FOE story mixed with FO4, meet the Sole Survivor of Stable 111 Fast Times, a colt from before the great war who's spent 90% of the time since in cryo sleep. But something goes wrong on his last time in the freezer...
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Well, Gunter got one hell of a death... Damn, and he didn't steal it, either, this kind of atrocities called for a reckoning.
Fast was in ultimate pissed off SCREW THE RULES mode. Yeah, last chapter in particular was Val's buttons, now there's Fast buttons to be pushed with a jackhammer.
Now that Val is saved, let's just hope that Witchy and Jade will be there in time to heal her... normally it's a yes since the companion perks is here... but we're in the Wastelands, and having her die here, while mean as fuck for us poor readers... il a real possibility. Please Val, survive !
That was a excellent chapter. Gunters death was especially well earned. I'm having troubles remembering, but I think this is his first companion perk, if I'm not wrong.
7990008 Nope, Third, he got Jade's and Glitters' companion perks, and rather early in the story. Val just took her sweet time to open up totally... and i think this is normal with the horrors of her past that have been hinted this chapter, she's broken.
7990800 Ah thank you kindly.
That was one messed up bird. So glad to see Fast and Val put him down the way they did. Too bad Val had to get beat up so bad to do it though...
On another note, that rad generator will be a nice boon for the alicorns of the group. Though I wonder who is going to take care of the others when Jade is not around? Maybe after this she will try to get Fast to learn some healing spells.
I love the PH reference even if it's the flesh melting, soul sucking kind.
Two horizontal bars...
Did fast just find Our Town?
Wow, fifty six was a hard-hitting chapter. Especially the last four paragraphs!
Bravo. Those feels though...
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Lmao I won't ask where specifically but I'm guessing Northern Midwest, because you just described Wisconsin. Actually 2 might not be enough for Wisconsin towns. In a town of less than 600 there were 4 bars including the supper club plus the corner grocery & liquor store. What a great place for a budding alcoholic to turn 21, and by "great" I mean terrible and by "turn 21" I mean ruin your life.
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I'm just glad it didn't start melting them too fast.
Not that I don't love this story or think Fast putting on the shroud more and nore isn't good but if he doesn't start experiencing some major personal hindrances I think he's going to start suffering from the Kirito effect.
Ah love seeing a monster get a taste of his own medicine
I am betting a LOT of ponies here, and players of FO4, have never really considered The Shroud.
Yes, the Shroud is sort of a hokey, poke back at the olden times heroes and villains, which lead better ones like Superman and Batman, although both DO date back to the 1930s and '40s as I remember it.
The Shroud seems to be a mixture of Batman, the Punisher, and The Shadow... who was a very famous radio hero of the 1920s.
The Punisher's ease with firearms, Batman's brooding and riches, and the Shadow's ability to literally scare his foes to doom themselves (The Shadow was a high order telepath that could make a person see or feel anything... including see an exit sign where a window really was, and cause them to leap to the death).
The Silver Shroud from FO4 is more like the 1930s or 1940s version of The Shadow, but without the telepathy, and carrying a silver Machinegun very similar to that created to clear trenches in World War One, and used extensively in World War Two. Yes, I AM talking about the famous Thompson .45 caliber Machinegun.
Others may have differing opinions on this, but these are my deductions on the origin of the Silver Shroud, and the pony-fied version, the Shrouded Stallion.
I do really like the hints at a much earlier, darker, and more violent servant of Princess Luna. Her Dark Champion, and punisher of evil-doing. I hope we actually get to see the truth, or at least some of it, behind the earlier legend.
Also, it seems Fast is slowly learning to control the impulses that Dr. Dala seems to have made a part of her IMP Potion mixture. At first glance, most guys would be going 'Whoo! Sign me up!', but on reflection... just how much 'tail' would one buck be able to take before becoming disgusted with the whole thing? Perhaps to the point of suicide?
I mean really... think about it logically. You don't just egotistically 'know' you can bed 20 mares a night. YOU CAN. FACT. Not Ego. And be able to do this every night for perhaps weeks on end. Or with very few breaks. How long before such a pleasant thing becomes a 'task', a 'burden', and a 'horror' one has to live through every Celestia Damned Night?
Lets put this into perspective... like quitting smoking... or, hum... breaking an addiction to something else... something 'harmless'... like, oh, Coffee. You love coffee, you enjoy it, you drink a lot of it because of that fact. But now, you are FORCED to drink... oh, let us say Five cups a day... You HAVE to drink one before breakfast. You HAVE to drink one with lunch, You HAVE to drink one at dinner, You HAVE to drink one before Bed, and you HAVE to get up in the middle of the night to drink yet another!
How long before you would no longer enjoy the sight, the smell, the taste, of Coffee? How long before you became so disgusted with it that you actually became sick at the sight, smell, or taste of it? How long before the sight and smell of others enjoying it ruined your whole day? How long before even the thought of Coffee became something you dreaded, avoided like the plague, and eventually drove you so batty as to kill yourself?
What Dr. Dala has done is 'beyond the pale'. A sick 'joke' that is so horrible, I would not wish it, even on my worst enemy.
I hope Fast can come to terms with what's happened to him. Perhaps find a 'middle ground' where he can at least enjoy that part of himself, without becoming Dala's sick, perverted toy, and going mad as a result.
Now, back to the story... I liked the addition of Mr. Cane as the creator of the Shrouded Stallion. And reading that part of the tale had me thinking... What if Cane was a Ghoul living in a side room of Goodneighbor? Those that have played FO4 will know just of whom I am speaking of.
As for Gunter... well... I'm glad Val got her 'revenge' upon him. Oh, what a nasty way to die... Cornholed by a flaming sword! *giggles a bit maniacally* Not that -I- have ever wanted to do something like that to someone... really... *fake smile*
Being a former USMC Enlisted Weapons Instructor, I find most of the weapons in the game, and those in the wasteland to be pretty 'tame'. Even the gauss rifle Fast uses. The US Navy has a ship mounted, discarding sabot, fin-stabilized, Gauss cannon that can hit anything it sees on the high seas, due to the curvature of the Earth. If it were mounted on land, it would be able to fire and hit targets far, far, farther away if mounted atop a tall hill or mountain top. Even smaller, one-shot gauss rifles of up to 5mm have been made by normal, average, everyday people (you CAN find videos on this, but building and using such things is NOT to treated as building a toy!).
There are many new weapons in the NATO armory that I would dearly love to get my hooves upon, but all work very similar to ones I worked with and enjoyed firing when I was 'in the Corps'. Any learning I'd need to use them would be brief and easily learned in an hour or two at most, even the complex ones.
But there were some that have never shown up in FO4 that I would have put into the game, and I often wonder of the Iron Pony shotgun that Blackjack adored and wanted so badly would be the equivalent to it. 'Back in my day'... hehe... there used to be an automatic combat shotgun, built like an over-sized M-16. I have used, serviced, and cleaned such a weapon in the past, and let me tell you, that firing it was a memory I'll treasure for the rest of my life.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akdal_MKA_1919#/media/File:Akdal_MKA-1919.JPG)
The image is of a Turkish Army version of the one I used, which was a prototype never selected for official military use.
Given that Fast seems to like his shotgun, and use it often, I wonder what he would think of such a gem falling into his hooves? *evil grin*
Just my thoughts,
the Frank Pony
Oh, and before any pony gets all up into my muzzle about the scariness of The Shadow. Remember, that back then, there was NO TV. You got your news from the radio. You got all you knew of the wider world from that self-same source. When most of the world still used Horses, or Horse and Carriage to get from place to place. And, considering that... is it any wonder at the widespread panic caused by Mercury Theater's play 'War of the Worlds', even though they took station breaks to give the actors time to recover, and intentionally stated that it WAS a play, that it was NOT real!
When I was a teenager, in Jr High School, one of my teachers had the class listen to a phonograph 'album' of the originally recorded play on the radio. Even though we all knew what we were hearing was not real, we all would occasionally look at each other to prove that what we were hearing was not the last recorded messages of some poor soul that had fallen to the Martians. That when the actor said "... I see the devastation around me and wonder if I am the last person on Earth..." had not really happened.
And that, Fillies and Gentlecolts, my early teenage years, was during a period when TVs were still Black and White, phones were still hard-wired to the walls, and had a disc with holes in it you used to 'dial' each number of a person's phone number. A time before good animation, when animations on TV were mostly still pictures with small bits that moved (look up 'Clutch Cargo' sometime if you don't believe me). A time when a computer was a massive 'desk', 12 feet long, 5 feet high, about 4 feet thick front to back, of wired transistors, resistors, and other 'electronic' components mounted on thick silicon boards, which used Punch Cards to feed in the program! The only available 'hard drive' was a cylinder about 10 inches in diameter, about a foot tall, made out of metal about as thick as your fingernail, and could ONLY hold around 10 kilobytes of data (80,000 bits, or individual 'yes/no' bits of data).
Back in the days of the original radio program, even TVs were not invented yet. Nothing even similar to a computer existed, and in fact, the word 'computer' meant a person who did Math for a living! A time when you had hard-wired phones that looked like desk speakers with a wired cup hanging off of a pronged holder on its side. A time when Automobiles were still the expensive toys of the rich, or the basic 'Tin Lizzy', of the newly available 'Model 'T' by Ford Motor Company.
I have heard several of the old 'The Shadow' radio shows. Even today, if you sit in a semi-dark room and just listen, you get caught up in the adventure, and that voice would send shivers down your spine. Don't believe me, yet again? Try it. The Shadow's radio plays are available on the Internet.
The Frank Pony
Nerve racking.
I would have tried teleporting, but the lightning go fast spell has been easier to control so far