Robipony's Zone 15 · 10:16pm Feb 11th, 2021
Hello everyone, Brony1337 here.
As all of you who I PM’d, I am part of the group of writers who participate in Robiponys Zone 15 project and I wanted to have some place where we could talk about our ideas and give each other tips.
So I made this blog here.
It’s exactly what I just talked about. Chek it out, give tips and get tips.
If you want to, I could also give your story a quick check for plotholes, spelling and grammar.
List of Participants(with links):
-Robipony (duh)
-Brony1337 (potentially)
-AiryWords
-Viper Pit
-Fennekin11506
-Colbbie
-(Might add more cells if people are REALLY interested)
If you want to share the links with the others, feel free to post the links in your comments, but if I were you I wouldn’t do that. Just use PMs
Lemme start this by telling you about my idea.
First of, I don’t know if I’ll be able to finish my part, cuz I got a lot of work to do. Sucks, I know.
If I do get enough time to write it, this’ll be my monster mare:
Monster Mares:
Name:
Noir (french for black)
Looks:
She’s a pegasus with an olive green coat, a dull, very dark, gray mane and tail and orange golden eyes. She has a black siluette of a pony - or shadow - as cutie mark.
Monster part:
Can hide in shadows. The shadows need to be dark and big enough to cover her whole body. The darker the shadow, the harder it is to see her. When the shadows are dark enough, she’s invisible to the naked eye, even if you know she’s there.
Personality:
Quiet, shy and carefull around people she doesn’t trust, gets nervous when she doesn’t have any shadows, doesn’t like bright light, has a very minor fear of really bright light, doesn’t like loud sounds likes to watch other ponies do their dayly things from a hidden spot, loves to explore (somewhat)empty places, loves the night, once she knows you a bit better and trusts you she opens up quite a bit, likes to shorten simple phrases or replace them with gestures, but still likes to talk, tries to help others as much as she can,
more info:
She’s pretty normal in terms of strength, weight etc, but has a bit more endurance and is slightly smaller than average. While her night vision is above average and moonlight is, most of the time, bright enough for her to see everything, this doesn’t have to be part of her abnormal skills(keep in mind that the moon shines real bright. This “moonlight vision” isn’t as impressive as it sounds.)
Name:
Disco Ball
Looks:
She’s an Earth Pony with green eyes, not-quite-white fur and multicolour mane and tail. Her cutie mark is a disco ball (maybe a prism?) that reflects light.
Monster part:
She can bend light around her to create a few interesting effect. This can turn her invisible, adjust her colors to whatever she wants, it could turn her into a disco ball, … The drawback to her ability is that this is very exhausting. The stronger the light is manipulated, the worse it gets.
Ponynality:
She likes music and parties. She is friendly and open to new ideas. Unlike Noir, she isn’t shy at all and likes to meet new ponies, but doesn’t trust easily.
more info:
I’m working on it, be patient XD
Story:
- mc finds N in a cell flooded with light and frees her
- N wants to free the others, mc tell her they don’t have time for that
- N hits the number for the next cell to free at least one more pony
- once there mc uses the platform to go back while N frees Disco, then flies to the mc and tells him that the other pony will be ok now that she’s free and doesn’t need or want any help
- they flee
- guards use bright flashlights on the shadows
- they reach the exit, which is guarded by two enforcers
- Disco helps them, then disappears
- they get away
- train to Ponyville
- talk a bit more
- stalker pone joins the party
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- not sure about the rest as of now
- need more MM for underground (5?)
- maybe Haywaiin island
That means:
> Noir lives at the mc’s house
> they need some cute moments so the Haywaii part makes sense (talk while on train?)
> I need some way to explain that nopony(BonBon) notices her, it does look like Ponyville is fairly close
--> maybe the furries hacked the cam footage?
> Noir needs a job or something useful she can do. Again, where is the house?
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> moar will come
What do you think about my ideas? What are your ideas? Tell me!
If you find any spelling mistakes point ‘em out.
*Epic music plays.*
I am here. 👾
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*Epic music comes to an abrupt stop.*
Oh...
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Well for ideas, I may be writing 2-3 chapters for the story. One will be a bad ending (mostly as a joke, with a Men in Black reference), and then either an alien chapter or a neko mare chapter (since one of the jokes pertaining to raiding Area 51 was because it had genetically engineered cat girls), or maybe both.
We'll see. I have a job now so who knows.
I have know idea what idea what I read. Mostly because its been a day and a half for me
5452714
Eh, it’s fine, just come back once you got an idea. Or maybe comment on the stuff the others post, whatever you like.
5452628
Is that a reference? I think it is. No idea to what tho.
Also, even though you may not be able to write more yourself, you can still tell us what you think of our ideas.
What if two alien mares got into a fight
5452919
I need more info to make an answer to that.
5452960
Okay so the authors alien tries to protect the main character from some other aliens because they are ether the equivalent to wild animals, sworn enemies, world conquerors, etc,
5452975
That’s actually a great idea, maybe I’ll use it sometime down the line (if you don’t wanna use it yourself).
You say “the authors alien” and “some other alien”. So you mean the author creates one alien and the other one is someone else’s oc? Or I’m just overthinking things.
Hey, maybe some of us could write a “collapsing timelines” chapter.
5452989
I don't care
5452628
So, whatca thinkin bout my story idea?
5454213 I actually didn't have a chance to fully read it until today. Sorry.
5452975
5452989 I mean it's possible. While the reader might only be able to free one alien from the cellblock that he's in, I do hint in the bad ending (that I'm still working on), that Lyra might have actually managed to free a cellblock, so perhaps some of the aliens from that block intercept the author's OC. It could be just some alien animals (or perhaps some ponies experimented on with alien DNA from a rogue company that has recently gone bankrupt) or maybe one of the aliens is a rival to the author's alien OC.
Just a thought.
Also remember to try to use the introductory chapter as a reference for the cell area. We don't want to confuse the readers by having the whole cellblock be different.
5452989 What do you mean by collapsing timelines?
5454285
Quick talk ‘bout stuff you probably already know:
An alternate timeline, AT for short, is a world where things are the same as in the OT(original timeline). Then, someone or something (usually the being in control of the timeline) does something that is different to what happens normally. This can result in minor changes like a color of something or major changes to history.
Example:
OT: Celestia eats her cake. Nothing happens
AT 1: Luna stops her and scans the cake for poison. C then eats the cake. Nothing really changes.
AT 2: Luna eats the cake. Celly casts “TO THE MOON”
Ther eare AU’s (alternate universes)as well, but AU’s start different, like the mirror universe where Sombra is the good boi. Usually they are role or personality swaps.
In our case, every single chapter after the choosing of the cell is an alternate timeline. Your chapter would be the OT.
When timelines collapse, they usually just break apart or start to form one single new timeline to “fix the error”. This can lead to all kinds of crazy stuff, like
- history changes (usually more and stronger changes the longer in the past the AT was created)
- someone being swapped with an AV(alternate version)
- someone changing location
- someone changing stats like hurt, ill, dead or other
- someone and their AV existing in the same world
And the same stuff for events, things, forces, truths and more.
My idea was that there is something that causes the different timelines to fuse (universal error patcher, some cult, Twilight turning frogs into timelines and back, ...)
5454285
So, what do you think? About the timelines idea and my monster mare. If you still haven’t read it, take a look at it now, I restructured it a little.
(The important part starts at “Name:”)
5454513 Well, technically all the paths are the "original/official" route. Though we could have another cell that opens and is seemingly empty, only for suddenly all the cells to open. Or maybe there's an EQG Lyra in the last cell who has been searching for sapient ponies and somehow by opening her cell, the reader either causes the collapsing timeline or all the cells to open.
I need to figure out something cool for the cover image. Preferably something that won't spoil any of our lovely alien mares... But what?
5465515
HB Lyra and the mc plotting/ invading Z15? Problem’s that it would include the mc...
A pic of the cells? That’d be kinda boring
oooh I like this idea:
mc sitting in the middle of the pic, surrounded by MM head-chibi-somethings
like dis
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5465545 Personally I would prefer not to create any images depicting the MC (that way the reader can fill it in themselves), however I do have an idea.
I am thinking of maybe creating an image of an alien mare (green with antenna) in a cell at Zone 15, holding a cardboard sigh with her mouth saying, "I'll be your waifu."
5470090
Nice! And “green with antenna” is a standart look, so it doesn’t matter as much if the aliens don’t look like that.