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She seems like such a nice pony, doesn't she?
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Sickle is actually fucking hilarious and I hope she stays around.
LAST MESSAGE REPEATS Huh, interesting. Is the number on the cipher you've chosen itself significant on these?
But certainly a colorful mare in sickle.
Oh, this is fun. I like where this is going; I knew we were going to see her again!
I'm actually kind of curious what Dusty needs from Whisper and Starlight with Sickle around. Is there anything they can do to help that Sickle won't just do herself? Or is it just a "safety in numbers" thing?
6888377 Yes, she is a wonderful ray of sunshine, hope, and butterflies. Amusing though she is, I cannot help but to want to shoot her.
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She's certainly a lot of fun to write!
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I did choose the number for a reason, though it may not be very relevant to the story. I'm kind of having fun with this!
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Like Dusty said, he likes to plan for worst-case scenarios, and Sickle deciding to kill them is one of those worst-case scenarios. As for whether there are things they can do to help that Sickle can't or won't, that should be made clear in the next chapter.
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Judging by Starlight's reaction, you're not the only one.
Oof. Don't take this the wrong way, but I really, really hope Sickle doesn't join the party for good. It's a good plot device for the starter missions and rough edges are the norm in FOE, but there's rough and then there's...that.
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Oh, I understand. She's not very likable, to say the least... and she probably likes it that way.
What a charming travelling companion.
While certainly not a pony i'd invite to tea, sickle at least is uesful.
I wish to see more, please.
just like your other stories Phoenix... Fantastic! cant wait for the rest!
Damn, I love Sickle!
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She's strong, she'll probably draw all enemy attention, she's direct and honest, and she doesn't screw party up, even if she likes to rile them. I say I've had worse travelling companions in my roleplaying career, and I do love brutal, warrior females.
Heehee. Completely understandable
That seems odd. I had the impression hunting would take far less effort to Wasteland ponies than growing plants. Unless all the vegetables are preserved canned stuff, that is...
If this raider camp is also completely brutally wiped out by Sickle when they get there I'm gonna laugh so hard
Haaaahahahaha! How is that any different from option one? She's a confirmed psychotic murderer!
Well I guess you know what to expect then, at least
Given her life style, I think it's a fair bet she grew up with some.
Yeah, that is a pretty interesting thing about her, isn't it? I think Sickle a really damaged person... and now I really wonder if you'll go deeper into that
Fifty-fifty, huh? And which of those fifties is going to pay Sickle?
Oh, get a room already, you two
Well, I suppose she's overall the more level-headed of the two.
Not to mention, the most cunning, but shhh, that's a secret!
Ohhhh wow. Her training is showing. I'm sure he'll at least suspect she has some kind of military background, now.
Or, y'know, they got killed. Risky job, after all. Not that they're planning on that, but it's worth considering from an employer's point of view.
Yeeah, the wastelands really need a more portable currency
Wow. What a way to prepare for meeting a new team mate
Heh. That guy.
She eats the ponies she kills, doesn't she?
She'd win in a heartbeat. She wouldn't even have to actively threaten anybody; just competing would be threat enough
Wow. She is damn good at remembering faces
Yeeeah... I don't think that's gonna cut it if she specifically points that out, Dusty
I like her already!
Bwahahahaha. Fucking epic, this gal
Heehee. A very interesting character indeed.
Oh, wow. She's not just some horrible psycho bitch; she likes to get ironic on raiders. Respect!
This is some kind of messed up redemption to her, isn't it?
Really? I'm loving every second of it!
More ROT13? Really?
Oh. No. rot23. Well the conversion site has a convenient dropdown menu
Remarks and corrections:
> right before laying down to sleep
Should be "[lying] down".
> Relieved of its burden, our guts quickly settled down
That should be "Relieved of their burdens", since it's about two entirely separate people's guts.
> to relieve themselves Unfortunately, the observation combined
Missing period.
> at least not with Sickle laying right there.
"lying", not "laying".
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It's going to vary a fair bit from place to place, but the short version is, animals need food, too. Given the sparse vegetation of the area, there isn't much wildlife, so hunting tends to produce fairly small and irregular returns. With the smaller animal population, you run the risk of depleting their numbers below sustainability (See Arbu). There's also the risk of being caught alone when out hunting. Crops take a lot of regular work, but are more steady and reliable, and more scalable to your needs and populations.
Rust also has the benefit of a working water pump, which is a huge boon to agriculture.
Maaaybe...
Ponies make it easy with their bright colors and cutie marks. Plus, they're in that small and unlikely cross section of ponies she's met who have both broken into her home, and that have survived meeting her.
She's certainly a lot of fun to write!
I figured I'd start out simple before getting to the more interesting stuff...
Fffffff--okay, from now on, I'm going to run a word-search on new chapters for every instance of lie, lay, lying, etc, just to scour for mistakes. I know the difference, and I'm still slipping up on that...
Mother Bucking Trouble Shoes.
So, not sure if I just haven't been paying attention, but is there a code at the end of every chapter?
If yes, has anyone figured out a cipher yet?
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I only started doing the cryptograms as of chapter 7. I've considered going back and adding more, but I'm not sure it would add much at this point (Especially since it'd probably all be the same method of encoding throughout).
As for solutions, you should be able to find them in the comments...
My favorite character so far is Sickle. I sure she quite a interesting back story. Now onward to more chapters.
Sickle acts somewhat like Vinyl, no?..
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I didn't do so on purpose, but I'm curious what you're referring to?
7508675 I don't know myself where I got that from - maybe just that she likes expressions with loud accents ('hey! That was fun!') Which made me associate one of Vinyl's fan voices with her lines, subsequently imagining her to be Vinyl transformed into an ogre pony. Maybe painted pink after that.
Fitting. I wonder if Sickle's victim was alive when she turned her into a pony shish kabob, or if she gutted her first?
It technically works as it is, but I think this should be 'set up'.
AAHHHH I LOVE YOU
I was willing to let that little slip up last chapter slide thanks to all the other things you got right, but now it turns out that it was intentional and you were just saving it for a conversation point!? Fantastic.
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Hehe!
I love slipping in little realistic details just for the realism, and especially when I can use it to show a bit of a difference in the training and experience of the characters. Starlight doesn't even know why that caught Dusty's attention!
Getting a Rampage-like feel with Sickle... Except she's not immortal/invincible. (At least to my knowledge) Although Sickle seems even more carefree and vindictive towards Raiders. Hella interested in her backstory now. >w>
All I had to do was read "Crystal Life" and I immidiately knew Whisper would change her mind.
You havent? Then I think you would love the Hoof.
the place is so crazy I think it might have been touched by Discord.
Sounds like a Noble.
Couldn't have worded it better.
although with her particular wording, I personally would be suspicious of a nice, twisting backstab.
Nor to mention...what the buck she wasn't this information for in the first place.
I'd be more then a little suspicious when nebulous groups decided they wnats detailed information of the past.
Because that almost never turns out for the Benoit of ponykind.
What a morbid image...I think I'm scarred for life now.
You know, it occurs to me that, disregarding her attitude, she actually seems quite intelligent in some regards.
she is smart enough to know a good deal when she hears one, and that she has easy aces to income when she feels like it. She has bartering skills.
Not only that, but if you considered creative thought, she is actually very creative as well with her ability to parody names so easily, despite how colorful they are.
She's just a rainbow of rancor.
Now this, this is what I like about her. She gives sharp and critical thought to action, no matter how collaterally destructive they may be.
She knows well what she is doing, she just doesn't have any fucks to give.
This speaks volumes for her character, admitting that she is scum, but still accepting that that won't stop her from living her life.
She has a conseince!
It occurs to me that Whisper has thus far almost always seemed to contradict Starlight reasoning.
I was a little afraid that if it went to far, she would dich her because they thought too differentky. A vital part of friendship is being able to follow, just as much as lead. Taking others opinions into consideration.
This is the first time I have seen Whisper to that.
You know, I was half expecting Whisper to crack a grin and ask "Are you offering?" just to mess with her, slightly disappointed, would have been funny see her get one up on Sickle..............that's not a euphemism................shut up.
I think sickle is very interesting for a berserker character she’s a thinker I can tell you don’t see that to often.
We get it! She's thicc in more ways than one
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As far as this chapter goes it hasn't be told in its entirety yet.
Also last message repeats huh? Okay then.
I just realised something, compared to most other FoE main characters are Whisper very... well I would not say passive, but she sure is letting Starlight speak up a lot, where other characters would have stepped in and silenced them. Now this is not a bad thing, really refreshing really, and very very fitting for a manipulative spy, I do just not know why it is first now I actively realise this fact and appriciate it.
A bottlecap weighs about 2.2 gram. so 1000 caps would be 2200 gram or 4.8 pounds, so a bit of over estimate on Whispers behalf, unless we begin to calculate all of the dirt and grime that would sit on the caps.
Only thing that I can say after such an amount of caps have changed hoof/hands is that unmodified caps would be a bitch to barter with. First of all would you like to make a hole in them so you can put them on strings of a certain length so you have units of a certain amount to quickly barter with, heck that was one of the main reasons that old coins have holes in them, that and to lower the amount of materials to make them.
Secondly do you want a bigger denomination than a single unit, and while I can't find my source for it am I pretty sure that I read on the Fo wiki that they had planned to make caps that was worth more than a single cap, but scrapped the idea because of playtest confusion. As a LARPer that use coins with values of 1 and 2 can I not say how happy I was when the 5 coin was introduced
Ahem... sorry for getting sidetracked.
As a LARPer is the idea of missing armour down there just stupid, especially since I have heard stories from people wearing an armoured belt thinking it protected his groin, and then taunting a kid to kick him, just to have it bend inwards and him talk in a funny voice. Secondly can you specificly target that area in Vats in Fallout 1 and 2, so it is a small but lore friendly and valid target. And third, if you really can't undo a buckle quick enough when your stomach begin to rumble are you not trained enough in wearing armour, just saying.
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The numbers I found ranged from around 2.2 g to 2.5 g, depending on various factors (Like liner and graphics), so I went with a vague approximation of weight that roughly covered that range. 4.84 lb is pretty close to 5 lb, after all. But mostly I wanted to point out that bottlecaps are pretty damn heavy and bulky in large numbers, and any late-game wanderer packing tens of thousands of caps is going to need a pretty big pack just to carry his money.
It's really not a convenient monetary system, yet I can't think of any story that notes just how bulky these large cap values would be.
I'm guessing this has more to do with the LARP side of it, because a lot of historical armors offered little or no groin protection. Different types and levels of threats, after all. Getting run through by a spear or stuck with arrows is probably much less of a concern for a LARPer than a good kick to the nards. The groin is a hard place to fully armor without impeding mobility, so you often see "good enough" measures like faulds or armored skirts that more-or-less protect it from regular weapon strikes (Many of which would do little to a well-aimed kick). In this case, the armor is made to protect from weapons wielded by ponies that the wearer is charging, so protection from the rear is of low importance (Whisper doesn't quite have that tactical mindset to appreciate concerns like that, just yet). It's also extra-thick heavy metal armor made by a raider of mediocre skill, so they probably weren't up to the challenge of making groin armor that didn't limit mobility. Not that Sickle cares. Sickle's mainly just happy that she can have sex without having to take her armor off.
Plus, she tends to keep her armor on most of the time, and even if it only takes a few minutes, it'd still be inconvenient to have to take part of it off and put it back on again every time she needs to go.
I like her; I'mma gonna call her Pinkie Die.