Daring Winifred Do, the youngest daughter of one of the wealthiest families in Equestria, is dispatched with her elder sister to oversee an archaeological expedition deep on the farthest edge of Southern Equestria.
Deep in the Red Desert, archaeologists have unearthed a strange and ominous pyramid. A pyramid that the locals desperately fear--even as they refuse to acknowledge its existence.
Its purpose was forgotten millennia prior. It was abandoned and forgotten, lost to the sands.
And Daring Do quickly realizes that perhaps it was better off left that way.
Chapters (26)
Oh hell yeah! Already off to a good start. Wun and Daring make a good pair, and I'm extremely excited to see what horrific nightmares you put them through.
Great to see you are writing again.
This looks good. Me likes.
Woah, a new fic from you! And one that updates periodically instead of being dropped all at once? I can dig it.
Yeeee young Daring Do I'm excited!
Okay, so this is a prequel to Hand of Doom, in a sense. Most of your non-AU stories are all seamlessly connected in a web of subtle references, so I can never tell if what you're foreshadowing is going to end up as a callback or something totally new. Also:
This is a Hump Day joke. You magnificent bastard.
Really like this so far, looking forward to see where it goes.
Wait...what?
Now the question is did ponies come up with that explanation, or Celestia herself?
I was not expecting so many stellar jokes in this.
Asking the real questions here, aren't we?
I was not expecting another canon character, especially Gruff. I've almost never seen him written. Regardless, I'm liking where you're taking the plot.
Geeze, Wun. Eat a Snickers™.
And here I had forgotten how ruthless Wun could be.
I'm glad you accepted that age stuff into your offical canon cuz I thought that was really neat detail in Hand of Doom.
You know I realized something between this story and the last: Wun has a thing for ripping off wings. Jealously over something she can never have perhaps?
...it's remarkable she survived 30-40 years.
So, given that it was being guarded by thestrals and Daring's bit of exposition, this may be a marker of some unfathomably egregious crime that has nonetheless been completely forgotten in the modern day (if it was ever known outside of this region). Fun! Well, she's cracked open, let's take a peeksie! What's the worst that could happen?
Also, agree that the age thing is a neat addition that leads to lots of interesting thoughts.
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I agree that it seems the thestrals built the pyramid at some point. But it's a bit strange then that the thestrals we met in the last chapter said they were guarding it. If this is the marker of a hideous crime, wouldn't they want to forget it? Or at least state they were not as much guarding the pyramid, as protecting others from it?
Also I should probably read "the Hand of Doom" at some point.
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Ehh...I think it makes sense that they'd have been instilled with a tradition of trying to keep people away if who/whatever committed the crime is still potentially...alive? Active? Viable?
11/10 would zoop again.
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This might have some connection to Luna. After all it has been stated in his other works that Princess Luna owns the bloodline of the thestrals
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“No rivets. No signs of welds. No tool marks. As if it was forged in one piece."
wow Darring. knowing about welding metal yet not nowing about polishing the beads down. thats basic shit and i smh my head.
With each new revelation, I only have more questions. It's simultaneously engrossing and infuriating. Rather than anything about the pyramid, though, my biggest question is: if Caballeron knew Daring was afraid of snakes this whole time, why didn't he make a habit of keeping one as a pet once he turned bad later in life, to try and stop her from opposing him?
And I thought the conversation last chapter was cute. Poor Curiosity is too precious for this fic.
Aww.
Eyy, some genre awareness!
That's a yikes from me, dawg.
Aww, they're so cute now.
She's giving Curiosity The Poke?
Trap - activated
O RLY.
Whew. Talk about a wun-track mind....
Your stories are always worth waiting for.
Obviously Wun couldn't be killed, as this is a prequel, but I'm surprised she held out as long as she did.
That we can! They're always a blast to read, and this one was no different.
Inspiring. ^^
Caballeron: Seht is super evil and dangerous, we all need to run!
Wun: I'ma bang him.
How dare you say such a thing about a superior being!
Oh, so it's a Sombro? Neat.
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inb4 reenactment of 'Lemee Smash', where Wun is the Ron.
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Zipper your moth.
ye
Somehow I missed this story despite following
you. I'm going to correct that right now.
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Twilight must be a very interesting princess of friendship in this universe then.
Well, at least given the other story they do eventually discover cloning in the far future.
Also I can totally image Twilight like this now in your verse:
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Now I'm just curious how Equestria is like in the far future.
Gat dangit Celestia.
Oh man, you really know what you're doing after all your prior writing experience.
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Hole did that already:
- MLP: FiM
- Dark
- Adventure
- Sci-Fi
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Thanks! I'm guessing Seht woke up way too early, and probably can't fly to space.
Aww.
For some reason I was expecting her to suddenly teleport in.
This reminds me of Undertale. Nice.
Hm. 🤔
How very interesting...
Incredible.