The battle of the Hoof ended 9 years ago. For some ponies, the scars are still fresh in the mind. As Threnody, a young heartmender working with the Followers of the Apocalypse will find, sometimes the hardest step is getting a Patient to speak.
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Oooooh, the Dealer returns!
Oh thank goodness! I had worried this poor thing would be canceled.
Man I read this chapter to quick from getting to into it. Need more!!!!
*Sees it got updated*
Me:
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But the dealer died...so...this'll be damn interesting
Dealer time, idiots. Saddle up.
Before I've even made it halfway through the chapter: I want to see Blackjack do terrible, nasty, amusing things to Peculiar. Preferably with a firearm of some kind and his face... Threnody shooting him would be fine too.
At the end of the chapter: I think a truly horrifying death like some of the more gruesome ones in PH would be most excellent, too.
Stable Scout?
Great story, that.
I'm a bit confused about Stable 9. I'm pretty sure that this chapter is the first time it's been mentioned in this story, but Threnody doesn't seem to react as if that's the case. Am I missing/forgetting something?
Otherwise, a good chapter, I thought!
The man hungers... FOR MORE!
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x2 from me...
Period at the end instead of a comma?
Did you mean "why my ears"?
Did you mean "most of what happened"?
Great chapter, really excited for whats to come. I'm also a bit confused in regards to Stable 9, is it in Seaddle? Nice to see that Dealer is also here, considering he is in Homelands also. I also just thought I'd point out some errors, hope it was helpful. Keep up the good work.
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Correction, we thought he died. He is in Homelands so nope, he isn't dead.
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"Why is ears?" Was intended to sound like she was kind of distracted and awake. Edited to add ellipses to try make that more clear. The comma is grammatically correct, and thank you for the catch!
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... Shit. Yes, that's my continuity error. I have Stable 9 listed all over my notes, and somehow I managed to miss it. The intention was... argh, I'll retcon it in 11. XD
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Oh. Haven't gotten to reading that yet.
Just re-read, still awesome. My vib-o-meter has gone from "very sketchy way of paying your workers" and "
whiteunicorn supremacists" to "Nazi Master race bullshit, which can only end well". Am I the only one getting that vib?Rule number, I dunno, 19? Rule number 19 of living in a world where there is magic: Don't you EVER give your blood to a shady character!
Dunno if something bad comes from this or not, just a general rule.
Also, I have this weird feeling that even regardless of the whole blood thing, things will go badly next chapter :/
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Ah. Sorry about that.
Interested to see what you'll do with it in 11, though, instead of changing this chapter.
Whew, what a chapter... and damn do I love the playing card business, oh! I love it! <3
Good show with this, I ponder if they'll be able to help out and not fail.
Probably a bit of both.
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Actually, I have been alluding to Stable 9 all this time. Upon re-reading my story,
yes, I have to do that on occasion, I realised that I had alluded to a heartmender being out farther than the Alicorns could teleport. The 13th Heartmender was mentioned in Velvet's letter to Threnody all the way back in chapter 1. So with the pieces, Threnody rather quickly put together that Stable 9 might be the place where the heartmender was. Which would make sense, considering that the ponies that Basalt has locked up in the freezer came to try to open trade.8343863
Oh, aye, I don't think it came out of nowhere, but it read, to me, very much more as Threnody already knowing it (and likely the story assuming that the reader already knew it) than Threnody figuring it out quickly but on the spot. Though, given no one else seems to have remarked on it, perhaps that was just me; if so, sorry for the bother.
....Shit
To many stories where this has been the "solution" to every problem, and they just ignore the MOUNTAINS OF CORPSES THIS SOLUTION CAUSES and not to mention that THE GODDESS HAD THE SAME DAMNED PLAN AND PECULIAR IS CREEPY AS HELL.
This might have been true before, but these days you are a very sought after pony, and some ponies/people have decided that killing you might be the one death that will make a certain mare go murder crazy
Okay Go Fish, you need to talk to Thren about this... and get some food in her belly and muscle on her bones
Yay, Thren learned some things and gained new allies! Now let's hope that all of this won't explode in all of their faces.
... then agian, if it will, Blackjack will just go nuts and kill everything with an ill intention. It won't be pretty, but it will get rid of anyone hostile. We know how she is
Dealer finally makes his appearance. Well, at least a variation of him. How the hell did she get him into her head, though? We'll probably find out later, but it's certainly intriguing, considering that BJ's own was bound to EC-1101
I thought the dealer when echo died
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Echo was dealer who was removed from the pipbuck/ec1101 already at the end. Blackjack was talking to the wasteland at the end, or her own crazy.
Awesome chapter!
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Must have forgotten that tidbit. Either way, it's interesting to see Thren pick up that part of BJ's psyche.
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Good. I had hoped I wasn't the only one who caught that. More reason I think Heartshine and Somber are...well, Patton, tell them.
Great chapter, loved the slow buildup to the Dealer getting stronger the more she chose to meddle. Have to reread for the Stable 9 allusions earlier too, but the bits about it in this chapter made me really curious and willing to go back just to catch missed foreshadowing.
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Yeah I missed it the first couple times myself reading horizons. Also, is this set alternate timeline or does it fall into step with homelands? Cause heartshine talks about mayor charity in the story and if any one else follows homelands charity is with Scotch tape there.
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No idea, but it's a valid question. I'd like to know as well.
I want to repeat just about all the stuff I gushed about before, but instead have to say this was another great chapter of intrigue and character introductions and interactions that I had trouble putting down when I was supposed to be taking care of something else.
I hadn't noticed until now that this story is tagged as a 'slice of life'. A slice of life in a post apocalypse. That was a neat story type I hadn't seen until now.
I will admit though, with Peculiar's infiltration of Threnody's dream, I became paranoid the moment Basalt let Threnody in on the sabotage secret, paranoid that Peculiar just knows about the whole thing and is already totally prepared to expose all the Timberjacks and wipe all the non-supremacists out of power and life and also dump a bunch of genetically 'superior' monsters on the wasteland. Man I hate those three-villainous-steps-ahead-of-you haughty jerks! ...Uh, but that is just paranoia..
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I can't remember if it was in Horizons or Homelands, but I read (I think!) that the Dealer is now sort of the malignant spirit of the Wastland that wants everypony despairing.
Or it might have been that, if this was in Homelands I read it, that some spirit was co-opting the Dealer image...?
The Dealer really adds such a cool eerie dimension to the way things are; although, when the shuffling was heard as Basalt opened the prison door, it did make me smile in thinking the card shuffling as a loading screen.
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"Loosely based." I don't have everything planned out except who dies, and even that changes. So hopefully things will line up well. Otherwise... well... we'll see.
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Either way we have more goodness to look forward to
Yas! Chapter! And ear nibbles!
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I break everything like it is a Raptor in your hooves, Somber.
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Sorry.
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I'm just teasing you cause you like to break expensive pieces of arcane technology in your stories. :D
Great chapter, was totally worth the wait! I can wait for the next one if time is needed, you won't hear me demanding more.*shut up brain, I know you want the next chapter now but be patient!*
Tell me heartshine, is this going to be a billion word story like somber's? I kinda hope it is. Like project horizons I never want it to end, but I understand if it's normal length. Either way I'm enjoying the ride, just curious.
Wait which is the first sequel to PH? Homelands or Speak?
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Homelands. Homelands takes place 1 year after PH, whereas Speak starts 9.
cant wait for more chapters to come im enjoying the read so far
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Thanks yew, time to cry some more xD
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Q.Q I'm actually trying to make sure that this story is less traumatic for my readers than PH.
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You say sorry a lot. It's kind of earned, for writing the Universe to conspire to make Blackjack miserable, but it's well written, whatever some people may say, so I can forgive you. Besides, only half of the periods of minor depression I go through reading PH are from it itself-a lot of it is a lack of sleep, which is entirely my fault, and sleep deprivation makes me unmotivated and a little depressed.
You're going to reply with "Sorry", aren't you?
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Good. I'd love to see the Universe stop fucking with Blackjack. I saw one of these "who you'd have in a zombie apocalypse", and Blackjack was the one under " person who'd die first...and second...and third...you know what I mean!" I laughed, but felt bad for Blackjack.
11 guess it's just how it's is
(jk but still)
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What a savage.
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Something something Best intentions, something something hell...