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13K plus update? I just died and got to Heavens Fimfiction section
I’m so glad you asked, Gilda. Allow me to educate you via the art of Dr. Seuss and the voice talent of Bugs Bunny himself; the late, great Mel Blanc:
All this information mindfucked Gilda! 1000 yard! Bäääm! The Griffons will cry how obsolete they are...
'Tripple A' Entertainment!
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That was one of those banned films that Marco wasn't allowed to discuss... Per the Lieutenant's orders.
Go figure.
What an awesome chapter! Great Midnight read for me!
Also that's some serious firepower for civilians that somehow got all of this through the portal to pony land or some unicorn must have a serious gun fetish
Heck yeah, good stuff.
Though it kinda broke the pace a little I had a good chuckle at the marines getting excited over Marco, Tara, and Chris's guns.
Oof. Welcome to combat.
I was thinking grogar.
OK this shit just got really real.
and the true power of a gun is way out of the bag.
this is a awesome chapter and yet things are just starting there is a long way to go to get to the fort.
Hell yes! Big chapter and some bigger reveals.
Stoked to finally see everyone get to put their training to the test, and that was a much bigger one than I'd assumed.
Si it starts again , we finally hot here, ive been wating years for this to contenue :D.
Necromancer attacking the humans? Better call an ambulance, but not for the humans! Once word gets back to Earth, they will demand war, especially from the religious.
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only AA
There's no artillery involved.
Just wait until someone mentions that they are only carrying small arms (for the most part)
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Yet * wink - wink *
Hmmm.... There's something that's needed for this.... Where is... Ah! Here it is: an appropriate playlist.
New rule for the Marines: Headshots only.
Reading this felt like pure serotonin
I always wonder why they was called 'coven of the sun'
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Thank you very much! May heaven have its own Brony area...
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And you just know that I’m going to have the Marine sniper Henderson demonstrate her ability to reach out and touch someone at that range.
The griffies definitely aren’t obsolete, though! They’ve got mages and some big guns of their own we haven’t really seen yet...
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With the Black--Soul seal of approval! Let me say again I really do appreciate your enthusiasm and how you comment on all my chapters.
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More’s the pity--the WWII Private Snafu soldier informational films are classic! They’re even R rated at times for language and bare boobs. Yep, Dr. Seuss did that.
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Thanks! And you’re welcome!
More like some unicorn had a serious fetish for breaking the rules, especially to help her friends. You’ll be seeing her appear in this story before all is said and done.
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Thanks!
That’s part of what it was there for—a little levity before the storm broke.
First times in combat often end this way as the adrenaline rush wears off and you realize you could have died. Doesn’t matter if you’re a soldier or civilian, either.
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You mean Discord.
All true. And thanks! The war has just begun, so you’ll be seeing a lot more firepower before all is said done. Especially since the Marines haven’t brought out their big boys yet...
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Thanks! And yeah, I wanted the scene massively amped up over the original story’s version. I also wanted to be sure I let Chris, Tara and Marco get in on the action, though they’re not exactly in shape for more there at the end. Unfortunately for them (but fortunately for readers!), there’s plenty more fights to follow.
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Glad to oblige!
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I’d imagine it’s more likely they’d want the portal slammed shut and never reopened. The presence of ponies and griffies and magic--especially dark magic--would be an affront to the beliefs of most faiths, if you ask me.
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I once heard the acronym AAA used for “Anti-aircraft artillery”, but I don’t think that’s right.
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They’ll start bringing out their bigger guns in a bit!
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Not bad! Maybe I’ll find a place to use it later.
I’m pretty sure they’re okay with it!
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Now that’s what I like to hear!
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I don’t actually have an answer for that, given DEL never told us. So I’ll invent a reason later.
Hmmm, when more dead bodies showed in the coach, I was thinking about an incinerary grenade just to be sure ...
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Paint me curriouse. Looking forward to reading about it in the future
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Hmm, if I recall correctly, in the original Celestia banned them from taking anything too big across the portal
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That was quite the enjoyable chapter, keep up the good work :)
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Can't wait to see what the Gryphs think of our Phalanx (aka land-based CWIS) system. And what they'd think of seeing an ABCT doing work... Or a squadron of AH64Ds supporting some ground troops... Maybe a few BRRRRTs from a flight of A10s... Toss in some of the fun that Spookies can bring to the table... or the amount of hurt a Fires Brigade (for those not in the know, this is a brigade [multiple battalions] of Field Artillery) can inflict on the bad guys... And technically, since the OPFOR are dead, I guess would could even dust off some of the old incendiary weaponry for anti-infantry work as I think you could make a good argument as to why their usage in this specific case wouldn't be considered war crimes, while showing the gryphons in explicit detail why we do consider their use war crimes without actually causing the issues that make them war crimes in the first place... This can get really fun, really fast (provided that you have a twisted sense of dark humor ).
EDIT: Oh, how could I forget those aging MOABs that need to be disposed of. Might as well bring a few of those across since they are just becoming a massive drain on resources just sitting there in those warehouses
Side note: I now want to see a full "Humanity, Fuck Yeah!" omake where the Marines report the fact zombies are around, the US military moves in a few divisions, wings, and MEFs (including the 34th ID, because I would totally volunteer to deploy for this) and this be the general reaction. Just because I would love to see the looks on the Gryphons' faces when their greatest horror from ages past gets turned into a fun competition for most kills/stylish kill between individual warriors, platoons, companies, etc because, it's freaking zombies.
Ninjas tended to be more reliable and honourable than samurais.
Before I leave my first longpost of 2022 I gotta say, this is the most positive and lively comments section I've seen in a long time. It was a great chapter in prereading. I offered a whole lot of comments then, and dissected a lot of reasoning behind the officer's actions. But maybe I read a few too many Rogue Warrior novels and so I expect ambushes everywhere. Speaking of which, rest in peace, Richard Marincko (November 21, 1940 – December 25, 2021). You taught us all so much about special ops.
That's always a bad place to be when you know for a fact you're being scouted from the brush. It's also kinda nice in a way, though. It means frontal assault is out of question, at least for now. You need to extract your smaller force and breakout and reach a line of resistance but this is only going to work if you don't walk into an ambush.
I'm picturing an espeon looking a group of flareons into battle.
Cry havoc and let slip the eevees of war!
I have to agree with him even considering the last year has seen my interests in porn branch out into furry and Pokémon. Some things will just always be ick to me no matter what. Considering what we learn later about Jamal though, perhaps he doesn't have the most moral of high grounds to stand on...
I have so many doubts that pressing X isn't even going to cut it. I think I'm going to have to roll my face across the keyboard to properly express how dubious this shit is.
I have some issues with these guys as stated but Giraldi makes two excellent points here. The actions of the aggressors are confusing and incomplete deployment on the part of the attackers makes as much sense as anything else at this point since we have no idea what the scale of the conflict is. Even the fact the enemy are using dragons is meaningless because we don't know how many there are or what missions they're carrying out or any clue as to the scale of the conflict. For all they know, they're not even worth calling in the air support on.
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"Ahh! Let go, Sylveon! Let go! I BEG TO BE RELEASED AT ONCE!"
That's... mighty convenient! I mean, we can't entirely assume the killings of these civilians and the dragons scorching the land are necessarily connected or even aware of each other but it sure does seem weird whoever killed them would leave the bounty unguarded, un-booby-trapped or otherwise undisturbed considering the wagon's proximity to the besieged heroes. Seems like someone could just destroy the wagon. But like I said, just speculation at this point unless you understand the enemy is Cloven - which they don't.
Setting aside we already know this is Cloven and that's kind of their thing to make animals act that way, disruption of the normal ebb and flow of the native wildlife is a compelling sign that the area is hostile. In fact, the aforementioned late and much-lamented Richard Marcinko would often bed down days in advance (if possible) to an ambush site just to allow the animals to return to their normal patterns so the enemy would have zero warning before they ended up dead.
Bruh.
So we have a definition for what's considered safe even though the enemy was never spotted and can assume the other routes presented better ambush opportunities. That's such nuanced writing, I have to admit I initially mistook this as a continuity error. You're in rare form!
I Just know, as pissant and relatively non-threatening a figure I am on the internet, there's still some government agency with a file on me about my erotic fanfiction. They probably haven't bothered to upvote my stories either. Bastards...
I'll continue this comment tomorrow.
I'm not a soldier but I'd be suspicious of all that lovely, edible food. Have your mage cast Detect Poison and Disease.
I wonder how they infected the Dragons... Let them eat the fresh dead and use the brain parasitic thing to dig inside them until they reach the brain?
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Huh!?
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What does Axis And Allies got to do with this...?
Great action going on with this! I never did get around to reading this far into the original story's account, so this was a surprising treat to behold.
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I'm with DreamKitsune on this. Chuck the food! Real necromancers wouldn't let that opportunity go to waste!
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I also have a concern that those dragons may also be zombies. Fire may eliminate the corpses that are "normal critters and beings" but would fire do shit to a dragon's corpse?
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It’s a valid point. So I’ve added a blurb where Nydia also checks for them:
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Pagan Europe, more or less. And that's a pretty awesome take on them.
Maybe if you didn't hit the buffet so hard, you wouldn't have to soak your feet after walking a mile or two. Just sayin', Raleigh.
He's not whining, he's complaining! Still annoying though.
Shameful cross for that griffon to bear. I hope he gets a medal for this.
I have to believe that was snark directed at Raleigh for being such a worthless sack of crap.
"Yeah. We will be okay, Reyes. Not like tons of fun over there!"
America is never going to live that down. Ever. If you'd have told me years ago we'd not only have Saigon 2.0 but it'd somehow look even worse than Saigon 1.0, I'd have called you crazy.
Everyone wants this guy to not make it! Can't disagree with them. He's a heel-rocking, pocket-change jingling, cookie-pushing, no-load shit-for-brains diplo-dink who thinks ensuring his continuing existence is someone else's duty but his.
Really? Those are two very complex subjects, right there! Spec Ops teams need to train together as a unit in tactical entry for months before they get good at it. Learning either one of those in three days is pretty much out of the question. Further, just because you learn how to repeatedly strike a target on the range doesn't mean you can do it forever like riding a bike. Shooting is a frangible skill and much like bodybuilding, requires one to constantly hone their skills.
That said, I suspect they are trained well enough to walk in formation without pointing their guns at the backs of their comrades as it's a fundamental gun safety rule and they're likely going to point their weapons away from their column anyway.
He's not wrong. Though, you can teach a person a shocking amount in a short time. One of the most popular Rogue Warrior fictional novels, Red Cell, has Marcinko teaching four boomers how to move tactically in the forest with paintball guns after just a week's worth of training! Seriously, read that one, it's hilarious and somehow credible.
Ahh yes. I do believe she also wears that when she's cleaning out the truck.
Baby, it's not like the last time! I swear America will do better with our next ally!
Credit to Firesight for making this metaphor blend seamlessly with the story itself - to the extent he intended to draw a direct parallel between Tara and Imlay's conversation with The United States' catastrophic 21rst century in geopolitics.
Ahh bummer. We missed a typo during our edits. 'Long' not 'longed'.
Molon Rouge!
The Taliban are selling our weaponry, as well as those of the private mercs who based out of Afghanistan because we left so much ordinance behind. Think about that. Think about how badly you need to screw the pooch to leave that much quality stuff behind. I watched the disaster happen in real time on liveumap.com for a solid month. They crumbled worse than the Armenians did in Nagorno Karabakh! And they had a modern air force and logistics!
We had guys going other for two decades who repeatedly questioned the efficiency and resolve of the ANSDF soldiers to fight for the security of Afghanistan and its people as a democracy. And yet there were no plans at all even after announcing the withdrawal in advance? Inconceivable how that could have gone worse. Like I said, America will never live this down.
That recoil must have been beastly for an 8-year-old girl!
While it's true plenty of MGs were used by basic infantry in the Red Army, let's face it. We all think of it as a sniper rifle because of the famous snipers who used it.
"We can't discount a rhino attack 100% so I need to play it safe."
You got to admire those GI's in WW2 who managed to load those M1 Garands without incident. Clips are weird. I'd never use a gun without a magazine.
Alas, I'm going to need a part 3 for this comment. This chapter is a tall boy!
Time to finish this off.
Everyman Marco speaking for all of us reading in his situation.
Going to be lazy and clip my comment from the google document this chapter was written on:
Possibilities: Enemy isn't hungry.
Enemy doesn't eat fruit. (This was addressed in a future edit, I see!)
Enemy sabotaged the fruit and/or its location and is using it as a lure.
Enemy is too dumb to acquire the fruit to gain an advantage.
The enemy is acting way too tactical to be stupid, so 4 is out.
Everything eats eventually so 1 is out.
Option 3 makes sense at first glance but since they know about you, it makes more sense for them to deny you those resources, assuming they don't want it for themselves.
It REALLY looks like the ambush is at the cart!
I'm not a mathematician but this isn't adding up. Gilda, I think you need to check the court record again!
I can't watch!
I love when the latin is basic enough to read as an english-speaker! Cat-Bird, eh? I like it.
The good joke is already taken here. Dammit!
That's hard to do unless you watched the guy set the trap and even then it can still be rough. It's exponentially harder when dealing with magical creatures from a different dimension with their own cultural DNA. It's difficult to fully place myself in the heads of the military minds at the scene but at this point and even really before then, I'd be severely allergic to that wagon just because of how funneled in they were. A ton of food presents itself to you and just happens to be unguarded and along the path of retreat?
If you ever find yourself in a position where the enemy is dictating your motions, even if they seem beneficial to you, even if they appear weaker, you're probably being scammed. There's a rather cliché saying that goes "if something seems too good to be true, it probably is" that everyone missed out on here.
Outside of Fallout Equestria (which really shouldn't count), I haven't read any stories where an Equestrian race employs a physical trap like that. It was suggested earlier that Ibex like to play dirty so it stands that they employ similar trickery. I'd love to see some headcanon on that in the future.
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She'll never be able to levitate a Millennium Falcon at this rate.
Too late!
People really do act crazy in extreme circumstances like this.
I heard an old lady get the name wrong once. She called it "Residential Evil". THat was 20 years ago and it's still funny to me.
The most destructive living creatures to ever exist.
Take the fruit and RUN!
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[F] for Richard Marcinko, one of the baddest of asses to ever live. But that said, you’re right--this was the best chapter response I’ve seen on any of my stories in a very long time. The liveliest comments section I ever had was TLaTU-M, for the record. TAS could make a claim as well, but I don’t count that since it wasn’t originally mine.
And they full expect one to occur at some point along the way. And yet for all that, they still end up looking the wrong direction when the time comes simply because they don’t understand the nature of the threat yet and can’t connect the dots until it’s too late.
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Are you sure? They look way too interested in trick-or-treating to be fighting right now.
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Just as soon as they get done with campfire songs, that is.
Oh, he definitely doesn’t. There’s plenty I’m not saying there, not the least of which is she was a way underage girl. And you can’t help what turns you on... or off. We’re all wired differently, and I don’t question folks’ fetishes for the most part. You like what you like; you don’t want what you don’t. And there does seem to be very little middle ground there. All that said, I’m still glad to see your interests branching out a bit. For me, I came from the opposite direction. I started out in furry and Lion King and branched over to MLP and other places from there.
Let’s just say that she’s the kind of girl Epstein would have liked and be done with it.
Well, the proper question to ask here is, what is the enemy priority? You know what the enemy is even if our intrepid heroes don’t at this time. So ask yourself: Would the Cloven prioritize destruction and incineration? Or something else, given incinerated bodies can’t be possessed?
Poor Umbreon... Sylveon is his kryptonite! He can never get away from her affection now matter how hard he tries!
Exactly. The actions of the enemy make no sense unless you know they’re Cloven, in which case their priority is acquiring new hosts, especially from new races with potentially powerful weapons. That’s why they haven’t just swooped in dragons to consume them in dragonfire. They need them dead but their bodies more or less intact.
This was a big point in the original story that I actually got scolded by DEL about a couple times during prereading comments. and yeah, I could see that that RM would plan so far in advance. Once the animals are used to you, they start acting normally again and you don’t give yourselves away. That will never happen with the Cloven, though, simply because the animals recognize the dark magic that makes them and know it’s a bad thing.
This Bruh moment is brought to you by one Marco Lakan, who never seems to censor his thoughts in advance of speaking them.
Thank you! I’m very happy at the way this turned out. it’s definitely one of my better entries in any story, and I felt inspired the whole way through of writing it.
Yeah, what’s up with that? They watch us but don’t even do the courtesy of encouraging us to do more stuff that would earn a government reprisal. Fuckers.
Sorry to take so long to answer it, but the latest FH chapters have consumed me. Here’s your first reply, though. Hope you liked!
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Works for me! We still don’t have a real idea of the griffons gods past their reverence for their ancestors at this point; we just know those Gods exist. Maybe I’ll find a way to explore that later in the story.
He doesn’t just hit it, he clobbers it with far more force than he ever spends on his duties. But in fairness, certain buffets in Las Vegas are too good not to overindulge in...
Nice. Not even the Diamond Dogs would want Raleigh, because he’s completely useless for any physical labor as well.
I need to bring her back in the second chapter to follow this one. I’d imagine she’d be feeling a bit low for having contributed nothing to the battle except protecting Raleigh at Gilda’s orders. I’ll have to give her a chance to shine later, given she’s the only earth griffon left other than Giraldi at this point.
It wasn’t deliberately, but it works that way. I really don’t have any affection or patience for Raleigh. Even in the original story, he was a jackass who tried to get Marco disarmed later on.
Ha! I’m going to shamelessly steal that and use it later.
You and me both. But that’s where we are now. I once considered the military a bulwark against the rest of the government. No longer. They’re as corrupt and woke as the rest, and they’re trying to purge the rank and file of anyone who thinks differently or shows the slightest shred of conservatism (which was historically most of them) on the grounds that it supports every -ism in existence.
Exactly. And sadly, as he survived in the original story at least as far as it was written, he will here as well.
There are good quality two-week courses out there I’d like to take if I get the chance. I really would like some serious tactical training myself, but I need to get off my keister and commit the time and money to it.
They are. Imlay right now thinks they’re complete neophytes. They’re not. No, they’re not Marines, but they know enough at this point to help, especially for the threat they face, as the latter third of the chapter makes clear. Not to say their performance can’t be critiqued or improved, though.
I believe it. I don’t think it takes that long to teach people how to fight properly. There’s also the simple fact that if you survive your first three engagements, you’re much more likely to survive future ones for all you’ve already learned. There’s no better (and harsher) teacher that actual battle, after all.
Tara’s my kind of a girl. A truly powerful woman who lets her actions speak for her and doesn’t complain about the patriarchy or scream rape when things don’t go her way. She’s also gun-loving, and unabashedly female without ‘identifying’ as something she’s not in order to claim a higher rung on the oppression ladder. She’s just the latest successor of a long list of females I’ve written that includes such equally notable characters as Firefly, Five Stars, and Kamilya Kampo. Oh, Kam, I miss you. I really need to get back to writing you...
At this point, I’m not sure we’ll ever have allies again after that. Thanks, Brandon.
Appreciated. As far as I’m concerned, a reasonable explanation as to why Chris, Tara and Marco would have smuggled in guns is the only good thing that came out of that total debacle.
Well, fuck. fixed.
Sadly, I had to look that up. It’s a play? Can’t say the subject matter interests me.
they had everything they needed. They chose not to fight. It’s way too late, but my lesson is learned. You can’t impose anything approaching western liberal values or a will to fight on a culture that only swears fealty to faith or tribal leaders and has no true national identity. That said, it was still an incredibly botched withdraw that we’re going to be paying for over a very long period of time. And for selling out our honor and eighty billion dollars worth of high-tech weaponry while ignoring the advice and warnings of his own generals to do it, the only thing I can say is, Let’s Go, Brandon.
Nor should we. Saigon was bad. This was immeasurably worse and played out all over the modern media, and the full consequences are not yet known.
8-year girls can fire ARs without an issue because the recoil isn’t actually that bad. Completely unlike leftist reporters who reported they were traumatized by firing one, to great twitter mockery.
Exactly. It was actually a fairly standard field rifle, but the 1890/130 variant was a sniper model used by two of the greatest snipers of all time, including White Death himself.
Hey, you never know where rhinos might strike! Then again, Kung Fu Panda proved Rhinos are worthless at guarding even a single prisoner.
My Canadian friend uses stripper clips for his WWII-era rifles. That’s how I know they’re hard to load without practice and old eastern bloc ammo is caustic. We typically have to detach the rounds from the strip and load them one by one, because we haven’t figured out how to just push down and slide them neatly into the magazine en masse.
That it is! But I enjoyed every minute of writing it.
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Ditto. Sorry again it took so long to reply to these.
Well, like Gilda said, his timing was particularly bad given she was in a foul mood after being in pain all day from wearing her ill-fitting and quite crow-begotten dress uniform. At least with Raleigh, the eagless in question doesn’t think he’s trying to molest her. After all she’d seen of him that day, Gilda thought that’s exactly what Marco was doing.
Your logic and conclusion was certainly true, but the thing here was, they had no idea what the trap and their foe actually was. They took every possible precaution believing they were facing a living enemy, checking carefully for physical and magical traps. Not one of them ever thought for a second the corpses were going to jump up and attack them. Even knowing about the Cloven in their past wouldn’t help that, because who thinks they’re suddenly going to return after not being seen for 1400 years?
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Avert your eyes from the coming disaster! It’s now charging like a runaway train at them and they can’t get out of the way.
It’s a cheap translation trick, but I’m still using it.
Hey, nothing will ever top the old WWII Private Snafu short produced by the Department of War on the subject:
That’s what you get when you cross Dr. Seuss with Mel Blanc. An unholy alliance that produced some of the most classic soldier informational films of all time!
It all seems too easy, and they are aware of that, and yet, every check they make reveals nothing wrong so they keep pushing just a little bit closer; a little bit closer, not knowing that their foe is lying in wait for them in the form of the corpses around the cart.
It’s a valid point, but they do need the supplies and took every possible precaution they could. It still wasn’t enough, obviously, but the point holds that they had no clue that the initial ambush would come from inside their lines. For the Cloven was not something that even remotely occurred to them at that point.
You’ll be seeing the Ibex soon enough. I think it’s just about high time to introduce them properly.
What do you mean never? This is Rey we’re talking about! She can do everything because she’s the bestest evah but isn’t a Mary Sue at all.
God, I hate her and that entire so-called sequel trilogy so fucking much... rot in movie hell, Kathleen Kennedy. You deliberately set out to destroy a slew of beloved characters so you could substitute your own, and I will never forgive that. Or Disney for allowing it to happen.
At this point, it definitely is!
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Indeed. Times like this bring out the best and worst of people, all at the same time.
Residential Evil? I define that as a Homeowner’s Association.
Both creative and destructive. But my personal philosophy is you can’t have one without the other.
That they will! But not right away. With the immediate threat taken care of, they’ll have at least some chance to gather themselves and lick their wounds, and occasionally cry for their lost innocence...
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Only what they could carry, I believe it was. The Marines then interpreted that quite liberally, and it helped that they got hold of some storage gems.
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I’ve eaten a couple before. They’re not great, but serviceable for the most part and certainly filling.
I’ll be sure and find a face-sucker for him.
RIP, Bill. And know that your movie roles live on...
Appreciated! And thanks for the comment. Sorry for the belated reply.
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Sadly, they’re not going to be able to see most of this because those weren’t exactly things the Marines could pack with them for reasons both diplomatic and practical. But believe me, they’ll be plenty impressed by what they do see!
Oh, I do! But it’s more a question of appropriateness for me in a given story. You’ll see plenty of dark moments and humor in this as we go along, and believe me, the griffies aren’t so restrained when it comes to their own incendiaries.
Ah, but do the griffies have their own version of that...?
With apologies, I do have to keep this reasonably in-universe and grounded in the verse’s reality. There’s no way in hell they could move in that much equipment even if the ponies were willing to allow it all to pass through the portal, especially without any kind of existing infrastructure on Tellus. It would take many, many months to set up what they need to support a modern army, let alone one that far away from the portal, and the war’s going to be decided long before that.
All that said, the Marines brought plenty of hardware within certain parameters that you’ll learn more about in a couple chapters, and what they have is plenty powerful. You’ll see it all as we go along.
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Depends on who you ask, but yes, they did whatever they were tasked with. The Ravens have a fierce pride in themselves (like most griffon groups do) and are intensely loyal to their nation. They also tend to bristle at any comparison to groups they consider more mercenary, no matter how skilled they are.
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You’ll find out more about how they corrupted dragons eventually.
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Neat. We get to the meat of the danger it seems.
Wonder how this story continue once the pre written material is exhausted
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[Because I despise text-based communication's inability to properly carry tone and am paranoid as fuck, this is all being facetious and is not to be taken serious at all]
True, I fully understand that they will be impressed by the branch that has to use the Navy's (budgetary) leftovers to get things done, but it's not quite the same as the simultaneous I-am-pissing-and-shitting-myself terrified and instant-orgasm-levels-of-MURICA! grin that comes when the entire US military is let off its leash to get shit done.
Ah, but that's the fun of an omake. It doesn't necessarily need to be canon and/or perfectly realistic, provided the handwaves serve the story being told. Just needs to be funny enough that people wouldn't look too deeply into it.
You take the downright black voodoo magic that the E-4 Mafia can perform (when they're properly motivated) and mix that with the magical drug deals that Warrant Officers somehow make (when they decide to actually do work); I have a strong feeling that if you were to put out a call that there are zombies in need of rekilling, you'd find a few divisions worth of US Army ground and air vehicles and all the needed supplies to support that force that just so happened to be waiting for US Army personnel to fall in on, on the Gryphon's side of the boarder at the cost of ten cases of Copenhagen dip, fifteen cases of Bang/Rip It energy drinks, and approximately three pallets worth of K-Cups in about a week. Double the cost plus a few bottles of some top-shelf alcohol, and you'd have enough soldiers to crew everything arriving in that same week. And even the great Purple Smart would not know what kind of magical logistics BS was performed to get it done (to her great consternation ).
The comment section is very entertaining
Sooo... Time for a reversed Bughunt once they have a defensiv position to hold. D-Day or Stalin Grade type defense slaughter...
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Don’t worry. I’ve got plenty of plot already developed for when we get there.
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Indeed! I’m very happy with the amount of feedback I’ve received.
You don’t want to stay in a static defensive position long with the Cloven, as they can overcome just about any defense given enough time. You have t otake the fight to them and attack their means of creating new soldiers, or you’ll be caught in a war of attrition with them you can’t possibly win.
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With apologies, I’ve gotten way behind on replying to comments, including this one. I’m trying to go through the story and answer all of them now.
Disclaimer noted, but not needed. Your comments are appreciated all the same.
Oh, I’m with you there, but I still can’t just ship an entire MEF and three carrier battle groups through the portal. I do believe you’re correct that more limited reinforcements are feasible, though, and I’m working through how to do that/who would come through.
You are correct. Still, I try to minimize my handwaves since I consider that lazy writing. The more grounded in reality it is (or at least the reality of the verse), the more real it seems and the more fun it is to read, I think.
Well, you’ll be happy to know I’ve decided there will indeed be some of that voodoo used. It’s even possibly it’s already underway behind the scenes...
Sounds like a typical workweek of supplies for me! They don’t have prepositioned equipment, though, and you can’t ship tanks and Apaches in storage gems (well, you could in pieces, but you’d have to put them together, and how would you do that for a tank?) The question is, what can ship through quickly enough in terms of manpower and equipment that is both numerous and powerful enough to make a difference? That can get into the fight before the Kingdom falls, which it may in a matter of weeks?
But think of all the Friendship reports she’d get out of watching them!