Thread 42274912

There is a new reprinting of FoE in the works from Absolutely Everything,
and they're currently taking preorders at a discounted price!

Go Reserve a copy if you were thinking of getting one!

https://absolutelyeverything.org/collections/fallout-equestria-books/products/fallout-equestria-5th-edition

Also post FoE stuff!

>>42274912 (OP)
Are there any rules for stories that are currently published in print form being on Fimfiction? FoE is on there, but the works of G.M. Berrow are not.

>>42274912 (OP)
Fuck you anon I'm trying to save some damn money for once in my life and here goes a hundred of it

>>42274912 (OP)
Already pre-ordered mine

>>42274974
I'm pretty sure Berrow's books are owned by Hasbro, so uploading those would likely cause legal issues.
FoE was originally on Fimfiction, submitted by the author.

>>42275153
Most generals are dying, to be fair.

>>42275153
Discuss what you've read and make something yourself

I was trying to get something done so I didn't create a new general thread. Was wondering how long it would take for some anon to create one

there were a couple anons from what I can recollect from the last thread that said they were creating threads.
I guess now I will just watch out for on what page /FoE/ is

>>42275098
anon you made these with clay?

>>42275364
Yeah
>>42275353
I can post but not make threads

How long will the pre-order last? I really want one.

>>42275370
I would love to see more foe characters made with clay if you ever plan on creating that.
it looks great!

>>42275371
Not sure. I just grabbed one as soon as I saw they were available, since last time they sold out in a couple hours...

>>42274912 (OP)
>shipping more than half the price of the book
Gay

>>42275388
Okay I just bought a copy then. I'm not downloading an app to track it so I guess I will just have to keep an eye on my email for updates.

>>42275558
You paid shipping? I got free shipping.
Although, I did spend several hundred dollars...
Got MN7 and DaC on top of FoE

>>42275922
Her

Running all over the Equestrian wasteland, water being a rare commodity...
I bet her maresmell is amazing...

My bank tried to stop me but I preordered the book and ordered Pink Eyes

>>42276074
Stupid bank! Everyone knows that we all must submit all of our money to pony!

>>42274912 (OP)
>Fallout Equestria

>>42274912 (OP)
>Fallout Equestria

>>42275112
Since when did Hasbro commission people to write fanfics for them?

Help I'm 2 chapters away from finishing FoE and the hole in my heart is already settling in. How do I cope with this?

>>42276661
Make mare

>>42276492
If you're gonna consider officially licensed stories to be "fanfics," then since always...

How exactly is this different from the Ministry of Image version?

>>42276661
Start reading PH or MN7. It'll fill that hole for a while.

>>42275371
>How long will the pre-order last?
Our goal is to make these available to as many people as possible, so you have some time still to order.
But we don't have a set date on when the current pricing increase. Probably late July or August, closer to when the books are finished being made.

>>42275630
Yeah, you'll receive an email with your tracking number when your book ships out. Currently we're expecting them to be finished around the late August timeframe.

>>42276895
It's bound in one book instead of four, and has different chapter artwork.
Also the pages are thinner, comparable to a bible, which I'm guessing is how it got deemed the "bible version"
And, of course, you can see the cover is different in the picture.

>>42277415
>not forcing her to give it a decontamination shower

Uuuugh I already have it printed but its one of the way not so pretty versions (split into two books) and shouldnt waste money right now. Whens the deadline for the ordering?

>>42277421
>Whens the deadline for the ordering?
Anon, read the thread.

Wooh! Pip is back on sale!

>>42277165
Thank you

>>42277834
is this Absolutely Everything?

>>42277834
i wanna tongue her navel while she squirms

>>42278112
So which story is this from?

>>42275224
I was the guy reading Project Horizons in the last thread. Stopped at Chapter 25, seemed like a good spot to end on with several plot points wrapping up and no one permanently disfigured or dead. I read a bunch of spoilers and the rest of Book 2 sounds like a descent into hell, and the very end of the story is just a mess. Feels like if I read any further it would degrade what I like about all the characters so far.

>>42278497
I'm working on chapter 20

>>42278640
chapter 20 of what?

>>42278640
Have fun with Stable 99!

>>42279363
Dread is immense

I'm currently getting through Murky Number Seven
Getting towards the end.

>>42279363
I am preparing memes for every imaginable outcome.

>>42279854
>It's got his name on it, how thoughtful

>>42279860
>"Fuck you I'll kill us both I just want you dead."

>>42279325
Project Horizons
Reading is usually hard but mares help

>>42280116
I've been trying to read and imagine pictures while I do so, because just reading and not having any scenes in your head would be boring imo

for me that has been hard for some reason

when you read how big are the characters and areas? Do they cover like 90% of your vision or are they small?

I think its easier to imagine something smaller at once because if something is big you would need to focus at different sides of the thing.

>>42280526
It appears in my head like an episode of pony

>>42280554
that is sick

>>42275153
>>42278497
Oh hey, were you with us in /rgre/ talking about PH?
Interested in your experience, you got a link to last thread?

>>42280616
Right around these posts
>>42268913
>>42269047
>>42269374
There's some discussion, but a raging autist appears later on

>>42280643
Oh, I thought by last thread you meant the last FoE thread. I think you're the guy I left that big spoiler brick for lol.
But yeah, >>42278497 mirrors my thoughts pretty well. I'm on ch29 now and boy, that soul just got sucked right out.

>>42280664
https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/42142327/
Here's the last foe thread

>>42280616
>>42280643
Wasn't me, chief. I guess there's more than one of us first timers here.
But on the subject, Project Horizons absolutely needed an ending where these two survive and start a family together. It's a necessary conclusion to their character arcs.
Blackjack was raised to treat stallions as disposable breeding stock, and had a somewhat distant relationship with her mom. She needed a chance to love P-21 as an equal, and compensate for her shitty childhood by raising her foals in an unfucked environment. Likewise P-21 lived as a sexual slave until it was time for him to be euthanized. Him surviving and learning to be a father for both Scotch Tape and BJ's kids would be an ultimate victory for him.
I know they sorta reconcile sexually later in the story, but that doesn't seem to matter if they all fucking DIE in the end.

>>42280695
Whew, what a trip that took me down.
Fun threads now that I kind of understand what's going on.

>>42280790
Hey more frens is always better.
I had a lot of the story spoiled for me so I knew this stuff was coming, but man, yeah, what a letdown. 29 chapters in I'm at the point where I think I'm just gonna read like a synopsis and call it. Even the moment-to-moment scenes are growing uninventive. It used to be about Blackjack getting these heroic little wins and overcoming painful setbacks and learning lessons, but now it's really feeling a lot like "get in a bit of danger, solve the puzzle/beat the baddy, spend 1/2 the setpiece's text on lore flashback" as a storytelling loop. Most of the focus is in the past now, a sure sign of not knowing when to end your story.

It's a bummer. I'm willing to trawl around for other FoE content that promises to be engaging, but I was really hooked on this particular dynamic of P-21 and his ally-of-convenience-into-lovers thing with his ex-rapist. I fully agree with your analysis, their arc pointed to healing. What a bizarre choice on the author's part not to give it to them.

>>42281044
Yeah, unfortunately spoilers are all too easy to stumble across, with how long the stories have been out.
I got a pretty big spoiler when trying to look up a certain character's description for MNS, when I was only a few chapters in. (still pretty sore about that)
So now I try to avoid anything related to the story, even avoiding searching fanart, until I finish the story.

>>42281044
Apparently there is a 'good end' of sorts teased much later in the story, where they all settle down in Chapel, but it's immediately taken away. So yeah, bravo Somber, the suffering will never end!

>>42281454
I want to lay my head on her belly

>>42281504
I'm just going to read it until I either hit the end or can't bear the sad

>>42279862
>>42279860
>>42279854
Slaving can be a risky career because sometimes ponies get out of Filly and sometimes they remember what you did and sometimes they decide you need to be atomized for it.

I've been here lurking for quite some time and I have no idea what to talk about
how do I get along?

>>42282424
What stories have you read? Do you have a favorite?
Is there a story you didn't like that had a character you really liked?
Are you making a story of your own?

>>42282427
I have been trying to read fallout equestira, I tried to read chapter 3 2 times for now and this is my 3rd... Something doesn't really click after littlepip leaves(?) the library. It says that she leaves the ponyville but somehow there was something about her being beneath the ponyville library in a bunker at the end of chapter 3.

I guess the story is too comlicated for my brain or something
maybe its because english is not my mother lounge

I think I have tried to read the story more than 2 times actually, but for some reason I just stop at some point, that point just mostly being chapter 3...
aaah idk it just feels like turmoil

I don't know if I have ADHD or what. I guess il try to read the story and not stop. Some other issues were the root of me stopping, for example thinking that I can't imagine pictures while I read while I can but for some reason I thought I can't so I dont even know if I can or cant...

sorry, these past couple of days I have not been feeling the best

>>42282499
That part had a little skip in the plot. Littlepip was outside of Ponyville by the Big Mac statue where she found a little bunker from a radio broadcast.

>>42282507
>>42282499
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdIPmX3PamvDhsHcJftE1RpHeWx9WzI2p
An audiobook makes it a little easier to go through, The Manehatten Edition is the one I stand by as the best.

>>42282510
thanks

>>42281695
Protege is best pony!

>>42282627
Murky is the gooder boi

>>42282133
Just on her belly?

>>42282832
>straight male
>drawfag
>sexually repressed
>can't stop drawing pony butts

Yeah no wonder /foe/ loves him

>>42282876
holy shit literally me

Chapter 21 done, starting chapter 22
Gin Rummy was too perfect, too pure for this world
I hope Marmalade, Midnight, and Rivets are okay. Daisy just needed someone in her life, it didn't have to go this way.
I've got a bad feeling that the Overmare will not be able to meet my already very low standards for what constitutes a good mare, but I hope her snowpity is in there somewhere.

>>42282977
Chapter 21 done
Anon stop and never look back

>>42282977
I hope you're excited for chapter 22, in which the plot gets a bit recycled

>>42283113
I can't do that
I said I'd make it this far, I'm gonna find out what happens

>>42282876
>>straight male
C'mon anon Protege was posted RIGHT THERE
But he is the best boy
>I hope Marmalade, Midnight, and Rivets are okay
Neutral news, Anon! You can indeed have everything you want and everything you don't all in one miserable story!

>>42280664
>>42269492
>>42282977
Alright, I made it. Teared up a few times through it.
Marmalade could've been more than a one-note character. Sad to see Rivets and Midnight go, but the whole chapter felt like Somber just wanted to close this off and take the adventure elsewhere.
I knew everything I needed to know about the Overmare in chapter 1 when she said 'she' would never be able to hurt her in the Stable. I felt that - I knew exactly what her big reveal was going to be and it was exactly what I'd hoped it wasn't. I think that's why I felt for her so strongly from the start. I didn't know what was up with Daisy until much later during a flashback and it really hit much harder because I went through the same thing.
I don't know if I could fix either of them, I don't know how to undo that kind of hurt but they both needed someone to protect them and instead grew up to be the same as the broken ponies that broke them. I'd give Daisy a hug though.
Broken ponies all of them, that stable is a bad place that extinguishes fireprides and crushes snowpitys. I've seen enough sad, hurt mares to last a thousand lifetimes.
I think I've had enough of this story.

>>42283634
Your reminding me how much mom-trauma there was in the vault really hit home just how fumbled this part's potential was thematically. So much opportunity for Blackjack to learn and apply what she learned from Daisy and the Overmare in negotiating with her mom about the future of 99 (and their mother-daughter relationship by proxy). Instead Gin's just dead right from the start. What the fuck Somber.

>>42283804
fatherless behavior vault

>>42283634
>>42283804
It's funny, I was dreading the return to 99 too when I read it, but the tragedy happened so fast and so little build-up that it didn't affect me as much as I thought it would. Stable 99 was already portrayed as a miserable place, and Gin Rummy's character was barely explored at all. And IMO Somber does an okay job of pulling out of the tailspin with Spike's reveal later on.

If you want a bit more closure I still suggest reading up to Chapter 25. Then stop and imagine your own alternate ending where they all become Reapers and have wacky wasteland adventures until Littlepip fixes everything.

sleeping in the meth mansion with my mares

>>42284340
So when's Shino gonna draw Blackjack

>>42284529
Knowing Shino, I doubt he will

>>42284615
Why wouldn’t he?

>Story turns from the Murky suffer party into fucking Saving Private Ryan
god damn

>>42285205
Does Pegeta have the n-word pass for being black?

Fallout Equestria is fucking GAY

>>42286289
bruh what the fuck is Calamity doing??

>>42286289
Fucking gross... kill yourself

>>42286289
>Velvet Remedy would fuck anything
>Except Littlepip
lol

14 years I've been in the fandom and I've never actually read Fallout Equestria. Mainly because I've never played a Fallout game.

Is it really worth a read? Does it live up to the hype? Would I enjoy it as someone who doesn't know shit about Fallout other than "nukes go off, people in vaults, fucked up shit happens"?

>>42286698
It's like a cool mix of fantasy and scifi. Like fighting a dragon with plasma guns.
But there's also a slowly unravelling story of how Equestria came to war told through flashbacks.

>>42286709
Sounds like it could be cool. Maybe one day I'll dive in and give it a read.

>>42285041
She's not filly-sized, nor can she be corrected

>>42286698
I strongly dislike Fallout - the games, the setting, the "lore", the characters, the themes, the whole feel of it is not for me, and that includes the classics before they made it gay for TV.
The first few chapters of Fallout Equestria turned me off hard, whatever else can be said of the story the author is tragically not at all good at writing. Maybe it improves later but I have little interest in a slog to get there. From what I've heard, FoE does not expand on the world as much as Project Horizons.
I've read over a third of Project Horizons and despite being deeply at odds with the direction it's started taking, I still find myself hooked. I must grudgingly admit that the author is perhaps even so good as to be competent. As much as I hate both the "roadtrip" and the "fight around every corner" staples, Somber is clearly in his element writing them and has the imagination to keep things fresh enough. There's a good balance of angst and triumph (IN THE FIRST THIRD) that made this a very engaging way for me to pass the time when I came out of surgery last week. His sense of wasteland politics is sufficient to keep things moving along, but what downright impresses me even now is how vivid his vision of the past is - the bureaucratization of Equestria, its consumption by shady organizations, its destined-but-tragic destruction of the M6, and the assortment of thoughtfully crafted OCs who help make it happen, are all amazingly well realized. There's some critique to be made: characterization and interpersonal drama being above par for the fandom still does not quite put Somber at the level of some of the eng-major spinsters you get in female-dominated fandoms. And as much as I gush about how well made the lore of Equestria's downfall is, there is just. so. fucking. much. No amount of quality writing can excuse so many interruptions to the flow of action. Then, as I keep alluding to, all of the stuff that made the story fun and engaging drops off a cliff and the story gets this lazy "can't wait till the next thing/all I do is punish the MC" quality to it.

Legend has it there is other FoE content out there, but these are the ramblings of someone quite new to FoE himself. So I'd say: PH is worth it until about ch21-ch25, then you'd have to be a bedridden sucker like me to keep going.

Good evening /FoE/, a few months back I bought an additional 50 of the blackjack patches I sold on here back oh two years and two months ago. Turns out, I don't have 50 friends, so I figure I'll try to make some by selling them again.

Last time they were $11/ea, but this time they're only $8.50 apiece, shipped by whatever method you care to pay for (including up to two per envelope in standard US Mail). Previously I've sent these internationally, so that's not a problem (though it costs a lot more for everything except the standard envelope mail options).

If interested, see piteous@altmails.com. Payment via PayPal, or anything else I can set up without wanting to suck-start a shotgun.

>>42286698
Funny thing, it was actually FoE that got me to try out the Fallout games, not the other way around.
Yes, the book is definitely worth reading , and you don't need to have any knowledge of the Fallout games to enjoy it.

>>42286837
Will you be at Mare Fair?

>>42283634
If you're looking for a new RGRE-approved waifu, may I suggest Wicked Slit from MN7?

>>42287796
Hmm, I should attempt to seduce this mare who will probably just kill me.

>>42287466
No.

>>42287870
You'll be fine! Just work your factory shifts and report to her office promptly for any 'additional' duties as required.

https://twibooru.org/3529957
https://twibooru.org/3529958

>>42288211
Damn, Fillydelphia is basically living in Stable 99 but you also have to go to an Amazon warehouse shift and there's a chance your coworkers might try to rape you.
How did it get so bad?

>>42288840
>/3529957
Love ESL artists they're so funny

>>42288966
Well there was that part in Murky's story where he points out to Protégé how much better Filly would run if the slaves weren't being beaten or raped or starved to death all the time
And his answer was to shrug and say "muh Red Eye"
So I guess the answer is "get fucked, kid!"

>>42289317
>"Here's me RUNNING to go get you your better working conditions."

Currently trying to write about the early days of Fillydelphia, where Red Eye was still trying to clear out the raiders and before the wall was fully built. No alicorns and no Talons yet, outside of the hired mercenary army it's just the slave labor trying to get anything in the city to start working again.

>>42289103
What about that is ESL?

>>42280790
>spoiler
No wonder my Fallout inclined friend commanded that I read the original but avoid Horizons at all costs, I get way too attached to little fictional horsies and that tier of ending would break me

>>42289526
Hard to put your balls into a mare. Or, well, hard to do it without a unicorn and it being some pretty strange porn in the followup.

>>42289569
It'll make you stronger if you survive, anon. It also unlocks blackjackposting.

>>42289583
Project Horizons: The Movie
Starring Jack Black and Jason Momoa

>>42289423
Sounds interesting
Will Best Slave be making an appearance?

>>42290198
Now that you mention it, possibly.
My aim is Fillydelphia but more brutal and far less organized, and the slavers aren't kept in line, so the pit fights are what come of it.

>>42289583
>Hard to put your balls into a mare
So he forgot a hyphen. I understood what was meant.

>>42289583
>Hard to put your balls into a mare
I suspect you read it as "I need this massive stallion('s) balls (to be) deep in me" but what you should have read was "I need this massive stallion (to be) balls deep in me".

>>42289583
>blackjackposting
I've read the first third, so I can post non-cyberpony BJ (AKA the best version)

>>42290604
Sauce?

>>42291203
https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/31714004/#31722318
Found it in an old thread while searching for shit I hadn't seen on the boorus already

>>42291275
I never thought I'd miss /mlp/ circa 2018

I'm going to be extremely, extremely autistic in a bit. I have a map I've drawn.

The Mareidian peninsula

Mud is a small farming/hunting community
Think Point Lookout meets Squidbillies
Primary export of the town is pork, due to all the giant hogs in the area. Not much to the east but the Whitetail woods that keeps the majority of the Equestrian wasteland at bay

Fort Celestia was the forward arms manufacturing platform during the war, and was the primary Steel Ranger stronghold in the peninsula until the combined "Celestia's Strongest Patriots" forces of Sunnydale and Villeville attacked with their radigator-mounted calvalry and drove the Steel Rangers to their bunker north of the area.
Primary exports of Fort Celestia now include produce such as taters, ghoulanges (glowfruit), and meeches. They also produce simple but effective anti-machine weapons and ammo. Nowhere else in the wasteland will you find the legendary Backbreaker rifle designed to fire a 1-inch diameter round in case to wanted to kill somepony who was ducking behind 2 suits of power armor.

The Bay is an endless suburbia partially submerged and taken back by the ocean. Little is left of the city aside from a few skyscrapers that have been converted into shantytowns above the water. Scrap metal and rope bridges stretch between the half-dozen towers above what was once the city center. The water is too shallow for any large pirate ships to be a problem but too deep to be passable without a small boat and guard from the dangers of the waters.
The Bay acts as a decent sea port for nautical merchants heading to the mainland and is primarily a trade hub between western Equestria, the zebra lands, and places farther south.

Villeville is the worst place in the entire peninsula if you ask any of the residents. It's a fairly corrupt city run by a largely unknown family of stabledwellers who took over a Ministry of Awesome hub and have established a mafia policeforce who regularly extort the (mostly) elderly ghoul population for money through racketeering and rent. The family, luckily, doesn't have plans beyond just being lazy, wealthy nobles ever since their stupid kids took over the family business.

Sunnydale isn't a full town as much as it is a collection of docks, bars, and a racetrack that has since been converted into a colliseum of battle. The Sunnydale 500 racetrack has supposedly been standing for 700 years and was built by the princeases themselves after a drinking contest on memorial day weekend when they needed to sober up so they could have another drinking contest from the top... If you believe the fisher/raiders of the town.
The town observes a number of ancient Equestrian holidays such as Black Friday, Clover Day, Memorial Day Weekend, Labor Day, Veteran's Day, Shark Week, Spring Break, Nightmare Night, Hearthswarming, and the Ringing of the New Year. Traditions of all of these holidays include getting wasted and fighting with your friends, making up, and then getting even more drunk and going fishing with said friends.

>>42291422
Sunnydale's town guard consists of a volunteer corps of radigator-mounted calvalry
It also has a church that was converted into a brewery and a brewery that was converted into the town hall... And also a brewery.
There's also a number of seaside hotels that are home to independent moonshine operations and living spaces.
Sunnydale's very own Waffle Shack is famous for 250 years of continuous operation, not even the apocalypse stopped them from serving up some pretty good waffles.
The Sunnydale 500 is famous for being a field of gladiatorial combat and also drinking, ponies come from all across the area to see their favorite radigator wranglers grapple the scaly beasts into submission.

Mare Mire is a tiny village built along the swamps and on the lifted highways leading to The Bay. It is the next stop for merchants on their way to Applewood proper. This is the point where boats are no longer needed and walking travel can begin. It's another bustling town of trade that is also known for seafood. This is the place where dangerous mutant clawbsters, giant swampcrabs, water spiders, and sea scorpions are hunted and made into food. If you happen to be in the area watch out for the varieties of giant stinging insects and pony-eating frogs that thrive near the swamp.

Down south is Swamp, used to be a town but the lingering radiation from the glowing sea pass wasn't enough to turn the residents into ghouls but was enough to kill them. It's dangerous, you can't even tame the radigators down there, and they grow to the size of carriages. Just don't go to that whole half of the peninsula unless you have a deathwish or an army.
Fort Luna was the only successful balefire bomb strike in the peninsula, the place is crawling with feral ghouls, but if you're a well-prepared scavenger you could walk out of there with your saddlebags full of pre-war treasures.

Margaritaville was a vacation and retirement community along the island chain before the war. When Fort Luna was destroyed the islands were irradiated but not damaged, the population was turned to ghouls and remains largely unaffected by the past 200 years in a perpetual state of vacation, beach drinking, and floral print shirts. Great place to stop by if you're a ghoul or looking to become one.

>>42291428
Applewood, the shining gem clusterfuck of the region, is the largest settlement centered around a Ministry of Morale and Ministry of Image hub set up to document the war effort and produce propaganda entertainment. The massive complex of film studios have been turned into a small walled city within the sprawling suburbs. A number of old themeparks in the area have also been turned into smaller settlements or raider/bandit camps.
Legend has it that there was an underground city built under the biggest themepark in Applewood, but nopony's ever been able to find an entrance. If it does exist, nopony knows what goes on down there or if they're even still alive.

Stables 4 and 7 were built outside of Applewood and disguised as landfills. Because of the high watertable in the peninsula, no underground Stable could be built without a risk of it flooding, and so they were built above ground. Earth pony inhabitants from 4 reverted to tribalism when their computer systems suffered massive data corruption paired with an accidental infestation of bookworms that consumed the library and destroyed all the books leaving cultural and verbal traditions as the only way to pass along knowledge to the next generation. They were freed from their steel tomb by a group of good samaritan Enclave deserters.

Stable 7 remains sealed by choice, little is known of their inner workings aside from the fact that they possess overwhelming magical energy firepower and a complete unwillingness to interact with the outside world.

The Goddess' influence does not reach this far, and the first alicorns sent to the city fell into disarray as they crossed the channel and lost their connection to the hivemind and fell into a color-based civil war.

>>42291429
The green alicorns have taken a stance against technology, viewing it as the reason this war started at all. They live in the hills north of Applewood and are generally peaceful with most ponies, but do not allow advanced technology to pass through their claimed territory. They are adept at magic and are able to organize into a fighting force that is not to be underestimated for their primitive looks.
The purple alicorns share the belief that technology should be preserved and understood, and to lose it would mean the sacrifices of the past would be in vain. For every horrific experiment put forth by Stable-Tec, knowledge was technically gained at the cost of lives and suffering. The purple alicorns have taken over the Celestia Space Center and the Stable-Tec research hub to the east of Applewood, converting the facilities into The Civilization Library where they have been meticulously collecting books, documents, and technology for research, replication, and improvement. Copies of all of their documents are available to anypony who wishes to visit. You can browse thousands of historic documents, look at reverse-engineered blueprints of a huge variety of devices, and even check out their own publications on different subjects.
The blue alicorns have been secretive, many ponies think they've gotten into the underground city and are running a slave trade operation, a rare few blue alicorns have a sort of hero complex and wander the Applewood area looking for ponies to help.

A small regiment of Steel Rangers have been at odds with the purple alicorns for years, for obvious reasons, they're in a bunker to the southwest of Applewood, best to stay clear of there.

>>42291422
>>42291428
>>42291428
>>42291429
>>42291432
My attempt to add something to the wasteland. I have given them Florida.

>>42291441
It's good to know that Florida Mare is now canon in the FOE universe

>>42288966
>Damn, Fillydelphia is basically living in Stable 99
They're not the same at all. 99 discriminates based on sex. Fillydelphia enslaves everyone equally.

>>42290488
>>42290514
Desu anons I missed the t in "this" and I'm going to be throwing myself from a bridge this evening

>>42291921
As a stallion, they both suck but Fillydelphia is arguably worse because Wicked Slit will kill you for not doing the wagey waggle for Red Eye whereas in Stable 99 you'll get killed for not being a good enoigh rape victim.

>>42291887
The florida mare is the apex predator of the wasteland

murky mare

>>42292182
>whereas in Stable 99 you'll get killed for not being a good enoigh rape victim
And for reaching the age of 21.

>>42293071
Not exactly
Colts get born at whatever rate they get born, and when they hit like 15 they enter the rotation and become P/U-1. When they get cycled up to 21 they get killed. They also get early retirement if they refuse or have problems.

>>42292849
Somehow I don't think R63'ing all the MN7 poners would be a good idea

>>42293553
Let's do it anyways

>>42293456
I'm sure there is an NSFW version of this.

I liked when she said it's blackjackin' time and blackjack'd all over the bad guys

>>42293946
Full?

>>42293553
Coward

>>42293704
There absolutely is.

>>42294032
That's all I had

>>42293946
She truly was the Project Horizons

Mentally broken Lil'Pip anyone.

>>42294535
IIRC the story clarifies that colts were added to the queue somewhere in the range of 12-15 years of age. P-21 was nearly still a foal when that happened.
She literally travelled with him for like 2 weeks and still needed her memory jogged about it with recorded fucking evidence.
>ugh why does this pissy male hate me so much
>..oh right, the child-rape
Almost a shame she went moralfag, she could have been the Oba-Sama of the wastes.
One of the greatest to ever do it for sure.

>>42294622
The scene landed way too hard

>>42294720
Yeah it made my hand land way too hard on my fucking dick

his name is blue murky

Play the Murky drinking game: take a shot every time he shivers or shakes or starts hacking up a lung
By the end of the chapter you'll be thoroughly plastered

>>42276110
Are you from /fimfic/? Just so you know, your general is about as shit.
>>42276229
It really is overrated, being nothing really special, but as far as common literature (whether original or fanwork) goes it's understandable why it enjoys some popularity.

>>42295580
>Are you from /fimfic/?
No. I already made it clear I have standards because I don't like foe

>>42295603
Lol

>>42295603
>he doesn't like peak fiction

Would you?

>>42295892
Judging from the looks of it, choice isn't really an option here. The question isn't if anyone would, the question is how hard she will.

>>42286837
Well, I'm interested did, sent ya an email about it.

>>42295892
Fuck no, Shackles is irredeemable even as a mare

is there a way to buy FoE book in physical form without having to blow 100 bux for it?

>>42296413
Find someone who is selling their copy

>>42296413
No.
In fact, $100 is the cheapest you'll find.

>>42295892
Chainlink Shackles as a mare? Hey that gives me an idea!

>>42296921
just not quite the same have a robomare running around screaming "COOOOOCK"

>>42297289
That's a fantastic idea! Fund it!

Finally finished Murky Number Seven.
Great story. Lovable characters, strong plot, plenty of good narrative setups and payoffs. The one flaw is the author's style of writing - too many awkward or repetitive sentences and word choices. You could probably edit the word count down by half and not lose much.

Also I'm doubling down about Protege being the best character. Murky is innocent and endearing but at the end of the day he's still a runt who only wants freedom for himself and his friends. Protege had a VISION, he wanted to save and restore all of Equestria, and despite also being born a slave he had the smarts and fortitude to fight and earn his rank within Fillydelphia. He's the embodiment of any goodness and hope that could come from Red Eye's vision. And over the course of the story his vision is fucking crushed, both by Red Eye's slavers AND the slaves he fought for. All he gets is the hollow victory of 'freedom.' And he barely gets to savor it.

And on top of that he's the LONELIEST character in MN7; he gets no love interest and he has no friends except for Murky (for like one chapter). I don't think he even got a hug from anyone. It's painfully tragic. If there's any pony who deserved more exposition, more backstory, and a better ending, it's Protege.

>>42297397
>The wacky adventures of Dea and Buckjack!
>200,000 cap bounty animating the whole wasteland to drag our poor hero back to her nasty rape cave.
..maybe. maybe maybe maybe.

>>42297397
I love how smiles has the "So, you guys believe her?" Look.

>>42297289
Mare Deus would have horsepussy still too

>>42298583
Naturally

Does anyone here happen to have a copy of the “Smut Collection” Gdoc from early FOE threads? And maybe the “Tales from the wasteland” one as well. Being a Gdoc, it’s missing from *all* the archives I could think to look through, and curiosity is eating me up.

>>42299032
Who is this?

What would you like to see in an FoE fic? What are the makings of a good one?
I'm just floating and toying with some ideas at this point so expect nothing to come out of this. Besides, I have other fics to work on already and way too little time. But, I find it fun to chase some bunnies for a bit before having to tell myself I just don't have time for it right now.

>>42299609
>What would you like to see in an FoE fic?
MacGyver

>>42299609
Honestly, I'd love a FoE fic about maybe Kirins or more about Changelings or Zebras.

>>42299174
Deus but awesome

>>42299643
The picture wasn't chosen at random.

Somewhere, there is a set of three stables running experiments on interspecies relations.
>Stable XX: Populated by male ponies and female griffins. A lot of fiery romance, messy sex, and even messier divorces. Experiment outcome: last resident died of natural causes about 70 years after the door was sealed. Dead stable by the time of story. Possible major plot point: intact stable with required thingamabob.

>Stable XX+1: Populated by female ponies and male hippogriff. Stable logs record a record rate of lasting, stable marriages. Experiment outcome: last resident died of natural causes about 70 years after the door was sealed. Has since been looted.

>Stable XX+2: Populated by female ponies and male kirin. Stable logs record a record usage of fire extinguishers. They have since run out. Parts of stable burnt out, others in a constant state of getting burnt and rebuilt. Experiment outcome: this is where our protagonist starts out. Turns out ponies and kirin are compatible much like the pony races are with one another: crossbreeds are unviable so all offspring is either or, never both. Life is peaceful if somewhat fiery at times. That is, until the fire nation attacked thingamabob broke.

Our protagonist, a male kirin, is chosen to be the one sent out to find a way to fix it or find a replacement. As happens with stabledwellers, he hardly makes it outside before getting captured and collared. However, due to being a remarkably rare sight, he gets sold as an exotic slave (female) to some bandit lord's harem.
I have a bit more thought out in plenty more detail, but that's how he turns from a stabledweller to a wastelander. I'd need two or three other major plot points or twists and an ending(!), but I haven't got anything yet.
A very basic Fallout story, in other words.

>>42299765
GRIFFIN GF STABLE
GRIFFIN GF STABLE

>>42299765
Encounters remains of Enclave or a more radical sect of Steel Hoof Rangers.

>tfw rereading the OG FoE for the first time in over a decade
Man, I've forgotten SO much. I'd totally forgotten that Velvet Remedy's intro to the group was trying to guilt trip Pip about blasting murderous slaver ponies. What a ginormous cunt.

>>42300217
Littlepip was based and in the right every single time

>>42300217
Velvet was just a cunt in general. There was also her attempt to pretend to show interest in Pip just to get something out of her.

What are the best Enclave-focused fics?

>>42300382
Velvet is a mean mare

Feels shameful asking ChatGPT to pitch ideas while writing, but at least I'm not just having it write the entire thing

>>42300217
Velvet was overzealous for somepony living in the wasteland, had she been born 300 years prior she would've fit right in with Equestria. Stubborn fuck only ever shot ponies that destroyed her perceived reality and dream that life is precious.
And thats why she's my 2nd favorite of the posse

>>42299699
No seat in Equestria can hold that ass

I bet Duct Tape was a QT

Halfway through ch 39 of PH, thinking about the fate of Sanguine's family. Another disappointment, and beyond crass! What a promising plotline snuffed out. How can Somber be so competent in one moment while setting something up and then commit such laziness the next? Not to mention the means and swiftness with which they were dispatched was pathetically unbecoming. One gets the impression that the whole "suffering porn" dynamic became a smug facade Somber could hide behind every time he felt he wasn't up to the task of writing a resolution and took the coward's way out. I spit.

>>42301950
The explanation is quite simple: starting a new plot thread or storyline is easy. Wrapping one up is not; it requires planning ahead to ensure it doesn't feel unsatisfactory and half assed and doesn't leave anything hanging out unresolved.

>>42294535
Maybe the real project horizons was the friends we raped along the way

>>42301950
Project Horizons is like the anti Murky.
In that Fuzzy spent a lot of time planning out MN7, which resulted in a cohesive story with a lot of good setups and payoffs. Whereas PH is an ever-expanding mishmash of plot threads and backstories that end up resolving in the most negative, unsatisfying ways.

>>42299699
unf

>>42299455
It's your mother.

>>42299699
>Deus as a mare
That doesn't work at all, story wise.

>>42302322
Also, a lot of anime and 80's styled anime gory deaths.

>>42302801
>How she sleeps after ending another 100 lives in a day

>>42303043
>The cries and agonizing screams of raiders are like a soothing lullaby for her.

>>42303065
The raider massacres will continue until morale improves

>>42302800
My dick doesn't care about that

>>42303065
>your OC will never brohoof Little Pip after a long day of slaughtering cannibals and bandits and cannibal bandits
Why live?

Continuing my idle ramblings as I reread: I'm surprised at how well Kkat managed to chop up and recombine so many different plot threads from FO3 and such without making them feel tacked onto the setting. Stuff like Red Eye being Eden and Asher spliced together but not directly Enclave affiliated, Stabletec still doing the experiments but not trying to actually directly fuck anyone because it's Scoots at the helm, stuff like that. I could gripe about a fair bit (the early chapters have 0 sense of time) but I can still see why I fell in love with the fic way back in the day.

I call it radpity

>>42303114
There was also Autumn, the Enclave guy. He was sort of Eden and also his own thing

Man the boards fast lately
Whats up with that?

>>42274912 (OP)
I think I have either the 3rd or 4th printing of this book somewhere in my garage. I remember a point in my life where the sole reason I even entered this fandom was because of FOE, so many stories set in the world read, role-plays I've engaged in, as well as art and music consumed. I don't even know what happened, I just sort of fell out of love with FOE in general. Are there any good side FOE stories either still ongoing, or finished? So many of the ones I was reading years ago are either abandoned or dead.

>>42278497
I barley remember any aspect of PH since I stopped reading around ch 19 or so years back after a friend spoiled that the story devolves into a pessimistic slog of misery, and never ending cruelty towards the main characters. I'm personally A-okay with bleak stories, just not when it turns into straight misery-porn for the sake of it. I don't know if PH devolves that much, but I don't want to end up becoming attached to a cast of characters only to see them all go through torturous moments.

>>42304305
Blackjack's mane itches often because she has head lice

>>42304173
Noticed it too. We lost /rgre/ and /flutterrape/ pretty suddenly a few days back. Though, I guess some of the FR guys were blaming it on a sharty raid so idk.
Has been fast tho.

>>42304364
Looks like just a bunch of random threads

>>42304305
The analogy that came to mind when I read it was an underwater roller coaster, flying through an ocean of torture and tragedy to emerge briefly on the surface for a hug or happy moment between characters, then plunging back down into the sorrow again.

>>42304695
Which chapter is the one with the threesome? Asking for a friend

>>42296037
>You)
If you're the swede your email came back as undeliverable. If you're not I did not receive nuffin.

>>42304812
Nope, said was sent out. Should have been an email from a gmail account.

>>42304364
Sad but 4chan gets worse constantly. I miss when nhnb was active for the time when 4chan was down.

bump

Saw the thread at the very bottom, so here's Rampage

>>42305437
I always pictured the irony of her wearing a fancy top hat

>>42304173
>>42304364
It's some idiot (or a few idiots) who slide everything on the board. I don't know what sparked that, but it's clearly done with malicious intent.

>>42304732
There's one at the end of Chapter 57, I think

Any good lewd greentexts?

>>42303641
Trim your mane Murky, we don't want it getting caught in anything during your voluntary overtime shift at the broken glass and razor blade factory.

>>42305960
He also works at the flammable solvents and noxious fumes factory
Grindset

I have been told there are more mares in Project Horizons, mares I may yet like.
I will push forward once more to discover these mares; mares unknown but to those loremasters who have combed the pages of this vast tome.
Wish me luck, for if the adventure ahead is more grim than the first 22 chapters I will surely need it.

>>42306111
>if the adventure ahead is more grim than the first 22 chapters
Boy, you are in for a treat.

>>42306135
Onward, for mares.

>>42305437
Also

>>42306523
H-he's out of control...

>>42306523
This must be from that chapter where Blackjack gets cloned and flattened into a pancake and then the flattened clones make out with each other

>>42306726
What chapter is this from?

Zebras.
Bloodthirsty warmongers or a civil society dragged into a war it didn't want by an expansionist Equestria?

>>42305040
My apologies anon, but I didn't get anything form any gmail accounts. Please try again and if I don't get back to you in 48 hours bitch again and I'll figure something else out.

>>42306819
S'all fine, well did sent out another one just now.

>>42306772
All I've read is 1/2 of PH but I get the sneaking suspicion that the idea is to juggle some "bOtH sIdEs" thing while still being distinctly resolute about every terror attack against Equestria needing to be a CIA false flag while all aggression against the zeebs becomes The Holocaust.
You can definitely tell which parts of America the authors /weren't/ born in.

>>42291422
Florida... Florida never changes.

>>42306748
I was told BJ had a fat ass, but not like this...

>>42306772
The answer is cute!

Do we get a clear idea of how the war even starts in the first FoE? I'm not far enough in my reread to have gotten to anything like that yet. That said, the Elements of Harmony and CMC being so important in the upper echelon of Equestria sorta limits the country's propensity for Day-of-the-Rake tier shenanigans. Poor Scoots isn't even able to take a second recording of her apocalypse protocol stuff so I doubt Stabletec tried to start anything.

>>42307206
Now you know the truth about what really happens to the stallions they retire

>>42307213
iirc we don't know how it first starts, just that tensions escalated due to the withholding of coal, which crippled Equestrian infrastructure. And them confusing Luna with NMM was their point of no return.

>>42307587
Zebras weren't wanting to give up their coal until they got a fair deal, so ponies withheld their gems but then zebras figired out how to live without gems but Equestria's infrastructure and cities relied on coal so they got desperate.
A war over gems and coal, sounds a lot like today's internet landscape.

>>42306591
Now that I've learned [MAGIC SPELL] MARE REAL I'm going to keep casting it

>>42306748
This is what all that whiskey eventually did to her ass.

Perhaps when my book shows up I'll read it, then finally write my own fallout horse fic.

The strange tale of North Star Radio must be told!

>>42307830
Wait that photo is in the Ponyville stable, NSR is elsewhere (with its own bunker)

>>42304173
Well, I can't crank it to that.

>>42306772
Don't know about the average zebra, but their leaders definitely deserved to get nuked. They were ready to turn the whole world into a hellscape because they didn't trust Luna.

>>42294838
I'm going to bully the Enclave

>>42299699
What happens if I lick her ponut?

>>42306772
Feels like the OG fics fucked up by making the zebras a unified empire. If they were more fractured the ponies could exploit that by buying coal from more pliant tribes while warring against the militant ones. As it is the only way the whole 'decades long resource war' angle works is if the ponies explicitly invaded and conquered part of the zebra lands where the mines were.

>>42307110
>>42307213
>>42308238
>>42308458
The idea was as follows:
The main character is a naive, trusting stable dweller with some qualities not found in the Wastelanders. He ends up tagging along a Zeeb mare. That this particular zebra is one of their respected matriarchs would get revealed later. She's the main story driver but not the main character. Her prime directive is to restore some sort of civilization to Equestria, and the first part of her plan is to establish a solid, stable agricultural base to provide a reliable food source. This, in turn, puts her at odds with the Enclave for blocking the skies so she has a bone to pick with them.
Through her, our poor little stable pony (Kirin?) gets dragged into something far larger than he was supposed to.
For a third character, I was thinking a pegasus born on the ground to two earth pony parents. He/she has never been above the clouds. The Enclave treat them as a weirdo and outcast. Again, bone to pick with the Enclave. However, there's a major downside to this one: their existence implies the existence of non-pegasi born among the "pure" sky dwellers and I don't want to shock the setting too much. This wasn't a thing back when the original was written, weird genetics and races skipping generations, so idk if it's worth introducing.

There, I think that'd do for a very basic backbone of a story. Of course there's still the other 99.9% of the work left to do before there's even anything to show.

>>42308356
Does Deus actually eat food or has that been cyber'd out of him? If not, that's a ponut you can just french kiss without a single worry.

>>42308546
>However, there's a major downside to this one: their existence implies the existence of non-pegasi born among the "pure" sky dwellers and I don't want to shock the setting too much. This wasn't a thing back when the original was written, weird genetics and races skipping generations, so idk if it's worth introducing.
It could partially be explained by the time scale. The Enclave have been sequestered in the clouds for like two hundred years or something by FoE? That's a lot of time to weed out family lines who literally can't share a living space since some of them can't walk on clouds. That's a really harsh selective pressure. Meanwhile on the ground you have some pegasi who stuck around, then the occasional Dashite or exile coming down to earth and getting a grounder spouse, so pegasi genes aren't extinct in the Earth Pony/Unicorn population, they're just really rare.

Also, it's not like we didn't already know the different sorts of pony types could skip generations; that literally happens with the Cakes in the show, and those kids were even fraternal twins.

>>42308650
Kkat wouldn't have known about it while writing FoE since Baby Cakes aired about a month after the story was finished.
But yeah I'd imagine the Enclave would be almost entirely pure by the time. Then again, 200 years is "only" six or seven generations so earth ponies or unicorns might still get born rarely, to get exiled since I can't see ponies being cruel enough to kill newborns.

>>42308697
Out of necessity I think they would
Enclave controlled population, I think there'd be either back-alley abortions or newborns that get dropped.

>>42308908
They "get dropped" at night into some random family's place on the surface.

>>42308697
>FoE's ending predates the Cake twins by a month
Man time fucking flies, dude. I paused to consider if something like that might be the case and went 'Naah. That episode is super old.'
>I can't see ponies being cruel enough to kill newborns.
Eh... I could see it in FoE. We already have the slavers at Old Appaloosa killing kids, child rape in Ponyville, adults grooming their kids into cannibalism, the Enclave intentionally dosing populations with rabies to create raider groups (unless that's from PH and I'm misremembering?), etc. The full spectrum of depravity is pretty much on display here already. I don't think it's a far leap that some seedy stuff happens in the Enclave's underbelly. Although I do like the idea >>42309039 suggests since it kinda plays into the almost fey-like nature of the Enclave in FoE as shadowy manipulators gazing down at the other tribes from on high. It feels very in character for them.

Besides that though, I could definitely see some mothers or couples coming down from the clouds for the sake of their kids, and this could be how you you get the occasional pegasus grandpa or great aunt in your family tree to explain how your kid has wings beyond the odd Dashite. Your character could have someone like this in their genealogy.

>>42309039
Raiders

>yet another antagonist in PH was actually a tragic character broken by circumstances
Chainlink Shackles was easy to hate, I loved that about him. Why does every PH antagonist trip the same wooby circuit that Murky does but never Blackjack?

>>42309615
Because Somber be watching much anime.

>>42309615
I figure it's because Blackjack kinda starts off as a twerp. She's complicit in an oppressive bureaucracy that treats stallions like sperm dispensers and feeds them into the food recyclers when they hit 21 or whatever, and she spends a lot of the fic trying to un-fuck her head after realizing she's essentially been the bad guy since she stopped going by Go Fish.

Other characters had great aspirations/were innocent and got broken down by the wasteland until they reformed into terrible things out of necessity. Blackjack essentially started life as a bad guy and willingly seeks out self destruction because she wants to rebuild herself into a hero and (not or) die trying. She's openly and habitually self-destructive instead of bad shit just happening to fall down on her, which doesn't really trigger the same kind of sympathetic response as characters who tried their best and simply lost.

>>42309615
Deus did nothing wrong.

>>42310206
We need a Deus Lora

>>42310542
Ooh, imagine the potential.

Wastelander mares evolved the maretooth to help them scavenger, compete, and open cans of beans.
Stable mares and Enclave mares do not have this adaptation.

>>42311195
that's the kind of cocaine headcanon I love

>>42310542
Please

How do plap Daisy?

You're writing a fic aren't you, Anon?

I still liked that one idea if the piphorse was instead griffin babe.

Couple worldbuilding questions for those who know/care:

-Vehicles. There's trains and ships, pegasi have cloudships, and I guess there's tanks in some of the sidefics. Is everything else horse-drawn, or do the fallout pones have motorized transportation?

-Are there lightbulbs and circuit boards, or is every bit of electronics and lighting done with 'gems' instead?

>>42312863
FoE is based on the first season of the show where the tech level is inconsistent since the showrunners hadn't quite decided on it yet.
Pony tech is later established as a bit more advanced. They have internal combustion figured out, but no cars or trucks since I guess they just never saw the need for those.
They also have light bulbs and circuit boards, but no semiconductors or integrated circuits.
I think the pony tech level in the show is set in the 1920's.

You can take some liberties there since there's some time between the show and the Great War and the duration of the war itself as opportunities for tech development.

>>42312638
I'm not because I really shouldn't be writing something for a niche subset of a fading fandom.
Especially not since it's an ultraviolent setting that isn't even internally consistent.

>>42312941
We're not talking about 40k

>>42312863
You can kind of have your cake and eat it too. Pip makes the observation on first seeing a spritebot that 'there's nothing magical going on here, just good old earth pony engineering' which I think would imply that basic electronics, computers, and such tend to work close to IRL logic except with their nuclear batteries replaced with magic rocks. In general I think the play is to use magic in place of Fallout's nuclear mumbo-jumbo for stuff like direct energy weapons, infinite power, and to explain some more handwavy stuff like complex machines just sorta being able to keep going for two hundred years without preventive maintenance, since there are old spells handling that sort of thing for them.

>>42312863
I like the idea that motorized land vehicles were developed late in the war when most pegasi would have been drafted reducing the amount available to pull skywagons and are thus a rarity to find and even rarer in working conditions

>>42294032
I got you. https://files.catbox.moe/1xo1c8.png

>>42313189
giwtwm

>reading FoE for the first time here
I read the first six chapters. A lot of plot threads were created, but none were followed or expanded on. The story jumps around from one location to another with zero explanation of what happened in between and little reasoning why Pip chose to do what she did. I did manage to keep track of what was going on, even if it was a little difficult at times.
On a technical level, the writing's decent. There's a few errors here and there but nothing major. My only major gripe is the everpresent fic issue of too much description, especially at the wrong times. It isn't so bad it kills the enjoyment, but I really don't care about the painting on the ceiling when the character is in a building full of brain damaged ponies who want her dead.
I'm also docking some points for self levitation, >>>/poochie/.
Also vidya gaym mechanics with a level up each chapter, but as far as I can tell they don't do anything. The raiders are just XP fodder like in the games I guess? Could do more with 'em, but no biggie.
So far I give it a 7/10 for pretty nice but could be better.

>>42312638
I have an idea in mind, but I feel like I'd need to read 2 million more words of fics to make it good

>>42313754
>The story jumps around from one location to another with zero explanation of what happened in between and little reasoning why Pip chose to do what she did.
I am also coincidentally reading FoE right now, im at chapter 4. And yeah, seems that from there story just starts jumping around.
Now she seems to be in some kind of factory, Which is really weird since chapter 3 left off with her in a bunker.
I guess its just that kind of story, is it good writing... I don't know. Doesn't need to necessarily be bad I guess?
But I think I can enjoy this personally.

>>42313911
The factory chapter is almost entirely unnecessary and three quarters of it could be cut out without losing anything. All that just to explain how Pip ended up with a gun.
I'm guessing the author had that thought up and it felt cool to include, but didn't integrate it into the rest of the story. Maybe it's something that happens in FO3? I wouldn't know since I've never played it.

>>42312187
Anon, I...

>>42274912 (OP)
That's good to know! Just placed my order.

I want a fic about music or forming a band in the wasteland.

>>42314216
Pegasus boyband called Canterlot Avenue, I always wanted to write it

>>42314236Would the story be like a mockumentary, showing the rise to stardom until it all comes tumbling down from drama and drug use? Bonus points if there's an extra chapter showing them all washed out and trying to do a reunion concert tears after the original story ends.

>>42314236
I was thinking jazz quintet, but you do you

>>42274912 (OP)
BUY AN AD

Have a thing. This would be chapter 3 so excuse the abrupt and weird start.

A loud clang woke Flash Fire from his sleep. A few days ago it would’ve shocked him awake, but now it made him groan and curse his captors in his mind before he cracked open his eyelids.
“Get up, pretty boy! It’s your big day!”
The source of the noise was a brutish earth pony stallion banging Flash’s cage with a sledgehammer – if you could call a block of concrete on a stick that. The stallion, Slammer, had a dirty, gray coat, an equally dirty dark gray mane, plenty of missing teeth, and was one of the slavers who’d caught Flash.

The stallion, called Slammer, fumbled with a bag on his belt before pulling out a set of keys. Flash had learned not to question, so he scrambled onto his hooves the best he could in his cage. That he was in a cage was unusual since all the other slaves were just chained up to one another, but apparently he himself was unusual since he was a Kirin. The stable had had roughly equal numbers of Kirin and ponies, but he hadn’t seen another one like him since leaving it.

“There we go.”
Slammer picked out a key that was a bit longer than the others and stuck it into the lock, then twisted it. The lock, speckled with rust, resisted at first, but then clicked open.
“Now come on. Follow me.”
The kirin put his cloven hoof on the cage door and glanced at his captor. Receiving a nod, he pushed the door open and stepped out.

Slammer led him to a bucket of clean-ish water and a rag.
“Get yourself clean. And don’t drink it. It’s from the river.”
Flash strode closer to the bucket, lit up his horn, and floated the rag to himself. He started scrubbing worst of the dried mud and sand out of his mane and coat.
“What’s the special occasion?”
Asking questions was risky, but he hadn’t seen anypony clean themselves with water before. Not since leaving the stable. Glancing back, he saw a wide, gap-toothed grin on Slammer’s face.
“You’re getting sold. Auctioned, even!”

>>42314490

***

Flash’s heart hammered in his chest.
“115!” “120!”
He stood behind a large, wooden stage and listened to a crowd of ponies shout numbers at an auctioneer. He wanted nothing more than to run, but the collar on his neck weighed at least ten times as much as usual to remind him how pointless that would be.
“120 going once, going twice!”
The auctioneer’s voice boomed from the stage. She was a unicorn with a faint yellow coat, an orange mane, and a pleasant voice.
“120, SOLD!”
And a voice amplification spell.
“Next, we have something truly special! Something never before seen!”
A spear butt poked at his behind.
“Move it!”
It was one of his captors, leaving him little choice but to climb the short, creaky stairs to the stage.

He was greeted by a fenced off area full of chairs and ponies of all kinds. The rows of chairs lined a path leading from a gate, flanked by two guards holding rickety shotguns, to the stage.
“Next up, we have Flash Fire! A stabledweller from parts unknown!”
The auctioneer’s words were met with silence and every single pair of eyes in the crowd locking in on him. His tail wrapped itself around his right rear leg as he took half a step back, wanting to run back and hide.
“Now, Flash, why don’t you introduce yourself? What exactly are you and what are you good at?”
He took a wobbling step towards the edge of the stage as the auctioneer’s horn flashed and his throat felt ticklish.
“Hello! I am Flash Fire and I am a Kirin. I’m an excellent cook and can take care of most general repairs. I also know a bit about carpentry.”
The response was muted. They were still busy staring at him, many with their mouths left hanging open.

>>42314491

“We’ll start the bidding at 300 caps! 300, 300. Anyone for 300?”
About half the crowd raised a hoof.
“310!” “400” “450!”
A few of them started shouting numbers again.
“Hold!”
A deep female voice full of confidence boomed from behind the gate.
“Get this thing open yesterday!”
Said gate swung open, revealing a tall zebra mare clad in sheets of sheer purple cloth hanging off braided gold thread on her sides and over her muzzle. Her eyes were a deep purple, her straight mane was combed to her right, and she wore a gold hairband studded with brilliant gemstones.
“My master has decided to accept the offer.”
She took to a confident trot, shooting angry glares at any ponies with their hooves still up as she passed. In return, most stallions she passed turned to stare at her behind after. You soon saw why: she held her tail high, indecently so, and had a gold ring around her dock with another bit of cloth hanging off it to mostly hide what was under her tail.
“Airhead! Smoothbrain! The payment.”
She spun around as she realized the two ponies she’d come with weren’t following her. A dirt brown pegasus stallion and a faint red unicorn mare.
“That’s not my name.”
The pegasus, Airhead, spoke up – only to make the zebra stomp her hoof and snort at him.
“It is now! If you don’t like it, try not to fail counting to four! Smoothbrain, don’t forget one of the two things I told you to bring next time.”
You couldn’t help but stare at the zebra. The cloth hanging off her dock wasn’t as translucent as that on her sides and on her muzzle, but it left little to imagination as it swayed with the movements of her tail.

“So. Four bars, as was agreed.”
The zebra pointed a hoof at the saddlebags Smoothbrain, the unicorn mare, had dropped on the stage. The auctioneer’s horn flashed to flip open the bags’ flaps and confirm that there were indeed four bars of gold in them.
“Excellent. The Kirin is all yours. But, do try to be on time from now on.”
Shooting angry glares at each of her companions, the striped mare strode closer to you.
“I will unless I get assigned pea-brained idiots again. Now, Kirin.”
Flash’s snout twitched as she sniffed at the air and the scent of lilacs the zebra brought with her. His eyes finally met with her impressively purple ones as the corners of her mouth rose to offer a wide, welcoming smile.
“Welcome to Master’s household. You can call me ‘Madame’. Now, follow me, if you would.”

There. Excuse the lack of >implications, I wanted to try some prose after many years. Also excuse the many mistakes due to lack of practice with prose. I also did no editing or proofreading to get it out faster.
Now excuse me while I go KYS myself for writing such shit. I'm a shit writer and producing garbage is the best I can do.

>>42314497
Hm, could be something. Do you have any concrete plans with that?

>>42314490
iwtciff

Littlepip cute

>>42313975
Fallout 3 is a kind of game where you can go basically almost anywhere at any time. Open world.
And yeah you just loot stuff, try to maybe create some synergy I guess.
One moment you are just walking around and another you are abducted by aliens.
I guess it could be fitting for the story.

But yeah I don't think there is a factory full of robots, at least I didn't come by one. There is a power station full of feral ghouls tho

>>42315193
she is, atleast when she isn't killing other ponies and enjoying it, maybe some people here find it cute tho.

>>42315220
There's a gun factory on the west end of Fallout 3's DC that I'm pretty sure is the inspiration for that location. Last time I played through I don't think there were any robobrains but it's hard to say if I was just too low level to encounter them on that run, since FO3's spawn lists are aggressively level-gated. There were other bots like Protectrons and Mr. Handies though.

>>42314749
Yes and no. I was thinking Flash would soon escape and join a faction of zebra settlers on the shores of North Luna Ocean at the delta of a river from the Crystal Empire. That'd serve as a base of operations to first explore the surrounding countryside and what they're trying to accomplish: pacify, civilize, and spread agriculture to replace looting and raiding. I'm not sure if the Crystal Empire has been explored in other stories, but it definitely wasn't in FoE since it wasn't introduced until well after the story was finished.
Agriculture, of course, would run into Enclave related problems.

I haven't planned specifics beyond two or three major events. More importantly, I haven't planned an ending and I'll have to do that before I get started since I don't want it to turn into a PH like eternityfic that just doesn't know how to end. I'm not sure what'd be a satisfying ending, though.

>>42314988
So does his new owner! You'll have to wait until he's done before you get your turn.

I might continue chapter 3 today. Were there any glaring issues you'd like to see fixed? Style, characters, world? What little you saw, anyways.

Fallout poners are for dressing up in cute clothes and tacticool armor

>>42315590
did you draw this yourself?

>>42315590
>>42315599
also is this pony form a specific fic?

>>42315327
>>42315220
There's a solar power station in FNV that is full of robobrains and catwalks. I think that was the one it was inspired by.

>>42315590
I can dig it

>>42315590
It isn't a real Fallout poner if it doesn't weigh at least 1000 pounds!

>>42315751
https://youtu.be/5Mgk_XXdHZ4?si=4xSoR0r3l2J9o0og

before bed velvet bump

>>42315599
>>42315610
No and no, I just found her here
derpibooru.org/images/3604901

It is interesting how many people have FoE OCs unrelated to any actual fics
Also Steel Ranger scribe drip is fucking immaculate

>>42316238
>>42315590
>nuclear apocalypse happens
>mares still have mad swag

>>42314497

Madame led him out through the gate and up a hill towards a large house surrounded by a rickety wall made of patches of sheet metal and whatever wood they could cobble together. It had very rusty and nasty looking barbed wire on top and, as far as he could tell, the only way through was the one open gate they were headed for. In front of it stood a lone earth pony in a spiky mishmash of an armor holding a rifle. The guard paid them little attention as they passed through. He looked bored and sleepy as he glanced at them.

The house was neat and tidy – by wasteland standards. The windows had shutters, holes in the ceiling had been patched up, and the yard had even rows of stunted plants growing in it with a collared earth pony mare tending to them.
“Daisy, meet Flash, our new companion.”
The earth pony, Daisy, stood up and spat out the weeds in her mouth before turning to face Flash and Madame. She had dark bags under her eyes and nasty looking if mostly healed bruises on her flanks.
“Hello, Flash, Madame. I’m sorry for not being presentable. We thought master’s collection was complete and weren’t expecting anyone new.”
Daisy had a bluish white coat and a two-tone mane of faint yellow and deep blue. She offered a dirt-covered hoof to Flash.
“Um, hello! I’m Flash Fire from stable 76!”
He reached out and bumped her hoof with his own. Just what kind of a place had he ended up in?

“Now, before we get started, let me lay down some ground rules.”
Madame had led Flash down into the basement and closed the door behind them. The dimly-lit room was full of crates, barrels, and shelves. Madame picked up a brass collar off one of the shelves, then turned to Flash.
“First. When you are with Master, he is always correct. You are to never question or contradict his claims or orders.”
She brought the brass collar next to the rusty one on his neck, then shook her head and returned it to the shelf.
“It’s for your own good. Trust me. You don’t want to end up like Daisy.”
Picking up another, slightly smaller one, she likewise brought it to his neck.
“Second. You are to follow all his orders immediately and to the letter. No matter how ridiculous and whether you know a better way or not. You will do precisely as he says. You will try even if you know you cannot.”
This time, she nodded. And then glanced at the door, before hopping over to it to give it a push to ensure it was closed. She leaned in to whisper in Flash’s ear.
“A little birdy told me you know your way around electronics. Can you disarm these?”
Madame nodded at the collar she held.

>>42316824

Flash nodded two minutes later.
“Yes. Yes I can.”
He floated the collar back to Madame and let it fall onto her hoof.
“I’ll need the right kind of screwdriver, pliers, wire cutters, and some wiring, and it won’t be fast, but I can disarm those.”
The zebra gulped down a bit of saliva and glanced behind herself – despite the two of them being alone in the dead end basement. It was the first he’d seen a crack in her facade of confidence.
“Good. That means you are the final piece. I’ll explain later. We’ve been here too long already.”
She reached for the shelf with the collars on them and pulled a rusty key off it, then stuck said key into the keyhole on Flash’s collar. It clicked, and the rusty collar clattered onto the floor.
“Finally, one that fits. There’s so much fluff on you it was hard to find one.”
She spoke out louder than usual as she gave him just enough time to rub his neck once before clicking on the new, fancier brass collar. Leaning in again, she dropper her voice to a whisper.
“Third and final rule. Not. A. Word. Of what happened here just now. To anypony, ever, unless you want to find out how much pain you can be in without quite dying.”
Flash stared blankly ahead at the pile of boxes in front of him without registering any of it. What in Equestria had he got himself into?

***

Three days later, one of Trigger’s – their owner, a scruffy unicorn raider lord of moderate infamy and success – underlings burst into the slaves’ shared room.
“Flash. Trigger wants you. Now.”
The Kirin hopped out of his bed and took a wobbly step towards the door. He forced his rear legs closer together despite the dull throbbing pain from his tailhole; a more lasting memory of last night with Trigger than he’d hoped to ever get.
“Okay, I’m up. Where is he?”
“In his office. Now go!”
The raider slapped him on the rear as he passed by.

>>42316826

Flash set his cloven hoof on the landing on top of the stairs and pushed the door to the “office” open to peek in. It was less of an office and more of a combined treasury, trophy-, and throne room with piles of gold bits, valuable artwork, gems, bottlecaps, stuffed beast heads, and a few fancy but not very useful guns either in piles on the floor or hanging off the walls. And in the middle of it was a very fancy and comfortable chair where Trigger liked to sit.
“You called?”
Trigger was a stocky ash gray earth pony with a black and red mane styled into a mohawk. He was in many ways past his prime: streaks of gray were starting to show in his mane despite regular dyeing, he’d put on some weight, and his face had more wrinkles than he liked. It was best keep him away from mirrors.
“Yes! C’mere.”
He patted the spot next to his throne. Flash strode to him, his hips and tail swaying far more than usual. One of Madame’s tips. Trigger was far more pleasant when horny than when angry.
“Of course.”
Trigger’s tongue peeked from between his lips as he watched the Kirin approach and lie down next to his throne. He reached down and stoked Flash’s floof, thankfully remaining silent. Flash was pretty sure his rear couldn’t take another ‘session’ with him.

The Kirin laid still next to the throne, his owner’s hoof still in his mane. It hadn’t moved for a good fifteen minutes now. He wondered if he’d have to spend all day there when one of the raiders burst into the room.
“Lo’od Trigger!”
The lord twitched awake and shook his head, then nodded at his sweating, panting pawn.
“The raiding party from the Zebra settlement has returned.”
“Excellent! Let me see the loot!”
The raider glanced back behind himself as his lower lip shook.
“Uh, about that… The cowards knew we were coming and laid an ambush.”
Lord Trigger sat very, very still and held his breath. The corner of his eye started twitching.
“Only two ‘o us got away and we got nothin’ to show for it.”
Flash had just enough time to yelp as a pair of gray hooves wrapped around his waist and flung him headfirst at the raider.

>>42316827

***

“Gnnhg.”
His head hurt. As did his neck, and side, and rear.
“Hold still. You were lucky that Splinter cushioned your fall down the stairs.”
Madame’s voice.
“Splinter was not as fortunate and broke his neck. That severed his spinal cord and he suffocated.”
Splinter had to be the raider who brought the bad news. The one he got thrown at.
“How bad is it?”
Flare tried moving each one of his hooves in turn. Moving sent spikes of pain into him, but they did move just fine. That encouraged him to open his eyes and see that he was in Madame’s room, lying on her bed.
“For you? Bruises and sprains. You’ll be fine in no time.”
The zebra herself was at her desk, powdering some herbs in a mortar. The desk was full of stuff you’d never seen before: bottles, bowls, pouches, flasks, all full of something that filled the air with a cacophony of scents that made your head spin.

“What is all that?”
Madame, done with mortaring, poured the powder into one of the bowls.
“Hush. Something that doesn’t exist.”
She reached for various bags and bottles, dropping a pinch of that and a drop of this into the bowl with moves so precise and practiced she didn’t even have to look at what she was doing.
“...OK.”
Soon, the bowl let out a poof of blue smoke and she turned to face him. She dipped a hoof into the goop she’d made and slathered it on him.
“Hey, wha-”
It made the pain fade away.

He was all sticky and covered in paste but free of pain a minute later.
“Now. His forces suffered a massive loss just now. If there’s ever a time, this is it. He himself will end up deposed and the resulting king-of-the-hill infighting will make them forget about us.”
He didn’t have time to ask anything before Madame ducked under her desk and pulled out a toolbox. She set it down on the bed next to him, popped the latches, and pulled it open.
“I hope this has everything you need.”
It had a full set of small screwdrivers, pliers, wire cutters, wire, solder remover, solder, a soldering iron… Everything you could need for an on-the-go electronics project.

Continue, Y/N?

>>42316831
Yes

>>42316831
Hell ye continue!
>>42316238
I think that kinda makes it cool, that the OCs of FoE dont interract with the main stories an instead have their own adventures in the wasteland, kinda makes the setting seem much bigger.

>>42316195
Man, Velvet was terrible throughout the fic.

>>42317145
I was thinking about how to write something but I like your opinion amd it's helped me make a decision.

Anywhere But Here is really good
Wish it wasn't dead/incomplete

>>42317581
Oooh! I remember that one
>>42317240
Your welcomes.

>>42286837
Got it today. It's awesome, thanks!

Give Blackjack a smooch?
Y/N

>>42317877
Smooch and hug the silly whiskey horse.

>FoE, chapters seven through thirteen.
It's starting to get repetitive. Too many chapters have the same structure of "acquire target, get there, kill everyone but get badly wounded and barely survive, great success in the end." At first it had me excited, but now I just wonder what kind of an asspull she's going to do to survive and win this time.
I hope it gets better, but fear it won't.

In story terms, the plot is treading water and going nowhere. I'll keep reading. It has to get better soon, right? They do have a target and it's getting closer.

>>42317941
It does, it starts to pick up and go into Littlepip interacting with more major factions and getting involved in the wasteland politics. Have you gotten to Fillydelphia yet?

>>42316238
>>42317145
Back in the good old days FoE was a really popular setting to rp in, mostly because you were able to pick any location and tell a wide variety of stories that were completely unrelated to any other written fic. I miss those days dearly.

>>42318318
Ah, do remember those times. Good times indeed.

>>42318318
No one runs campaigns or stories anymore, that's why.

>>42299765
I can dig it

>>42318344
I mean, you can still prob find people for the former, the latter one just needs ideas?

>>42318318
can confirm the foe setting is fun, I'm currently running a campaign with some irl friends and the liberty it gives for creating stories is second to none

>>42318344
Even if I were to write a story, the response would either be nothing or someone calling it slop and telling me to go KMS. Of those, the former is far more likely and feels even worse.

>>42318463
I hate how true this is

>>42318344
I'm building a Manehattan campaign right now, I'll have you know. Although it's a complete AU to the one in the actual fic because I'd forgotten just how much globetrotting there was in the OG... and it's admittedly way more in line with Hoofington/The Pitt than Manehattan but I needed a reason the PCs wouldn't just immediately dip out and leave (and I have one player who absolutely would) so setting it on an island has been convenient.

Still, it's been fun coming up with ideas for the place and trying to figure out the map, and it'll be fun to drop my group into a proper Fallout Equestria style environment shot full of magitech and weird shit instead of the usual 'Fallout but with ponies' stuff we've mostly been playing (even if I love our New Pegasus game to bits). I'm excited to see how they adapt to the change.

>>42318463
Yeah... the 'no response' thing is a vibe. I eventually stopped storytiming on /tg/ 'cause it just felt like I was yelling into a void, and it's weird to see some anons occasionally mention my old posts because I got zero reaction at all while actually posting them.

>>42318407
Absolutely. I remember doing some larger rps, and it was nice to see how everyone would branch off into their own little groups, but due to how open the setting was, everyone was capable of having their own riveting adventures until we would all eventually coalesce into a massive group. The only crummy thing about those large rp games was when someone would eventually tap out of the game leaving the other person/people they formed a group with sort of stuck in progressing their story.

>>42316831

Flash drew a deep breath, held it for a second, then let it go.
“All right. Stay still. I have to hotwire the anti-tamper circuit first and the whole thing will explode if it loses contact before I can cut the detonator’s circuit.”
The wire cutters clicked as he cut a few pieces of wire and exposed the ends. Then came the hard part: sticking a screwdriver under the battery cover to create a gap while also connecting the anti-tamper circuit’s pads.
“Ready?”
The bed was cramped with both him and Madame on it.
“Yes. Go for it.”
Magic tingled in the air as he set himself down on the bed, his head right next to Madame’s neck. A small screwdriver and a short piece of wire floated to him. He squeezed his eyelids shut and recalled the weekly practice sessions at the stable: stay calm, stay in control. Do not let the Nirik take over, do not let your emotions take control. Like water on your back.
“Here goes.”

The wire cutters trembled in the air as he guided them to the blue wire. The red wire was tucked under the battery and unreachable. Contrary to popular belief, it didn’t matter which wire was cut first, live or ground. Cut one, and the circuit was no longer complete, current wouldn’t flow, and the detonator wouldn’t go off.

His magic pushed the wire cutters closed. The wire severed with a click. He pulled the ends apart, let out the breath he’d been holding, and let his magic fade.
“Done.”
A light flashed on Madame’s collar, but nothing else happened.
“That’s… it?”
The zebra pushed herself off the bed and onto her hooves, looking a bit confused.
“That’s it. I don’t know how to get it off, but it won’t explode now.”
She poked at her collar. It dangled for a bit.
“Huh. I suppose we can make use of this. Can you put the lid back on so it looks like nothing’s been done?”
Flash nodded. It was as simple as screwing it back on.
“Then do yours. Unless you want to stay, of course.”
Now that, would not be as simple.

Click.
“Eeeee…”
Flash started shaking like crazy as soon as he cut the wire in his own collar. He collapsed onto the mattress and wrapped all four legs around himself. Tears welled in his eyes. Crazy, crazy, he’d gone insane!
“There, there.”
A steady, warm hoof stroked his side, then pulled him around and buried his face in something soft.
“You did it. You’re still alive.”
He did it but a precision operation like that without seeing what he was doing was madness! One wrong move and he’d have his head blown off!

>>42319010

Wait.
“I- I did.”
Pulling his head back, he saw Madame’s fluffy black and white chest. Mostly black and white. There were hints of something blue under her coat, on her skin.
“Huh? What’s that.”
Flash wanted to light up his horn and comb her coat out of the way, but that might’ve been taking it too far.
“Something that doesn’t exist.”
The zebra’s lips curled into a mellow, mysterious smile as she brought a hoof to her chest to part her coat. It revealed a line of skin as she slid it up towards her collar. Her skin was completely covered in blue tattoos of some kind of runes or markings.
“Now come on. We have to create a distraction and get out of here before the shooting starts.”
She let out a chuckle as she slid off the bed again.

Madame stuffed all of the bowls, flasks, and pouches into a pair of saddlebags she pulled from under her bed as Flash screwed the lid back on his collar. He didn’t really have anything here. The slavers took everything but his Pip-Buck that was still safely on his foreleg. Of what he lost, the only thing he really missed was the parting gift from the Overmare. Everything else would be easy to replace.

“So what do we do now?”
The zebra pulled open a drawer under her desk and grabbed what was in it: a long, hooded cloak made of thick brown cloth.
“First, we’ll sneak into the basement. I know they keep a few guns in there. The armory has more, but it’s the one place I can’t get into.”
She stuffed the cloak into her bags over the… materials that didn’t exist.
“Then we’ll set the kitchen on fire before waking up the others. The resulting commotion should let us slip out unnoticed.”
The others, Flash figured, meant the other slaves.
“What about their collars? They can’t leave.”
Madame turned to face him. She placed a hoof on his withers and gave him a shake.
“If all slaves disappear, they’ll understand what’s going on immediately instead of after putting out the fire. I want to save them, believe me, but we cannot. Not now.”
Her reasoning was sound, but it felt wrong. Leaving Daisy to get beaten again?
“Don’t let go of your ideals, but keep in mind this is the Wasteland, not your stable. You won’t survive if you risk yourself for ponies you hardly know.”
She lifted her hoof off him and headed for the door. Flash looked down at his own hooves. Leaving them was wrong. But Madame was right. He hadn’t been out for long, but he’d already seen how little a life was worth here. Especially that of a slave. He took to a trot and followed his sole, striped hope of escaping slavery.

>>42319012

Gunshots carried from the distance as Flash and Madame rushed into the kitchen, now armed with rickety pistols.
“They keep the booze hidden in there. Find the strong stuff that burns.”
Madame pointed at a small cabinet in the corner. Flash lit up his horn and pulled it open to reveal a multitude of bottles. He lifted all of them out and floated them to himself.
“Beer, beer, wine, cider… moonshine!”
The first four bottles fell to the floor with a loud clunk as he floated the spirit to himself and screwed it open. A stank of alcohol wafted out.
“Good. Pour it over the counter and light it.”
She was stuffing whatever edible she could find into her saddlebags, then slipped the beer bottles in, too.
“Now?”
At her nod, Flash upended the bottle over the counter and watched the clear liquid spill out. Once it’d run out, he smashed his hooves together. A small, purplish flame stuck to his right hoof. Glancing back at her one more time, he reached out to touch the puddle of alcohol. The vapors ignited with a loud whoosh.

>Almost done with chapter 3 now. How do you like it so far? Any feedback? How's the characters and the world? Is there enough plot to keep you interested?

Batty bumpan.
I will read and critique (read: ramble about) fic tomorrow. Today was too busy.

>>42318463
Yeah, that's a common problem for writers.

my stupid ass is asking chatgpt to pitch ideas for concepts to write in
i needed a stable that would fucking suck to live in, but hasn't collapsed or completely been killed out yet
i needed a quick short list of spells a courier/scavenger unicorn might find helpful
i needed some steel ranger names
the slop dispenser provided as asked, perhaps better than i would have done myself

Reading sidefics instead of the original has built up an acute dislike of Littlepip within me

>>42318463
>>42318604
Honestly had the same issue, I used to post little things I had for my own sidefic called Remnants if anyone here remembers that, I just stopped posting about due to similar reasons, I will post about it again to help keep the thread bumped and to maybe have some fun discussions regarding it and other peoples sidefics.

>>42319977
>Pic
Eh, she's breedable enough.

>>42319977
I remember Remnants, vaguely but the name rings a bell
Also would smush

>>42319919
Pip is a mary sue without too much of a personality so that's not surpising. I'm yet to find her bad enough to actively dislike, though.

>>42320665
Pretty sure ya confusing BlackJack fo Pip.

>>42320665
I suppose it's mostly Anywhere But Here, in which Littlepip murders those two ponies and their entire family.

>>42319016
I like the story so far, one little gripe that I have with it is that sometimes you switch from third person narration to second person like in >>42316831 but apart from that, I'm hooked.
is there a ponepaste or a fimfic page where you upload updates to the story, it'd probably be easier to follow and go back trough than only having it in the thread

>>42317683
Wow that was fast as fuck! Las tone I sent to Korea took like a month and a half to arrive. Glad to see I can't fuck up stamps and envelopes.

This mare needs a good plapping
Just look at that grumpy face

I finally got all of it organized into a single cohesive storyline. I know now the character arcs I want to go through and I know how to make his friends not simply background characters, I got a good ending that calls back to the beginning and a virtue nailed down that appears more than once through the whole story. Thank you 3am stroke of genius.

>>42320311
Heres a brief refresher if you want to take a read, Remnants is my own little sidefic project set in a custom region/city called Marelando an equestrian city that was helped funded by the ministry of peace and was basically a boarder city with the Crystal Empire.

The story itself takes place one month before the events of Littlepip's journey, with the main character Mulberry Tart being a stable dweller from Stable 13, Stable 13's experiment was to put the inhabitants in cryosleep for a couple centuries as the dwellers were taken care of by the Stables robots, its basically just Vault 111 experiment but this time actually successful, so yes Mulberry is a prewar pony thrusted into modern post apocalypse ridden Equestria and acts more like a unreliable narrator with some of knowledge from prewar Equestria being heavily biased and just flat-out wrong, a large part and core of his character is trying to keep the beliefs and ideals of pre war Equestria alive through the Equestrian wasteland experiencing massive culture shock with how different everything has become, there's quite a few things I have planned for him including a planned romance with a Pegasus member of the main cast, I will make another post of giving quick summaries of the main cast and the factions and villains within the story.

>>42322047
Was she in the original fic? I don't remember that name.

>>42322047
Isn't she the paladin that died raiding Stable 2?

Finished Anywhere But Here.
I really like Stonershy's writing, especially dialogue scenes. And his taste in music.
Surprising how good of a character Double Tap is. Reading the first chapter you'd get the impression that he's a horny jackass, but he turns out to be pretty nice. Unfortunately the story ends before he gets to fuck Raspberry Tart, which is a shame.
Also now I get to experience the longing of an unfinished fic. Hooray!

>>42322647
I really neeed to read it. Always wanted but never had a chancr

>>42322579
Yeah I believe so
>>42322544
I recognize that name, I think I've seen parts of the story actually

>>42322961
I haven't posted any writing excerpts but you probably saw me posting about the characters and ideas iv wanted to explore with Remnants, including stuff I was planning to adapt things from other fallout games, the later seasons and comics.

>>42322902
I highly recommend it. The prose is so good that it reads pretty quickly.

I wonder if Stonershy/Pacce left behind any clues on where the story would go? What's there feels like the intro to a much grander narrative.

What do you think of a character defined by not having an impact on the wasteland as a whole, but rather by a bigger effect on individual ponies?

>>42323818
To be honest, that's what I wanted to do with a character I had.
>>42323631
Will do! Since I manage to track it down.

The amount of casual cannibalism in the wasteland is kinda fucked up

>>42324488
>>42323818
Stupid retarded horse. Changer of lives, not worlds. The day you meet him, something impossible will happen and your fate will be twisted by yourself.

>>42325402
Ponies do taste like chicken
>>42326042
So, they're cool like the mystery stranger?

Looking for books on FOE from Dead Tree Studios.
I would be grateful if someone could share this: Crystal Pony/Robot/Minotaur/Deer Race Expansion, Alt Shamanism Rules, Theríoníppos Transformation Rules and Fallout Equestria: Emergence.

I have all the other books, I'll share:
https://mega.nz/folder/adEX2CbY#nhRDsKM_G7JgAkzdyjkVUg

>>42326764
I'm missing those too

>>42326465
Kind of, but he's kind of dumb too

>>42326737
I don't get it.

>>42327139
I guess stable ponies get stereotyped as being sluts for pegasi. 3 ponies is not exactly a big sample size though.

>>42319977
Heres the maincast for remnants, I will write little TLDR bios for them later as I accidently lost the post I was already making, I was nearly finished.

>>42327272
I'm trying to set up a cast of wastelanders too. Do I need a token zebra or steel ranger/scribe or dashite?

Dummy - low INT, high soul - immortal unarmed brawler

2nd arc, after escaping Fillydelphia
Grimoire - cynical, intelligent, distrusting - sniper build, feels like she owes Dummy after he saved her life

3rd arc, Mareida adventures
Gladius - low INT, high CHA, longswords and laser pistols - blue alicorn, honorable knight, respects Dummy's kind nature and wishes to travel with him
Stripped Screw - low CHA, high END/AGI, Courier unicorn, survivalist but a little socially awkward, wildcard caster using deck of cantrip cards, better with shotguns but randon spells can be used creatively (sometimes), travelling in the same direction as Dummy and Grimoire to Applewood
Rusty - 95% machine, all INT no CHA, cybernetic blade and once-per-fight big-bad-boss-deleter heat cannon (melta gun), wears long robe, purple alicorns asked Rusty to go along with Dummy and search for tech
Tricky Riddle - CHA, INT, AGI build, uncolored experimental alicorn 'firstborn', likes card games, parties, and jokes, sometimes speaks backwards but never in reverse, carried through fights entirely on casting psychic spells that make others take damage from insults and mockery, suspiciously knowledgable, very powerful magic user, senses chaos and is interested in joining Dummy's bizarre travels

4th arc
Dummy returns to Equestria alone

>>42327272
That's a large main cast. It'll be tough writing anything with them all together.

>>42327294
>Do I need a token zebra or steel ranger/scribe or dashite?
You only need any character for as far as they'll serve the narrative. If you need a hardcore, prim and proper lawfag then a Steel Ranger Paladin would be a good fit. If you need a techie nerd with lots of book knowledge (who is still a bit of a lawfag/goodie horseshoes) then a scribe would fit well. I feel like a zebra could be any Honest Hearts-style tribal but could also slot into whatever sort of wastelander. I have a hard time imagining any character NEEDING to be a zebra unless you're trying to tie some Zecora style magic to them.

Dashites seem like a specific thing, like a Steel Ranger. If you need a character that would fit into the sort of mold that would constitute falling in with the Dashites then go for it, but otherwise I don't see why you'd need to include one specifically.

>>42328036
>You only need any character for as far as they'll serve the narrative
Yeah that actually clears things up a lot for storytelling, I might have them as revolving or temporary companions.

>>42327294
You don't need to but they wouldn't hurt, I only really have the token Steel Ranger and Enclave/dashite, I wouldn't count Tigress as the token Zebra since she's a Zony and isn't culturally Zebra in the slightest.

I do also have a similar idea for an arc structure with each Arc having and dealing with the big bad of the arc.
Arc 1, focus mostly in Marelando the only other major location the party visits is the Bitsburgh Boneyard, first meeting with the Marelando and Bitsburgh Steel Ranger chapters, with the main villains being the Marelando slavers and the Steel Plague who are trading partners with Red Eye, Arc 1 also sets up future plot hooks that are explored through future arcs such as the threat of the calculator and Enclave, set up of the fate of the crystal city and the changelings, alongside the Introduction of a future key player of the Lunar Republic a republic led by Bat ponies, the arc ends with the destruction of the slavers and steel plague and the reveal that the Slavers were secretly making deals and trade with the changelings.

Arc 2, Arc is mostly entirely set within the Crystal empire as the fate of the Empire and city is fully uncovered, the Crystal Empire Steel Ranger chapter is encountered as the Changelings are a looming threat is slowly revealed and becoming the main villain of the arc, Mandibelle joins the party at this point as revelation of what the Changelings were doing in the great war with the Changelings being a unofficial third party, the arc ends with the defeat and destruction the changeling hive and the rebuilding of changeling society

>>42318344
what is a "campaign"? I don't really know too much about rp-ing
how does it function?

>>42328432
Arc 3, the Calculator becomes the main villain of this arc as the party the party to fully venture through the Bitsburgh Boneyard, as the Calculator enacts its plans to conquer Equestria as it wages a bloody war with the Bitsburgh Boneyard Steel Rangers chapter a war in which it is winning, the plot hooks are the mystery of the Calculator is slowly revealed alongside the event of the Goddess's death happening causing the first appearance of Alicorns within the Marelando and Boneyard wastelands, the arc ends with the destruction of the Calculator and upon its destruction a miniature war breaks out as many different factions across the boneyard fight for the remnants of the Calculators advanced technology.

Arc 4, Arc 4 is endgame of the story as the Enclave enact Operation: Cauterize as the Northwest Enclave invades the three major regions, the Boneyard Steel Rangers who were still reeling from the war with the Calculator are almost completely annihilated with their death of their Elder, the chapters remnants join with the Marelando chapter as the Steel Rangers ally with the Lunar Republic to wage a counter offensive as the Crystal Empire chapter retains radio silence with their fate largely being left unknown throughout the arc, allied changelings are able to leak key important info of Enclave warplans and the revealing of Project: Hellfire and Project: Princess, Project: Hellfire is a project to make a new model of Enclave power armor that offers more protection then normal enclave PA alongside a pair of heavy incinerators the only drawback with the Hellfire armor is that the fact it slows down the wearer, Project Princess whoever was a recently created project that created modificated hellhound control helms and tunes them to control an Alicorn and making her loyal to the Enclave, the chapter ends with the destruction of Project Hellfire is destroyed and the reveal that Project Princess was able to produce a singlur heavily juiced alicorn, she is basically Frank Horrigan it ends with a giant battle between the Enclave Princess and the group a pyrrhic victory as the Alicorn paralyses Sonar and kills Gilbear by ramming him with her horn, the fight ends with the party basically shooting/ripping off the alicorns wings and shooting her out of the cloudship as the party collects the wounded and dead and make it off the cloudship as the Day of Sunshine and Rainbows fully kicks as the final moments of the arc ends with the defeat of the Enclave and as the Wasteland is fully healed.

>>42328441
Epilog, the Epilog is basically a New Vegas styled ending with with a ten year time skip Mulberry writing about how his life has been since the Day of Sunshine and Rainbows with him living a happy simple life with him and Cherry Bomb finally getting married and starting a family, he goes over a brief explanation of what happened to each member of the party after the defeat of the Enclave and some important locations and side characters that I wont be mentioning here yet, Sonar and Keylime got married with Keylime having been promoted to Star Paladin of the newly minted Applejack Ranger chapter of Marelando, Tigress became a martial arts teacher, Mandibelle left to help her people adjust and intergrate into the wider Equestrian society with it being hinted that the Changelings might have actually discovered how to achieve their metamorphosis but its never confirmed, and Gilbear is honored by the Lunar Republic with a town and statue being built and named in his honor.

And uh those are my plans and I am just realizing this as I type this out that I went more into detail with the last two chapters then I did with the first oh well I hope you liked my retarded lore blurb for my sidefic

>>42328447
>Marelando
Imagine a land of mares...

>>42319016

***

Flash bucked the door open with a loud crash. He burst into the room and drew his lungs full.
“Fire! Fire! Fire! The kitchen’s on fire!”
The six other slaves, Daisy the earth pony, a pegasus, a unicorn, a bat pony, a griffin, and a hippogriff, all jolted awake.
“Get up! We have to get out!”
Flash, the only male in the room, ran further in to shake the bat.
“Up and at it! You don’t have five more minutes!”
She shrieked as he wrapped his hooves around her and pulled her out of bed.
“Quick! To the garden!”
The others, thankfully, were already rushing out of the room. There was already smoke in the corridors and the crackle of flames was getting louder.

Madame stood in the garden, waiting. She’d hidden her bags somewhere.
“Daisy, Clear! To the well. Get as much water out as you can!”
She pointed at the corner of the yard where there was an old well full of contaminated, undrinkable water. The earth pony and the pegasus rushed towards it.
“Dew, Citrine, Coral! Get as many buckets from the basement as you can!”
She pointed back at the building. The unicorn, bat pony, and hippogriff dashed back inside.
“Hulda.”
Madame glanced behind herself and trotted right up to the older griffin.
“He’s in the office, alone. I’ve made sure the guns on the walls are loaded.”
She kept her voice quiet. Hulda the griffin set a claw on her withers.
“Thanks. I’ll find a way to repay you.”
Then she was off, racing for the stairs with speed and grace you hadn’t thought she still had.
“Flash!”
You twitched as Madame shouted at you.
“You’re with me. We’ll get as much help from town as we can!”
She turned around and took to a gallop towards the gate. You cast one last glance at the house before following her example.

There was nopony standing guard at the gate. Madame took a sharp right immediately after it, hiding at the base of the wall.
“Here.”
She offered the rickety pistol from the basement to Flash as he rounded the same corner.
“Okay, so what now?”
The Kirin took the pistol into his magical grasp and stood still for a few seconds, waiting for Madame to lift her saddlebags back onto herself. The pause was long enough for two gunshots to ring out from the town at the base of the hill.
“We make for the woods. Then we’ll head north to the river, and follow it downstream all the way to the ocean. There’s a friendly village on the coast.”
She waved a hoof to get you to follow as she took to a trot along the patchwork wall of wood and metal. You almost tripped after a few steps. The cause was the pony who’d guarded the gate. There was a small hole on his forehead with still fresh blood dripping out of it. It made Flash’s stomach twist.

>>42328436
In my experience 'campaign' usually relates to tabletop gaming; stuff like D&D. You have a guy running a game and a group of players piloting their individual characters through whatever scenarios the Game Master cooks up. This can take a lot of different forms but the most common (in my experience) is that the GM paints the broad strokes of a plot or overarching conflict and then sets the players loose to see what they do, adapting the scenario as players make choices and interact with stuff.

Sorta like a multi-player version of the OG Fallout games if you want a vidya example, except instead of a mostly static game world that sometimes reacts to player input the GM is managing everything behind the scenes (can be better or worse) and the calculations are happening on dice and paper instead of your computer doing background math.

>>42329086

***

It only took them a few minutes to reach the first sickly fir trees at the edge of the woods. Flash’s Pip-Buck started clicking as they passed beneath the first branches. The radiation gauge was still safely in the green as he checked it. Elevated, but not yet hazardous.

“This should be deep enough.”
They were well out of sight from the town and the mansion when Madame slipped her saddlebags off herself and dug her cloak out. She slipped a hoof under the collar of her gold and sheer purple outfit and braced like she was about to rip it off – but chose not to.
“Might be worth a few caps.”
She lifted the veil off herself and stuck it in her bag.

Flash watched her for a second, then poked at the buttons of the machine on his foreleg to bring up the map. The forest they were in was unnamed, but not far ahead lie the Crystal River flowing from the Empire to North Luna Ocean. They’d just escaped the town of Linen Hill, about two days’ walk from Stable 76.

A louder than usual gunshot rang from the town. Flash flicked off the map and looked back at it. All he saw was bushes and trees, and a thick plume of black smoke rising towards the clouds. He’d seen and put out a fair few fires in the stable and could tell that without a fire hose and plentiful water, there was no chance of saving the mansion.

Madame was gone. In her stead stood a mystical zebra shaman clad in a long, brown cape with a hood covering her face.
“If anyone ever asks, Madame died in the fire.”
Her voice was still the same, though. Deep, feminine, and full of confidence. She lifted a hoof to pull her hood back, then offered that hoof to him.
“Nia. Pleased to meet you.”
Her charming purple eyes were the same as well. Flash reached out and shook her outstretched hoof.
“I have a lot to ask and I’m sure you do, too, but we have to pick up the pace if we want to make it to the village before nightfall. And you don’t want to be out in the woods at night.”
Nia the zebra spun around and took to a trot towards the river.
“They say this forest eats ponies. I doubt it, but anyone out here at night tends to vanish without a trace. Hence the name, Vanishing Woods.”
The Kirin galloped after her to catch up.

>There, that's chapter 3 done. Now I can forget about the whole thing and never come back to it. I already asked for opinions and got one, enough for me to know it wasn't any good.

>>42329091
Give me time to read, I am slow and busy with my stupid fucking job I hate that takes all my time

>>42329088
Ironic, since there was gonna be a MP version of OG Fallout

bump

Will the entirety of FoE ever get turned into a graphic novel?

>>42330481
My hopes will always outweigh my doubts

>>42330481
if I recall there's like 2 artists who are trying to do that.

>>42330481
>entirety
Cool as it'd be, it would take for fucking ever for any meaningful progress. The first 10 chapters alone would filter anyone that attempts it with just how many scenes would need to be illustrated as Pip kinda just wanders around.
Something much more manageable is what php104 is doing which is more just illustrating moments of the book

>>42275112
It was originally on Google docs and got ported over to fimfiction much, much later on

small of horn
but fat of ass

>>42330713
An 'abridged' version which illustrates the main plot points seems doable

>>42331064
I'd slap that for a dollar

She leaves rape mode off, but at any moment she could turn it back on and you're out of luck

>>42331920
If she does I'll just remind her of all the ponies she killed and she'll get depressed and burst into treats

>>42332218
I wouldn't want to make her cry...

>>42327308
True, but I feel like I can pull it off, iv been a GM for TTRPGs with five+ players for at least five years so I have confidence I can pull this off, fun fact unironically the cast was bigger but I cut it down simply because one It was too much and second some characters were redundant and have been demoted to side character status, Mulberry brother was supposed to be a main character but got replaced by Mandibelle.

Fallout Equestria, from chapter 13 or something to 39
>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu>Arbu

>Muh morality, I'm ebil, no better than them >Muh morality, I'm ebil, no better than them >Muh morality, I'm ebil, no better than them >Muh morality, I'm ebil, no better than them >Muh morality, I'm ebil, no better than them >Muh morality, I'm ebil, no better than them >Muh morality, I'm ebil, no better than them >Muh morality, I'm ebil, no better than them >Muh morality, I'm ebil, no better than them >Muh morality, I'm ebil, no better than them >Muh morality, I'm ebil, no better than them >Muh morality, I'm ebil, no better than them >Muh morality, I'm ebil, no better than them >Muh morality, I'm ebil, no better than them >Muh morality, I'm ebil, no better than them >Muh morality, I'm ebil, no better than them >Muh morality, I'm ebil, no better than them >Muh morality, I'm ebil, no better than them >Muh morality, I'm ebil, no better than them >Muh morality, I'm ebil, no better than them >Muh morality, I'm ebil, no better than them >Muh morality, I'm ebil, no better than them >Muh morality, I'm ebil, no better than them >Muh morality, I'm ebil, no better than them >Muh morality, I'm ebil, no better than them >Muh morality, I'm ebil, no better than them >Muh morality, I'm ebil, no better than them >Muh morality, I'm ebil, no better than them >Muh morality, I'm ebil, no better than them >Muh morality, I'm ebil, no better than them >Muh morality, I'm ebil, no better than them >Muh morality, I'm ebil, no better than them >Muh morality, I'm ebil, no better than them

Someone died? Cool. I don't care. Chekhov's gun was loaded I don't even remember how many chapters ago in the dragon's cave. I don't give a shit about the morality bullshit. I don't give a shit about how bad it looks for [Main_Character] since we all know she can't die before the gun is fired. So just fucking get on with it. I just want to see the gun go off. After that, I'll be more than happy to drop the story.

This is honestly one of the main reasons I rarely read fics. Because the authors never manage to get the tension right. Imminent threat of death stops being interesting when it's the 20th "ooh look at how close close to death we are" already and I already know some kind of plot armor is going to save it all again.

>>42332545
>Complains that a story that has fallout in its name is about morality bullshit.
The two settings that are merged to form FOE are all about morality faggotry especially fallout with a lot of its characters having their whole shtick being about muh morality, pic included.

>>42332545
>fuckin' around inna wasteland
>not expecting moralfaggotry
That's not even something new to FoE. The games are full of moralfagging. Like half the point is using the Wasteland as a lense for examining moral issues.

>>42332808
Thats what i'm saying, glad we are on the same retarded wave length.

>>42332808
>>42332743
If your protag isn't a moralfag they usually turn into a raider after a while, even if they aren't they can still turn into a raider.

>>42332545
>receives chaotic magic blessing of god-like retard strength
>not allowed to save the world because that's Littlepip's jerb
>fanboys for Trixie hard enough to become the Goddess' favorite little guy
>doesn't change anything
>runs away to florida to do psychic cocaine with raiders, hang out at bluegrass concerts, and watch robot UFC on memorial day weekend (sacred holiday)
>goes to Orlando to find the secret underground city, fumbled by schizo jester mutiecorn from the Maripony Travelling Circus
>meets Twilight Sparkle mutiecorns larping as Belisarius Cawl at the Celestia Space Center and a wandering knight mutiecorn outside Waffle House
>EVIL FUCKING WIZARD blows up his houseboat
>battles EVIL FUCKING WIZARD in the swamp
>stupid retard goes to hoofington because psychic cocaine is making him hear voices
>gives away immortality
>gets his shit kicked by pre-chapter 1 Blackjack immediately because of Spiderverse rules or something
>griffon gf shows up to save his retarded ass and the U-1 he gave his immortality to
>U-1 becomes a powerful wizard unicorn and goes off on his own adventure
>Dummy returns to florida and stops doing psychic cocaine to focus on farming exotic kirinese melons

>>42332743
>>42332808
I'd be more okay with it if it wasn't almost the exact same argument each time that I've read no less than five times already, and with the same outcome each time no less. Especially the Arbu angst since it seems to happen at least once per chapter.
I was expecting more of it early after Pip splatted the first hundred or so raiders. Not now when the fic's well past its halfway point and she has set goals and knows why she'd doing it.

>>42332916
Arbu happened and we can't change that
But the real question is if Littlepip would let Anon slobber on her ponut like a down syndrome retard with an icecream cone
We know Murky is 100% against it and Blackjack is a definite yes and if you ask Puppysmiles you deserve what happens.

>>42332939
Pip's barn door doesn't swing that way.

>>42332946
Just megaspell my stupid retard life already

>>42332939
>But the real question is if Littlepip would let Anon
Get ready to receive the Daff treatment.

If LilPip was glorious griffon. Would she still go fo pones or try zebras and kirins

>>42332916
The FOE's timespan takes place in half/quarter pf a year so it makes sense for Littlepip to still think about this especially Arbu since its heavily implied if not outright stated that he might have killed children, this feeds heavily into her fear of becoming a Raider or someone like Red Eye.

>>42334169
she* man I'm retarded.

>>42334169
Littlepip WISHES she could be a pony as wise and handsome as Red Eye!

>>42334579
Red Eye's cybercoltpussy

>>42334866
Say WHAT now?

Has anyone done a map of Fillydelphia before? I know some fics like Murky and Long Talons expanded on the location a bit more but it doesn't look like anyone did a map of city yet. Asking because I was thinking of setting a fic there Post-Pippening.

>>42335544
I have this map I did a while ago to help me plan a campaign, it's not very precise but it's something, I tried to base the locations on foe and murky
hope that helps

>>42335544
MN7's author made a sketch map of it for the story, it's in here
https://imgur.com/a/mn7-notes-planning-documents-dplyN

>>42335428
>Redeye R63
That doesn't improve him one bit. Redeye deserves to be put down no matter the sex.

>>42335729
WRONG

>>42335759
That's not Redeye.

>>42329419
It's a bit less than 5000 words in total and shouldn't take you more than half an hour. And that's is you're a very slow reader.
Now I'll admit that 4chins is a terrible place for prose. I'll have it available elsewhere if (as if) I ever decide to continue.

Ya know Im gonna send the Whiskey horse through the edgy Frontiers mod. Shall we see how funny that'll be.

>>42336263
How does that work?

>>42336346
Simple, make a character using specific skills, perks an stats that BlackJack would have an see how shit goes from there.

Mistakes into miracles

>>42336729
Awww, the cuteness

>>42327272
Here's the side characters in Remnants some show up more then others.

>>42286837
The bugs are pleased with my purchase.

>>42337299
Ooo! those buggos look nice.

>>42337023
>Liber-Tea
Comes with air support and heavy artillery fire support always available within seconds, I hope!

>>42335759
This mare begs to be dommed.

>>42337711
your funeral

>>42337704
Do not worry she will wave the flag democracy while ordering a artillery strike on the Enclave.

>>42337917
That remains to be seen.

>>42337711
I would give her a solidly okay wienering, nothing too impressive but a little better than using her hooves.

>>42336729
>Stern
Before she went cold turkey.

>>42338653
I could save her

>>42338772
Nah, she got what she deserved.

Project Horizons

>>42339585
me on the top left

>9
Welp heres some Enclave characters I made for Remnants Bonus points if you know what I was trying to do for Lapis.

>>42340210
She looks like a crystal pony

What horrors would the Wasteland inflict on the crystal ponies, assuming they existed in the FoE-verse?

>>42340232
Bingo, been having fun brainstorming on what happened to Cadence, her family, the fate of the Crystal Empire and the Crystal ponies. for a little lore excerpt a small amount of the Crystal Pegasi joined the Enclave during the last day while a majority of the Crystal Pegasi population stayed with the Empire and died with the Empire, according to the Enclave aligned Crystal Pegasi.

>>42340239
They probably exist, judging by the fact Kkat had a cameo mention of Discord, Kkat If I am correct did spew her ideas for the Crystal ponies if she made FOE when season 2 and 3 were airing with the Crystal heart being a psudo Megaspell and the Crystal ponies being weird psudo ghouls, but stated the idea wasn't "Canon" if people didn't like the idea left it up to the viewer whether or not her idea is canon to them

>>42340239
Killed for the gems they're made of probably?
Worst case - livestock

>>42340239
Instead of rotting and turning into ghouls, they crystallize and turn into statues.

The most common outcome of crystallization is a shiny gemstone quality statue in the shape of a pony. Their minds can be intact and trapped inside if the author's feeling particularly cruel. I'm not, so mine would be just statues. Ratio of skeletons to statues is also up to the author.

Less common result is partial or failed solidification. Instead of turning into pure crystal, the result is impure and some parts turn into stone, others into crystal, and yet others into a mix of flesh, stone, and crystal. Result is a moving, "living" statue, similar to a feral ghoul. The mind has long since left or decayed, leaving behind a walking hunk of mostly minerals. These can be harmless observers who stare at what's left of their lives since some tiny hint of intelligence remains, so a librarian might stare at a book and a cook might stare at a stove. Or they can be aggressive and attack everything living due to the constant pain of some parts being essentially rock and cutting them from the inside.

A rare result would be a partial mineralization that somehow leaves the mind intact. Perhaps they are sought after by raiders since their eyes turned into flawless gemstones? Or some parts are rock solid, like one leg or neck so they can only look one way.

>>42340270
I find binding something to a hard canon based on some very early fic kind of dumb. S2 had barely got started when FoE got finished. Also the author's opinion doesn't matter if it isn't in the story.

As for the Empire, I've been toying with the idea that it disappeared again on the last day, perhaps on the very instant it got hit, and only just reappeared before the events of the story.

>>42340270
>with the Crystal heart being a psudo Megaspell
I like this idea, it makes a lot of sense, a gem based artifact being powered by multiple ponies to cast a large scale powerful spell
by that logic, the elements of harmony would probably count as some kind of megaspell too, making gardens a megaspell powered mlegaspell

>>42340293
>Instead of rotting and turning into ghouls, they crystallize and turn into statues.
So, basically the shit from Final Fantasy 13.

>>42340515
I wouldn't know, I've never played or seen that game.

>>42340584
It's basically a crux of that game, you fullfill desires of an alien robot god and then become a crystal statue.

>>42340239
The Idea I had for Remnants is that at during the war Cadence and Shinning armor kept the Crystal Empire out of what they saw as a pointless war and stayed neutral, this did anger a decent amount of Crystal ponies with it causing a notable spike in Crystal ponies leaving the Crystal Empire and joining the Equestrian military to fight the striped menace, however having a neutral status did not save them from the Zebra megaspells as the entire Empire fell overnight, the rest of the Empire was hit lightly compared to Equestria save for the Crystal city which was hit the hardest, luckly for the city Shinning armor was able to get the shield up in time and shield was able to avail against the Balefire onslaught, but heres the thing the shield never went down and has stayed up for over 200 years and over the passing decades it has become opaque where no pony being able to see in and having zero knowledge whether or not the city has survived and the fate of the royal family has remained a mystery.

P.S the Crystal Empire or well the Crystal Wasteland in Remnants has the highest population of non Enclave and Dashite aligned Pegasi

>>42340274
>>42340293
You guys do realize that Crystal ponies aren't actually made out of Crystals right? they have a slight crystal/metallic sheen to them buts thats it, the whole becoming a see through crystal pony is due to the magic of the crystal heart, of course I could be terribly wrong but I am pretty sure they aren't made out of Crystals.

>>42341067
Would an uneducated wastelander know that?
>>42339585
>pic

Always carry medical supplies
Or have an annoying Velvet Remedy do it for you

Can anyone share books on FOE from Dead Tree Studios?

Need: Crystal Pony/Robot/Minotaur/Deer Race Expansion, Alt Shamanism Rules, Theríoníppos Transformation Rules and Fallout Equestria: Emergence.

>>42341269
>P-21
The only legit fag I can get behind. He has a reason for being what he is.

>>42341269
Idk probably?

>>42341447
All I have to share is the opinion I heard a few days back that the Dead Tree Studios rules are self contradicting garbage.
In terms of books, the best I can do is a ToE addition. It has its flaws but it's functional, tho you may want the GM to make a house rule to never have the enemies counter.

>>42342023
I wanted to work on a set of rules that let you play a Fallout Equestria themed version of Warhammer Kill Team that was basically just different teams of scavengers, stableponies, steel rangers, and alicorns fighting over scrap and old tech.
But I've gotten into every artform of pony at once and have no time for anything now.

>swore I'd go to bed on time
>instead I'm up finalizing character details for one of the players in my FoE game
At least it's time well spent but tomorrow's gunna suck.

>>42342379
Based priorities.

>>42342023
Yes, I noticed a lot of problems, but still nothing that polishing couldn't handle.

But I wouldn't refuse books and would be grateful for shares.
I'm generally inclined to think that we should collect everything possible on the topic of tabletop horses, haha.

>>42342379
This man knows what's important.
Which system are you using and what sorta game will it be? Any standout characters?

>>42341385
This doesn't look like something that some meds could fix. These injuries are fucking severe.

Wasteland bump.

>>42341385
You can't just post art like this and not give us the context of the scene.

>>42340239
I can virtually see Blackjack saying that when she's drunk and shiny.

>>42342778
>system
A heavily homebrewed Pathfinder 2e, complete with a list of custom weapons, slightly different armor mechanics, and a lot of class adjustments to get things playing nice with character concepts and the setting in general.

>what sorta game
I'm taking a lot of inspiration from Fallout 3's Pitt DLC. Players are going to be bottled up in Manehattan (because I forgot Pip went around the world in 40 chapters) and starting out enslaved to a gang there. Over the course of the game they'll either rise through the ranks of their gang, stage a breakout, or raze the city. We'll have to see which route they wind up going.

>characters
Kind of a grab bag of whackos so I'll just list them all.
>Queen Cupid: Alicorn that was forcefully cut off from the Unity and may or may not be a meat puppet for the magical crown on her head. Has a primal need to rule over her 'subjects' and is probably a yandere
>Obsidian: a runty diamond dog who tried to capture a pheonix egg for prestige (and maybe a little bird buddy) but through a bad trip, lots of Taint, and more pheonix fire, now has a young pheonix living in their chest cavity. Definitely boning some of the guards to keep their mouths shut about the bird. Player is deciding between classing into a pheonix rider or an alchemist subclass
>Eye Candy: earth pony raider with an eyepatch that oozes red syrup(?). Skirmisher and habitual hanger-on; is definitely going to attach herself to Queen in hopes of riding the alicorn's coattails to power or freedom. She will likely come to regret this.
>Ballot Kicker: a ghoul who was involved in the attack on the Crystal Kingdom somehow and has a lot of experience in asymmetric warfare and profecient in literally every single weapon type. Player is still working on backstory stuff but I assume he will basically be picrel.
>a baby dragon, who's mostly notable for not being three baby dragons in a trenchcoat like the player kept insisting on. Least defined so far.
Queen easily has the most B-plot fleshed out so far, partially because the player explicitly gave me a lot of latitude for shaping her backstory but also she was just the first one that got pitched. Obsidian may wind up tying in a bit to that as well, I have to do some scribbling still and ask that player a few questions.

I am a little worried about how horny a few of the players are... but I at least know Obsidian and Queen can be serious if they want to, so it should go mostly fine.

>>42343419
>a ghoul who was involved in the attack on the Crystal Kingdom
Is he a Ghoul Zebra? or did the Crystal Empire turn against equestria in your story?

>>42343455
I think he was just involved in the fighting there. I need to grill him on details but he's been really busy with IRL stuff so his character is only marginally more filled out than the dragon player who has such a terminal case of choice paralysis that I suspect they would freeze up while flipping a coin.

>>42343419
That's a fine grab bag of Donut Steels. And one top of the class Navy SEAL who has been involved in multiple raids against Al-Quaeda and is an expert in gorilla warfare and will make you fucking dead, kiddo.

My own group's far more basic. None of the characters have any standout features.

Tho Queen reminds me of something I had planned myself. A captured alicorn is subjected to a zeeb spell or brew called Soulripper. What happens when a part of a hivemind has its soul ripped out? Typically it would leave behind an empty shell, lights are still on but nobody's home of a body.

>>42343508
Yeah... I am admittedly a horrible enabler. The pheonix was actually my idea, since the player really wanted to run an Earth/Fire Kineticist but wasn't interested in playing a Unicorn. I pitched the idea and they liked it enough to run with it. And in our previous campaign I was Navy Seal Man so it's not like I can get on my ghoul's case either.

>What happens when a part of a hivemind has its soul ripped out?
I feel like you can justify any number of things, mostly revolving around how the connections in the hive mind actually work.
>basically as normal; you destroy a small part of the whole and earn yourself an even bigger spot on the Unity's shit list than Pip and Steel Hooves ever dreamed of, because you're probably also deleting memories instead of just killing the extension
>same as above but you send the Unity into a panic because memories are missing which is not supposed to happen, and they 'forgot' it was you who did it
>Soulripper works a little too well and just sorta... keeps going. Ripping out the whole thing. You accidentally turned the entire Unity into a Psyche Bomb and probably leveled several counties

I feel like #2 is most likely/interesting among the 3.

>>42343201
>Between the smog coming from Fillydelphia's only coal powerplant and the dust storms coming from out west, the city began to slow down
>The construction of the wall halted because the wind knocked over large sections before they could be fastened
>More importantly, the guards couldn't see very well through the storms
>Dust Wish was startled awake by Dummy lifting his wing off of her back
>Neither had been sleeping much lately due to the noise of construction growing
>Dust stood up and stretched, they had to help with the wall instead of hauling scrap the past week
>The pegasus didn't say much, but motioned towards the unfinished section of the wall nearest the slave pens

>Under cover of the storm and the darkness of night, they ran
>The pegasus couldn't fly, but helped her over the fences and around the slaver camps, past the main entrance where they hung the dead bodies of runaways to dissuade the slaves from trying to escape
>Shortly after they'd made it through where the wall would one day stand, the two ponies ran into the alien silence of outer Fillydelphia
>Was it easy? Yes
>Did it feel too easy? Yes
>Dust and Dummy slowed to a trot and looked back through the dust storm
>It felt like there should be something big and evil waiting to jump out of the dark fog and drag them back
>There were no alarms going off
>Just the howling wind
>Neither were sure where they were going, but it was just away from here
>"Did we really make it?" Dust asks quietly, beginning to crack a smile he hadn't seen in a long time, "I never would've had the guts to run for it myself."
>"I-I think... We can't stop here."
>As they started again a crack rung out over the wind, Dust stumbled into the pegasus and they ducked into a shop whose shelves were lined with destroyed books, rotten back to pulp and rust
>After the shock of the first gunshot, they stopped to figure out where it had come fro-
>"Dummy...?"
>He looked back as Dust slumped into the wall, blood running down her legs
>"I think they knew..."
>Dummy helped her to the back of the store, behind the counter while he tried to look for medical supplies
>She was losing a lot of blood quickly and the place had been scavenged to nothing for decades
>The medical box in the bathroom held only a cracked health potion that had long since drained out and darkened the wallpaper
>Dust breathed slowly, and worn a calm smile
>"You're gonna be okay, Dust. It'll be alright." he told himself
>"Thanks for always... being there for me..."
>Dust breathed a bit longer, looking up to poke her nose to Dummy's
>The moment suspended in time for what felt like forever, then Dust exhaled with no pull of air to follow
>"Don't go... I can't do this alone." Dummy clutched the lifeless body, as a small clatter outside the store caught his attention
>"Told you to check the mag, could've got 'em both if you didn't have an empty."
>Dummy slowly set Dust down and backed into the backroom, whispering a quiet prayer and apology

>>42343737
>"I'll grab the body, you go put down the other one." one says
>Dummy pushes open the back door of the bookshop, just enough to squeeze through
>It creaked a bit, but the sound of the wind covered it
>He ran before the other griffon could find him
>Later, Dummy turned back, looking at Fillydelphia with a mixture of hate and sadness
>He'd have stayed forever if it meant Dust would still be okay
>But now he had nopony
>This was not a price for freedom he'd want to pay

>>42343737
>>42343741
Damn, short and bittersweet and really well made, at least Dust died free trying to escape rather then dying in a factory accident or being murdered for the lightest of conveniences.

>>42343821
Thank you Anon
It means a lot that she struck a chord with someone else too

The Crystal Empire contingent, these guys are the most puritan of the Steel Ranger factions within remnants, they're a bunch of Crystal pony assholes, will try to experiment in paint.net to get a crystal/metallic shine to their manes and tails.

>>42343741
What is that? A green? In my /foe/?
Nice one.

>>42343737
>>42343741
>Murky and Unity but sadder and more hopeless
god damn it

>>42343419
Another question when will this campaign take place story wise? mostly asking this because if this takes place after the fail raid on Stable 2 that means the Applejack rangers are around and thats an interesting way for your party escape.

And 500. Full house, guys.

>>42344053
new thread