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wake-up surprises are for those of us who sleep, foalish author!!!
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SLEEP IS FOR THE WEAK!
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AND THE WEAK MUST BE WEEDED OUT
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Or be given a Twilight Sparkle plushie and a glass of warm milk.
Laced with excessive barbiturates.
Indeed!
Well, I can see this new appendage creating a rather interesting puzzle to solve for Bucky. Wouldn't he have to adapt his armor to match the new appendage as well? Or did I just miss him mentioning that...
Hmmm...I wish my NCOs did things like Sparky just did. It definitely would help with unit cohesion... ((Surprising as it is to some people, 'Buck Sergeant' is an actual term.))
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Or, you know. Introduce their cranium to a wall. At a velocity exceeding that of your average walking speed.
Seems many of your dedicated readers need not sleep, just more ponies.
Wake-up surprises are for people who go to sleep before 5AM, rather than laying in bed doing internet stuff on a tablet.
But for a new chapter of The Chase? Worth it.
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Fold the fingers into a fist, stick into armor. Remember, Bucky floats in there. His hooves don't touch the ground or the inside of the armor. Magical field suspension so impacts don't break every bone in his body.
I was just thinking to myself. It's 5AM need to sleep a bit before work... better reread the last Chase chapter to make sure i didn't miss anything. (I like to reread them, 2-3 times each) Then i was like; OOOO Goodies! :D
You have made my morning, and now I'm going to bed.
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It certainly is, and I thought it would be GREAT for ponies.
I am thinking about having Sparky make her cadets run up and down the stairs in Bucky's tower.
They could bury the lines, makes them harder to tamper but harder to repair. Unicorns are fearful of losing usefulness. If ponies become magic independent it takes away the only contribution unicorns have left in society. Weaker than earth ponies, unable to fly like Pegasi, Unicorns will become obsolete. The one major drawback of being a unicorn is their neurosis, and if their place in society is taken away you have a whole race of useless ponies who are prone to mental disorders. It's a scary prospect. Considering unicorns can be milked for magic, after a while they may become like cows.
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Useful for defense too.
Just means that unicorns might need to step up and get their hooves dirty.
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Missing quotation mark.
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But is that really something society needs? A race of artillery pieces with mental instability? A race whose only usefulness exists in times of conflict. Half the time the instigator will be a Unicorn, it will cause racism against unicorns to increase, and in the end it only makes societies need for them even less important.
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I was hoping that somebody would start thinking about these tough questions for the future.
Magic will always find usefulness. It is why Equestria remains at the top of the heap. By and large, many unicorns will lose relevance, or importance, but there will always be extraordinary individuals who will prove indispensable to their fellow ponies.
5095073 That's just evil... I love it
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that's for students, though. The police corps is for Ponyville.
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Still useful for training. There are currently no students. And the tower is mostly empty.
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But that doesn't help the racial identity, Pegasi are warrior who also were the caretakers of the weather, earth ponies are industrious caretakers of the land, and Unicorns were the noble gardian of the heavens. After having their jobs taken by Celestia and Luna the interjected themselves as the noble leaders that guide pony society. With that taken away now they are pariah that no pony trusts unless they are exceptional individuals. Is it wrong that Unicorns would try hold onto any part of their culture or racial identity? Yes some are proud to serve equestria, but not everyone can wield spells strong enough to serve. And it's not always about getting ones hooves dirty. It's true that Unicorns will have to come off their high horse, but other ponies will have to learn that magic is not evil. And somewhere Unicorns can keep their identity.
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These are all things I've thought about.
There are no good easy answers.
5095073 *Flashbacks of hours spent running up and down flights of stairs* Aye......Fortunately, I did cross country in school, so stairs didn't bother me...But those poor, poor individuals around me....Brings a tear to the eye just thinking about it.... *eye twitch*
Seriously though, a police force should only be outmatched by the military, as far as endurance. (All the better to catch you with! )
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Ahhhhh, okay. I forgot that little tidbit...
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No there isnt, but I'm starting to see why Unicorns are prone to neurosis. It was easier for Sparkler to identify as a pegasus then define her identity as a Unicorn. Unicorns have been losing control of their racial identity for a long time now. It's like Twilight during Winter Wrapup what good is a unicorn without magic.
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And I have worked so very hard to make that one of the many subtle undertones in this story.
What happens when a section of society becomes less and less relevant?
I actually half finished a dystopian short story set in the Chase Verse set about a thousand years in the future. And then a scrapped it because it was too bleak.
A little crystal pony asks Princess Luna where all the unicorns went. Because there are like no unicorns around at all. Nowhere. And after much song and dance and a bit of a story, Princess Luna finally reveals what powers modern Equestrian society.
Unicorns all tucked away, secure, sleeping, free of neurosis, happy and kept dreaming by Luna, their magic being collected to power all of the arcano-tech devices of the modern age.
And then I felt it was too matrixy even though it was relevant and I scrapped it.
The last line of the story, because I did finish the ending, Luna called it Buckminster's final solution to the unicorn dilemma and Luna showed the crystal pony Bucky's descendents, powerful unicorns who kept the whole system working and running smoothly, keeping the lesser unicorns subdued.
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Lol wow, just wow. I don't know what it is but somehow I love the way you showcase the most horrific aspects of society and showcase it as pretty happy ponies.
Morsel Code...sounds tasty!
Love how you linked it to the Pony Express without batting an eye.
Double of
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I feel conflicted by the story I wrote. Which is also part of the reason why I scrapped it.
And yes, the unicorns were happy... but it was only because Luna made them happy. Against their will. To keep the peace. To keep society safe.
And when a unicorn was born, it was quietly collected by Luna and the memory of the pregnancy and birth was completely edited away, and then the unicorn had their horn connected to the system and was forgotten about.
And the crystal pony? She never remembered a thing. Luna did it as an act of confession, to make herself feel better, just to say the words to another pony, and then she promptly cleaned up her own mess.
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Lol this kinda goes beyond what I had a problem with in "LSS" dream reprogramming. The funny thing I love those simple dark stories that show the evil cost of a utopian society. It's funny that Luna is the one to carry the burden since she is the one who wields guilt like a tool of discipline.
"YEAH!"
I don't have a head-cannon personality on him... yet.
Spiders, I love them, but I understand why most people hate them, I have an extreme fear of large, flying roaches due to one too many childhood moments with them.
I love all creepy-crawlies and animals, and Fluttershy.
I could to that sketch made by Bucky.
5095168 I recall a similar story written by Fuzzyfervert, except turned on it's head: all the pegasi and earth ponies were subdued, with a great many of them used as batteries in machinery. He may or may not continue writing it.
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I suspect... this may be completely what's happening in The Chase with Luna. Originally I assumed she was a hypocrite, actually, punishing and punishing and never getting punished or admitting fault, as if she believed herself the ultimate judge of ponies no matter what she's done.
But... I think, considering what Barley said about her, that this is probably what's happening. Not just in the "she gives out shame and guilt as punishments" but also as the "If she has done wrong, she uses this as a justification for punishing others more adamantly, because she believes she must do a better job because of her failure, which involves more punishment for others."
And if that's the case, the dream matrix steal their lives but give them happiness solution would become self-perpetuating in Luna's psyche. She had to do something awful, but now that she's done it, she can't waste it... so there is no chance she will decide to stop, because if she did then it might as well be that the injustice she's committed would be for nothing.
And... between the way she sends dreams to make those she believes are flawed to change (as far as we know these are nightmares. She punishes people who are suffering due to their personal flaws (which are at least sometimes the results of previous suffering they had)), and the memory erasure with the justification they can't handle the truth of things... it's nowhere near as blatantly brainwashy as LSS but make no mistake, Celestia and Luna brainwash ponies.
Actually... erasing memories you believe will make a person uneasy might be a much better use of the term brain-"washing" than forcibly changing their brains to conform to your ideal.
I returned to read comments, and the chapter one more time as usual.
The Matrix-like story is pretty interesting...
Relevant although it doesn't seem right... Or fit.
These tiny little hints all over the story are amazing, sadly I'm too stupid to notice most of them...
Stairs.
They're horrible for me, got knee problems.
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"Ah...so even Equestria has heard of me. Excellent..."
A terraphobic earth pony. I gotta say, as far as phobias go, that's pretty unique.
And there goes my head-canon about the unicorn communication.......
I alway thought its something like a radio broadcast, some unicorn who can cast it,others only listen. But from the looks of it, its more like a telephone than a radio, and every unicorn is able to do it.
Or if i read it wrong then someone could explain to me how exactly its working?
Bon Bon tries to cross the same river twice and finds it full of nasty-smelling tentacles, "Stoneface" Sparkler begins her Watch, and Bucky tries to be a clever pony, with variable success.
Things are happening at a rate that is far too fast for some to follow. Naturally, they object to this. Unfortunately, Bucky has already made his opinion known on the popularity of his actions.
Also, I get the feeling there's more to Cherry Berry than is immediately apparent...
I look forward to more.
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Magic
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who's this?
Not for much longer. Oh, Sentinel!
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doesn't seem like Bucky to me :/
I know you're the author but isn't he all about the foals and everything for his family etc. But why would he want them trapped in a dreamsrate. Any of those unicorns could become part of his family, unless he wants incest born bloodline
I sorta see why you scrapped it. It was too bleak even for insane Bucky
5095626 Haven't played in a while, but it looks like a picture of hermaeus mora, the daedric prince of fate, knowledge, and memory. When he chooses to deal with mortals, he appears as a mass of gross looking tentacles. Here's an in game image.
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Hermaeus Mora, daedric prince of knowledge..
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Ah, I have Skyrim but have barely done any main quests. Level 43 without Fus Ro Dah :/
I like my RP and spend ages on side quests and all those random dungeons you find
5095698 Hey, the whole (most) quest line with him is a side quest. You're in luck!
But really, I should play skyrim again. da memories.
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Well, you may not even find him if you don't have the Dragonborn DLC...
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Thank you kind sir, i would be lost without you
some reason i alwayhs imagine gryphon talons as zygodacytl albeit with an odd joint.
largely cause gilda looks like an owl...... its the beak and we first seeing her from the front.
5095168 Wow, that's dark. Pretty cool idea though, could tie it in to the main story as an alternate dimension, that way the work you put into it isn't fully wasted. Could use it as a way for Celestia/Luna/The Fates/The Creator to show Bucky that seeking efficiency for efficiency's sake can lead to terrible decisions. Different dimensions/outcomes have been brought up in this story before after all.
I'd love to see a story using that idea where a unicorn manages to slip through the cracks.
5095168 .................... pretty sure Luna would be more likely to incinerate bucky than actually go through with that plan. and she would simply have had to say NO, that is how wacked that is.