After the cylinder came to a stop, Rainbow Dash hung between the tight chains, shivering. Darkness loomed all around her. Then, something shifted again from the pitch black ether. Loud grinding noises issued across the cavern, like the scraping of mountains against one another. She heard a voice—louder than a million muffled screams—and it shook her already throbbing head to the core.
Rainbow Dash winced. Her eyes flickered yellow and red again. Something glinted off the ruby lightning bolt of the Loyalty pendant ahead of her, and she was forced to glance forward.
Something was glowing from down below. A sea of dim silver shapes wobbled left and right, glowing closer, clearer. She saw pale white obelisks, blanketed in powdery sediment. The longer she saw them shifting and darting about in the darkness, the greater a bone-chilling shiver overcame her insides.
There was a prolonged, ragged breath. Some hideous wind billowed against her multicolored bangs, and the voice that came with it shook her fractured, mutating skull.
"Mrrmmmmmmmdoes it live? Hrmmmmmdoes it love? Doessssssss it haaaaate?"
The entire platform beneath Rainbow Dash shook with timely thuds. Something was marching towards her through the darkness, its massive legs pounding into unseen rock and granite.
The dim light intensified, a sickly pale glow of blue and aquamarine shine. Then two gnarled trees were hoisted up from below. Only—they weren't trees. Their jagged branches stretched upwards and outwards, dangling with brittle white crystals just as pale as the shards lodged in the creature's humongous backside.
As the head raised into view, Rainbow Dash squeaked inwardly. The massive thing had antlers. On top of that, half of its face was overgrown with soiled brown goat fur. She was almost too stricken by these details to bother taking in the snout of the creature as a whole. It was then that she saw the pale blue scales, the flaring nostrils with burning red embers, and at last two sets of reptilian jaws that opened up with teeth large enough to bite chunks out of mountainsides.
"Mmmmmmdoessss it feeed...?" The mouth of the thing lunged forward.
"Nnngh!" Rainbow Dash's neck tilted away. However, the jaws stopped just meters away from her Loyalty pendant.
Slowly, with tiny shivers, the creature's head drifted back. A pair of slitted eyes opened, paler than a full moon. As a ragged breath came from the creature, its sockets flickered red-and-yellow and back to the cataract-gray haze.
"Httttkkk!" The immense beast reared back, exposing the full length of its decrepit body and its two weakly thrashing tails. Over a hundred large chunks of white crystal were lodged in its backside, shoulders, and sides. As it tilted its snout aside to gaze at Rainbow Dash closer, the pegasus could see new and fresh obelisks of pale crystal pushing out from the cracks in its scales like alabaster postules. "No... thisssss one does not feed. Hckkkk-Mmmmmmlove is strong. Hate is—mmmmmmmm—strong..." It held a large, scaled hand over Rainbow's figure while its nostrils inhaled, exhaled, inhaled, exhaled—summoning a cyclone with each heated gust. "It smellssssssssnkkkt—of alicorns and flame. Mmmmmmm-the wombbbb of this false world. Hckkkkkktt!" A ghostly glow shot along the largest of its spine-pierced crystals. "Axan... Axannnnnnnn-beloved sisterrrrrr. You were here. Yessssss-snkkkt... you were here..."
Rainbow's lips pursed. In spite of her harrowing predicament, she stammered towards the beast. "You're... you're not a serpent goddess! You're a Divine!" She squinted at the white shards protruding all along the dragon's scaled figure. "Chaos... strips...?"
"Hrkkkk-Mmmmm-Austraeohhhhhh..." The dragon spread a pair of taggered wings, each leathery spoke dangling with craggy crystals of unnatural luminescence. "The flame of the gears and spokes of the wombbbbbb..." Her two jaws clenched and unclenched, drooling bile and blood. "My brood is good, for my brood has found itttttt. There is mmmmm-magic left on this false world. And where there is magic, there is hope, Austraeoh..."
"Magic... Magic..." Rainbow Dash thought out loud. More blood trickled down her forehead. She fought her way past a splitting headache, then gasped. "Nevlamas!" Her eyes darted up weakly. "You're Nevlamas! The Divine of Magic!"
"Axan spared herrrrr. But why...?"
"What..." Rainbow's jaw quivered. "What happened to you?"
"Of courrrrrrse. She rememberssss. She remembers where the flame goessss." Nevlamas leaned her mutated heard forward until her antlers were stretched on either side of the platform, shrouding Rainbow in even thicker shadows. "A blessinggggggg. A blessing of love and hate..."
"What are you doing?" Rainbow hissed through another wave of pain. She heard a crackling noise from her forehead. The hint of two bony stalks flickered in her upper peripheral. She glanced at her own forehead, then at the enormous draconian antlers looming on either side of her. "Oh, buck, no..."
"Does it understanddddd? Hckkkk—the whispers from beyond? The truth abouttttt love and peace...?"
"Nevlamas, listen to me!" Rainbow Dash's voice cracked. "Something's wrong with you! These Xonans! These nasty, nasty unicorns have done something horrible to you! I know! I've met your sister Axan! The Divine of Flame! She wasn't screwed up with chaos shards like this! She was normal!"
"Austraeohhhh doesn't understand—Snkkkkkt!" The pale slits flickered red and yellow again. Rainbow's loyalty pendant rattled in its brace like an heirloom possessed. "My brood found me this wayyyyyyyy. My children carry me into greatness..."
"The friggin' heck are you even talking about?"
"She knowsssss... she will know..." Nevlama leaned forward so that its breath was almost inhaling the pegasus. "One of the same... the Divine and the eastward pony..."
"No!" Rainbow Dash suddenly snarled. Her lips bled as two of her teeth suddenly turned pointed and scraped along her lower muzzle. "We are... nnngh... n-nothing alike!" The knobs along her skull grew two more centimeters, and she sputtered into the trickling blood. "Hckkkkt!"
"One breath... summoned from the darkness... The shards around Nevalamas' neck lit up like a crystalline halo, shining a beacon onto Rainbow's likewise mutating figure. "And she will know her place. She will know... the path of Harmony..."
At that precise moment, bolts of electrical mana flickered between Nevlamas' antlers, and Rainbow Dash was in the center. The beams covered her in a pale blue flash!
"Aaaaaaugh!" Rainbow Dash flew backwards and gripped her skull, only to freeze in place. She blinked her eyes open, glancing at her flapping wings on either side of her. Twirling around, she found herself hovering in the center of a starry sky. "What... wh-what the heck?!"
"Deep in its equine heart, it knows," chanted a booming voice from beyond the cosmos. "The heartbeat to this world is a false one. It masquerades as truth beneath the veil of dull flame and rusted metal."
Rainbow Dash spun in circles, panting. She felt along her neck and forehead. The pendant was missing, and her growing antlers had disappeared.
"Austraeoh knows... she knows that the world is dying. And it is dying because the ring is not whole."
Thunder cracked. Rainbow Dash winced. A heated wind pushed at her tail, and she found herself gliding forward, diving past stars and constellations. As she approached the speed of light, an inconceivably enormous structured loomed before her, flickering like a crescent against the nebulae around it. But as she came closer, there were multiple explosions. With a burst of lavender light, what was once one became twelve, and they spread apart like leaves across a frozen black pond.
"The universe desires harmony. It craves the singularity, the beautiful peace and love of oneness, where everything is perfect and everything is assured. This is not possible in a world shattered like brittle stone. I have witnessed this, heard this, for it resonates through the leylines of magic like discordant notes, and I am the Divine of magic. I know that this world cannot be harmonic. The planes are like pieces to a song, and they are all scattered. I have taken it upon myself to rebuild it with a righteous chorus."
With another flash of light, Rainbow Dash found herself orbiting a lone crescent of continental metal. Only one end was lit by the Sun and Moon, while the other lingered in perpetual darkness. However, on all sides of the floating landscape, the cosmos had been blotted out by an anomalous cloud of distorted shadows. Figures darted in and out of the miasma, their serpentine bodies crowned with fangs and antlers as they flung their jackal screams into eternity.
"And yet, since the Sundering, the predators of malice, the chaos lords, have sought to shatter the bridge between harmony and eternal silence. They are selfish, wicked souls. Born from nothing and capable of everything. Ravenous demons, agents of cacophony. They rape and defile the broken pieces of the song, simply because they can. Their blood is the very essence of chaos. They know no love or peace. Blessed Endrax, beloved sister. You thought you could kill them. Your foolishness is enamoring, but it spells death to this shattered plane. That is why I chose to do that which you could not, which none of our Sisters could..."
Before Rainbow's twitching eyes, a draconian figure flew into the clouds of chaos. With an ear-splitting scream, Nevlamas' body burrowed into the onyx mess, and soon the darkness split apart, illuminated from within like a bone pale candle inside an obsidian cage. Pieces of dragoneqi flew every which way, and yet the aura that polluted them soon imploded, flying back into Nevalamas' figure. She hissed and shrieked, but ultimately curled up into a limp ball as her flesh split in a hundred places with brittle pale shards of metal and crystal protruding through her scales.
"And in the haven of my enemy, I realized the truth. The chaos lingers only because there is something for it to feed off of. Whatever caused the Sundering, it was simply hungry... craving pain and agony and suffering. If the feast was accelerated... if all the food was cleared off the table... then what would give chaos a reason to stay?"
With a bellowing shriek, Nevalamas thrashed her limbs in every direction. The darkness shattered, and in its wake Rainbow Dash found herself sailing down a metal trench at blazing speeds. Pedestal after pedestal of lavender flame soared past her, their flames flickering in and out of existence.
"The beacons... they burn for no one. Even you, Austraeoh, have found them weak and frail. They wither and fade like all light, for this world has a problem. It doesn't know how to die quickly enough. I now know what the chaos lords knew: that the only way to reunite all life is to eliminate all life. The ring was sundered for a sin so old that not even the Divines remember it. If we destroy the harborers of discord, then we create a vacuum, and all that can exist there is harmony."
In another flash of cosmic brilliance, Rainbow Dash had a vision of the twelve pieces of the ring floating together. Barren and stripped of color, the clouds of chaos dissipated, leaving the ring alone. As the stars dimmed in the distance, the twelve pieces made contact, and the lavender glow burned like a righteous beacon.
"And in that new world, from the clean slate of desolation, a new song will be born. There will be peace. There will be love. For the ark of all life will have been given a second chance, a righteous chance. This is the only path to redemption, Austraeoh. It is up to you and I to accelerate what has already gone into motion."
"No... No!" Rainbow Dash shook her head and yelled, "You've got it all wrong, Nevlamas! Don't you get it?! You've been twisted! Polluted! Maybe you started out trying to find harmony, but these... these chaos yahoos! These brothers and sisters of Discord or whatever—they messed with your head! Who ever heard about rebooting harmony by destroying everything?!" She panted and wheezed into the surmounting darkness of the universe. "You are a Divine of Magic! Not chaos! Fight it, Nevlamas! Fight it, and see what you've done to this... this poor, poor continent of warring ponies!"
"It is far too late for that. I have heard the song. The Princess found me in the ashes of madness. She cleansed my body and conveyed my new power into righteousness. Her children are now my children, and my brood will usher in the chorus of harmonic glory."
"Darn it, no!" Rainbow Dash frowned. "Lasairfion is full of it! I don't know how she found you, but she's using you, Nevlamas! You smell the scent of Axan on me, don't you?! What about Celestia?! Or Luna?! Or Whitemane?! Remember who they are and who they stand for! You cannot rebuild this world through chaos! Destroying all that lives is not only super lame—but it's the total opposite of what you first started out to do! There's nothing about that's peaceful! Nothing about it that's loving! Nothing about it that's... that's... loyal—!"
Flash!
Rainbow Dash gasped. She sat in the center of Ponyville, and the air was filled with screams. She looked up in time to see her five friends explode, one after another, bathing the grassy floor with brittle white ash. Applejack's howl left a lingering noise in Rainbow's ear, like a tolling bell. The pegasus screamed into the deathly snow, and blood flew as antlers spread from her forhead and fangs grew from her muzzle.
She collapsed on the floor, writhing as her feathers peeled away, revealing leather wings. A serpent's tail thrashed left and right with tufts of goat fur. In front of her quivering face, the dust collected together, pooling into one amorphous blob of pale ash. Rainbow Dash looked at it, and her red-on-yellow eyes reflected a pulsing lavender glow.
From the ashes of her friends came a thick tome covered in ancient runes. The pages spread open, and from the words there came a cloud of chaotic sediment that mutated into Nevlamas' altered face. The two sets of jaws moved in time with the ghostly voice.
"Do you hear it, Austraeoh?! Do you hear hear the song and understand the cost of restoring harmony?!"
"Shut up!" Rainbow Dash's voice cracked as she lunged forward. "Leave me alone!" She clamped the book shut, hugging it close to her body. The pendant of loyalty materialized around her neck. With one pulse, it dragged her eastward like a leesh at a thousand miles per second. She soared through marshlands, forests, mountains, deserts, and cities. At last, tracing the fractured pathways of her mind, the book carried her into the crater-strewed wasteland of a perpetual battlefield. Ledomaritan and Xonan ships waged war on either sice of a gaping crevice. Rainbow Dash dove right in, carrying the book towards an exposed pedestal of the machine world, where the lavender flame erupted all around her, rekindled.
Flash!
All went dark. Rainbow Dash hung limply off the chains, her eyelids fallen shut as her bleeding forehead drifted in the currents of a breath from beyond.
"Mmmmmmkkkkt! A crevice... a crack in the wombbbbb of the world. So, I see." Nevlamas' battered body sunk back into the depths below. "Thankkkkk you, Austraeoh, for now we know where to send our brood... and the righteous venom of the song."
As Nevlamas slinked away, the cylinder hummed, raising Rainbow's unconscious body back up towards the summit of the cavern from whence it came.
I...don't really get it. But it sounds bad. I don't think Nevlamas really understands.
"Mmmmmmdoessss it like bananas...?"
Oh, Nevlamas.
What have they done to your brain?
Quick poll, who's more messed up. Nev or Shell?
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Nevlamas doesn't, that's why it's so scary. Raw, untapped power that's been twisted and misguided into being used to bolster the personal power of another sociopath. It fits the theme for sure, and on a much more grand scale than we've seen.
Chaos. Not even once.
Either way, it seems Nevlamas is a crazy menace and Arcshod has been keeping him in a box. Truly, the story reflects the natural order of the universe.
More on Urohringr, that's certainly intetesting.
~Basso
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Mm-hmm. She's fallen from grace so hard. Turned into the most pathetic of villain: one who believes the path to salvation is soaked with the blood of the innocent. Truly foolish, and I almost can't bring myself to feel sorry for her. Dash proves that it is possible to resist corruption. Look at her: before when she lost the necklace, the change was almost instantaneous, but now she's resisting because she has something to be loyal to.
Thirty Rocky situps, ):(/ Knock 'em out!
...Equestria.
She's going to sack Equestria.
One of the Divines. Corrupted. And now on the warpath to end everything, under the guise that doing so will restore Harmony.
Not. Good.
At this point I'm wondering if there will be ANY Divine that will turn out to be actually good.
I mean, seriously, I'm one of them and I'm not really a villain material.
But backing to the "I have no idea what's going on" Chapter. While I can understand the idea of corruption of Nevlamas, I have no idea how Xonans actually manage to do this. Did they found the laying body of Ultimate Goddess and then somepony put some sort of zapping crystals so mind of Nevlamas went mad?
3511919 I think she was killed in her battle with the Draconequi. Her body remains, corrupted by chaos and half draconequis. Her mind is really just the Draconequi talking through her broken body. I think the Xonans found this and used it. I bet Lasairfion thinks Nevalmas is hers to use for chaos metal, but in reality, the Draconequi are using Xona to cause chaos and end the world through the broken body of Nevalmas.
I was right~
Also, none of that bodes well at all. So much revealed, and all of it kind of horrifying.
Queen of delusion. Disappointing. I was almost hoping that the insanity ended at Queen Lassie, and that the magic dragon would've been just as much a victim as Rainbow Dash. Alas, Nevlamas turned out to be the same as Lassie... and Shell... and Khao... and Ledo... and Nightshade.
Seriously, there's gotta be something in the water. Either that, or everyone on this damn continent undergoes a mandatory lobotomy when they turn 18.
Hmm. An ancient ring world, infested by a chaotic, overwhelming flood. A desperate cleansing flame bringing forth a "second chance".
How very appropriately Halo-esque.
God, RD probably hasn't pondered on the deaths of ger friends or her crush for a while... And to have it so vividly played back to her...
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I'll take that cigarette, if it's one of those candy ones. After the Steel Wing came through, I've had enough real smoke for a lifetime.
Aw, I was still hoping for chaos ghost Jörmungandr.
So. Things look pretty bleak.
The Xonan army, their crazy chaos dragon and her brood of serpent spirits are heading for the machine world, and the only line of defense we have is Seclorum. And Josho.
I really hope Axan shows up. Everyone wants a big dragon fight.
Hell, I hope everyone shows up. I want Khao, Shell, Nightshade, Seclorum, the Jury and all to see the freakin' insane draconic harbinger of destruction and her parade of malicious machinations and get their shit together, stop reveling in bitterness and hate and unite under the common goal of not terminating all life on the freakin' machine.
I would normally give my own view of eschatology, or whatnot, but something else needs to be discussed right now. Nevalamas was talking out of both sides of her face to find what she wanted!
Rings, eliminating food sources, religious prophecies, arks? This all sounds oddly familiar...
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Oh come on Nevlamas. Settling for the trivial degenerate solution to the problem?
For that matter, even if you succeeded, the pieces of the ring would likely just remain adrift with nothing to bring them back together.
I wonder how the other shards are dealing with their chaos nebulae... that is assuming that there were any survivors.
This explains so much about the Xonans. But who is worse here, them or Nevlamas? Both are utterly insane, both want destruction ... not a good combination either way.
That's a terrible pun. Good show, sir.
Good god, Dash has to reunite the whole bloody world?
Nevelamas claims to have a brood, but has no hoard, so based on what we learned in austreoh, other dragons should respect her. does this mean her brood is xona? but the xonans already knew of the fissure in the world, they caused it, an of Nev can read minds like that I'm sure she would have picked up on that. maybe I'm just over thinking it.
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Yeah the whole damn thing, ha ha ha!
Right after she stops a chaos-metal-addled dragon goddess, defeats an entire nation of mage-level magical battle ponies and their god-tier queen, fights off a steel-ensconced airship brimming with mana artillery and helmed by a madman who is a veteran soldier and and sort of super pony Miles Quaritch on speed, and saves her friends from a gang of cultists whose leader wants to eliminate them all so they can escort Rainbow Dash to an arcane armoury on the dark side of the shard!
After she, you know, defeats chains and gets her magic necklace back.
Easy peasy! Let's not add any more antagonists right now, I think there are enough.
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Shut up, cultist!
Just kidding. It's neat to see you guys enjoying your characters. I got a kick out of the jab the author took at me... but seriously, don't eat daffodils.
Roarke most Ninja is going to have a heart attack when she see's Rainbow's metamorphosis from her hiding spot D:
But, Dash cant hold teh book, she gets horribly weak just being near it. Or is that the flame in the book is corrupted, and so when placed in the Xonans machine world control room, will start a viral chain reaction to infect the machine world causing it to undergo runaway reformatting?
Wow.
Been a while since the plot got so much thicker in a single chapter, that was a lot to take.
Ah, looks like we got a ancient crazy dragon up in here. And she's sending her brood to the warfront.
I mean, last time we came up against a dragon, it didn't turn out so well. I doubt it's going to go much better this time.
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The machine world runs on a 32-bit OS. Feeding the book into the system will not work.
Putting the 32-bit reformatting software from the book and into the machine world, however...
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Shell... Shell is broken...
This dragon may be misguided but can be salvaged. Shell has snapped past the point of no return. If IC somehow brings him back from total screwed up evil, I will eat my bomb shoes.
3514282 Can she be saved? I mean it sounds like she's been turned into a chaos metal pin cushion. She's possibly worse off than Shell, Shell's just mentally broken she's mentally broken and corrupted by chaos metal. Shell wants Dash dead she wants the entire world dead. Compared to Shell her army is far larger and fanatical to boot
Holy crap... Those dragons are nothing but trouble...
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true... but i think that she could find the will to fight back.... if Dash removes the chaos strips, Nev may be able to be brought back or at least have a clear mind free from the poisonous chaos strips. idk what Shell would need to be saved.
Why are the guardians of the world acting like frightened children?
Heh, it almost feels weird, being right. Cool to see Nevlamas come into play. I kind of feel bad for her (assuming, of course, that she's simply being corrupted by chaos and used by Lasairfion, which seems to be the case).
This was a pretty meaty chapter, complete with tons of new lore. I love it. I'm starting to see the scope of where the story is going. I presume it won't just be a matter of Dash going to the Midnight Armory to reboot the world, but rather, to actually reunite the ring of worlds itself. Anything short of that seems like it will be a temporary fix. Considering all that, the eight remaining volumes of the series are an exciting prospect.
Also, did this chapter suggest that the chaos strips are actually the remains of draconequi?
So, Nevlamas is Corrupted Magic in Divine form. This means either we see a new alicorn, or Axan or another Divine comes in to 'cleanse' the chaos from their sibling. Rainbow's slowly turning chaotic, but she seems to be retaining her sense of self. Could this be Nevlamas's doing? Or has Dash become accustomed to the chaos? These are questions I want answered.
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We can be the new elements!Captain Planet would definitely fit right in with this story.
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My theory is that the flame is trying to cleanse her.
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Maybe, if there was an actual planet to be captain of.
Captain Machineworld?
Ohohoho! Another Divine appears! Though this one certainly seems more unhinged. And exposition! Glorious exposition! I do love it when we get a chapter like this that kicks the story into gear.
3 things -
is Nevlamas sending the Xonans into the machine world?
the transformation to chaos dash is still going on, and I still feel like it was supposed to kill her when it was done, so she better get out soon
Josho is totally going to end up saving the day with Seclorum's army (or the Jurists will, somehow)
Sounds like we've developed a case of symbiosis - the Xonans utilizing Nevlemas to push at the war, with Nevlemas utilizing Xonans to spread chaos and destruction to wipe all out.
And that their little pets will turn on them, the instant Ledomare falls. Makes you wonder... and worry...
Oh look - I'm a crossbreed of Seymour from Final Fantasy X, the afflicted Kuunavang from Guild Wars: Factions and that one bad guy from Arcanum. I love crazy psychopaths like nothing else. I can't even say this often enough. This is the greatest thing since Jeremy Bentham. People always said I'm too much of a nihilist. Related image for today:
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Funnily enough, with all the visions going on we didn't really learn that much about the world. We knew about the creatures of chaos surrounding it, about the ring breaking (a sin, she says?) and all that already. I still hope that one day we will actually find out just what happened during the Sundering. Perhaps they will finally have a realistic chance to rebuild the ring then - or they could write themselves another Age.
Parents who hated me and gave me a boy's name, got into psychological troubles, was bullied as a kid, never found a place to fit, was offered drugs by someone who I thought was my friend, got sexually harassed, you know how it goes...
3511637 Arcshod prays to the deity Nevlamas, for she is the source of all his strength and his magic. You're right - it does.
3511724 Dash has to fight one Draconequus inside of her - the Queen of Magic started a bar brawl with the entire species at once.
3511850 She was interested at the ending of the path, not it's beginning - the rightful place of the tome. I suspect she will set the Xonans to either bring the book there to quicken the world's destruction or - what I consider more likely - prevent Rainbow from getting the tome there by attacking that place since returning the book would restore a chunk of energy to the world. After all, it holds an awakened ruby flame.
3512066 To be fair, she is possessed. Neither Shell nor Khao nor Nightshade nor any other villain - but Rainbow! - thus far have that excuse. The last action performed by the actual Queen of Magic was setting out to banish the Draconeequi.
3512525 Hey, that's perfectly applicated negative utilitarianism! Like the first rule of Machiavelli: where there's no man, there is no problem. No one's willing to make any sacrifices nowadays. Everyone's just thinking about their own good!
3513111 She's considering the Xonans her brood. The amazing part perhaps is that with all the chaotic possession, her will hasn't bent or changed: she still strives to free the world of Chaos. They have simply delusioned her to the point where she has lost all grasp on reality.
3511622 Shut up, grilled cheese, they didn't do anything, I've always been this way. I'm not crazy. I'm just... special.
I'm also highly amused by the fact that everyone is getting my name wrong. Again. I don't know why, but wherever I go, this always happens. Perhaps I'm just so incredibly awesome that just reading my name blinds people. Yes, that has to be it.
I have an urge to make a Gollum reference. But that would be too obvious.
Did Floyden get his love of womb metaphors from here?
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I wonder if youve ever heard of the 32 bit OS home computer that NASA used 20 years ago for handling all sorts of super critical stuff, such as launch telemetry and Shuttle life support.
Give you a hint. When Rainbow Dash first gets her cutie mark, she writes its logo large in the sky. And yes, on the same hardware, running emulation, it can be 20% faster than a Mac.
You could say its ideal for running the Machine World, because it uses a mathod called Datatypes. And standardised data formats. Lets read Book.iff.
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I admit, it would be epic if she somehow decided "f**k this continent, let's invade Equestria!" But I see what you're saying.
IIIIIt's Dashie's evaluation time!
You know what, I thought that it might be one of the Divine. Just not in this context. We now know that the asunder king was an event that caused draconequii to spread across the ring. However, I'm not sure - did Nevlamas take those draconequii into her in the forms of chaos strips? Anyways, this is really bad. Doing something like this to a Divine goes against nature, and we can be sure that the Xonans are punished. These are my thoughts so far.
-MASH