Trying to find out why Coco Pommel decided to work fo Suri Polomare again Rarity learns about a underground pony trafficing ring. Problem is that the mare running it wants Rarity to join as either its newest member or its newest slave.
5029967 You would also think Celestia would have a better plan to deal with Tirek than "Hide alicorn powers and hope for the best", but I won't hold that against her either.
Unless it wasn't made clear, the more ponies involved the more likely it is to be noticed. Using Twilight alone puts the best pony on the job while allowing for a bit of subtlety that the Society might not expect, seeing that Twilight travels around Equestria on a whim all the time anyways.
5030003 yeah cause an Alicorn will attract far less attention than a couple of random ponies....... also you ever heard of a plan of desperation? tirek had discord on his side, and discord could have allowed tirek to tip the scale and get one alicorn at a time, though unless they combined theri powe to kill discord in one blow. celestia had no other plans to use in this situation. she and luna defeated tirek before, but he was alone back then. at that this point he had discord.
then again the likelyhood of them kidnapping twilight if she delves too deep should be unlikely considering her connections to a demigod so powerful she can wreck entire buildings at will. if anythign would tip her off, and likely make her god Fuck It and come in blazing like a comet, is her student and fellow alicorn disappearing.
5030003 and remember, this is just Twilight having a sense of duity and interest, wait until she finds out that the society's managed to catch Rarity and Suri Polomare. Then we'll have twilight really on the case.
5030874 The thing is Twilight would probably suspect that rarity isn't thinking of her own volition, especially since Twilight knew for a fact that coco hated Suri's guts when she left, and now she serves Suri like she's the queen. I'd be suspicious of that as well, and look into mental tampering, or even to see if some some form of control is being put over the ponies.
5030018 Ok... I don't even know why I bother at this point, but let's just do this song and dance one last time so I can make something clear.
I don't know if you noticed but my story has an "alternate universe" tag. What this means is that as far as it is concerned, for the purposes of this story, the characters in question go under a different set of rules than normal. So even if I thought that your assumption true, that Celestia is some sort of demigod, god or divine being of some other sort, and let me assure you I don't, I can alter that perception of her to better fit a story as long as it is within reason and making Celestia into a pony with simply "Above average" magical ability is within reason.
No matter what your opinion on alicorns is, in this story they are not really all that special. Celestia doesn't have any power beyond normal unicorns as it is even stated in show that they can move the sun and the moon if they want to if they work together. So I interpret that as her just having a large amount of magic and no special talent aside from longevity which might just be an alicorn trait (It's not like Twilight suddenly got better with her ascension). So yeah, as far as this story goes you can throw out anything you think you know about any of the princesses cause they are only better than average unicorns when it comes to casting spells and any argument you have to say to the contrary is moot since it doesn't apply to this story. If you don't like that, well no one said you have to follow my story.
And as far as the other stuff goes, I really don't care cause it is only your opinion on any of it and there is no proof to the contrary on most of it that I really don't feel I have to explain, so I won't.
5033439 I change it to my own interpretation of the facts. Celestia has never been effective at doing anything in the series proper, so it stands to reason that she is no god of any type, just a leader who is getting on in years, probably with waning power and onset dementia seeing her ability to get her ass handed to her on a regular basis and how often her plans simply suck, and is trying to prepare a new alicorn to take her place before she sends Equestria into ruin with her inability to lead.
Funny thing is I'm not even depicting her like that in this story and will be giving her a level of respect far beyond what I feel she deserves, just not to the degree you think she deserves.
5033439 No disrespect meant to you, but why do you always do this? I've seen you post similar arguments on other stories, and I can't bring myself to understand the point in it. When something is tagged as Alternate Universe from the start you shouldn't complain when the characters don't line up with the show. Also when in the show does Celestia actually display the power you seem to think she has? Also whether or not she is a demogod does not make her perfect and she would still be prone to making mistakes or overlooking things.
Starting to feel like i'm rambling... It's 3:30am for me so sorry if my sentences seem a little disjointed or hard to follow.
Edit: I'd also point out your poor spelling but I know what you like to claim victory when people point that out, which I also don't understand.
I remember in the first story that more then one high ranking guardsman was in the Society...This probably wont end well. Unless she gets paired with Flash Sentry shes fucked, because not even the society would want Flash Sentry.
You know it was actually pretty dumb to kidnap rarity. I mean think of the implication should another villian arrive. And if they try to kidnap twilight then celestia won't stop until she finds out what is going on. Celebraties disappearing is one thing but when you take away a countries greatest defense that's when people start noticing.
5037931 Well that is why the Society tries to stage their kidnappings in a way where it don't seem like a kidnapping. As Twilight's chapter shows the scroll of assumedly missing ponies only has several dozen ponies written on it, and they have certainly taken many, many more.
Them targeting the Element bearers also brings up another possibility of them messing up bad, now I know its all in the author's control and such :) but what if while they have one of the Elements 'in training' some major threat comes, as in Tirak/Discord level and they need all 6 of the girls.
That is just one thought, and if the Crystal Heart Ritual amplifies what is within the girl's, then that could backfire as well with the power those 6 have.
Also if Twilight vanishes (and Spike gets away), then not only would Celestia be alerted, but there is a Princess you are forgetting, Luna. I've always seen her as the more..'battle ready' type of princess over Tia.
I am loving the story though, really fun read. My personal hope, that Rarity joins the Socitey as a Dominate, given her element of Generosity.
*Squee* I just gotten back to this story, and read the four new chapters that were posted and I enjoy how this story is coming together. Keep up the good work!
"This was dropped from one of the missing ponies when they were returning to their home," Celestia explained, "A friend of theirs gave it to one of the royal guards and it is one of the few reasons I feel there is something more to all this. I assume you know why."
How fortuitous that the friend of the former abducted managed to pass the evidence along to an honest guard. That friend may have been the next one to disappear had the guard been a member of The Society (master or slave, makes no difference as Fleet Foot demonstrated in assisting capture of Soarin). I doubt very highly Lady Tourmaline would allow such a witness to run free after discovering one of her scrying crystals. I believe the black ones are used for her to keep tabs on slaves like Octavia who refused to get with the program.
Incredibly short chapter this week, but let me introduce you to the first of many chapters featuring Twilight Sparkle as the main protagonist of this story.
well it's about bucking time we had just a little glimmer of hope without it being some bounty hunting slaver posing as a bucking secret agent.
If he was a REAL spy that feather duster would heve been able to see what Vinyl was doing when she lead him out on the dance floor... bastard..
To tell you the truth I think the fact Gladstone (was that his name) had a concience but he ignored it for prophet and and offered a mare hollow sympathies as he dragged her into a life of torture and rape that that makes him the second worst asshole under Blueblood!
It is also imperative that this investigation be kept at a low profile.
So you're going to send an alicorn and the newest princess? I see how Celestia thought hiding the alicorn magic inside Twilight was a good idea when she had stained glass windows of Twilight.
you would think celestia would have several dozen ponies working on the case including following and providing protection for twilight.
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You would also think Celestia would have a better plan to deal with Tirek than "Hide alicorn powers and hope for the best", but I won't hold that against her either.
Unless it wasn't made clear, the more ponies involved the more likely it is to be noticed. Using Twilight alone puts the best pony on the job while allowing for a bit of subtlety that the Society might not expect, seeing that Twilight travels around Equestria on a whim all the time anyways.
5030003 yeah cause an Alicorn will attract far less attention than a couple of random ponies.......
also you ever heard of a plan of desperation? tirek had discord on his side, and discord could have allowed tirek to tip the scale and get one alicorn at a time, though unless they combined theri powe to kill discord in one blow.
celestia had no other plans to use in this situation. she and luna defeated tirek before, but he was alone back then. at that this point he had discord.
then again the likelyhood of them kidnapping twilight if she delves too deep should be unlikely considering her connections to a demigod so powerful she can wreck entire buildings at will. if anythign would tip her off, and likely make her god Fuck It and come in blazing like a comet, is her student and fellow alicorn disappearing.
5030003 and remember, this is just Twilight having a sense of duity and interest, wait until she finds out that the society's managed to catch Rarity and Suri Polomare. Then we'll have twilight really on the case.
hmmm now how many ponies do you know that can summon black crystals *raises eyebrow* does this mean a certain Relic Hunter is gonna be featured?
Let me guess, this "loyal guard" is under the Society's thumb?
5030223 If Rarity's 'willingly' a part of the society it could make Twilight give them the benefit of the doubt, until it was tooooo late.
5030874 The thing is Twilight would probably suspect that rarity isn't thinking of her own volition, especially since Twilight knew for a fact that coco hated Suri's guts when she left, and now she serves Suri like she's the queen. I'd be suspicious of that as well, and look into mental tampering, or even to see if some some form of control is being put over the ponies.
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Ok... I don't even know why I bother at this point, but let's just do this song and dance one last time so I can make something clear.
I don't know if you noticed but my story has an "alternate universe" tag. What this means is that as far as it is concerned, for the purposes of this story, the characters in question go under a different set of rules than normal. So even if I thought that your assumption true, that Celestia is some sort of demigod, god or divine being of some other sort, and let me assure you I don't, I can alter that perception of her to better fit a story as long as it is within reason and making Celestia into a pony with simply "Above average" magical ability is within reason.
No matter what your opinion on alicorns is, in this story they are not really all that special. Celestia doesn't have any power beyond normal unicorns as it is even stated in show that they can move the sun and the moon if they want to if they work together. So I interpret that as her just having a large amount of magic and no special talent aside from longevity which might just be an alicorn trait (It's not like Twilight suddenly got better with her ascension). So yeah, as far as this story goes you can throw out anything you think you know about any of the princesses cause they are only better than average unicorns when it comes to casting spells and any argument you have to say to the contrary is moot since it doesn't apply to this story. If you don't like that, well no one said you have to follow my story.
And as far as the other stuff goes, I really don't care cause it is only your opinion on any of it and there is no proof to the contrary on most of it that I really don't feel I have to explain, so I won't.
5033424 in other words you change it when it is convenient for the plot rather......... plot convenience is often an ugly term for a reason.
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I change it to my own interpretation of the facts. Celestia has never been effective at doing anything in the series proper, so it stands to reason that she is no god of any type, just a leader who is getting on in years, probably with waning power and onset dementia seeing her ability to get her ass handed to her on a regular basis and how often her plans simply suck, and is trying to prepare a new alicorn to take her place before she sends Equestria into ruin with her inability to lead.
Funny thing is I'm not even depicting her like that in this story and will be giving her a level of respect far beyond what I feel she deserves, just not to the degree you think she deserves.
5033439
No disrespect meant to you, but why do you always do this? I've seen you post similar arguments on other stories, and I can't bring myself to understand the point in it. When something is tagged as Alternate Universe from the start you shouldn't complain when the characters don't line up with the show. Also when in the show does Celestia actually display the power you seem to think she has? Also whether or not she is a demogod does not make her perfect and she would still be prone to making mistakes or overlooking things.
Starting to feel like i'm rambling... It's 3:30am for me so sorry if my sentences seem a little disjointed or hard to follow.
Edit: I'd also point out your poor spelling but I know what you like to claim victory when people point that out, which I also don't understand.
I remember in the first story that more then one high ranking guardsman was in the Society...This probably wont end well. Unless she gets paired with Flash Sentry shes fucked, because not even the society would want Flash Sentry.
You know it was actually pretty dumb to kidnap rarity. I mean think of the implication should another villian arrive. And if they try to kidnap twilight then celestia won't stop until she finds out what is going on. Celebraties disappearing is one thing but when you take away a countries greatest defense that's when people start noticing.
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Well that is why the Society tries to stage their kidnappings in a way where it don't seem like a kidnapping. As Twilight's chapter shows the scroll of assumedly missing ponies only has several dozen ponies written on it, and they have certainly taken many, many more.
Them targeting the Element bearers also brings up another possibility of them messing up bad, now I know its all in the author's control and such :) but what if while they have one of the Elements 'in training' some major threat comes, as in Tirak/Discord level and they need all 6 of the girls.
That is just one thought, and if the Crystal Heart Ritual amplifies what is within the girl's, then that could backfire as well with the power those 6 have.
Also if Twilight vanishes (and Spike gets away), then not only would Celestia be alerted, but there is a Princess you are forgetting, Luna. I've always seen her as the more..'battle ready' type of princess over Tia.
I am loving the story though, really fun read. My personal hope, that Rarity joins the Socitey as a Dominate, given her element of Generosity.
*Squee* I just gotten back to this story, and read the four new chapters that were posted and I enjoy how this story is coming together. Keep up the good work!
How often do you write a new chapter? Just wondering.
How fortuitous that the friend of the former abducted managed to pass the evidence along to an honest guard. That friend may have been the next one to disappear had the guard been a member of The Society (master or slave, makes no difference as Fleet Foot demonstrated in assisting capture of Soarin). I doubt very highly Lady Tourmaline would allow such a witness to run free after discovering one of her scrying crystals. I believe the black ones are used for her to keep tabs on slaves like Octavia who refused to get with the program.
5039514 just what type of digit numbers are we looking at? I mean JUST the slaves in the Manehatten facility number hundreds if not thousands.
spread out across Equestria and beyond (what with Griffons, Deer, and Minotaur) they must be in the 10s of thousands, if not millions!
well it's about bucking time we had just a little glimmer of hope without it being some bounty hunting slaver posing as a bucking secret agent.
If he was a REAL spy that feather duster would heve been able to see what Vinyl was doing when she lead him out on the dance floor... bastard..
To tell you the truth I think the fact Gladstone (was that his name) had a concience but he ignored it for prophet and and offered a mare hollow sympathies as he dragged her into a life of torture and rape that that makes him the second worst asshole under Blueblood!
So you're going to send an alicorn and the newest princess? I see how Celestia thought hiding the alicorn magic inside Twilight was a good idea when she had stained glass windows of Twilight.
I would pay to be a society 'slave' :3 sounds like something i'd be into.
I called it! I called it all the way back as to the first Fleetfoot chapter!