Still nothing. · 5:53pm Jun 23rd, 2016
Sorry for making you wait yet another month. After going over the chapter with my editor, he convinced me to rewrite the ending and so far it has been more difficult than I had imagined. I know what i want to write but it's just not coming out. Right now the rewriting has added another one thousand words and it should be another thousand give or take to finish it. The problem is that I don't have the time, and when I do, I can't get myself to write. Is this the so called writers block? Wanting to write something so badly and yet not being able to write?
Anyway, I apologize again for not being able to deliver. I'm as mad at myself as you guys most likely are with me. I just want to get this over with.
In other news, I've decided to put Encounters in Hiatus for now. I know what I want for the next chapter, Spoiler alert:The guard is coming but I need to really think what will happen after that. I need to talk that over with my editor, but first I need to finish the Savage chapter before concentrating on Encounters.
Ah, mine old enemie. Woe betide thee for having taken another into thine fell clutches.
I have this fun idea for Encounters. I need to write it down to get rid of it.
Celestia recognizes the description and sends in two "specialists", who are perfect to deal with problem like this. They look like your ordinary ponies (except that they amble rather than trot), but they really are human were-ponies and very few Equestrians know who they truly are. They arrived by a similar mishap, a few years earlier.
They "transform to shapes the creature would not fear" — i.e. scantily clothed humans — and enter the forest. They loudly shout in multiple Earth languages for the hero to come out. Either something attacks them, or they fall off a cliff, or they get caught in the hero's pitfall trap. And he has to rescue them.
Then they explain the situation to him in overly simplified terms. "The purple one is the princess. She rules the town. The yellow one is her courtier. And you ate her pet beavers." For extra laughs English could be not their first language and their command of it not too reliable.
They avoid the topic of him breaking Twilight's shield as if it was something common.
They give him a choice: either come to Ponyville and face the trial (where they promise a token punishment, but he doesn't share their confidence) or go to the opposite side of the forest, transform into a pony like them and try to live among ponies like they do (Celestia will know who he is, but most ponies won't). He picks trial.
Neither of them knows he will be accused of overhunting the forest.
Whew, got it off my mind.
CORRECTION: I completely forgot he attacked Zecora too.
4048858 Well that's certainly an interesting idea. Although I already have planed how his encounter with the guard will go down. I had also thought of having him him face a trial, although it would be for far more serious charges than overhunting. But that is one of the things I have to talk with my editor.
4049339 What other charges? He attacked the ponies, but no lasting harm was done. It was all a big misunderstanding. If they ensure he really won't do that again, give him a place to live and a job to feed him, and watch him so that he doesn't break rules again, there's no reason to punish him much.
There was a mention that the game was getting scarce. I got the impression that either he killed too much, or he drove them away, or something sinister is at work. Thus the idea that ponies may pick the first variant.
4049833 Let's continue this by PM, I don't want to give away too much of what I have planned.