For his hard work to the Crown, the Royal Engineer of Equestria has been honored with a retinue of VIP bodyguards who protect him everywhere he goes. Their ordinary, everyday adventures together wind up being anything but ordinary.
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Oh damn
Oh, what a nasty cliffhanger. Wonderful chapter to read, though!
It's amazing how well RDR's soundtrack fits this story.
Oh buck is right.
I knew that treasonous bastardo was gonna make a move sooner or later!
Usually, when shit has hit the fan, I fear for our current five pony/person group. Now, I feel like Marcos is about to get suitably schooled. If not by our five then by somepony else...
Until the lube is in reach
My money is on Team Royal Engineer and it's plot armor.
Mmm. Excellent chapter.
Anyone have a picture of this mace? Search results are negative and I can't help but think of a D20 on the end of a stick.
Nice to see my prediction came true in the previous chapter's comments.
Go Team Plot Armor!
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Twenty sides is how it was described.
This chapter is definitely one of my favorites so far!
Wow.... this little bit of dialogue between Sparkshower and Glammerspear really says a lot about their characters.
Spakeshower is a big, strong, unstoppable force of a mare who just wants to be dominated by an even bigger, stronger, more powerful force of a colt, while Glammerspear just wants to be held and loved.
Hopefully, both mares find what they’re looking for, whether or not it comes from a certain Royal Engineer who shall at this time remain anonymous.
And that last scene with Ebonshield and Marcos made me think of one thing, which I shall leave right here!
Thanks once again for these daily updates! Each new chapter has been a nice thing to look forward to, since I first started reading this story.
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Because it is a d20 on a stick
Ladies and gentlemen... l introduce the second BITCH that needs to be put in their place... Marcos
lewd sparks is adorable
I think I have a wingboner...
Somehow I doubt that learning what Anon was really talking about is going to make things any less arousing for Sparks. "Oh yeah. We domesticated your cousins' entire species and rode them all over."
Sparks:
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Something tells me that with all the misunderstandings that haven’t been cleared up, someone’s going to screw up big time.
Hoooboy. This was full of all sorts of mood swings.
Only in pony-land would "Sparks needs a good struggle-snuggle" be literal and not a euphemism.
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Lily is Butthead in this scenario.
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I figured.
They're either going to shout at each other or have themselves a little bloody duel.
This whole story is just a prelude to a clopfic, isnt it? 😁
Huh. Has anyone actually complimented Anon on his appearance thus far? Purity and her mother have both propositioned him, but has anyone actually told him he's attractive and want him for non-political reasons? One other thing we don't know about anon is if he has any physiological hangups about ponies. Would learning they found him attractive shed some of his inhibitions?
Marcos will now have a new title of "Boner Killer"
"Call Blazon!....But NOT FOR ME!"
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PLOT TEAM, ROLL UP!
Oh, this won't turn out good...
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Personally, seeing that bit of the thought process of his guards, works.
"My "very important pony" who isn't even a pony" makes sense as ponies use species specific language. I'd bet ponies guarding griffin dignitaries would do the same thing.
Plus it has the added advantage of reminding some of his guards that he is NOT a pony and was not born and raised in Equestria or anywhere else on the planet for that matter. His mannerisms are so similar to those of pony society that they keep forgetting he is not from Equestria.
10662795 Doubtful. I imagine that the first for a school would be whoever the master is, and even though we've barely gotten a whole lot of real info on Marcos, I really can't see him being the Master of the Shining Stellar Dance. Particularly since the leader of a particular school is not going to go against either Luna or the Mother, even if they dislike the Equestrians. My money is that Marcos is Third, or maybe Fourth if he is a member of Stellar Dance. Its entirely possible that he's a member of a completely different school; maybe he's the second of that school, putting his rank among the Stars on par with Ebonshield.
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If I recall correctly, the only assassin that outranks her is the master of her martial school. I wanna say Master. . . Draxon?
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Good point about the master probably being in the #1 spot
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Just want to quickly point out that ranks in the Star Temples are ascending, so that a One / First of a school/temple would be on the lower tiers while higher numbers would be higher in the hierarchy, like Sevens and Eights.
If Ebonshield is a Seven of the Shining Stellar Dance that'd put her above One and Six ranking members, but below an Eight, who'd be the Master of the Star Temple. It's a bit confusing since she's also described as the second-in-command of the Temple, which sounds a bit counter-intuitive when having an ascending numerical order in ranks.
Its all fun and games until Anon gores someone's head open with that mace of his, since I'm fairly sure that's a moral buster a lot stronger than seeing someone stabbed to death.
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Just don't mention plot. Glamerspear will end you in the most dramatic way possible.
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One hell of a long prelude if that's the case! XD
How much more tension and innuendo can you stuff into this fic? ....she can only take so much before she explodes.
Damn Arty, it's always the quiet ones with the craziest fetishes. They act nice and innocent, then bam, out comes the whips and gags.
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That's the quirk of it. It's like a little funny reminder that Anon is by far the most unusual and alien creature in the VIP service. The VIP service is predominantly Equestrian/Pony, but it's true that it sometimes deals with other creatures. Anon, on the other hand, is not only a different species but an alien native to the entire planet. Seeing that, and the fact that he virtually lives like a pony in Equestria, it lets everyone know that Anonymous is still much more different than anyone in the story could be, despite trying his hardest to abide by their culture.
Tl;dr: Sometimes it's easy to forget that he isn't a pony, as we've seen in this chapter!
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Eeyup. Ain’t no freak nasty like sexually repressed freak nasty.
That cucumber explanation made me guaff
10662887 I do remember the strange as balls way they have the ranks set up, but for me its simply easier to remember it if I label the ranks in a way that makes easy sense to me. Ergo, starting at one being the master and just going up instead of eight and going down.
I kind of feel like the bat ponies deliberately set up their ranking system like this purely as another way to ensure they're different from their Equestrian counterparts.
Damn, that has to be a story the creator heard first hand... Or experienced herself if they're a girl
Isn't this Ignacio's turf? Oh, I'm sure it's worlds more complex than I can intuit from what we've seen so far, but as much as I figure somepony powerful is backing the resistance, so too are some powerful ponies backing the reconciliation...
And Ignacio seems to like our main characters.
I wonder what kind of punishment a Star would face for attempted murder of an Eclipse.
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IIRC, the Walt Disney company sells plastic molds that you grow tomatoes inside and they grow into them and you get tomatoes with Mickey Mouse ears. I imagine the same principle could be applied to growing cucumbers and eggplants in particular shapes *eyebrow waggle.* But then, Earthpony magic probably wouldn't need plastic shells.
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edit. I don't know if they actually sell those shells to consumers, but they're used at Epcot's agricultural demonstration center.
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I get the feeling Eclipses, while high in the caste system, aren't normally meant to get involved in politics, which could very well include this family rivalry.
Like we say it's always the quiet one's that you least expect and Sparks has been denied so much from Huckleberry, that she wants to take a sip from the Royal Engineer. This story is just building up beautifully.
Waiting for one of them to mention the mustang again, and start guessing what that actually means before asking anon awkwardly
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Whoever are Marcos' allies in the higher echelons of pony society in the Rookery and on the moon we've yet to see, but we know the highest-ranking pony actively promoting the reconciliation between Bat Ponies and Equestrians would be Luna.
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As for Ignacio's political power in bat pony society, I think it's not clear enough right now to be able to accurately gauge. The Stars seem to regard him to some respect, but I don't think this is out from a feeling of being subservient to him as much as how the Eclipse are considered essential for Bat Pony society to function. As Ignacio pointed out earlier, an Eclipse status lies outside of the bat pony social pyramid, and he neither has to bow to Lunars nor do Lunars bow to him, and It seems to be the same in the case of Stars. Maybe even lower classes like Rocks, Dust or even Shadows won't feel naturally pressured to bow to the Eclipse either.
I'm guessing that those who do give him some semblance of authority will be the ponies that assign that authority to his person, rather than to his title.
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Well, in the case of this particular eclipse, I'd guess the sentence is death by sand golem.
At least they were honest.