YEEES! This universe is getting big FAST!

>>13651091365109 I know! It's great that such an awesome idea can be expanded upon by other writers, instead of being confined to just one story.

I might make a contribution myself, if I can come up with a solid plotline.

Image: http://cdn.derpiboo.ru/media/BAhbBlsHOgZmSSIkMjAxMi8wNy8zMC8wMl8xOV8wMF82ODlfNjEzMDNfXwY6BkVU/61303__safe_spike_animated_dragon-quest.gif

I love the way this universe is shaping up

oh yeah~

Edit: You are awesome I am faving this!

>>13651801365180 My story for this universe (which hasn't been uploaded yet; I'm not even halfway done the first chapter) doesn't have a solid story line. It's literally just a collection of stories focused around my OC, Nitro Rush, who's already been included in the main story line of the universe in Chapter 3.

Now, onto this story. Very good, very good indeed. I noticed a few grammatical errors, not much, but they were there. Otherwise, it's great. Each character seems well thought out. Can't wait for more.

Wait whats going on?....How did I even get here!?

Oh look a story! Thank you partially functioning brain, I shall now commence with the word devouring.

I must say, this first chapter was exquisite. The words flowed smoothly through the confines of my mind. So just to state it. I approve.

Edit: Ok I got to point this out because it made me chuckle, and I know it was just a small little thing that was overlooked.

         At this he tapped the back of his head with a hoof, pushing his messy black man everywhere.

>>13657721365772 Care to point out some of said grammatical errors? My editors really half-assed it since none of them could spare the time to read the entire thing really closely, and I could really use all the help I can get.

>>13657831365783 Eurgh. That typo made me cringe. It's amazing what a single misplaced 'e' can do. Fixed.

>>13660171366017 I can't really pull any out of my brain right now. They were small, but still noticeable. I could go through the entire chapter again and find them, but I'm working on something right now. I'd be happy to proofread future chapters, however.

Already in the first few paragraphs your creative writing skills surpass mine. That usually happens when I compare most of my work with others.

Anyway I love it.

I like it. A whole lot better than my piece if crap for a story

>>13660421366042 If you're working on your own projects, then by all means don't let me saddle you with mine. I'll just try and notify my editors in advance to set aside more time

>>13667041366704 Thanks for the encouragement. You should be proud to spawn something that's already snowballing into something massive.

>>13668401366840 Your story is not crap. Don't talk about yourself like that, I liked your story!

Amazing, dear sir!

Went back and brushed up a couple of mistakes that I found, most prevalent of which was that I had accidentally left underscores where a pony's name should have been (I hadn't thought of it by the time I was completing the chapter) and No one told me about it.

Also fixed is that now Paperback's thoughts and emphasized words in conversations are now italicized. I forgot that since Fimfiction runs on BBcode it doesn't automatically transfer them over from when I copy it from the file I have it on.

*starts stomping hooves in applause* Really nice! :D

>>13898041389804 Well thank you. I'm already hard at work on Chapter three. Since sleep is for wussies.

>>13898111389811 Already I can't wait!! Hee hee~  Oooh~ is there room in the party for a bard? :P

“Halt, criminal scum!”

"You violated my mother!" Sorry, just had to do it.

>>13899021389902 Well, you're part of the PvP match, are you not? You'll show up, and if you want I might have your character stick around a bit.

Liking the story so far. Keep it up

>>13910221391022 Yes please!! :D

So, how will our characters meet?

>>13933321393332 No effing clue. :D

I'll try and figure it out when I get there.

>>13933801393380 From my story, we met you in the library of the floating city. Sound about right?

>>13933861393386 Hmm. Well, since we're both writing our stories at the same time, I'd really rather not have us try and adventure together. The constant collaboration and attempting to keep each other's characters in character would drive us insane. I'll PM you with what I think should happen, and w'ell go from there.

>>13934401393440 Okie dokie lokie

Hm, interesting.  I can roll with this.

Oh rogues, you so silly.

>>14201801420180 Damn straight they are. In every setting. EVER. Automatic 100+ damage with the broken rogue I described, provided the weapon is a speed one. (Which of course it is. Who runs without a speed weapon on a rogue?)

Finally got around to reading chapter 2, and DAMMIT THAT WAS GOOD!

>>14247921424792 Well, Chapter three will probably be up by late tomorrow, if not sometime past midnight tonight.

So, Chapter Three. I'm just warning you that this chapter skipped the proofreading process entirely, since my friends failed to even finish chapter two. So, I went back through it to find what mistakes I could, but I'm sure there's still a ton of them. If anyone finds any, feel free to mention them in the comments. I'm going to sleep now. It's 4:30 in the morning.

Oh GOD!! XDDD Nxegex! I love you s much for this chappie~~ I especially like the skills you've given me :D plus dat ending! XDDD  Did I ever mention that Sound Wave is a coltcuddler....? owo but as his personality states he's an easygoing person and will probably string rusty along for a bit before letting the big bomb drop and blow up XD

Still LOVE YOU MAN!!! XD Keep up the good work!! I think Imma go do some fan art for this~!

>>14297501429750 He.. He is? Do you know what this means? Do you!?! IT MEANS THAT THE POWER OF BLATANT SEXUAL TENSION IS MINE TO COMMAND!!!! MUAHAHAH!

>>14300901430090 MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhAHA!!! >:D plus since I've a bit of Rarity in me feel free to do what you wish with Sound Wave~ :3 Oh and even though he's a Coltcuddler, he has no problems with flirting and making out with the opposite sex XD he just prefers the stallions more~ ;3

“Alright then, while your doing you shopping thing, I'm going to go hit on a lady or two. Be back in fifteen minutes.” Rusty said, trotting off in a strut obviously meant to impress. Paperback turned, and his eyes widened.

“Rusty That's not-” Paperback started, but suddenly cut himself off.

“Not what?” Came Rusty's reply

“Nevermind. It's nothing. Go ahead.” Paperback said. Rusty turned, and continued to canter off with a humongous smile on his face. Paperback nearly died from holding in the laughter that threatened to burst his lungs as Rusty sidled up alongside Sound Wave and brushed flanks.

AAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaahhh.

That's funny.

Was that a pony version of Defias Bandits I just saw there? Hehe. This brings back allot of fond memories of online gaming, mostly of the 5 or 6 years I played World of Warcraft.

Loved that bit at the end of the chapter too.

So this is a story all about how my life got flipped turned upside down I'd like to take a minute sit right there and ill tell you all about sound wave's magnificent hair. dododododo.

Good story so far. A interesting look into the story of my Teammates.

>>14379191437919 Yes, I have such GORGEOUS hair don't you think?

Been busy, read it right now. what an ending that was.

Chapter 4 up. My writing is getting longer. I'm considering this as a good thing, but really it just means that I was more likely to miss something.

Features: Bandits, mild humor, explosions, and a teeny bit of sexual tension!

Now with sixty percent more Proper Tense correction!

Woo!! Chapter 4!!! I'm really liking what's happening here! :D plus new skills! Woohoo! :D

>>14852161485216 But of course. It wouldn't be a MMO unless it had skills!

>>14851501485150

Sound Wave has sent Paperback a message!

"Psst! I took an im-game picture of Rusty's face when he saw my face, figured you'd like a souvenir!"

~Sound Wave

would lol SOOO hard if Sound Wave really did that XD

Play the game while you are asleep? I would abuse the hell out of that technology if it existed.

Also, love the story. Makes me want to get back into some of the MMOs I used to play.

>>14885591488559 I would go back to Classic WoW if it were still around. I joined during Burning Crusade, and played up until they were about to change everything to the Cataclysm. I wish I had found out about the game earlier so I could have played it in it's vanilla days. Never even got to beat Arthas...

>>14885771488577 I have allot of fond memories of that game. Played it off and on for about 6 years. I could ramble on for hours about that game.

I plan on playing Legends of Equestria when it comes out. What I have seen in some of the videos for it looks promising.

>>14887261488726 It certainly looks promising. Probably be another six or seven months- if not more- until a playable beta is released, though.

Sigh, I really do need something to fill my MMO fix. League of Legends just isn't doing it anymore.

How would playing the game during your sleep affect your brain though?

>>14908781490878 Wait and find out. I plan to explore such themes later in the story.

>>14908851490885 Spoony bard.Somepony is a fan of Final Fantasy.  

>>14976581497658 Not so much that as just a fan of TVtropes in general. I heard spoony bard from somewhere before (don't remember where. I've never played any of the FF games) and then I found the page for it a week before writing this chapter.

>>14978741497874 Ah Tvtropes not much ta say about that just go get a emulator and play the FF games that existed before square just made them for profit.

I'm loving this story so far! Absolutely loving it!

You have my permission to use Nitro, if you want.

>>15185761518576 He'll show up, but I'm still considering Lord Guffington's story, even though he took it down. So I can't promise that you'll be a major character since I already have a whole 'thing' going on.

>>15200161520016 Oki doke! And what's this 'thing' you speak of?

>>15213001521300 Like, a plot map. What direction I'm taking the story in and whatnot. (Allowing for any curveballs that Chaotic might throw in.)

>>15217191521719 Oh. I think the main thing blocking me from starting Nitro's Story is lack of a central plot idea.

Finally. This one took forever. Sorry about that, but it's up now. Read and enjoy!

hmmmm, i wonder if battle experience in real life would give you an edge in game

>>16672961667296 It probably would. Experienced fighters would have the moves and the know-how to block and counter attacks, or perhaps be more precise in areas like archery. For a game as advanced in Equestrian Earth though, perhaps players with less skills have them subconsciously planted into them by the game for a more even footing? Like, you're being flanked by two warriors who swing at you, and the game reflexively lets you know how you could move to get out of the way, and your body would just do it. Maybe you make it in time or maybe not, but the point is that you still knew how.

This technology is scary because it would create some wicked awesome soldiers just by planting a lifetime knowledge of hand-to-hand combat in their brain, which they might be able to take out of the game with them.

>>16674781667478 it most likely would just give you basic combat knowledge, so you still have fun and improve in more ways then just level

That ending lol XD

Was SOOOO Excited to finally see this updated! Woo!! Hmm, Think it's high time for Sound Wave to employ the other half of his skills being a bard? :P Mainly Charming NPCs and Players as well as using Sneak attacks and throwing weapons?

I wonder what's going to happen next. March in with an army? Gather the few chosen OC's from the original story? Oh the posibilities!

Lol, dat ending. Classic MMORPG.

Ah, those days spent in RS calling out for dungeon parties... Sigh, well, glad this updated.

Wonder if Sound Wave knows the origins of spoony bard :/

Nothing wrong with this chapter that I can spot Party obviously needs a real spell caster light spell or night vision enchantments.

Can't wait to see the next chapter!

>>16870471687047 yes chalice I do know the origins of spooky bard xD

>>17540431754043 SPOONY BARD* silleh pony.

>>17556421755642. LOL I did not notice that typo until now!!! oh I is silly pony x3

I need to write my own spin off at some point just so others can look good by comparison. :/

>>18088831808883 And if you use Chalice as your main character then you probably will conform to current canon, and possible include other story canon characters, who will then write their own spin-offs conforming to canon... It's a tangled web that has no end! Its glorious!

When is the next chapter?

>>18302201830220 Well, I just got done with finals, so now I have to deal with family ad Christmas, but hopefully I can get something up within the next week. I can't really promise anything at this point.

Finally got around to finish reading this chapter.

I have to say one thing: Your writing is obviously more impressive then mine.

I seriously wonder why people are not flocking to your story.

Maybe I'll have to do a blog to support underated fan fics, including yours.

It seriously disturbs me that you're not getting enough recognition.

As well as the other spin-offs.

You'd say you'd updaaaate D:  I waited and waited and still nooothiiiing D:

>>19683351968335 I KNooooooow! Writing is Hard It doesn't help that this chapter is flipping humongous. I'm ever so slowly getting to the end though! It is in sight!

>>19645831964583 Silly Chaotic, the reason that people are flocking to your story more than mine is because A: Mine is just a spin-off of yours, and B: Yours actually includes the mane 6 rather than focusing around the exploits of Oc's that have nothing to do whatsoever with the mane 6. My next story though... Front-Page worthy. I'll make sure of it.

>>19684141968414 Hang in there Nxegex!!! You can do it!!!

>>19689961968996 Damn straight I can! I'm going to finish today! And y'wanna know why? Because I'm not sleeping until I do!

It's 4:00 AM and I am tired. I really do hoe I finish soon...

You can do it!!!

Loved every single word! I now want this game. Even more than before, I want it.

Totally epic!!!!! You did it Nxegex!!! You did it ! Woooo Briarbuck's dead!!! Woooo!!!

Chalice Longshot, while not keeping the same verbal pace, spoke often enough that she was a regular part of the conversation.

Nailed me!

great job just... Great job. :3

"Night Stalker is dead."

Just kidding. I knew he'd die a lot. Fantastic chapter, man. I'm also guessing this is when I get the giant bird?

>>19725111972511 Keeping up with seven characters would just be the biggest pain in the arse, so some details might get glazed over just a tad. The fact that you got a bird will most likely be summarized in less than a paragraph.

>>19720471972047 I'm glad you approve. Part of the reason that this chapter took so long was because I had to stop and think about how everyone's characters would react to a given situation and not betray their personality. I know other people may want to join in the universe, so I'm trying to keep things true to their original ideas.

>>19720141972014 I wanted to end the chapter on that note, and got a wee bit frustrated when I only finally got to the end of the dungeon on page 24 of the word doc that it's in. The fight against Briarbuck got just a little bit condensed because it was five in the morning and my brain wasn't working too well by that point.

>>19712511971251 The continued support from my audience is what drives me to finish, thank you for reading!

Now, It's going to be perhaps another month before I can update again; I just started DM'ing for a group and I'm determined to make that particular story not suck, so a lot of my days are going to be spent mapping out dungeons and statting monsters rather than writing out chapter seven. Don't worry though, the story isn't going on Hiatus- I just can't put forth 100% of my effort into it (so really, nothing is changing)

>>19729371972937 What edition and game are you DM'ing for? Is it a premade setting and scenario, is it custom, or open ended and mostly improvised?

>>19748601974860 D&D's Pathfinder edition.with an original custom setting and scenario that has the potential to go any which-way.

>>19755331975533

You should Stat out Briarbuck and make them fight it at some point sounds like a fun low level fight if you actually had rolls and ability for it. :3

>>19755331975533 Sounds cool! *goes to dust off 2nd ed. books and read through them.* It sucks that my group abandoned 2nd edition for 4th, and all for the wrong reasons (that whole online map and scenario thing that didn't happen)

>>19755501975550 Or have it be a high-level encounter for, say, a crappy roll in a dangerous forest. Or desert. Or plains. Or anything, really. Briarbuck's range is ridiculous.

>>19755501975550 Well, my plotline and setting is pulled from both the Fallout series (Project Horizons fanfic if we want to get particular) and Nausicaa in the Valley of The Wind, plus I started them off at fourth level, so I'm not sure if I have room to fit in a boss encounter with Briarbuck. I could totally still stat him out though, would only take me an afternoon at most. Maybe other people would want to use him.

>>19762531976253 Fourth edition? Ew. I've never played 2nd edition, but I have played 4th. And 4th is disgusting. We quit a couple sessions in because our group hated it so much, even the DM.

Absolutely ridiculous range. I need to go stat out a boar from hell now.

>>19762891976289 Second is nice. My only complaint was that you have to houserule in the V1 rule that you didn't have class/race restrictions (which was a thing in official 2nd edition). I'd imagine that Briarbuck would have fairly high intelligence (as a unique monster that has tactics), strength, constitution, and charisma (for a high Intimidate feat) modifiers.

On to asking about the fic, though . Will that thing in the water come up again? Is it a special monster like Briarbuck, but for a much higher level range?

>>19763631976363 Of course not, it was just to give the dungeon more depth, because normally in our world players would die going down there from falling damage, but since Equestrian Earth has Pegasi you need a more inventive reason to give a dungeon an end. (Sure, it could just have a flat bottom, but that would be boring)

>>19767151976715 So, the dungeon cast Summon Bigger Fish on the Pegasi?

>>19771211977121 Hah. Best spell ever. Nice to meet another Darths and Droids reader. And yes.

>>19772961977296 I actually put that on a spell list once, cast it, rolled a 20, and the DM allowed it. It bloodied the enemy we were fighting in one hit (granted, said monster proceeded to eat me, but it worked.)

>>19774021977402 My DM did a thing where, in case we had split the party and someone got into a fight they couldn't do by themselves, we could roll nat 20's on Paradox checks and get there through holes in the disintegrating fabric of reality. We once got two in one session, and had to go back in the timeline to figure out how we could have logically gotten there. Made little sense whatsoever, but was completely hilarious.

>>19775941977594 Then there was the time we had to find a way to convince a colony of superintelligent Level 15 fire ants (custom stats) that were religious zealots of a resident fire demon to let us go without sacrificing us. The plan involved a teddy bear, three tubs of Cool Whip, a spatula, and a trombone.

Aw man this is really good.

Love Rusty, Sound Wave, and Paperback!

>>20595012059501 Glad you enjoy! Next chapter should come out sometime before hell freezes over.

This story has been keeping me away from writing my own spin off, it's just amazing. Love the characters, and love your style of writing.

Keep up the good work.

Oh my sweet baby Princess Raptor Jesus Norris, Alicorn of the Internet, IT'S ALIVE!!! *commence read*