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Now things have gotten even more interesting! :)
This is where my actions would differ from the MC. If someone holds a knife to my throat, the arm holding the knife gets broken. Period. No exceptions.
3410049 Yeah, but I'll try not to add too many references in the story. Might be hard to do LOL.
3409944 Indeed, but answers are coming soon...at least some of them.
3410230 Nope the characters name is Eric, "Alex" is part of the Equis language and it's just coincidence that it's also a name from Earth.
3410097 True but he's not trying to give the girls with pointy sticks a good enough reason to kill him, just enough to diffuse the situation. Not like he can just tell them.
Sounds like Celestia knows he is here, either by magic or Twilight sending a message.
The plot thickens.
EDIT: Will we ever get some kind of translation as to what the equines are saying in the previous chapters?
3410709 I thought about putting translations in the dialogue when I started typing it out, but then I figured if the reader did not know what was being said then it would just add to the mystery of the plot. Equis should start fading out here in a few chapters, but if enough people want I will see if there is a way to post a translated version somewhere.
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Dump each chapter with the equis present into a gdoc and add the translation beside the original in bold or something. That will keep all of us curious buggers satisfied.
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The difference between the mentality of a former Army infantryman and of an Air Force maintainer, I guess.
They don't understand words, but the guards would understand force. Not to mention they they seem abnormally weak for a military force (marshmallows* the lot of them). Only difficult part would be beating the spear-wielding ones, and only because there is a heightened amount of danger. Afterward, restraining them would be simple (duct tape, and if he doesn't have a few rolls of that with him, what kind of maintainer is he???) and, after receiving proper medical attention, they can be shoved into a corner while Eric (which makes this whole thing feel weird as that's my name, lol) grabs some sack time. If Sparks were to see that, I don't think she would be too upset after she realizes the treatment that Eric has received has been nothing short of completely hostile.
*Marshmallows are soft, squishy (giggity) and easy to burn. The Royal Guard aren't much different now, are they
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Did he ever react to that? It seems like something that a person would react to ("Alex? No, Eric."), and I'm still recovering from having about ten hours of sleep in the past week or so, so I do not trust my memory.
3411214 True, but unless he had some kind of experience fighting with multiple armed assailants I don't think he would risk it. Unfortunately they don't teach airmen any sort of hand to hand combat in Basic so any fighting experience he'd have would be stuff he has learned. Plus he's trying to convince them that he's not a threat to them and just wants to get home, even if he has to deal with them and their attitudes until then. I don't follow the belief that the Royal Guard are completely incompetent just that their training is outdated compared to modern standards of military training.
No weak ass duct tape in maintainer world, we use Speedtape and safety wire.
Any similariteis Eric may have noticed between Equis and English is lost on the scope of trying to follow what their saying and doing to try and understand what their saying. Because honestly anytime I go to a foreign country and I'm trying to talk with the locals it's pretty much just that because they talk so fast in their native tongue.
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Again, another difference. I know about four or five martial arts so, yeah Those marshmallows would get their d-fine aes handed to them.
Eh, in the Army they hand out EB Green for everything. Canteen leaking? Use EB Green. Fuel line on a tank leaking? EB Green. Leg broken? Make a splint of EB Green. Boot not shutting up? Seal it with EB Green. Severed arm? Use EB Green to reattach it. Green Weenie coming around for his daily tour of your unit? Plug your hole with EB Green, though chances are even that won't help
I know the feeling, fun part is when you do know the language, so when they are trying to insult you in their tongue, you can reply to them in their own language. You can get some funny reactions by doing that Still, they said it enough that you'd think someone would be able to pick hear that word. Though he must have missed the training session that grunts in the Army receive for learning how to deal with insane BS. It's important to learn how to stop questioning the logic/sanity of things when dealing with governmental bureaucracy, and this situation seems like it would be a welcome relief from that
3411297 LOL true enough. I could have made him some kind of super soldier but in the end it wouldn't have fit the maintainer persona and I thought would run the risk of sounding too close to a Gary Stu.
We have green duct tape, but not able to use it on aircraft. Still, we get all the good glues and adhesives to use ( rtv, B 1/2, epoxy, etc.). Don't know how many times I've stopped a cut from bleeding with super glue, tech wipes and duct tape.
The language thing will be taken care of in a few chapters but I still have some more confusion fun to play on Eric, and even when it is solved it won't be in his favor.
As far as survival unless you're Aircrew you don't get any survival training beyond the Army's SERE 100.1 course online.
3411178 I'll try to do that. Still figuring out this GoogleDoc thing. I just copy-paste my chapters from Word and edit them here on Fimfiction.
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If you need any help with Gdoc, just let me know. I use it constantly.
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Yeah, major differences between POGs and Grunts. Do grunts care if we hurt peoples' feelings? No. Do we care if we seem overpowered to a bunch of civies? No. We are warriors, not diplomats. Our job is to clean up after the diplomats f up.
I'm pretty sure that there was a Chinook that I was flying in that was only flying due to the amount of duct tape on it... All of the guts on the inside looked fine, but the outside (on closer inspection) seemed to be more duct tape than metal... ( In reality, there was a lot of EB Green on that thing, but more on the seats than anything vital)
Let me guess, Eric, without knowing it, confessed his undying love for AJ and they are set to be married, and if he doesn't, then Big Mac gets to play his rendition of the nut-cracker I can total see Celestia pulling a stunt like that
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It's the same mentality in the maintainer world, except we call anyone who doesn't work on the flightline nonners. In fact most maintainers will tell you we feed off the hurt feelings and tears of new airmen and nonners And don't even get me started on the whinning I hear from most Pilots/Aircrew.
As funny as that sounds it won't be that extreme, still it would be f g hilarious.
3411436 Thanks for the offer. I'll try it by myself first and then more than likely go to the all knowing "Google"
Then again I could just give everyone the Cipher and let them translate it themselves. *hint* *hint* it's a mixture of a E-A and H-A cipher.
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I think these guys do it best-
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I have an uncle in the USAF's version of an IT department. They do the exact same BS as a civilian counterpart. "Have you tried turning it on and off again? Is it plugged in?" You'd be surprised how many problems that fixes.
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Who needs Big Brother when we have Google?
I thought that looked familiar! My father was ex-Navy Intel so he taught me a few common cyphers.
3411558 Highly accurate and it's the same in both fighter and heavy worlds.
I must ask, reading this story, do you have experience as a mechanic like Eric?
About that time I found myself heavily reconsidering my ‘no hitting women’ rule, at least when it came to these guardswomen, and maybe Skittles.
What I would do?
Grab her wrist twist it grab knife grab her and commence the bitch-slapping
The buildings and bed are sized for him, not the inhabitants. Curiouser and curiouser.