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Hooooly fuuuuuuck... I don't know what to think about this other than to enjoy it. What a crazy as hell end to the chapter. And all these new characters. Such good story telling is so damn hard to find.
I luv u pls never stop writing.
You're the diplomancer, I'm the DPS.
Though honestly, I think Precious is more of a tank.
Oh, sugar. Somber is writing this. Dying would be a mercy compared to what that psycho tends to come up with.
Aside from that, keep up the awesome work, Somber. I eagerly await the next chapter.
Well hell fire, that was intense interesting... crazy as fuck... even...
Damn...
NIcely done!
DEATH TO TEH ZEBRAS
Galen seems to know how to deal with the legions. I love this story. It made missing my flight less painful.
7158407 I'm glad. Galen also got lucky. Unlike Raiders, who you can predict 99% of the time, legions are at best 50/50. He caught the Iron Legion coming off a victory. Had Adolpha been in a bad mood, he could very easily have been working for the legion for the rest of his life. I remember reading once that the worst murderers in Africa weren't groups like Somali pirates. They're the armies like Boko Haram, who fight and kill under 'noble' pretenses, and are organized and responsible for really deconstructing civilization.
And there's twelve of them.
Holy shit! That last part was nuts.
That book Riptide was talking about? Sounds almost like how the book of Littlepip could be interpreted to another person as their motives. I wonder how she really feels about ponies?
Seems like curses is used more like an excuse by the zebras then them actually trying to face a reality they don't quite except and learn to overcome it in this story. I'm sure their might be curses in this setting, but at the same time they seem to overuse it to get separate them from ethics, morals and ugly truths.
Edit: Hmmmmm... Maybe I'm being to judgmental and hash with that ethics and morals statement. But it does seem like often when the zebras in your stories invoke the curse it seems more often then not it's either used as an excuse by a zebra using it for a reason of something happening.
7158710 To a zebra, a curse is like a mark that notes they've been selected by higher powers. Most zebras regard this as a very bad thing, because these higher powers rarely understand or have the victim's best interests in mind. At least, they're like a supernatural 'kick me' sign that you can't see and can never take off. Sometimes the sign is permanent, other times it has clauses that can remove the sign. Censure is when the spirits themselves put the kick me sign on the person's back.
Spirits have an innate sense of right and wrongness, and so its very difficult to trick or deceive them. Your own attempt to deliver falsehoods taints and tarnishes the attempt. True and false are very important to spirits, as their very existence is shaped by truth. What spirits lack is morality. So they see nothing wrong with inflicting a live long curse on a person, if the curse is honestly deserved. You can trick spirits if you use an innocent third party to beseech the spirits on your behalf. The spirit doesn't know better and can barely understand mortal politics. This person sincerely believes that person's husband deserves to have his legs rot off? Well then no problem.
You can convince spirits much more effectively with bribes. These are things that are attuned to that spirit's nature, like incense smoke for air spirits or pretty sea shells for sea spirits. With bribes, you can negotiate a much more powerful curse. Every time a spirit invests itself in a curse, it's diminished for a time, sometimes permanently. Sacrificing beloved things makes them all the more compliant. After all, that sea shell is nice, but the sea shell your father gave you when you were a foal right before he died? That's pretty special, and much more suitable a bribe. Want has a funny effect on spirits, and the more we treasure something, the more spiritual power it invests in them upon being destroyed.
Of course the greatest way to sacrifice is self sacrifice. This can be immediate, like cutting off a hoof and cauterizing the stump, or delayed, like making a promise down the road with interest. It can sometime be a promise as well, to always do or not do something. The more important the oath, the more serious the repercussions. For instance, some one who hates spiders promising to kill every spider he sees isn't going to get much spiritual juice, because they were going to do it anyway. Some one who has sex with every mare he meets promising to never touch another mare lustfully is going to get a lot of spiritual backing for that oath, and even more if he swears to never touch another zebra, and even more to never touch another person sexually, including himself. Of course, the more powerful the oath, the greater the repercussions if broken.
Oaths can also be passed down generations, and are seen as long term investments by spirits. If descendants honor oaths, the oaths become stronger. If a descendant forsakes an oath out of ignorance, there might be some fallout. If a descendant breaths the oath, then there's going to be a mess. Oaths are very significant spiritual promises.
7159144 I guess I can understand that.
It also sounds like the threat of curses can be a rather strong deterrent or method of manipulation too. Though a notice Granny of the swamp could get quite a bit of help from the swamp to get around, that was pretty impressive.
But then it got me thinking about spirits more. I'd imagine spirits come in many forms and represent a lot of things. One thing that sticks with me is from Kkat's head-canon story: Origin story. That story showed that spirits aren't always some benevolent forces to deal with and the deals they make and the payments they except might not always be viewed of being nice or fair.
That story certainly gave some interesting insight to how the spirits possibly worked. Then again, it also gets you to thinking how they would make so many items either possessed by spirits or blessed by them to place permanent enchantments on some zebra weapons and items? That's one big favor that one would have to wonder, who's paying the bill?
great chapter thanks for all the hard work. only thing i'm sad we didn't get is some scotch tape scenes. seemed like she it off pretty well with vicious and i'm really interested to see how she handles having an adult in her life she can relate to again. looking forward to more soon hopefully.
Wow that ending... excited for what's next.
What was Scotch doing during this time?
I get that it may of been nothing of significance, but I wonder.
I also can't help but ask: Is this "watcher", the "watcher" from the orginal Fo:E or a watcher for the zebra lands, (which I get may or may not have any relation to Equestria's watcher). I get the feeling that this character isn't that "watcher".
I believe I can sum up the last part in six words.
Oh dear, that is not good.
Fantastic, can't wait for the next chapter!
That was nice. And just before I lose Internet :)
That last part was pretty crazy. "The watcher"? Hmmm. Also
Don't you know by now? This is a Somber story. Everyone dies xD Anyway, nice job.
I have no idea what just happen in the end.
Just what?!
The "Lala" SilentCarto pointed out appears to still be present; I thought I'd leave this comment to remind you here.
"“About what happened to your ship, Lala,” a stern-faced mare said."
7199369 Hope it's good.
7187237 I got it. Thank you.
Commentary time! Criminally late, even!
Sigh... gonna completely ignore that a good bit of that treasure came from your own people, huh?
Morons.
It sounds like 'blinding the eye of the world' is kind of like Avatar Wan cutting off the physical world from the spirit world.
Neat!
I don't think I want to see Shattered Hoof Ridge through the eyes of a shaman.
It's kind of funny to think of Majina as the team prude... relatively speaking, anyway.
LOL, dragon counting.
Ah, Precious. A natural-born thug if ever there was one. (Erm... unnatural-born? You know what I mean!)
I have to wonder if all Achu are given to this laconic style, like Spartans, or if it's just him.
Interesting philosophy. I'm liking him immediately, of course, but it's interesting to see how he tries to out-willpower others rather than out-muscle them.
Now I'm wondering what these close-but-not-quite names might mean.
I guess Zencori tend to wind up kind of genre-savvy, huh?
Not that we're building a theme here or anything.
Huh... yeah, that makes sense, but I'd never thought of a doctor's bag as something that had to be built like a vault.
Whosawhat?
It would be funny if Lucy was the male head (Lucius) and Bob was the female (Roberta).
Howdy! I'm FLOWEY! FLOWEY the FLOWER!
Hee hee hee...
You're new to the WASTELAND, aren'tcha?
Run. RUN NOW.
Toldja.
Okay, interesting... I'd been rather assuming this was someone in the employ of Riptide, but perhaps not?...
But it's only been six months, right? Or is this a year since leaving pony lands?
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L5 guild looking for DPS!!! Plz!!!
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I think you're absolutely right. As for ponies, they're useful tools. Just like zebras, but without all the political fallout!
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Like... say... 'always speak in rhyme'?
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Ah, you're welcome, and thanks.
7201989 Absolutely. It wouldn't surprise me at all for Zecora to turn out to be a shaman, who made a deal to always talk in rhymes in return for some supernatural help.
Probably by most of them being dead. Pressed into military, attacked by raiders, starvation, etc. Probably only has a couple dozen that survived to adulthood. This town is crowded, but it isn't THAT crowded, and one of their few doctors is near-universally mistrusted, so I'm betting plenty of death in childbirth. Being Carnilian, he probably chalks that up as a sire and considers it only a failure on his wife and midwives.
...makes it sound like her family died due to a similar lack of helpful strangers or martial skill, which just isn't true.
Her mom was a good martial artist, her brother was a great one, and her dad was one of the greatest.
From a certain point of view, they even all died the same way. All to unkillable monsters using tactics that bypassed any attempt at defense and against which they opted not to simply turn and run.
...so I hope, along with gaining "strength", she gains some additional wisdom, cleverness, and a few extra tricks to help her succeed where martial discipline failed the rest of her family.
Oh, and lovely chapter, of course.
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My knowledge is a little rusty, but with all the inspired crossing over with Fallout there are likely to be fresh horrors in the wasteland no matter where you lived before. Ghouls aren't nearly as awful as the half-crazed spirit remnant of less than sane ponies that can howl and whisper inside your head.
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Thinking Psalm there, or some other part of it?
I'm not sure if she's more so, or Pythia "everyone in this town needs a cold shower" this-trope-doesn't-work-with-people-like-Cher is.
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But even there, and assuming the talk was purely on the child rearing side, unless you're talking about a really high rate of infant mortality and death in childbirth, a lot of the most time-consuming period would be covered before most did die or were taken or whatever. And bearing in mind some of the other equine reproductive features that were carried over from the real world and the precociousness of the Cake twins, I wouldn't be surprised if infant mortality were less of a thing in ponies and zebras than humans for any given level of medical technology and care.
HAH
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Not her specifically. Wasn't it noted as one of the bloodiest battlefields in Equestria? At any rate, I reckon there was more hate there, on both sides, than ever before.
7220957 There's lots of places like that now. Ironically, Gardens of Equestria will help. The Elements of Harmony are one of the few spiritually active forms of magic ponies possess and it will help alleviate some of the spiritual harm inflicted.
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Heh. Leave all that "appeasing the spirits" junk to the zebras -- us ponies just built an aggro reset!
Or... grew it. Or... where the cheese did these things come from, anyway?
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Ah, see, I was interpreting that differently, such that a battle would not necessarily have the same type or of effect as, well, a "deliberate [imputing different meaning than merely "intentional"], callous murder." And the closest fit there I could think of was Psalm/Big Macintosh/Celestia. Bearing in mind at least the Roamani were by legend "sired on a battlefield" (and the Achu seem martially aligned as well), I wouldn't immediately think that battle would be especially toxifying. That said, perhaps specific forms of motivation for doing battle would make one more or less so.
What? No! Not Mercy and Brick! Their love was so short! It was like . . . Like a cake to a fat man! OK that was a terrible simile but I hope you understand my point.
I wonder what was up with that white flower hmmmm
"The Atori were cannibals and ate parts of their enemies to gain their strength.
To think, most of the world had needed megaspell annihilation to render them cannibals. The Atori did so out of Tradition. Proudly."
I though it was established that cannibalism caused raider plague or are the Atori simply an exception to the rule as they've developed an immunity somehow unlike the rest of zebra and pony kind?
I wonder what Scotch was doing for that whole chapter.
So are Luna and Celestia ... though I feel it was a giant mistake to allow Riptide to speak at all.
Oh shit.
Well, usually it's the ability to kill anything that challenges you that makes people think that way ...
... his weapon of choice is fucking Microsoft Excel??? He needs to die.
I imagine there's enough colts would like that just fine, too.
Damn, that's cold. Kind of accurate so far, but cold.
I'm still surprised they didn't inadvertently set the town on fire in a week.
But Blackjack is hiding, you can't go find her again for this!
Oh shit. Riptides daughter has arrived. I wonder what that unholy aberration has to add to things?
Oh yeah. That filly is rockin some bad juju
Wow...so whoever this guy is has got some serious mojo going on.
I blame chaos magic. Perhaps Discord, our dear, precious god of anarchy, lives yet and watches from a cave, weak.
Or...maybe it's something new that is like the pendulum of the planet.
think about it.
sonething in his cave has the power to bring life back to the world, and just as quickly end it and destroy all evidence.
and all of that from a mysterious drop of colorful liquid, in a small pool.
Anyone else feel like have a pool party in a puddle? Or is it just me...?
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It's heavily implied that it's the starvation that is a contributing factor, similar to how hate could seep into the swamp in Zebrica. That, or the Atori simply have a method that is bound in old traditions that makes it 'healthy,' like not eating the brains or something.
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I'm gathering that Atoli on the whole take inspiration fron Polynesian/Oceanic peoples, with the Atori and their cannibalism coming from New Guinea
If it's the Book of Littlepip you read, you're doing it wrong.
So the legions are assholes you have to deal with on a case by case basis.
Alright, it took six chapter, not counting the Prologue, but we finally reached the part were characters get raped and eaten. Ok it didn’t happen to anyone close to Scotch Tape yet, but this story has only just begun. *
Having a chapter focusing on multiple characters instead of Scotch Tape, was really unexpected. It’s very unusual for a Fallout Equestria story which are often only told from the main character’s POV. Of course, there’s no mandatory way to write a Fo:E story and this is a good way to show what happened to the other characters our protagonists have met.
Seeing Mahealani again made my happy. Good to know that she hasn’t become a social outcast. The Atoli even made an attempt at punishing Riptide, which unsurprisingly failed. Still Mahealani hasn’t given up and still wants to stop her. She’s slowly becoming one of my favorite characters in this story. Which probably means something really bad is going to happen to her.
Things in Rice City aren’t as great as the initially looked: Serious overpopulation due to a their mentality of more children = better, a lack of food and roaming warlords in the countryside who rape, murder and eat each other and anyone unfortunate enough to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. Things gets so bad that Zebra actually fleeing into the swamps only to get raped and killed (and maybe eaten?) by the local Orah who have developed a kill—all-outsiders attitude.
On the bright side Aleta’s family does care about her and hasn’t disowned her. And she has even developed feelings for Galen. Things have turned out far better for her than I imagined.
The last scene was strange. Maybe a corrupted/broken G.E.C.K.? Also someone’s getting impatient and wants Scotch to move. An ally or just someone who uses her as a pawn?
(*No I don’t want any characters to be raped or eaten, but this is a Sequel to Project Horizons, written by the very same author. Black Humor is just a good way to prepare myself for the really horrifying stuff that may or may not happen to the main cast at some point.)
I find your lack of friendship disturbing!
Well um.. that thing at the end, that was a thing that happened!
And I guess Scotch made a big mistake settling down for a year.
I actually figured she was going to regret staying with the syndicate for that long in one form or another. I never would have expected THAT!
Each chapter leaves me with more questions then answers and I love it
Riptide's the bitchiest bitch there is... I can't believe she got away with all she's done!