Re: [GRIMDARK] Fallout Equestria: Project Horizons Discussion

[O. Hinds]

@Icy Shake:
Ah, thank you very much as always.

[Somber]

http://www.fimfiction.net/chapter/894824

New chapter is up if folks want to take a peek at it.

[RoboRed]

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

[CD]

Spoiler:

Well, this chapter is still very different from how Fallout: Equestria was, but the exploration of zebra culture is interesting. It's a little odd the murder subplot didn't get explored further, but there'll be time for that later perhaps. We still have a lot of zebra land to explore, and the swamp shouldn't overstay its welcome.

[SilentCarto]

I just saw an article about a a ten-meter-long prehistoric crocodile. Zebrinica is real!

[Icy Shake]

A short positive review of PH from Hat Trick Studios.

[Valikdu]

Check this out!

Sky Striker meets Dawn:

http://vector-brony.deviantart.com/art/Lovers-reunited-586901074

[Valikdu]

"I never asked for this."

Project Horizons - Equine Revolution:

http://nemo2d.deviantart.com/art/I-Never-Asked-For-This-587102468

[RoboRed]

So, when will more chapters be added to the FIMfic version of PH?

[Somber]

When I stop sucking ass...

[RoboRed]

stopbeinghardonyourselfdamnit

[SilentCarto]

So, when will more chapters be added to the FIMfic version of PH?

stopbeinghardonyourselfdamnit

Irony, anyone?

[Icy Shake]

So, when will more chapters be added to the FIMfic version of PH?

stopbeinghardonyourselfdamnit

Irony, anyone?

I don't know, it seems like if anything there's a certain . . . referential or poetic appropriateness to someone telling Somber to stop being hard on himself, immediately before or after being hard on him.

[SilentCarto]

I don't know, it seems like if anything there's a certain . . . referential or poetic appropriateness to someone telling Somber to stop being hard on himself, immediately before or after being hard on him.

"Don't beat yourself up... let us do it for you!"

[RoboRed]

...Seriously? Are you guys being serious right now?

If that was considered "beating someone up", I really fear for this world.

[Icy Shake]

I know I wasn't being serious, and I suspect the same of SilentCarto (even the original "irony" post looks that way to me). I was making a joke based on:

“You were thinking about Medley, weren’t you?” Glory asked as she looked into my eyes.  Instantly I flushed, feeling very… confused.  The cyan pegasus leaned towards me.  “From now on, you’re not allowed to do that anymore, understand? Not for Dusk.  Not for running away.  Not for having sex.  Not for failing anything. I’m the only one that gets to punish you.”

and it looks like SC was working off of that in his last post, but made the substitution of "beating yourself up" for "being hard on yourself," giving a wider range of interpretations for the severity than the original wording.

[SilentCarto]

...Seriously? Are you guys being serious right now?

If that was considered "beating someone up", I really fear for this world.

Eh, not totally. "Ha ha, only serious." I did think your post came off as kind of demanding, but I wasn't going to say anything until the subsequent exchange.

[Evilgidgit]

I wanted to ask a question about the writing process of Project Horizons. It is the biggest, longest fanfic I've ever read in my life so far, and it has about five-hundred subplots all going on at once. I ask because I've been pondering whether or not to write my own Side Story at some point, and it takes me a lifetime to write something, so I'd like to know how you plan things out. How did Somber and the editors plan out the story, keep track of all the intertwined storylines, Hoofington's world itself, and how did new characters come about into existence?

[neoaustin]

So... I have a need for more blackjack. Anybody know some PH fan fiction? Heh, I'm looking for a fanfic of a fanfic of a fanfic. The rabbit hole just keeps getting bigger.

[O. Hinds]

@Evilgidgit:
I'm afraid that I wasn't really involved with planning the story out much; the only thing like that I'm remembering at the moment is working on the rocket stuff.

@neoaustin:
Heh. I'm afraid that I'm not thinking of any at the moment, though. I do recall finding one ages ago, but it only had I think three chapters and hasn't, as far as I know, updated in years.

[Icy Shake]

So... I have a need for more blackjack.  Anybody know some PH fan fiction?  Heh,  I'm looking for a fanfic of a fanfic of a fanfic. The rabbit hole just keeps getting bigger.

I'm not aware of too many. You could do worse, I'm sure, than searching FimFic for "Project Horizons" as a start, but even there, I don't know how helpful that will be, especially since a good deal of the things that incorporate PH don't directly concern Blackjack. If you haven't already, some that stand out at first glance:
Fallout Equestria: Project Horizons. Competition Compilation
"Warmth", or "Chapter 22.5" is pretty good, if clop is an option.
"Perspective of the Bulletproof"
It doesn't have anything to do with Blackjack that I remember, but I liked "Second Chance", which was definitely set in PH-inclusive FoE.
And Blackjack gets an unnamed passing mention (but you'll know it's her) in The Greatest Short FoE Story of All Time, "Fallout Equestria: Lesbians."
And there look to be some others as well, with an unsurprising number of them appearing to also be clop.

Then there are Meleagridis's forum fics, the only one of which seems to relate to BJ that I know of offhand being this one, from after chapter 65:

Featuring Cerberus the Over-patriotic Robot:

https://cloudsville.rpg-board.net/t1166p120-grimdark-fallout-equestria-project-horizons-discussion#212668

[neoaustin]

Thanks Icy, I'll check out the non clop ones when I've got time

[CD]

Running thoughts:

Spoiler:

Well, it seems our party is finally becoming competent. Also, still no notice inside this threat the story has updated it seems. Ah well, first!

[O. Hinds]

Also, still no notice inside this threat the story has updated it seems.

Ah, sorry. This story's really a lot more FIMFiction-based, though.

[Evilgidgit]

I'm re-reading PH from the beginning, and it occured to me, but did Deus and Gorgon know the other was Doof and Stonewing?

[O. Hinds]

I'm afraid that I don't recall off the top of my head. I suspect not, though.

[CD]

I'm re-reading PH from the beginning, and it occured to me, but did Deus and Gorgon know the other was Doof and Stonewing?

I don't recall reading that they were told the others were also part of the experiments. I think Deus was just too simple to figure it out himself. Stonewing wasn't the smartest pony either, though he might have drawn the right conclusion in his years of living with the Reapers.

[Kattlarv]

I'm re-reading PH from the beginning, and it occured to me, but did Deus and Gorgon know the other was Doof and Stonewing?

You know, I really have to get around to pick up, and finish the revised edition of PH...
Just need to get up the damn motivation xP Feels like I might not get around to it before the series has become obsolete so to speak...

[Icy Shake]

According to the crack investigative reporters of Equestria Daily, Blackjack's mom really got around (and had a well-hidden from 99 drinking problem):

Little Pips grew up in Stable 2 with her alcoholic mother Gin Rummy. She ends up getting a job as a Pip Buck stable technician while crushing on one of her fellow vault dwellers, Velvet Remedy. When the story first begins, she had just acquired her cutie mark. When Velvet requests that Pip use her technical skills to remove her Pip Buck in order to escape the vault, Little Pip feels responsible for releasing her crush, and chases after her.

[Valikdu]

crack

Not even once.

[Sponsored content]