This story is a sequel to Fallout Equestria: Night of the Loving Dead
To some, the Day of Sunshine and Rainbows had a different name. Because, when LittlePip destroyed the cloud cover, all those vegetables from the Enclave cloud farms had to come down somewhere.
Written for the Fallout: Equestria group's collab of January 2016.
This story features some characters that readers may remember from my main Fallout: Equestria story, The Daily Unlife. Be warned; this story contains mild spoilers about the end of The Daily Unlife.
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...Huh. That... Huh.
I'm not entirely sure how I feel about this story, but whatever the details, I enjoyed it. :)
I gather that this is also canon to The Daily Unlife?
I've heard of life giving people lemons. But I never thought life would give a Lemon a whole slew of turnips.
Interesting story, certainly all that food wouldn't just disappear. That being thought of though, there probably was a lot more then just produce in the clouds that would be set free.
Though on that thought, it always made me wonder how a successful society could thrive in the clouds, their would have had of been a way to have some solid things to not fall though the clouds. But in what way? Unicorn enchanted objects? Items made by Pegasi that permanently imbue their magic in an item?
It's the little things that make a story. The little, falling, edible things.
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Yeah, I guess this is more or less a sequel-ish thingy, but in all fairness, the TDU cast's role in this wasn't too great, hence why I didn't tag it as sequel. It just gives a little insight in what that crowd will be doing during the whole mess with LittlePip. There may be more like it later; the FO:E group's collabs really got me writing again
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The original story says that the SPP towers granted the Enclave the ability to do cloud seeding. Those towers weren't made by just pegasi, though; they undoubtedly included unicorn magic as well. But since the Enclave just hacked into them rather than actually possessing the control center, they couldn't do nearly as much with them as they wanted. I imagine pegasi themselves have some kind of basic magic to make stuff not fall through clouds, mind you. Wouldn't be very handy to have cloud cities without that ability even back in the FiM days.
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Sooo many falling things
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Ah, nice to hear it. :)
And thanks for the information, of course.
6935859 All those things falling from the sky and most will most likely be fearing just the Raptors and other big stuff that isn't totally made of clouds.
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Heh, yea. Ditzy Doo took out one of these huge cloud ships with one sonic rainboom. Fairly sure these things won't have survived the whole place getting sonic rainboom'd.
Ya, those will be falling down somewhere as well, I guess
6936014 It really does make you wonder what would be the worst falling from the sky?
The large cloud stripped cloud ships and large equipment that you can see coming or the small things that you wouldn't notice heading to you until it was too late. Some would probably think the Raiders would be walking through all the potential weapons falling from the sky as if it was cool refreshing rain on a very hot day... Though in reality, even small stuff would probably hurt from falling from such a height.
In the Wastelands, you never know what might turnip.
There really isn't enough written about actual food-crop farming in the Wastelands. There have to be some areas where wartime toxins didn't pollute the soil and the water badly enough to make farming impossible, and people would pay top prices for fresh vegetables after living on 200-year-old canned stuff. You could probably pay hired guards with crop shares.
6936374 There are places. Just logically not in Equestria or the Zebralands.
Nice job, Nyerguds. Enjoyed the story.
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My main story, The Daily Unlife, actually goes into that stuff quite a lot. One of the communities the protagonists meet is specifically set in the least irradiated area around, and another is trying to get a reliable food source after their farming operations failed due to some kind of poison in the soil.
In fact, I think I go deeper into that aspect with absolutely every community they meet.
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Thanks
6938147 Yep, it was my reading Daily Unlife and Day of Cabbages that led to my making that comment. I appreciate writers like yourself, who have worked to create a plausible economic base for a civilization in the Wasteland.
Of course given that the Fallout series are games, one doesn't find much sign of "The Dismal Science" during one's adventures.
Lemon Frisk... Equestria answer to cave johnson?
6936014 Well... the ships would probably mostly dissipate, unless they were held together by magic, and then the would crash like you said. Well... I guess the one that Ditzy destroyed crashed... so... I guess that you're right after all...
6936097 Where do they put their waste?
Thank about all the poison, acid, chemical waste, magical waste, organic waste, pointy things, and explody things that would fall...
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No. And he's sick of that joke. And yes, him being sick of that joke is officially canon in TDU.
Always one step ahead of you people
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I'm fairly sure that, given the fact they never, ever went below the clouds, the Enclave was really big on recycling. Especially organic waste. You need more than just water to grow plants, y'know.
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Well first off... Trotway! Boo, booo, boooo!
Also... burning a house down is comedy in Equestria fallout edition? Boy, i though the original had dark humor....
I would think exploding produce would sort of be a viable option considering the weird shinola radiation and mega spells can pull.
Never mind unicorn and earth pony magic... damn it, now I want to see those stupid pea shooter thingies from mario bros in FE.
And the enclave being ravaged by the powers of swing
This sounds very familiar... We discussed this before, didn't we? I can't quite place when, though - comments on your story or mine, or something like that.
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I've mentioned it a couple of times before, yes. Never really intended to turn it into a story, but then this prompt was picked for the FOE group's monthly collab, and I just couldn't resist
6947294 Fair enough!
6941751 Well, what I meant it that it has to go somewhere, and I would expect no less than recycling their waste. However, it doesn't instantly transform into fertilizer... well I suppose that it could with magic... Boy I wouldn't want that job. No one would ever go out on a date with me if I smelled like that after coming back from work.
In the case that they treat it like we would, or more efficiently, but with out magic none the less, then it would take some time for it to become fertilizer. And there would be plenty of it still there to fall.
It could even still stink, even when it is fertilizer. Maybe they just go out to the fields to use the restroom.
Of course they don't.
I think that it COULD be a waste for them to have some of their limited number of unicorns spending their days transforming waste into fertilizer, given that they have sufficient means to do it another way efficiently.
Oh that's another thing that would have fallen. Most of the unicorns would have fallen to their death.
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I think only PH had unicorns working for the Enclave... don't think the original story mentions any such thing.
6956644 I don't remember which said what about that.
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She is so very good at pushing his buttons
Very nice and quite original idea well implemented into the story. No dark, no sex. I like it!
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Thanks! Yeah, this was just a quick silly thing
As for those tags... you know, as long as it's rated Teen, "sex" only means it's a thing that is discussed or might happen off-screen, anyway. I've seen quite some authors who just put it on so they can make some slightly more lewd jokes
*Applause*
Cute idea. Good execution. I can see where it could've been taken in a few other directions, but as you stated, you weren't trying to be grimdark.
"Why do we hate the pegasi, Papa?"
"Son, I've been putting off telling you the truth for too long. When you were just a foal, your mother was killed by an Enclave cabbage."
*Foal proceeds to grow up and for inexplicable reasons eventually obtains a cutie mark of a winged cabbage with a sword*
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Well no, this was obvious silliness from the get go
It'd make more sense to blame Littlepip for that, then
Well this was amusing
At first did I think it was a joke, but the more that I thought about the premise, and read those authors words did I realise how big a problem it would be, so all in all was it a serious joke.
I can only say that I would be happy as a wasteland pony that the cloud seeding need so much space to produce food, a fact there are brought up many times, else would the whole of Equestria have trouble with too much rotting and fermenting, (did someone say lots and lots of alcohol?), veggies, and not just the places where the food got stored.
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Betcha the wastelanders would be inventive when it comes to dealing with fermenting stuff
You can has review!
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Much appreciated!
I enjoyed this story. Thanks.
I haven't read FO:E in a long time but I remember things being more "shoot on sight".
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Well, to really grasp Lemon Frisk's mindset on the world you have to read The Daily Unlife...