The House of Path has many unusual members. These are episodes in the lives of several of them. Can a changeling queen learn to love? Can an immortal alicorn deal with death? Can an ordinary pony learn to deal with life?
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Twi's gonna be pissed that she missed this...
That was sad, but good job.
Path got REALLY lucky in life didn't he.
Darn it Goldfur you had me crying
8099158 i don't know that if I'd call Path lucky. While seeing things change over would be fun as Pif pointed out you have to watch everyone you love and care about die not once but over and over. I can see Why an immortal would reinvent themselves every so often l
This is briliant and touching
"You were supposed to outlive me." Comes to mind with this chapter. And I guess we now officially know whom Destined was talking to in the other story.
Also...
*Deep Bow* Well Done, Very Well Done!!!!
But will Twilight be told about him being in the Hive Mind now?
A very well written, but also very sad chapter. You're good at writing those scenes...almost too good. Whenever I re-read Life's Dream I often have to skip the last chapter, as I'm often in tears reading the end. But very good story, though I thought Free would be around longer than that.
8099333 He gets to stay with Twilight, Free is in his head, And there is still Luna. Oh and he is regaining his magic. I say that's lucky.
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I was wondering just how long a changeling queen should live. Although I settled on around three centuries, it could just as easily have been four. Whatever I decided, Free's life had to come to an end sometime.
I'm glad you liked the episode though. At least he'll still be showing up in Crystal's Wanderings.
8099881 But now that we're moving forward in time...will there be Chakats???
Yes, will there? Huh? Huh? Huh? Because chakats are just so super duper cuddly, and everypony would just like them real much and - oh, maaaayybe they'd be a bit afraid at first, but then they'd really like them, and hug them and be best friends with them and-and-and...and all ponies could throw a real big party with a sign saying "Welcome Big Kitties to Ponyville" and they'd be like 'wau, those ponies really know how to party' and...
;-)
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Aww, don't cheat yourself of that last chapter, they're good tears.
If there's something I admirer Goldfur for, it's his skill for writing family, no matter what form, shape or origin they might have.
8100204 I agree. But seeing characters die that you've cared for through a whole story line is always sad.
Bravo, Goldfur. *sniffles* Bravo...
Beautiful chapter, Goldfur, just beautiful.
Welp, Path got the answer to his longevity at last. This was such a touching chapter... so sad, yet at the end, it was really bittersweet.
I have a feeling that Twilight will be spending a lot of the time in the hive mind now.
That really got me. Free has been one of my top favorite characters.
I'm not crying. It's... liquid pride.
Damn. I gotta stop reading these at work... :pinkiecry::rainbowcry::twilightcry:
According to the Greeks, your life consists of three stories: you are born, you fall in love, and you die. Free has had the privilege of having all three of his stories told well.
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I loved that show. And yeah, occasionally I recall that when I write about Luna's Night Court.
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Stony is a bigot. Bigots are usually stupid. You would think that somebody couldn't possibly be dumb enough to do things like this, except you see it happening every day in real life.
Just found one little glitch in here, Goldfur...
“How am I supposed to do that for an alicorn, Path? I won’t be there for her forever.”
That should be Free, not Path.
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Oops! Fixed.
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Patience! It's going to take a little while longer yet.
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Of course: http://www.chakatsden.com/chakat/Stories.html
Scroll a bit down to the story index. That is Goldie's own series. Further down you'll find stories by other authors (including me - for instance: http://www.chakatsden.com/chakat/Stories/FrederikeWeismannIndex.html )
8138584 I shall then continue my moping! ;-)
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A possibility, but what about the environment of the star system before the black dwarf became such? How can a habitable system form after a black dwarf's formation?
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I'm actually looking at changing that to a brown dwarf. The smaller mass and lower visibility makes it a more promising candidate.
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That can work. When it comes to telling a good story, those nasty old physics equations are best bent a little. You do tell good stories.
This and Dash's funeral were very nicely done. And, TBH it's hard to believe you're the once who created the Chakats--I remember those guys from a few decades ago
Still, rather curious as to what happened with Chrystal & Daring Do...I think someone may have skipped a few chapters when ponies were suddenly launching out into space....?
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I wonder wich one will it be:
Warp drive ( or Hyperspace engine )
Jump drive
Transspace engine
I vote for the Jump drive because they already know how to teleport.
They just need a bigger, better, more complex version off it.
PS:
The Pinkie engine is fueled by cupcakes and anti-matter
8148609 Honestly, the Pinkie Engine would be the fastest, because it would move at the speed of comedic timing. Just send a message to that far-away star to say "Look behind you", and when the folks on the other end read it and turn around, BOOM, you have a space ship full of pink ponies armed with cupcakes and party cannons.
More scientifically, it just goes around space completely using the "4th Wall".
Oh, also, I suppose there's the option of the Trans-Temporal drive. You travel at normal space speeds, but you just speed up the ship's 4th-dimensional positioning. That would probably require Destined to help, and I doubt the Doctor (and Derpy) would want Destined to be making a bunch of time-traveling pony police boxes.
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Thank you!
It hasn't been that long ago since I wrote about them! Hang around a bit, and you might see them again soon.
Those episodes were more about exploring Crystal rather than exploring new lands. However, I do hope to get back to them eventually.
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Something on the order of 20-30 years. I remember seeing some of your Chakats in the mid-to-late 90's when I came across an old comic site spoofing the Callahan's Crosstime Saloon theme (I think you'll remember the Cross Time Cafe?), and then your site when I started tracking down and reading through the primary comic and story pages of those contributing to the site. Unfortunately, more than a few hard drive crashes and computer rebuilds eventually caused me to lose track of all that, but VeeJays posted link to your site has finally brought me back full circle.
I know folks commented before at the end of the Time War, but still...long time no see. Glad to have found them again.
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Not the Forest I had in mind
I was thinking about Cog's son.
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Okay
Well learned something new today.
(reminds me of a fussion/fission of the elements graph I saw in chemistry a while ago, if I recall correctly Iron was one of the most 'stable')
8155865 That would make sense. If you can build a portal to another world (Equestria Girls), then you should be able to do it "intra-dimension" too. Build one once you're at your destination, and poof you're home.
8155863 Well, maybe there's a balance where you can make a series of sufficiently short teleports. OR they could just bring Blue - the living mana battery. Then Destined and Blue could make the trip. They might not even need a ship, just suits and a tether.
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The solution has actually been shown in another of my stories.
And that's all the hint you'll get right now.
8181263 Funny you should mention that....
8181511 The Ad Astra shorts are only setting up the background for the Cosmic Lotus main story which otherwise would come out of the blue. The rest of this loose series should have more personal moments. I still have another Crystal's Wanderings to write as yet.
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Ups, missed that detail.
Sorry about that.
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That or he can be the biologist \ xenobiologist.
Name: Claw
Race: Changeling (Drakeling - Dragon Changeling hybrid. Like this. The one snarling, to be exact.)
Main job: Security, recon specialist. Secondary job, medic and metalworking.
Personality and background: Claw is a changeling by all accounts except one, he doesn't require energy to live. He can feed on it to get a boost but being without it wont kill him. His hive had remained undiscovered for nearly three centuries until a band of adventurers from House Path stumbled upon it.
Originally quick to anger, he has learned to control his temper, and even proven a quick learner in the ways of medicine. In the art of combat, he has only found a few equals. Namely those who discovered his hive. His combat form involves changing his hooves to blades, normally taking on a sickle like appearance instead of a long sword or something there of. He has great knowledge of metals because of this, and since being introduced to the world has only broadened his knowledge.
I hope to get started on the story that introduces this character into this world in a bit more depth soon, but i need to kick my creative muse into gear first and finish Crystal Changeling.
8196983 They wouldn't last long!
8200109 I can really use Amethyst Scroll. Seeing as this is over a century since Cogs and Lavender had their shape-changing daughter, I can see that not only are there more relationships between changelings and ponies, but there are also more advanced forms of the magic charm that enabled Cogs to pass on some of his nature to his foal. A chrome changeling sire and a unicorn mare could easily be her parents, although possibly with a third pony in the relationship as a donor. (Stallion-mare-changeling triads are a fairly popular arrangement by this time.) Her linguistics skill could come in handy.
8201205 I'm pleased to hear that and I actually had a similar family in mind as you suggested. Can't wait for Cosmic Lotus! Always a fan of your work, let me tell you.
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Sorry I've read too many stories about Luna and her guards, I'm messing up which names where used where
A FULL GROWN MAN just balled his eyes out for this story because it is so god damn alive in more ways than one. I hope that I am speaking for all of you reading when I say that most of us have made a heavy connection to the story because you have so accurately described something in story that most only normally feel. You also gave us so many characters to relate to also just making it that much more life like when it came to fictional persons. I hope to see more chapters in the future if possible.
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Oh yes, I understood why he wasn't aging when I left that comment. I was meaning that I was surprised it hadn't been brought up in-universe. I have to assume it did at some point off camera in the current point of the story.