The Gang is a go. · 7:27am Apr 7th, 2016
Alright, so if you read my last post you know that I'm working on a story idea for a multi self insert fic, that I'v had for a long time now and need the help of others in order to write it. Yes?
If you said yes and/or wish to join in now is your time to do so, just follow the guide lines I put down below to get started in becoming one of "The Gang".
#1, You must be honest with yourself when writing your ponysona/selfinsert. What I mean is that, unlike other self insert fictions where the main character is over powered/capable and always able to do what ever he/she wants without concern of losing anything and all is ok in the end, which is what makes most of them into gray stu's/marry sue's in the end.( no waifus, unless 1 said waifu goes after you, or 2 there a back drop character that's under used in that aspect.)( use you true gender.)
And so what I mean to say is, if it's not something you are capable of, or if you don't know something, or other wise your ponysona doesn't have the magic, don't try it unless it help's the story along.
#2, cutey marks show a pony's passion, and what thy are best at in life, they do not give instant knowledge or power on how to do that which they show the pony can do. the pony must learn thru apprenticeship, learning by doing or schooling to gain their knowledge in what they love to do to earn their mark.
#3, if your ponysona appears in equus with something along this line of thing's (any apparel, items or bag's with stuff in them, as in... a shirt, hat or shoes. an Ipod, pocket knife or sword. a day bag, back pack or duffel bag.) it must be something that you yourself own. If you don't have it or if you wish to have it, you will have to wait till your ponysona has the bits to pay for it in the story.
Ok, now that you have gone thru the gauntlet, allow me to tell you how this story is going to run. First, we are working as a collaborative by writing are own ponysona's. I say this because I don't know you, so how can I write you? it adds to the realism of the story. Second, the story will be written in arcs in which they will show the progress of a day to a week of our lives on equus, and will be separated by a month or more between them. Third, each arc is to be completely written and edited before it is released to be read by the public.
Alright, that was just a bunch of lesser rule's, let's get away from that now. The story is a mix between CyberChase and the A-Team, to which as stated about "The Gang" "will learn things that they could not before about the pony world. While after agreeing to do so, forms the B-Team. Which takes care of the things that the mane-team can not. This is due to how we think and because of the world we came from. Making the group more adaptable in what they would encounter." in which the agreeing part will be in the second arc, the first arc (that I have named settling down) will be all about their arrival on equus, coping with becoming a pony, and learning some things about each other and the world around them.
And so, if you find this interesting and wish to join in, nows the time. Live Long and prosper, and may the force be with you.
S.W.B.
I could go for it. The problem is that I'll be mostly unavable through the next 3-4 weeks and I'll need to know the hours we'll be working stuff over, unless you want us to send stuff via corespondences.
If Ponyess joins it too we could make this real fun.
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We can wait till than, we got a lot of world building to do yet.
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Will be working thru a sort of roll playing system. one of us will post a threed showing how the arc we are writing will play out, then we will post are action's and what we say in reply to are surrounding's, what other's do and what thy ask each other. then it is all copy and pasted into it's chapter, with a batter description of where thy are and there thought's in that moment.
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3854792 My favourite. The Worldbuilding that is. Can we have not only lunar pegasi but also lunar earth ponies and lunar unicorns? In my headcannon they're Bearponies/Wolfponies and Catponies and you're gonna admit it's an awesome concept.
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(I'm always up till 4am and sleep in till 11) 
Luner ponies, you mean Thestrals, Grimes and Wicca's. my ponysona is a Grime.
As for the other three, I do know that there will be other hybrid's, I just don't know when thy will show up in the story line. as for your ponysona, or in these case "equussona", does not need to be a pony.
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3854951 Okay, so you have this already covered.
What if one of us had a multiple personality disorder? Could he be something with multiple heads? Because beeing a small Hydra would be one huge troll from life XD Just a thought how would scenes of argueing with yourselves go...
But if I would go for a non-pony for myself... tell me, do you remember Kirkore? I would propably start brewing alkohol and sell the stuff in Gryphonstone.
ok yeah il join! don't want a big role thou!
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As for kirkore,
oh please please tell me you know how to make hard and soft cider. I got a hankering for the soft stuff the other day, and when I asked for it, the waiter said they didn't have it. 
I was not happy, but my dad and mom got a laugh out of it.
A Hydrapony, now that would be interesting.
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Your role in the story depends on how much you interact with others, what others ask of you in the story, and by what you cutey mark means. As I read about your oc that I believe you are going to use, your part will most likely be as a guard, solder or knight of some sort.
S.W.B.
3856084 Not really a Hydrapony, but a Hydra, a young one to keep things balanced.
Well, as for making cider, I'm not familiar with the american concept, as where I come from Cider is just another kind of Juice. For what I am familiar with are home-made hooches from various fruit and well- give me some plum and two weeks and the stuff will turn your insides the other way around. Oh, I also know how to make apple wine. Never done that but I get the theory. It's considered the worst kind of alkohol here because it's made from apples of the sulflur mining region. A.k.a. Your liver is dead in 5 years.
And don't whine. Some mix of vodka and apple juice and you'll gonna hold this one out until we reach Sweet Apple Acres and their Cider season. Hook up with Pinkie and maybe she'll help you get in the queue.
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Hard cider is the distilled alcoholic version(ever herd of Jack Daniels or apple brandy), soft cider is like apple juice, but it's spiced and I believe filtered.
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3856106 Destilate the stuff. That I can do.
But well, I bet helpkng around SAA would convince AJ to teach us making it.
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Helping around sweet apple acres maybe, but going thru an apprenticeship indefinably. Just flat out ask her or her brother if there willing to teach you, as you know how the Apples like being honest and blunt about things.
S.W.B. P.S. They my not know how to do hard cider.
3856136 I dupt they would be willing to share the family recepture. Applejack would honestly tell you to **** off, she's no Rarity. Besides the only things I would need to know is what kind of spices they throw into the cider and the timing of that stuff. Essencially I would have to see the process and be good to go.
P.S.: Add spitus and destilate. Work evry time.
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Well do it how ever you wish, just don't make it that I have to get your flank out of trouble over and over again.
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3856084 yeah ok! guess i can do that.
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Great and good night, it's time for me to say hey to Luna now.
S.W.B.
3856204 k night!
3856200 Well, it was you wanting cider and even if Applejack discovered we were doing some cider out of her loop, she would do nothing abaut it as long as we would drink it ourselves.
And good night. See you in eleven hours.
3853795 I just was notified that this thread got up.
3854792 Can't play in vacuum or on a white map.
You mean we go a mission in a day and moop around while we wait for the next big adventure?
3854951 Depending on the interpretation of the stated rules, I could be a tentacle Pony, or the earth Pony with an Amulete.
3856204 "Good morning, any and all!"
Is there by any chance a list of permitted/banned types of characters?
3856228 So you want to follow old works . Well, I vote for creating our own universe for this story.
3856329 Even if you buy a canonically confirmed map, there should be more than enough room for creative invention.
If we accept that certain places like Ponyville, Canterlot and Manehattan are there; most of the map is just filled out with tereine.
For the Action/Adventure, we would spend most of the time in the forest and the mountains, or any such location.
If we like, would could start an adventure in the nearest town, and meet up and acquire ecquipemnt for the mission.
If you like to pubnlish the story here at the FiM, it is convenient to see a few canon sites and speak to a few well known characters.
The excitement in the story is what we can create on our own. We have to add the characters that are us in the story anyway.
3856341 I want Hollow Shades populated with Lunar Races Ponies. It's on the map and it has to be an awesome place.
3856345 Just point it out on the map and they can start building their community.
Isn't there a song dedicated to something like this? Even if she just picked up the orphan foals in the clip I recall.
If the community is populared with Lunar Bat Ponies, it is bound to be a cool place.
How may are they, and what kind of a community do they live in?
I imagine them liking caves, like bats would. Since they are Ponies, they would still have a nice culture of their own by now.
3856372 Hollow Shades is a town build in the treetops, I would expect the settlement to have around 10 000 inhabitants.
And I would expect the Lunar Races to live in all kinds of secluded places, not only bat-themed as they are also cats and canines. Canyons, underground, under Day Pony cities (I imagine a huge thestral city under Manehuttan), on top of mountains...
3856543 Sounds like the way the Deers lives in the Commic story arch. Sadly, I haven't seen more than the review of that one.
That sounds like a nice town, or a large city for them. Is there any records of the community one can have a sneak peak of?
hmm, so they are not all Ponies?
I particularly enjoy the idea of them living in Manehattan, while staying out of sight of most if not all the Ponies on topside. In a sense it is reminding me of a story I read, and later saw the series of.
There should be several locations like these, scattered all over Equestria and beyond.
3857311 Hollow Shades is an entirely another type of forest.
No, but that leaves much stuff up for debate. I have one of my stories located there.
Well, they are all ponies, just another tribes. They like to keep to themselves and belive that they'll survive in hiding instead of openly defending themselves like the Day Ponies do.
Care to throw a link to the story?
Fun thing: in my cykle I want to make Changelings have a hive city under manehuttan.
In my headcanon Lunar Races serve alicorns of the night all across the globe, so that's a yes.
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I'm back!
Spoiler for the first arc, I plan for us to arrive in front of the ever free castle, where we decide to go inside for the time being. When we reach the library we find that twilight, left behind books that I believe she didn't see reason to take. Most of them being out of date school tome's used by the princesses when they where young, one of them being "Pony Breeds, Anatomy and Hybrids. by Dr, species". That one will need to work on as a side story/book to that verse, there will also be a ye olden map of equstria that we will find there to.
S.W.B.
3857471 Similar dwellings, in another and very different forest?
Guess that boils down to where you come from and your perspective? For a city in the trea tops it is large, while it may be small compared to a city like Manehattan.
Other Tribes, I have some explerience with that part, even if I guess you haven't included all the tribes I have featured. I think I have all the tribes of normal size Ponies. Not just the Bat Ponies, but Flutter Ponies, Tentacle Ponies, Goo/Rubber Ponies for a good starter.
Does Changelings count as Ponies ?
I doubt the story could be relevant to FiM, while there is a chance there is a Cross with the "Beauty and the Beast" of the version I was looking at.(not disney)
Does that count other dark Alicorns, or are they merely scattered beyond the reach of Princess Celestia?
3857642 If it is the one I think you are talking of, there are a few episodes taking place there, more or less. I may even have included it in a few stories of my own.
I could imagine Twilight leaving all the books she had no personal use of. Why carry all the books she already have? She could always go back for them at any time. The library may be old to ancient, but it is a Royal library all the same. If she employed all of Ponyville, it would still take her days to have the books safely in her library.
I can see how she openly chose to leave old and most likely outdated school material where she found it.
The map and mentioned book could prove interesting in our case. If it miss a few types, while explaining others currently forgotten tribes would be very interesting. Maybe it deal with forgotten secrets of our Ponies as well?
Ghost-rowns, forgotten and neglected communities? Do they want to be found? Do we want to find the places mentioned?
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The reason way I say that she would take most of the books to her castle in ponyville, is due to location, distance and availability to the public. This because one, the ruins are on the other side of the forest to ponyville. There are many unknown dangers with in the everfree, and most other ponies are to fearful of whats there to even take a look.
All books have there flaws, and there secrets.
yes and no, you remember equal ville. Yes?
S.W.B.
3857642 SOunds promising. I call dibs on the alkohol in the hidden cellar with the cuthulu monster, tho.
3857687 More-or-less. Hollow Shades is much higher and on much thicker trees, so I belive they would do stuff diffrent, because they can now put some heavy objects down there.
I see that you want to get some audeince from the clop community. Good.
And Changelings come from Ponies. The only question is: are they still a pony tribe or a new species altogether? That is up to debate.
A night alicorn doesn't mean a nightmare alicorn. While Luna was on the moon, other Night Alicorns were living as if nothing happened for the 1000 years.
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They had to make a trek through that forest, and most Ponies had better stay clear of it.
Equestria is ripe with unknown dangers like these.
The library still is under Twilight's care, so I kind of included that section. The question is how long they had to move books from the old castle and into the new? This part could play part in how many books still are in the old library.
Yeah, I guess they do. Just that these books has been there since Celestia moved to Canterlot.
Starlight Glimmers village, you mean? The map of Hrmony still was the wiser of that location as well.
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Tall sollid treas here. Sounds like a mix between Oak and Redwood, if I got the names right.
No point in alienating these, is there? While I personally am working on integrating items into their proper places. Both the types and the materials could be used for mundane taskes and purposes.
So it is up to your personal HeadCanon, if they still are ponies or not? I guess I play both sides up to the middle and the periferies on my end. Are the differences more on the bodily(organic), or the magical(arcane) end of the stick in their case?
Luna still is the same Night Alicorn she was both before, during and after the Banishment. Why should the banishment as such define her character? I imagine you could invent other nightly elements for them to hold. Of course, Luna is the Royal Princess of Equestria.(with Celestia) You could have Princesses on the same level as Cadance and Twilight, whom we haven't seen yet.
While they can't be in this story, but I do have a few Alicorns of my own as either OC or derivates of canon Ponies. If Twilight was to have a faol, she could have an Alicorn; even if she have none to have it with in the show right now.(Flash not counted) I already included little Flurry, just after she was announced, so she is canon even before she was named.
3858555 I think those trees would be growing only in Equestria and categorising it as something Earthish would be futile efford.
A diffrence between a changeling and an Earth Pony is as large as between a Unicorn and a Earth Pony. It's hard to tell ifth bugs are really aseperate species or not.
In my headcannon Twi has Earth Pony Twins with Flash. I thought it would be a nice twist.
3859404 Even Equestrian trees could be compared to what we know if there are examples available. If you are limited to just the one, but multiple samples could give an idea as vague as it may be.
So if the Changelings are Ponies or not is basically up to our Head Canon? Looking at the show, there seems to bne little to make distinction of which are types of Pony, and which are separate species. If you go with how they look, the Donkey, Mule and Zebra could be types of Ponies. If we go by the mark, only the Zebra has anything that could be taken for one. Of course, the mark has to be earned, so if the Donkey, Mule and Cow had none, maybe this is merely a cultural standpoint.
Going by the Cake twins, such a thing isn't impossible. Yet, if you ship the two, it would be awkwards in human comparison, which is how we see them. That certainly would be an interesting and delicious twist. Yet, they can never confirm it. If not for the fact that Spike is a Dragon, he would have better chance to have his ship with Rarity confirmed as he reach consenting age.
3860795 Cyca Trees from the Jura period or the african Baobabs would be the best examples. They bothe are extinct, sadly.
I think the Cutie Mark diffrence lies somewhere in the nature of magic a species has. There must be a unique pattern for them to mannifest.
3860815 On that end, we need to dig up the trees to have an idea.
The marks are magic, that much seems overly obvious. The image needs to be representative of what the Pony is.
Going byt the Cow, they move en mass and can't be distinguished anoth to establish themselves. The Mule and Donkey haven't been entertained enough to say. We only have one Zebra, and some claim it is a tribal tatoo, but why on that spot in that case?
I guess your magic could be faltering for the Griffon and Yak?
3860824 imagine 50-100 meter trees with a village just under the treetops. In a place so devoid of light that you can't see the ground from the wooden streets and bridges.
I guess you're species must be developed in a magical and mental way enought to reach the complexity required for Desteny Magic that produces Cutie Marks, as well you need a fitting magic pattern that the Yaks and Griffons obviously don't have. Maybe brutality enmebded in your nature does prohibit you from getting CMs, would explaing what's so "Cutie" abaut them marks.
3860846 Few trees of today does reach these heights. I may have mixed up the names, but I think it was the Redwood that did manage this. Is it a single tree that blank out the light of day, or is it the combined effort of several trees? While I guess they still should have an entire forest for the community in any event.
There is another refference to trees on your order refered to as Home-Tree in Avatar.
The only character that Qualifies your requirement is Zecora the Zebra. Question is, did she get the mark on her own or with her people?(wheather that is a Zebra community, Ponies or others) Of course, Zecora is a gentle character who clearly manage Magic exceptionally well.
We never saw others delve into any form of magic. I would like to imagine that the Griffons need Magic to fly.
Cuete, that is the Ponies.
3861179 Imagine a forest made out of Redwood Trees.
Actually it's a bit simlar to the Hometree. The ponies of Hollow Shades are living inside hollowed-out trees and use them as structures, with the thicker ones serving more important goals, like offices or the town hall. Around each tree there is a cricle of attached boards that make out platforms that are connected with bridges between themselves. Know also that in some places the town has 2 or 3 levels connected with vertical bridges or occasionally ladders. The city has quite an impressive population due to beeing very broad (I want to say 100 000 now), yet consists mainly from thestrals, due to hight, broadness and the fact that if you manage to survive the fall by rolling with the tree or being slowed down by the lower trees that grow between the Redwoods - the bottom floor is infested with predators where the Manitcore serves the purpose of a wolf in the food chain.
You have to admit, the whole theory makes sence when you read it a few times.
3861195 Hollow Shades, is that derived from living in the hollowed out trees and the shades from the trees?
Of course, with these large trees, you could easily see them as sky scrapers?
That's big wolves.
There has been a few hints towards how the marks works in modern time.
The rest is deduced from what little we know, like when you get the mark and how the event takes place.
Will the mark ever be canonically explained in a scientifical manner? If so, how many seasons would it take, unless they simply shose to make a book, film or episode to the point?
3861252 Logical.
It's a damn big forest. You should expect that when magic is involved.
You misunderstood. I meant that the Manticores are the low-tier predators in the forest, like the wolves ussually are. Now imagine what must be the top predator there as an analogy to a bear in a normal forest. Ursa Mayors at least.
I think if they ever touch the subject, they will explain it with bullshed logic, because they are getting more and more lazy evry season.
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I like logic, it is quite convenient at times. Using it in the process of naming things makes it easier to know what you're talking of, when the name is invoked too.
With trees like the once you invoked, it had to be, or it wouldn't even be a forest in the first place.
How about Dragons.
Do they have any type of actual wolves in the forest? Chimera could be fun, even if tthey were little to no actual threat.
At least, now it is Canon to ask the question and try to answer it. I like well thought out reasons behind things.
3861453 So muxh such trees in one place would need more energy than the climate can provide but if they addonally sap some energy from the winds of magic... then they're possible.
Dragons? Well, I dubt that. Fire Dragons could annihilated the forest in one afternoon. Flightless dragons would have their normal appendages strong enought to get to the treetops. And Earth Dragons would be strong enought to gradually top the forest by destroying the tree roots.
Conclusion: if any type of dragon would be present the forest would already be destroyed, propably by some dragon having a bad day once or they would pose such a treat that could strike at any time and anywhere that keeping the settlement going would be a waste of Pony lives and finding a big cave would be a much better option.
I was thinking more alongside gigant boars, Forest trolls and hybryds.
Maybe Timberwolves? A pack of them could combine into one big one and protect themselves. And maybe go to hunt some meaty fetilizers...
We could ask Luren Faust, as she created whatever cool was in the show.
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Tres gow as fast as they need to. How much energy they need, who's to say? The forest may be older then Celestia. If Everfree has magic, why not another forest too?
Going by Equestria, what if the wood isn't particularly prone to catch fire in the first place. Oak is like this, even on earth. On that note, look at how much of the library that still remained after Tirek?
If you have Hydras and Constelation beasts in the forst, they are bound to have bad days. Just a family of Fenixes managed to ruin the day of a hoard of Draggons.
What a boar? Well, boars are large and dangerous, so they could easily live in the forst.
With larger trees, the Timber wolves would be larger as well. A small twig in the fiorset could consume a bunch of these tiny wolves.
Of course we could ask her, and she did creat this world such as we know it. While there are several others who has a say in what goes in there now. Didn't the Fausticorn leave Equestria?
3861619 Everfree has resident magic, while the Redwood of Hollow Shades would suck in magic from the sorrounding area. I belive it would give the unicorn around a hard time, that's why the Lunar Races settled there - they were save from Celestia's wrath.
There is quite a bit of theory on the topic of buring, it requires much energy and a high heat to proceed. And I think that you have both of those idpf such thick trees catch fire.
Some might argue that Tireck's spell wasn't an incendianry one. It looked more like an energy beam that relised it's energy in heat. The library didn't burn of explode in that case. It evaporated.
The boar is a black, wild swine.
XD
Well, she has an account at deviantART.
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Ewoks any one.
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The force is with you, my friends.
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3862211 I hate half-substitues.
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I have wookies, your argument is invalid and unleash the force!
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have yet to see that episode.
Sorry,
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For all that is, why have I yet to see them all?!
3862265 #Episode3MasterRaceForTheWin
I sometimes wonder why so many geeks at the internet didn't do so much geeky stuff, for example barely any person I know at the internet watched Star Wars, for Christs sake! And there are persons who didn't watched any of the LotRs too! It makes them hippocrates if they want to participate in culture without doing that!
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I concur.
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I really need to find those shows.
3862283 I sometimes forget you don't have wild internet in america. By it I mean unsanctioned servers in Sweden. Long sail the Pirate Bay!
Apologies for being tardy. I've rediscovered the simple joys of galumphing over digital hills in the land of Skyrim. A mini-vacation, accompanied by the soothing sound of podcasts I haven't already listened to.
Also, I wish you'd have told me beforehoof that our ponysonas have to correspond to our respective genders. I'll have to go with plan B...or, I guess it would be plan C. I fail to see the reasoning, unless the story is supposed to contain explicit sexual stuffs that could only be explained through experience.Never mind. After a little digging, I think I figured out why.
I'm going to take some time to read all the world-building proposals before making my character. If there's a compendium, all the better. Hopefully, I can finagle a way to fit into the world while still being interesting enough to command some attention. But with the mention of lunar ponies and mini-hydras, I somehow doubt it.