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'Morsel' code... that's almost as bad as Sarge calling it 'Morris' code!
Morsel code
Whatever, its your story. It feels out of place/forced, yet at the same time, I know the tech period is correct for it. After all, this *is* taking place after the firearms era, so it would be possible. Maybe its bugging me that its so convenient? *shrug*
Great Story!
Morsel Code sounds delicious.
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Well, the entire postal system collapsed. There is no mail. Necessity is the mother of invention. With the current distrust of magic and most unicorns, how do ponies communicate from point A to point B?
Somepony was bound to work on a solution in these troubled times.
Ok, now that the unicorns doesn't hold the earth ponies and pegasi back, technology will rise, along magic, that means in more o less 100 years they will have their first transistor.
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Maybe. But yes, I do plan on technological innovation in The Chase.
Buckminster's foal through Derpy, Dizzy Doo, is going to have an anvil cutie mark and will be quit the inventor, working to make machines that earth ponies and pegasi can use.
Dizzy is going to be quite a funny little unicorn.
I think I see who Applejack's Stallion is. Unless it was stated somewhere already and I am wrong.
Silver Shill was the Earth Pony from the Season 4 "Leap of Faith" episode. Good cameo!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VmMwJ25ohQ
I normally prefer to give positive comments, but the way this chapter was written I didn't like at all. It was altogether much too unrealistic, even with how amicable the ponies normally are. They acted like kindergartners in a school for the youth, not sensible adults responsible for, if their stations are any indication, hundreds of ponies. Their uncanny ability to reach a group consensus I could see as being attributed to an affect of herd psychology, but the way they phrased their questions and the way they basically offered Celestia more power so readily came off in a way. I know you are trying to present the fact that they are still used to somebody infinitely wiser than them provide them with direction and much needed guidance, but I think it would've made more sense for them to try it themselves, realize that they were very ineffective, and then ask Celestia for help. Remember, show, don't tell
The world is not quite this innocent
But hey, this is your world
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The bad stuff comes later.
5012681 Agreed, that one made my day. I am still grinning like an idiot. Pffff Morsel code, awesome.
5012816 I'd probably act a little bit like a foal if the 'enemy' agreed with everything we said right off the bat too. I agree with some of that, though, but it may be that we're all still stuck in Shetland Isles mode and forget that Equestrian ponies are more innocent and less jaded than the ponies in the Isles, and they even admitted to not knowing as much as they should. Remember Bucky's reaction to learning that earth ponies don't get as much of an education because they are expected to be farmers or some other sort of artisan? This shows it a little bit.
5012887 do you remember what chapter that was? at least within ten chapters accuracy. I dont remember that at all
shouldn't there be a he between has and done?
5012891 I'm afraid I don't remember which chapter but it was somewhere in the Shetland arc, some scenes stick in my head very vividly and that is one of them. Pina is the one who told Bucky about the education and the fact that earth ponies aren't tested for their IQ.
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Yay somebody remembered important details! I didn't think anybody would remember that.
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Earth ponies do not get their IQ tested. Conversation with Pina.
Ah found a typo! My first one I can call mine!
5012928 just because they don't get their IQs tested doesn't mean they are not smart, or unable to formulate their own opinions :3 Maybe I'm just being a biased bastard badly bantering bad points. my point is bad, not yours
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I knew this chapter would challenge some folk. I was counting on it.
5012955 You always do :3 I was just hoping the solution wouldn't be so easy. I'm a sucker for lengthy dramas.
self ruling has its issues. governing and corruption sadly comes hand and hand and experience is needed to keep a balance. often enough that is why new governments quickly fall to overtly corrupt dealings, cause those who rule next do not have that experience.
also i find that bucky would be far more challenged than he was before. undead and the shadowy wolves were both of dark magic. a monster can be far too varied in ability and intention. it could well be there are beasts who would be completely immune to his black magic and could even feed on darkness and misery, and that is one of the reasons it has left its lair.
though i like how it was silver shill able to look straight through a con considering whom he worked with before.
5012915 I remember everything about this story.
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Somebody noticed!
What about the 'Telegram' in Family Appreciation Day?
Also:
One, Barter Economy. Ouch.
and Two, whatever happens, AT LEAST IT'S NOT A ZOMBIE GIANT SPERM WHALE!!!
;..........the more i think about that hwolf wolf master situation the more i think that it makes no sense that the elemetns would be useless. largely because the sheer amount of energy they have would either break any filter he could create. even if it could hold up, he would be infused at once with a power so enormous that a single body could not possibly hold it. the elements find a way to defeat any foe, even if one method would be to feed him to death.
Welp its gonna turn into a constitutional diarchy/democratic diarchy, welcome to New Equestria.
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Cloudyskies is correct. The only thing worth questioning in this chapter is the fact that the ponies are so sure they want a demon-summoner protecting them. The reason they stated it is because Celestia didn't kill him or lock him up. Which means they still trust the Crown with their lives and the lives of their children.
Which means there's no point to this political rebellion and want of democracy, especially since it was the inclusion of citizens' desires that caused the corruption that led to this civil war in the first place and not the will of the Immaculate Sisters.
[Celestia: Oh darn, after all these centuries I overlooked something. My mistake.
Ponies: Get off the throne! Then protect us while we make LOTS of mistakes constantly!]
... Yeeeeah.
Everything else was completely fine and understandable. Equines are herd animals by nature, and while they may rage as a group, they also calm as a group. They still seem to recognize Celestia as their alpha by some measure, and she is warm and motherly. There's no reason for them to have been upset with her, and once they realized they'd do better by being calm and polite, they were suddenly unsteady on the other set of hooves with the realization that there needn't be adrenaline-fueled demanding and threats of violence. Especially since the last time violence was brought against Celestia she accidentally vaporized like half of them, in defense of Ponyville. With all this suddenly on their minds and the herd-anger that caused their reckless bravery dispelled, they became tamed and unsure. This also happens with humans, except when you have those who are -trying- to cause trouble or too blind to realize it's time to stop and be reasonable, stirring up the crowd.
I'm not liking the fact that Applejack was involved in sending a group of rioters to the throne room, though. What the fuck is going on in Ponyville?
5013030 Well, Bucky doesn't have access to the Elements, does he? The Shetland Isles was his own ordeal, and Celestia couldn't send the Elements because they were still citizens of Equestria and since she was so close to the ponies and the artifacts then it may seem like she was manipulating the Isles, and I'm pretty sure that was against the rules. Bucky was banished, so he could go take care of the pesky wolves for them since he was no longer an Equestrian citizen at all.
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Unionisation. Caused by Twilight Sparkle.
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Also, they don't want her off of the throne.
Wait for things to play out. What they want is control over their own lives, and not the system fo oppression that endured under the noble houses.
The first hundred years after this point are going to be spent with Equestria being treated as one giant Ponyville project, with Celestia guiding the way as the ponies try to figure out a system that works for them. As said in the chapter, foal steps. She isn't going to let them stumble or let something bad happen to them. She's going to be there to catch them and tell them what they did wrong so they can make things work.
5013057 was refering largely to the fact discord himself mentioned that they would ahve failed despite it being something of a logical fallacy to the whole eating harmony magic thing to begin with. though i think the primary issue is presuming the the magic ponies use is harmony magic when the magic of harmony is, more likely, like love energy; inside of everyone but only a few can isolate and use it.
even though he said it was because of a magical filter built to prevent it from brekaing down from harmony magic, the elements release an assload of energy. like beyond discord amounts, beyond the regal sisters amounts. ifthe filter did not break the guy would have been forcefed a collosal amount of energy at once. and often enough in most cses consuming a titanic amount of anything normally equals splosions or worse.
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To be fair, it absorbed dark energy too, but dark magic has its own rules and they were teased out a little bit at a time over the course of about a hundred chapters.
Dark magic comes down to will. And even if a caster is protected from dark magic with dark magic, it becomes a contest of wills. This is why dark magic can be used to hurt demons that would be completely immune to harmony magic. You've just got to have more willpower than the demon you are targeting. Dark magic respects strength and plays by its own rules. More will be revealed about it later. You may be surprised.
Tartarus exists because there were things that were completely immune to harmony magic.
This chapter felt like a sort of reverse scene with Arthur and the peasant in Holy Grail.
It was brilliant and adorable.
5012640 and who gets to define the appropriate punishment for each crime? If I steal do I lose a hand or the whole arm?
More importantly, what happens when he is wrong? Innocent people have been jailed and worse before. If their punishment is to live as bucky lived. What happens if some of them were innocent? You just gonna say sorry here have a were very sorry check?
What bucky went through was traumatizing as most people will never know or understand. Thats not something you get to take back.
Granted neither is execution. But at least the person isnt around to suffer anymore.
Hmmm smells like we're quickly moving towards a representative democracy. It would be interesting to see a Council put together representing the various sectors of the people. Agriculture, Weather production, Military, Trade, Goods and Services, and Government. Each sector speaking for the affairs of its people, and taking charge when matters concern their area of influence.
For the promotion I would have pushed for General or Minister of Defence since Bucky has seen enough combat. Let him train and lead our warriors against the forces of Darkness. But that would be boring for the story, the focus would become too political, as it is we're going into a diplomacy arc. If Bucky became General Knight Bucky he might never be able to go back to the days of high flying adventure.
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He chose to do it though. He knew about it beforehand and he CHOSE to end the nightmare. The legal system had become a dragon and Bucky was tasked to slay it.
5013116 ............. considering how you treat harmony magic that is like saying a demon could withstand holy water or something.
besides considering only nine ponies throughout a thousand years and the franchise could truly access the power of the elements, it seems that harmony is not the same as whatever opposite of darkness there is. there is an opposite to it but harmony stands on its own as some connected yet seperate power.
nine ponies, and only six of them, together, can truly access that power. there is obviously a similar opposite to darkness thing going on but harmony is not that from what i can see.
thinking it is gray magic, something concernred with keeping things in balance over the victory of good over evil or something like that, though by nature things in balance is good and things out of balance is bad. even if the light took over it can cause imbalance.
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Luna is the highest authority of war in this verse. As evidenced by her Myrmidons. Well, now Bucky's Myrmidons as well. Technically, his status as "prince" is all the rank he really needs, but Bucky prefers to earn his promotions.
Bucky has a different task ahead. Teaching foals the fine art of friendship and war.
Too much light is just as bad as too much darkness.
Everything has to be kept in check.
There are big reveals coming up eventually.
I'm sure plenty of people will scream about it when it happens.
5013116 .......think that is my largest confusion. harmony magic seems isolated and i nthe same way as love magic, present in all yet not always accessed. it requires unity to use. meaning that an individual could not truly use harmony magic.
just look at what occured with discord. with regal sisters wielded the elemetns and froze him into stone. but when the mane six did so, they not only trapped him but completely reversed the damage he caused to equestria. despite the regal sisters being more powerful than the mane six, especially together, they could not truly use harmony magic, or at least tap into it to that degree. heck celestia could not even heal her sister, as the element bearers did.
seems that depending on how tapped into, the magic of hrmony can overcome any foe nad kill darkness. sole reason the darkness of nightmare moon survived is that it had other hosts to sustain it. those who cannot tap into it truly is reduced with imprisoning darkness rather than destroying or purging it.
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Its the difference between Daimyo and Shogun, both are noble titles but while there are many Daimyo the Shogun is the Commander of all the armies. As General he would be placed in charge of his own force, given funding to recruit his soldiers, and opportunity to deploy where needed, obviously at the command of his Mistress.
A Minister of war is more of a Civilian job. Represents the Military within the government, petitions for supplies, funding, and coordinates with the people to determine where forces need to be deployed (ie. where monsters are attacking). Its the Desk Job that Generals usually retire too.
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And, in a theoretical sense, if Bucky ascended, Luna would immediately hand over the entirety of the armed forces to Bucky.
But he's only the unicorn of war... so... Mistress.
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Yes very true, well hes got alot of leveling to do before then, so Knight Major Bitters it is... for now....
Prediction: Bucky will be forced into a major life or death situation where his family will be on the line and he will be forced to choose between ascending or losing someone precious to him. His hesitation being that he knows that if he ascends and fails his dream will come true.
Kind of obvious one I guess but Bucky is going to be crafting some nice prosthetic limbs here soon.
And Celestia is going to have to change the name of her School to "Celestia's School for Gifted Ponies" and broaden the curriculum to include earth ponies and pegasi.
I've got a feeling that Equestria will end up being the first nation to build the atomic bomb.
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Nothing is stopping Bucky from fusing together a few cobalt or hydrogen atoms and then suspending the chain reaction inside of a spell jar.
Theoretically, any type three could create fusion. In practice, very few have the mental fortitude for the act and the fine focus.
And then there are pyromancers. Who have the potential to become walking fusion reactors if something goes badly. Like too much rage.
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Celestia will focus on unicorns and healing the cosmic decay.
Bucky will focus on gifted ponies.
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It doesn't have to be a unicorn that does it, sufficiently advanced earth pony and pegasus scientists could do it.
The Manehattan Project, anyone?
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Knight Buckminster Bitters Academy of Magical studies and Foal care???