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Well. This is an intriguing case of colliding outside-context problems. Looking forward to seeing where you go with it.
Hopefully these kobolds are smart enough to add two and two once it's definitively staring them in the face. The moon shot is proof enough that it wasn't a prank.
Well I can understand the wont for caution,
luna really over stepped her bounds on this one.
She is the princes of equestria,
equestria the contrary not the planet as a howl.
Loving the story so far. Eager to see more.
Ah, right. These guys. That might complicate relations with the ponies a tad. (For those playing at home, the two natives were the antagonists of the Nightmare Rarity arc of the comics.)
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They were cured at the end though, so that's not how they'll complicate things.
It is what it is. And if you don't know how warp crystals work, who's to say it isn't magic? Wave's... Well, not necessarily a wizard. A shaman, perhaps, communing with a crystallized spirit.
Ah, kobolds. Even worse than goblins.
Also, interesting to note that humans are a thing in this universe.
Watching your numbers go up is addictive enough without a literally orgasmic feedback loop.
Can't say I was expecting that... if they were ponies. You did say the Nyx were getting involved.
The glamor of space colonization, everyone.
Oh boy. Because Nightmare Moon corrupting them wasn't enough.
Fascinating that the kobolds are so ashamed of their actual faces and language. I have to wonder what cultural influences led to that. Given the two hive-mind cultures, this is starting to feel like a novel fusion of D&D and Stellaris. Fascinating.
This looks like it's going to be a glorious mess. Looking forward to more.
Oh, I had forgotten how well and engagingly you can write!
Who the hell are these guys?
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As I said in my own comment, they're canon characters. (The actual show doesn't keep as straight a continuity as we all like to pretend it does, so the official statement that the comics are canon hold water no matter what you bring up as a counterpoint.)
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Also I specified in the tags that the comics canon is used for this story.
...but long story short they're Luna's minions who live on the moon and make daydreams (they used to be Nightmare Moon's minions who lived on the moon and made nightmares).
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Tagging doesn't obey the transitive property, so I'm going to have to further notify 10508267. (And edits don't cause a notification either)
i think I am done. not seeing ponies at all
I couldn't help but think of Katia Managan and the pineapple.
Wait a minute. Proper labyrinths don't have dead ends. They're just a singular path that's needlessly winding but not really possible to get lost unless you've been concussed or something. Which you probably would be while Asterius was chasing you in a place with no straight hallways.
Inside Baseball Alert: The joke here is supposed to be that this wasn't hypothetical, but it happened in the comics so the intended dramatic irony is going to fail for a substantial portion of the audience.
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The ending suggests that we're heading to the planet proper in the next chapter, but the use of the "Diamond Dogs" tag and the lack of an "Other" to represent the Nyx tells me that there probably still won't be ponies.
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Yeah, not a lot of ponies per se in this story. It's FIM related for various other species from the show.
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Labyrinths don't have dead ends? I've never heard that take and can't find any references to it in a quick search. Not that it really matters since their use would have been filtered through the modern word which is just a synonym for 'maze'.
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Which means I remain out
That tracks. Just getting the hitboxes to match the sprites is hard enough given the number of games that fail to do so non-deliberately.
The shark is made out of normal flesh. It's just that it's normal shark flesh instead of normal kobold flesh.
Another thing that's actually true, and anyone who disputes this can look up "cloaca" because that's what the hole is called.
Huh. The idea of Equestria being a bunch of regressed posthumans actually kind of works. Not sure if it's true or not—the Tree of Harmony might well be the surface level extrusion of a truly massive warp crystal—but it's definite food for thought.
Fluids everywhere.
But she's a bird...
Ugh, this may actually be support for the posthuman hypothesis.
Eh, karma systems are usually pretty arbitrary.
Not every civilization is lucky enough to have a band of plucky protagonists in their time of need.
This has been quite the adventure thus far. Though if Luna ever finds out about Kobold Island... Oh, that won't be pretty at all.
Turns out a dragon's greatest fear isn't cold or destitution or a noble hero with a holy sword. It's commitment.
It'll definitely be interesting to see how those half-dragon kobolds come out. This is going to be odd indeed.
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Which explains what we've seen of the Dragonlands, doesn't it?
I am really, really liking the kobolds.
Because obviously just telling her why you found her suggestion grotesque wasn't an option. Instead, she thinks kobolds are a magic-siphoning Malthusian catastrophe waiting to happen. This won't end well. Not unless Twilight really steps up her diplomacy game, and even that's far from a sure thing.
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She's not a trained diplomat, and only just barely smart enough to realize she's an idiot. Both of these have been stated already.
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Each side is so deeply rooted in their own paradigm that the other's behaviour makes no sense. Had Luna begun by explaining her fears that the Kobolds would rapidly outstrip Equestria's carrying capacity, rather than by proposing what appeared to her to be a solution, the entire situation could have been avoided.
The kobolds are amusing, but they're nothing but trouble. They gonna leave no room for any other life on the planet, invasive species.
Luna needs to wipe them out
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That's very plainly Luna's fear, but is it realistic? The Kobolds have the ability to make any molecule, substance, etc. that they need, so long as the basic chemical elements are there. They can turn their waste and trash right back into food, water, and usable goods, with very little if any going to waste. They can spend large amounts of their time in the virtual world while their bodies lie dormant, which seems to be at least as appealing as reality, if not moreso. I suspect that rather a lot of Kobolds can live happily in rather a small space. They enjoy living underground. They don't require the open space that Ponies do. The use of boobytraps is perhaps an unfortunate cultural trait, but they don't seem malicious about it.
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It's, possible. They might not be malicious about it, but I could see trillions of kobolds destroying ecosystems because oops. They could eventually strip the planet of all the resources, then move on to a new planet, like they seem to be doing on other planets. If the dragon-kobold hybrids retain the dragons ability to breed with anything, they could eventually just, breed the planet into kobolds. Kobold prime directive seems to breed and spread population across galaxy.
It occurs to me that our three main kobolds fit rather nicely into the standard fantasy triad. Fire's security training ironically makes them the Thief, due to how kobolds have worked ever since Tucker. Star's cybernetics, which allow them to effortlessly lift things that would be troublesome for the other two working together, is the Fighter. Wave, our first-person narrator and designated warp crystal user, is the Mage (and explicitly being an inborn talent means that dumping INT and WIS hasn't crippled her in that regard as much as it could've).
Oh. Oh, this is interesting. And makes a great deal of sense. Traps, burrowing, rapid maturation... though the whole "laying eggs" thing raises some questions.
As for Harmony, it really isn't clear if this is a coincidence or something more sinister. The telephone game and listener bias are playing merry havoc on the evidence.
Of course there are otyughs. Though I hadn't expected them to be SMS-capable.
Oh dear. That can't be good. Though it might explain the text messages.
This is definitely getting interesting. We'll see where it goes from here, aside from the Alpha's bedchambers.
Hah! That's a D&D monster! Rad
How is that obvious? Why not print a plastic tub or bucket to pee in?
Technically, a certain portion of fresh seawater is pee anyway, so...
They may well love the names, depending on how much of their personality is inherited, but I'd not give children starter names like that, especially if I wanted them to grow up as part of a collective.
Poor Nightwing. I'm loving the story so far, and eagerly await more.
This was probably intended to be dramatic irony, but the ease with which kobolds can be un-killed makes what happened genuinely closer to Cinder's interpretation.
My guess? It recognized that you meant "Harmony" but said "the Princesses" because the former wouldn't go over as well. Or maybe the amount of grooming you'd gone through, but I don't like that interpretation of CHA.
She's going to try to contact Luna, isn't she? And we've already established that she can succeed. That is... less than ideal.
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When I read the Otyugh stat block I didn't expect them to be telepathic.
Squee. A good name for a green mariner, though it's a little stomach-turning to think of him in a harem.
There's something wonderful about disrupting the enigmatic expositor's air of mystery by giving her ear rubs and headpats.
The conversation with Nightwing is a fascinating case of colliding philosophies. That 18 Charisma makes more sense than Wave realizes. Though the whole "Enemy of the Moon" thing is definitely a long-term concern. And I do have to wonder whether Nightwing's tried to contact Luna in her dreams, assuming she can.
Be yourself. Unless you're a dragon. In which case, don't be a dragon.
I do love how certain terms end up prompting all kinds of debate about the specifics. "Harmony" and "hivemind" both have to be defined very carefully.
Oh goodness, the misinterpreted knot.
Wave's definitely making the best of a bad situation. Really, that could summarize the whole story. But I suspect this arrangement will go bad sooner rather than later. We'll see how it goes.
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Oh wow. That's new in 5E. In Pathfinder, they just speak Common.
Yep. There's no end to the story, just the part where the storytellers stop talking.
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Which isn't a whole lot saner. (The 3.5e book I happen to have agrees with Pathfinder; at INT 5 they're about as bright as the chapter's snippets make them sound, but it's possible for specific humans to be stupider)
That was very enjoyable. I'm disappointed to see it end so soon, but glad that there'll be more. Reading Wave's story, one chapter a day, has been one of the high points of my day this past week or so.
Remember, diplomacy doesn't work on hostile characters.
Yeah, ponies have a bad habit of saving people from themselves even when they don't actually need to.
Oh good, this was a case of Luna botching diplomacy as badly as Wave. I mean, not necessarily good—it's certainly made future kobold-pony interactions more than a little awkward—but at least the official policy isn't "Assume Malthus was right with the FTL-capable beings."
There's still plenty of ground to cover, but you've set something fascinating in motion here. It's always nice to find some high-quality xenofiction. Looking forward to more.
im just gonna say this now does this have dungeon building elements in it because from what im seeing it does
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Some! They keep trying, anyway.
does this have any ponies in it ive gone through a few chapters but haven't seen any ponies at all
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There are four including Luna.
Idiot Plots do not work with Sci-fi. It would make a lot more sense if they came in over the sea on a literal raft.
Science fiction is not about pewpew lazerz and warp cores. Sci-fi tag implies logic. And there is none.
-There are space invaders? O-oh I know! I'm gonna bitchslap em for being different! Because that is what an immortal God Horse with experience of hundreds of lifetimes would do! Gonna jiggle away all the nukes that come later with my moon-pet-rock!
Good porn tho.
Good clean fun, in a very strange way.
Yay they didn't die OR blow up the planet! Winning so far!
I love the minecraft construction technique and the way they welcome their visitors. Heehee!
I don't think Wave likes the surprise so far. D: Poor kobolds. Being exceedingly tough seems to have only encouraged them to take absurd risks.
I love that the two weeks' worth of soup actually turned out to be a reasonable amount to bring. XD
I like that the kobolds have a very gamer-like attitude towards violence, in the sense of "traps and combat are fun activities with friends". There's no real rancor in the story until the diamond dogs start killing parrots.
Poor Polly. ;__; I'm glad that Wave mourned for her. I like the kobold take on gender, too. Matches well with their post-human origins.