This story is a sequel to Jump of the Iron Dragon
Steelskin has returned to the Ponyville he left all those realities ago and must come to terms with not only all the horrors he has faced, but the fact that his body is still that of a colt. The residents of Ponyville seek to come alongside him and support him as he tells them of the worlds he's visited.
I would consider this both 'slice of life' and 'adventure'.
As with Iron Dragon, this exists in the Memverse
and will have the characters from
Memoirs of a Reality Jumper
Jumper
The Mage's Jump
and World Tossed Wanderer
Thank you to my prereaders for fixing errors and offering suggestions:
Techogre
Discord's Advocate
KMCA
Marvelous Cheshire
Warpd
Spect
and Genius101
Chapters (30)
A fitting successor to Jump of the Iron Dragon. I look forward to this thrilling tale!
I really enjoyed this chapter. Not for the Scootabuse and such, but because an evil version of Alex Roberts got his just deserts.
This should be in first person.
Now to go work on the face imprint on my desk...
Nice need MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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thanks, there's more in the works
since you're the first to comment in a while, would you like more interludes or more story?
More story
As always, an amazing chapter!
Ah shucks. 'Twernt nothing.
As always an excellent chapter.
I always get hyped whenever I see this story was updated. Not sure why, but it just gives me one of those feelings.
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Thanks
I don't know about other authors, but encouraging comments mean a lot to me.
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Like, I always put on the song and just slightly dance along as I read.
Who is Spect? I don't remember that name...
Also World Of Warcraft has ruined me on Wargs because most of the lore I've encountered was for the WoW version.
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Spect is from World Tossed Wanderer and sorry you feel that way about wargs; I'm not familiar with WoW wargs, but googled them and wasn't impressed with the artwork.
5702803 They're basicaly werewolves in WoW.
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ah
yeah, these are the Griffon Empire, meat eating, equivalent of earth ponies. No magic except the intrinsic abilities based around hunting and tool use. (although the Griffon Empire has a much greater occurrence of racist and isolationist groups than Equestria)
5704939 'kay.
Excelent... *wiggles fingers menacingly*
I just checked, Nathan Traveler's stories are gone! Didn't he start this genre/archetype of 'the experienced dimension hopping person finds himself in Equestria'?
(Going to reread your story btw, so please make MOAR!)
Just finished rereading!
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planning on a new chapter in the next week
5985750 Cool.
Awesome. I wish for MOAR!
Moar plz.
I can't remember which children know Steelskin is a jumper.
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it's common knowledge in Ponyville
it was the talk of the town when he disappeared with Tallic and he made a pretty spectacular return
6161196 Ah. Okay.
I wonder why the other stories haven't updated. (Or at least 'Mage's Jump'. Dunno about any others)
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I my case, a bad mix of writer's block, not as much free time due to work, and having a hard time focusing on the next chapter. still working on it when I can, but it's a slow process.
6163265 Ah. Makes sense.
To clarify "Mage's Jump" is the only other title I can remember. I started reading the stories on Fanfiction.net so It's kinda hard to keep track of which title belongs to which story!
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'into the rift' is the newest story
there is also
world tossed wanderer
jumper
and, of course, the one that started it all;
memoirs of a reality jumper
you can find us all here
https://www.fimfiction.net/group/197151/memverse
6163561 Kay.
cool! An update!
Why are there so many flashbacks? The plot seems to have slowed almost to a standstill.
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The flashbacks are how I planned it to be, but the last chapters and epilogue won't have them
the plot is slowing partly because something big is coming and partly because he's finally finding his place and coming to terms with who and what he is
6198187 Neat!
Hmmm, I wonder why Cheerilee is getting crunk at the bar!
I'm not sure there's a word for the flavour of "that was kinda dark" that sums up what I want to say. Melancholy, and tragic are close. It's hard to describe. Is there a word that fuses those two words?
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yeah, this chapter definitely took a turn for the worse, though I can't really see Cheerilee reacting much different (though probably not to that extent due to memverse being darker) if she truly became aware of what's been going on in the show.
just a warning; next chapter, if it continues how it's going, is going to be darker and possibly more violent than the Evil Alex chapter
btw; any questions for any of the characters that you'd like answered either here or in the story? (open to all)
6440635 Yeah, how did Diamond Tiara's mother become such a bitch?
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the 'why is' will be answered next chapter, the 'why did' is currently unknown to me
6441223 'kay.
Steelskin has Dragon Slayer magic, right? Why didn't he just breathe shrapnel into that cultist's face?
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That necro-mine sucked virtually all his magic out. That trap was sucking out his magic and life force to animate the zombies. He's got nothing left to attack with. In addition, the electrocution disrupted his nervous system.
6659616 You know, I wonder what would happen if he turned part of his body into metal and then had the magic sucked out. Would it be like his limb is amputated and the metal part falls off the meat part? Would it turn back into flesh?
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I would say that it would turn back into flesh if still attached to him, but would stay metal if separated.
6659930 That works. I stopped at episode 133 in the anime. (I couldn't power through another boring arc.) I don't think that was ever covered.
That ending doesn't make sense. Are Steelskin and his Talic in the same reality now? Or wait, his Talic died, didn't he... Maybe they're close enough that they might as well be each other's companions, as in, they've lived through exactly the same lives, but maybe ate a different breakfast cereal one day or something.
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no, Tallic is in a different reality, but Twilgiht's experimenting with how to pull Tallic back for Steelskin has been felt by Tallic
...Putting a header above it to clear things up
6776945 'kay. That's neat.
I think Steelskin should be there when Talic pops in. It would stop the dragon from doing something he'd regret,