This story is a sequel to Conversion Negotiations
Equestria isn't the only kingdom on Equus, when worlds collide, all leaders need to be called in to decide how to handle the wild magic spilling into Earth... after all... why should ponies be the only option available? This is gonna be a long night.
Vector by ZuTheSkunk https://www.deviantart.com/art/No-This-Is-Celestia-323009093
Note, this story is COMPLETE, it is a whole story, just a bit of fun and game, but indeed a complete whole story.
Chapters (1)
Well, Humans have much more experience dealing with a bunch of clashing ideals and nations. Ans are much more used to never ending board meetings. Have fun you guys!
Alex, you might want to check this, it seems to have some editing problems here and there.
And what was the problem with the minotaur potion?
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:-) Thank you for the comment!
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Thank you for the editing heads up and actually saying something about the story. And it's unspoken horror.
Still, the deer do get all the PETA people XD
Something that's unclear in these discussions though, sometimes they speak as if earth (the land and such) is gonna be lost, other times they speak as if it's going to stay. What's the official word on that? From the previous stories it sounded as if the land itself remains, aside from the new influece of magic...
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Match made in Heaven.
Okay, Earth is NOT vanishing, the flood of magic is just rendering it inhabitable for humans.
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Okay, Earth is NOT vanishing, the flood of magic is just rendering it inhabitable for humans.
'Inhabitable' or UNinhabitable?
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Un.
Is Sunset a Human or a Pony?
Should be Fourth
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Thank you. Edited.
Now, can you please tell me something about the story itself?
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Highly amusing and I enjoyed it
If there is a second round of talks, they really should invite Newfoals (and their equivalents) to give feedback and whatnot.
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I won't write it. But interesting thought!
I've recently had a odd thought about this Universe: What if when the Vail reaches a fully enclosed state that's not the end of it? What if afterwards it starts moving backward in reverse to it's point of origin, sort of like water sloshing around and receding, and the new area it leaves behind starting on the earth side is toxic to Equus lifeforms? Then they would need a potion to turn Equestrian natives into humans too. And if this change in the Encroaching Wall of Doom's properties is cyclical you get a situation where every X period if time the entire population of the fused worlds would have to chug a potion to swap species and prevent themselves from dying. How would the entire situation flow from there?
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Feels a bit gratuitous to me, but whatever floats your boat.
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It was mostly kind of a thought that started developing after I read Celestia's line in Conversion Negotiations about hoping humanity would do the same for the people of Equus in the situation and been reversed. It then developed more as a result of considering what a scenario where the situation escalates rather then mostly resolves could look like. Though I'm fairly certain that in that scenario people would just get fed up after a few rounds of global potion quaffing , and the taxpayers money being spent on it, and start badgering the scientists and mage's/alchemists in charge of the project to just make "some kind of middle ground potion or something."
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I really hated Negotiation, and the other 'take that TCB' verses. Considering they ADD IN that the ponies purposely invader and 'death of personality' and all the rest. When there's plenty to work with already with culture clash and people having to deal with new instincts and the loss of their old ones.
The entire point of this story was "what it WAS an accident, what if the potion WAS the only way for survival, what if human culture wouldn't go poof with a change in DNA? What if there was no 'death of personality?' Considering how many of those were ADDED ON in later works!
This setting was meant to be a reconstruction, and my hope that others would continue that trend. With there being ALREADY plenty of room for conflict with the logistics that would be involved and seeing cultures clash, THERE'S NO NEED for 'personality death potions' to get the conflict ball rolling.
And it really makes me think of a pony character going, "Oh yes, please continue, tell me more about how absolutely awful and unspeakable a fate being a pony is, please continue." (Similar to a amusing idea I had of a Transformer showing up and feeling insulted at people consider the curse of flesh being lifted as a fate worse than death in World of Warcraft. )
If people want stories were humanity being wiped out is a good thing, go watch Blue Gender, if you want to watch a modern competent and civilized army slaughter an invading medieval army with token fantasy traits from another universe, go watch GATE.
The reason I wrote these tales was to GET AWAY from all that.
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I agree with you, in fact I'd say that your take on TCB is pretty much the only one I've actually enjoyed. The whole sub-genre has been a mess almost since it's inception with any real examination/exploration of the scenario being quashed underneath a tide bickering squabbling misanthropes and jingoists trying to push their particular brand of effed up world view, which is kind of similar to the philosophies behind both PER and HLF. It's truly refreshing to find a take on the TCB like this.
Also I love the depiction of the deer: the kind of people that almost invariably leave those that know them with the "I have met excalibur face."
Umm also just to be clear because now I'm worried there may have been some for of miscommunication: when I said Conversion Negotiations in my last post I was talking about the story you wrote, the one linked in the description of this story.
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AH!
The only thing I know about TCB other than its 'humans-meet-ponies' (which isn't saying much considering EQG exists) but this reads like a bad RP internet chat log.
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Well, it was a group story before it was finished posted here. (Group stories are allowed if they're complete.). I'm sorry it didn't entertain you.
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Nothing wrong with group stories, and I'm fine with stories that don't entertain. But this could be a "group of rulers have a 'relaxing' tea session together, verbal hijinks ensue'-story and it'd get far more mileage out of that.
It's an interesting story.
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Thanks. I hope you managed to enjoy it.
That was a good story. It was nice to see Equestria and its neighbors discussing things and wanting to get approval from the human governments instead of just have Equestria force things on everyone.
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EXACTLY!
Contrary to popular belief, few people actually want a war.