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Sorry for the delay on this. On the plus side, the wait means the next chapter is already in for editing. Hopefully that won't be too long, so the next chapter might be up soonish.
In other news, I have returned to college! It's only a single class at the moment, so that I'll be a returning student in the fall. I don't think it'll have too much impact on my writing pace, but it'll have to come first, so there's the possibility of delays. Just a heads up, in case things slow down more.
But given how much fun I'm having writing it right now, I don't think you'll have to wait too long.
You've been... featured! Tada!
Okay, given the relevance each bit to the story has been, time to figure if this little bit is triple shifted or double like the last. But we may actually get to see a bit of natural changeling in action.
That sounds like a historical in-joke, a la, the M16 in its early days.
Yes, just a simple, young mare that read books all her life and never left her farm. Dusty has to know she is holding back, big time!
Time to go recheck that cave with the alicorn! Now that all this has happened, one has to wonder which side the pegasi that got shot down were on, and which side still has big guns in the air.
Time for some shapeshifting infiltration shenanigans? Hell yes.
Also, woo, Lil'Pip's story. Should help Whisper catch up on the wasteland a bit.
Excelent, so now we're fully up on the end of FoE, my only problem is with that last bit on how 'Celestia is alive', remember that Little Pip denounced the Celestia in the computer as less than the real Princess, but ignore me, I'm ignorant of what you have planned, so I'll content myself with waiting for you next update
Keep it up.
Honora Imperator
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Pretty much, yeah. Certainly drew some inspiration from that, and gave me a good reason why she'd be aware of the difference. Yay history!
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Whisper doesn't have Littlepip's full story. All she's heard now is what's in the epilogue with DJ Pon3's "two weeks later" broadcast, which was fairly thin on the details beyond "Celestia's alive".
7117281 and this changleling was alive in the days of the war. as such, the princess was still alive then. but enough of me talking here! iv got a chapter to read!!!!
Hmm, and the plot thickens... And not only Celestia's.
great chapter Phoenix_Dragon, can‘t wait for more.
this fic is great! keep up the good work phoenixdragon!!!
Oh, I'm looking forward to this. Time for some tactical espionage action! I've very much enjoyed the "changeling mindset" within the story's narration, but other than that Whisper's been unfortunately limited in showing off her changeling-ness so far.
Great chapter, as always.
well, now we can nail down where this fits into the timeline. I like the idea of somepony getting an arms factory working again.
Hmm... Sickle still kinda passive, I hope she'll get more focus in later chapters.
The best part about super-sleazy NPC overlords is that their bluff checks only work against other NPCs. Gun's getting his soul sucked out if he's lucky.
Epic chapter, loved it. Wants to have whisper meet celestia!
7122565 you have fun posting that story of a review? got more than a few laughs from it. dont find many readers that post such long reviews but they are almost always fun to read.
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Nyergud's comments are always some of my favorites, and I feel a little happier every time I see his name pop up in my feed. It's great to get so much feedback, and he's very good at catching little things that might have gotten overlooked.
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Just finished writing a little thing myself, so now I'm in Reading Mode again. I'll catch up with the last 2 chapters soon
Someone Crack the code in the authors notes! I don't know what to do!
Ahh, nice. Sickle's role in the story is to be the foil of the skilled manipulator. Interesting
Now the real issue: convincing Sickle not to go that same way
Right. The water caravan, of course.
Oh. Right. She kinda started off the same way
Eh. She's not actually hostile to anyone, so I doubt there's much of a problem.
Odd. Those weren't the ones who betrayed them, were they?
Oh, yes
Haaaahaha! Boom, bitch!
Yeeeah... they kinda look like the types that have them, Sickle
Very peculiar. She clearly doesn't trust Bitsy, for some reason.
Wow. They have air support
I'm starting to get the picture here... the whole mess with Silverline and Quicksilver happened because the militia decided to no longer protect the caravans. That's why Silverlight didn't trust them; even if they didn't actually set up the deal with the raiders, they're still responsible.
Hah. Gun and Runner
Yeah, not an ideal situation, to have weapons manufacturers be the ones in charge of protection. I'm fairly sure they'll want to 'urge' ponies to buy themselves some more personal protection
Oh, yikes...
Huh. Wonder what these things use for fuel. Equestria never developed the combustion engine as far as I know, and coal as fuel was probably not used much in anything less large than trains... so, spark batteries?
They must have some kind of power source here anyway, to keep that arms factory running...
Well, yes. That's what got her in that state
Sarcasm! How original! ...
Bureaucratic bullshit? Naw, Dusty doesn't play that game
So... either he's not involved (fat chance), or he's very confident about how well he covered his tracks. Either way, very peculiar.
Or, y'know, he paid these guys to shoot him the first chance they get
(in which case they'll all be glad to keep Sickle along )
Oh, nice. They're catching up
Remarks and corrections:
> between a couple dead logs
> It was just a couple seconds as she breathed in and out
> A couple ponies carried
> It was only a couple minutes
"a couple [of]". You have a bad habit of dropping that 'of', which is just plain grammatically incorrect. Using that in conversation is fine; people just tend to speak spoken language which includes such errors. But you should really endeavour to keep them out of the narration.
> And look me up when you get to town, I'll buy you a drink!
Comma splice. That should be a semicolon between those sentences.
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Hmm. I half expected to find it here already. That doesn't look like Base64, but it does seem like pure ASCII. What really stumps me, though, are the line breaks in it
I'm guessing it's ROT47 with a custom rotation amount, but I can't find any online converters for that...
7140241 I don't know what any of those mean, so I assume it would be pointless for me to make an attempt at translating that.
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I'd been waiting for someone to make note of that.
I've been kind of amused how you'll see skywagons (And even motorwagons) all over the place in a bunch of side-stories, but I can't think of a time I've seen a whirligig outside the original. I'm sure there are a few out there, but it's not something you see much of.
Although I got the impression they were fairly uncommon even in the "old world", and I'm sure the Enclave wouldn't be too happy about any they find flying near the clouds, which might keep the number down.
That's what I've been going with, yeah, since that's what powers skywagons.
It's a bit more complicated than that. A century ago, perhaps, but it's one of those language "rules" that's become more of a style than a hard rule. "A couple of" is following the same evolution that had led to "a dozen of" dropping the "of". It's now a standard use, though less common in formal works. For the most part, though, it's more of a style issue than a hard grammar issue. It's certainly more widely accepted in American English than certain other style choices, such as putting unquoted punctuation outside the quotation marks.
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I don't want to spoiler anything, but I'll save you a little time: it's not ROT47. It's a slightly more complicated method of encoding. But also fairly simple in a way, I guess.
7138935 I mean, I could, but I'm lazy
Also, since I'm here already, I just have a complaint for the future chapters ref server racks. You mention that it would take upwards of an hour to dl and entire server onto some hard disk (Which not only would be impossible bar magic, but would defeat the purpose of the server), but depending on the type, size, and encryption on the server itself, it could actually take days for each server. That being said, most servers of any importance have two or three hard drives as backups of the information (usually hot-swappable), while most of the rack is using some RAID configuration.
That's just the 5 minute note on how servers work in real life, and everything I just said could be overruled with the word 'magic', but I digress;
I am seriously enjoying the story, and look forward to the next update.
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Yeah, but the Fallout series has always had a fairly loose relationship with reality. Even more so when Fallout: Equestria explicitly invokes magic. PipBucks are described as having practically limitless storage (Which I figure probably just means "extremely large" rather than "literally infinite"), and computers are capable of running actual magical spells. At the same time, the data they're handling tends to be extremely basic: text files, the rare audio log, the even more rare video file (I can think of... three?), and maybe some images (Probably CAD-style stuff). The amount of data used is on-par with the vaguely 50's aesthetic of the Fallout series, but it's running on magical computers that, at times, come pretty close to what we have nowadays (PipBucks/Boys are more like late-90's tech, if discounting their more extreme abilities). Even accounting for the dozens or hundreds of users accumulating data, the amount contained on those servers would probably fit in the free space of the drive I'm using currently. Transfer rates appear to be incredibly high compared to data size. The only instance of downloading the contents of a maneframe with a solidly established timeframe (Also one of the very few instances of video) took less than two minutes, and downloading multiple audio files appears take only a moment.
One of the big factors I have to keep in mind when describing computer-related tasks is that these aren't the same computers I'm familiar with, but something that's explicitly magic. It gets... weird at times. It gets even more weird when there's such an extreme leap between one tech generation and the next. Compare the common terminals (Large, bulky machines that tie into a central server to do anything) to the next step, the PipBucks (Small enough to wear and with considerably more capability than those terminals, or even common servers). It makes for a kind of tricky game, trying to do a realistic portrayal of these not-exactly-realistic computers all without contradicting the source material.
It's rather fun, though.
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Hmm. Interesting. Though in reality, the use of "a couple" without the "of" is probably an evolution of going to "a couple 'o' (minutes)", where the 'o' just became silent over time. I still think it looks weird in written language, anyway.
Yeah, one thing I noticed that excludes ROT47 is that the spaces are converted too (I suspect they're the '!' characters, by virtue of being the lowest byte value). I was thinking byte rotation, but that wouldn't guarantee staying within ascii range unless it's a rather low rotation number. And, again, didn't find any tools for that. Might have to write my own if I don't figure it out
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Not byte rotation; it'd be rotated by 1 since these lowest values I suspected to be spaces are byte value 21, while they should be 20. This doesn't make anything readable out of the rest though.
There seems to be a peculiarly consistent pairing of bytes that are about a range of 10 (hex) apart from each other though... high byte, low byte, high byte, low byte... which pretty much excludes simple rotation since it usually throws them into alternating between capital and lowercase letters.
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Oof, I don't envy you if you go that route. Working out this one from scratch would probably be a lot like working out Base64 from scratch.
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Huh. Something like bit shifting over the whole text, then? I'm really curious now, but I honestly can't see anything familiar in there.
The biggest mystery are the line breaks... they just don't fit encoded content like Base64. ROT excludes spaces, but this clearly doesn't, but it does exclude line breaks? Or are that 3 different blocks to decode? The last one is literally a single character. And, if they're actually one block, does it require 2-byte or single-byte line breaks?
I tried http ascii deflate/gzip but it doesn't have any kind of header, so that's a no-go too. Heck, I tried XORing the whole thing with specific values thinking maybe that final line character was some kind of key. I'm gonna need some kind of hint here
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Base64 was a hint. It's not Base64, but it does have some similarities with it, including one that would make solving through substitution a nightmare. Also, the line breaks are something of a distinctive feature of the method used.
And yeah, it decodes to a single "block" of text, though I suppose you could decode each line individually and reassemble it. The type of line break actually doesn't matter; it's not part of the content.
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Oh goddammit. I just got it. Randomly stumbled on a website with a bunch of them
...Sunlight Square? Huh.
7141196 That's entirely fair. All I know is I have an all text server that just so happens to have several terabytes of data on it, and takes something like 2 hours to do a proper backup, let alone file transfer.
And again you're right with the differentiation between tech and magic. I could see that getting really, really fucky if you put to much thought into it.
The only other thing that bothered me about that scene was how fast the password was broken. I know passwords are super easy to do in fallout (and in the real world, if I have access to a physical PC, I can bypass the password in a matter of minutes), but server passwords are a unique beast in the real world, with multi authentication and all kinds of weird shit... seriously, servers are wierd.
(I need to stop writing these before bed so I can have a coherent sentence...)
Cheers,
So what's the thingy at the bottom of this one say? I'm stoopid, I dunno how to do that stuff.
Silverline
Celestia's alive? Well, isn't that all kinds of neat? For how random and specific the moment was, I'm assuming it's something that happened in the original FO: E? I barely got seven chapters in, so I have no ides what happened in that story. I just hope you didn't use FO: E's plot as a crutch.
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It's set in the same universe and I had guessed that this would happen when I heard one of the spires had exploded. Whisper came out of stasis a few months before Little Pip finished up her quest to the north. It'd be pretty hard to use that story as a crutch considering it's mostly over if I'm right but it may mean whisper can be instrumental in the next era of FO:E without even really being a part of the original events.
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We're set for Sunlight Square. See you tomorrow.
Merp a derp! She's a shapeshifter!
I can't tell if they are talking about Project Horizons events or the conclusion of the first Fallout fic.
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"The Day of Sunshine and Rainbows" was Littlepip. I haven't read Project Horizons, so if anything looks like a reference to it, I'm afraid it's just coincidence.
Now THAT was an awesome story.
On the radio I mean. Xd
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Original FoE, although horizons does sort of happen in parallel
I certainly hope to find out what happens with everything at the end since I'm power reading all your works it seems.
Whoop! Little Pip for the win
Thank you, Phoenix.
Thank you for this wonderful story that I have to stop myself from blitzing through in a matter of days.
Thank you for resurrecting a Fallout Equestria fanfic idea from years ago.
Thank you for eating away at all the time I should be using on other things.
Thank you.
I'mma'... just dive right into the next chapter now.
A really really weird, and maybe semi inapropiate, thought just hit me when Silverline saw her husbands corpse, but would Whisper not be able to feel a hint of love towards the deceased? I know that it is macarbre, but each time that I have seen a family member dead have all of my love to them been in the forefront of my thougths. Sure I was sad as well, but my main thought and the thing that I talked with my mother about was the aspects that we loved the most. Maybe is it just my family there have been weird when it comes to death, my wife reacts very different when it comes to the subject for example, but I would expect love to be one of the myriad of feelings that would float around and make a chaos inside of Silverline in that scene.
I see what you did there!
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"and we can get going. You have forgotten an " in the end of the sentence! Biggest typo ever, 1/10 stars would not read again!!1!
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Hmm. I'm going to say she did and Whisper just didn't feel it necessary to note... but if I were rewriting it, yeah, I'd probably want to slip in some mention of that.
I just couldn't resist
Fffffffff...
Given how many little things like this are still in the story, you might not believe how many I had fixed in my editing pass prior to printing. I'm kind of ashamed that so many still exist.
It's been a few years since I first read this, and even longer since I read FO:E...what's this about a still-alive Ministry Mare? About the closest thing I can remember is that Rarity made bobblehead Horcruxes for her friends.
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The radio broadcast they're listening to is the one DJ Pon3 gives in the epilogue of the original story. Among other things, there was a mention of how Fluttershy was turned into a tree, and how they were planning on returning to her and trying to reverse the transformation. So, possibly still living.