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I thought it was just a particularly hot summer. When my friends and the rest of the town started acting weird, I thought it was just the heat. After all, we've had heatwaves before, and those always drive ponies a little crazy. That's what I told myself, anyway.
And then I did some digging and realized I was right... and also very, very wrong.
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Interesting beginning. I really felt the descriptions and dialogue though not long ,really, captured a mood and had a lively, painterly feel.
following this for the unusual feel of the story.
Oh yeah, new the7Saviors time
I'm not entirely sure Celestia's sun can say the same. Actually, it "saying" anything is probably a red flag, now that I think about it.
Judging by Twilight's "I was right" in the description and the "Susurrations" in the title (AKA "whispering sounds" - thanks for the tip, Merriam-Webster!), I get the sense that this story's pinning heatwave delirium on some solar parasite out to make maddened puppets of everycreature. Said abomination's already dug its claws into Tia, if her abnormal numbness, cryptic advice for Luna, and posture in the cover art are anything to go by, so things are almost certain to heat up going forward. Hopefully Twilight and Co. can get to the bottom of things and fight off the darkness — or in this instance, I suppose, the light — but this is a 7Saviors horror story, so I might just have to jettison those hopes into the sun. Either way, it looks to be an entertaining voyage! :)
Let the hot summer commence.
Discord yanked her out of there
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And left her pets behind? He really doesn't understand her does he?
Although if it's something that can affect Discord, that definitely doesn't mean anything good for the Main Sixers.
I wonder why it's taking so long for the sun to affect some ponies but not others. It can't be laziness or paranoia that's making the difference.
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Yeah that's about what I'm thinking. Although it seems more concerned with sucking the life out of people as opposed to making puppets. Luna may get that everlasting night after all.
Yowza, this is... promising.
Good catchy title & blurb too!
Welp, so much for "Twilight and Co. fighting the light"; seems they're more liable to get incinerated by it one by one. I'm also inclined to doubt Twilight's claims that she's "entirely unaffected." Even disregarding her atypically vicious teardown of her weary friends just a few paragraphs prior, she's already lampshaded that these journal entries themselves are uncharacteristic of her. Red flags abound, and they're all on the brink of being set alight.
Judging by the description, this is around the point where she'll start "doing some digging". Here's hoping she'll dig up something of use.
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Yeah, I was kinda wondering about Discord, especially seeing as Twilight's "castle foyer" and Starlight's apparent absence date this fic's events to circa Season 5. You'd think Discord would be a bit more up-in-arms about his "bestie"'s disappearance; either his "Flutter On" reformation's been butterflied (pun intended) by the AU tag… or the pale star's already dealt with him.
Wonder when twi will ask Celestia for help
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Well, I was half-joking tbh
I'd imagine with this set-up, Flutters won't appear at all, or her dissappearance should be viewed as a hook for how the plot will be resolved
We'll see, so far, it's just too interesting a premise not to speculate
so...001 has come than, eh?
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Doesn't the fact that she has not belie her assertion that she is not much affected?
Send a letter to Princess Celestia, please.
This reminds me of Sunless Sea/Skies and those games do cosmic/eldritch horror very well, I hope there's some some fckery like that here :P
Some examples are:
Sunlight oozing through gaps like "rancid honey"
Glassing the bones of those who stand around the sun for too long, even if not directly exposed.
The light can be trapped and carried inside mirror-lined boxes.
Close your eyes and all you can see is sunlight instead of darkness.
-N THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SU-
Seeing as Twilight's entries up to this point have been on a daily basis, the fact she skipped Saturday is ringing quite a few alarm bells. Actually, looking back, I can't help but notice that the first three entires were all written at incrementally later times.
Between the talk of funeral pyres and the semi-comas suffered by all of Ponyville's youth, this chapter's giving me a gut-wrenching suspicion that the pale star's trying to play Pied Piper… and its Koppelberg Hill is made of kindling. (But that's not all there is to it, is there?)
That was a interesting story so far goodluck with the rest of it.
Finally gotten around to read the story and it's awesome so far, I love the building up of mystery. The scene with Pinkie and the Cakes was interesting to say the least. The Twilight dreaming was fun in the descriptions. In what period of the series is this happening?
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Didn't really think about it to be honest. Sometime after Twilight gets her castle but before Starlight shows up again I suppose.
I gotta say it always makes me nervous to see a lot of yellow in a fic like this.
Dunno if its random or a red herring, but its gunna sit in my mind that I can totally see this being a The King in Yellow reference. Hastur is a pretty famous dude known for messing with dreams after all.
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That was a good chapter.
Welp that was creepy. Hopefully Luna can help out with this.
I'm surprised she's still talking to be honest. Especially after what happened to the tree.
Sunbutt what did you do?!
We went from daily uploads to a ten-day gap. Holy moly, not even the story's safe from the heatwave slowdown!
(Jokes aside, take all the time you need, Saviors.)
Yeah, that's not a good sign. I had my suspicions that whatever's doing all of this wants Equestria to immolate itself for some godsforsaken purpose, and Twilight's possessed tangent gives exponentially more fuel to that fire.
Quite a dark twist on the moral to "Feeling Pinkie Keen".
I'm still clinging to a faint, possibly misplaced hope that this mess can somehow be fixed (even if only to an extent), but even so, the Tree of Harmony burning down feels like a point of no return. Hold on to your hats, folks… unless it becomes too unbearably hot to do so.
Awesome chapter, we are not already seeing the fun mass subtle mind control/alterations and the forming of this sun/fire cult. I wonder in what way did the ponies changed to be able to handle the unbearable heat? I wonder what is the meaning of ponies wearing robes if ponies are normally go around naked? I wonder what they will start doing next I take it Granny Smith and the other elderly ponies are probably dead because they couldn't handle all the heat. I wonder what is happening to Spike and all the foals, are they going to be subjected to even deeper alterations then the adult ponies, more then just mental. I wonder how the other races are handling this new sun, are they subjected to the same changes as the ponies or are they dying out or literally turn into fire, like Twilight explained; would they all use what ever power or force they still have to demand Celestia to tone down the heat? The Kirins are probably the only race that could maybe be able to bear the hear, and maybe the crystal ponies being mineral or sorts. I wonder what will keep Equus breathable if all plants are dying out? I wonder if the Sun is also affecting pony magic in a deeper way, if the Crystal tree was consumed by strange living fire? What is the ultimate plans of this new sun?
Great chapter dude keep it up.
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Probably that or he justed noped out of there.
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Well maybe, maybe not but if it did then wouldn’t they all melt into puddles of goo immediately.
Well time to call the equestrian SCP foundation
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Can someone translate this for me.
And oh boy hopefully the eg portal was closed off.
And well twilight just jinxed it. She forgot the number one rule of things can’t get any worse.
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Zalgo text reads:
the eye opens, the egg cracks, and then all shall be consumed by its flaming hunger.....
We must all be made WHOLE.
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Thanks.
And oh boy they better have sealed off the EG portal or something at least.
Oh lord this is scary.
I figured this would happen. Poor Luna.
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Of course Twilight finally decided to fly for Canterlot the moment her primary ally succumbed to the sunlight. Now all she's set is a collision course for the newly pyromaniacal Luna. Fireworks inbound.
Also, the revelation of what's happening to the comatose foals is genuinely fucking me up. Even if they're (somehow) saved from that fate worse than death, that's still an entire generation scarred by unfathomable trauma. Nope, nope, nope, so much goddamned nope, and I don't have a "yes" of optimism in sight.
huh, who knew my maddened prophecy would have some merit to it after all?
Awesome chapter love the mystery of the church part, I wonder what was their plans for Celestia back in the day? Looks like at this point Celestia is already lost for good and is under the say of the that Sun. Keep it up dude.
Things are looking bright! 😎
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Congrats, Stygian, you done fucked everything up! Then again, things might be getting too bright for your tastes, but hey, it does take light to cast a shadow.
And with Celestia's side of the story illuminated, the smoking gun finally reveals itself. Turns out she was more lucid than I (and Luna, for that matter) gave her credit for, but her final destination seems to have been the same regardless. There's also a dark irony in that both Sisters recognized the burning issue, but stayed quiet out of fear of upsetting the other — especially seeing as they each independently came upon the "eternal night" temp-solution. Oh well, time for hell.
With an increasingly fatigued Twilight on her way to sunny Canterlot — and considering that Savior's last blog said there are only one or two chapters left — it looks like things are coming to a Diamond Head. Let's see how it erupts.
That was a good chapter.
Somehow, I think burning the tapestry of an eldritch Pyre was a very enlightened decision, that nonetheless may have made things worse.
Dark ambiguity and vagueness cloaked in aura of despair. Perfect for the last or second to last chapters of a slow paced horror story. I'm looking forward to the wrap up.
Awesome dude, love how this is building up and we really have no idea what's going to happen next at this point.
Dang, "I can't kill myself because everyone else doesn't have that choice" is such a uniquely bleak perspective. Wow.
Twilight's mysteriously restored last-minute lucidity raises quite a few questions. Between her own musings on the matter, her final act of documenting everything, and the journaling itself being abnormal for her from the outset, I'm left wondering if the Conflagration requires a quote-unquote "Archivist" and she was unknowingly chosen to, ahem, "fulfill that role". For what purpose, I'd have no clue; maybe a way of kickstarting another solar cult on another world, but that's just errant speculation that may not even be accurate to the in-story lore.
Elsewhere, Pinkie and Fluttershy remain somewhat loose ends, though the former's might just be an extended nod to her frequent 4th-wall precognition (to inappropriately appropriate Jon Bois, "She saw the writing on the wall, and it terrified her."). The latter could easily remain a mystery as well, though I can also imagine an epilogue in which Flutters and Discord become the "someponies who'll remain to discover what happened" Twilight alluded to… and inadvertently trigger the first step of the next apocalypse in the process.
…That, or the final chapter will entirely consist of a grotesquely prosaic description of the Vessel breaking free and incinerating everything (which, ironically, would probably be tantamount to a mercy killing for all its living batteries at this point). Either or neither works! :P
Looking forward to the ending!
Basically the the plot of Dead Space but with stars instead of moons.
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And less monsters with pointy bits