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I read War and Peace in the original Russian. Fo:E is longer.
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The New American Library version of War and Peace (an English translation) is 587,287 words. Fallout Equestria, according to this, is 607,200 words. If War and Peace took you longer, it's probably because, as you said, you found it more boring (I would agree; "great works of literature" are not always "interesting works of literature", I find).
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I of course read it in the original Russian too, being forced to do so by my Russian educational system in my Russian school. But that is not the point. The point is, Fo:E didn't take me nearly as much time to read as War and Peace. (I still involuntarily shudder when I remember the three brown tomes I just HAD to read).
(end of both the involuntary shudder and off-topic.)
As I don't want to fall off-topic, I feel compelled to share the reasons why I love Fo:E. (The first two are more or less obvious.)
One, I love Fallout game series. As far as CRPG's go, they had a very well written story with tons of different ways to solve situations (especially, first two games). And the abundance of references to Fallout in Fo:E is just totally exciting. They all gave me good laughs even in the darkest moments of the story itself.
Two, well, I do love MLP:FiM.
Three, the contrast of these two worlds (Fallout and Equestria) only makes the ideals of MLP .... hmmm... shine brighter?.. Don't want to go into spoilers here, but Fo:E made me look completely differently at laughter and generosity elements. Ever since reading this story I can't watch the very first two episodes of the show without tears in my eyes. Sure, I like Mane 6 well enough regardless, but now when I see Rarity and Pinky they have extra meaning to me. Thank you, Kkat, for that!
Also, I like how the story redeems (well, for me at least, better people might not need that kind of "re-deeming") some less attractive characters of the show. I can't help but sympathize Diamond Tiara and even Trixie whom I liked less than the other characters before (my apologies to all their fans). I also like how Ditzy Doo gets an extra dimension. And griffins get their share of justice too, in a positive way.
And, finally, personally, I approve and love how the love is not bound by gender in the story.
I really, really, like it. Did I say, thank you, Kkat?
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Sorry for the misunderstanding. You were talking about the flow of the story and the time it took you to read it; I mean the sheer word count.
And, of course, as a native speaker, you must know better.
Hey does anyone know where I can buy this story in book form?
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This site of the Fo:E Resource is devoted to printing Fo:E. The second wave of books is scheduled to next summer, if I understand correctly. For now, we can only wait till we can sign up. (There were issues; the wave should have been up this summer, but PayPal was derping or something.)
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I totally agree, I tried reading through Le Mort De Authur once and I bearly made it past 100 pages before I quit. Heck, some people can't read Lord of the Rings without thinking its garbage. This proves that to make a great
ficstory, are interesting characters, a great plot to push them through, and a good writing style.Now, I have to say, I love the opening to this chapter with Homage and Little pip in the rain, its so sweet and tender. Its just too adorable for words. Wich makes the next two chapters all the more tragic
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Almost got it right.
I'm confused about what exactly taint is. The mega spell in Canterlot used it to kill Luna and Celestia but I thought that Twilight created it to make alicorns.
I just know what it is that Red Eye deserves.
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The pink cloud killed the princesses. The "taint" is a Twilight's creation. They are not one and the same.
Great
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Hmm. I suppose that makes sense. I imagine that slides Fluttershy rather nicely into Charisma, with Luna being Perception?
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I love you 88!
On the story. It's incredible I'll easily call the greatest thing I've ever read any day, any place.
I'm a total nerd for FE now and Littlepip is my hero.
3089020 the megaspell that was used on canterlot had nothing to do with the taint
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Induced Metamorphosis Potion (AKA Taint, IMP,) is the potion that Twilight spent the last few years of the war perfecting. It was intended to create Alicorns and when the dosage is right, it does just that. However, it's components have very strong transformative properties and so when exposed to an imperfect or insufficient dose it has hyper-carcinogenic and mutative effects.
The Pink Cloud was the payload (warhead?) of the original Zebra megaspell attack on Canterlot. The spell was intended to kill the Princesses, and so was made particularly nasty. Anything it touches is warped and/or partially melted. It is apparently water-souble and has the ability to create Canterlot Ghouls and Necromantic Broadcasters (I don't remember if they ever came up with a name for those...).
I named my kitten after LittlePip, she's honestly one of the best OC's ever to grace the Brony fandom.
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Wow! I'm very honored! That's really sweet.
I swear to God, the Canterlot Ruins are probably the most deadly place I have ever read about in a fictional story. I mean, deadly while still being survivable. Of course, like, a black hole is deadlier. But.
Also her use of present tense when talking about the Gardens of Equestria makes me cry forever.
3091078>>3089304 Thanks for clarifying that I'm not sure how I mixed those two up.
3087050 Thank you for clarifying that
SPOILERS
Watcher is a dragon.
I wonder if she watched this orb in the wake of Arbu and Bucklyn Cross? Dark times indeed.
Trust me, you'd do the first thing anyway if you didn't end up in charge of maintaining the sunshine and rainbows. I know you.
Poetry is hard, yeah. At least if you want to do it right. It took me years of writing new lyrics to other people's songs to really get meter down, and I'm still barely ever creative enough to do anything the slightest bit original.
And I'm told that coming up with words to express your feelings is particularly hard. I wouldn't know, though, being a cyborg and all.
Well I for one completely support your choice of metaphors. It's your song, you'll do what you want with it.
You are the heroine that Spike should have been looking for. That's far better than being the one he wants.
I don't approve. How we die is irrelevant to us, but important to others. Too important to lie about, when not absolutely necessary. He deserves to know the truth, even though it hurts.
It's the witching hour, by the way. Why don't you ask somepony? Or Wikipedia it or something like that; you're only transcribing your story through one of the three most powerful computers ever built. There's got to be some way you could learn this.
"Good" doesn't need to mean "lawful good." If the benefits of Cheese's death were enough to outweigh the danger of the precedent killing a prisoner would set (which is to say, worth ensuring that Outcasts captured by Steel Rangers never survive), I'd say go for it. And by all means, don't avoid considering the possibility that fighting will break out and Cheese will die just because hoping for that sort of accidental death is not the lawful good thing to do. That'll just leave you potentially unprepared.
Stable City is actually quite civilized I'll have you know.
Everywhere else is zombies and alicorns, though. In various stages of insanity, as a rule.
About as possible as Discord getting a job as a librarian and being commended for how neatly organized he keeps the shelves.
I will never entirely get used to the dissonance of having mind uploading and souls in the same universe.
Insulting Pyrelight? That was just uncalled for.
Pyrelight, dear, you're beautiful the way you are, and don't let any mean Steel Rangers tell you differently.
I've thought about this sort of idea quite a bit. I am staunchly utilitarian, and so to hold any means of making decisions in higher regard than perfect rationality would fundamentally contradict my philosophy. But I also strongly believe that empirically, those who seek to rule emotionlessly are not good leaders, whether they try to be or not. It's hardly the only time that the messiness of the real world has made it hard to properly apply abstract principles (my friends call my principles overly simplistic, but adding more precepts that need to be applied will just make things worse than thy already are; I don't know how they do it), but it was a fairly vexing instance. In time, however, I did figure it out: perfect rationality is irrelevant, as it may never be achieved, and the illusion thereof is a heavy weight to bear. People are not suited to be truly impartial; emotions exacerbate the problem, of course, but even without them we are still laden down with preconceptions, poor logic, and unproductive habits. Evolution has not prepared us to reason properly from incomplete data, which is all we ever have. The best defense is to recognize one's flaws (perhaps even make a deliberate effort to skew one's thoughts in a particular direction, if one cannot determine how one naturally leans) and know to get a second opinion when the chance of erring rises. To think oneself perfectly rational is anathema to that; if you are perfectly rational, then by definition your opinion is always superior to that of anybody who disagrees with you. Who then can save you from your mistakes? And that is why thinking yourself rational is a grave mistake.
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Actually, the term that Littlepip is looking for is "the hour of the wolf", which is the hour between late night and early morning, traditionally the one between 3am and 4am. The reason that Littlepip never remembers the name is because this was written well before the episode Family Appreciation Day, and so I didn't know for sure if Equestria had wolves.
Fuck. Yeah. Lil'pip!
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When I load up Fallout 3 after finishing this story, I plan on naming my character Littlepip. I always play pretty much 100% good, using Sneak, Science, Lockpicking and Light Guns, anyway, but... Still, I'll make sure to go about things just as she would. >_>
Anyway, I agree with Liquid. Littlepip is just fantastic.
3391931 Aww, thank you! I'm honored.
And I'm loving your comments every chapter.
So the static will kill you. THE RETURN OF SLENDER MAN
Littlepip just became my favorite OC. And Fallout: Equestria just became my favorite story. There will forever be a shrine on my userpage for this story. Well done, Kkat.
Just a thought...
Since Cottage Cheese never got the blackbook, coulnt they just destroy the crusader maneframe once he got himself inside it?
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I imagine that this would then be phrased as "the hour of the timberwolf". Makes sense to me at least.
I started making a list pairing elements from this story to elements it's parallel from the various fallout games. Then I stopped at 14 once I realized that there are so damn many parallels.
On a related note, I think the Sky Bandit is a very clever name referencing the Highwayman.
4197873 Why the hell didn't I get that till now? And me feeling clever for getting all the other references, obscure and otherwise (Ok, maybe not otherwise.)
Speaking of references, looks like we got Operation Anchorage installed. Also, we got The Pitt (Obviously), Point Lookout (Well, it exists, it was mentioned earlier as a pony pun), Mothership Zeta may exist (We got the firelance encounter referenced! Zebra alien stories that might also be about Kkat! Aliens might be canon.) and Dead Money (Again, obviously). So if we got Dead Money.... where is the level cap rise?
Might be speaking too soon but... the pink cloud doesn't seem as cool as the blood red cloud. Necro ghouls that repeat their last actions are interesting (It's like Singularity and Fear!) but it just seems like... well, a poison gas cloud. The Red Cloud was corrosive and preserved technology, the Pink Cloud does the same but... not as well. Probably talking too soon anyway, we will see. Shame about the Ghost People, now they are really ghost people but the green lens gas masked armoured suited agile men stole my heart. Even here, we can't escape the BS of speakers! Especially when the reason they exists makes less sense too....
Also Big MT and their experiments got written out entirely. Fk.
Amazing chapter! The conversation between Elder Cottage and Littlepip was well written, her comments about him near the end nailed it for me, Littlepip is definately maturing over the course of this story.
3087564 I'm just cut and pasting it onto Micro Word. It's long, boring, but it will be MY copy.
This, is a beautiful chapter. I am questioning if Littlepip spoke with Watcher and had the memory removed. I very much want to say yes and he faked that whole conversation with her, but I don't know man. Both orbs held little snippets of intel for her, and every time Rarity's name is mentioned I trust her less and less. I am waiting for her to come across an orb with Pinkie speaking directly to Littlepip herself.
I wouldn't call this a total lie. Her death was to create something to stop the war which would in turn save ponies. She died trying to accomplish said goal so it was arguably a noble death. As far as thinking of Spike goes that can be neither confirmed nor denied so it is neither a lie nor a truth. Just a speculation.
What happens when some looks into a memory orb of someone looking into a memory orb?
5036620 You fool. You've doomed us all! *universe implodes*
3087348 you, good Sir, are AWESOME!
5036620 orbseption
If Canterlot Ruins is indeed like that, than I would die within ten minutes. I am both those things in games like Fo:E.
Canterlot... sounds like a DLC from fallout New Vegas. (Forgotten the name.)
5620188 Dead Money, takes place in the Sierra Madre, it's basically the same thing.
Damn it. This line seriously makes me want to cry a little myself no matter how many times I read this fic. Out of all the tragedies that happen in this story, Spike's mourning for Twilight is what gets to me the most.
That and SteelHooves dying...
Hey, shouldn't Sammy have left a comment?
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Isn't that the point?
I know its been done before, but... Right in Dem' Feels!!
I can't wait for that day to "come".
I am heavily reminded of Naomi Hunter and Frank Jaeger from Metal Gear Solid franchise
Will this be a meme with you inside of Stables, Littlepip?
"HRK! Fox-!"
"-Die..."
Canterlot is the Sierra Madre.
"Finding it... No, that's not the hard part. It's letting go."
If pain is all you have, let it go!
Did a guy named Cottage Cheese really think he could outsmart Littlepip, Heroine of the Wasteland?