"The Gang Collaborative Writers Group" was originally made as a place for a group of writers to plan the back story to an O'C self-insert heavy story, but due to some complications, we where unable to get it off the ground.
So now it is open to all who love world-building, and have story ideas that they would like to throw around; or other wise don't have any ideas to work with, so they can barrow from what already is in the groups forum.
So, to whoever may read this, enjoy your self.
New Rules:
1: No not safe for wonna stuff.
2: Be sure to give thank's to the one/one's you got your story ideas from on you'r story.
3: have fun and tolerate each other's opinions.
4: Ask before you use someone else's O'C.
S.W.B.
Below are the group's old setup rules I put together.
This group is made to work as the control center in the collaborative writing of those who are the administers of the group, the story that this group works on is called "The Gang" and is a self insert / ponysona based story.
Group Rules.
#1, The next one to create and post the story line for the next arc depends on when they became a administer/writer of the group.
#2, Follow the guide lines put forth in writing The Gang.
#3, For those of you who are not a part of the group writing the story, and do not wish to see any spoilers for what is to come.
Get off this group and run for the hills now!!!These are the guide lines in written"The Gang".
#1, You must be honest with yourself when writing your ponysona/selfinsert. What I mean is that, unlike other self insert fictions where the main character is over powered/capable and always able to do what ever he/she wants without concern of losing anything and all is ok in the end, which is what makes most of them into gray stu's/marry sue's in the end.( no waifus, unless 1 said waifu goes after you, or 2 there a back drop character that's under used in that aspect.)( use you true gender.)
And so what I mean to say is, if it's not something you are capable of, or if you don't know something, or other wise your ponysona doesn't have the magic, don't try it unless it help's the story along.#2, Cutey marks show a pony's passion, and what thy are best at in life, they do not give instant knowledge or power on how to do that which they show the pony can do. The pony must learn thru apprenticeship, learning by doing or schooling to gain their knowledge in what they love to do to earn their mark. (Edit, they gain there mark from there passion, but must earn the knowledge behind it afterwards.)
#3, If your ponysona appears in equus with something along this line of thing's (any apparel, items or bag's with stuff in them, as in... a shirt, hat or shoes. an Ipod, pocket knife or sword. a day bag, back pack or duffel bag.) it must be something that you yourself own. If you don't have it or if you wish to have it, you will have to wait till your ponysona has the bits to pay for it in the story.
Ok, now that you have gone thru the gauntlet, allow me to tell you how this story is going to run. First, we are working as a collaborative by writing are own ponysona's. I say this because I don't know you, so how can I write you? it adds to the realism of the story. Second, the story will be written in arcs in which they will show the progress of a day to a week of our lives on equus, and will be separated by a month or more between them. Third, each arc is to be completely written and edited before it is released to be read by the public.
Alright, that was just a bunch of lesser rule's, let's get away from that now. The story is a mix between CyberChase and the A-Team, to which as stated about "The Gang" they "will learn things that they could not before about the pony world. While after agreeing to do so, forms the B-Team. Which takes care of the things that the mane-team can not. This is due to how we think and because of the world we came from. Making the group more adaptable in what they would encounter." in which the agreeing part will be in the second arc, the first arc (that I have named settling down) will be all about our self inserts arrival on equus, coping with becoming a pony, and learning some things about each other and the world around them.
Ye olden high angled vaiw of Equestria. Link to map
New full size under detailed map of the Equestrian Kingdom and the Crystal Empire. Link to map
Name snipe, get hype.
I thought the name "White Hat Society" gave me far more credit than I deserved. So I changed it to something more befitting my personality.
Now if I can just make a ponysona with a similar name...
409401 On second thought, there are a few details I may need answered, before I finalize the character for the adventure. Like the item I just brought up on the world building. Of course, I would make the adjustments requitred to make the character fit within the story.
Are there any particular issues you would enjoy suggestions towards solving?
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That will happen on it's own thru the world building, just keep those suggesting's coming.
S.W.B.
409369 I noted that the first 3 threads are up, which is a good start.
There seems to be room for a few more, even before we start threads for our respective characters.
On that note, we need your ruling on what is acceptable, and what is not on this.
409366 Yes, and on it!
S.W.B.
409226 Does that mean we are free to posat that thread and discuss these off topics there?
While I guess it could be a good idea to start posting a few threads on the forum for varius topics we need for the project.
On that note, stick the key topics on the forum so that we know where to find all crusical information.
Oh for the love of...... clam down you two, hack start a thread if you need to. Now it looks like I'l have to post what I wanted to post tonight tomorrow, gosh darn it all.
S.W.B.
409212 The story is "Pinkie Personalities". Just type it it, it's the most popular one on the list.
And why Nazi exterminated the Jews? They could and they belived it was legal. Also, remember we talk abaut Communists here. They just hold control and held the country in the claws to insert starvation if it rebeled. They clinged to their power and saw any kind of progress or free thinking as a threat.
[Insert smart reality prison quotation here]
They wanted more money, so they needed more subsribers and morestuff they could sell off to the old players. So they relised new content. It was bound to start beeing game-breaking at some point.
Pinkie beeing a Changeling Queen is a small genere out of itself. It would really explain her. Off course there is a bilion stories that make her any kind of wierd creature in secret but a Changeling Queen is one of the two popular ones, alongisde the Dracoequus.
People often call evrything that's funny a comic relief. Read: stupidity.
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For good or ill, I haven't read the story. While I guess I have a few ideas and speculations about Pinkie Pie, and a few sub-personalities.
The idea sounds good. The problem is where they placed their efforts and what they thought important. Why did they need to have so much control of the people in the first place? This effort could have been speant on producing all the things they were lacking. Had they been good, we would all have followed them, with no further incentitives required. a bad government can't make the people like them, no matter what they put into it.
If the universe doesn't care either way, we can make it fun, or a prison of our own making. The choice is ours.
They could have made a better game, if they had placed the effort on actually improving what is there. Why fix what isn't broke?
How many has already accused her of being a Changeling? Am I the only one to write her as a Queen? Canon gave her unPrincessed powers. Who elsae could leave the village in a funk, marshing around furious? Pinkie Pie did, even if it was Twilights doing.
Did she understand something Gummy said or thought, or was he merely an excuse for her to go off on the wild ghost chase? Even if it proved to give her inspiration for the party as she got back?
Oh, and why does people claim that Pinkie is Comedy relief?
409207 Actually in that story Pinkamena was created as a 2ndary personality to survive the doctor's experiments and he landed in prison. In the actual story he escaped and it is still beeing written. It wasn't all that brutal, as he "only" shocked Pinkie... at least there wasn't any blood...
The Commies made a 4-year plan for the economy to function. It always ended up with not producing enough food for the populance.
The Universe doesn't care for it's inhabitants. And magic isn't gonna changeing that any time soon. And even if it does change -it concentrates as Discord.
Exactly. ^^
All the more reasonso subspect Pinkie for beeing a Changeling Queen that has so much power that she essencially warps the world around herself.
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Not sure if I want to read the story. I like to keep my story telling ballanced, so I have her going off on the deep end on both directions. One day she is off killing, the next she is partying.
Oh, the four-year plan? Sorry I kind of missed most of the hysteria of that part.
I don't know how the subject was painted where you saw it, but from what I gathered, it is kind of like Discord, it doesn't automaticlly take sides. Magic serves both the good and the bad equally, and so does Discord.
They offered Elves for both sides too, even if they gave the two factions different nbames at least. Offering the same race to both sides is lazy. On that note, why keep adding new races in the first place? Just like they keep adding a few more levels with each "upgrade". Of course, that is another problem, on subscription you pay extra for all the upgrades, so they keep pounding them out for no reason other than you to pay for it.
If she needs to throw anything to get to where she wanted to go? She outraced Rainbow Dash, of all Ponies. She did not even get winded in the process ..
Pinkie Pie can walk up the wall, almost as if it had been the floor.(or was that for comedical effect?) Then she can walk upside down ith merely sucktion cups?
Canon only paint her out to be strong, never to actually explain how strong. Fear is fun and she can panic on command. Of course, Pinkie Pie can fly. Unless they stated otherwise, I will see her as Tinker and Engineer.
409203 There was once a story abaut a psycopathic doctor trying to figure out Pinkie Pie and he created Pinkamena in the process. You also missed the communist joke.
The Force is a bit to moraly-themed to be a good comparison here. But that else is Magic than an energy that can affect the world so drasticly with so little of itself.
I think they broke the game when they started to mess with it's fundament is MoP. The Monk and Pandas beeing avable to both sides of the conflict was heresy in my eyes.
XD. Just... XD. I still imagine Pinkie throwing stuff to get close to the enemy and then shoot her canon that throws her back.
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One of the few characters worth delving into. There is anough for a PHD in Pinkie Pie.
Sounds as if Magic is similar to Energy in our world. While I guess you could draw paralels with the soul. Oh, and for you as follower of SW, the little critters that makes up the force?
She is the only Pony who has done this on violition without any outside elements. Pinkie Pie made a flawd version in one episode. If the comparison is correct, that is. If it is, that would speak volumes to Pinkie Pie, wouldn't it? On that note, she is the only Pony with anything close to an Alicorn mane. Applejack and Apple Bloom could use their tails, which Pinkie Pie apparently got down to an art.
You sugest they did turn that bad? I noticed that they had the bright idea to change the map without adjusting the game all the way.
I do have that story to my name, but I guess you figured that already.
Granted, Pinkie can move in any imaginable dimention. The Paladin I recall is a mix of Warior and Priest, was it? Pinkie Pie could deal crippling blowes too.(armour wouldn't be much good against her kind) She continuously strengthen the once around her. The question is to what extent her power moves at will, or just blow out what ever is near by.
Imagine Pink laughing manically in an insane voice and the crazy pitch Pink has and see how the others would react to that alone?
409199 It's a 4-year plan. *snickers*
Yeah, because she's Pinkie Pike.
I belive that Alicorn have so much magic they radiate it the whole time and suck it back in just as quick. If they die, their magic that is eather way mostly outside of their body enable them to re-enter the world because they become the magic of the world. They become a will floating in a dimension of natural energies.
Nightamare is a being made of dreams. She propably tried to make an awatar but she could give it a mind she could posses as she wouldn't be able to control the body she created. That would explain why she didn't done that in the first place.
Be happy you left.
Jester, like a genocidal clown. Yes, it's Joker made into a proffesion essencially.
Pinkie values movement, while the Paladin is abaut strict grind and direct combat. They're opposides.
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A bit on the complex end there. massive cooperation and a buinch of bits and gems.
That would make her more unique than all ponies putr together.
The idea of the Magic of a character manifesting in pure form and able to respawn in this manner would speak of huge magic reserves.
Could an Alicorn enter a kind of deity form if enlightened and strong enough? Or at least the avatar state power Twilight showed?
Looking at Nightmare, she could break off a part of her consciousness into a physical avatar. What if Twilight could have done this at the showdown? Yet, it would have defeated the purpose of the battle in the first place. For refference, I submit Nyx.
I never saw anything of that version. I played Burning Crusade, but not Liech King. I left the game ages ago.
I played every race, every class and tested every profeccion available at the time. Warlock was great fun.
I never played that game, or heard of it before.
Jester, like the Joker of Batmans?
The strength of Pinkie Pie is that she can deal damage ith one hoof and heal with the other at the same time. Wait, isn't that the Priest? or is it Paladin?
I was pondering what Warfare would be like, if the Ponies did not have the rainbow. Imagine combining the respective strengths of the Ponies of the Six and see how they could strike?
409194 I think I use manticore skin when we take down the first one, harden the skin through water and then alchemy from somepony, preferably somezebra, then start adding stuff up, most notably a backpack and a bazilion of pockets, then start reinfocing ghe whole thing with gauntels and protection from aimed blows, like a cover to the heard and maaaybe a gutplate - I'm gonna propably try to use Pegasi Armour from Canterlot and Cloudsdale, Changeling shell parts, maybe sew it all up with steel lines. Then some enchantments at the Crystal Empire and some unicorn mages, maybe harden the enchants at Twilight if we're gonna meet her and I'm set with top gear.
Her class is propably "Pinkie Pie"...
Well, Celestia as a Higher Alicorn can propably re-manifest in the phisical realm as soon as she dies. With the lesser alicorns it wouldn't be that hard. The problem is that an alicorn draws in all kinds of danger for his teammates. But you can easily take down an alicorn if you have any corruption magic or poision. You just need to touch her magic/body, the the alicorn's magic is gonna wreck him. As for killing him in a clasical way, it's propably doable if you weaken him first. But if he remanifests, this is posible only by taking him down without killing: Infect him with a stone spell and watch as he renders himself into a rock or banish him in some way.
The WoW class system was stupid, expecially after Mists of Pandaria. I'm thinking now more of a Mass Effect perspective where the characters were defined by their race, class and organisation which trained them.
The only class I can ever see Pinkie in is the Jester from Darkest Dungeon, a class that specialised in re-positioning and dealing extreme damage, alongside buffing the morale from time to time. She would use a combination of attacks the lets her close in, and then perform a critical attack that throws her back at the back of the team and start anew to get forward to bounce off the enemy again.
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409189 For leather, patching in that manner is one of the more effective means. Chemistry and magic could give other types of reinforcements, though. If you know what you are doing, including secondary materials interlaced could be a great boost.
Going by the Apples, Strength and farming is where they excell. We only have Pinkie Pie as apposition here, and she has trickery well beyond regular strength. I guess you could claim that she is farming friends. She is at the center of the most powerful magic known to Ponykind, as expressed.
A lone Alicorn may be suceptible to these issues. But you don't send off an Alicorn alone, unless there are strong reasons behind it.
Exactly what does even damage an Alicorn? You may knock her down like with Celestia at the Wedding, but how much damage did she actually take? From one account, the Alicorn is fairly close to the border of actual immortality. If you can puyt up a shield too strong to penetrae, how to harm her?
from the WoW clasification? Going by this standard, every raqce had a set of classes that went with their nature.
Going by Canon, some Ponies goes entirely against the standard of classifications. A team needs a ballance between a set of specific classes.
From an action perspective, would Pinkie Pie be the one up front to deal or hold dammage?
By classification, is she the Rogue or the Paladin? Fluttershy would be the Hunter. Rarity could be the Mage and Twilight the Warlock?
409188 Like mixing in addonal patches and plates to upp the performqce in the important places.
Wasn't it the point of Earth Ponies? Streagh, alchemy and plant afflication?
I think the weakness of the alicorn is him/her beeing a signiricant magical signature that even non-magical opponents can feel out, unable to hide or run and having all the enemy spells auto-lock-on you. And beeing expecially vunerable to enemy poisions, parasites and corruption, as your own mana pool fuels the enemy factors.
I think the races have preferable classes but aren't permited from any of them, so you really can have a Pegasus Druid.
Also some of the classes could modyfy when applied to certain races, like a wizard will remain a wizard when applied to a Unicorn, Earth Pony or Gryphon, but will become a Warlock when applied to Pegasi and a Crystalmancer when applied to a Crystal Pony.
409183 Yeah, for a Flier like the Pegasus, the Leather armor is the only real option. There are a number of working means of enhancing your leather armor as well.(even in Equestria)
Going for the Brute force like an Earth Pony? like Big mac carrying or pulling insane loads, or Pinkie and Maud litterally smashing rocks to dust?
If you choose the Unicorn(or Alicorn) it would be better to rely on your magic and permit the others to 'Tank' you though the battles you need to fight.
Going by show, there are a few exeptional class breaches, like Pinkie Pie and Flutershy, who can perform acts not commonly permitted or reserved by their classes.
Of course, there are noneconformative classes and nonePonies to choose from, all depending on what wil be permitted in the story.
409180 I don't want anything really heavy. A breastplate is the worst idea, expecially if I'm a flier. I could make myself a working leather armour [like them ancestors], then mix it up with some chainmail and hardened leather patches, a bit like Iorweth from Witcher 2.
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Yet if I wouldn't have the wings, I would go for the thicker version. Enchant it with rubber magic and you're saver than in any metal plate you can imagine.
I like the converting idea too.
Eehm... the stronger you are the more you can carry, double that if you're an earth pony?