Thread 42344053

Minor character edition.!

previous thread >>>42274912
Fallout Equestria, a story that bleeds two franchises together to build something magical. On one side, you have death, destruction, decay, and misery - on the other, you have ponies. Doesn't sound like it should mix? You'd be surprised. When the world around you is wasteland, all you're left with is hope, and as we all know, ponies can do spectacular things with just a little hope.

Read Fallout Equestria by Kkat to appreciate the setting that many writers have then lent upon after being so captivated by the wonders.
The original story which spawned its own fandom can be found here: http://www.fimfiction.net/story/119190/

These next four stories comprise the rest of what is considered "the big 5", alongside the original. They were biggest hitters early in the fandom, be it for having started before many others, their length, or overall quality.

>Project Horizons:
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/208056/

>Pink Eyes:
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/931/

>Heroes:
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/662/

>Murky Number Seven:
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/47300/

Though, a reminder; just because these are the most well known, that isn't to say that there aren't other stories out there! There are many hidden gems that simply don't get the love they deserve purely because people don't give them the chance. Why not open your heart and try to find a new favorite? Anons are absolutely welcomed and encouraged to return with fic discussion of even the most obscure fics!

Fan games:
>Fallout Equestria: Remains
A Fallout Equestria Roguelike. It is the best thing to come of the fandom recently. Seriously go play it https://foe-remains.gitlab.io/main_en.html

>Balefire Blues
A Hearts of Iron IV mod. In it you take control over various FoE factions seeking to conquer the wasteland. steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2307988796

>Ashes Town
A derivative of Pony Town, set in the Fallout Equestria universe.

Thread Topic: Whose your favorite minor/side character from FOE?

Why are the mares lesbians?

>>42344056
Because men find Lesbians hot, and uh I assume its a trend in sidefics due to the original FOE and Project horizons both having their titular main characters be queers.

>mare in 99 has a colt
>'just don't think about it'
>medical takes the colt and she doesn't see it, doesn't have a chance to get attached, as is tradition
>continues working her food prep job
>'just don't think about it'
>a few years pass by and she's bringing food chips down to medical for dinner
>door is open for a few seconds and she can see into the stallions' dorms
>all the way in the back is a little buck the same shade of pale sea foam green as her laying in a small cot
>'just don't think about it'
>goes back to work
>a few more years go by and she's down in the maintenance level bringing lunch to some mares working on the generators
>that buck stumbles into the area, sneaking away from the bitchy nurse in medical during the day
>they stare at eachother for a few seconds before he runs away again, afraid of being caught
>the eyes were purple, like U-17's
>'just don't think about it'
>another few months pass by and again she runs into the buck being tailed by one pissed security mare with those batons they loved so much
>'just don't think about it'
>'just don't think about it'
>'just don't think about it'
>she's all out of 'just don't think about it'
>that's her baby
>mare grabs a pan off the stovetop and swings it into the security mare's face, foolishly splattering hot oil around the room in equal measure with blood
>she's going to be killed for this, she knows it
>the security mare reels back, ignoring the buck in favor of turning back to the crazed foodprep mare
>she had no idea why she did that, but now she was parrying baton strikes with kitchen utensils

>assault and battery charges, a year off the breeding rotation, and getting her shit thoroughly kicked by security
>she couldn't stop thinking about it anymore

>>42344053 (OP)
I didn't think you would come back to create foe threads
nice to see OP as I remember it

>>42343911
I forgot so many setting details before my re-read that it probably has to be firmly in an AU. Not that it matters much to my group because I think I'm the only one who's read the actual fic.

I did briefly consider a 'Scourging of the Pitt' scenario where the Rangers show up and start blowing the city to hell but I couldn't really figure out how to tie it in or telegraph the Doomsday clock to the players. The western bridge of the city is already dominated by the slaver group funneling and bottling people into the city, and I accidentally headed off the possibility of a FO4 style blimp with a set of huge, rogue weather machines that make the city inaccessible to fliers. Right now I just don't really have a solid idea for how I'd include them.

>>42344066
>massive devastation, need to repopulate the species
>lol lets make them all dykes and queers because why not

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

Basically, I'm thinking about collecting all possible books on board games with colored horses and sharing them, huh.

my fav minor character I think is zombie derpy
I only read up until chapter 5 and a half for now
enjoying the story btw

>>42344268
I was gone due to no PC and life shit, but I now a PC again and life stuff has somewhat calmed down, also its unironically nice to hear that I created so many FOE generals that you can recognize me now by having the derpy pin.

Rate my fit for Mare Fair

>>42344636
>Even with the male sign
99/99, nice fit.
And it was nice knowing you.

>>42344349
Tell me you wouldn't be a dyke if you were a woman. Go on, tell me how much you would suck dick.

"That's gonna leave a mark..."

>>We bring you this important annoucement from the toaster fixing horse
>also remember to shoot Raider children in the face

>>42344349
Your acting like ponies are all coming together to rebuild and repopulate, no one cares if the population is low because that doesn't concern them and raising kids is hard because of how god awful the Wasteland is.

>>42344349
Until the day of sunshine and agriculture there's no such need: the barren sunless wasteland sustains as many as it can on centuries old canned food and, rarely, cave mushrooms. Any excess kids would just get natural selection'd. And then there are some foolish ponies who make the food problem worse by looking down on cannibalism, can you imagine that?

>>42345474
The entire setting doesn't really make sense if you think about it too much. There'd need to be tons of kids and pregnant mares everywhere to sustain the population with how high the mortality rate is and we just don't see that.
If you want to introduce a farming village, you can. There's plant species that survive and grow on forest and jungle ground level that never gets direct sunlight so you can handwave something off that. Yields would be low so it'd be little more than sustinence farming, but it can exist. Especially if it's combined with hunting and foraging. Ponies re-inventing agriculture, kind of like in the stone age.

>>42344053 (OP)
>Strawberry
God, she was great. One of the best characters in the original.
And it's a shame what happens to her.

>>42344100
Project Horizons: the good version

>>42345496
Ok but countless hundreds of ponies aren't dying every single day, it may seem like that is because the story is told through the action pack lenses of Littlepip and Littlepip is special because she's the only Pony to be doing this whole ordeal with wiping out slaver towns and raider gangs, and judging by the fact that there is an entire city filled with ponies shows that the population has rebounded somewhat. Also fair point about the farming I don't think the existence of farming towns is that important

>>42344403
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XweKYZChnir6hv54gdO6DqitXT5mM9N2/view
May contain traces of dolphin porn.

>>42345931
Is the depiction of Calamity with a beard a recent trend or am I just noticing the art with it more?

>>42346064
I think it's a more recent thing

>>42346064
Thank you

>>42344344
Heres an idea for you, make the Applejack Rangers a optional hard to get out of jail card, unironically idk have a little sidequest where the party need to build a sufficiently strong radio to contact the Rangers or something, just some food for thought.

I'm enjoying The Chrysalis so far
Writing may be a little dry/technical at times but the worldbuilding for changelings and how they would handle the war/wasteland is great. The occasional depictions of the Enclave civil war in the background are excellent.
Sickle is slowly becoming an enjoyable character, I can't believe it

>>42344775
nta, but I do suck dick. 10/10 would recommend before every repopulation effort. maybe after too, but only if your stallion has been an extra good boy.

>>42344100
Nice story, but uh why did you use Chrysalis for the green text unless there's some connection about motherhood that I'm missing here

>>42346200
>the party accidentally causes the Scourging of the Sprawl
Lmao. This would go so badly for so many parties, too. Not even just the gangers or party.

I like the idea. I don't know how I'd get the party to uncover/go along with it exactly though. One player in particular is... almost comically anti-establishment, and I have no doubt both stripes of the Rangers fall under 'The Man.' A good idea though and something I'll definitely chew on. If nothing else I might throw them in as a complicating factor in a final battle or something; a good Knight of any chapter would despise the reigning powers in the Sprawl.

Little remnants lore excerpt.

Stable 13: active
Population: 580(subject to change."
Experiment: Stable 13 experiment was to put a small amount of Marelando's staunch anti war population on ice using advanced experimental Cryosleep pods in hope that Stable 13's populace would help rebuild Equestria and help the younger generation to not repeat the same mistakes that caused the Great war and last day, the Dwellers while sleeping would be maintained by the Stables robots in who would awaken the Stable dwellers when it was time to rebuild Equestria, though the time calculations the robots used were extremely flawed, with the robots awakening the Stable Dwellers hundred-ninety-nine years later.

>>42346779
Chrysalis is just what I think of when the subject of moms comes up.

>>42346845
If you want to introduce it naturally you could introduce a fellow slave that is wanting to build a radio to listen to try and contact help and maybe make that slave a Steel/Applejack ranger that got captured by slavers.

>>42346330
That art is cool

>>42346987
I might make it one of their non-dangerous random encounters. They get lost in a skyscraper and wind up finding an old broadcasting post, a dead Ranger scout and some recon gear laying around and a radio broadcaster playing a string of Morse code on loop (which the ghoul can probably decipher, leading them onto the breadcrumb trail). Sprinkle in a little loot for their trouble.

... I could honestly do both. The earth pony is trying to set up a little snitch/rumor network while they're captive. I could have one of their contacts be a Ranger trying to find ways to get word out surreptitiously.

>>42346330
>spoiler
Wasn't she the living meat tank? I thought she was rough as fuck.

>>42347493
Yeah do both, add some risk and reward to it.

Peaceful moment in Fillydelphia

his name is green p-21

>>42348583
>Murky number seven
What happened to Murky one to six?

Despite the lack of interest, I haven't been able to get this out of my head. So, I've been planning.

CH1: Stable 76
>Our hero, Flash Fire, lives in a stable with even populations of ponies and kirin. Marriage and procreation are controlled to maintain equal numbers of both species.
>He spends his days maintaining the failure prone Stable electronic systems while waiting for his marefriend and wife assignment.
>He is called into the Overmare's office one day.
>She explains the sad state of the stable to him: inbreeding will wipe them out in a few generations, spare parts for critical systems are running low, and the reactor can't be run at full power because the fuel's too spent.
>As a result of all this, she's made the decision to open the stable.
>But not quite yet.
>First, Flash is to scout out the surface and find out what it's like there and if there's good places to settle nearby.

CH2: The Wasteland
>Fresh out of the stable, Flash wanders around with no idea where to go.
>He runs into a few smaller creatures he manages to kill with little trouble.
>Finds an old farmhouse that's been lived in relatively recently; the first sign of sentient life.
>Spends the night there, deciding it's OK to take and use what little useful stuff is left behind.
>Next morning, he wakes up and wanders off.
>Only to run into slavers and get captured.
>He's put in a cage and has a chance to chat with some of the other slaves and observe.

CH3: The Mansion
>You read this one already.
>Judging by the lack of a response, I'll need to rewrite it to make it less boring and spice up Flash since he's dull and uninteresting.

CH4: Landfall Village
>As twilight is creeping in, Flash and his new companion (?) emerge from the woods and see walled village on top of a hill surrounded by fields of crops on one side and the ocean on the other.
>A mix of zebras and ponies are tending to the fields.
>The pair is welcomed into the village.
>There's no space for freeloaders so Flash is given a few things to try out.
>He's good at two things: electronics, and staying calm and focused thanks to the training in the stable to keep the Nirik out.

CH5: The Patrol
>A relatively short chapter about Flash getting introduced to a few other characters who guard the village.
>He's then given a rifle and is sent out to patrol the fields.
>A small group of raiders show up and he helps shoot them to pieces.
>In his pains about killing somepony, he's told that raiders should hardly be considered ponies since there's something wrong with their brains.

CH6: There's Nothing Here
>In the middle of Landfall Village, there is a large warehouse full of zebra wartime military equipment in various states of disrepair.
>But the warehouse is bigger on the outside than the inside.
>There's a locked door in the warehouse with a "There's Nothing Here" sign on it.
>Flash is shown what's inside: a complex device that is a mishmash of thick cabling, terminals, and servomotors.
>He's tasked with fixing it.

>>42348889
I have plan of similar detail for everything up to CH12. I can reveal more if you're interested but I doubt (you) are. A lot of it involves scouring the wasteland for parts, followed by exploring the nearby Crystal Empire for the same reason.
I also have an ending planned now, so yay for that.

I suppose I can share one more thing, third of the four major characters.
>Star Seeker
>Pegasus born to two earth pony parents.
>Can fly, but isn't very good at it.
>Has never been above the clouds.
>Happy and positive character who doesn't always respect personal space and often goes for out of the blue hugs.
>Likes to drink which makes the above point even worse.
>Horny kind of drunk.
>Is totally obsessed with star charts and everything to do with astronomy.
>Gender TBD.
>Weaponry TBD.
>Open to ideas for the two above points.

>>42348914
I'd love to read more of your story, the parts I've read are pretty good and a kirin mc is much too interesting to not do something with, also I'm curious about the story you want to go with

>>42347752
She is rough. Big ex-raider mare with the usual tragic backstory. But she knows she's fucked up and is just gonna roll with it. I guess I find her refreshing compared to all the ponies who are trying to do better, or who want to be saved/fixed.

Also The Chrysalis deserves more fanart.

S 25
P 1
E 10
C 1
I 1
A 1
L 1
Just find someone else to pick locks, hack, and fix equipment. Friendship is magic or however it goes.

>>42349086
>Strength 25
What kind of taint produces this behemoth?

>>42349086
What must I do to recruit him as a follower

>>42349129
Chaos artifact created when a draconequus is killed. One of several.
Allows for a game-breaking stat rebalance.

>>42349086
Shoot, with STR like that he could just buck most stuff open himself.

>>42349278
Unlike doors, computers don't have the good sense to release their secrets when you peel them open

>>42349221
Stupid horse is simple and easy to befriend
>Current quest is always put on hold whenever there's slavers to kill
>Afraid of Fillydelphia
>Likes melons

>>42348889
Question, since your story has Kirins will it ever be explained as a ongoing plothook on what the Kirins did during the war and how Equestria's rapid Industrial revolution effected them?

>>42348914
>Star Seeker
Imma be honest Star Seeker sounds like a mare's name, I can't exactly put my finger on it but that's what my mind instantly goes to.

Damn! Calm down Littlepip!

>>42348583
his name is blue murky

>>42349554
She is the Lord of war!

>>42348889
Also, I'm digging stuff so far. I had ideas fo a story myself, but it would involve a zebra character, actually.

>>42348889
I like kirin in FoE

>>42349749
I don't think we ever got FOE story with a Zebra MC, at least not one that comes to mind.

>>42349692
>>42348583
The only thing they have in common is suicide

>>42350312
Anon, P-21 didn't die by suicide. He was turned into a stuck pig by a collapsing moon base.

>>42349278
Open sesame!!

>>42350328
Neither did Murky. The anon's statement can only eb taken with the same value as the phrase "the only thing they have in common is being sad." This ignores that both are definitely homosexuals.

>>42350453
my brother in celestia, murky has entire pages in his drawing book dedicated to mare plot, and had a marefriend, what are you on about?

>>42350328
No, but they both attempted it.

>>42349086
>AGI 1
>completely useless outside of melee range, slow moving
>just throw him at the enemy for instant results

>>42349413
Long story short, but the Kirin share a similar fate as Nia's tribe. Before and during the war, they were too remote (Peaks of Peril and the island of Maregascar), too underdeveloped, and too low population to be worth bothering with.
The very same reasons are why they didn't get bombed. The resulting devastation and nuclear winter resulted in starvation, but both tribes managed to hang on and survive.
I'll have it show up, but the major background story would be that of Sunburst and the Crystal Empire.

>>42350523
Murky is BASED

>>42349295
Skill issue.

>>42350523
>what are you on about?
He literally refuses to be mroe than friends with Unity while at the same time having a raging boner for Protege. That ain't friendship bro little man desires ass and at best doesn't particularly care who it's attached to. Gayer than a spartan.

>>42350721
I have an a somewhat similar idea for Kirins in my fic, I already went on a deep little loredive into what the crystal empire did in my fic in the last thread, but I wanna hear what's your plans for the Crystal Empire within your fic especially with Sunburst.

>>42350989
>making shit up
He's clearly in a relationship with Unity and the only reason they're not more open about it is because they erased their memories for some stupid reason. Meanwhile Murky is arguing with Protege all the way until the end of the fic, and is the last to be added to his sketchbook.
Protege may be gay, but he's getting NOTHING from Murky except a belated friendship. And that's why he's so tragic, and the best character in MN7.

>>42351011
It'd be a gradual falling out between Equestria and the Empire as Equestria loses touch with the values it used to stand for.
Sunburst would be the head of Research and Development and we'd get a look into the past through his diaries. One early entry would be Cadence finding out that the Ministry of Morale is spying on her and her family and calling Sunburst to her private quarters to sweep for any hidden devices.
The following entry would be about Cadence mustering the Crystal Guard and raiding the MoM, then banishing them from her Empire as she simply cannot tolerate the snooping and memory alteration. Sunburst then has to deal with the fallout from that.
Essentially: why fight if fighting turns you into what you're trying to destroy?
Of course, Equestria had to stoop as low as it did because it was losing the war with wasting a large portion of its resources on unfinished megaprojects like the SPP and IMP.

>>42351103
Unironically that's a pretty cool little plotline you have there, I assume there's going to be a tragic falling out between Cadence and Shinning armor relationship with Twilight?
Also if you do not mind but would you like some ideas I had for memory orb related plotlines?

>>42351083
>He's clearly in a relationship with Unity and the only reason they're not more open about it is because they erased their memories for some stupid reason
They literally have a face to face conversation where Murky is like "hey I know we used to be romantically involved but that was before I erased my memories and I'm not sure if I like you as more than friend." On the other hoof, Murky is more invested in Protege's wellbeing than pretty much any other character to an insane degree. He would not beat anypony else's head in with a rock for their own good, especially given the interpersonal relationship at the time, which was pretty fucking strained if I say so myself.

I respect the author for not wanting to include romance in their book, because it genuinely is a cheap distraction from actual storytelling. If they did, though, I know what character relationships are the deepest, and at least in the parts of the story that are actually written in the book, it ain't Unity and Murky by a long shot. Maybe it's a weakness of the story or forced by plot contrivances, but form what we see Unity is probably the least important character and 0nly becomes sort of relevant to Murky very late in the book after spoilerish events. I can't ship Murky and Unity because they're practically strangers and they act like it for the most part. Their past relationship that isn't really part of the story notwithstanding, because it literally doesn't exist to the character's characterizations. Which in Murky's case are pretty homo.

>>42350249
Ye, usually in FoE they're side characters or random encounters. Im still on the debate side of doing this story, since I have the idea doc still left on my PC.

>>42351637
Never talk about your waifu that died over what is essentially a pointless coinflip because you stopped running for a moment, never talk about it
She made everything in life bearable.

>>42351637
Murky is NOT gay
He LIKES mares

>>42351921
Everypony likes mares anon, the questions is who he wants to have awesome pony seks with

>>42351961
P-21 doesn't. But that's more than understandable.

>>42351637
Murky and Protege's relationship is more brotherly than anything else. There's too much distance between them due to Protege's status as a slaver with Red Eye. That only breaks down at the very end of the story, after he renounces Filly (and his life's work) and leads the slave rebellion. Only then does Murky give him a hug.

It probably wasn't the author's intent, but Protege as written is the most lonely, unfulfilled character in Filly. At least P-21 got to fuck and cuddle a bunch of times.

>>42352202
>Red Eye's student
>named Protege
Genius!

>>42351323
>I assume there's going to be a tragic falling out between Cadence and Shinning armor relationship with Twilight?
Can't reveal everything, now can I? That'd ruin the surprise. I'll have to modify Twilight's story somewhat anyways since she does become an alicorn and I'd like to account for that. How's that affect her IMP research?
And if you want to share ideas, go on ahead. Not like you'll lose them. Though, I'm not sure I'll use memory orbs at all or not. Not for everything, at least. A decent part will be diaries, words on paper or on screen.

>>42352746
Of course she doesn't. Pip is a pervert.

>>42352787
Only thing she regrets is not having enough cannibal kids to kill.

>>42352654
Im pretty sure Twilight being a Alicorn changes basically everything about FOE.

>>42352928
Why would it?

>>42352950
Because if Twilight is an alicorn genetically then the goddess alicorns are able to bypass Red Eye and get into the SPP

>>42352950
Because Twilight by the time war would either be a tall ass Alicorn or is getting there, she would have much more involvement in the war and the state of Equestria due to being a princess, basically she would be involved with Celestia and Luna diplomatic matters with the Zebras and wouldn't be kept away from the war and would be involved from the start, which changes so many things, since the ministries would drastically different and I doubt Twilight be trapped in Maripony or hell Maripony would probably be hit with the Pink cloud ngl.

>>42353058
She was born a unicorn and can remain so genetically.

>>42353073
All of that is entirely up to the author. A divergence at the correct time (who the fuck thought a school of friendship is a good idea?) would leave her out of it.

>>42353073
Twilight would be too fat to fit in the vat

It just wasnt fair how they done my boy like this
He deserved better

>>42354011
what story are they from?

>>42354011
Add him to the pile along with Protege and Lacunae

>>42354281
In terms of fairness they're in three distinctly different piles. 21st's story has no traces of justice in it, it's just bait and switch for bait and switchery's sake. Protege got off the hook too easy. Psalm got precisely what she deserved.

>>42354401
>Protege got off the hook too easy

I love my little retarded horse

>>42354608
I can't help but notice how eloquent he is for 1 INT.

>>42354737
Yeah, 1 Int characters can't talk at all.

>>42354817
>>42354737
He is scientistic

>>42351990
Nah P-21 likes some amres, I hear he even has consensual hot awesome pony seks with one or two of them

>>42355028
heh, noice

Okay, I finished FoE.
First, I want to commend the author for creating an interesting world. Second, I want to say that it was too damn long and felt like it dragged on forever. Third, SteelHooves was such a non character that I didn't even notice when he was gone.
Pip isn't the worst Mary Sue, but she still is one.
I can rate more characters and do a more detailed analysis later but now I have to go to work.

>>42355254
The ending always confused me

>>42354139
>they
P-21 is a stallion, dude. HE is from Project Horizons.

>>42355567
That's likely because it was three endings crammed into one. There was the Unity story, the Red Eye story, and the Enclave story. If day the story as a whole would've been better if it was split in three.

>>42355598
Well, that sort off falls into the trappings if the Fallout games.

>>42355601
It works for a game where you're free to do the endings at your own pace, not a story.

>>42355615
Well, thats what I meant is KKat tried to replicate how it goes in the games. So in a way we have Fallout 1 and Fallour 2/3 in this story.

Old /FoE/ looks like it was fun, back when the fandom was alive

>>42355945
It was a lot of fun, but the tranime got to most of them
The show ending was worse than the post-apocalypse

>>42356353
Yeah
Well, at least there's less drama and shitposting

>>42356557
I remember Mare Fair 2 even had a little impromptu /foe/ meetup

>>42356571
That was fun

>>42356571
Do it again and I'll be there.
t: new Anon

>>42356954
I plan on trying to get people together again

Chapter 24 of Project Horizons is so hard to get through
I just want Blackjack to fight some monsters

>>42357344
I forgot, which one was that?

>>42357368
After she goes back to the Stable she spends the next 2 whole ass chapters moping around over choices she herself made

>>42357344
Might as well call her Sadjack

>>42357536
She cries even more than Murky

>>42357391
Oh yeah, the scene on the shore, right.

>>42357724
I don't think that's physically possible
At least she gets laid more than him

>>42357861
Tell me about Stable 112

>>42358159
It's the stable with hundreds of inexplicably horny changelings ruled by a younger, smarter, and sexier descendant of Queen Chrysalis.

>>42357799
Hey, least she had a drinking buddy for that scene.

>>42358185
This has a lot of problems. Like, how did they sustain themselves in the time directly after the apocalypse? They can't possibly rely 100% on outsiders to feed them with love.

>>42358589
Well, that's the main conflict of The Chrysalis. They've been kidnapping ponies from the surface and keeping them in a Tranquility Lane simulation world to harvest their love.

>>42358882
Bugs are a menace in every world.

>>42358185
muh dick

How could a game so shit make a groundwork for a story so wonderful?
t. Eurochad

>>42359833
Because the addition of magic cartoon ponies ironically fixes a lot of the problems with Black Isle/Bethesda's shit worldbuilding.

>>42359833
It's Fallout, but all the Toddslop has been replaced with radpity

>>42359987
>Toddslop has been replaced
Fallout 1 and 2 say hello.

>>42360007
Fallout 1 and 2 are pure Fallout
Fallout 3, 4, and 76 are Fallout with added Toddslop
Fallout New Vegas was Fallout with diet Toddslop
Fallout Equestria is Fallout but with mares and no Toddslop

>>42360168
Saying this and acting like FOE isn't just mostly just a fusion between Fallout 1 and 3 with sprinklings with 2 and New Vegas mixed in, two out of the three main villains are just ponized Fo3 antagonists, Red Eye is just Ashur, and the Enclave act more like the Ravenrock Enclave with them wanting to rebuild and rule the world rather then genociding everything on the planet like the Enclave wanted to do in Fo2.

>>42360228
Yeah but the Toddslop was replaced with mares
It's basically Fallout if Bethesda didn't suck

>>42356557
>>42355945
Accurate.

>>42360836
Accurate, but they should both be wearing dresses

>>42361723
Shooting kids in the face? Heck ye Lil Pip!

>>42361723
Taking drugs to the burnout point and cursing like a rabid sailor?
Sounds fun.

How many problems with the original fic does pic related solve?

>>42363104
All of them. It makes the Daff scene and the hospital horrors a bit weird though.

>>42363104
None. Littlepip is not an issue because she is a dyke, she is an issue becasue she's a special blend of Mary Sue and patheticvin mixed proportions.
Also as much as everyone paints her as a cold blood murderer she actually mopes as much as Blackjack, just over irredeemable goons

Do any fics explore the area around Vanhoover? That's the area I'm considering for a setting. I could treat it as a blank canvas but some inspiration wouldn't hurt since I don't think it's even mentioned in FoE itself.

Also, about FoE since I finished it not that long ago.
The "oh shit Luna Eclipsed aired and I should acknowledge it somehow" award goes to Lionheart.
The plague of early fics, major lore changes as new EP's aired. I can't blame Kkat for it but it feels silly now.

>>42363454
Just a bit, but it's like Littlepip learning extra bits of history. Like playing Fallout for the first time and not knowing the lore.

>>42363384
I think ya confused BJ with LittlePip, the whiskey horse has more Mary Sue material.

>>42363645
I mean Blowjob is THE Mary Sue edgelady up there with Ebony Raven Dementia Ravenclaw something something, but she is actually well-written and consistently a Mary Sue.
Littleshit spasms violently between Mary Sueism or being a pathetic worm unable to do shit or deal with anything

The vinyl horse has obtained the patch! Also, thank you person who sold this to me.

>>42363104
None, because Littlepip being a mare or a stallion does not effect her writing as a character.

>>42363104
I'd probably have a higher chance of being able to eat his ponut

>>42364468
Faggot

>>42364970
Ass is ass, hooves are hooves
Eating ass and sucking hooves is gender neutral

>>42365261
Yes but you are sucking a dudes hooves, and your eating a mans ass that just makes you a closeted faggot

>>42365356
Man's ass is largely the same as a woman's ass, even moreso with ponies I'd assume.

>>42344053 (OP)
I have never seen anything about foe, where do I start? What is the very beginning? I only know of hoi4 EaW. Is the lore an actual nazi changelings war on Equestria?

>>42365564
You start Fallout Equestria by reading Fallout Equestria, by kkat.
And don't be so absurdly ideological: The lore is zigger war on Equestria. Obviously.

>>42365564
Just read the OG made by Kkat and btw the story was written before season 2 even aired so zero mentions of changelings, Candence and Shinning Armor etc etc, DIscord does get a mention near the end of the story though.

Building up some lore surrounding single-use magic spellcards that were used before arcane technology. Leaning harder on fantasy than sci-fi with a card that lets a pony cast Wish and rewrite reality completely. MC wants it to bring back his waifu.
Not Ministry of Arcane Science tech, but things developed during Starswirl's time under the Royal Arcane Commission. Old dungeons and crypts, magic scrolls documenting stuff, etc. Does it sound like an interesting concept?

>>42366100
Sounds dangerous. Too powerful magic can destroy a setting by introducing the Discord problem: if you can do anything, why not just fix all problems by snapping your fingers?
You'll have to severely limit it somehow or make it a monkey's paw. There's multiple ways to do it and it can work.

I feel like an unstated theme of FoE is the danger of combining magic and technology.
Non-magical tech like guns and bombs are dangerous enough, and magic in the show is shown to be pretty powerful (albeit limited by who can cast it). But 'arcane science' combining the two together creates things that are truly horrifying, like necromantic nukes that permanently irradiate the world and all the eldritch horror monsters from Project Horizons.

>>42366100
That would be cool. Imagine scavenging through a destroyed high rise before finding a bunker in the basement. Then after exploring it you find a collapsed wall and behind it is something older. A structure from sometime not even the Twilight Society or Steel Rangers have records of let alone some random scavenger. Makes a kickass base though.

>>42364964
Who are these?

>>42366904
cute gays

>>42366123
The discord problem is exactly what I want though. Wish is supposed to be an unimaginably powerful spell that could change everything if used right.
By industrializing magic, the MAS reduced what it was really capable of by making it easier to use.
The magic cards were what nobles and knights used before the Great War in smaller scale conflicts, because suddenly a unicorn who sucked at magic but had a stack of the right cards was able to access more powerful spells and could turn the tide of a battle.

Littlepip should be the next MPPP plush

>>42367111
The cutest

>>42366637
Yeah, no. It's just certain kinds of magic are evil and mixing them and technology makes them more evil.
Energy weapons and necromancy and are inherently bad. I.M.P and megaspells are potentially harmful tools, that's not the same.

>>42367111
>>42367718
That's kinda gay.

>>42367204
Eh all you need is a good explanation on why it wasn't used in the war and a reason why its rare and you should be good.

Finished reading through The Chrysalis.
What a disappointment. The main characters are flat as cardboard, and the protagonist becomes an obnoxiously talented warrior/assassin who is always morally correct and faces no real hard choices or setbacks. The main plot is basically the Minutemen vs. Institute conflict from FO4 played completely straight and with no moral grey areas or plot twists. The author completely fails to make the villains unsympathetic and the MC ends up slaughtering most of them in a massive war with minimal losses.

Ironically I'd recommend it if you don't like changelings, or are a fan of Tom Clancy novels. For me Whisper is worst bug, 0/10 would not love.

>>42368459
Based bug hater.

>>42368042
Magical energy weapons were easier and more useful for mass production and full-scale war. Spellcards fell short because they could only be used by a unicorn and were more costly to replicate for a single spell while an energy weapon could be used by anyone and filled the roll of a real gun.
A spellcard could hold a much more powerful spell, it's just that nearly all of them are spells that are better performed by modern weapons in FoE.

>>42366100
This doesn't look healthy.

>>42365564
Read everything except the original FoE by kkat, as it might turn you off to all FoE by being garbage.

>>42368768
I'm not, but the author reads like he is.
If you want to read about a race traitor bug who exterminates most of her kin because they refuse to be subservient to a pack of wastelander ponies, be my guest.

>>42369180
That sounde rather cool, I fail to see the issue
>>42369023
Project Horizon is anime garb.

>>42369632
>Project Horizon is anime garb
You already bumped the thread anon there's no need for bait.

>>42369180
>a race traitor bug who exterminates most of her kin because they refuse to stop being a menace in the wasteland
Never mind, this sounds based as fuck.

>>42368803
Well there you go. Sounds like you've already limited it so it isn't setting breaking or even very powerful at all.
You could optionally use bottled Zebra brews or spells for much the same effect without having to introduce new elements.

>>42367718
Would

>>42369180
they're as much whisper's kin as red eye is littlepip's kin, they're a different hive that will threaten the rebuilding of her own hive and the future trust ponies will have of changelings if she doesn't intervene, with what she did, she both secured a future for her hive and a mixed to positive outlook of changelings and she managed to save the changelings that were willing to surrender, that's a pretty good win in my books

>>42370636
It is a "good" ending from the logic of the story, but I'm still gonna hate on it. I can't believe a "changeling" fic ends with the extermination of most of the changelings in it.
Maybe if the Serenity bugs were shown to be real bastards, like the slavers in Murky Number Seven. But the author goes out of his way to show that their queen is naive and inexperienced, that their drones are relaxed and playful in private, and that they aren't particularly cruel or sadistic. And the final battle is so lopsided in favor of the ponies, Serenity suffers like a 90% casualty rate and gets nuked while the ponies lose barely anyone.
If there was a knife twist at the end, like an important character dying, or Whisper losing the eggs, or the ponies lynching the survivors, that would work too. The epilogue even hints at stuff like "maybe ponies aren't willing to accept living with shapeshifters" and "maybe Serenity's captives were mostly raiders and criminals that nobody would miss." But nope, nothing. There was no other way, the bugs all had to die.

>>42370729
given what we see of chrysalis's convictions and plans in the fic, the hive seems to have a very strong ideology and with a cult of personality centered around a queen taking after the og chrysalis's view on ponies, it was going to end up with the nuke being dropped on someone, I agree that more could have been done to prevent further death but given their ideology, I'm already surprised that a good amount of them surrendered as they were raised to see ponies as the epitome of all that is bad with the world, most of the leadership would have needed to be dealt with anyways, if chrysalis, ocelli or another high ranking member survived, the hive would probably come back and be even dangerous to ponies, hell I'm sure in the surrendered changelings, some would be planning to bring back the hive as well
imo, other solutions would have been pretty hard and dangerous to implement and could have lead to more death, and whisper was also probably thinking along the lines of better safe than sorry, I don't want my hive to die again, which while a bit selfish, is perfectly reasonable
sorry for the word sandwich, I'm not good at putting ideas together on paper

>>42363384
Yeah, Kkat trying to mesh 'killing bad' into a story that's obviously vibing off of Fallout 3's atmosphere was a mistake for sure. Pip getting admonished/feeling bad for killing slavers or whatever was never going to land because it was usually preceded with the mention of child rape and/or murder, and no one is ever going to feel bad for icing people involved in that sorta crap.

>>42370775
You're right that war was the safer, more logical course of action. I just hated seeing all the buggos die. Imagine a fic where the main character kills off most of Equestria's pegasi in retaliation for what the Enclave did - I imagine that would raise a few eyebrows among readers.
Making the Serenity hive more evil, or adding in some morally grey choices would have helped. Or write it so the ponies can't wage war and have to negotiate or manipulate the changelings into choosing coexistence over domination. But that would go against the tech- and war-heavy atmosphere the author was going for.

Anyways, it's my own fault for reading fics like this. Should have seen the warning signs with the whole "OG Chrysalis was pure evil and had to be stopped" backstory. Maybe I'll read War Does Change for a more sympathetic depiction of changelings in FoE.

>>42370245
fatass

Roulette

>>42371561
Whats her story?

>>42371823
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/395130/fallout-equestria-red-36
Red 36
Some kinda NCR fic, haven't read it but it gets a fair bit of fanart

>>42372145
Heard the name a couple of times, but that's about it.

Blackjack alive in Korea

>>42372145
She's gonna get bred 36

I think what would be cool is a story where you have the most unlikely companions in the wasteland. So like changeling, zebra, Kirin, maybe toss in a diamond doggo and have 'em be like this ragtag squad.

>>42372917
love the plushie
>>42373837
Me, an anon that never wrote anything before could try to make a green

>>42374222
not right now tho

>>42373837
>Kirin
>Zebra
>Pegasus
>4th slot undecided, not always there, perhaps revolving

>>42374300
I'd make a 4th member a changeling or maybe even a batpony.

>>42374452
I've been toying with the idea of a bat pony, but I'll have to weave the character into the story first. And then decide what kind of a character it is.

would kirins still live on Peaks of Peril in FoE universe?

>>>42343737
are these greens archived anywhere besides desuarchive.org?

Still hoping and looking for books from Dead Tree Studios on FoE.
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'm already thinking about just buying them, although it's a hassle and I'll have to overpay, which I honestly don't want to do.

Other books:
https://mega.nz/folder/adEX2CbY#nhRDsKM_G7JgAkzdyjkVUg

I keep reading sidefics, falling in love with certain characters and then getting angry/despondent when they're killed off

Does anyone else have this problem

>>42375461
I think that's a good thing right?
I didn't read any foe myself for now im slowly reading it, currently on chpater 7.
You just feel that characters deserved better for all the time you invested reading for them and rooting for their peace.

can someone give me an idea of how many people post in foe, is it like 5, 10, 25?

>>42375860
I am one most would skip over

>>42375891
you create stories anon?

>>42375909
Occasionally, I am just rarely active as of late since my mental health issues and overall shit life situation are making writing hard

>>42375918
relatable

>>42375918
It's hard to get feedback or even much of a response from these threads, but apparently people do read whatever's posted.

>>42376024
I do

Childhood is rooting for Littlepip as she murders her way across the wasteland.

Adulthood is realizing that Velvet Remedy is right and that killing is both morally wrong and usually unjustified.

>>42376070
Agreeing with Velvet Remedy in principle? Sure. In Fallout: Equestria? That's mental retardation. Rapists, psychotic murderers and cannibals don't deserve mercy and Littlepip kills mostly those that are COMPLETELY irredeemable. This meme is stupid.

>>42348583
That sickens me that you would make light of the fandom and create a obviously joke character with such a goofy name. This board is for real PAPs (Post-Apocalopytic Ponies) only. Go back to Africa. Disgusting. You'll never find a loving caring mare.

>>42375002
Afraid not
I'm probably gonna turn it into a full fic

>>42373837
I have a similar lineup for Remnants, I have a changeling, a Batpony, a Crystal Earth Pony, a Griffon, and a Zony, I don't have a Hellhound mostly because they are extremely powerful and its kinda hard to write a way for Hellhound to join a group filled with ponies with you know with them being extremely racist and all.

>>42376441
>Pic
Now that's brave.

>>42376070
Thicc

>>42376441
Holy based

>>42376070
And true wisdom is NEEDING to go nuts deep in this heterosexual tart

>>42376070
Nah real adulthood is a fusion between both.

>>42376111
>Littlepip kills mostly those that are COMPLETELY irredeemable
Like children and ponies with cutie marks she doesn't like

>>42377203
Damn didn't think Littlepimp was that based maybe I will read FoE

>>42376701
Well, that does sound like a fun lineup.

>>42377203
>with cutie marks she doesn't like
If you're talking about Arbu, this 'cutie mark' is a sign of murder and cannibalism. That's pretty high up on the irredeemable scale.

>>42376111
everyone deserves mercy anon
its not those ponies' fault that they are born not normal. I guess their biggest mercy and mercy for everyone around them now would be death, which is tragic...

>>42376441
>>42377899
you can see the hype in the guy with a blue shirt

here /foe/ have my not even /bale/ art

>>42378445
Who's that?

>>42378725
Littlepip, I imagine

>>42377288
Yeah it is, I did think about wanting to add a Kirin companion to the cast but I couldn't find a good enough reason to include one, I also don't have enough room for one.

>>42376441
Mares in da car

>>42376441
based

>>42379622
>Blackjack and Littlepip
What a ride.

>>42379622
Putting Blackjack in your car is like putting bullseye on your forehead

Wait a second
There was a mutual exchange of megaspells during the war, right?
It wasn't just one-way with zebras nuking all of Equestria...right?

I had so much shit to talk 48 chapters ago about how PH seemed like it was just getting more and more depressing and hopelessly punishing and cynically crass and vulgar, and now the author goes and pulls a stunt like this...
...and TOTALLY REDEEMS HIMSELF. LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>42379929
No, the zeebs got the shit bombed out of them too. And they're kinda worse off since their lands never got the cleaning touch of Twilight's true heart project. As far as the story goes, the lands beyond Equestria remain fucked up.

What's the best audiobook version of FoE to recommend to a lazy friend

>>42380768
the one inside your head that get´s proceduraly generated when your eyes meet the text... it even comes with separate voice actors for each character and is animated too! only if you´re not a nigger

>>42380768
I would recommend reading, but if you want to close your eyes and imagine here are some audiobooks:
the voice of littlepip: https://foeaudiobook.itch.io/littlepip
Manehattan Edition: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdIPmX3PamvDhsHcJftE1RpHeWx9WzI2p
the most popular one I guess: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCyD3-jSFNU&list=PLBX-BvTh7SMC_NGlshPVbWEPJSCy0fTI9

that's all I can name

>>42380799
I am a apparently a nigger because I don't have an inber voice or the ability to think with images anymore. I used to hen I was a child but it's gone

>>42380893
you should practice to gain those things again
it will be worth it!

Hi Murky!!

that damn smile...

>>42381463
link to the comic?

So how is FoE:Remains doing? Any news? I've personally lost hope
If they really are replacing the Hasbro copyrighted stuff they could very well replace FoE characters, since they are very much OOC in this game.

>>42381710
What exactly were you hoping for, before you've lost hope? Development finished like 5 years ago, game is perfectly playable. Unless you mean the Steam release?

>>42381756
Yeah, you know, a steam release would be nice

>>42381699
https://www.canterlotcomics.com/comic/en/project_horizons_comic-929
Sadly, but understandably, not finished
But 40 pages in

>>42382064
thanks anon

>>42382064
would you say it's good?

>>42382122
Yes, I was sad to reach the final page

Have there been any attempts to turn Velvet Remedy's lyrics into actual music

>>42382622
Not that I'm aware of

>>42382622
I haven't heard about anything like that either.

Would you join their game?

>>42383621
Ew, why is Littlepip sweating so much?
Either way yeah, DnD is like the coolest shit gou can do since it's basically team storytelling + a tiny bit of acting. Good stuff.
I assume the green one is Applesnack and the red one Red Eye? He does have the main character energy

>>42383621
>It actually fixes Redeye
Hot damn. I'm in.

>>42383655
Yeah, the green one is Applesnack. That's how he is commonly depicted before he got fused to his suit.

>>42383655
Because her GF is the GM and Lilpip be nervous vaping.

>>42383655
Becasue Pip is a pervert in every setting.

I have at long last closed the back cover on Project Horizons. This story has kept me company through a month and a half of surgery recovery. Originally I got into it after a glimpse at the comic adaptation posted in the /RGRE/ thread informed me there'd be maredom. Obviously I got hooked for other reasons, which kept me going for the remaining 50 chapters after arc was resolve, although I repeatedly complained from the Vault 99 gassing scene onward that I was afraid the story had entered its "bully the MC grimdark" phase I'd heard so much about.
Looking back on it now, it pleases me to say that much, though not all, of that gripe seems misplaced. While there're definitely a few times that a tantalizing buildup is dashed without adequate payoff, overall I think this story sticks to its guns and returns on investment more often than not. Though I'd still have sprung for 1.78m words of just Blackjack being a rapist and P-21 crying about it.
I'm conflicted about the final stretch. One the one hand I can't say P-21 and Glory's sacrifices were unworthy in the way that I felt that things like Stable 99 and the deaths of Sanguine's family were, I also can't really say I was much moved either. It's good the deaths were heroic - I'd tolerate nothing less - but the scenes felt dry, the reasons under-engineered. I wanted more from their final moments, a greater sense of importance. A fair bit of the ending sequences, in fact, give off a sense of mental exhaustion in Somber. I also can't say I was altogether engaged with the whole "le big battle with all the OCs getting screentime" thing. I've made my peace with Blackjack getting mindmelded into exposition, but by all the angels in Heaven did I ever not care what the brother of the leader of the Flamer gang or w/e was up to. Maybe some of this is on me, if any big flaw can be pointed to in PH and a lot of FoE in general, it's how obvious it is which characters are ripe for culling and which must make it to the end. As another poster pointed out, Chekhov's gun is always getting blatantly loaded 4 chapters ago. My last thoughts on the ending are that I'm glad for the epilogue, even if it has apparently spoiled like 99% of the rest of the FoEverse. I'm not sure if I'll keep reading, I don't know if I have confidence that anything will top this.
(Cont.)

>>42384635
While I don't think PH justified all 1.78 million of its words, I'll always be impressed at how much of a slog its middle wasn't, considering how easy a sticking point that is for long stories. Somber's competence as a writer hits its stride quick and there's always some plot thread going on, two plot threads coming into focus, and three plot threads getting started at any given moment. I am not a fan of Fallout content on principle, I've mentioned before how little I care for the American Roadtrip style of checkpointed storytelling, the Fight Shonen outcomes that play out at each checkpoint. I'm rarely interested in gunplay or military tech fascination. Somber brings the requisite heaps and piles of this stuff to bear in PH. Fair play, IMO, since that's the territory and I'm a guest here. Shockingly, I had a lot of fun in spite of myself. Somber keeps the moment-to-moment fresh, the fights are almost always unique, make good use of the characters and are often responsible for introducing a slew of new ones with the deftness of a skilled writer. The choreographing is great, driven by some juicy character drama here, or punctuated by some bit of slapstick dramatic irony there. As concerns the mechanics of good writing, Somber's prose becomes pleasantly invisible after the first few chapters, he takes us to cool, relevant, and interesting places most of the time, and treats us to an engaging cabaret of bullets and spells.
Then there's the backstory, which in spite of myself I ended up being more engrossed by than the main plot. A first for me. It is hard to represent society in classes and structures, rare to see a writer describe the intricacies and interplays of things like ministry bureaucracy and nobility. Rarer still is the nuance required to not make a punching bag out of one class or the other. I was pleasantly surprised in particular at just how often Somber was able to nod to nobless oblige, when less imaginative writers would be making facile caricatures of greed and cruelty. No one escapes unscathed, but the heat typically feels earned, and that's something I respect.
And how wistful is Equestria's fall? What a solidly defined sense of what might have been. It is only because Somber seems to not have relished trashing MLP's setting that he is able to convey the tragedy.
(Cont. one last time)

>>42384640
Blackjack's morality is a silly, frustrating thing, but of course it is, for what else could drive an odyssey like this one? Nevertheless, like the ponies around her, I usually end up impressed by her dedication if nothing else. I cannot agree entirely, and I'm sure I'm not meant to either, with her stance of not being an executioner, but there's a thrill to watching her works of mercy reward her with a wasteland full of friends and allies. Her struggle and passion makes the exaltation feel deserved in a way few can encapsulate, and if the lessons in the end - of helping others and the inevitability of death's ending - feel simplistic I think that only goes to show how little deep philosophy is needed to tell a good story about a hero.
There's a relevance and maturity to the portrayal of Goldenblood's love for Equestria - how many cynical wits in the fandom have felt the need to cut their teeth writing doomslop about how Equestria must be forced to hardnosed cruelty to survive? Goldenblood is an excellent answer to them, convinced he loves this beautiful, naive country, but all the while he disparages it, infantilizes it, by carrying on as though it needs a dark defender, willing to commit the horrors ponies can't stomach. He realizes too late that friendship and harmony are not fragile niceties to be swaddled, but the very powers that would have been best suited to protect Equestria, as they always had, and in that realization discovers that he had only then, at that moment, truly begun to love his home the way it deserved to be loved. All the best fics I have ever read in this fandom have had that same respect for its lessons, a conviction that goodness is not only sweet, but powerful in its own right, and thus worth pursuing even in darkness.

I promised myself from the moment I ever found out that there was a Fallout: Equestria that I'd despise it and everything to do with it on principle. So, congratulations Somber, I have broken that promise and enjoyed myself. Thanks for making a month and a half stuck in bed with a hole in my gut a lot of fun, and thanks to all of you Anons I shitposted with during it for the same.

I'll probably return after some sleep and a long walk and get more into detail but I wanted to get that all down while that post-story hollowness was still fresh.

>>42384687
As someone who stopped reading PH 1/3 of the way in, but will inevitably get sucked into reading the rest of it, I appreciate the reflections.

Story idea:

Hot take: I actually adore Littlepip
She is very human (I know, I know). She gets dragged into things much greater than what she signed up for, but doesn't blame anyone around her. She is battered and broken and it's beautiful. Seeing Littlepip's irreversible long and horrible, drawn-out mutilation is so painfully relatable, the way she actually takes moments to note that certain injuries will simply be a part of her from now on, fhat it won't ever be the way it used to be.

How tormented she was nearing the end of her journey, how she takes her fate pretty damn well all things considered. This part, oh god this part is actually really well-written. As someone who was on the verge of death for half a year I remember that one night I was at my lowest and I remember thinking "I can't even lift my hand. This thing they stuck in me won't let me sleep. Breathing hurts. I don't want to ever open my eyes again" The moment, when you are humiliated and the steange calm as you face oblivion is... cathartic and beautiful. And I believe it checks out.

Generally, the story as chaotic and amateurish as it is has a surprisingly strong ending. No last-minute heroics. Littlepip has gone beyond what a pony can take and that's okay, now it's time to rest. Lightbringer being a meaningless title unrelated to how she actually brings light to the wasteland. This is a really strong message. She was destined to unite the elements, but everything else was her own doing. Which is pure literary genius.

It's sort of the polar opposite with Horizons where the begging is absolutely the strongest part of the story and the ending is horrible Mary Sue bullshit,

Not to mention at times Blackjack feels written to deliberately one-up Littlepip, because she's essentially the better version of her. (Yes, not being a pathetic nerd counts)

>>42385506
What?

>>42385506
There is a severe lack of pancakes in post-apocalyptic Equestria.

>>42385506
Pony goes through a deadly and dangerous adventure, all for aquiring the rare and forgotten Pinkie Pie recepie for good pancakes.

>>42385909
Why is she crying?

>>42386750
It's her first taste of pancake.
>>42383621
No, AU!Pip is too autistic.

>>42386908
But shes a cute type of autistic there!

>>42386928
No she isn't.

>>42386983
Says you, also pretty sure thats AHDH and not autism.

Littlepip is a murderer and a menace to society.

>>42387053
>recieved the most obvious cutiemark
Okay and?
>Personally killed over 50 ponies, mostly cause their lifestyle
Murder and cannibalism isn't an acceptable lifestyle. Nor is experimenting on sentient and especially sapient beings
>Took at least one hitman contract
I don't remember that happening
>killed a couple thousand pegasi
fascists
>sabotaged an anti-insurgence campaign
Genocide and anti-insurgence campaign are not the same thing. Even if they were it was the fascists conducting it, so good riddance
>Hero of Equestria, Lightbringer
She: Has brought together the elements of harmony, sacrificed her life (or all but life) to bring light to Equestria, destroyed a genocidial regime, killed an abomination hellbent on assimilating the world, killed a follower of said abomination hellbent on becoming her successor, ended a slaver empire, faciliated the formation of the NCR, the one half-decent state in the wasteland, stopped countless insane and evil ponies, rid the swamps of cannibals, rejected comforts of Tenpony tower to continue her quest.

This is a stupid shitpost and you know it

>>42387053
Said a raider apologist.

>>42383621
>>42386983
She's so cute

>>42386983
>Pip needs happy pills in every universe
How fitting.

>>42387148
>fascists
>fascists
Faggot please.

>>42387537
I agree. FoE Enclave should be classified as winged fascists.

>>42387607
No, the Enclave does not consist of winged Italians.

>>42387620
So, winged KKK then?

>>42387676
Also doesn't fit, KKK are completely justified vigilantes.
>>42387175
Blackjack is a better character because she doesn't bend over backwards to erase all evidence of how "red mark on EFS = kill it" was a mistake from her memoirs the way Littlepip does.

>>42387148
It's a shitpost with a point.

This is why sidefics like Anywhere But Here are good. What happens when the 'bad ponies' have backstories, virtues and friendships of their own? What's it feel like to suddenly be on the other end of Littlepip's zebra rifle?

The simplistic morality of the original FoE falls apart (but becomes more interesting IMO) when the antagonists are written as actual people rather than nameless video game enemies.

>>42387822
It's a pointless shitpost. If there were no raiders and everypony banded together the apocalypse wouldn't be that bad, ergo raiders deserve death. They are quite literally responsible for 90% of issues in the wasteland

>>42387796
Yeah but Blackjack is a hornlet

>>42387999
>Littlepip
>gigadrill on her head
>only useful for telekinesis and as Homage's dildo

>Blackjack
>hornlet, only needs a hoofswipe to completely cover the horn with her mane
>can cast spells other than telekinesis
>eventually learns to rapidfire combat teleport, the first of half a dozen generations of her family, and the only of them capable of doing it at the level of Unity alicorns

>>42388208
Littlepip doesn't need to compensate by spellmaxxing because she's not a hornlet

>>42387796
>Justified vigilantes
Lol, sure
>Blackjack is better
BJ is a whiny whore, who whines and tries to claim shes good.
>>42387822
>"Oh guyz, these raiders have backstories! They have fwiends and names! Dont you feel sorry that they might die from Littlepips rifle?"
Nope, not really. They're fucked up criminals who clearly dont show remorse for their actions, blow their heads off I say.

Fillydelphia surely has some sort of snowpity factory with all the waifus that keep spawning in around that place

>>42387822
Raiders are just objectively bad people, you can make them sympathetic all you want but that doesn't matter if you murder, rape and eat people, while I agree somewhat that making even the Raiders sympathetic can be good but I will still hold the opinion that nine out of ten times the Raider deserves to be shot with very few exceptions one of them being if the Raider is trying to atone for their actions and want to become a better person.

>/FoE/ hates raiders now
oh, how times have changed

>>42384643
nice
hope you get better

Raiders have the best RadPity and that is why I made Raider Pip and Blackjack Clones

>>42388702
I could save her

When Blackjack found those newspaper clippings and saw the pony astronauts and she was like 'We went to MOON!' I could hear the Little Dark Age playing in her head

>>42388702
I could breed her.

>>42387886
>They are quite literally responsible for 90% of issues in the wasteland
You mean literally the ziggers

What does she know?

>>42389746
That's the meta level. Because the zigs are responsible for 99% of the raiders.

>>42390096
That (You) can't stop her.

>>42344053 (OP)
>him

>>42390524
It's funny how part of Murky's character arc is him realizing that Littlepip is a shitty hero who isn't going to save him.

>>42390738
That's equal parts comedy and tragedy

Wacky woohoo adventures in Florida
or
Unkillable mentally disabled pony isn't smart enough to cope with all the shit that happens to him and is constantly on the edge of omniing and homelandering all over the place

>>42390738
That 3d pony art looks surprisingly good in the fallout UI.

>>42391153
Now kinda wish there were people crazy enough to make FoE using Fallout 2 engine.

>>42391256
I've heard modding the old Fallout games required a miracle

>>42391259
It's less that, just only few small number of people mastered the engine. Mostly some Russian modders, since several big named mods came from them. Sadly, I don't think they left any documents how to work on the engine.

>>42391259
Ehh... I mean it's harder than modding most old games and way easier than modding modern games. Certainly doable, but the gameplay is so unremarkable nowadays it's not worth it. The games are well designed in terms of content, hardly mechanics and you could achieve the same with less effort on a better engine (Bethesda/Obsidian games aren't modern because they run on ancient engines)

>>42391256
At least we have this

>>42391322
Ye, this is the next best thing we'll have

Would the pony bombs have had different effects compared to zeeb bombs?
And how'd you think the zeeb lands are? Worse off? Better off? There's no cloud barrier there but how would that affect things?

>>42391833
Unless zebra magic works inherently differently (as in always has different effects) jt's the same, since their megaspells come from the same matrix Equestrian nukes did, courtsey of Flutterslut

If you were to slap Rampage's butt what would happen?

>>42392170
I didn't read PH
would I get raped?

>>42392404
That's the best case scenario. Worst case scenario, one of her more psychotic identities takes over and flays you alive.

>>42384687
Well here are some thoughts so far, mainly critique since I have to
I complained in my initial thought about how Glory and P-21's deaths lacked a sense of destiny. I think, looking back, that they actually get surprisingly little from the story in terms of focus and development on the whole. There's a point very early on, just a bit after Glory is branded and P-21 attempts suicide, where they get stamped with a development checkmark and turned into fairly mundane sidekicks. Rereading certain chapters I'm consistently struck with their lack of presence. The conversation Blackjack has with them generally lacks novelty and development. There's very little chemistry at all compared to, say, characters like Rampage or Charity.
In fact, I think that "a sense of destiny" is really what separates that honeymoon phase at the start from the post-99 chapters. Still good, in its own way, but not exhilarating.
It's just a weird problem to have, because Somber isn't incapable of writing chemistry.
I think the biggest improvement the ending could have done with would have been some more rewarding emphasis on the release of the souls from the Soul Eater. We're shown early on that these are millions of souls, many of them children, being brutally tortured, in some cases for hundreds of years (potentially Eons, given the conversation with Tom). Their freedom was the resolution of a grim tension that set the backdrop of the entire fic, both it and the end of the fic deserved to have that moment be explosive and selfish for the reader. They should have borne Blackjack aloft and showered her in gratitude. This moment should have been pure ecstasy, one of the few truly deserved opportunities for total emotional indulgence. Instead, like the rest of the ending, it just passes by. Blackjack says "hi" to Glory and P-21, cargo-ejects Luna's soul, logs out.
IDK, maybe I'll think of other stuff.

>>42388877
Thanks, aside from a small ripped stitch issue it's been a mundane recovery, basically done and cleared to lift >10lbs again by next week.

Man, maybe I won't read Project Horizons
The setting was already too grimdark for my blood
The only reason I would continue reading was to see more chemistry between these two screwups

>>42393122
Ah, I'd feel bad if that complaint stopped you. There are lots of interactions between them still, and all very worth reading. My overall stance is still to recommend PH.
I'd say set some checkpoints and see how you feel after each one: Resolution of the Sanguine arc, then Hightower, then aristopony society.

>>42393377
Chapter 2X is just 15k words of Goldenblood wheezing and coughing trying to get through a monologue with Luna and Blackjack treats it like the most profound shit ever

So, zebra lands. Let's say some parts of them managed to kind of survive the apocalypse and that they're re-establishing society two hundred years later and some faction decides they'd have better luck across the ocean in Equestria. Does that sound outrageous?

>>42391848
The way I understood it, the megaspell is just an empty container that amplifies and combines the effects of whatever's put in it. So they could be very different.

>>42393122
There's not much good interactions between them after chapter 16 even though BIG SPOILER: they basically confess for their love later in the story and P-21's homosexuality is literally retconned but nothing comes of it and they don't start a relationship.

I'd say just read up to chapter 16 and then headcanon everything else. Literally anything you can come up with is better than what Somber wrote. Maybe just read the Hightower Arc since it's one of the only solid later Arcs.

>>42391322
I wish there would be a FO1 version for it too.

>>42391256
I was enginedevving an isometric FOE inspired game last year, got pissed off with trying to parallelize things on the cpu. Would like to revisit if I can get gaggles of ragdolling-on-death pone swooshing around. lots of fast moving objects + voxel interactions kill the cache :(

>>42394172
What engine? I dont know much about computers

>>42392404
Yeah. Before or after you get violently killed might be open for debate though.

>>42394765
What if you smacked Blackjack's flank?

>>42394782
She'd probably enjoy that

>>42394782
Broken balls or sex. There isn't much in between.

>>42395476
Blackjack gets sexual pleasure from destroying your balls so it's likely both

>>42394469
enginedevving = my own "engine" = was making it from scratch in C and a few helpful things from other people (mostly the Sokol libs). If you look up "intel simd intrinsics" or "multithreading" you'll get a sense of why I got mad lol

>>42396211
My heartrate suddenly spiked
Arousal? Fear? Both?

Littlepip being an ugly esbo disgusted by men is actually a metaphor for the author being a tranny

>>42396315
She isn't disgusted by stallions though, she flirts with stallions intentionally several times in the story and doesn't act gross out about it, she's just a faggot.

>>42396315
She's just autistic

>>42396529
Okay, this is super cute

>>42396529
The one on the tail is just floating.

>>42393700
There are many things about PH that I simply cannot be tricked into defending.

>>42395759
>>42394172
Also enginedevfag (2d tiled board tho so way less ambitious) and I can attest that doing simd and par in straight up C is respectable. There no compute shader stuff you can do for voxels and ragdoll physics?

>>42396529
>Littlepip will never sit on my face

>>42396529
She's so snuggly!

>>42397156
ganbatte young brave. what are you making?

>There no compute shader stuff you can do for voxels and ragdoll physics?
I hope so, been rewriting all the tech to run on the gpu with vulkan - so far it's less painful than low level cpu stuff. Getting object allocation and rendering going atm

i wish to celestia i could sing to an enire song without crying for the foe thread but i know i would just end up crying half way through and sound like ethan halke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oxGC2Dyj4g

>>42397502
This but with Lacunae.

>>42397954
EMRACE THE WASTELAND FOR ALL SHES WORTH YOU FUCKING PUSSY

Blackjack suffers so much that there's an entire sequel fic dedicated to getting her therapy to overcome all the trauma she accumulated from suffering too much

>>42398248
What about P-21?

>>42398256
He's too busy being FUCKING DEAD

>>42398248
If you're talking about Speak, I heard this story is apparently very poor because of inept narrative decisions.

>>42398350
NOT FAIR

>>42398473
Correct, Threnody is cute but trying to claim blackjack is 11/12 during the events of project horizons is stupid.

>>42397680
>what are you making?
Basically the version of https://screeps.com/ that I wish it could've been. So instead of worrying about render systems and network compensation I have to worry about tenanted environments, custom dev tooling, and per-tick determinism and fairness.
Pretty chill so far honestly. I'm Rusttrooning too so my parallelism journey's been fun and a lot of my simd woes are handled by the optimizer as long as I'm not stupid with my iters.

It's sick you're doing GPU stuff, I wish I wasn't retarded cause I'm sure there's a lot of work I could parallelize on it for not too much mem transfer overhead. What got you choosing Vulkan over stuff like OGL and DX?

>>42398630
Horniest 12 year old alive

>>42398473
Like going full pedo and having BJ replacing Glory with an underage Thren after meeting for 2 weeks? The weird ass Deer vault? Discount Unicorn Enclave from Discount Canadian Hoofington? Been a while since I read it but I think they had to remove Blackjack from the story via head trauma so she can stop grooming and so Thren could get a age appropriate marefriend or some shit.

>>42398630
18, she's 22 in Speak 4 years later.
Still retarded because
>P-21 is about the same age as Blackjack
>P-21 is the father of Scotch Tape
>Scotch Tape is either 12 or 15 depending on pedosex retcon status
>therefore P-21 somehow fathered Scotch at 3 or 6 years old
It's just "Somber cannot resist his pedo tendencies anymore: The Fic".
You can depretzel the timeline by just saying "Blackjack is slightly over 30, breeders get their number assigned at puberty and advance one per year, they're killing dozens of male foals per year regardless of whether you do this or not so it doesn't matter". But Somber isn't going to do it.
>>42398764
>The weird ass Deer vault?
kek
The ol' reliable indicator of furfaggotry.

Don't forget that Striped Teenager Fetish Spinoff also exists.

>>42398764
>>42398784
Yeah, sounds like total trash.

>>42398784
Never read Homelands since its taking years to complete. Plus I was more interested in Blackjack anyway. What makes it worse is that instead of going to try and find Scotch Tape as soon as she wakes up she drinks for a couple of years and tries to fuck the underage shit coloured Pegasus. And since Homelands isnt finished we wont know if Scotch ever retuned home to Hoofington to reunite with Blackjack or stayed to be a Zebra broodmare.
At least she gets to fuck Littlepip for two centuries,

>>42398473
Speaks is frustrating because it feels like it wants to be its own thing but it has to be a PH side-story. And the author clearly doesn't actually like Blackjack.
It keeps going on its own tangent that's some mix of a standard grimdark high fantasy, before remembering sporadically that it's in the Fallout universe and particularly needing to upkeep PH's post-narrative.
Threnody is nice and has some nice plot hooks, but it doesn't really spend much time digging into them before going back to padding out whatever is happening at the time and just kinda wasting time. It really needs an editing pass to keep everything on track.

Ideally just get rid of the whole Blackjack part of the narrative. Stop being an FoE fic because it clearly just wants to be a high fantasy that can also say 'fuck' sometimes.

>>42398944
>And the author clearly doesn't actually like Blackjack.
Better than Homelands where Somber is actively proving that Blackjack is the only kind of character he can write, by having Striped Tape behave exactly how Blackjack would instead.
>>42398863
Speak is also on hiatus IIRC.

>there's this much underage content in FoEverse
I'm in fucking heaven.

Chapter 1: Stable 76

“Flash Fire to the Overmare’s office. Repeat, Flash Fire to the Overmare’s office.”
Stable 76’s PA system hissed with static for a second before turning off with a click. Flash Fire, a Kirin stallion, let out a grunt as he slotted in a replacement fuse before slamming shut the maintenance access panel he’d been working through. Had the Overmare finally grown tired of the PA system’s static hiss? Or maybe, just maybe, it was finally time for his marriage assignment?

The reactor area, where Flash spent most of his working hours keeping it running, was as deserted as usual. His hooves clicked on the bare floor as he sped along, creating the only sound apart from the everpresent hum of the reactor and its generators.

“Hey Flash, what do you think it is this time?”
Ladle, the stable’s elderly earth pony mare chef, waved at Flash as he got to the kitchen area from the reactor maintenance corridor. Flash waved back, but did not stop his trot.
“Probably the static in the PA system. What’s for dinner, by the way?”
“Oat porridge and applesauce. I know it isn’t a stable favorite, but what can I do with the ovens broken?”
Flash was already through the door and in the atrium when a thought crossed his mind. He turned back and stuck his head back in the kitchen.
“Set my portion aside, won’t you? I might be a while. And I’d already scheduled some time in the kitchen for tomorrow!”

Flash raised his hoof off the floor and banged on the door in front of him. Above it was a sign saying ‘Overmare’.
“Come in.”
The door swung open as he gave it a push. The Overmare, a unicorn mare about a decade older than him, sat behind her desk and tapped away at her terminal. She had a mane with alternating stripes of red and orange and a coat of almost yellow orange.
“Lock the door, won’t you?”
Flash stared at the mare for a second. It wouldn’t be about fixing the PA system.

>>42399611

The Overmare drew a deep breath, held it for a few seconds, then let it out in the deepest sigh that was accompanied by a shiver.
“I’ve made the decision.”
Flash’s stomach lurched. His marriage assignment? Finally? Who would it be?
“We have to open the stable.”
He stared dead ahead at the Overmare and blinked.
“Huh? Open… the stable?”
Her lips curled into a smile as she shook her head and let out a chuckle.
“Yes. That’s what I said. We’re running out of spare parts and can’t make more, our equipment is well past its planned replacement date, and we’re all related to each other. The last is why I haven’t been able to pair you with a mare.”

“So you’re planning on opening the stable to keep us alive so we can… do what?”
Flash waved a hoof in the air. It’d been almost two hundred years. Surely there had to be something out there by now?
“We carry out our Stable-Tec assigned mission. We may have never got the expected signal to open the stable from them, but maybe that just means something happened to Stable-Tec and not that the surface remains uninhabitable.”
The Overmare tapped a few keys on her keyboard.
“Which brings us to the reason I called you here for. You are to scout out the surface and find a place for us to settle there so we can re-establish civilization. I have no idea what you’ll find out there, but the radiation sensors of our air filters suggest radiation levels are low enough that it won’t be a problem.”
He stared at her in silence. Going out there? Not that he’d never thought about it, but for real, and on his own? He gulped down a bit of saliva and drew a deep breath.
“OK. So when would I be leaving?”
She turned to face him.
“Tomorrow.”

>Please rate. Would it do for the start of a story?

>>42399611
>76
That number is cursed around these parts...

>>42399889
How so?

>>42399889
I was wondering if anyone would notice!

>>42398784
Breeders enter the queue around 12/13 according to PH, I can't remember how old P-21 was when BJ raped him but they definitely burn through males fast.

>>42399985
When they turn 12 or 15 or something they enter the breeding queue and become P-1, before that they don't have names. It's a matter of only a few years before they become P-21. I honestly don't think most of them live to see 21 years of age before they get cycled out.

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/579546/lemme-smash
I need some more mare suggestions
So far I got Red Eye, Protege, and Chainlink chapters I'm working on

Once upon a time in the magical land of Equestria...

Grand Cross was not having a good day.
To put it mildly.

Her ears were ringing so horribly, reality itself felt like that time she went deaf from stepping on a landmine. And that time she got shot in the helmet. And that time she—
No, wait.
Which of those were actually hers?

She trotted around the room in terrifying clarity and silence.
It was sobriety.

Grand Cross hated sobriety.

That much she remembered. It was that annoying state where you were dragged back into cold, grim reality. No longer nicely fuzzy. No longer glowing in warm, collective unity.

“There are two types of ponies,” her mother once said—
(Wait, her? Or maybe—no, wait—UGH!)
“—the ones that get brawly when sober, and the ones that become nice.”

Grand Cross was—she was pretty sure—the second type.

Her working theory had always been that you either needed to be kept in check by your subconscious... or you were the type crippled by it.

Yes.
Thinking.
That bizarre and thoroughly disliked chore.

Moments ago, she had been the happiest pony in the world.
She had also been The Goddess.
A part of The Goddess, at least.

Now, she was terrifyingly alone.

Her sisters sometimes wandered into places where magic got thin, where energy filtered just enough to disrupt the connection. It happened. It was annoying.
But this?
This was new.
And this was torture.

Her brain was struggling—no, thrashing—as it tried to force way too many memories into the confines of a single mind.
Losing knowledge of a thousand lifetimes was a special kind of oblivion.
A single body.
Yes, she was a single body now.
How horrifying.

She could die now.

What kind of monster would do this to her?to anypony?

The realization came creeping in, slow and throbbing, like getting hit
Grand Cross was Grand Cross. From what she could gather, she had once been a rather successful unicorn mercenary before she was blessed.
And worst of all—
A stallion.
The Goddess wasn't a stallion.

She caught herself using the name Grand.
That was the first—and most cardinal—sin of ponykind: adopting names.

Names tore you away from the sacred wholeness of collectivity. Names admitted that you were...
Scratch that.
Admitting you were, in the first place, cursed you to suffer autonomy.

It was also the last, most difficult pain to ease when you were blessed.
And the first one to return when you were not.

She was no longer a stallion, though. Or a unicorn, for that matter.
Small victories, right?

It was bizarre. She remembered being lesser, and male, before—but... that wasn’t entirely her.
When your identity is disseminated, it becomes much harder to take things personally.
All the more pain to suffer through now.

1/2

>>42400306
Grand Cross looked into her reflection once more, staring into the visage of power she had first fallen in love with as Grand Cross the mercenary, all this time ago in Fillydelphia.
Beautiful.
Godly.
Still an alicorn.

“Deep breaths, Grand. You’re still beautiful and perfect,” she thought, stepping out of the room she wasn’t entirely sure how she had entered. She remembering entering around twenty different places for different reasons before... well before divinity was shattered.

2/2

If you dislike my formatting you have every right to, since I usually write poetry. It is a mini-draft, let's say proof of concept of your fanfic. I figured out you guys would be the most likely to give the harshest and perhaps the most honest critique so here you go. Essentially an alicorn really liked being in the unity, further stuff ensues. A bit exposition-heavy, but you gotta hit with what you have.

>>42398723
Oh cool! How are you going about determinism? I'm curious how lockstep networking with prediction would work, am currently doing everything in fixedpoint to compensate for afaikt IEE754 being a pirates' code of a standard. this might bite me in the ass given there's no gpu accelerated vec3s etc, but we'll see.

>What got you choosing Vulkan over stuff like OGL and DX?
mostly just because it's where the modern cross platform development is happening. in hindsight, Buffer Device Addressing (VRAM pointers!!) is enough to make me never consider anything else.

>I wish I wasn't retarded cause I'm sure there's a lot of work I could parallelize on it for not too much mem transfer overhead.
The setup is the hardest part, and the tutorials are mostly overblown - for example, in practice you don't need to do manual GPU device selection, the driver will give you the best one on [0], which saves you much of the fabled thousand lines of code. The daily API usage comes down to sticking commands in a buffer and kicking it off, which is frankly easier than the OGL versions I've used, and with better performance.

>>42400316
Imagine thinking you'll get any response at all here.

>>42400351
I mean if I don't I can always try elsewhere? It's just that most writing pony spaces feel very lentient to me and you guys are supposed to like Fallout: Equestria stories, so might as well try

>>42400355
Your writing isn't bad, but you're starting with a bit of rambling monologue that doesn't really have much of a purpose. I'd suggest getting a plot hook in before introducing the back story of your character. Also, changing genders is a sensitive thing in [current_year] so I wouldn't mention that early - or at all since it most likely isn't important.

TL;DR: why would I care about a character I know nothing about?

>>42399919
What reference am I missing?

>>42400395
>you're starting with a bit of rambling monologue that doesn't really have much of a purpose
Indeed and that was the intention. It's supposed to be chaotic rambling since that's how she feels. Perhaps it's not the most gripping beggining, but it's some 3000 signs which is basically nothing. I'm willing to risk it for the artistic vision.
>I'd suggest getting a plot hook in before introducing the back story of your character
>Also, changing genders is a sensitive thing in [current_year] so I wouldn't mention that early - or at all since it most likely isn't important.
Precisely why I wanted to highlight it early on in this draft, to gauge reactions. I will be honest, I got this idea that I find quite brilliant and it's a refit of something I was writing years ago. I am quite sure that it's good enough if I don't blunder the execution massively so I wanted to see what you think.
But, more or less I want to explore the idea that being in the Unity and "freed" is effectively still ego death and that Grand Cross before and after are two entirely different ponies, down to their sense of self and attributes as inherent to your ego as gender (among other things I couldn't show off without ruining any semblance of the natural flow). Plus the genderswapped alicorns are a thing in the original and as an alicorn lover I couldn't let that go to waste.

And in the final version the backstory will absolutely get pushed further in, it's just that one thing I was not sure about.
That was very helpful! Many thanks!

>>42400225
Pish pish.

>>42399985
Someone did the math, even with skewed sex ratios 40 males in 500-pop vault means most of male foals would be killed rather than made into breeders.

>>42400032
>When they turn 12 or 15 or something they enter the breeding queue and become P-1, before that they don't have names. It's a matter of only a few years before they become P-21.
Which makes Scotch Tape an infant rather than a teenager because she's been explicitly sired by P-21 when he already had the number assigned. Again, the timeline just doesn't make sense unless you make it count years rather than position in breeder queue.

>>42400443
>attributes as inherent to your ego as gender
The only people whose ego involves gender are troons.

>>42400786
I think Somber didn't quite think the exact details out

>>42400828
Like many details in PH.

>>42400440
Oh, this shit. I completely erased that from my memory.

>>42401238
Why wouldn't you forget the Fallout Shelter 3? It's completely unremarkable and has atrocious performance compared to Fallout Shelter 1, you can't even run it on your phone.

>>42400828
No, he thought them out. With his dick.

>>42400763
Oh look, nostril autist is here.

>>42401300
>Fallout 3 New Vegas
Thanks a strange way to write van Buren.

>>42401479
Van Buren never saw the light of day.

>>42344053 (OP)
Has anyone read The Fossil? The translation is unfinished so you'd have to use autotranslation or know Russian.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/71675/fallout-equestria-the-fossil
https://ponyfiction.org/story/1448/

>>42401497
>Van Buren never saw the light of day.
Yes. And that's a crime.

>>42401524
Yeah, it had some potential

>>42400443
See it ain't because it wasn't a thing in the OG story. It's because no matter where you go, there's always some terminally online autists around who will start a slapfight shitstorm over it and shit up the thread or comments section.
It just isn't worth bringing it up. It doesn't add enough to a story.

>>42401497
I read the Russian version of it. It's actually a pretty fun story, do like the zony Jester a lot.

>>42401798
Yeah, fair. I'll have to think about that. People just care way too much about stuff that doesn't concern them whatsoever. Too bad it impacts what you can say around them without any discussion derailing.

>>42401847
>stuff that doesn't concern them whatsoever
You get to say that once the surgeries displayed in aforementioned subreddit are paid 100% out of pocket instead of medical insurance - insurance that is paid by the public rather than the trannies exclusively. And when your ilk stop taking various anti-sex-offender, anti-pedophile, or anti-rapist laws as a deeply personal offense.
Until then you're either gullibly repeating what trannies have told you, or maliciously trying to thoughtstop the objections.
>>42401798
>It doesn't add enough to a story.
Unless your goal is to do convincing/manipulation 101 of making people think they thought up an idea themselves - in this case the idea being doubting their sex and thus becoming open to further manipulation and (self-)gaslighting.

>>42401891
This seems less like /foe/ discussion and more like politicshit ranting.

This thread is taking a turn for the weird now.

>>42400330
Well it's hosted scripts on a co-located machine, so biggest determinism concern is making sure per-tick commands are order invariant.

>The setup is the hardest part
I've heard this for sure, though I'm also just dragging my heels on learning a shader language at all desu.

>>42402079
Yeah, sorry for that, I just wanted to share my story but some people are brainrotted too far to have a civilized discussion about stuff I actually meant to discuss

>>42402296
I kinda dug it. Not a bad idea so far.

After first reading several million words worth of sidefics, I've finally finished the original story. Or rather, I read up to chapter 27 and then skimmed through the conclusion. Chapters started getting longer and I already know how it ends.

Don't think I'll be saying anything new here. Kkat can be thanked for a lot of FoE's initial worldbuilding. And the fic is reasonably well-written, and not weighted down by awkward, excessive prose (sorry Murky Number Seven).

But on the other hand Littlepip is the worst-written character I've ever read, with Velvet Remedy and Homage tied for second place. Major plot points bounce from 'decent' to 'contrived nonsense.' This is the first FoE fic I've read where I didn't really feel for any of the characters. At least I don't feel bad for seeing all the weird porn there is of them.

>>42399615
So bad that nobody bothers even saying anything?
Noted.
I tried to make it short so it's... well, short. I know it lacks in detail. That's because it's rather unimportant for the story as a whole so I'm not being at all thorough with it. I want to avoid the situation that all to many fics have where it takes way too long to get any plot going and the author's focused on florid descriptions instead early. I'm currently reading Foe: chrysalis and it's a good example of this: by chapter 3, I still have no idea why I should keep reading since there's nothing to look forward to. There's no plot hooks as of yet.

Pic related. It's close to how I imagine the MC, though Flash has lighter colors overall.

>>42402380
Then let me comment on it. The style is fine, but it's another Stable Dweller story which makes it far less interesting to many people. It's also very brief and you barely learn anything about anything.
Stable Kirin are an interesting idea, but I personally don't like Kirin nor do I believe that they would realistically live in stables. We don't get any stable zebras or dogs or other creatures, for one.
Note this introduction provides no stakes, as Flash Fire has absolutely nothing to lose. The stable is fucked either way and they don't have anyone to care about.
Overall solid 6/10, probably wouldn't read from this alone. You criticize the lack of plot hooks yet you haven't introduced any yourself. Getting out of the stable isn't a plot hook.

>>42402531
There was a stable with zebras. No stories about it that I know of, though.

But that aside, thank you for providing feedback. I did have a plot hook in mind and sounds like I have to start with it instead of delaying it a little bit. A recurring dream that always ends in the same message may not be the most original, but it should do. I'll continue working on it.

>>42402380
Who would really want to leave a stable unless it sucked

>>42402593
Or, come think of it, perhaps it's best start already out of the stable. It'd be more interesting and offer more options for me to write about what's important.

>>42402531
Ye, I think a stable dweller concept is too played out.

>>42402739
It's not too late to change that. I could have him be from the village on the Peaks of Peril instead. That might make for a more interesting backstory, but I'd have to come up with a reason why he's so far away from home and has wandered through the entirety of the Wasteland.

>>42403502
The dress would be perfect if it were in military colors.

>>42403502
She cute

>>42403502
Morning Glorys method of cheering up BJ

>>42404318
That and her reset button.

>>42398863
Homelands has some great worldbuilding, less constrained than a typical FoE fic where everything happens in Equestria. But yeah, it sucks it's taking so long to complete, and as more years go by it's looking less and less likely Somber will pull it off.

>>42405190
Clearly not the same mare. The one in the background has too much metal in her face.

What, no one really has FoE books?

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

>>42405525
Sorry man, I already gave you everything I had a couple months back

>>42405678

No problem bro, I am deeply grateful to you.

Just last minute attempts. If there is no other hero by next month, I will have to become one.

Longtalons is pretty good so far. Understated, but not dull writing. I liked the subtle Murky reference.

Out of all of my plushes Chainlink Shackles mare is the most cuddly
Is this because evil mare or there some other secret?

Man Fallout London really overhyped itself even though it's almost a carbon copy settingwise of 4.

>>42365716
you could've really put that with spoilers
just saying

>>42406482
also fuck I forgot to remove my name from writing the Butterscotch green
is that cringe?

>>42406341
>Multiple Murky plushies exist
>Anon has a fucking Chainlink Shackles plush
>NO Protege plushes in sight
What is WRONG with this world

>>42406513
dark fabric is really hard to mark for cutting

>>42406513
He's kinda handsome.

>>42406975
He's the handsomest smartest all-around bestest pony in Fillydelphia!

>>42406362
How? How is it a copy of F4?

>>42407115
Tldr on him? I've never read his story.

>>42406482
Bro Discords mention is a one off thing and even then we don't know if the mention is true or not.

>>42407796
Alright

>loves mares and draws them
>shit job and boss has a stick up her ass
>certified ponelet
>health issues that aren't a problem now but are going to be in a decade
Holy shit he's even more literally me than Ryan Gosling

>>42407873
Pulmonary edema seems more like a 'today' problem than a 'in a decade' problem.
>>42407707
Go read Murky Number Seven you noob it's like the best FoE story

>>42408053
Murky looks so polite

>>42408053
Very informative.

>>42408983
the problem is that a lot of stuff about him is spoilery, let's just say that he is a slaver but he's one of the good ones/ not so bad ones and has a very nice character arc

Remnants Anon here with a question do any of y'all know any fics talk about or at least mention what the other nations/races were doing during the war? I have an idea for a plot point where Equeastria was trying to find new trade partners to replace the Zebras and have a alternative source of coal.

>>42407873
what does the allegory of >boss has a stick up her ass mean?

>>42409175
It means she's a knife-wielding psycho with a broken horn
Seriously, read the fic, it's good

>>42409564
I don't know why people like. I literally can't see the appeal.

Wow Speaks is horny. Im 3 chapters in but Blackjack is like a fucking Indian.

>>42409958
She also mastered the art of drunk speak

>>42409958
It's a crap story. Simple as.

The virgin "kill everypony who disagrees with you" versus the CHAD "forgive everypony, including your worst enemies"

>>42410474
Yeah I gotta say it's not capturing me, and really keen on blowing a lot of tension way too early. Did we really have to start the revenge quest for the MC's traumatic backstory so soon? Some authors just refuse to savor the money shot.

I GOT A GLOCK IN MY RARI

>>42411404
Griffons are cringe though.

>>42412527
HE'S FUCKING BALLIN

>>42412630
>He
There's no stallion in that image.

>>42413256
YOU VILL NOT RENT OUT ZE BREEDING EQUIPMENT TO FILL OUT YOUR TEAM

>>42413762
>all that effort but the pipbuck is still on the wrong leg and medicine isn't Ministry of Peace
Besides, with how much junk Littlepip is carrying the accurate imagery would be A GIGANTIC SACK OF TRASH almost burying the smallpip underneath itself.

>>42413788
Pipbuck's on the correct leg it looks like

>>42413891
Re-read the fic.

>>42413301
I don't know what Klaus has to do with Stable 99, but okay.

>>42414105
If I told you, the CIA would make me disappear

>FoE: Chrysalis
I just read CH6 and that was bad. Then I scroll down to the comments and see people praising it to high heaven?
The previous two chapers were OK and I thought that, maybe, after the way too slow beginning we'd be getting somewhere. Technically, we are, but the writing got worse. I found it especially jarring when the author first describes something, and then has one of the characers tell it, usually Whisper in her monologue. And don't even get me started on Whisper. She's one of the least interesting characters I've run into. A cold, calculating analysist who is enlightened by their own intelligence, shows no emotion, and whose goal is maybe sometimes mentioned in passing? Also she's technically a changeling but really an earth pony because she never lets the disguise drop. Why is she a changeling again? Does she like anything or anyone? So far she's told she likes Starlight but has done nothing to show it.
Yeah, this better improve fast. This is honestly starting to piss me off a little. Especially Whisper's internal monologue.

>>42414407
Adding to this: I'm pretty sure the author has autism or at least assburger's.

>>42410933
BJ aint chad, she a whiny bitch. Litrlepip is true chad for murdering all the trash.
>>42411404
Griffons are more majestic and superior.

>>42414407
>>42414481
Ayy another for the Chrysalis disappointment train!
No it doesn't get much better, just more of the flat-as-cardboard characters slogging around the wasteland as Whisper inexplicably becomes a super-spy/assassin/warrior/diplomat.
The crashing Enclave Raptor at the end of one of the early chapters was like the only bit of writing in that fic that I enjoyed.

>>42414855
>crashing Enclave Raptor
These things crash in every story, don't they.

>>42415228
Yeah, they're kind of important so showing them crash is a good thing.

>>42414855
>doesn't get much better
Oh good, then I can drop it without feeling like I'm missing out on something.
I still feel like reading something, though. I picked Chrysalis because it was highly rated and less than a million words. I'll find something but I'm also open to suggestions.

>>42414484
>Griffons are more majestic and superior.
Opinion discarded.

>>42410933
This doesn't work since Littlepip was delt with nothing but pure evil villains while Blackjack had some villains that were redeemable.

>>42415952
Longtalons has been excellent so far.
Also Anywhere But Here is good if you don't mind the raunchiness

>>42416300
Almost all, even. The list irredeemable villains was so low that BJ was always happy to kill them because she wouldn't have to feel remorse afterwards.

>>42413762
Impressive, a lot of details.

some assembly required

>ded
Okay, have some lore that I likely won't have a chance to write for like a year or so. Why does work have to make me too busy and/or tired to spend more than a few hours a week writing?

>The Kirin
>There are no known Kirin tribes in the Equestrian Wasteland.
>The closest and only known one to the southeast of what once was Equestria, hidden in a lush, forested valley of a steep and jagged mountain range: the Peaks of Peril.
>Their valley's remote and sheltered location spared it from the worst effects of the end of the world.
>But not all.
>Their home, the forest... changed.
>So did the Kirin.
>What was once friendly, outgoing, and welcoming is now fiercely territorial, tribalistic, and suspicious - both the forest and its inhabitants.
>That does not always mean hostile. Visit their trading post at the base of the Peaks and you might find arts and crafts or exotic foods from their home village. Visit anywhere else or wander into the forest on your own, and you will never be heard of again.
>Though, something has changed in the last year.
>Small groups or even lone Kirin, on a mission from their Elder, have left the village to wander the Wasteland.
>They ask about "the Queen" and no matter the answer, they always seem unsatisfied with it.
>"No, that's not the one."
>Is what they'd say when told of this or that raider queen or self-proclaimed ruler.
>Though slow to trust and quick to shoot, one can befriend a Kirin.
>They are perhaps the most loyal companions one can have in the Wasteland: their friends are a part of their tribe, and the tribe comes first.

If you've been keeping up, it'll be quite a change for the MC of the story I have in the works, turning from a stable dweller to a tribal. There's still a couple of things I have to work out and talk out before I can get to writing. But, I hope to have CH1 done this month. From there, who knows. It'll be slow going.

>>42417193
>pill bottles
least crippled and drugged up FOEfag

>>42417193
>>42417257
>Hardcore FOE fag has pills cranked up to 11
Checks out. You and Pip go well together. And Rampage too.

>>42417238
I like tribals

*vwoop*

>>42418675
This is why you don't do spells when you're drunk.

What if mares were curious about you?

>>42419116
I'd let myself be a victim to Blackjack's attempts at good will.

>>42419250
She's a dangerous mare

>>42419116
Don't trust the whiskey horse.

>>42419250
(You) think you'd have a choice in the first place? That's cute.

>>42419978
If I survive I get to join the party of wounded angsty folks orbiting around her. If I die I get to be a part of the guilt counter. It's a win win really.

>>42419988
Weird flex, but okay. You do you.

>>42401814
How'd you like the reference overload of the second half of the fic?

mare

>>42420321
Who dis?

>>42420347
OC named Bulls Eye, same as >>42405190

>>42420321
Bathe the mare then cuddle the mare!

>>42420321
>>42420394
Is she straight?

>>42420508
Only one way to find out...

>>42420569
Well, here goes nothing.