Will the sex be graphic, offscreen, or implied?

7273343 Oh, it'll be quite graphic. If that puts you off, I'll likely mark the beggining of such chapters. But that won't come until much later.

I'm not a big fan of this start. Lancing Shining Armor immediately pushes this story in a direction I'm not sure I want to follow. The interlude following it doesn't make me feel better. I'll give chapter 2 a read but I figured you should know my thoughts on the matter. Having ponies attacked by the protagonist with no prompting is a surefire way to remove all sympathy from your protagonist, and with no sympathy, there is no desire to read.

There has been an awakening. Have you felt it?”

Is that a Star Wars reference?

Well not many stories like this start outside of Ponyville so that's a nice change of pace. I can't say much about the character as the story hasn't really given much to go about him at the moment. I guess that will be a slow reveal as things go on. Although one thing bugs me, why in the hell is a scientist armed!? There is no reason I can think of as to why he has a weapon. If the facility he worked on was civilian or military operated they wouldn't arm their employees, especially untrained as he was as he needed help to figure out that function for the weapon.

They would have security people who were armed and know how to use their weapons for any kind of emergency. This is like someone working at the office coming to work with a handgun all the time. It makes no sense so I really hope there is a valid reason he has that.

Also 'the nox'...as in Stargate SG-1 the Nox?

Mistress = Nightmare Moon, I think.

We shall see as I read on. Tracking and Liked.

Ooh a language barrier. That's always fun!

Just a FYI with guns, three shots is a sos signal.

Well, I can totally expect Shining Armor to wake up first and misinterpret the situation. That's just how this kind of plotline normally goes. I suppose it's still possible for him to actually think before deciding to gore Alex in the throat. After all, while he saw Alex's general outline before he got shot, he never did see Alex proper, so he won't know for certain it was Alex that shot him.

Nightmare Cult again...

Nightmare Cult...? Okay...

Dark cult always lowers quality of a fic.