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So, Sunset is to make an appearance, eh? This is going to be good!
Ninja Griffons!
You really have made me become addicted to this story. My eyes were glued to the bar in hoping for a Chase update.
And now Sunset is back. Hype on.
I will find it hilarious if they Bring the Mirror Worlds Sunset Shimmer by accident instead of Equestria's. But that won't happen. But would still be funny.
Snow.
Using Sunset as bait, eh?...
I can't help but think Celestia being treated a bit like this...
I have a weird sense of humor.
I didn't know Bucky knew enough time magic to give substance to the portion of time we are never aware of until it is past, powerful stuff to through around willy nilly all the time.
Hooooly shit, spell jars as sling bullets. That's going to be fucking amazing.
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A dusting of 'now' would only be accurate if it involved time travel.
I do believe you mean snow.
I've been wondering when Sunset would be making her appearance for a while now. I found it curious she hadn't made an appearance yet when the Tvtropes page already had a quoted line from her.
23rd paragraph. You wrote "covering everything in a dusting of now." Should be snow.
Nice chapter looking forward to seeing Sentinel, and Ripple in scouting gear some day.
First of all, I hope you´re better.
Second of all: crawling through a sewer...YKES !!!!
Third of all: death by groin bleed...DOUBLE YKES !!!!!
Answers to why Sunset is made into his student despite probably being older than he is and previously a student to a more knowledgeable teacher!
I hope.
I mean... Sunset hasn't been using magic for years, but she clearly remembers the basics (and some more), and while brushing up on it would require her to be taught by someone, the idea that she is Bucky's Student seems much more serious as a superior/inferior relationship than a simple plan to teach her some things so she can be useful to Equestria.
In fact, there's a... bit of things going around where Bucky is now assumed to be better/older/more experienced than those around him, even if they might be older or have more experience in things that he does. As impressive as he is, he is still in his early/mid twenties, and like... I don't know how old Tannis was, but apparently he is Tannis's father, no matter how old or mature Tannis is.
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Tannis is Bucky's ward.
Sunset Shimmer hasn't aged much. Time beyond the mirror flows differently, she is still in her late teens.
And Bucky wants to train her to be a Black Cloak.
The Fates wanted her brought back though.
5289399 I think a lot of people were watching for it. To go from 2-3 updates a day to a whole day being skipped I bet means a bunch of people were going into withdrawal.
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Could have been worse. Could have shoved the dagger right up the dudes ass afterwards.
now I am confused. at what point did twilight gain her hooves on the journal? heck the only reason that occurred is because of the crystal tree and her destroyed library to begin with. and that was e using a device to have the mirror sync with the magic that linked the two books.
also I have a gut feeling the myrmidion guys are gonna fail at their task. they are gonna end up weaker than kittens on the other side of that portal.
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I'm gonna go with Celestia's Machinations as the underlying reason she got the book both in canon and in the fic.
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5289538 can see that in the movie. yet in this story she would be more likely to have interacted directly.
need details here kudzu. rainbow rocks happen in this universe or no? and if not what let to this portal?
also would the sirens appear?
I wonder if the smaller griffons have the dexterity to use butterfly knives?
Spell jars as sling ammo?
Spell jars from BUCKY being used as sling ammo?
To quote Jar-Jar Binks: "Ooooooh, dissa gonna be messy!"
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Are you referring to the balisong ((butterfly knife) or to the húdié shuang dao or butterfly sword? Personally, I'd love to see one or two of them with the butterfly sword, it's a very good close-in paired sword style. It can be used like a regular slashing weapon, or also used in a form similar to the tonfa/baton.
Of course, another sword that is good for close combat is the gladius. Used by the Romans in the close confines of a shield wall. Trust me, there is NO room to swing a traditional sword in a shield wall.
EDIT: On the Chinese name for the butterfly sword, the 'a' in 'shuang' and 'dao' both should have a bar over them indicating no change in pitch... but the alt code didn't work.
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The Fates are why. We don't know why they asked him to, but you can be almost assured it's going to be morally ambiguous, and involve things that seem clearly good to Bucky, but have bad (possibly terrible) consequences for someone else, but no one's going to notice. At least not yet.
Unless you mean why are they going to kidnap her rather than like... ask her to come with them. Then it's Bucky's fault for wanting to use force instead. Probably just to make sure Sunset can't say no. And because Celestia is sequestering herself in the sun and presumably Bucky has a plan involving her prior protege and Celestia's emotions.
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thespecialistsltd.com/files/Hook_Swords.jpg
Because I am an evil bastard, and because griffons like hooked weapons like a hook-axe, I'm thinking of something like this.
Is Ripple showing Pegasus cleverness, or has some of Bucky's Unicorn cleverness rubbed off on her?
You didnt post for a day or something 0_o
I was worried
Just like EUHMEGAWDKUDZDURNTDIE
Need moar chase :3
*jks*
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A bit too long, methinks. The upper portion is around 3-4ft in length for a normal human, so it might work for the griffons... but might also be too big. Don't get me wrong, I love the idea (I'm a choy li fut practitioner)... I'm just thinking for sneaky stuff. Now, if there was a standard issue weapon, then each had their own weapon based on their role.... Like the infiltrator using the hook swords, that's a good idea. Maybe another using wind and fire wheels.
Might also want to look into these, these, and even these.
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hook daggers
5289627 primary issue is twilight having the book at the right time. they are likely blind to the fates occurring in another dimension, let alone one without magic.
the myrmis are gonna have a hard time though. neither the moon nor shadow hol magic in that world. they will be robbed of their strength comptely just as twilight is robbed of magic.
*update*
Ugh...
Feels gud man...
Assassiny weapons, so much yes... I love knives.
Slingshots are good, the spinning one or the rubbery one?
I don't think it would really matter, dem jars are deadly enough.
Side story on the um... Capture mission? No?
We need more Belisama, she still feels distant.
5289657 Riddick daggers maybe?
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What about the katar?
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I have so much love for those...
Wait... Slingshots may not be necessary, they take a while to charge and aim.
How about pressurized air soft guns?
Silent and with enough pressure, can puncture a skull, still without much pressure you can aim for the eyes.
Loaded with tiny metal balls or tiny glass orbs!
5289671 Riddick dagger!!!
it would actually be perfect. the little gryphosn are fast little basards but they lack strength. the daggers Riddick has could let them attack advanatage of their speed and slash at larger enemies.
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Never saw Riddick. Most of the weapons I mentioned could do the same thing, honestly. They are all designed for close-in fighting and can be used in strike-and-run tactics. I just think it'd be neat to give them each a signature weapon. Hell, we've basically got a band of misfits that are being turned into a (hopefully) effective intel/recon force. They've got to have some individual quirks as regards weaponry.
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Most likely Twilight had the book at the same time for the same reason: Twilight goes to the other world, comes back with a story about the fall and potential regret of Sunset Shimmer, Celestia then finds/unearths Sunset's old book... decides to discreetly send it to Twilight, hoping that Twilight will be able to figure it out and do something interesting when talking to Sunset Shimmer because Celestia feels like she doesn't deserve/can't solve that problem herself, and the civil war doesn't change Celestia's self-reflection.
Sunset then decides to contact Twilight when the Dazzlings show up, causing the book to glow at the same basic time, sometime after Celestia decided to send it to Twilight but before Twilight took note of it, and Twilight looked into it.
Haha the Myrmidon's might have a big problem, if their shadow magic doesn't work... and then they're stuck in bodies they don't understand. Maybe they're not using force, and they're just going to come and ask her to come.
Then again, powerful Equestrian magic does work, and shadow magic doesn't seem to be reliant on an organ to power it (ie: the horn) so at least the passive benefits might still apply.
5289706 perhaps they will. still the ridick daggers are surprisingly cleverly design. the blade goes across the nuck, almost like a guard, and the end extending out as a typical dagger. design for slashing and agile movements.
5289732 think that the human bodylacks certain mediums of magic. the element of magic gave it to some of them though.
really curiuos about how kudzu has that scenario play out.
5289706 Here encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSO-zhmXF-aguYayTRAtlsyla9jLeoJTwd3GDVUeC-FixFO3aQkTA is what I assume that lordofmyth was referring too.
And here is how they could be wielded i698.photobucket.com/albums/vv341/jedibeastie2/214-the-chronicles-of-riddick-assault-on-dark-athena.jpg
They seem perfect for the little Gryphon as you've got parts for both stabbing and slashing; and as they appear to be double edged you could us them to slash out a sentries neck with relative ease. Perfect for our little scouts.
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Interesting design. Just watched a pretty good analysis of the weapons on YouTube (link to it is here because I don't want to clutter the thread). The single sided blade (you see the single side pretty clearly in the video link I provided) pretty much makes it only viable for slashing, no real thrust capability. Not a lot of reach, either. Good defensive capabilities though, I will give it that. It also works extremely well as a slashing weapon when using a punch style swing (specifically the hook, though it looks like a jab would be painful too).
I guess I'm just uncomfortable with the idea of my weapon always facing back along my arm. This is especially true when many of my open hand techniques bring my fist/hand close to my body.
Ohohohohoh, the myrmydons may be without the lunar empowered strength (MAY be, remember, equestrian magic is real in that human world now) but, even so, they keep their basic phisical atributes. Big Mac is still BIG as a house. They may (again, MAY) not be overpowered but, notheless, they´re still huge, strong (probably at the peak of the human phisical condition) extremaly well trained and...i would LOVE to see a giant armored female, with a smaller-but-still-huge-as-fuck armored male, entering the school, pointing fingers in the middle of the crowd towards Sunshine and stating:
"You, come with us if you want to live !"
"Oh, you´re gonna save me from a big inespecific danger !?"
"No, WE ARE the big inespecific danger...you either come with us willingly or dying..."
Yeah, yeah, I know Bucky said "no harm"...lemme have some happiness in my dreams of blood and senseless violence, would ya ?
As ´bout the Equestria Girls Canon. As far as I understand, everything that happened in booth EG 1 and 2 are true, and the only thing in the show not to happen is the fight against Tirek and the Rainbow Power (no crystal castle then). The book probably was discovered in a different situation, I THINK just before The Chase starts...or maybe sometime during The Isles Arc.
5289833 then they try to just snatch up sunset and get barraged by a weapon more deadly than they can withstand.
pepper spray and tasers.
5289851 Considering the training they have, they would probably die from boriness (is that a word ?) before any of those weapons manage to even scratch their armors...
Edit: Lemme reinforce that...Ripple does not have a fraction of their training (thanks Celestia for that...a Myrmidon-training-empowered Ripple is pretty much the avatar of the GOD of war...on steroids...with berserk rage...in a bad day...after watching the final chapter of Lost...brrrrrrrr) and, still, she managed to make blood puddle from a couple of Gryphoons using something way WORSE then tasers and sprays...let this sink in your mind for a second. Kudzu would have to add a second "gore" tag after that...
5289861 armor is conductive.
5289867 So, they will cause pain to someone who managed to face more pain in one week of training then most of us suffered in our entire life.
Except kudzu. The guy know the meaning of "beatdown". But I disgress...
Still, all I can see is someone having his taser shoved in a very delicate place after hearing "That was supposed to stop me ?" from a very big and raged myrmidon.
5289881 except it is more than pain. tasers cause your muscles to malfunction in a sense, and numbs the nerves after the pain.
Night guard trained mini Griffons + shadow spell jar + commoner and laborer skillsets = By Celestia's Beard! Actual Flying Cat Ninja Assassins!!!
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Do you think they could get any use out of kusarigama or other chain/rope weapons, like the rope dart? The weapon's reach could afford them some options in combat, (subdual using ropes rather than outright killing) though now that I think about it, their flight and sling weapons would probably be sufficient for disengaged combat, while the lengths of chain may be difficult to use on a body with wings.
On another note, since the griffins have claws they may get some use out of tri-bladed katars as well. Alternatives could include the Japanese tanto knife for stabbing or more classic ninja weapons like kunai.
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Most certainly. Chain whips, rope darts/daggers... almost all of the small weapon arsenal of the various martial arts have a place in this group. Ripple has already mastered the bo shuriken (the knitting needle in the apple trick). Heck, even capping their claws/giving them claw-reinforced gauntlets would be a good thing for 'em.
Wing Lam Enterprises has a surprisingly large assortment of 'other' weapons. I'll include two links here and here.
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I'm going to agree with the hook swords/daggers being a main tool for them, because they have a lot more uses than just being cruel. Like when one of the little guys can't use their wings, those blades can aid them in climbing, or they could be modified to have larger hooks (wide as a neck maybe) which would allow for quicker non-letal take downs. If they're going to be spies, they need a multi-tool that can be a weapon, not just a weapon.