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This chapter is my all-time favourite in the whole story. I just love how you don't depict the massacre, but just build up to it, and then, suddenly, there's a DJ Pon3 broadcast. This is just so perfect and tension-breaking. I won't lie when I say that the last scene leaves me just a little hollow inside every time I read it.
P.S. Since I'm already posting a Fo:E song, might as well post this relatively old collab song with CrazedRambling about Arbu:
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well shit.
This is the darkest moment of our hero, one that will haunt her for the rest of her life. This was really well done as it gives us the chance at the end to see that not everypony that seems good will be good or that everypony will be evil. I love Pon 3 at the end, it feels like to me that she was holding back every urge to cry at that moment, heck I can see her stopping the broadcast at that moment, laying down and crying. I love the morality at play here and I love how the story gives us this excellent moment
Rule number 47 of Fallout: If met with the sickening truth, KILL EVERYTHING!!!
Also for DJ pon3 radio broadcasts, I always hear three dogs voice.
I never quite understood the significance of the Jamocha Joe/Mr. Bean subplot in this chapter. Is there anything more to it, or is it just supposed to be a slice-of-life from wartime Equestria, showing how bad things have gotten? I keep on expecting to find some massive revelation hidden within, like what happens in Midnight Shower's story, but I keep not seeing anything.
Great chapter.
I want to say this is my favourite chapter, because of the sheer emotion and jaw-dropping escalation of events, but I could say that about chapter 19, or 28, or the yet to be released chapters 37 and 44. I wonder what that says about my opinion of this story.
wow... over 2000 likes in 1 month....
I have a funny ass story with the fic; I spent over two hundred dollars printing it out just so I could read it (I didn't have Internet access, and all I could use was a library computer). The funny part is that I still don't regret it...
If I were LittlePip, I wouldn't have complained because you need to do even the darkest things to survive.
But I guess everyone has their morals. I just wonder how everyone else is going to react. To her killing everyone but then the realization that they were cannibals.
3095127 Didn't she realize they were cannibals first and then kill them?
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No, I meant when she's going to explain it to everyone out in the wasteland. To Homage.
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By this point in the story, virtually everything Littlepip had seen of the past was about the Ministry Mares, the active war effort, and highest echelons of government and society. I felt the story cried out for a view from the eyes of a common pony. And while there are no major revelations, I hoped that the downward spiral -- a sense of "things fall apart, the center cannot hold" in the daily life of a normal Equestrian citizen -- would thematically mirror the Littlepip's own descent in this chapter.
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I'm humbled (and a bit embarassed).
3095998 Makes sense. I suppose I was just too used to the story's normal attitude of "every other paragraph is a Chekhov's Gun" to be content with a simple, thematically-appropriate slice-of-life.
3095127 theres a very big difference between eating someone you've killed in self defence and luring them in with kind words and a friendly demeanor than killing them just to eat them for godsesss sake they write horror movies about that shit!!
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Okay that makes sense, but it's survival! Of course they're going to do that.
It's wrong, but hell, you gotta do with what you got. I probably understand now why she killed them all.
3093452 three dogs will be back in fallout 4 baby :-)
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Bless The Lord the savior is back! No matter how bad it hurts! Can't wait!!!!!!
Yes! Almost to chapter 43.
I'm confused. Why the fuck did the Paladin order the Rangers to attack all of a sudden. That whole no matter which way we tell it thing. Someone care to explain?
Reminds me a bit of some of the more complicated choices from Fallout 3 - for example, the town that this is based on, Arfu, in FO:3, was a town of cannibals. Once you find out, you can go on your merry way, or kill them all (except the children) and leave them in the care of that town's version of Grandpa Rattlesnake.
Also reminded me a bit of the Tenpenny Tower quest, for some reason. Where the 'good' option of allowing the ghouls to move in and live with the humans ends up having all the humans killed and their bodies dumped in the cellar, and the leader of the ghouls telling you to 'fuck off', essentially. (I chose to massacre the ghouls when I figured out they were worse than Tenpenny in their 'smoothskin' hatred.)
I love this story so much. Such a good read, everytime.
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Most likely the Steel Rangers intended to kill the traitors that came to the meeting regardless, to deal a blow to the Rebels and to discourage any other Steel Rangers from turning traitor. Which is why the Steel Ranger they where originally going to trade the Elder for was killed before they even met with Steelhooves. They probably didn't tell the scribe so that the 'act' would be more convincing.
Like they said, the Elder would be a martyr dead, but is a cooky old man as long as he's alive, wasting Steel Rangers in various death traps and missions for his own ends.
An excellent chapter. I had my suspicions when they started gathering bodies, mostly due to Genre Savviness. Still, the reveal was excellently done, and the bit with the broadcast at the end, reacting to the (justified) massacre: Hit that right note perfectly.
Also, 'lesbincestuous' is my new favorite word. And apparently, one that chrome's spell check recognizes. I loved the slice of life coffee battle; a rather light and cheeky counterpoint to... well, the rest of the chapter.
Basements are always evil in this fandom. You go in a basement? Someone's gettin' put into food.
On one last note for this chapter
You brilliant, beautifully evil bitch, I tasted it when I read it.
Raze this town, raze this town, A-R-B-U, Littlepip's gonna raze this town, A-R-B-U.
Looking back, this chapter really was a turning point for Pip. After all of the crap she's been able to drag herself through (sometimes with the help of a few Mint-als), the weight of it all comes crashing down on the poor mare and she acts on a terrible impulse. We finally see our hero make a defining mistake, as SteelHooves points out. This was a wonderfully executed chapter.
SPOILERS
Kkat is a human.
Getting a little Celestia, are we? I thought it was illegal for anypony else to say "my little ponies" in a soothing tone of voice?
I told you it was a bad idea to make GLaDOS the emergency backup. I told all three of you. But did you listen?
You say that like you disagree.
The ones who are in contact with the Goddess and sane, sure. So that's a whole zero alicorns in Canterlot you don't need to worry about.
The rest might cause trouble, though.
You had no reason to believe that you would activate defenses that would treat you all as hostile. You did what you needed to do. And you can't dwell on unpredictable consequences of your actions. That way lies madness, and you're no use to us like that.
The first eclipse in over a millennium . . . ominous indeed.
So friendly, you'll never leave. Apparently.
I found it unclear for a while whether they often were going beyond eating those who died of various non-food-related causes. Because I totally would have accepted that as a reasonable (albeit desperate) practice; waste not, want not. It wasn't until that interview with the crazy old stallion that I was sure Littlepip had acted more or less appropriately in killing them all.
Banditry is not like raiding, no matter how similar some parts of the process may look. Nopony goes into banditry for fun.
There's corrupted kindness.
It's so different, read this part a second time. Everything takes on a different meaning. I did not understand, my first time around.
But we won't tell you what dinner is.
Isn't that insulting to the intended audience, though? (I actually just looked up a bunch of Wonder Woman covers, just to check I wasn't saying something really stupid. I only saw one that depicted her saving a man (from a nuclear bomb), and I would hardly call him "wide-eyed" or "cowering.")
But at least the monster isn't plumbing.
Clearly, all this turmoil is terrible for the chain of command. There's just no respect for orders, these days.
Now there's a tactical question. Who do you target first when you cannot kill the heaviest hitter without considerably more focus than you can afford to give during battle? Is it worth the time it takes to shoot him and switch targets to put him down for a few seconds?
Given the inherent brevity of a firefight like this, with most ponies involved caught out in the open, a few seconds is a lot, so probably.
Here's a hypothetical: say zebra espionage had not been so good, they had been blindsided by alicorn soldiers, and Equestria had won the war. All of the Mane Six survived, and had time to be friends again (especially with Pinkie having admitted she has a problem, and you know Dash can't stay mad at 'Shy forever), and all that. Then the secrecy of M.Aw. black ops would no longer be a matter of national security. Surely Dash and Pinkie would want their friends to know that Zecora was a brave Equestrian spy, not a filthy traitor, yes? And it is quite unfortunate that she died during an operation meant to help establish her cover, but at least she died in service to her country, not in service to the enemy. Such things are sadly a possibility when one is faking being a traitor in times of war. Because AJ did not tell anypony what she knew about Zecora's death, right? So Pinkie and Dash would not know there was more to her death.
What would AJ do, when she learned the truth?
"Pony beans." Sounds like very small pony pies. Not really something I want to drink.
But it would mesh with how I hear his coffee tastes.
The good folk of Arbu would have to be exceedingly foolish to try anything, though. For one thing, it's a well-known fact that DJ Pon3 watches every move Littlepip makes, and having the legendary heroine mysteriously disappear in your town would probably make merchants (also other ponies, but of course the merchants matter more) disinclined to visit, once the news got out. Having the Stable Dweller escape and report you tried to kill her would be worse. More importantly, though, they'd need to make sure that SteelHooves notices nothing, since they certainly don't have the technology to kill him, despite the fact that ghouls don't sleep. And that he'll probably find it suspicious if all his friends disappear overnight.
The sole voice of reason.
Nevertheless, let us charge forth to Bucklyn Cross and Littlepip's greatest moral failure.
If he did, I will buy a hat solely for the purpose of eating it.
When you have the power to say when normal behavior is insanity, what remains to restrain you?
Really, I didn't want to believe Littlepip had behaved appropriately. Because she hurt Homage. And I don't like approving of Littlepip hurting Homage.
Also: "Bringing you the truth. No matter how bad it hurts." I love that line in this context.
"Gummy. You son of a bitch."
(5 Internet cookies to anyone who gets the reference)
And like Borg, I thought GLaDOS at the neurotoxin bit.
I also don't want to approve of Pip hurting Homage, but the way I see this is more "I don't like that Homage is hurting because of not knowing the full story yet."
It'll turn out okay, no problem.
...Right?
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Nnnnnope.
3092732 HOLY..... dat song is so darn good!! can you send me the link to this, so i can share it with my friends on steam? also, can you send me the links to your other fallout: equestria songs? i would REALLY appreciate it!
Everyone kills raiders on sight without a second thought, but when you see they have have a family, oooh suddenly you've gone too far.
Alright, I can't be the only one who got the joke with the Brahmin. Anyone who didn't get it, does not diserve to read this. Play Fallout 3 and go to Oasis. Hell, play Fallout 1 and 2. I CANT BE THE ONLY ONE HERE WHO GOT THAT JOKE.
Warning, Spoilers. Resist the urge.
Oh FUCK! I had completely forgotten about that town in Fallout! Holy shit, I flipped a shit when I figured out where things were going. Jesus, Littlepip's gonna kill em all for this. Especially for the colt.
Thank you, Stable-Tec, for inventing this system... Can this get any worse? (it's a rhetoric question)
Oh shit...
Shit just gets deeper...
And shit just hit the fan... They just looked too good... And that was probably the darkest, most shocking part for me so far... Poor Littlepip
Littlepip is seriously starting to piss me off.
She keeps missing something very important. Something that a pony once told her to her own face: The Equestrian Wasteland demands sacrifice.
All the ponies she meets are simply doing what they have to do to survive. For food, water, security and shelter. They are doing their best in a world that is hell, and sometimes they have no choice but to turn to "evil" deeds.
The bandits outside Arbu that she so readily massacred: they weren't the "beyond all hope" type of ponies like raiders. She notices this. I reckon that she could have inferred that they were going to ambush the caravan in order to get themselves some provisions, provisions that they likely could not obtain any other way, and stop themselves from starving to death. All these ponies needed was some security in their situation. And yet even after having noticed this, she still slaughtered them. She could have tried to stop them and tried to get them accepted into a town where they could find a stable job for a stable food source. Hell, she even had that poison dart gun if she was forced to shoot at them. But nope.
And Arbu itself: she knew the town was in a bad situation. She knew they were running out of radigators (their only source of bartering material to obtain other essential supplies), had no proper water, and were basically falling apart. The town adapted. They had no choice. They did what they had to do. And Littlepip killed them all, simply for their want of life. Do you think the little fillies and colts even had a choice?
Now, I can understand Pip's point of view and why she's doing it. She wants to make the world better. A noble goal. But I think she is simply too ignorant about life and doesn't actually think about anything. There are many, many instances in this story where she could have found a solution that didn't involve killing everypony. And yet her stupidity keeps her doing just that every time, never learning. For all her internal monologues of wanting to be better, she never actually puts any effort into actually becoming better.
Littlepip is played up as the hero. She is supposed to be the hero. And heroes don't kill other ponies simply because those ponies want to be alive. And I guess that is the part that is making me upset with her: she is treated as the last bastion of light in the world, and yet she is nowhere near that. She isn't acting her role.
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Corrupted kindness.
That is the most sickening thing i have ever read in my life.
been reading this story for days now because I'm a slow ass reader, derp. But This chapter strikes me. It shows her hitting her lowest and doing an atrocity of killing a whole town. I don't know where this will go from here, but I can say that it will haunt her. She let her rage take control. Throughout this whole story I was waiting for the things that would lead to "I've done things" sort of statement. Who ever is wrong, she's killed three different types of people in one day in her desire for good. Chaotic good perhaps. It makes her character wholesome to show us that she can make mistakes, big ass mistakes.
I'm reading this as a newcomer to the Fallout series. Wonder what it's like reading this as a newcomer to the MLP series? I can picture someone reading this chapter then watching the Pinkie Sense episode and saying "Oh, so that's where the toothless gator came from!"
I still don't understand the Steel Ranger's logic behind the battle of Bucklyn Cross Bridge.
1) The group known for killing innocents to get their hooves on a lightbulb is suddenly worried about bad publicity.
2) They think they can solve the risk of bad publicity by killing a Wasteland Hero.
Someone please explain this to me!
Wait, just read SteelHooves' comments on the Martyr thing. They're taking a page from the Enclave's book by sacrificing one of their own to discredit Applejack's Rangers. Having a pony whom is essentially the most respected pony in the wasteland ('till the end of this chapter) sitting on the enemy's side of the negotiation table really killed that plan.
I missed that last time I read this story. Finally everything makes sense.
I had to imagine he had ingested worse. Often
Oh, you have no idea, Pip...
Certain parts of this chapter were tough for me to reread.
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Hah. If you think Littlepip gets annoying--I was personally never fond of her self-esteem issues--just wait until you see Blackjack. If you read Project Horizons, that is.
Though the way she annoyed me enough to turn me off the story for 5+ months has more to do with self-esteem, like Littlepip.
Anyway, I get what you're saying. Upon a little reflection thereon, it seems to me that the Arbu ponies weren't necessarily all that bad. Indeed, their situation is worse than any other settlement Littlepip has come across. They perhaps did simply what they had to.
However, to sum it into one sentence, eating hearts seems... Excessive.
I see your argument that Littlepip overreacted (in fact, we can probably agree on that point) and that these ponies weren't actually bad. However, given her perspective and, at least, the way it all looks to her... Well.
Regardless, the story makes it clear that Pip isn't perfect, that her reputation is bigger than she herself and that she makes mistakes. I personally feel that she's the best damn person in the Wasteland (well, given how great others are... one of the best, technically), or even in anything I've read, but again, she's only... equine.
...Point being, she's not [narratively] supposed to be playing the savior role perfectly. This is her gravest mistake, or at least, her darkest moment. I'm starting to feel I'm not making much of a point here, but either way, hindsight 20/20 etc., we can't quite expect her to be perfect.
That said, none of this really has to do with your personal annoyance at her. In the end, it doesn't bother me while it does you, but...
...What am I even saying, anymore? Blah blah argument.
3648628 "Raiders can breed? So raiders are people too? Just bad people? This changes everything! I thought nameless raider people were just loot containers that shoot at you for no reason!"
Every. Time. Show me a computer that isn't trying to kill everyone and I'll just show you one that hasn't reached the most ironic time to do so yet.
Fallout 2 reference there. Those poor (Human) Enclave scientists, killed by someone getting ethics.... Ethics are evil, I'm telling you!
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*Faceplant* Kkat, did you just go...
...to nearly every settlement...
....in Fallout 3 to steal one of their gimmicks? Well, at least you didn't-
This isn't going to end well if that isn't the only gimmick you stole from that specific settlement.
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Oh no! That's terrible!
Terribly funny!
Suddenly, assaulted by memories of Tank Engines and Ringo Starr.
Does he grow on you over time?
Another chapter done! Might finish one day.
Sometimes I wonder if Lilpip has forgotten that she lives in the Wasteland, cus even after all this time she still expects to find any good in it, her so called "righteous rage" agaisnt the Arbu folk was nothing but slaughter, do I care about them? No, kill them all If you want, but dear Luna dont go weeping over a dead bandit and his kid! Just shoot them both and be done with it!
Lilpip morals and self-esteem issues have been getting on my nerves quite a lot, at first I had no problem with it, she had just left the Stable, It was understandable, but here we are now, thirty or so chapters ahead, and she is still having the same damn problems!
I love this story to death, the flash-backs moments, the effort put into world building, Its all fantastic, but I cant deny the fact that Lilpip tries too hard to ruin it for me.
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Well to be fair, I didn't really know the definition of tinny either so we're even in that regard
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Which is exactly why I said it was funny. I can't imagine the low angle shot needed to shoot LilPip's breast area. Which of course Homage might do because she has a kink for that apparently.
For those who don't know, quadraped breasts are located near their nether regions.
For even further explanation without referring to such areas, imagine a cow and their udders. Exactly the same.
You may now proceed to laugh at how awkward an angle would be needed to shoot there. That, or LilPip just raising her flank in the air like she just don't care
Oh, and here's another example of a good one;
If the event wasn't so life threatening, she would be ecstatic I bet. Now if only Homage was doing the shocking *snicker*
impacted the bandit’s armor with little affect
asking where the new graves where
1. Effect.
2. Were.
Well... Diplomacy went down the drain because of disdain from the lower ranks about the higher ups. makes matters worse when they knew their leader was just sending them to their deaths for his survival in the end.
I also took the 'friendliest town' scthick like LilPip. Wow was I thrown for a loop but I don't think I lost it like she did when they secretly fed her pony meat. I think- no, truly believe that what LilPip did to that town was needed because no pony can last alone and when you just view company as anothe food source when needed, there truly is no saving your sanity for you will go mad because all you'll be thinking is; "Huh, thought she would taste better. Wonder who my next meal will be?" I can only imagine the red LilPip would be seeing if Homage was subjected to that or worse, become a victim. When the lights of your hope in the wasteland is taken away from you like that, I don't think anyone would be beyond blind rampaging bloodlust.
On a side fact to this, praying mantis. The females eat their mates and when we look down on them our opinions are divided from grossed out to that's how nature works. maybe because they evolved that way to survive, who knows. If we applied the same thing to ourselves... I'm starting to think this sort of cannibalism works for those who give birth often and in a short time. Definitely not for those who take 9 months at least to bear maybe one child to three. Wow, cold calculating bastard am I. I blame the air conditioning in here that LilPip would wring my neck for. At least she'll wring me till I almost pass out. Possibly.
Oh Homage, the truth does hurt. Seeing things through a third party in comparison to living them will always be different. I wonder what she would say if she saw what LilPip saw in Arbu? LilPip won't give her a chance even if they tried to extract her memory by force, she loves her too much to expose her to that, even if it means hurting her to no end just to spare her the grim truth. Makes you wonder about Borgs comment about how LilPip chose poorly on telling Spike how Twilight died. Always up for debate, isn't that right 3231012?
And here is I presume is the darkest chapter of Pip's quest. The town didn't have much other choice but their crimes weren't as bad compared to many others in the wasteland. And then there's Bucklyn Bridge and the "raiders" as well. Oh god. I genuinely feel sorry for both of them. The "shoot first ask questions later" mentality that the entire group shares at its worst. It really plays with our thoughts of who are good and bad guys, and I love it. And yet, I can't simply blame her for it. She's been through a whole ton of ton of soul-destroying shit in a short span of time and definitely has something akin to PTSD (or Wartime Stress Disorder). Not to mention she had a concussion and a whole host of other mental issues. Expecting pure good shouldn't be expected of anyone, least of all Pip and her victims. At the very least, seeing that abattoir must have conjured some memories from slaver and raider dens. And now that I've read chapter 35, I've discovered Arbu's crimes were much greater than I thought. The ending of the chapter was done pretty damn well, that reveal was perfect. I'm half-expecting Pip to start saying there's hardly even a world left to save, but I know it won't last if it does happen.
3094826 I am doing the exact same thing. Printer ink is an expensive bitch.
Bob and Herbert? What fun. I hope Fluttershy had a bamboo tree grow out of her chest.
What I made it to Anandale I knew something was wrong, and when Gran'pa told me to look in the basement, or the shed
I did. I made my sister pick up the phone because I fucking called it!
LP: Okay boys and girls. Who's up for a kidnapping?
Others: <stare>
LP: Who's going to get Shandy/Shady Shores onto Sky Bandit so we can whisk him away to Junction R-7? Also, does anyone have any kerosene to spare?
Finally, as a human being I see no problem with eating horse meat whatsoever. But these are ponies themselves. There in lies the trouble.
fucking called it
arbu/arby reminds me of the white glove society or the dairy from the walking dead game
I woulda done the same thing.
I am reminded of this movie. Thoughts?
Damn... I shoulda clued in earlier.
I-I...just...no words...not sure if I want to cry or vomit...
Damn. Littlepip goes hardcore!
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I think it means breast as in the "chest" area or her front. Where the breasts would be if Li'l Pip was human on her 4 limbs
I...You know what... I'm disappointed, in myself anyway. I feel like I should have clued in that Arbu=Arefu.
Anyway, I get the feeling that that will be one hell of a conversation next time they meet up.