Cool story, but why are the characters showing such little long-term emotion? Half of the mane six are dead, for crying out loud. Not to mention Applejack's entire family and all the other ponies of Ponyville. Also, you just wanted to include guns in your story, didn't you- Heheh, good idea.
405493 413342 Actually, it makes sense that they'd simply be unable to comprehend it at this point. They're in the denial stage, thinking this is all a dream. A very convincing dream maybe, but a dream.
That certainly won't last very long I'm sure... but hey, it's something. Also, why go to Canterlot where all the trouble will be? Everfree is rough, but Zecora is there, and last I checked The old Castle had a single Bridge to defend. Very secure and with some work it could be livable... though considering that you need 4-5 K individuals to maintain biodiversity... they'd be in deep trouble.
522853 You're Welcome. Knowing Twilight, she'd figure that out pretty fast... but again their chief problems in the long term are: Population (unless ponies have an exponentially higher genetic diversity level than others and are capable of prolonging the species with a tiny number of families... which they could be considering the cake family) Food Supplies (which could be remedied if they can find a safe place to make a farm, and I know that plateau with everfree castle has enough) Security (which is practically assured if they move into the old castle and edit the bridge. The pegasi zombies don't seem to fly much and even if they did some fortifications to the castle would fix that. Plus they have guns.) and The Salvaging of their society and culture (granted, that's a bit broad, but if they lose all their history and knowledge, then in the end they will build a culture around survival only, and lose everything that they were. This will logically result in a government structure coming around after they secure a base)
So far you've got a good team of survivors built up. Twi, Fletcher, Gear, Applejack, and a few others, but that's not enough for long term survival. When they secure a base like everfree castle, it would only be natural that they'd go on forays to acquire more supplies and rescue survivors.
And then you've got the aforementioned repressed psychological trauma. How long until it finally hits them and brings down the house of cards?
Will Twiliight try to remedy the situation and her unwitting role as harbinger of the zombie apocalypse by using science and other means to counteract the zombification? Perhaps something like in the flashgame Sonny? (A game where you play as a zombie that regained sapience for some reason and play as the hero) to bring most/all of her friends back? Knowing magic, it would be easy to develop something like that... though rarity would die again instead of be that ugly.
Lastly... how do the magic-zombies work? does their flesh not rot? Will they decay over time? do they get more intelligent from consuming pony brains? Are there mutation forms? These questions are vital. Zombies don't procreate, so that limits the numbers they can come at you with, but what will happen later? will they decay until there are none left or did the magic negate that typical rule of Zombies?
And how long until Twilight's twisted mind realizes that going straight to the one that used her to initiate this atrocity isn't the best idea? What about Shining Armor and Cadence? Did they escape? Why in the name of Lauren Faust is Celestia doing this? No one could believe that her normal self would, and zombies don't have love for changelings to eat.
So many questions so little time... I suppose it depends on how many more characters you want to sacrifice before moving to the next stage of the zombie apocalypse.
They are: Escape Survival Fortification Aggregation, and Extermination
Why I never thought of any of this, I will never know. But, on the bright side, you have really given me new determination to continue this story. I was thinking about a permanent hiatus for this one, but you, good fellow, have shed new light upon this almost-doomed tale. Thank you for your input and your realism of where this is at.
524495 No problems! if you have any other things on this story you want help with, just ask! I may not produce much in the way of literature, but that doesn't mean I can't help people with their's.
It's fun to do that, especially when your own stories aren't that good.
Cool story, but why are the characters showing such little long-term emotion? Half of the mane six are dead, for crying out loud. Not to mention Applejack's entire family and all the other ponies of Ponyville. Also, you just wanted to include guns in your story, didn't you- Heheh, good idea.
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I'll try to work on that. Thank you for your input.
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Actually, it makes sense that they'd simply be unable to comprehend it at this point. They're in the denial stage, thinking this is all a dream. A very convincing dream maybe, but a dream.
That certainly won't last very long I'm sure... but hey, it's something. Also, why go to Canterlot where all the trouble will be? Everfree is rough, but Zecora is there, and last I checked The old Castle had a single Bridge to defend. Very secure and with some work it could be livable... though considering that you need 4-5 K individuals to maintain biodiversity... they'd be in deep trouble.
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Wow. You have given this more thought in one comment than I have given it in four chapters. You just gave me several ideas. Thank you.
522853 You're Welcome. Knowing Twilight, she'd figure that out pretty fast... but again their chief problems in the long term are:
Population (unless ponies have an exponentially higher genetic diversity level than others and are capable of prolonging the species with a tiny number of families... which they could be considering the cake family)
Food Supplies (which could be remedied if they can find a safe place to make a farm, and I know that plateau with everfree castle has enough)
Security (which is practically assured if they move into the old castle and edit the bridge. The pegasi zombies don't seem to fly much and even if they did some fortifications to the castle would fix that. Plus they have guns.)
and The Salvaging of their society and culture (granted, that's a bit broad, but if they lose all their history and knowledge, then in the end they will build a culture around survival only, and lose everything that they were. This will logically result in a government structure coming around after they secure a base)
So far you've got a good team of survivors built up. Twi, Fletcher, Gear, Applejack, and a few others, but that's not enough for long term survival. When they secure a base like everfree castle, it would only be natural that they'd go on forays to acquire more supplies and rescue survivors.
And then you've got the aforementioned repressed psychological trauma. How long until it finally hits them and brings down the house of cards?
Will Twiliight try to remedy the situation and her unwitting role as harbinger of the zombie apocalypse by using science and other means to counteract the zombification? Perhaps something like in the flashgame Sonny? (A game where you play as a zombie that regained sapience for some reason and play as the hero) to bring most/all of her friends back? Knowing magic, it would be easy to develop something like that... though rarity would die again instead of be that ugly.
Lastly... how do the magic-zombies work? does their flesh not rot? Will they decay over time? do they get more intelligent from consuming pony brains? Are there mutation forms? These questions are vital. Zombies don't procreate, so that limits the numbers they can come at you with, but what will happen later? will they decay until there are none left or did the magic negate that typical rule of Zombies?
And how long until Twilight's twisted mind realizes that going straight to the one that used her to initiate this atrocity isn't the best idea?
What about Shining Armor and Cadence? Did they escape?
Why in the name of Lauren Faust is Celestia doing this? No one could believe that her normal self would, and zombies don't have love for changelings to eat.
So many questions so little time... I suppose it depends on how many more characters you want to sacrifice before moving to the next stage of the zombie apocalypse.
They are:
Escape
Survival
Fortification
Aggregation, and
Extermination
ATM, you're between escape and survival.
Man that was a crap-long post.
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Why I never thought of any of this, I will never know.
But, on the bright side, you have really given me new determination to continue this story. I was thinking about a permanent hiatus for this one, but you, good fellow, have shed new light upon this almost-doomed tale. Thank you for your input and your realism of where this is at.
524495 No problems! if you have any other things on this story you want help with, just ask! I may not produce much in the way of literature, but that doesn't mean I can't help people with their's.
It's fun to do that, especially when your own stories aren't that good.