Blackjack, an incompetent security mare from the dystopian Stable 99, suddenly has her monotonous life turned upside down when the stable is invaded by vicious raiders. Blackjack flees the stable with EC-1101, with the wasteland in hot pursuit.
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7176454 Hinds is helping me upload a whole bunch today
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for some reason I was under the impression that this was complete.
Three new chapters. ...?
Ok..?
Time to hunker down.
See ya soon. Hopefully. ..
I will now Retreat to my room to read.
Somber do you know any audio book version of your work?
Also thanks for building on such an amazing world making it even better.
7176584 Well, there are different kinds of "complete."
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There was CrazedRambling, who did through chapter 21.
Currently, Visualpony Thenarrator is working on it, and has chapters 1 - 53 available free on YouTube, with at least several more in the works, it seems.
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There is 77 chapters and an epilogue so yea
7176983 The epilogue is soooooo GOOD SO STORY SO YES
Gooood grief, what a firestorm of awesome this is, hahaha!
Awesomely done man, awesomely done!
Loving how this is going
Project Horizons started me on a path to discover how fucked in the head I am.
I love you.
then raced
Blackjack got another upgrade it seems.
I had a weird thought... Deus/Doof's original cutie mark was a fork and knife, right? Is he supposed to be the same pony as Truffle Shuffle?
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Because if so, that makes the whole thing even more depressing...
>the saddest part of this whole chapter for me is the authors note about going to unicon
rule number one in the wasteland. when the tank with an enemies mind is suddenly deciding it wants to be on your side and follow you around and more or less help ya... dont question it. ever. period.
rule number two, all ya need is the first rule.
rule number three: say yes already and get yourself a tank friend that used to be fricking DEUS EX/DOOF GOSH DANG IT BJ!!!!! JUST!!! DO!!!! IT!!!!! NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!
Trixie... er the Goddess did something to Blackjack, but exactly what I can't tell, though, I can tell her memory has been altered. Also I censored the line... for whatever reason I dislike using swear/cuss/curse words, unless in a story.
I'm looking forward to the next chapter, and if my hunch is correct Littlepip makes a return in the story, since she has the black book. A trip to Maripony should come shortly. Until the next chapter. ^^
The fact that Blackjack keeps witnessing things, only to have her memory wiped, really feels like cheating on the author's part. It feels like they decided to write in first person limited omniscience, but then realized that world building would be easier if they had chosen third person multiple, or first person omniscient, or even third person omniscient. The result is that Blackjack witnesses things that she's not allowed to know in the story, only to immediately forget, as a way to maintain POV while providing even more exposition to the reader. It smacks of having one's cake and eating it too, and it's to the story's detriment, in my opinion.
Acid?
Oh boy, plus three Diamond Tiaras. <.<
Y'know, I was kind of miffed by the identity of the Dealer being someone's fucking Deadlands PC, but listening to him talk about himself, it seems perfectly in his character to be the kind of person who, given the chance, would disguise himself as the much-cooler character he once played. What a loser. :V
So, what's a "Tokomare"? I tried looking the word up to see what it might be a reference to, and all I got was wiki entries for this fic. XD And am I supposed to make the connection that that team's zebra was the same one who cursed the Marauders?
The dream scene with Psalm and Garnet is on my list of favorite parts of this fic.
And is the description of the Goddess's form meant to invoke that of Satan from Dante's Inferno? Because that's what it reminded me of, at least.
Oh yeah, and I almost forgot to say: Horse is one of the most punchable villains in this story, good job. But I swear to god, if he gets any sympathy before he dies, I'm adding you to that list. >:B
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I've always figured Tokomare is a play on tokamak, a fusion reactor design.
As for Horse, I guess it's the power of writing a smarmy creep wannabe. There may have been some more hatable characters for me, but he was certainly up there, and was a slower build to it.
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Frankly, I'm just horrified that he's walking around an expo where the actual Sweetie Belle is with his goddamn Sweetie sexbot. I can't wait to see how he dies. Assuming he does. :V
7950961 it's a reference to new vegas if you have a high enough science skill when you first talk to the greeter at the strip gate you can get in for free but you need 80 science skill though
Dues. Blackjack. Rampage. ???. Gorgon. Dead. Steelhooves. Assassinated...Dealer.
Your right. We have the whole team now.
How sad.
I think the saddest fate was Jestream though. Driven all the way to Happyhorn. Her psyche scarred by her inability to let Stone go. And getting stuck in the past, while living in the present.
Mind frayed and forever destroyed.
I can't imagine a worse fate.
Doof got turned into a "God of pain and misery".
I don't even know what's going on with Psalm, but I'm guessing its a soul thing.
Rampage has Twist in her, along with her gilrfreind Shuja.
Stonewing was pronounced dead. Then fused with a cockatrice.
Vanity...died. (curse thee, Blueblood!)nopony likes Blue. Its a fact.
Applesnack is busy lugging around with Pip, correcting the Rangers and waiting to get his head lopped off by a hellhound.
Big Mac was assassinated by zebras
And Echo...I honestly forget what Echo did, but now I guess we know what happened to em'?
This has to be the single funniest scene in the entirety of Horizons. No joke, this is the shit right here.
What in the world, Rose?
You go from the perfect gardening trio to cultivating souls and necromantic rings?
Weird...
So we finally got to see what the Goddess looks like.
How creepy.
Just imagine that massive blob of consciousness trying to grab you.
Eww...
I wonder though...what did she do to Blackjack?
Kinda seems like a memory wipe of sorts.
But then...she pretty much is a massive memory orb.
Please, I need to know what happens to Rainbowdash. It's assumed she died but she was chased by Gilda.
I just gotta come out and say this. Lighthooves is a bastard, Steel Rain is an asshole, but The Goddess is the biggest fucking bitch in this whole story!
In fact the only thing that kept me from deliberately skimming any time she showed herself after HighTower was the deep desire to to see the end result of events regarding her. In an extremely metaphysical sense I just want to scream 'suck it bitch!' when she blows up in the Balefire blast thanks to LittlePip.
Sorry if that's a bit harsh, but i have this 'pressure point' (i refuse to use the word 'triggered') when it comes to minds being manipulated.
so now she looks more like the character in this video:
Oh my god Dealer is basically Echo's DnD character, that is amazing XD
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It's also from the incredible and means ice cream when converted to normal English
That's creepy....😨😨
This reminds of an anime
I like blackjacks zebra legs alot better. I'm worried with how much more metal is going into her body now
Almost an Incredibles reference
Damn wonder if Blackjack will regain her knowledge once the goddess dies. Also if Twilight is a part of the goddess did she split her soul into another Alicorn to listen to Pinkie Pie's message? I really hope she at least gets to meet her great great great.... granddaughter.
The Goddess did something to Blackjack at the end and, unlike most of the other times, we as readers don't get to see what it was. Whatever I am imagining happened there is probably way worse that what it actually was.
Not knowing sucks.
I expected The Goddess to make Blackjack pee herself there. I believe that's something she'd do. Blackjack wouldn't be able to explain herself.
I wonder if Boo can see The Goddess in Blackjack.
“Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.” - Friedrich Schiller
Ok, I just said that Goldenblood wasn’t a blow up the world kind of villain. And now JUST ONE CHAPTER LATER he’s already trying to prove me wrong. But, I still think this doesn’t quite add up. SOMETHING else is going on here.
Corrupted Kindness!
Hello darkness, my old friend
I’ve come to talk to you again
It’s you!!!
Well… she died horribly all right…
I had this scene built up my mind well ahead of this point. She was supposed to be Ahuizotl 2.0. The perfect villain I could laugh at as she dies with zero guilt. But that didn’t happen. I made it to this point and was just really upset. I thought, “let’s just push on, the chapter’s almost over.” But I COULDN’T! I couldn’t concentrate on the story. I had to stop and collect myself before finishing. But why? To answer that, I think we will need some context. And for that, we need to go all the way back to Hippocratic Research…
It’s funny how much the smallest detail can change our perceptions. When I first read this, I felt something unexpected. Looking upon the scene of the two brothers embraced in death, I felt sad. Just a little. I mean, these were really bad ponies. Their company was engaged in absolutely monstrous experiments for years. They were shipping an incredibly dangerous substance to the far corners of Equestria. They had zero regard for the welfare, no, the very lives of their employees. They died, surrounded by their ill-gotten gains, attempting to flee to a life of luxury while leaving their employees hanging. And yet, seeing how they seemingly took comfort in each other at the end, I could imagine they weren’t 100% monsters. They each cared about somepony other than themselves, even if it was just their brother. And that sign of just the tiniest sliver of equinity within them was enough to make me sad at the sight of their corpses. I almost commented on this back then. But in the end, I didn’t because I was ashamed. They were horrible monsters, how could I possibly show any empathy to them, especially for such a trivial reason??!?? So I said nothing.
Ahh, Brass. I had such high hopes for you. You were the proto-Ahuizotl. You were the first villain in this story who had zero fucks to give about being sympathetic or making excuses for your actions. It was going to be so fun to cheer for your demise. I had certain expectations for your death scene. Mainly that you would be defiant to the end, like a proper villain…
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You were NOT defiant to the end!
This time I wasn’t sad. I was MAD! I was FURIOUS! She was the perfect villain. Perfect. In. Every. Way. And right at the very end, you ruined her! How dare you!!! It’s ok though. I was able to work through my anger in a way that let me continue the story. I put together an outline in my head for an AU fanfic where Brass actually kills Blackjack here, takes her PipBuck, and becomes the Queen of the Wasteland. But that’s another story…
So getting back to Garnet. She is easily one of the most hateable characters in the entire book. She may not have caused the Apocalypse herself, but her actions directly contributed to hundreds, thousands, possibly even millions (if one of my theories is correct) of additional unnecessary deaths. Some of these deaths seem to have not even been in service to some greater scheme, but were just to satisfy a petty grudge, like the mob she roused against Blueblood. And while it hasn’t been explicitly revealed yet, I suspect that the “prisoner rescue mission” she sent Jetstream on was actually using Jetstream to trigger a megaspell within Roam. And every fucking time she appears she is just so Goddesses damned SMUG! The end of the world didn’t slow her down one bit. Her only goal was to “live like a god” while everypony else died. And as her situation became desperate, she even murdered Onyx so she wouldn’t have to share any more supplies with her.
So after all that, she should be another Ahuizotl, right? I should be pumping my fist and cheering as she gets “owned” by Psalm, right? Well maybe I’m a hypocrite, or maybe I’m just crazy, but no. I was left feeling sad and just agitated. A terrible, uneasy feeling that this was just horrible, and nothing more.
Partially, I feel this is due to a sense I get that here, at the very end, it was finally dawning on her just how bad a pony she had been. She was always the kind of pony to be pulling strings from the shadows. She definitely never got her own hooves dirty. I think it’s possible that now, surrounded by piles of corpses and battered by deadly radiation even on a remote mountaintop, the monstrosity of her actions became real to her in way it never had before. To be clear, I admit I might be reading more into this than is actually there. But I think her final monologue has hints of guilt and horror at what she had done, and her final plea to Psalm to kill her was not simply, as a more cynical pony might think, a wish to escape from her physical suffering, but rather a desperate attempt to receive judgement from somepony, anypony.
With all that being said, a part of me still hates myself for feeling this way. Ultimately, Garnet was a horrible monster. She doesn’t deserve empathy, or forgiveness, or mercy. But reading her last lines, I can’t help feeling awful. Perhaps it’s true what they say…