'm immortal."
Lacunae – "I am as well."
Blackjack – "Besides, it's delicious!"
P-21 – "I've tasted worse."
Scotch – "Don't look at me, I just eat snack cakes."
Littlepip – "…I'm gonna go sit with her."
Velvet – "Is… is EVERYONE from the Hoof like this?"
***
Littlepip – "So… you're SURE she's safe?"
Blackjack – "Oh yeah, Lacunae's an angel as long as the Goddess isn't possessing her."
Littlepip – "Wait, so she can just take over at any time? Aren't you afraid she might try and kill you?"
Blackjack – "Eh, they've all tried to kill me at least a couple times. You kinda get used to it."
Scotch – "I haven't!"
Blackjack – "Oh, right, Scotch hasn't."
Littlepip – "Actually, now that I think about it, most of my friends have tried to kill me, too…"
Rampage – "Hey, we could make a "Tried to kill our leaders" club!"
Blackjack – "Oooh, can I get in on that?"
Rampage – "Sure, Blackjack! You've tried to kill you more than anyone!"
P-21 – "Yes, Velvet, everyone from the Hoof is like this."
***
---Steelhooves, Xenith and Lacunae meet for the first time.---
Steelhooves – *stares sullenly at Lacunae*
Xenith – *stares sullenly at Lacunae as well*
Lacunae tries to stare sullenly back at one, then the other, then prays "Goddess, help me…" One rush of magic later…
Lacunae – *derps own eyes and stares back at them both*
Steelhooves and Xenith – *immediately go off to do something else*
"YES, FEAR US!!!"
*everyone else doubles over, laughing*
***
Blackjack – *very drunk* "You know, you kinda remind me of a mare I knew back in my stable. Midnight."
Velvet – *pleasantly surprised* "Oh, really? What was she like?"
Blackjack – "Hot." *belches*
Calamity – "And amen to that!" *clinks bottles of wild P with Blackjack*
Velvet – "Sigh… Glory, how can…" *notices Glory zigzagging between obstacles, trying to dissuade Littlepip from following her around in a daze with her eyes on her butt without having to just come out and say it, all the while Scotch giggles off to the side*
Glory – *whispering* "Help!"
Velvet – "…nevermind."
***
Rampage walks up to Xenith, her zebra glyph slowly taking over her flank.
Xenith – "…"
Rampage – *yells something in zebra language and starts attacking her*
Xenith – "What th-" *both start kung fu fighting*
*Calmly, Blackjack walks over and blows Rampage's head off*
Blackjack – "Stop that."
Xenith – *looks back and forth between Blackjack and the regenerating, headless Rampage* "…what was that?"
P-21 – *appears out of nowhere beside her* "Don't ask." *disappears back into the shadows*
Xenith – "Uh… well, yes, I suppose that would be prudent." *disappears too*
Rampage – *blinks a few times and looks around* "Oh no… Hey, those are MY brains on the ground, right? Someone please tell me those are mine…"
***
"So, 33, huh?"
*Littlepip blushes*
"Glory, wanna give it a go? I've got an itch in my nethers, a new non-stick hoof and my pipbuck says I don't have to sleep again for a few days."
*Glory and Littlepip blush at each other*
Calamity – "Sweet Celestia, there's two of 'em."
Velvet – "It's like looking in a mirror…"
Glory and Littlepip together – "SHUT UP!"
***
Calamity – "…so, is that where I come in?"
Blackjack – "Yes. At that point, Littlepip and I… wait, where's Littlepip?"
The group looks around a bit until the spot Littlepip a little behind them, blushing, staring at a certain red-striped flank.
Blackjack – "Littlepip, c-"
Rampage – "Wait. Wait…" *a smile slowly starts growing on her face. Suddenly, she starts backing up…"
Blackjack – *looks between Rampage and Littlepip, and her jaw drops*
Glory – *looking between Littlepip, Rampage and Blackjack, whispers* "…I don't get it, what's going on?"
Rampage – *continues backing up, her smile growing wider by the second, moving her tail to the side…*
Velvet – "…is… is she really."
Calamity – "…yes. Yes, I figure she is."
Velvet – *seconds later* "We… we should do something, we-"
Calamity – *gently puts a hoof up in front of her* "Velvet, you know I love you, darlin', and I carry a great deal of affection fer Littlepip, too. But we've got to let this happen. Got to." *he mumbles, Velvet looking at him in abject horror, but not saying a word.
Glory – "B-"
Blackjack – *violently shoves a hoof into Glory's mouth* "WHATCALAMITYSAID!"
Lacunae – "The… the Goddess refuses to watch this! Scotch, come!"
Scotch – "But wait, what's Rampage do-" *is teleported away with Lacunae*
P-21 – "Oh, goddesses…" *he mumbles as he sits and covers his eyes.
Xenith – "…" *closes eyes*
Rampage – *backs up a little more, then a little more, then…* "…contact. ;D"
Littlepip – *makes a noise halfway between that of a dying animal and a squeaky toy and collapses, unconscious*
Rampage – "Awww…. Party pooper."
Blackjack – "Rampage, you… wow."
Rampage – "Thanks. I try ^_^"
***
<this occurs shortly after Rampage and Littlepip's… encounter… last episode>
*snicker* "…shhh, shhhhh, I think she's waking up…"
Littlepip groans and begins to stir. The second thing she notices is that she's in bed. The first is a large, red-striped face an inch from her own.
Rampage – *bedroom eyes* "Hello… lover." *kiss*
Littlepip – "Ah! Wah! Huh?!" *notices a familiar hoof running up her side and flips over to look at its owner*
Homage – "Littlepip, gezz, you sure have gotten good at this…" *kiss*
Blackjack – *popping up from behind Rampage* "I'll say!" *wink*
Glory – "I'm back with more lubricant!"
Velvet – "Just put it down on the side table."
Lacunae – "Enough talking; let us commence!"
Littlepip – O_O;;;;
Several floors down, trying his best to stay busy with Scotch and despite repeated attempts to absolutely NOT think about what the others might be doing with the wagon-full of unconscious Littlepip they took upstairs an hour earlier…
P-21 – "…mares."
Xenith – *in her pretty pony-disguise dress* "...I think I'm starting to agree with you."
P.S.
"Hah! Great prank, Blackjack, but I think we broke her."
"Yeah, but fixing her's half the fun!"
"Oh Rampage, where have you been all my life? Here, help me strap her down..."
"!!!"
*sound of everyone else fleeing room*
***
Blackjack – "Okay, Glory, Velvet, we have to get go… are you braiding each other's tail?"
Velvet – "My gosh, Blackjack, you have no idea how long it's been since I've gotten to be around a mare that was actually feminine, let alone normal."
Glory – "She's like a sister, only she doesn't want to kill me!"
Blackjack – *snort*
Velvet – "Yes, well… I suppose I'll take what I can get."
***
<This one is especially OOC for the characters, but I couldn't get the idea out of my mind :P>
A bit off from the camp, in the middle of the night.
Littlepip – "Yawn… Blackjack, what are you doing out here…"
Blackjack – *looking lazily about as she drinks some wild P* "Oh, P-21 and Xenith decided to have some kind of crazy ninja sparring match, and I'm trying to follow it."
Littlepip – "Oh…" *looks out into the darkness* "Um, so… who's winning?"
*a massive explosion lights up the night just a few yards away, spraying the two with rocks and dirt, causing Littlepip to yelp and cover her head*
Blackjack – *unfazed, bits of gravel pinging off her eyes* "…dunno." *sip*
***
Velvet – "Glory, I'm sorry, but seriously… your cooking is terrible. Please, let Calamity or I show you some actual recipes!"
Glory – "Well, I don't care what you think. After all, Blackjack LOVES my cooking. Don't you, Blackjack?"
Blackjack – *eating a bowl of mashed radroach larva with 'strange meat' briquettes* "Oh yeah, it's amazing!"
Scotch – "Here, Blackjack, I found you a doorknob."
Blackjack – "Yay!" *stuffs the whole thing in her mouth* "Mmmmm… juicy!"
Velvet – *facehoof*
***
Velvet – "I still can't believe you took another partytime mentat. You've got to quit this habit, Littlepip!"
Rampage – *popping a mentat into her mouth* "Yeah, seriously, shame on you. You don't know what those things can do to you."
Velvet – *glares*
Rampage – "What?" *throws several more in her mouth*
Velvet – "You're not helping."
Rampage – "I'm completely serious!" *pours the rest of the tin in her mouth and pulls out another* "Addictions are awful, aren't they, Blackjack?"
Blackjack – "Whiskey!" *hic*
Velvet – *another facehoof*
***
Blackjack – "I'm telling you, a frontal assault will be fine!"
Littlepip – "And I'M telling you it'd be suicide! Honestly, how is it anyone in your group is still alive?!"
Blackjack – *pointing a hoof* "Those two are immortal, Glory can snipe, no one can hit P-21 and Scotch just hides wherever!"
Scotch – "Hey!"
Littlepip – "What about you?"
Blackjack – *grin* "I was eating lead for breakfast, lunch and dinner LONG before they actually started having any nutritional value."
Littlepip – "Your entire group is insane."
Blackjack – "And I'm tired of arguing. RAMPAGE!"
Rampage – *lick*
Littlepip – "OoOoOooahhh…" *thump*
Blackjack – "That's better. Okay, team, let's head out!" *leaves, dragging Littlepip*
Rampage – "Mmmm, mare…"
Velvet – *lagging a little behind* "...should we really keep letting her do that?"
Calamity – *shrug*
- And another thing from around that time:
I nearly forgot this one. After BJ had first pulled them and they stopped at Flank she notices that, while her legs are not tired, her butt is sore. After that I thought of a dozen or so different innuendo for their entire situation and wrote them down. I just turned all these into lines of dialogue just now. I assigned names to each pretty arbitrarily, since this was written with the scene in mind as opposed to the characters.
Now, someone else admit they were thinking stuff like this, too :P
BJ is sitting, panting after a long run pulling her friends around, when all of a sudden...
BJ: Heh, you know, being ridden by you all is nowhere near as fun as it sounds.
Rampage: Yeah, we ran a train on you and what do you have to show for it? A sore butt.
Scotch: Well, it wouldn't have been as rough if we hadn't run out of lubricant halfway through.
P-21: Yeah, she really ground the shaft here. We need to be more careful if we don't want to wear it out... I mean, look how red it is!
Glory: Are you sure that, after we find some fresh packing to stuff the bearings, BJ will be able to accommodate all of us at the same time?
P-21: Sure, she's a big girl; she can take five ponies once we've strapped her down.
BJ: I dunno about that, I think this might be all I can take.
P-21: You can rest once we're all finished. It's not like this is your first time, after all.
Glory: Yeah, but let me wipe you off. You're starting to stink and it's hard to keep behind you with that much of a funk wafting back at us.
Scotch: Do you think maybe she should stretch more? Some extra flexibility might help her keep from getting as sore.
Rampage: Giving her a bit more of a 'warm-up' before the main event might help, too.
Glory: Yeah, probably… *wiping BJ down* Geez, how did you get this goop on you? Do you suppose it's some kind of discharge from your enhancements? Blackjack? Hey, Blackjack, why are you grinning like that?
BJ: Heh, I was just thinking what great friends you all are. You really know how to make me feel good while working me over.
Glory: We can slow down a bit if we're going too fast for you. It's no problem. Anyway, are you ready for a second round?
BJ: Sure, just give me some Wild Pegasus first and put on some sexy music. I need to get into the mood.
Glory: Okay, Blackjack. Whatever you need to get your motor going.
BJ: Ah… that's better. Okay, let's get this pony show on the road! The sooner we get to this climax (with Sanguine), the sooner we can settle down for the victory cuddle!
- Then I did more, because people liked them:
There have been lots of them. I wrote this entirely because "TheLastDefender" asked me to ^_^
…I nearly missed the message coating the wall in paint that wasn't paint. It… wait. Wait a second. Is it..? No, seriously, just give me a moment.
BJ: *trots over to the message* "…huh, it LOOKS like blood, but it's so evenly spread, and… Hey, Rampage, can you come over for a second?"
Rampage: *trots over* "Yo, what's up?"
BJ: "Is this paint or blood? I think it's blood, but it looks weird."
Rampage: "Hmmm… well, it's not really running and it's still wet. Paint dries quicker…"
BJ: "Yeah, but I think these were only made a few hours ago, and look… These look like brush strokes, right?"
Rampage: I dunno… maybe. *smears some on her hoof and sniffs it* "It kinda smells like paint*
BJ: *smears her hoof in it and brings it to her nose* *sniff* "Bah, my sense of smell was never very good. *licks it* "…it tastes kinda metallic"
Rampage: *licks* "Yeah, but more iron-y, not copper-y"
BJ: "I guess, but I really think it tastes kinda like blood."
Rampage: "Maybe they mixed it? Half blood, half paint?"
BJ: "More like one fourth blood, three fou-"
Glory: "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU TWO!?"
P.S.
BJ & Rampage: "…what isn't?"
BJ is pulling the metal railcar past blueblood manor during the thunder storm when…
Lighting: *BOOM!*
Glory: "Oh my Celestia, Blackjack! Oh no, Blackjack… Lacunae! Use your healing spell! We have to help her qu-"
BJ: "CUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNT that hurt! OW!!"
Everypony: *speechless*
BJ: "Ow ow ow ow ow… Gezz, ow… I think it melted my hooves a little. Rubber my butt. Am I burning? Please tell me I'm not burning anywhere."
Everypony: *still speechless*
BJ: "…I mean, it wasn't a boat, but… gezz, gimme some of those potions… what? What are you all staring like that, for?"
Everypony: ".........." *maximum speechlessness level reached*
Scotch: *whispering* "…psst, P-21… why are we all being quiet?"
BJ: "…awkward..."
Caprice returned my gaze. "If you promise me you'll kill the son of a mule…"
*mule pony a couple yards away* "Sniff… words hurt. T_T"
*Rampage is hoof-painting on a wall*
BJ: "Uh, Rampage, is that…"
Rampage: "No, Blackjack, it's not blood."
BJ: "Okay good, because it looks-"
Rampage: "IT'S NOT BLOOD, OKAY? Geez…"
BJ: "Uh, right, anyway… what are you painting?"
Rampage: "It's you. Isn't it great?" *reveals an incredibly well-done caricature of Blackjack crying over a dead bloatfly*
BJ: "Wow, Rampage, you're really good at that!"
Rampage: "Hey, you don't live for 200 years and not pick up SOMETHING other than hoof-to-hoof combat and awesome social skills."
Scotch: *trots up* "Hey, Rampage… oooh, can you do me?"
Rampage: "Sure!" *draws Scotch admiring her own flank, upon which there is a toilet cutie mark*
Scotch: "Hey, that's mean…"
Rampage: "I tells it like I sees it."
Glory: "Oh! Oh! Me now!"
Rampage: "Mmmk. *draws what looks like a branch sticking out of a tightly-coiled pile of goop*
Glory: "I am NOT a stick in the mud!"
Rampage: "I know. That's why it's not mud."
*having just finished fighting a zebra squadron into retreat, BJ and crew collapse to lick their wounds and set down to drink potions as BJ munches some scrap*
Scotch: "So, Blackjack, what's it like eating metal and stuff?"
BJ: "Oof, not all that different from food, though some of it can taste pretty bland or gross."
Scotch: "Really? I'd of thought it'd all be pretty bad."
BJ: "No, no… clean or processed stuff like forks and fresh cans aren't too bad. It's only the older, grimy stuff that is gross... and rust just flat out disagrees with me."
Scotch: "What do you mean by that?"
BJ: "...well, oof… gimme a second." *farts a giant cloud of red dust that seems to almost immediately billow outward as if it had hit an object barely a meter behind her. Immediately the hood of a stealth cloak flies back and a zebra screams bloody murder, dropping his knife as he brings up his hooves to try and rub the rust dust out of his bleeding eyes. A striped hoof comes out of nowhere, throws the hood back forward on the screaming zebra and there's the muffled sound of the screaming receding in the direction the squad had fled*
BJ: "…uh, yeah… Let's just leave it at 'it disagrees with me', okay?"
P-21: So, Rampage, any other skills you've picked up over the years?
Rampage: "Yup! I can talk backwards fluently, spit nearly four meters, burp the Hoofington Ravagers anthem, tie almost any knot in a piece of string using only my tongue, fit fourteen snack cakes in my mouth at once all while practicing ventriloquism, make a mare climax in ten seconds, a buck in five and a bessie in two, keep seven loopty-hoops going at once while balancing on one leg, drink an entire crate of sparklecola in less than a minute without getting sick…"
*nearly twenty minutes later*
Rampage: "…can beat ANYPONY in a rap battle, keep a hacky sack in the air for 789 kicks (would have been more, but Psychoshy's a bitch…), train a radroach to tap dance, and juggle."
P-21: "Rampage, you really haven't learned ANYTHING useful in the last two hundred years?"
Rampage: "Pfft… What do I look like, a nerd?"
Glory: "Hah, Rampage! Look! I drew you with cross-eyes. What do you say to that?"
Rampage: "My gosh, Glory, that drawing is amazing. Hey, Blackjack, come over and look at this awesome drawing!"
Blackjack: "Oh, okay… huh, yeah, that is really good! Did you make that?"
Rampage: "No, Glory did! Thank you, Glory, I love it!"
Glory: "But… wait, no, I was making fun…"
Rampage: *hugs her*
Glory: "Uh… you're welcome?"
Rampage: *in her most sultry voice* "Is there ANYthing I could do to pay you back?" *licks her ear*
Glory: *collapses with a squeak* "That's just… you… I really don't like you!"
Rampage: "Mmm… you've never had me." *walks off with a swank while Blackjack laughs*
P-21: watching a short distance off, opens his mouth and says…"
Scotch: *right next to him* "…mares."
P-21: O_O --> o_o --> -_- *leaves, grumbling*
Scotch: "Heee, I'm so clever ^_^"
- The first set lifted directly from a review:
Missed Opportunities, part whatever: Alternatives and Addendums
Just to get it over with… Glory is the new Rainbow Dash. Haaaa… okay, moving on.
The line:
Scotch: "Funny, I would have expected Glory to be the one with a stick up her--"
A decent enough line, but what would the rest of the cast of suggest?
Blackjack: "Heh, seems like everyone wants a piece of my ass nowadays."
Glory: "Those timberwolves can't seem to stop HOUNDING you. Eh? Eh?"
Rampage: "Don't look now, BJ, but you're sporting some wood."
Lacunae: "These creatures' bark is in perfect equilibrium with their bite! Hilarity!"
P-21: "Eh, I dunno. Something about her having a tasty butt, I guess… I-I mean, not that I think that she has one. I mean, it's okay for a mare's but I'm not into that. Her. Not into… You know what? Nevermind!"
***
The line:
"I sighed. It was a setback, but only a setback. As galling as it was, I wasn't going to let it drag me down. Not back to the mattress."
Blackjack: "That's right, Hoofington, that takes dinner! And dancing! And maybe a nice… heh, who am I kidding? All it really takes is whiskey."
Rampage: "Really? I actually prefer wine, but anything will really do if I'm in the mood."
Glory: "I actually like wine, too! Who would have thought we'd have anything in common?"
Rampage: "Oh no, the horror! The HORROR!!" *cries into own hooves*
Glory: -_-
P.S.
Glory: "Hey P-21, any chance you'd be interested in making an 'I hate Rampage' club?"
P-21: "Interested? I'm already working on the fliers!"
***
Why DIDN'T Blackjack ask Glory where she got the milk and eggs?
Glory: "My gosh, Blackjack, honestly… don't you have any faith in me? The milk is just milk. A day or two ago a Bessy passed through town and traded some milk for other basic provisions. Charity was even keeping it refrigerated and almost considered giving me a deal after I showed her how to pasteurize it using the discharge from a plasma rifle and a liquid nitrogen fire extinguisher."
Blackjack: "Ah. Well, Glory, sorry I doubted you."
Scotch: "Where did the eggs come from, then?"
Glory: *excitedly* "Oh, I used my new Pipbuck! This thing is so much fun, Blackjack. I found these… well, to be honest, they really didn't look like eggs, but the pipbuck said they were edible without any kind of poison tag and minimal radiation, so I mashed them up! How do you like them?"
Blackjack: "…Glory, Pipbucks can't tell if something is poisonous."
Glory: "But… they can identify them and… I mean that's... Heh, um, does anyone need any antidote?" *nervous grin*
Blackjack, to a horrified Scotch: "And that is why you don't question Glory's cooking… or why you DO question it. I'm pretty sure it's one or the other." *eats another bite, fork and all*
***
After the advent of the exploding Hoofington apple trees (What were we calling them, again? Shrap-apples?), another continuity break:
Littlepip: "…and I had thought the withered old apples from my stable were bad, but when I left I was surrounded by all these radioactive blackened apple trees-"
BJ: "-that started dropping apples that exploded, embedding their seeds into your flesh so they could rip you apart from the inside, out?"
Littlepip: "Uh, no?"
BJ: "GEZZ your life rules."
Littlepip: "Why is this a contest to you?"
BJ: "Probably because I keep winning."
***
The line:
"Honestly, considering what's happened to me so far… I'm glad you're on the calm and rational side of things."
Blackjack: "I mean, sometimes I've been up late at night, tossing and turning as I think of all the horrible things I've done, the fillies and colts I've killed, the places I've razed… then I just think about you explaining how my new body works and I drift off the sleep. You're the calm in the middle of this storm."
Glory: "Blackjack, I… I think I'm… flattered?"
Scotch: "Yeah, Glory, I've been getting these nightmares like you wouldn't believe. Giant terrible metal creatures with eyes and mouths that spit fire closing in on me, trying to eat me up." *shriver* "But then I think about you talking about your love of collecting decorative wasteland knick knacks and I'm out like a light."
Glory: "I don't collect them! I've only got a modest bunch that I thought looked interesting, like this bit of twisted scrap metal that looks kinda like a duck, or this cue ball I used some of Rampage's hoofpaint to turn into an scale model of the spell matrix in a…"
Lacunae: "Yawn… thank you, Glory, I needed this… zzzz…"
Glory: "But wait, but I wasn't finished, I also have this melted piece of glass that looks like a turtle. I even drew a tiny smiley face on it. Oh, and I have this cute little snack cake rabbit I made that I coated in wonderglue so it could harden overnight! See? Isn't it cute? Guys? Are you… are you really all asleep? :("
***
The line:
"One arched high above its fellows and plunged towards me, its stinger oozing venom as it drove the poisonous spur at my eye."
The scorposprite hit my eye with a splat and I wiped the dead bug off, grinning. "Do you have any idea how much I like these new eyes? Because it's a lot."
P.S.
Rampage: You know, sometimes I wonder which one of us the stranger freak is.
Blackjack: I sense a competition is in order.
Rampage: *maniacal laughter*
P-21: Still dying over here.
***
The line:
" I was guessing that this had been Tarot's bedroom once upon a time; there were still quite a few boxes of old toys and the like."
Glory: I thought you'd especially like this one box of toys. Maybe we could play with them for a bit :)
Blackjack: Now hold it right there, because that is gross. Really, really gross. Tarot was my great, great… great… great grandmother? More? Less? Wait, just let me get my gun, I think my count is off…"
Glory: *looks at Blackjack dully and tilts the box, revealing a small group of ministry mare action figures* "I meant since you like collecting those figurines and all. Honestly, Blackjack, stop being such a Rampage."
***
BONUS THROWBACK SKETCH:
Glory: "So, how did you and Calamity meet?"
Velvet: "Oh, I guess it was kind of romantic, in a way. He and Littlepip came to my rescue when I had been captured by slavers, and we just sort of clicked… though I guess it took a while for us to realize it. How about you and Blackjack?"
Blackjack: "She shot me in the face."
Glory: "How many times do I have to say I'm sorry?!"
P-21: "Truly, a greater romance there has never been."
After that's just the ones I did for Murky Number Seven, which probably shouldn't be part of your collection.
I never really realized I'd written so much stupid stuff. I wonder how long they'd be if it was all converted it all into PH-style writing.
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Just wondering about the named weapons.
If Vigilance is currently in Glory's possession, and the Star Metal Sword and Folly are MIA, what happened to Duty and Sacrifice?
If Vigilance is currently in Glory's possession, and the Star Metal Sword and Folly are MIA, what happened to Duty and Sacrifice?
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Sword isn't MIA, we just don't know where Slave Willing is. Yet.Rayndalf wrote:Just wondering about the named weapons.
If Vigilance is currently in Glory's possession, and the Star Metal Sword and Folly are MIA, what happened to Duty and Sacrifice?
Everything is canon until proven otherwise, right?
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*high pitched girlish squeal*Meleagridis wrote:Sword isn't MIA, we just don't know where Slave Willing is. Yet.Rayndalf wrote:Just wondering about the named weapons.
If Vigilance is currently in Glory's possession, and the Star Metal Sword and Folly are MIA, what happened to Duty and Sacrifice?
Everything is canon until proven otherwise, right?
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Very true...Meleagridis wrote:Sword isn't MIA, we just don't know where Slave Willing is. Yet.Rayndalf wrote:Just wondering about the named weapons.
If Vigilance is currently in Glory's possession, and the Star Metal Sword and Folly are MIA, what happened to Duty and Sacrifice?
Everything is canon until proven otherwise, right?
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Naaah. It did look like Cogs broke up with Glory there, but that'll just give Glory some good old-fashioned righteous anger once BJ gets back to the real world and blows the deception wide open.RoboRed wrote:On a slightly related note, I fear it's too late to warn Glory and co. that "Blackjack" is an imposter...
I suspect P-21 is already onto her, or at least has his suspicions. He's sharp, and I don't think Cogs is a good enough actress to pull off BJ's mix of conflicting psychoses while suppressing her own that perfectly. In other words, he's Twilight to her Copy Cadence.
Well, that sort of implies that the evil stars were actively trying to to screw him over with a cryptic answer. I would think, instead, that they were saying, "Look, she's mindless, and you just blew up her brain. There's this tiny little chance that she could be recovered if all these horrible people manage to work together, and each of them are willing to sacrifice their lives for this, and then she manages to beat up a guy in power armor with her bare hooves. Which, of course, is the kind of unlikely chain of events that Discord is all about.Icy Shake wrote:Perhaps more surprising was Amadi. In particular, his interpretation of the stars' message was plausible, and I'd normally think little of it. But he's got a thing about prophesy and should have known to be more skeptical, more thorough. And yet I can see why it happens, with him interpreting the message to mean what he wanted to hear after waiting so long.
I sort of have this mental image of Dawn and Snips behind the computer while Cogs tries to fire Horizons, looking at each and other going, "Wow, we really fucked up, huh?"
Hah! Or maybe he's completely unintellegible even with it. (Actually, taking that more seriously, maybe he doesn't want Whisper to know he has a birth defect that gives him a speech impediment...)Last wrote:Kinda surprised you didn't make a joke about how [REDACTED] lacking the speach enchantments was because he has an incredibly unattractive voice or something.
Like Jake and the translator from adventure time.
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We know he doesn't, though; he's used the frequency-change-whatever magic before, and he sounded fine.SilentCarto wrote:Hah! Or maybe he's completely unintellegible even with it. (Actually, taking that more seriously, maybe he doesn't want Whisper to know he has a birth defect that gives him a speech impediment...)
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Actually, I found PH much less so than FOE. FOE expressed, at best, uncertainty about stars in general, but certainty that there are beings of ultimate evil out there. PH provides a much more direct and sympathetic view of stars. Most of them are quite benign, and indeed seek to protect the life forms on their respective worlds. Granted, they may be somewhat apathetic about saving a world that's as close to the brink as Equestria is, but I don't blame them for looking out for the bigger picture. The point is, PH makes it seem a lot more like a friendly cosmos with the majority of stars working together to build something beautiful, spoiled only by a few bad eggs.Scienza wrote:So, Lovecraft-esque cosmicism is yet another thread of philosophy that we're seeing in PH.
Keeping in mind that said spoilage involves extinction-level events.
I had always operated under the assumption that you had stars, which were beings of light and life that sung to hold back the Things that Live in the Dark. The Things were Lovecraftian entities of great power and malice that dwell in the silent voids of the cosmos, their origin ancient and obscure. The Eater of Souls, then, would be an aberration; a star gone bad whose prideful attempts to protect the universe by himself made him as big a threat as the Things themselves.swicked wrote:SilentCarto wrote:Oh.“The light of stars that died long ago, and would not go quietly into the darkness.”
Shit.
The Eater of Souls isn't just inadvertently helping the Things that Live in the Dark. It is one. Or... what's left of one after another star sacrified itself to destroy it.
Not sure I follow your logic, but it would be SO AWESOME if that were true
But then we get this:
“The light of stars that died long ago, and would not go quietly into the darkness.”
That sounds exactly like the Eater's story. If Amadi is to be believed, the Eater is not as unique as I'd thought. The Things are, themselves, other stars that similarly refused to die peacefully when their time came. The Eater is just the youngest such being, struck down before it could further disrupt the harmony of the cosmos.
This very likely explains the Enervation spell that struck Equestria at the same time the Eater fell -- one or more of those other stars took an interest in fostering this new evil and cast a wave of Enervation against the planet to give the Eater many souls to consume. Or maybe the Eater really died for good when it was originally destroyed, and these other evil stars are merely resonating its corpse. (Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas!) After all, if a spell is the frequency of a soul, then perhaps getting the corpse of a being similar to oneself to resonate with one's own magic would give you a proxy, an imitation of your own soul. Is the voice in the green light the Eater's voice, or the voice of the dark star that cast the Enervation spell as the Eater landed?
But then again, what is 'death' for a star, after all? Can it be resurrected? (That is not dead which can eternal lie...)
Edit: Fuck.
But by chance a world, green and rife with the tiny specks of ghost light, drifted too near. The twisted remains curved towards it, speeding as they plunged towards the highest snow-capped mountain.
Amadi's patrons spoke of "their secret orbits" and "the tiniest wobble of the outplay of events", "a hair’s shift out of alignment". I'll bet a week's rations they were responsible for that "curve" that brought the Eater juuust close enough to fall to Equestria.
Oh, you're right, he borrowed Tenebra's helmet. I forgot.O. Hinds wrote:We know he doesn't, though; he's used the frequency-change-whatever magic before, and he sounded fine.
...but I liked my theory.
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Well... he knew he was going to the surface/light world/whatever. It'd be kind of stupid not to bring along the necessary gear for communication, even if he didn't specifically plan on using it. Same reason you stick a flashlight in your car's glovebox -- you don't expect to need it on any given trip, but if something goes wrong and you need it, you REALLY need it.O. Hinds wrote:…Hey. I just realized something. At this point, his civilization is composed only of batponies. Who don't need a chalkboard to understand him. And, since he wasn't supposed to contact any other ponies and radhogs aren't known for their literacy… he had no legitimate reason to have it with him. He planned this. Not this specifically, of course, but he set out with the intention of making contact.
Which isn't to say he didn't head out with certain plans, just that there's a legitimate excuse under the heading of "Be Prepared".
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:)SilentCarto wrote:Well... he knew he was going to the surface/light world/whatever. It'd be kind of stupid not to bring along the necessary gear for communication, even if he didn't specifically plan on using it. Same reason you stick a flashlight in your car's glovebox -- you don't expect to need it on any given trip, but if something goes wrong and you need it, you REALLY need it.O. Hinds wrote:…Hey. I just realized something. At this point, his civilization is composed only of batponies. Who don't need a chalkboard to understand him. And, since he wasn't supposed to contact any other ponies and radhogs aren't known for their literacy… he had no legitimate reason to have it with him. He planned this. Not this specifically, of course, but he set out with the intention of making contact.
Which isn't to say he didn't head out with certain plans, just that there's a legitimate excuse under the heading of "Be Prepared".
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Hey, welcome to the Hoof! Always nice to get a new poster.Heart of Blades wrote:Okay, so, I made an account here just to comment. First and foremost, I love this fic, it's second only to the original Fallout Equestria. That being said, I hated chapter 65! The first half was fine, but the last half was so BAD!!! But, chapter 66 made up for much of that.
That said, I'd like to remind you that Somber reads this thread, so rudeness and putdowns are not much appreciated. If you have specific complaints about chapter 65 after BJ's capture, I'd be interested to discuss what you disliked, but just declaring it "bad" is... well... bad.
Eh, I wouldn't be too worried about Glory. Imagine your best friend started acting weird and told you they didn't want to be friends anymore. Then someone shows up who looks exactly like your best friend and tells you they still like you and that other one was a fake. It's not that hard to believe, is it?Borsuq wrote:You might wonder why one of those guesses is "Blackjack is evil". Well... That's because, I have this really off feeling that the next chapter will end with Blackjack somehow catching up with them... and then, right at the end, in unbelivable plot twist, Glory will turn on her or knock her out.
Twilight moved on. Her body (what was left of it) was destroyed by the megaspell, and as Littlepip noted, a soul can't live without its body for very long (outside of the blackest of black magics, of course.) It's okay -- she's with AJ, Pinkie, and Rarity now. They've been waiting.Scienza wrote:Intriguing. Similarly, there could also be a quasi-reunion between Rainbow, Flutters, and Twilight (? I was never quite sure whether her soul dissipated or not).
Not exactly. They just didn't believe in her redemption. She had been fully under the sway of the Stars (Amadi's stars, in our understanding), and one doesn't just shrug that off. And, hell, who's to say they're not right, to some degree? After Luna's full disclosure in this chapter, can you really say that it was all 100% nothing but Luna and her insecurities the whole time, or might she have been... nudged? She may not have been the servant of Amadi's stars anymore, but perhaps there were a handful of moments when she could have gone either way, and all it took was a little poke in the psyche to set Luna and Equestria on the most disastrous course possible.Borsuq wrote:Am I really the only person who puts the entire blame on zebra for the Wasteland?! I mean, sure, I know that ponies were to blame for it too, but the whole reason why zebra's escalated the war was because they couldn't tell a freaking difference between Luna and Nightmare Moon!
On the other hand, there were plenty of chances for others who were not touched by the stars to stop it. Luna couldn't lead without willing followers. Whatever scams Luna was running, and whatever nudges the Stars may have given her, the responsibility for the end of the world falls on a lot of different people, pony and zebra alike. That's not to say they're all to blame; I believe there's a lot of 20/20 hindsight to be found here, and someone in the thick of things wouldn't necessarily understand the course they were on and how they could have changed it simply by standing up and saying, "No, I won't do this any longer."
But blame can still be laid at a lot of hooves, too; people who should have known better, or did, and went ahead anyway for selfish reasons. Luna is most definitely first among them. She understood why the zebras kept fighting, but she didn't act to halt it in the most efficient way possible. She kept fighting what could only be a genocidal conflict because any surrender or concession would have felt like losing, and her ego couldn't allow her to be inferior to Celestia once again. (And if the stars had some influence over her, I think that's where the whole "nudge" thing comes in.)
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Trying to put the blame on one side of the conflict is just grounds for black and white washing the event. Pony aristocrasy and business were part of the source of conflict, with demands for resources that the Zebras owned but didn't need anything to trade for. Caesar was trying to put on a bravado of force to reinforce that he wasn't a pansy. Lots of innocents were caught up in this event.
Not entirely sure with Rarity, as bits and pieces of her soul are still in the figurines. Thinking about a story where some character is charged with ending characters that have lived far too long.It's okay -- she's with AJ, Pinkie, and Rarity now. They've been waiting.
Trying to put the blame on one side of the conflict is just grounds for black and white washing the event. Pony aristocrasy and business were part of the source of conflict, with demands for resources that the Zebras owned but didn't need anything to trade for. Caesar was trying to put on a bravado of force to reinforce that he wasn't a pansy. Lots of innocents were caught up in this event.
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OneMoreDaySK wrote:@SilentNot entirely sure with Rarity, as bits and pieces of her soul are still in the figurines. Thinking about a story where some character is charged with ending characters that have lived far too long.It's okay -- she's with AJ, Pinkie, and Rarity now. They've been waiting.
Yeah, I can't remember where, but I'm decently sure it's plainly stated in either PH or FO:E that if you made a sould jar you cannot pass on.
I think it was FO:E, I remember that Pip knew that and still held onto the figurines like they were trophies and that always bothered me. Could be wrong.
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But she isn't quite a soul jar- she split. She and Octavia both have souls (or at least parts) that are within their actual bodies. What might happen to them? Do they pass? Fade? If the jars are destroyed, do the halves reunite? Is a split soul less somehow?Last wrote:
Yeah, I can't remember where, but I'm decently sure it's plainly stated in either PH or FO:E that if you made a sould jar you cannot pass on.
I don't think it's been addressed in PH what the major side effects of having half a soul are. And as much as it saddens me to say, I think we're a little too deep for that particular bit of world building to be addressed in narrative.
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So what actually happened to Duty and Sacrifice? Does Cogs have them?
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Soul jars will be addressed in the afterwards.
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