Keep em coming!

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Will do.^^

Y' be doin' good, my friend. Keep 'em a rollin'.

Yay for her heroic deed for the day!

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Now that I finaly conquered my writing mountain, that is my intend.^^

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>>That better get me a good reward, a solid hint what is going on here or at least some more souls or else!<<

Woohooo! Another brilliant chapter.
Keep the good work up, hope to see more soon.

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*bows* Thank you kindly. I´m glad you enjoy this fic so far. Will do, after all, this is only book one of my planned trilogy.^^

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By Tzeentch!
A trilogy you say.
This is going to be a great time.

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I certainly hope so.

Also, the horned Rat clearly is superior to the Canary God. ;3P

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Aaaaah. It has been so long since I've talked to a representative of the Skavens. Tell me which clan do you hail from, Clan Pestilens, Clan Eshin or perhaps Clan Skryre?

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None of these fool-idiots. No, I lead the great Warrior Clan Nars, from the rightful place in the last row, deeep inside the shadows, yes-yes.

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Hahahaha! A warrior you say?
Aaaah it has been so long since I've had a good fight. Come let us fight to see if you truly live up to the title of warrior! Prove yourself a worthy opponent and I shall wear your hide as my trophy.
What do you say?

Edit: Don't take me serious. It's better for your head.

Rarity, you horn dog!

Great story so far. Keep it up!

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Don´t worry about my noogin´ it went out of order a long time ago.^^

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Hehe, ya, it is so much fun to mess Rares.

Thanks, will do.^^

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Phew... Thats good to hear.

I always enjoy Dark Souls crossovers, although there really seem to be none that actually last past a few thousand words for some reason. I just wish there were more that cross over specifically with Dark Souls 1. I think it's the better game and setting in every sense.

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Hmm, to my immense shame (no, not really), I have to admit that I never played DS 1 but outright started with DS 2. Personally, I was able to enjoy both 2 and 3 very much, once I came up with a surefire way to deal with asshole invaders.^^ And with that, I mean running off cliffs, flipping them the bird in my head.

If you look for good crossovers with Dark Souls 1, have you read "Friendship is Scaleless" yet? It´s mui bueno.^^b

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Hmm, to my immense shame (no, not really), I have to admit that I never played DS 1 but outright started with DS 2.

Personally, I prefer it a whole lot more. DS 2 was a big disappointment to me, so much that I haven't even tried out Dark Souls 3 yet. One thing I really liked a lot more about DS1 is that the balancing was so much better. Compared to DS2, you could often walk in on a boss and actually have a fair chance of winning the first time through, not because they were easier, but because knowing the controls and having fast reflexes mattered a lot more than memorizing patterns did, the way it does in DS2. DS2 seems to flip-flop between "ridiculously easy" like the Last Giant and "absurdly hard" way more. There's so much crap you can't even block even if you react fast enough to it. Like, those three guys in the Bastille. I had no internet connection at the time and it was just completely ridiculous. That boss clearly wasn't meant to be ever taken on alone. The humanoid enemies were all kind of like that, in my opinion.

Plus, the game world is just more fun. You know how in DS2, everything is kind of flat and you have to pass through every area before getting to the next? Well, imagine that crumpled up into a ball, basically. DS1 is all vertical, you can go up, down, left, right and every area has at least three different ways to get into it. It makes it all much more fun to explore. I'm sure there are still areas I haven't seen yet, and I've played that game to death.

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I've read a good part of it, but, I don't know, I find it hard to really enjoy the characters. I stopped around chapter 16 because of that. Everyone is just so absurdly accepting, you know what I mean? Seath is a monster, in-setting and out of it. He outright admits to all the horrible things he has done to thousands of people over the years, but everyone just seems to go "oh well, you didn't do it to anyone we know, so we don't really care." It makes the characters feel kind of like caricatures - or like the author couldn't think of a realistic way to make them actually react to that and still accept keeping the character around.

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Hmm, then you should propably stay clear of The nameless King in DS 3, should you ever play it. Compared to him, the Watchers are a absolute cakewalk. Also, with a blunt weapon you could crumb these slender fuckers pretty good.

Ya, that the characters seemed almost caricaturized is what makes the story for me.^^ If the author would have been true to the Souls theme, everything would have soon dissolved just into another stomach turning butchery with Pony-turned-Pisacas, Seath effortlessly anihilating anthing the Celestial Sisters throw at him, more new magical-experimental atrocities, a lot of the Mane Six turning Hollow in no time and whatnot.

But eh, to each his or her own flask o´ estus hn? \[T]/

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Hmm, then you should propably stay clear of The nameless King in DS 3, should you ever play it. Compared to him, the Watchers are a absolute cakewalk. Also, with a blunt weapon you could crumb these slender fuckers pretty good.

It wasn't really the damage output to begin with so much as the "three on one in a confined space with no one to help you" thing. The Four Kings in DS1 are a similar setup, but you just have so much more space to maneuver. I ended up soloing both games, so it's not really the difficulty that's the problem. The Lord of Cinder fight at the end of DS1 is hard as balls if you don't go at it with the right strategy, but the thing is that you can even go at it with a strategy. With the Watchers, you either have someone along to help you divide up their attention or you don't. DS2 was mostly a cakewalk to me interspersed with the occasional section where it didn't actually matter how good you are at the game, just whether you are solving the fight in the way the developers intended for you to solve it. In a game like Dark Souls, that is supposedly all about fair challenge and such, that just made me feel kind of cheated. DS1 never has that kind of feeling to it, it's part of why I just like it better.

Ya, that the characters seemed almost caricaturized is what makes the story for me.^^

I'm fine with it so long as it doesn't feel like a writing crutch. All the sections that involve mostly the Chosen Undead are honestly really good, I think. It's just the parts with the ponies that sound to me like the writer didn't think his idea through and then decided to run with it, instead of actually making them behave realistically.

Yes, I know, realistic is a silly thing to say about magical ponies, but if you read it as "they don't behave in ways I could see an actual person behaving" I think you'll see what I'm getting at.

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Pfahahaha! Sorry, sorry. Could not help myself but since when is any Souls game about a "fair challenge"? I mean, even if you have a high level and wear the best armor, even then can a measly naked Hollow with a dagger end you in a one-shot backstab. Or when enemies jump you from all directions, staggering you to death? Massive mobs charging you in the dozens? These motherhugging Silver Knights keep shooting you down from narrow walkways with their Dragonslayer Bows?
For me, Dark Souls is about fighting as dirty and underhanded as you can to see the next day. But then again, that just might be me, being corrupted by the (mostly) toxic Souls community.

Hmhm, ya, I think I get what you mean. Then again, I remember that MANY users round here just love to poit out that Ponies as a race are soft hearted and forgiving to a fault, so that might be the way Limescale decided to go with the story.

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Could not help myself but since when is any Souls game about a "fair challenge"?

Well, I did say "fair." I didn't say "nice." Hollows can do that kind of thing, but to be able to do that, you need to have screwed up in the first place and let them surround you. I've gone through entire areas without getting a scratch because there aren't really any cheap shots - no ambushes you can't see up-front, no insta-kills that will always get you the first time around, no enemies that spawn behind you and the two or three kinds of enemy that can counter you or have unblockable attacks telegraph it massively. It's fair in the sense that everything can easily kill you, but if you pay attention, you have the ability to avoid nearly all of it. At the same time, there's only a handful of enemies that you can't kill in one or two hits, either.

That's part of what made it so popular with the self-declared "hardcore" crowd, I think. It's genuinely a skill-based game. You can actually become good at it and it will be rewarded, instead of forcing you to more or less just go in blind and hope for the best. You don't really get that a lot. Most games get their difficulty from floaty control or AI that plain can't miss or has access to information and abilities that you don't, that kind of thing.

Massive mobs charging you in the dozens?

I don't think there's any area in DS1 that doesn't let you pull mobs at your own pace. I was really annoyed by that one section in the Bastille for that reason, because yeah, that isn't fair. Which was kind of the whole problem.

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Hmm, fair points you have there. Maybe just my bad luck and bad expierences talking. Seriously, sometimes I can make Oscar the Fateless look like Fortunas favourite.^^

Great story so far. Looking forward to more^^

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Glad you enjoyed it so far.^^ More is on its way.

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I certainly hope so. I want to see Raritys reaction when The Knight takes his helm off and show he is a she^^

I only played the first Dark souls, and even there I didn't even get to the first boss. IT'S SO DAMN HARD TO PLAY!

P.s. I totally like your name^^

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Hehehe, oh ya, that´s gonna be gud. >:3

I admit, I started the Souls franchise with Dark Souls 2, mainly because Dark Souls 1 is the hardest of the trilogy. Don´t get me wrong, Dark Souls 3 has it´s moments too, especialy until you got used to the fact that even the basic undead enemies move like Sonic on Speed while you move like your body is made of lead even if you are just in your undies.^^°

Also, thank you kindley.