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kudzuhaiku


She's looking at you. Yes you. And she is judging you with her eyes. There is no escape.

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This story is a sequel to The Chase


The Black Cloaks, the fabled agency that polices magic, has been revived by Princess Twilight Sparkle. This is a collection of short stories and even long stories detailing their exploits. Reading The Chase is helpful, but not required.

Chapters (16)
Comments ( 262 )

Definitely glad I read The Chase now. Helps soften the blow of the dark tones of this story.

Nicely done for the first chapter. It will be interesting to see exactly how this series will interweave with The Chase. I almost see Larch (mental image of the colt as an adult is huge and lanky with a grave-deep voice) being icked up by Sunset Shimmer in the future. I doubt it'll actually happen, but t'would be fun.

interesting, very much so.

throughout the show we can determine three parimary abilities of earth ponies. making life flourish, and even manipulating growth it seems. great physical strength, some so strong they can break rock but even ponies like cheerilee can break down buildings. and the third is sensory abilities. and even without these supernatural skills they are generally intelligent and resourceful.

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Picked up?

The age difference... not sure what you mean here... kinda weirded out

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Adopted... picked up in that sense. I'm strange, but not that strange.

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**heaves a sigh of relief**

That makes a lot more sense.

Larch will be in the Chase, but as a minor background character.

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And here we have an example of an earth pony doing something a unicorn definitely can't do. Speak with the dead without the use of necromancy. A skill that is infinitely useful in and of itself.

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While I was told I looked like Uncle Chester during boot, I don't live up to the reputation. :pinkiesick:

Glad to know we'll see the colt ocassionally.

5275859 in some definitions one could call it the original necromancy. communing with the dead without defiling the dead.

actually kinda reminds me of this character that i borrowed, just couldn't resist using her. a changeling queen named Myxine. she and her children have the unnerving ability to take on the form of the dead, seemingly channeling the souls and feeding on the love a pony has for those they lost. largely the harm comes from someone becoming obsessed with this, and the little ticks the creator of myxine has for changelings in general.
with my design i kinda remove the drained till hollow part and simply have it be them channeling the dead and feeding on reciprocated love between the living and the dead.

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I had a startlingly similar idea for one of the changelings in The Chase.

5275921 shrugs. kinda tweaked with her original design to a point; his idea for changelings do not mesh well with mine.
one concept is that more or less the changeling surrender control of their body. albeit the drones it happens more naturally than it should.

been tinkering with a plot idea of my villain group bribing myxine and her changeligns so they can use the knowledge of those long dead.

In my sleepy state I read the title as "The Black Cloak Fillies" and imagined some sort of MIB Cutie Mark Crusader setup.

A small playground add been added in the front,

Add ==> had

Started out omnious and alarming and ended heartwarming. :heart:

Where is this story playing? I don't think it was mentioned.

Poor Milkweed. I think he's going to need a vacation and a few dream sessions with Luna.

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Eh. Phrased wrong.
Where does this story take place?

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Tall Tale. Mentioned in the story. :pinkiehappy:

A town below Vanhoover on the official map.

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Ah, misread that. I thought the orphanarium was called Tall Tale, after the founder or something like that.

I can totally see Larch being a homicide detective when he gets older.

I suppose a mission debriefing is in order,

Before going on a mission, one is briefed.
After completing a mission, one is debriefed.

it spoke me to

it spoke to me

I should stop thinking that your stories are something that can be read later, you write something new, I drop everything and go read it.

As always, hooked like a fish.

Love Bucky at the end there!

Larch, homicide detective...
Them criminals are screwed.

This should be "The Black Cloak" and "Ripple's Raptor Scouts" files.
I'm sure Ripple will get her missions later.

Oh great...another story that i MUST follow...´cause, yeah, buck my non-existent social life anyway !!!!

YOU FORCE ME TO FAVORITE EVERYTHING YOU WRITE KUDZUHAIKU!!!!!

Wheee... more Chase-verse stories to follow!

This was less action-packed... and less dark than I expected. I like it though.

In regards to this chapter... it's basically bone psychometry, not necromancy, eh?

Will I remember what the bones I talk to say to me?

I guess he did remember something after all...

In any case, it's certainly a fascinating ability. I don't think I've ever seen an osteopath before.

Looking forward to whatever else you have planned for this collection.

The most recent was grey and faded, almost like some of the unicorns found during Tyrek’s rampage.

I believe it was Tirek who went on a rampage. His half-brother Tyrek works at the local Equestria Tires shop. :scootangel:

5364526 dude, I like that pun alot, was having quite the giggle and wNted to thank you.

Really Sunset, you HAD to do that.

5365138 What´s the point of getting power if you can´t abuse it to make some officers soil thenselves !?

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Good point, but did she have to SO flamboyant?

5365504 Bucky´s minion. Considering the master she have, she was, pretty much, very subtle. At least half of the city wasn´t torn appart from this reality during the transmutation.

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Again another very good point.

Bucky, you are being a bad influence on Minion.

5365515 On Sunshine !? What ´bout his influence uppon the Princess of the Night !? Now she is changing cutie marks, creating lunacorns, lunar pegasus and I can´t even imagine what a lunar earth pony can do.

Suddenly Nightmare Moon does not look that bad at all, huh ? At least she wasn´t creating a secret super-powered army of loyal soldiers.

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Keep in mind there is probably a dimension where Nightmare Moon won and Celestia was defeated. NMM would have changed the physiology of the world to work in an endless night, also to prevent the world from freezing over.
If Celestia tried to make an endless day he world would be fried.

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Just making mention that Luna does care about her little ponies and she doesn't want them to die.

Hmm. Seems Sunset is quite gifted in transmutation. Unsurprising, given the whole "rampaging she-demon" incident.

In any case, this one isn't nearly as neat or sweet as the first entry. Definitely looking forward to seeing what develops.

And seriously, Lyra, calm your teats. I'm glad that you love your job, but there's a time and place.
(Keep going.)

He had made a new year’s resolution to cause less collateral damage.

Sorry Buckmeister, no more fun for you.

Not even counting the fact that it was deserved, the only way to make this more entertaining would be if one of them had backed up and hit one of the warehouse air handling devices.

Wait? why did he cause Sunset to shit again? I know he used magic but why make her go number two?

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There is a scene coming in The Chase that will explain this.

This happens in the future but he past hasn't been written yet.

5374605 test subject? Bucky is pretty shit (hehe) at defensive magic so either Lyra or sunset would have to help him and I am pretty sure that Bon Bon would thump him if he did it on lyra

Heh, he gets to disemBOWEL them and feel good about it!

Bucky being helpful in an alicorn of War kind of way.

There's a lot to appreciate in his shitty tactics. :pinkiehappy:

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