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Oh, so it was an accident. Good, my second thoughts were correct.
For clarity, I assumed the laudanum was stronger, then assumed he may have gotten drunk and taken the pills to sleep, since he's a very stressed out stallion, so I thought it could be an accidental overdose, but I didn't think of him choking to death.
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Granola swells in the stomach... it is dehydrated or freeze dried and absorbs a lot of liquid. It is very slow to digest, which is why it keeps you feeling full for so long.
I did a surprising amount of morbid research into these chapters.
5373885 Never was a big fan of granola, so I never bothered with thinking that was a factor. Good to see you're doing your research though. Also, laudanum pills? I thought it came as a liquid with a little dropper to measure dosage.
and it is even worse than I thought it would be. well every good story that is long has some kind of bump in the road........ this is a very big one I will admit.
at the very least sunset shimmer was functional as a concept if lacking bite. this situation with filthy is giving me the vibe of killing off characters for drama, especially cause it is nothing but an accident. it exists solely to hurt diamond tiaras. maybe it is serving another purpose in the narrative at some point. at this point, I see it only eisting as giving diamond tiara needless pain.
and the idea that underground disrupts dreams makes no sense. why would the dream realm have the same limits as radio reception?
I didn't think it was murder, not enough evidence.
It seems one Diamond has fully shattered now.
5373897 Maybe there's something in the ground that acts as a natural blocker to magic?
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It came in both forms.
Medical grade laudanum tincture was 400 something or other grains of opium and 65%+ alcohol per ounce.
The old tablets were an insanely high amount of opium, which made sense in an equine based society. They'd need literal horse pills before they felt anything.
5373897 Two things: you have no concept of the proper use of ellipses and it's been driving me crazy for weeks now. They have three dots, no more and no less.
And two, look up the term noosphere. In some fictions, it acts like a layer of electromagnetic radiation above a world's atmosphere.
5373904 Huh, I guess I'm one of today's lucky ten thousand.
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???
... Ah, an accident.
Well, I was gearing up for a thing, and now it doesn't apply. Alright.
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A thing?
Kudz, this is a mighty difficult scene you have developed here, a lot of pain being felt by all, Bucky is even feeling this hard he was his friend of course, but there is still a way to fix this, but the cost for Bucky would be the painfull memory that no one elses remembers, Twilight did it once for different reasons maybe he could to. If you can figure out what i mean well its your story i love it either path it takes.
5373914 There are in the USA, an average of ten thousand people learning something that is considered common knowledge by the general educated populace. While the forms of laudanum are far from common knowledge, I consider myself one of the lucky ten thousand who learned something today.
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Just a long monologue about speculation on his reasons (which, if it were suicide, would probably never be entirely revealed: it's common that those left behind only have speculation for the true reasons for the act), and possibly some unfortunate casts of blame, even though none of them were going to be fair.
Par for the course for me when I get opinions.
5373907 three ellipses does not really exemplify pause very well. maybe for a quick change in though, but not for a long pause. and I often have long pauses in my thoughts.
and like I said, why would the ethereal realm of dreams, a place where thought and imagination connect, have a limit like that? it dips into the non physical realm so why would physical barriers be an issue?
5373929 Whether or not you feel it shows a pause well enough does not matter because it is proper punctuation and in this age of information and education you have no excuse not to know.
And again, noosphere, realm of thoughts and dreams. Electromagnetic radiation. You understand how electromagnetic radiation works right? Like radios and cellular phones?
5373929 Think of it like a unicorn attacking another with magic. It's not physical, but if the defender is good at what they do, then they can block the non-physical attack. Now, what if there were natural things, say a certain rock type, that had the same effect? It's not so much the physical properties, but the non-physical ones instead.
5373937 not seeing your point.
5373928
He never wanted this to happen.
For anybody paying attention, he was duty bound. Even with his mistakes, he never faltered, never failed to show up to work, he was a changed pony after the bees incident. Even his last spoken words to Derpy reflected this, that the world does not stop just because he has personal issues.
The evidence states very clearly that he was a good pony. He was doing the best that he could and he lived to serve others now.
Accidents happen.
5373897 feels like it would be more like it only affects what the light of the moon can reach.
I could be wrong but the celestial bodies and the earth are two separate entities, so it just makes sense that if you go where no light, either sun or moon, shines, then you'll be shielded from them.
I would like for foul play to be the reason for filthy's death, but sometimes life just isn't fair.
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Luna has limits. She has an effective range. She does not patrol the dreams of the ponies and zebras in the Sea of Grass. I guess you missed this little subtle indicator in the story. There are other pony civilisations that Luna has no influence over.
Stone blocks out magic. Makes it difficult to teleport. Or see dreams. How do you think the mirror travelers survived Nightmare Moon in their world? How do you think they blocked her out?
...... and now I just realized a major issue with the manner of death. the only way there would have been undigested granola is if he just outright swallowed it after like one or two chews. otherwise the combination of his teeth, made for grinding, and his earth pony strength would have made it that the granola would not be solid enough for him to choke on. he would have chewed it to mush with that combination.
and don't say I am nitpicking here. if I was being a true nitpick here I would be bringing that horses can't vomit. however the ponies differ majorly in that manner. in its place at the combination of herbivore teeth and abnormal strength behind said teeth.
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Yes. The sort of thing one does when they are on a drunken bender. Drunks don't chew their food very well, which is why so many of them CHOKE TO DEATH ON THEIR OWN VOMIT.
Welcome to the point. Population: one.
5373944 Are you intentionally not seeing my point or are you actually incapable of understanding the point I'm trying to make here?
5373955 Wait... you mean I was right about some in The Chase?
...now to await yet another comment arguing with the author of this story because one person doesn't like his headcanon!
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Eh, the big thing would be that what happened would break his sense to complete his duty, actually. That it was shame and hopelessness that did it, not a broken heart. That he succumbed to the belief that he couldn't help, and that he was so broken that instead he was hurting all those around him. Combined with the idea that, if it was over right then then Bucky would certainly take care of Diamond, who has been shown to be a better person than he in the realms that Filthy thought he was failing in: Bucky built a family of loyal wonderful wives, Bucky is an unmitigated success, Bucky knows how to treat his family members so that they feel safe and happy.
Ok. Counting down Chapters until we see SteeplePaste make a complete monstrous ass of himself. I am willing to bet he will say something along the lines of "Too bad the little bitch daughter of his didn't die along side him."
I can just see that happening. The little monster is worse than Diamond ever was so I wouldn't be surprised
5373955 having a physical limitation of range, I could get. but it having a physical limit makes no sense as it is not a physical force, it is something that drifts into the metaphysical zone.
wouldn't it be more logical to state that they figured out magic that can isolate a part of the dreamsape than saying stone can block dreams?
that idea is an interesting interpretation of how her powers work, having a network and limited range. always thought that she can sense disruptions in the dream world and travel to them. she is not omnipresent in dreams but can travel anywhere and can return to a dreamer whom she has already met. keeps a close eye on the mane six.
5373975 Magic is energy in focus. Every sort of energy has some form of insulator. Is it really so hard to accept that stone would act as an inhibitor when nearly every other form of energy is impeded by it? Would lead make more sense to you? How about diamonds? Maybe the blood of virgins?
5373897
WRONG!
Lemme tell you how wrong you are.
This scene exists for many reasons, including giving Sparkler and a whole host of other characters a chance to grow. Ripples in a pond. Things spread outward. Already we see a more motherly Rainbow Dash. Sparkler has learned a number of lessons, the most important of these being not to bring her own BIASES in when she is investigating. (HINT HINT, PAYING ATTENTION?) Flash Sentry is seen using his previously mentioned skills as a communications specialist... and for anybody paying attention, one can already see the effective work dynamic between Flash Sentry and Sparkler developing, each going into their own specialised roles.
Goddess damnit it is so frustrating having to deal with this constant crap all the time and having to explain the obvious.
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5373968 Actually I was thinking ´bout something much alike what you wrote. I don´t know how I feel ´bout being an accident. Need to read it again and think a little.
In one hand, if it was something like we though, it would be very sad. But then, maybe, just maybe, would be sad just for the sake of the sadeness. As an accident we keep the character as a worth one, someone that deserves to be loved (yes, I´m implying that, if it was a suicide, Rich would be less worth as a character, in MY shit opinion) and, unfortunally, shot happens, and everyone needs to gather to overcome this.
Maybe with one or two more chapters I can come to a conclusion. Let´s see what kudzu have to us in the near future.
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You see that yourself destroy your argument in the same phrase, right ?
5373962 ............ call me a nitpick, but humans have a combination of less efficient teeth and a very narrow throat. not to mention out mouths have limited room compared to a muzzle that a pony has, meaning the vomit has less place to go.
comparing the human mouth and troat with what the ponies would have, it would have to be a major coincidence that they could choke to death on their own puke so easily. though I will conceded inebriation could play a part, albeit the earth pony strength.
before you call me a nitpick of the tenth degree. horses cannot vomit. period. their are physically incapable of regurgitating their stomach contents. if I was being nitpicky I could have simply stating that filthy couldn't have vomited to begin with. but I am not. regardless other physical factors apply.
5374014
I've actually been around horses, and I know this.
5374004 and please read cause obviously you don't.
physical limit of range, logical. the dreams being blocked by a physical material, non logical as it is not physical. she might only be able to touch dreams at a liited range but why would a metaphysical power be blocked by physical materials?
5374014 Not horses: magic pastel colored ponies.
I can niptick too !!!
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The dreams aren't being blocked. Only the magic, in this case the connecting shadow, to reach them.
You know, after dumping this much work into these past few chapters, and then having just one person shit all over everything because they want to be petty kind of ruins it for me.
5374052 You could always just block him. That's what I'd do. I'm pretty sure he's either a troll, functionally retarded, or a mixture of both.
5374014 How does Earth Pony strength have anything to do with how a pony chews their food or digests it? I can understand that from an active pony with a strong, fast metabolism like Applejack but Filthy Rich was always seated with a cushy desk job and beer and wine and cheese plates... A person coming from an unbroken line of opera singers can still be bad at singing, for example, like Rich is not the quintissential Earth Pony.
5374052 Please, don´t kill yourslef ´bout it.
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Yeah, after such chapters it´s hard to make anything sounds fun.
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I'm not trying to argue about the physics in this universe, but I do find it... counter-intuitive that someone who apparently has so much power that she constantly patrols the dreams of her citizens, doing whatever she does in their dreams all the time, and has some kind of mind that must be able to handle that, would be limited by something like range or by a measly issue like having stone block off the power to reach them.
I think that's where the difficulty in believing that she is limited so simply is.
5373992 and as I just said in that very sentence, it might have another purpose but all I was seeing was a needless amount of pain.
i can see what you mean with it now. however i remain unconvinced...... it is creating the effects and more than just making diamond suffer.
you did what you felt was the right thing. and maybe it will make sense later. as of right now, i am left wondering if this was the best choice. will have to see.
Thank you for these latest chapters! Looking forward to sitting down and re-reading them. I also am greatly enjoying your exploration into RD's motherly pegasus side!
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Why does this guy keep commenting? All he ever does is try to tell the author of a FICTIONAL story that he is wrong.
He never tries to ask for clarification, never tries for a nice debate; he just tries to wave his own theories around as gospel.
His logic is poor, his rationale flawed, but the worst part?
He does this with a complete failure of grammar.
5374052 I'm not shitting on it... and i do not mean to be causing trouble. simply find myself troubled over these last few chapters and not sure what to think of such a sudden death..... might have to slow down there.
however much i wonder if this all was necessary, it is creating drama and characters changing. events are moving forward and there is no denying that his death was not just some singular drama.
i question the method, yet still accept that the results are good for the most part.
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Remember the shadow gate earlier in the story? Luna isn't as powerful as one might think. Which is why she needs her lunar pegasi to patrol dreams for her.
The more spread out in dreams she is, the less power she has. Being part earth pony, Luna throws numbers at the problem. The shadow gate boosts her power considerably and allows her lunar pegasi direct access to the dream realm without having to creep inside of a sleeper's head.
More will be revealed in time.
I want to say thanks for these two chapters specifically.
I'm always grateful for more Chase, but seeing something like this be done well is a rare find.
5374028 Basically
Its a land of magical talking pastel colored ponies.
Therefore
MAAAAGIIIIIC
can you stop trying to attach your headcanon of magic to KUDZU's story. Its his and he can do whatever the hell he likes with it, and make up whatever rules he wants. Magic isn't even real goddam it, stop trying to explain it within your own headcanon with fancy words and just accept that your interpretation of magic is not the important one here