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Considering how many words and details you are putting into this, a side story in your words, I can only imagine the odyssey you have planned for Babel. This has been an amazing ride so far. Thank you for this detailed look into the world.
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I'm cooking something up for Babel that I'm legit gonna need some serious help with. When I get around to that, I'm going to reach out to the community to help me further craft the world and let people have an active part in it.
HA! I just finished reading the story with the above quote in it. Anyway, I think they might survive depending on how much food they grabbed. Proper rationing is something the guard is good at. Those unicorns won't turn since they can't use magic. Or they all get turned into pony sandwiches. The End.
What a harrowing dilemma our guardsponies find themselves in. Trapped down in the dungeon, nowhere to go. Problems above, problems likely below, and two unicorns in the dungeon with them. "As above, so below" has never been more apt of a saying to use.
While those horn breaks might have saved them, Sunburst mentions in And Hell Followed that breaking the horn is only a temporary solution.
Not as fast. It will still happen, but you're on a much longer timer.
And we're only on DAY FIVE.
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These latest updates and this story have pushed me to pick back up that story I messaged you about sometime last year. Writer's block and depression will do that to you. Your willingness to integrate some of the fan stories into the hard canon is honestly really nice, like that blink-and-you'll-miss-it reference to Fins in chapter four of Babel.
You make the call for assistance, and loads of us will answer, I'm sure.
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If you break your horn, you're safe. That's a hard rule. You will not turn no matter what. The only way a unicorn will not turn is if they're in Twilight's Castle, or their horn is broken before the infection can get to them. Why that is, you're free to speculate on. It's just a hard rule I have.
As for Babel, eventually Luna is going to call The Stables to order. Think of it like The Estates General from pre-Revolutionary France. It's going to be A LOT of politics. What I want to do at some point is run like a little model UN but for The Stables. Just give willing participants a part to play, give them a little background about what their constituents want and have them play it out. See what could get done.
welp they're at least somewhere safe for now and will probably be Canterlot's sole non-*corn survivors. Is this pre Stream of Silence breakage? Because if not the Kirins can also use magic. Then again they are far away.
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Kirin can turn, yes
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I wonder how the emotion-sapping properties of the stream interact with the spell
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If someone wants to flesh that out, I'd be more than happy to co-sign it lol.
One thing I’m wondering about the story is why everyone (including the princesses themselves) were so glib about the possibility of the princesses turning. Spike’s letter from the first chapter about Twilight is the initial indication of a crisis, and over time the princesses and Rose should have put two and two together (that Spike’s message was about Twilight turning and therefore alicorns aren’t immune). The princesses took seemingly zero precautions if the prevailing theory of the cause was an airborne pathogen—they freely mingled with the guards and refugees who had come into contact with the turned.
Honestly, I think there was a huge missed opportunity for a scene with a true crisis of faith. Before the princesses turned, I think some pony (maybe a refugee or guard) could’ve figured it out, even the ones who hadn’t glimpsed Spike’s letter like Rose had. Even if Ponyville refugees hadn’t told Canterlot about Twilight turning, they could’ve figured it out since Ponyville was the epicenter of the infection and the Element of Magic hadn’t stopped it, which means that she was either (1) incapacitated or (2) turned. I think there could’ve been a scene with a pony telling others in the castle that they had to get out before the princesses themselves turned, enduring hostile skepticism from the guards and other refugees. Rose would hear the message and realize that she had essentially read written confirmation of an alicorn turning. Then she would have to actually face a dark night of faith where she would have to weigh the evidence of her eyes and ears against her faith in the unbreakable virtue of Celestia (she had, after all, essentially said that unicorns lacked the virtue to let their true selves overcome the effects of the turning). I think having her faith shattered would’ve been more interesting if, prior to Celestia’s turn, she had chosen to double down on her religious convictions against the weight of what the evidence was telling her.
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You’re very right and it’s a shame I didn’t think of that.
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Part of this is just the natural feature creep of the story. Rose's whole religious thing wasn't even a facet until I had already written like three chapters then I went back and edited some things in the first two to give it more credence. Originally this was just supposed to be like a 20k word blitz about what happened in Canterlot day by day. This was just supposed to be snapshots not like an actual story lol.
I know it's just excuses but I genuinely didn't even think of what you had suggested because none of this was in the original plan.
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