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If I recall... Cadance married them, so she is all for herds. Which means they can't be there for a Sweep. To help? Maybe. If not... guess it's a march to the Crystal Empire and burn that too.
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Remember, one million bits for booze. Early on in the Isles Arc.
4666847 Ah yes, this alicorn is a pisshead.
I don´t know why, but this chapter dialogues were the most..."fluid" is the right word ? They seem so much more natural then anything else you wrote before in this fic.
Does not get me wrong, i love all the dialogues, booth here and in your other fic´s, but this chapter sounded real, natural, not like something you wouyld expect a charecter to speak. Look, i´m badass, look how badass i talk. Look, i´m lovely, look how lovely i talk. No, here, you can see (well, read, but you got the idea) all the aspects og BUcky...his weakness, his frustation, his doubts, and his interaction with Berry was wonderfull...natural.
Amazing chapter.
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It went through several major revisions. I trimmed away almost 400 words from it.
So thanks! I was worried I might have cut too deeply.
The candance clavary has arrived. I wonder if the new ponies will help with the wolves?
The convoy is gonna help Bucky kill the wolves with fire
Brother!
I never imagined Bucky with a pregnancy fetish, nor that his reasoning behind it is also my own.
Now, if you need me, I'll be in my bunk.
This chapter! Yes! New doors and windows have been open! Carpet bombing! Combined arms! Fetishes! A nice, extremely well written chapter as usual, everything was much smoother than normal, an added plus!
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Hey, pregnant women put out, amiright?
I mean, pregnancy is proof, right?
I keed I keed, please don't lynch me.
I´m reading this over and over, trying to figure out what made the dialogues so good, and I THINK that i may have an answer. You said that you tried to cut down, but, actually, it´s the things you added that made this even better.
See, usually you have a question/asnwer direct pattern. A character question something, another answer, eventuallt there is something added, a comment, a joke. Very straight. But in this chapter you can see booth characters actually in a conversation, not in an interview.
For example:
“So you protect your skin, you eradicate the wolves, remove the threat they pose, Derpy seals whatever deal she has with Thistle, and we can go home, right?” Berry questioned.
“That is the general idea,” Bucky replied, now eyeing the beer in the crude glass he had created. “This batch turned out a toasty red colour,” he commented.
Usdually you would stop on the answer. But then you added a comment from Bucky that it´s not directly related to the question. Very, VERY smooth and natural. I can really see that happening in daily conversattion. Another part that i really loved:
“I know that you big snob,” Berry quipped. “You’ve mentioned wanting to create steel. Look, if I can’t get you inside of me, then I want to be inside of you. Let me inside of your head. I am a big filly, and I am capable of understanding all those big brainy concepts you have floating around between your ears.”
Bucky smiled faintly. “I worry sometimes that you might actually be smarter than I am,” Bucky admitted.
“Oh, I don’t worry about that at all,” Berry retorted. “I already know I am smarter than you are. Which is why you should talk to me. I might not know magic, but I might be able to help you.”
Simple and marvelous.
4667473 Oh, no, the sight of a pregnant woman... It feels like victory, you know?
OMG when Berry said Airship..... Im still a little aroused
I'm assuming something like this....
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But want something more like....
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Great, now I'm imagining this as a RPG.
So, if Bucky is going to enchant the armor to be impervious to the shadows, what's preventing him from taking something like cloth and enchanting it so it's as effective as steel? Combined arms, I shall be back later with my thoughts on that.
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The physical aspect of teeth and jaws that can create 500+ pounds of pressure when they bite.
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Sorry, I didn't phrase that question very well. What's preventing Bucky from enchanting cloth so it had the save physical properties as steel?
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Because the complexity of something like that would likely involve alicorn magic.
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Makes sense I guess.
4668330 same not save, right?
4667473 if it helps i know where the fetish comes from biologically. The human phycology (or pony in this concept) recognises pregnancy as a very important thing, as the pregnant woman is holding the greatest asset to our kind. It comes from way back in our Neanderthal period, where the pregnant needed to be protected with your lives, and its just never really gone away. the attraction can be anything from sexual, to a basic feeling of 'need to protect'
(sorry if any of the spelling is off, its not my strong point.)
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Yep, that's what it should be. swift key is an infuriating blend of convenient and horribly inaccurate. Every time I try to stop using it, I end up going back because it's so quick.
Why not enchant the unicorns to be able to stand on clouds? You don't even need the raid platform to be well lit if the wolves can't stand on it.
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Probably ´cause they´ll need some gear to help accomplish the task, food, water, things like that...
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And what about cloudless nights? And physical supplies?
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Food... oh so much food will be needed to support rampaging unicorns.
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How does Cloudsdale work?
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Probably a lot of complex magic.
Seriously though. There are NO pegasi controlling the weather on the Isles. And clouds do not cover every square inch of sky.
It is just a terrible idea. You'll soon see why.
How come pegasi in Ponyville can control weather but in the Shetland isles they can't ?
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Ponies are too busy trying to survive to have time to do it. The story even states this at one point. Everypony is too busy performing essential tasks to keep living. There isn't enough food or resources to support a weather team.
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It seems like controlling the weather would be an essential task. I mean, we know the unicorns tend to be useless because of the sweeps, but there doesn't seem to be a reason for the pegasi to be useless, and weather is kinda their thing.
Also, throughout the story you've been hinting heavily that the Shetland Isles are Equestria's versions of Scotland and Ireland. And they're islands. In the ocean. Are you suggesting they don't experience much rain?
I live in the Great American Desert, where evaporation is scarce, and even I don't see many cloudless days.
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Clouds aren't sturdy enough to be a weapons platform. Logistically all it can carry are magically enchanted things and personnel. Every spell is a resources that that could have been used for fighting. Also assume there are clouds, having to send out pegasus to fetch them and shape them each night is extra labor. While a mundane conveyance, can be maintained easily, it doesn't require extra effort or resources to prepare, and has various other uses like mounted weapons platform, and emergency evacuation vehicle.
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Baseless speculation. So far the story has done nothing to indicate the qualities of clouds beyond what we've seen in the show, which is part of why I'm asking about them.*
In the show the cloud-walk ability was passive after it was cast, and Twilight specifically mentioned it was an easy spell. I'm curious how significant the drain would actually be, especially compared to some of the magical feats Bucky's already performed.
Seems like less labor than putting together a hot air balloon, and you're presuming they wouldn't just keep the same cloud.
Easier than a cloud? Which doesn't require expensive unicorn magic to maintain, repair, or construct? Which floats anyway?
A hot air balloon doesn't require extra effort or resources to prepare? You're kidding, right? Either Bucky will need to transmute materials for it, which is expensive, or he'll need to requisition materials. A cloud costs nothing.
Perhaps I've forgotten, but aren't the wolves only harmed by light and magic? What could artillery do? And you're presuming they couldn't also get away on a cloud.
*These words have been enlarged, bolded, and italicized so you'll understand they are extremely important.
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A cloud is condensed water vapor, intangible to all but pegasus ponies and anything that has magic cast on it. Even if cloud walking is an easy spell it's not free and it takes time to cast. So any logistical items that might need to be transported, say any armor or weapons, rations, personnel, cold weather gear, protective equipment, artillery (yes it can because even the natives use physical weapons on them so conventional artillery should work, this is assuming Bucky doesn't invent a solar death ray), will have to be loaded each time. This is for several reasons, one the spell does not last forever, second it's a cloud if you leave it alone it will blow away or evaporate during the day, clouds here are STATED BY THE AUTHOR different than back in Equestria following more closely to what we know since it's not controlled. So while Equestrian clouds can be used in construction and are easily manipulated normal clouds would not be, a pegasus would have to constantly have to keep it together physically since normal clouds tend to go as they please.
Unlike a cloud (even if we assume these are happy Equestrian clouds) an airship is tangible and needs no special magic for its passangers. It won't evaporate, and it won't break apart if you stand on it wrong. While clouds are free the parts for an Airship are fairly simple, get a boat. They should have plenty it an island nation ponies need to get around. Then some magic cloth for the gasbag with some rope to keep it all together, Bim Bam Zam, a superior conveyance to the cloud.
Hex 'em from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Though I have to wonder where they'll get a lighter-than-air gas to fill the balloon. Hydrogen could be made from water, but they need to keep the platform well-lit, and unless they want to rely on hornlight, that implies torches...
Or they could go for a hot air balloon, especially given Rising Star's pyromancy. Still, that has its own problems.
In any case, definitely looking forward to more, though I don't expect this plan to survive contact with the enemy. Or Derpy.
Bucky: hey cadence could I borrow that airship
Cadence: why?
Bucky: because we need it to rain down unicorn death on a bunch of fear wolves, and i may need it to perform a getaway if one of derpy's children get hurt
Cadence: yeah right, I'm not getting killed by association!
*cadence leaves with her convoy*
also, if cadence is paying a million bits for all the alcohols in advance, wouldn't that mean Bucky would need to focus most if not all of his time to making the brewery so it can start producing as soon as possible? just wondering.
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Cadance is after whiskey, not beer.
The distillery has been busy, and will be busy for quite some time.
Technically I've been waiting for EVERY chapter (in a good way) but perhaps this next one even more so than the others!
*Bucky has a pregnancy fetish.*
*Hive fives Bucky.*
Well, probably a low five.
4681941 wouldn't it be high 1/ low 1? No fingers?
I think Bucky has found the "good plan" but will execute it along the lines of the "perfect plan"
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What you did there.
I see it.
Hehehehe, another great chapter well done. Airship eh? Hmm... I can't wait to see how they handle this wolf extermination. Hehehehe.
CHARIOTS!
4666840 I love how every solution is burning...
I like you my friend