Ah, the last chapter in the story to have a positive vibe!
Seriously, I can't recall a single "nice" chapter after this. It's all going to hell after this one.
Fitting, since this isn't in Hoofington. Hoofington is Hell.

She sighed as she let me go, then narrowed her eyes at me. “Now… what’s this I heard about you kissing my marefriend?”

I blinked. “You’re… you mean you and LittlePip are…?” Wait! That actually happened? I jumped back. “I… she… I mean she was… you know… she was looking and I was… you know… and she… we… I…” I waved my hooves before me. “I’d never… had I know… I mean she’s cute... and all… but… ah…”

Homage arched a brow coolly, then smiled. “We are and she did and she is. And I’m pretty sure I’ll be able to use that kiss for some fun tonight.” Then she looked over at Glory as she trotted towards us. “I’m just wondering if she knows about you kissing on my LittlePip?” Glory’s purple eyes suddenly turned cold as she looked at me.

Oh shit… “I… merp… jah shek…you… gah…” I struggled as the pair of mares just stared at me.

Then Glory looked at Homage. “There’s only one thing to do, isn’t there?”

Homage nodded gravely. “There is.” This was it. I was gonna die.

Glory and Homage stepped closer… their eyes locked on me… and then both smiled in immense satisfaction and lightly smooched each other on the lips. At which point something in my brain burst and I fell over in a heap, twitching. The pair laughed as they trotted away, talking about evening plans and how silly LittlePip and I were.

Hmmm… Maybe…

Then that thought was lost as Scotch Tape pulled away and I fell flat on my face… not because my brain didn’t know how to work my legs, but because one of my legs wasn’t there! The filly was trotting away with my right foreleg in her mouth; how the heck had she taken the thing off?! I scrambled back up on my three remaining limbs. “You bring that back!” I yelled as I staggered after her.

“Come and get it, Queen Stubby!”

Bwahahahahahahahaha! And the second quote even had a picture to go with it! That is hilarious!

I chuckled as I stepped closer, and instantly her ears perked in alarm. “It’s too bad though. I know I’ll never forget discovering such a wonderful kisser,” I said, giving her flank a nudge with my own as I trotted past and out the door, looking back at a little unicorn inventing whole new shades of red to blush.

Again with the kiss!?

I trotted around a bit more. I talked with Calamity about the finer points of Wasteland cuisine. My eyes were a little glazed over after listening to Glory and Velvet make medicine talk, and I made my way over towards Xenith. The zebra mare looked over at Glory. “So, you are with a mare as well?” When I nodded, she simply shook her head. “And you two, do you try for the record as well?”

“Record? What record?” I asked with a little frown of confusion. Calamity trotted up and Glory looked over, her ears twitching.

The zebra looked coolly over at the littlest unicorn present and said, “I believe the number is thirty-three?” LittlePip’s eyes went round and she immediately blushed.

“Thirty-three…?” I asked in confusion.

“In a single night,” Homage said with a smug smile. Thirty-three… Oh!

“One night?” Glory asked with a flush. “I’m not sure that that’s medically possible...”

“Hmmmm… that could be a challenge! Hey, we could turn it into a contest!” I said, and Homage grinned in delight. I looked at the gray pegasus. “What do you say, Glory? I’ve got an itch in my nethers, a non-stick hoof, and these things!” I said, popping out my fingers and wiggling them.

Glory and LittlePip stared at us, perfect copies of one another, jaws dropped and cheeks flaming.

“Sweet Celestia, there’s two of ‘em,” Calamity muttered, pointing his hoof at one and then the other as P-21 stared at us in disbelief, “Which one’s Lil’pip again?”

“It’s like looking in a mirror,” Velvet murmured.

The pair looked at each other, looked back at us with a scowl, and shouted in perfect unison. “S- Shut up!”

I am about to die of laughter! I am so thinking of writing this scene in my sidefic without complications!

“I can’t believe she survived being put through a wood chipper,” LittlePip murmured. “Is Hoofington like Freakytown Central or something?” But then she spotted Homage and started to look concerned. “Homage? Are you okay?”

“Sure. Absolutely,” I said with a wide grin.

Homage nodded and smiled. “Mhmm.”

“Hey LittlePip…” I gave my slyest grin. “I just couldn’t help but notice that Homage likes mares… and Glory likes mares… and you like mares… and me, well I think the three of you are the cutiest darn trio of fillies collected in the Wasteland. And, as I recall, Twilight once owned a book called the Zebra Sutra. Not suggesting anything. Just saying…” I grinned as lecherously as possible.

Xenith looked at the little unicorn and one-winged pegasus and observed curiously, “I did not know pony hooves could blush.”

I..I can't stop laughing! This chapter is full of laughing that I almost want to die by laughter!

“Well…” Homage said with a mysterious little smile as she pushed the button and the doors slid shut. “Best make it a night worth forgetting.”

And then the kinkiness just grew tenfold!

And this one black unicorn wanted me to say you were a horrible influence.

Ahhh bad influences, sorry Velve

I needed to learn how to get my body to work and focus of that.

on that ?

in Tenpony converted into a cheese shop

cheese shop, you say?

Not suggesting anything

A-huh

You gonna be able dip them into

to dip ?

See… the Blackjack express would arrive… eventually.

Eventually!

“Ponies worth fighting for,”

Cue the song! And reference to "A Mare Worth Fighting For"

Everything goes to hell after this? Goddesses dammit. Of course it does. And I need to actually stop reading to plan things so I can read some more tomorrow, super useful fimfiction says how long in total words a chapter it to estimate when I'll be done reading them.

Ooooohohoho, so we can think it was either Gloryjack or all four?
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Personally, I like believe it was all four the image in my head is gloriously delicious~

Awesome chapter man, awesome chapter well done!
GAWD! Why four chapters?! D: why do this to me ;n;

nice job dough

For the record, Somber, I really liked the work you did with 34 and 35, despite that they were a bit controversial to some people.

with a note from Twilight to my own ancestor, even.

Least she knows Marigold is her ancestor now. Wonder if she will ever go back to visit that skeleton on the shore. I am not sure if the made the connection then. Would be a nice sentiment to bury her.

The Enervation rings weren’t just in Hoofington.

Ok, who would put this there 200 years ago? Was it part of Twilight's designs or something had gotten to Roseluck?

I wouldn’t have survived as a brain in a jar. Nopony could… not with their sanity intact.

Uh oh... I like the zony too...

Scratch my last. Blackjack and Homage are the true terrors of the Wasteland.
His has been added to my favorite chapters, probably the new #1.

This was a hilarious chapter, especially with the teasing and blushing.
Now things are going to go down hill, aren't they?

Why is it that emotional attachment makes dirty things so much more disturbing?

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I could kill them. I could kill them all. No court in the Wasteland would convict me…

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Glory and Homage stepped closer… their eyes locked on me… and then both smiled in immense satisfaction and lightly smooched each other on the lips. At which point something in my brain burst and I fell over in a heap, twitching. The pair laughed as they trotted away, talking about evening plans and how silly LittlePip and I were.
Life Bloom trotted up. “She certainly is quite the odd mare, isn’t she?”
“Something like that,” I said with a sigh, shaking my head. Evil was more my thinking… both of them.

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Don’t you dare! You’ll make her all sticky!” Velvet protested.
“Oh, we do that just standing here,” Homage said as she trotted up and glanced back at where LittlePip was taking a drink of punch, her eyes locked on all our rumps. She gasped, choked, and fell over coughing and sputtering.
“You are evil,” I said in blind admiration, chuckling.

Lil' Pip is after dat booty! All she needed were a pair of Sunglasses and a certain look on her face. XD

And then everyone at the party was like...

I agree, everypony. I agree.

Goddammit, Somber. God fucking dammit. :B

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Ah, the dangers and benefits of writing all over the place (also, I suppose, long chapters). More room to hit something bad, more room to recover. And you really do like kids tormenting Blackjack, don't you? :V What are the odds of that showing up in your crackfic? On which note, regarding Velvet's part in that, how is getting drunk off your ass when there aren't even any kids around, or even awake, being a worse influence than directly teaching a kid to enlist children's help in being a meddlesome/petty revenge-seeking asshole?

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If you're referring to what I assume you are, handling it the way it was strikes me as a better move in the context of PH as an ongoing serial and as it existed at the time than as a part of the completed story. Well, that's fanfic for you.

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Has Somber been replaced by a chatbot? The answer may surprise you!

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The scene referred to in the author's note's Note from Hinds?

I truly enjoyed this chapter! For once there are happy and funny moments in a place where everything outside is horrible which is the typical wasteland.. only too bad LittlePip doesnt remember ANYTHING from it :(

you’d think 600,000 some odd words would be enough to tell one story.

1.1 million words later, he's done.

7555013 you know. that actually makes sense and would explain quite a bit.

That scroll room.
Than robo Owlysious?
"Mistress"!?

Yup, there's no discounting it, she is totally related to one.
Or maybe a princess?

Now I am satisfied in knowing what Memory Orb #8 really contains.

Well done Somber. Well done

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Lawl.

...why do I suddenly feel like p21 and bj are related?

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Well, I mean, they are from a community of 500 that's been closed off from the rest of the world for 10 generations, so... exactly how close is probably the operative question.

She might still be twilights kid.
You might have to touch the door with your flesh in order for it to recognize you, and if you remember, she only touched it with a METAL hoof.

“Well…” Homage said with a mysterious little smile as she pushed the button and the doors slid shut. “Best make it a night worth forgetting.”

Well, it appears that Orb 8 had a couple more participants than originally thought...

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She opened the door in the Athenaeum. Where Twilight's most treasured possessions are.

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But she's not a smart pony sometimes. Also it might only respond to the magic of twilight mind, and blackjack couldn't use magic for the door.

And the twilight society pretty much doesn't expect it to work anyway.

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Some body did something sneaky. Some sneaky blue pony.

This chapter is... bad. It's such a fanboy dream, that's actually embarrassing to watch.

No way I’d ever be heading to Thunderhead any time soon.

"Famous Last Words" activated.

Trouble in skypony-town in 3... 2... 1...

One of my favorite chapters in the whole story.

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Is it like literally every other comment you did in every chapter

Very fun chaper, I've been hoping all chapter that it would not go out of character, and I was not disappointed. I wish there was even more interaction between the books, but I know what we got was already a lot (personally I expected them only to meet in that operation room or not interact at all with just BJ eavesdropping). The teasing jokes are always great. But I am a little comfused on when did glory stared teasing BJ. Overall it all worked out without any major plotholes, good job

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I dont know what type of arcane magic is the fact that i can hear a gif

Didn't anybody notice Twilight's owl calling Blackjack mistress?

I remember reading this story back when it was still being published. But I never ended up reading the final chapter. I wasn't sure what was gonna happen, so I wanted to wait for a good time. Then time slipped away from me. So now I'm rereading it all, so I can remember everything. I'm excited to read how it all ends.
Love this story

I kinda feel like teasing about them realising they are actually meeting the stable dweller and security feels a bit awkward, especially in the prior chapter where some topics wete brought up, but never captured on. I feel, because of this, that they might have realised, and it was purposefully kept ambiguous, but the message of it is seriously lost to me.

Also, would I be wrong to believe that the door didn't open for her because she had used her metal limbs rather than a part of her body that could magically genetically read?