7176454 Hinds is helping me upload a whole bunch today

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for some reason I was under the impression that this was complete.

Three new chapters. ...?

Ok..?

Time to hunker down.
See ya soon. Hopefully. ..
I will now Retreat to my room to read.

Somber do you know any audio book version of your work?
Also thanks for building on such an amazing world making it even better.

7176584 Well, there are different kinds of "complete."

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There was CrazedRambling, who did through chapter 21.

Currently, Visualpony Thenarrator is working on it, and has chapters 1 - 53 available free on YouTube, with at least several more in the works, it seems.

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There is 77 chapters and an epilogue so yea

7176983 The epilogue is soooooo GOOD SO STORY SO YES

Gooood grief, what a firestorm of awesome this is, hahaha!
Awesomely done man, awesomely done!

Loving how this is going

Project Horizons started me on a path to discover how fucked in the head I am.

I love you.

I muttered, and the raced for the door.

then raced

Blackjack got another upgrade it seems.

I had a weird thought... Deus/Doof's original cutie mark was a fork and knife, right? Is he supposed to be the same pony as Truffle Shuffle?

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Because if so, that makes the whole thing even more depressing...

>the saddest part of this whole chapter for me is the authors note about going to unicon

rule number one in the wasteland. when the tank with an enemies mind is suddenly deciding it wants to be on your side and follow you around and more or less help ya... dont question it. ever. period.
rule number two, all ya need is the first rule.
rule number three: say yes already and get yourself a tank friend that used to be fricking DEUS EX/DOOF GOSH DANG IT BJ!!!!! JUST!!! DO!!!! IT!!!!! NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just wished I knew what the Goddess found so ***** funny...

Trixie... er the Goddess did something to Blackjack, but exactly what I can't tell, though, I can tell her memory has been altered. Also I censored the line... for whatever reason I dislike using swear/cuss/curse words, unless in a story.

I'm looking forward to the next chapter, and if my hunch is correct Littlepip makes a return in the story, since she has the black book. A trip to Maripony should come shortly. Until the next chapter. ^^

The fact that Blackjack keeps witnessing things, only to have her memory wiped, really feels like cheating on the author's part. It feels like they decided to write in first person limited omniscience, but then realized that world building would be easier if they had chosen third person multiple, or first person omniscient, or even third person omniscient. The result is that Blackjack witnesses things that she's not allowed to know in the story, only to immediately forget, as a way to maintain POV while providing even more exposition to the reader. It smacks of having one's cake and eating it too, and it's to the story's detriment, in my opinion.

“One A Two C Four D Three I,”

Acid?

Oh boy, plus three Diamond Tiaras. <.<

Y'know, I was kind of miffed by the identity of the Dealer being someone's fucking Deadlands PC, but listening to him talk about himself, it seems perfectly in his character to be the kind of person who, given the chance, would disguise himself as the much-cooler character he once played. What a loser. :V

So, what's a "Tokomare"? I tried looking the word up to see what it might be a reference to, and all I got was wiki entries for this fic. XD And am I supposed to make the connection that that team's zebra was the same one who cursed the Marauders?

The dream scene with Psalm and Garnet is on my list of favorite parts of this fic.

And is the description of the Goddess's form meant to invoke that of Satan from Dante's Inferno? Because that's what it reminded me of, at least.

Oh yeah, and I almost forgot to say: Horse is one of the most punchable villains in this story, good job. But I swear to god, if he gets any sympathy before he dies, I'm adding you to that list. >:B

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I've always figured Tokomare is a play on tokamak, a fusion reactor design.

As for Horse, I guess it's the power of writing a smarmy creep wannabe. There may have been some more hatable characters for me, but he was certainly up there, and was a slower build to it.

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Frankly, I'm just horrified that he's walking around an expo where the actual Sweetie Belle is with his goddamn Sweetie sexbot. I can't wait to see how he dies. Assuming he does. :V

7950961 it's a reference to new vegas if you have a high enough science skill when you first talk to the greeter at the strip gate you can get in for free but you need 80 science skill though

Doof.  Psalm.  Twist.  Jetstream.  Stonewing.  Vanity.  Applesnack.  Big Macintosh.  Echo.

The team was complete now.

Dues. Blackjack. Rampage. ???. Gorgon. Dead. Steelhooves. Assassinated...Dealer.

Your right. We have the whole team now.
How sad.
I think the saddest fate was Jestream though. Driven all the way to Happyhorn. Her psyche scarred by her inability to let Stone go. And getting stuck in the past, while living in the present.
Mind frayed and forever destroyed.
I can't imagine a worse fate.

Doof got turned into a "God of pain and misery".

I don't even know what's going on with Psalm, but I'm guessing its a soul thing.

Rampage has Twist in her, along with her gilrfreind Shuja.

Stonewing was pronounced dead. Then fused with a cockatrice.

Vanity...died. (curse thee, Blueblood!)nopony likes Blue. Its a fact.

Applesnack is busy lugging around with Pip, correcting the Rangers and waiting to get his head lopped off by a hellhound.

Big Mac was assassinated by zebras

And Echo...I honestly forget what Echo did, but now I guess we know what happened to em'?

“Dog think pony has problem,” Rover said calmly as the old canine cupped his chin and narrowed his filmy eye.  “Now what could it be… hmmm…”  He sat on a large wooden crate he’d hauled in while Triage readied her surgical equipment.

“I broke my legs,” I muttered, flushing as I lay there on a table.  Now that the injured were more or less taken care of, there was time to deal with stupid mares who tore their legs off trying to rip open tanks with their bare hooves.

Triage glanced at Rover and then at me.  “I dunno,” the gray unicorn said, her lips twitching around her cigarette.  “Sprained ankle?”

“I broke my legs,” I repeated, huffing and rolling my eyes.

Rover ‘hmmmm’ed as he rubbed his chin.  “Dog think Dog may have clue, but Dog is not sure.”  He looked at the smirking unicorn.  “Is something missing?”

“No.  I mean… how could that be?” Triage asked in mock amazement, levitating my severed forelimb and cupping her own chin in imitation of the sand dog.  “Isn’t she one of the strongest, toughest cyberponies around?”

“Dog certainly thought so!” Rover replied sarcastically.  “Pony certainly act like it!”

“I admit it!  I broke my legs!” I yelled at the pair, who ignored me.

“Maybe it’s not physiological,” Triage offered.

Rover feigned shock.  “Pony think problem is in Pony’s brain?”

Triage nodded soberly.  “I think it very well may be.”

“Okay!  I’m an idiot who broke my legs!” I yelled at the pair.  “Happy?”

Triage jumped and stared at me, her eyes wide.  “Eureka!  We have a breakthrough!”

Rover crossed his arms, bowed his head a little, and nodded once.  “Yes.  Pony may be onto something,” he said seriously.

“But how to fix it?  I mean, we can’t make her less of an idiot,” Triage said soberly.

Rover shook his head.  “No no.  Dog is good, but dog not work miracles.”

I glowered at the pair.  “I hate you both.”  The pair arched their eyebrows coolly, simultaneously, as they looked at me and then at each other, and almost in unison gave each other matching smiles that I didn’t like at all.

“Dog has answer.  If pony insists on doing things that ruins dog’s hard work, dog will simply make her tougher.”  He looked at Triage and grinned.  “What pony think?  Securipony?”

Triage’s horn glowed, and I felt something release beneath my thigh.  With a pop, my last leg came off.  “I think we should just jump straight to an Ultra-Sentinel.  Nip this problem in the bud once and for all,” Triage replied with her own grin.

I had a vision of myself sporting six legs each as big as my body and wiggled my three working stumps desperately as I struggled to get away.  Triage levitated me, and my stumps waved helplessly in the air as I tried to flee.  “No!  I’ll never get laid again!”

This has to be the single funniest scene in the entirety of Horizons. No joke, this is the shit right here.

Roseluck

What in the world, Rose?
You go from the perfect gardening trio to cultivating souls and necromantic rings?

Weird...

So we finally got to see what the Goddess looks like.
How creepy.
Just imagine that massive blob of consciousness trying to grab you.
Eww...

I wonder though...what did she do to Blackjack?
Kinda seems like a memory wipe of sorts.

But then...she pretty much is a massive memory orb.

Please, I need to know what happens to Rainbowdash. It's assumed she died but she was chased by Gilda.

I just gotta come out and say this. Lighthooves is a bastard, Steel Rain is an asshole, but The Goddess is the biggest fucking bitch in this whole story!

In fact the only thing that kept me from deliberately skimming any time she showed herself after HighTower was the deep desire to to see the end result of events regarding her. In an extremely metaphysical sense I just want to scream 'suck it bitch!' when she blows up in the Balefire blast thanks to LittlePip.

Sorry if that's a bit harsh, but i have this 'pressure point' (i refuse to use the word 'triggered') when it comes to minds being manipulated.

“One A Two C Four D Three I,” Horse said casually as he put the card away. Instantly, both robots turned their guns towards Diamond. She cried out, and he hastily added, “And one consultant.” The robots beeped and returned to their alcoves. “Touchy things at times, aren’t they?”

Okay. It wasn’t… as bad as I’d expected. I looked like I’d put on half a suit of Enclave power armor and had neglected to put on the rest. Aside from my legs, there was a large shield-shaped piece of metal across my chest that connected to my shoulders. An articulated ridge of black metal followed my spine down to my tail. My sides were still bare; on one hoof, a tactical vulnerability, and on the other a wonderful reminder that I was at least partially flesh and blood. The ridge narrowed when it got to my mane and became two thinner strips, with my mane in the middle, running to just behind my ears.

so now she looks more like the character in this video:

Oh my god Dealer is basically Echo's DnD character, that is amazing XD

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It's also from the incredible and means ice cream when converted to normal English

The filly set my leg down and backed away from it before looking back at me. She looked at the device, then looked off to the side, and finally leaned towards me. “Blackjack… I’ve seen him before,” she whispered.

That's creepy....😨😨

The gray unicorn sighed. “I think we can do that. The Shadowbolt design is based on power armor, only much more reinforced. Instead of armoring around a pony, it strengthens throughout the body. We’ll have to fortify your joints and spine, though. One bad fall on your back and you could easily snap it.” [/quite]

That sounds like a bad design flaw

She levitated another long piece of black metal. “Fortunately, we’ve got enough pieces of Sky Striker’s armor to do it.” She looked into the box and pursed her lips. “Too bad the wing guards were shredded.”

If she didn't shoot those up then she'd really be a cyber alicorn 🤣🤣

Toko smiled at her. “No. If our math is correct, it is one hundredth of one percent of the power the Tokomare is capable of.”

This reminds of an anime

I like blackjacks zebra legs alot better. I'm worried with how much more metal is going into her body now

“One A Two C Four D Three I,” Horse said casually as he put the card away. Instantly, both robots turned their guns towards Diamond. She cried out, and he hastily added, “And one consultant.” The robots beeped and returned to their alcoves. “Touchy things at times, aren’t they?”

Almost an Incredibles reference

Damn wonder if Blackjack will regain her knowledge once the goddess dies. Also if Twilight is a part of the goddess did she split her soul into another Alicorn to listen to Pinkie Pie's message? I really hope she at least gets to meet her great great great.... granddaughter.