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oh god I just setup a spa episode what's wrong with me
But more seriously, apologies for the wait. I'm hoping to be posting more regularly once again. Right now, it's time for a little lull in the adventuring as everyone rests, recovers, and finds what kinds of trouble they can get into in a nice town (Looking at you, Sickle), but they'll be out in the field again soon enough.
7543275 Keep it up!
I just finished chapter 17 moments before you posted this one, so I can't wait to get started here. I read the original Fallout Equestria just so I could appreciate and understand The Chrysalis.
I love how you portray changelings; I am just curious about the little differences between the all-female drones here versus the fairly-male version of Nictis' hive. Was there a set FOE canon you wanted to follow, or did your own headcanon change a bit?
Awww. Sickle opening up and being nice...r. Relaxing times. SPA SESSION! But I must defend Dazzle, because there ain't nothing wrong with sleeping with Sickle, and defend Sickle cus she's one of the hottest flanks around. And boy, do I want to see how Whisper infiltrates and kills, Hitman-style!
Okay, a new update. I'll have it read with the last one scince reading another Fallout Equestria is eating my time...
Oh shit yes update I love this story
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Thank you!
Yeah, I made each of those story-settings different. I'm not following any particular changeling rules from another story, so much as a slight evolution and alteration from my previous story.
The most significant change was simply toning down the emotion sensing from Nictis/Sky's stories, as it's a very powerful ability, and while it makes sense for them to sense what they feed on, there's no indication that changelings in the show can sense other emotions. I also altered the sexes; while the common changelings in Without a Hive are male, I went off real-world social insect biology to make them female in The Chrysalis (And also removing the middle-ground Princesses in the process). This actually took the changelings in The Chrysalis a bit further from my headcanon for changelings in the show, as I'd gotten the impression the non-Queen changelings we had seen were male (And Thorax confirms that at least some of them are). So I've basically got three different, mutually exclusive headcanons.
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She even got Sickle to clean up a little, so she can't be all bad!
For now, I've been assuming that Sickle's name actually is Sickle, and her talent is smithing farming tools.
7543452 This chapter was very fun to read, and certainly interesting to see sickle sorta letting down her guard in some manners for whisper, and just whisper. But everyone is sorta showcasing the nuances here. Though Im curious if what im thinking is going to happen here.
Where's the sex tag when you need it. So much teasing in this story.
Should start calling you Cock Blockula
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Heh! Well, I don't plan for this story to go far enough to warrant the Mature/Sex tag combo, though I'm sure Sickle will probably try to push it as hard as possible
Anyone wanna take a bet that Dazzel turns out to not be a changeling? Because as awesome as that would be, I don't think our Dear Author would want to end the journey with: 1, A battle between two changelings of opposing hives in the middle of a settlement, or 2, Whisper finally finding a changeling.
Again that comes up.
She's a changeling.
I'm getting the impression that it's used for identification. You probably need to respond with other Elements. Or perhaps the names of the bearers? It wouldn't be hard to work them in. "Yeah, you really worked your Magic. It's amazing how rare Honesty is in trading." The fact you've capitalized them makes it even more obvious.
Dazzle is giving the vibe too. Whisper seems to have noticed a similarity between her behaviour and what I'm betting is changeling training. I'm doubtful the town is all changelings but I get the impression that those 2 are.
Hmm, interesting chapter. A tiny bit more info on Sickle, curious behavior of some ponies...
In regards to Dazzle possibly being a changeling: Sickle did seem a bit too hung over the morning after, but on the other hand, she's Sickle.
Also, yeah, you just set up a spa episode. In the post-apocalypse. I'd say that's an achievement.
Ready to take bets on Dazzle not being a changeling. Definitely strikes me as just a really sex-minded soul, or a would-be manipulator of some kind. Either way, I'm really looking forward to seeing what happens with this "spa episode" coming up, haha.
Either way, I just loved this chapter!
TFW you come back from a big haul, and suddenly you're the wealthy badass of the wasteland that buys out entire stores.
Not that they needed to. Emerald is already trying pretty hard to change her name to Monty Haul.
I was worried they would be passing through that outpost again. Can't remember the name. They packed up and left early after a cold reception last time. A revisit would probably be even less friendly.
I remember my first time playing Pokemon Go...
Slice of life like this ones are what make good fics into great one
Also the subtle spicy touches here and there without getting explicit is a very nice perk :)
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The Elements get capitalized in these cases because they're actual names. It's not just "showing kindness", it's "following in the spirit of the Element of Kindness." (Or at least that's how Whisper hears it, so that's how she's narrating it)
Which isn't to say anything to deny or confirm your theory, naturally
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Hehe! The greatest joy of writing a changeling story: watching all the speculation about who else is secretly a changeling!
(Everypony's a changeling! )
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Yeah, the hive's armory was basically a treasure trove. An untouched repository of weapons, ammunition, and equipment. It's the kind of place you'd love to find in one of the games! Except they're already pretty well-equipped, so it's really just a bunch of ammo and some more guns I'll never use because I got the best one a couple hours in.
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Ah, yeah, World's End. They figured it was better to just avoid the place after how things went last time.
And man, I hadn't thought of Pokemon Go, but that's a pretty amusing comparison! Now it's making me wonder what kind of AR games you could do with a PipBuck's EFS...
7544720 To be fair I had a suspicion about it being a sign during the last visit. They also seem to be trying very hard to cultivate whatever good happy emotions they can in that place without coming across as an easy target.
7543275 Sickle will be fine, it's Dusty I'm worried about, this time. he seems to be a bit more aggressive than usual.
I barely read any pony fanfiction at all nowadays, and yet I check this site daily just for this fic. Great chapter as always.
I, for one, will join the camp of "They're not changelings" speculators. I can already see the dumbstruck Whisper walking out of the door after a good spa session with no incidents whatsoever, which she'd spent tense and expecting something that never came.
And for the record, I was listening to this when reading. Makes for some great music in such a slow, relaxing chapter.
7543452 Now that you mention Thorax, I wonder if Whisper would be able to long-distance sense major sources of love (not that there are any left) like Thorax does in the show. It's what drew him to the Empire, as he says, though he didn't know anything about the Crystalling.
I have only read the original FOE and am now current with The Chrysalis, but I wonder if the Crystal Heart and/or the Empire itself survived. I imagine the Heart was likely either the inspiration for the creation of love crystals (Whisper's hive does called the large one 'the Heart' after all), or the other way around... maybe ancient Crystal Ponies stole the tech from early changelings? Now I wanna read that fic... I am sure someone has already written it.
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I hadn't considered it, but now that you mention it, it does fit pretty well! Whisper had noted how she could sense the "feeling" of love that permeated pony towns before, and how most of the world was lacking that, now. Love can "flavor" an area (Whisper compared it to living near a bakery).
I like the idea of the Crystal Empire and the Crystal Heart as the first megaspell. It fits so well with how megaspells work, and being a megaspell, gives a good reason why a changeling might sense the love in it from much further away.
Ah, and there's one of the great questions of the setting. It's unanswered by the original for the same reason changelings aren't addressed (Namely, they hadn't been introduced in the show by the time the story was finished!), but that means the side-stories have all sorts of freedom to do what they will.
Since Whisper is in the opposite end of Equestria, she's probably not going to find out anything about the Crystal Empire's fate. Judging by the weather we saw when the Crystal Heart shattered, it might be extremely hard to reach, lost behind deadly arctic storms. So maybe it's still a complete mystery! Though just as a fun note, Crystal Life Technologies was started in the Crystal Empire.
As for the Crystal Heart and love crystals... well, I picture them as being the same color as the crystal heart, if that says anything! I didn't describe their color in their first appearance because of the monochrome lighting at the time, but maybe I should slip that in. And I'm leaning more toward love crystals being inspired by the Crystal Heart in this story, but I could probably go either way.
She's come back to that point several times now. Almost like she's setting up to eat her words.
Seems pretty darn likely to me. As the Fallout loading screen loves to remind us, ghouls aren't actually zombies, just terribly decayed beings. So the ability and emotional hunger aren't just going to disappear.
In my mind, there's a difference between being a raider and a Raider. Sickle was a raider, a terrible criminal, but something made her renounce that. To be a Raider, capital R, is to be too far gone to ever be anything else.
That lone Raptor clearly has a Hero Character assigned to it, boosting its stats!
This is somehow much more believable knowing the changeling can actually shapeshift into rocks.
I have decided that Dusty is voiced by Freddie Prinze Jr. using his Kanan voice.
Cha-Ching! Hey! I can run again!
Ah! She said it!
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Although the rules are slightly different with the whole magic thing; in Fallout: Equestria, it seems ghouls don't have to eat. But at the same time, they can eat if they want to, and the feral ones really want to.
Heh, that certainly does help, but this bit actually came much earlier. The very first time we saw changelings, an armored changeling shapeshifted into a pony without armor.
Also of note was that every changeling that changed into Applejack also created a hat and hair-ties to supplement their disguise!
I couldn't resist!
I love your writing and work so much I keep wanting to comment on every chapter, but know it would just eventually turn into a stream of adjectives about how great you are, so just assume that I posted a comment to that extent from now on. :)
7543293 Me too. When I red the orginal, I understood so much more of Chrysalis.
Anyways, now I am back to the read.
Okay, back to Whispers crew. I kinda hoped they keep the Power Armour for Dusty or Starlight. They have so much guns so they could afford some repairs.
As for the Dazzling situation... I think it's Emerald beeing a changeling and Dazz is checking ponies for beeing bugs for her. It would be the most sneaky possibility: Give us a dilema abaut a character and then the huge reveal that we weren't looking in the right place...
Hmm, I'm not usually one for speculating, but going back and re-reading the previous Gemstone chapters and this one, there's definitely a lot of tiny hints that something is up with Emerald. I'm liking the Emerald-is-a-changeling theory, but it doesn't quite explain Dazzle's behavior. Then again, we haven't seen the two of them in the same place, have we?
Well that was certainly.......uuuuuhm, that uh, that happened.
I laughed at the "chat" sickle had with whisper.
"Something happened" = sickle stops being a raider...... it all makes sense now! It's like my eyes are opened to a world of knowledge that lay deep within the bowels of my mind, truly, a deep descusion between those two. Mmmmmhmmm!
...........no seriously, that was it!? "Something happened"???
You're toying with me aren't you, phoenix.
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Sickle's just a chatterbox, ain't she?
But don't worry, this wasn't the part I was telling you about. There's more to come in the next couple chapters.
7550767 *waggles hoof at you* theeeere better be....
7543709 First of all, great chapter.
Second, I have noticed that Sickle is acting like a player. Broken bone? Shot? Meh, there is still a lot of hp left. It'll heal.
Chems? All of them!
This story is SO AWESOME!!! I've been looking for a good changeling FoE story and I found a GREAT one! Keep up the good work! <3
I love little lines likes these that cast such big shadows. Really makes me sad the next chapter button is missing.
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Me too
Next chapter should be within the next week or so. I shouldn't have any more month-long stretches without new chapters. I am starting up classes in a couple weeks, but hopefully that won't impact my writing too much.
Can't wait for more chapters.
And crude as she may be, Sickle is certainly the most curious character in the bunch.
Just finished reading up to chapter 18 and now I can't wait till the next chapter is out.
7567394 Well, what are the classes; what's the major?
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Computer science. Lightish load this term, just some math and some CS. You know, fun stuff.
7594699 As a biomed engineer student, I know a fair deal about "fun stuff."
But I don't think I have it in me to be CS.
Another great chapter. the reason I love this story so much is the character interaction. my favorite character is still Sickle. By the way now that Sickle has had a bath ......... I am very interested in her back story. I also like how that you have Starlight but head with Sickle but you don't make so that Starlight completely right and Sickle is wrong. Sickle is very abrasive and crude but she is very real especially in a environment like the waste land.
If there's something in there draining love, then your small symbolic contribution to the heart of the hive was even more of a complete and utter waste, y'know.
At least you know it wasn't the heart, or else that would have been glowing.
Yuuup, that's where I'd put my bets, too.
We're all curious there, but... Sickle's completely right, lol.
Ah. Family. Now there's a hint.
Huh. Civil war? The remains of the Enclave fighting over the last pieces of covered sky?
Though, what made that cloud cover useful was mostly the ability to farm on it, and it were the SPP towers which allowed doing that. Given the fact the local tower blew up, there shouldn't be much value to this particular area of clouds.
Something tells me it was dead before it had even hit the ground...
Yup. Falling debris, not enemies.
I can understand changelings being a bit queasy about hiding a knife in their gut
Hehe. Yes, she is
Kinda what I said from the start, yes
Soft pony bodies are good for hugging!
I think Sickle will see that as an invitation to find out when she gets off duty.
Energy Weapons Specialist is Not Impressed
Oh, wow! You 're a proper Stable Pony, now, Starlight!
Ahh, EFS. Can make you look like a madpony.
Emerald truly is a gem.
SATS cheating in hoofball, here we come!
Both of them? Ehh. That gesture kinda puts all her weight on the other pony.
Augmented Reality, ladies and gentlecolts!
Just, y'know... make sure to disable those stupid color tint filters they usually include with it
Pfff
Oh myyy~!
Haaa! She actually did it. Sickle got lucky!
A decidedly pink pony, even
Cleanliness is a fetish now? Well, allright, Sickle, if that's what you want to believe :p
Oh gods. Are they going to have to live through a week of nightly visits from Dazzle?
Not to mention, getting used to the usual filthy Sickle again, afterwards
At least that's mostly water
Emerald is not used to such... direct... clientèle
Ohai, Metro 2033
Heresy!
Everyone knows these clipboards are completely indestructible
Oh boy
Yeeah, hanging out with her does mean inevitably seeing part of your shared loot wasted on booze and drugs, hehe.
The good news is, your broken leg is healed. The bad news is... you got two more legs to break now. And they're kind of growing out of the place where your leg was broken.
So, no protection for the whole barrel? It's... kind of a pony's center of mass
Oh here we go, lol. She'll turn you into a lesbian horse yet
Drill Instructor Changeling: "Points docked for shapeshifting, Whisper! Too close to Uncanny Valley. Remember, never look too perfect! It doesn't work; it just weirds them out!"
Drill Instructor Changeling: "See? You're raising suspicion, infiltrator!"
Well that explains a lot, lol.
I assume Emerald also spoke well of their current financial situation?
Remarks and corrections:
> How likely do think it is that they would survive two hundred years
Missing word: "How likely do [you] think"
> Do you actually do anything other than lay around on that wall
"[lie] around"
> Emerald chuckled and placed her hooves firmly on Starlight’s shoulders
Both of them? Ehh. That gesture kinda puts all her weight on the other pony. Doesn't seem like a friendly gesture, and more likely to push the other onto the ground. Not to mention pony shoulders barely stick out to the sides in the first place, so you can't really push onto them from the front. Some things just don't translate well to pony physiology once you think about them for a moment
I'd personally replace it by placing a hoof on her chest.
> Well, good morning sleepyheads.
Comma before "sleepyheads"; it's an addressing term.
> Best I could do is part it out, I’m sure some of the internals
Comma splice. Split that into two sentences.
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Yeah, the last time Whisper shifted with a piece of metal inside her, it didn't go so well.
Since they'd just been hugging, I kind of imagined them as both sitting (Otherwise Starlight would have been putting her whole weight onto Emerald right before that), though I suppose I didn't explicitly state that. And by 'on' I was thinking more like on the sides of the shoulders rather than the top. Kind of the parental "I'm so proud of you" sort of gesture.
Don't worry, her great grandmother installed a full mod set! I'm sure some of them might be a teensy bit out-of-date by now and didn't account for the new Changeling Times DLC, but hey, what's the worst that could happen?
Hey now, if Dazzle has some bizzare fetish for mares that aren't covered in filth, who are we to judge? I think Sickle was very tolerant of Dazzle's deviance. Well, as long as she spent enough time between Sickle's hind-legs.
Heh! I actually hadn't thought of that one, but that works, too! Actually, I was thinking of how ammunition, especially certain kinds of ammunition, were basically treated as caps by many players in Fallout 3, non-hardcore NV, and pre-survival-updated 4. Especially in 4, I found 5mm far more useful as spare change than I did as ammo
I was so tempted to make some joke about that!
Hrm? From everything I've found, the barrel is the part of the body between the forelegs and the hind-legs (Also referred to in places as the belly), but her armor covers the entire abdomen and chest (Except where necessary to allow the forelegs to move), which would include the barrel.
*grumbles* It worked just fine two hundred years ago...
Yeah, maybe time to adapt a little, Whisper.
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Oh, yes. It works, like that.
Ah, I kinda just thought of the underside when you said "belly"... It felt odd to protect that but not the rest of the whole barrel. The word "belly" definitely doesn't bring to mind something protecting the top (her back) too, for one thing.
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Oh, absolutely, the belly gives the impression of the underside. That's why I wrote "abdomen" in the story, instead
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Ah. Right
...which is exactly what should be "barrel" for ponies, mind you
Channeling or not chnagelings? A lot of debate here. I never suspected Emerald, honestly. But I'm all over Dazzle... as knowing about changelings and suspecting Whisper. That talk about her perfection, and the stiff response Whisper gave? I'm predicting knowledge of, and prejudice toward, changelings.
But then, I probably just think that because it would be interesting.
Um...define "clean"
We talking Cloud Kicker cleaning?
Or normal cleaning?
I don't know about you, but I would trust Dazzle just about as much as I would trust Diaries Colgate with my teeth.
She is define tell no Lotus, and something tells me her lies couldn't be any more high if they were red kites flagging in the air.
I mena...seriously?
I would define tell be wary of letting her hooves anywhere near me.
and at her own place? Pffft, yeah. Nothing at all can go wrong in her own swelling.
Nope. Not at all.
Perosnally, tjough, I would definetelly be asking Emerald about the nebulous and salacious pursuer who just magically popped up while I were eating.
red flags glaore!