Are you new to Silverstream's story? Start listening to her messages here.
I am Silverstream and I am meant to suffer. The stars don't shine for me anymore. Neither do the sun and the moon. They are gone, just like all of my friends are gone. I wish I would be gone, too, but I have no choice than to stay.
I can't leave because I am meant to suffer in this world, by the whims of the force that brought and keeps me here.
All I can do is to keep searching for them. But I know, even if I find them, they will be taken from me again. I make recordings of my suffering with my mobile phone. If you find them, please listen to them. All I want is to be remembered.
This is a list of all the first messages that Silverstream has recorded each day since she left the dorms:
Day 155 in the Apocalypse: Three Months.mp3
Day 156 in the Apocalypse: Cracks.mp3
Day 157 in the Apocalypse: Lethargy.mp3
Day 158 in the Apocalypse: Woke Up.mp3
Day 159 in the Apocalypse: New Day.mp3
Day 160 in the Apocalypse: Ready.mp3
Day 161 in the Apocalypse: Pun.mp3
Day 162 in the Apocalypse: Solid Black.mp3
Day 166 in the Apocalypse: Something.mp3
Day 167 in the Apocalypse: Returned.mp3
Day 168 in the Apocalypse: Sacrilege.mp3
Day 169 in the Apocalypse: Blisters.mp3
Day 170 in the Apocalypse: Foul.mp3
Day 171 in the Apocalypse: Stars.mp3
Day 172 in the Apocalypse: Day.mp3
Day 173 in the Apocalypse: Forced.mp3
Day 174 in the Apocalypse: Keeping Together.mp3
Day 175 in the Apocalypse: Avoiding.mp3
Day 176 in the Apocalypse: Observation.mp3
Day 177 in the Apocalypse: Safety.mp3
Day 178 in the Apocalypse: Zoned Out.mp3
Day 179 in the Apocalypse: Dark.mp3
Day 183 in the Apocalypse: Over.mp3
Day 184 in the Apocalypse: Light-filled darkness.mp3
Day 185 in the Apocalypse: Hill.mp3
Day 186 in the Apocalypse: 30%.mp3
Day 187 in the Apocalypse: Woke Up.mp3
Day 188 in the Apocalypse: Out.mp3
Day 189 in the Apocalypse: Outskirts.mp3
Day 190 in the Apocalypse: Behind.mp3
Day 191 in the Apocalypse: Change.mp3
Day 192 in the Apocalypse: Eternity.mp3
Day 193 in the Apocalypse: Morning.mp3
Day 194 in the Apocalypse: Again?.mp3
Day 195 in the Apocalypse: Seafood.mp3
Day 196 in the Apocalypse: Answers2.mp3
Day 197 in the Apocalypse: Gotten Away.mp3
Day 198 in the Apocalypse: Sunrise Time.mp3
Day 199 in the Apocalypse: Awake.mp3
Day 200 in the Apocalypse: No.mp3
Day 201 in the Apocalypse: 7th Floor.mp3
Day 202 in the Apocalypse: Red.mp3
Day 203 in the Apocalypse: Slime.mp3
Day 204 in the Apocalypse: Try.mp3
Day 205 in the Apocalypse: Awake.mp3
Day 206 in the Apocalypse: Southwards.mp3
Day 207 in the Apocalypse: Gone.mp3
Day 213 in the Apocalypse: Still Sailing.mp3
Day 218 in the Apocalypse: Light.mp3
Day 219 in the Apocalypse: Arrived.mp3
It's baaaaaaack~~~
11421853
Welp! This is official. This ain't the timeline where G5 happens.
So will this be another several million-chapter-long story? Partly why I won't touch the prequel. Too damn long, even if it does look interesting.
11421876
At least the three pony tribes won't be going to war and separate in this timeline. That's a win, right?
11421924
Yes. Or you pay me 8$, then it will only be five "chapters", just for you.
11422430
Agreed! I always have that they regress back to square one. Making Twilight and her friends work mostly meaningless!
But then again, this story is about a mysterious apocalypse event. So, this is much worse, because I doubt their will be survivors.
11422767
I was just making a sarcastic, cynical joke about this universe, because I can't reveal any future events. A bit of dark humor because it fits the story, you know? I don't have anything against Generation 5 and this wasn't an invite to go into criticism of it.
11422431
Good thing I have better uses for $8 then. Now I have even less interest (and I was going to try before this response).
11422889
A thing you should never do is telling an author how little interest you have in their story. Or else you'll be fined 8$.
One of the coolest stories I've read in a while, very experimental.
whered the licky thing go though, I liked him
ayeeee
it's the cambrian explosion
(wow, that's animals and stuff)
11423217
Thanks! It's a lot of fun and I'm glad I can try out something new here!
11423320
I don't think he will go anywhere. Silverstream has a hard time getting used to him, though.
It wouldn't be a Silverstream story without stairs.
11421924
Too damn long? Too damn long?!?
Do you see how many words it is? Forget the chapter count, tell me how many words it is.
11444998
I have empathy with readers who feel intimidated by the chapter count. Which is why I have started to link the most recently released message in the description and why I have compiled a link list with the first message of each day for "The Sky is Gone" (aka, Part 1), to make following the story easier for its readers.
But I don't have empathy with a troll who came to the story to complain about it, shame me for its style and blame me for their own lack of attention span. I let her off easy at first, by giving her a snarky response, but when she proceeded to try guilt-tripping me by pretending she was going to try reading the story before I gave her that response, I blocked her. She pays the 8$ fine.
Morbid curiosity compels me to see this story through to it's end, I'm looking forward to more.
11466432
The morbid curiosity is with me as well. There will be lots more, my current estimation is that there will be five or six parts of "The Sky is Gone" in the end.
It a good idea but the way you went about is just plan bad. You put to much work for the read to go to each "chapter" an it really show that you don't Carr about the readers time. You could of done this by logs per day instead of every new chapter.
11472120
Every message is in an own chapter because this is the style of the story, it updates in real-time, to give the reader the feeling of going through the events at Silverstream's side. This style is not going to change because you don't like it.
If you want to read the messages condensed by day, your only chance is to pledge to my Patreon account, it has a reward tier for "The Sky is Gone" that gives you early access to Silverstream's messages, ten days before they are released here. Patreon has no chapter support, so all messages of a day have to go up in the same post there.
11422889
How dare the author give a monetary incentive to their work! The very idea they'd try to monetize their work, FOR A TIME TRANSACTION NO LESS! You didn't have to be passive aggressive with the "Well now I won't HMPH!" I understand if the authors' response seemed unprompted and I understand the disinterest but don't try to take the high ground about being the better person because you have "better uses for $8"
11529844
There's a bit of a previous story to this. Yes, this conversation has indeed a prequel and was not unprompted:
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/525632/the-sky-is-gone-epiphany#comment/11421924
And the offer of writing down only five messages just for her if she pays me 8$ was of course a joke. There's a reward tier for this story on my Patreon account, which I advertise in the description, but it's very different and it's only 1.03$, not 8.
Quite a special story, both this one and the prequel.
Its like a fucked up mix between lovecraftian, blair witchy purgotary.
Its like she is stuck in a world where every random half asleep nightmarish thoughts or hallucinations/dreams your subconcious comes up with,just takes life.
I like it.
i hope we will get a sort of explanation about how this came to be.
Gonna track this one and wait for the next updates :)
11613371
That's the best description of the story I have seen so far. Even better than I describe it. I didn't get farther than "Something something Lovecraft something something eldritch horror".
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There have already been hints. Particularly when Silverstream and Rumble met Comet Tail, but also a few more. I think it's already possible to get an idea of what is happening by piercing all the info together. But everything is still vague and no one can say if things stay the same in this world.....
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It's all a big story, the numerous submissions exist because there's a chapter limit of 1,000 here on FIMFiction.net. And there's one other reason, but you will have to figure that out on your own by reading further and learning.
I am currently in the process of finishing Part 2, before the releases resume, and almost done with it. There will be more soon.
Thank you for favouriting the story and for becoming my follower!
Just how many chapters long is this story going to be? Are you ever going to end it?
Is it just me, or are things proving to be even creepier as it all goes along?
11638663
I get the impression that everything has simmered down a bit. Except for the centi-spider. That monster is more than just the embodiment of nightmares. I can see it clearly and I am itching to get good enough at visual art to draw it.
Other than that, I think things have become a little bit calmer. But maybe that's just me. I was a little critical of the events lately. Tomorrow, I'll go over all of the messages again, in preparation for Part 3, and then I will be able to make a better judgement.
What? What the fuck just happened?
11651236
Darkness. More than there has ever been.