Thread 42687804

Fallout Equestria is an MLP fan fiction that you can read here:
> https://www.fimfiction.net/story/119190/fallout-equestria

Fallout Equestria: The Official Audiobook can be found here:
> https://foeaudiobook.itch.io/littlepip
Two Versions
Voice of Littlepip - single narrator - out now
Wasteland Echoes - audio play version - public release Oct 31st 2025

Converse and share images about the books, games, animations, write greentexts, and more!

It has spurred the creation of many spinoff stories, with some of the most popular being listed below :
Project Horizons
> https://www.fimfiction.net/story/208056/fallout-equestria-project-horizons
Heroes
> https://www.fimfiction.net/story/662/fallout-equestria-heroes
Pink Eyes
> https://www.fimfiction.net/story/931/fallout-equestria-pink-eyes
Murky Number Seven
> https://www.fimfiction.net/story/47300/fallout-equestria-murky-number-seven

Fangames:
Fallout Equestria Remains:
> https://foe-remains.gitlab.io/main_en.html
ashes town:
> https://ashes.town/
> This was recently shut down and now links to an foe ponytown server.
Hearts of Iron IV mod: Balefire Blues:
> steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2307988796

Alright I got it started. don't let me down!

Which drugs would be worth taking? I'm thinking Dash.

>>42687892
Dash for me too, I wanna go fast

>>42687823
Damn fallout can be cool.

Just gonna drop my FoE OC horse. Originally made her for a FoE game an then kept her after it.

>>42688927
That claw must make it hard to walk, what's her story, nonny?

>>42688968
She was basically a former Enclave unit captain, lost her wings and hoof during a battle then her missing hoof replaced with a robotic prosthetic. She also had a bounty on her head by the NCR. So, on a few occasions the party had to deal with random bounty hunter encounters.

>>42689023
Cool, I hadn't noticed the weird wing thingy, hope she is okay

>>42689111
She mostly hides the scars where her wings were under her clothes. Her experiences did mess her up mentally, but she thankfully didn't become a total wreck like BlackJack was. Funny thing, the party did actually run into a whiskey horse one time and GM had to stat her.

>>42688927
She got a name?

>>42689358
Blitzhoof or Blitzy for short.

>>42689023
Will she ever fly again?

>>42689447
If she finds herself a pair of cybernetic wings, might be a chance.

>>42689560
But apart from PH's anime level power creep, those things are very rare in the wastes.

>>42689023
Why are the NCR mad at her?
>>42689443
Was it one of these sinister prophethic names, or did she change it when she got herself grounded?
>>42689447
I volunteer to throw her up for like half a meter. Maybe a little higher if she's not too heavy.

>>42689582
>Why are the NCR mad at her?

Basically she and her squad took over an NCR outpost and then massacred all the NCR staff that surrendered.

>Was it one of these sinister prophethic names, or did she change it when she got herself grounded?

I guess can be called a sinister prophetic name. The party just called her "Captain" in public and Blitzy only when they had downtime.

>>42689714
What an Enclave captain does? Was there a cloud ship under her command, or am I thinking too big or small?

>>42687804 (OP)
link to previous thread where, faggot

>>42689990
Too big, she was mostly a captain of a small unit of Enclave troops.

>>42687804 (OP)
PREVIOUS THREAD
>>42595090

>>42685238
>>42685232
During storming the Cathedral when she met the mad doc and got analyzed.
>There are five stages of Impelled Metamorphosis development in a viable subject. The first three levels are well documented in my research journals, the most significant being incremental changes to the subject’s relationship to and tolerance of radiation.
>Radiation-induced regeneration, even to the point of regrowing limbs, begins at the first stage and radically improves in the second.
>When the subject reaches the third stage of Impelled Metamorphosis development, the subject’s body actually becomes stronger and faster in the presence of radiation, similar to the “glowing ghoul” and a precursor to the “super alicorn” phenomenon. The subject’s healing becomes so advanced that the natural aging process is all but halted.
>...
>First, it has proven virtually impossible to expose a pony to enough I.M.P to bring them to the third stage without crossing the threshold into the fourth. The few examples of successfully stable third-stage subjects have all been in the wild under unrepeatable circumstances. Which is too fucking bad, since stable stage threes have capabilities that give Doc Slaughter’s vaunted “enhancements” a run for their bits.
>that the natural aging process is all but halted
It's highly implied that Pip is third stage, not second.

>>42690242
P.S. And even if she is second stage, then that with regeneration just means that she will live for several centuries rather than "until killed", as long as she drinks some aqua cura once in a while - in practical terms that's exactly the same, as all the boo-hooing about the injuries and needing the pod is completely negated anyway. Even with the most charitable interpretation about the injuries that would be "completely normal lifespan due to injuries and IMP cancelling each other".

Finished Book 2 of Project Horizons. The story was thoroughly spoiled for me at this point, but it still hurt to read.

Also the people who say stop reading at Chapter 33 are fucking idiots. Blackjack just fucking dies without completing any real character arc or getting answers to the whole EC-1101/Hoofington plotline. I maintain that if you wanna read Horizons, either stop at Chapter 25 and imagine your own ending, or keep going at least until Book 4.

>>42690074
What's her personality like?

I wanna know so I can maybe stick her in as a cameo in a story I'm working on.

>>42689996
>>42690223
OP here, it was late and I forgot. Sue me.

>>42690074
Oh and also what color are her mane and coat?

>>42690372
She was kinda abrasive towards Earth Ponies, calling them Ground Pounders. Though, she has a very deep respect for ponies who keep fighting even when odds against'em, since she believes those are stronger due to their resolve.

>>42690387
Oh ye, forgot to show her colored version.

>>42687804 (OP)
Why do people say Littlepip is a psychopath? Is it the normalfag view of psychopathy that makes them say that?

the more of these fics i read the more emotional i get when little callbacks or references to other stories are made. it's a fun little ecosystem for protagonists to hear about eachother's exploits or hear them mentioned in one off lines.

>>42690574
>Anthr-
-oh. Never mind.

>>42690815
Well, she ain't anthro. Just got this version of her standing on her back hind hoofs. I do have another version, which is well more normal looking

>>42690583
She's constantly sperging out and passing ethical judgement on ponies she's just met. Though I'd say she's immature/autistic rather than psychopathic.

Also, the scene where the party had an encounter with BJ.

>>42690574
>>42690825
Lyra approves!

Thanks for the character info. She'll have fun giving shit to my main character, Pressure Point. He's an earth pony guard for hire. No art for him yet though.

>>42690978
Ehhh... a lot of wastelanders are morally deficient rejects. Not all of them though.

>>42691031
Heh I think I'll have Pressure Point call her Stubby.

>>42691063
Lol, okay I actually like the sound of that.

>>42691091
"Ground Pounder" fits Pressure Point really well, he's got terrible aim, so he's a hoof to hoof fighter.

>>42691118
Yap, that would make sense. Oh ye, one more thing about Blitzhoof, like I said she does show deep respect for ponies who fight no matter the odds. That respect also extends to her enemies.

>>42690995
That encounter looks like it was pretty deadly.

>>42691031
Isn't that a recolor from a Blackjack pic?

>>42691856
It was, specially since the party wasn't really well prepped to handle the whiskey horse and some criminals.

>>42692020
So it was a wipe?

>>42692224
Eh, not really. Took a huge beating, but had some lucky dice rolls (and combat drugs) to make it through, but we didnt wanna fight BJ, so we legged it an couldnt get a bounty on her, got one fo the bandit leadee instead.

>>42692268
ziggas really went after the adam smasher of hoofington

>>42691996
It is!

It's still Murktober you bastards

>>42693065
Correct you are!

I consider Pink Eyes, Murky Number Seven, and Heroes (though I need to finish reading it) to be compatible with Littlepip's story.

Project Horizons is like the Fortnite of FOE stories. I'm glad it exists, but only because it distracts the preteens and weebs from bothering the rest of us. The first 20 something chapters are pretty good and I could see a version of Blackjack existing in the canon universe, but not all the anime inspired crap after that. I stopped reading after chapter 30.
Plus I'm not the biggest fan of constant grape and mutilations.

Anyone feel that way?

>>42692268
So your party basically collectively went "Nah we're not him" thats unironically funny asf.

>>42692302
Accurate.

>>42693190
Murky Number Seven is the only story of the big five that's held my interest until the end. Heroes and Pink Eyes were so awkwardly written that I dropped them rather fast.

The original FoE has awful characters exploring an interesting world. Whereas Project Horizons has great characters exploring an awful world. The former I dropped halfway through because I was so annoyed by Pip's internal dialogue and actions. The latter has held my interest so far, even if the setting is bleak and cruel, because the characters and certain scenes are just that good.

>>42692302
Yap, pretty much. I think we were like level 5-6 at the time and BJ from how I recall was close to lvl 15 or something like that.

>>42693725
Ye, we later had to really restock on drugs, ammo and meds, basically blew our whole earning from the bandit leader bounty. Blitz was actually determined to face BJ in battle again, while our Zeeb chemist/cybernetic expert wanted to study her implants better.

>>42694829
Can't Blitz just feign her death or something?

>>42694858
Would be kinda a challenge, since the robotic hoof would stick out, plus she still wears her old unifom just without the insignias on it.

Up.

>>42694829
Also remember BJ has literal plot armor. You can't kill her. Or at least keep her dead.

>>42695772
That being her special talent is beyond dumb. Absolute Mary Sue writting and not how talents have ever worked.

>>42695880
I mean, it comes with a very high trade-off. She can't lose, but she'll lose everything in the process. That sucks big time for her.

>>42695880
>>42696058
Blackjack could be made a better character, but that would require rewriting her entire fic and deconstructing the idea of self-destructive altruism that she's built around

>>42693725
Except for me, I'd win

>>42696345
Okay, pick the way you want to go. Do you want a Deus sendoff, a Gorgon one, or something else?

>>42696058
I'm not trying to take away the enjoyment from anyone. And Somber has some great character writing at points (which he ruins with pointless grape and suffering scenes). But it goes full cyberpunk weeb and loses the feeling of Fallout pretty quickly. Somber's world building reminds me of Lost, all smoke and no substance until it insists it's deep and meaningful. And I never read past chapter 30.

>>42694033
Her talent is some mystical super being that will never let her lose as long as she suffers for it later. You do get how dumb that sounds right? Not even the show had the balls to do something like that and it put their cutie marks on mystical crystal tree. The closest you can get is the CMC sharing a talent for helping others find their talent (which is also kinda dumb, but toy sales I guess).

Pink Eyes is non-standard. I'll give you that.
I need to finish Heroes, but I think its great so far.

Murky's only real sins are a bit too much suffering and being a too horny for its own good. But I adore it.

>>42695772
Dunno about plot armor, but her cybernetics were def very well armored, we only managed to hit her twice during combat.

>>42696695
Blitzy is built different.

>>42696931
>full cyberpunk weeb and loses the feeling of Fallout pretty quickly
Yeah, he goes way too far into anime fights. That's definitely one of PH's greatest weak points.

>>42696960
Ye, that she's a trained soldier with combat experience, an even then she'd have a careful approach towards the Whiskey horse.

>>42696228
I'd argue that "Deconstructing the idea of self-destructive altruism" is PH's real big problem. Blackjack is a walking red flag, and her friends realize that at MULTIPLE TIMES yet they always give up and let her wander off to go get mentally broken all over again rather than just forcing her to sit down and actually work on her issues. Glory was right, Blackjack needed a damn LEASH and they should have just tied her down instead of making her Team Leader all the time. The punchline of her special talent forcing her to be this way was the peak of the fic's bullshit to try and desperately justify the godawful "BJ is immortal now and will outlive the universe" ending.

>>42696931
>>42697215
I'm only on Chapter 35. What you're describing comes at the end, right? I didn't plan on reading past Book 4. I know the story gets absurd but I wanted more of the worldbuilding and character stuff that happens in the middle. Stopping at Chapter 33 just felt really unsatisfying to me.

bump

>>42697406
Yea the cutie mark stuff is all central to Book Five, but it starts in Four and that's the one where it just becomes comical how clueless her and all her friends are to watching each other self destruct in the most overblown ways. Four mainly sucks with the whole MUH GODESS, BLACKJACK COULD TOTALLY DIVERGE FROM THE CANON AND KILL PIP, HER DEAL WITH TRIXIE AND PSALM'S SUBPLOT IS TOTALLY GONNA HAVE PAYOFF I SWEAR

>>42697215
I try to get this straight: So Blackjack should have a (legal) guardian to keep her in line and away from troubles, but she can't have because of her special talent?

What's her special talent anyway?

I haven't read the fic, but I like to read summary of it. She comes across someone as self damning alcoholic, perma horny wooby. well, no one would care about a character like that for this long, there must be something else for being so popular.

>>42698456
This is why I'm glad I stopped at chapter 30.

More important is how much stuff Pip can carry. It's a lot.

>>42698544
Lil'Pip always comes fully prepped for a fight.

>>42698531
Blackjack is a funny and endearing character, who's genuinely trying to do the right thing and help people. The setting just repeatedly contrives to fuck her and her friends over. She's "self destructive" because she keeps throwing herself in harms way to protect others, even when it gets her shot up.

Then she goes and gets all sad and angsty because ponies end up dying anyways. Which is the annoying part, you can't personally save everyone.

Her special talent is playing cards but I guess later on in the fic it gets contorted into this shit >>42696931

>>42696931
>I never read past chapter 30
Without opining on PH itself, it is very funny to me every single person who bitches about anything past going back to the stable hasn't actually read the story. I have a friend who makes wild assertions about the end of the story and what happens and he legit doesn't even know what Project Horizons actually is, it's the silliest shit.

Rampage is pretty!!!

>>42698531
Her Talent is "Victory At A Cost", she's guaranteed to win but it will always be at the expense of at least one other person dying. It's overall Somber's excuse of saying that she isn't allowed to have any friends or family or even a happy afterlife cause her talent is quite literally being unkillable at the cost of everyone she cares about.

Also yea she's a complete self damning alcholic, perma horny, overpowered, angsty red and black oc, but what people like is she's also self aware about her flaws and desperately tries to self improve even though her own author just tries to throw every single road block to prevent her from growing out of her edgy phase. I think a lot of anons mainly relate to the core theme of her just trying to trek through life despite the never ending rain of absolute shit that is her daily life.

>>42699568
To put it short, she's a mess. And that's what people relate to.

>>42699568
>>42700145
And I get that, but its still red and black OC Mary Sueism on full display. Making it somehow her talent is just an excuse and a bad one at that. Somber write characters very well, but he fell into the one up-ism trap and then kept digging deeper. Plus direct anime references are gross.

>Somber was bad and he should feel bad.

>>42700182
>Somber was bad and he should feel bad.
No one will disagree with this. He dropped the ball hard with Speak.

So Murky does a much better job that PH because it doesn't raise the stakes above the original. It keeps them local and personal (for the most part).

A big problem in fiction (Marvel movies and the Dresden Files are good examples) is constantly trying to raise the stakes. Previous entry you saved the neighborhood? Now its the city, then the country, then world, then universe, then multiverse. But the problem with that is, you can't really care about the nebulous concept of the world or above. If you don't care about the people being saved, the stakes don't matter.

>>42699568
>>42700145
Man I don't want this shit. I just wanted the edgehorse and her friends to find some peace and happiness together. This is like the exact opposite of that

>>42700202
I had to look that one up. Are you refering to the unfinished sequel where Blackjack is forced into therapy?

>Also more Murktober

>>42700234
That's one thing I don't think Somber understood. How Kkat merged the worlds of MLP:FIM and Fallout.

Bad things can happen in MLP, but the evil doesn't win in the end because friendship.

In Fallout bad things always happen and evil can totally win. Unless you have more guns than evil.

In FOE the bad things have already happened and evil is winning because everyone forgot about friendship. But with friendship (and enough guns) good can and does win.

In PH, Somber acted like only through constant suffering can you beat evil. To the point of torture porn. And even if you win, friendship only got you so far and probably killed your friends.

>>42700352
So how high is she?

>>42700182
>>42700234
>>42700305
Yeah I've always argued that if Somber had just ended with Blackjack dying after killing the Eater then at least it'd be a tragic yet hopeful ending. But then he had to ruin it all with the stupid fucking "Blackjack becomes immortal and becomes Pip's sloppy seconds (because of course PIP also has to lose all her friends and not see em with Ponk and Puppy in Pone Heaven) is all the embodiment of Somber falling for the trap of trying to Out Grimdark all the other fics rather than to give his own characters even a scrap of a bone after going so hard with them.

Also yeah Murky is the better fic plot wise, cause Somber went way too far trying to turn his fic into a brick sized JRPG plot, while Murky just stuck with being a low stakes personal FoE plot and completely nailed it. Both still have some of the best OC casts in the fandom though.

>>42700248
Yeah, that one. The whole age retcon thing in this story is pure garbage.

Might toss in one more art I have with Blitzy

>>42700226
>the Dresden Files are good examples
DF is intended to end with "an apocalyptic trilogy", it'd be worse if it didn't gradually raise the stakes until that point.
>>42700202
He dropped the ball harder with "Blackjack Wearing Skinsuit Of Scotch Tape Gets Striped". Homelands that is, he lost the ability to write any protagonist but Blackjack by that point so Striped Tape acts like BJ rather than like Scotch.
>>42700248
Sequel by a different writer altogether with Somber's assistance, yes.
>>42700352
FAT

Why are there so many sidefics that take place in the pony equivalent of the Deep South?

>>42702875
Southern pride

>>42702875
Because Dixie is the best

>>42702472
She has psycho tendencies, doesn't she?

>>42703031
Shes usually way more composed and collected, an only has rare occassions where she becomes battle drunk. This here is one of such rare moments

>>42700352
What setting is that?

>>42703378
Retarded horse in post-apocalyptic Florida.
But I love mecha so I want to pay homage to all the giant robots that made childhood cool

bump

>>42702971
Thats where my FOE OC is from and where he gets his name Dixie Normus he is an earth pony.

>>42701203
Murky's quest was fun to read but it only works out because of circumstance. That's why Protege needed more screen time and a better ending.

Although it's the only fic which does its villains right by depicting them as unrepentant bastards who you want to see lose. So many other stories make their villains sympathetic or attractive or tragic and then I feel conflicted when the main character starts winning

>>42704547
Chainlink Shackles was such a brat in need of correction... I'd force him into a maid outfit.

Project Horizon is annoying because the characters are likeable and I do want to read about them, but the setting is so convoluted and removed from Fallout that it becomes impossible to ignore.
Even when I first read this story back when I was underage and I had no standards, the ammount of Goldenblood related asspulls felt fucking stupid.

>>42704547
The original FoE doesn't do that either.

>>42704989
Which is one of the reasons why it sucks

>>42704632
It is kinda funny how Somber tried to make Goldenblood thid mastermind character.

>>42705476
The actual mastermind...

>>42696695
I want to bully Deus

>>42705641
Who of the two?

>>42705823
>Bully Deus
The guy got deceived, turned into a machine hybrid, castrated, blown to pieces, brain-transplanted into a tank, and blown to pieces again. I don't see how anything you could do may top that.

>>42706534
I like how P-21 is just pissed because he knows what shit Blackjack is capable of.

>>42706697
P-21 is allowed to be as angry as he wants to be

>>42702875
The Zebras didn't think the hick earth ponies were worth using megaspells on. Those idiots had no idea what they left alive.

>>42706833
Right. If anyone has a right to be mad, it's him.

>>42706969
Plus can add extra mystical stuff.

>>42706642
Your choice in mares is terrible, but your determination is respectable.

>>42687892
i have done a bit of this and that and based on that i think i would like mintals the most maybe a tiny smidge of moon stone every once in a while

>>42698879
>Rampage is pretty!!!
if she wasn´t a yucky stripped zigger, she´d be pretty cool, i do like her personality though

Are there any fics that have tribal pones, like from Fallout 2?

>>42705900
Rip one of his cannons off and repeatedly hit him with it.

Life Bloom a cute

>>42708675
One of those characters I forget about

>>42708675
He looks like Air Raid with a horn.

>>42707978
That looks even more uncomfortable than shooting guns in FOE.

>>42708796
He has more than two lines of dialogue though!

>>42708191
So, beat some sense into him?

>>42709137
How can this horse be so criminally sexy?

>>42709517
Yeah

>>42710697
One of these six is not like the others.

>>42710056
I guess stallions with long hair have that effect on people.

>>42710887
Coco is secretly immortal and has been been masterminding the war in order to push ponies into having to wear clothes in the post-apocalypse. She now supplies barding and armor to the entire wasteland making her the greatest seamstress of all time.

>>42710998
Goldenblood is the only reason she succeeded in this btw.

>>42711008
Of *coughs up a gallon of blood* it was all Goldenblood.

>Picture of Bulleye is not related.

>>42711286
An yet he never coughed blood made of gold.

>>42711404
Probably could have bought peace from the zebras if he did.

Needs more Homage

>>42711932
Needs more Jokeblue

>>42712357
>Jokeblue
Ironic that a lesbian was shredded by a baby trap.

>>42712683
Too soon? Hmmm, no you're okay. Enough time has passed.

>>42713002
Jokeblue is better than Homage though.

>>42712253
Total Homage Death

>>42713152
Dont mock the cute DJ horse.

>>42713561
>mock
I think this goes far beyond mockery.

>>42713152
Don't worry, a little bit of Jokeblue is with you no matter where you go.

She's also over there, over here, and some of her is even way off in the distance too.

>Pic Related

>>42714078
You could say it's a real baby boomer.

>>42714504
Ha! That's funny!

>>42714960
Drunk BJ could really operate on that level.

HAPPY FALLOUT DAY!!!!
Only 52 more years until the bombs drop!

>>42715331
Huzzah for still existing!

>>42715331
I think this will happen faster.
Or not at all.

>>42715331
new Fallout game never ever lmao

>>42716198
10 years since Fallout 4 and no Fallout 5.
/sigh

>>42716198
We might get a Fallout 4 remaster or something equally shitty

>>42716385
didn't they literally just announce fallout 4 anniversary edition?

and truthfully, as much as I *love* fallout, i really would rather get a new elder scrolls game first.

>>42716327
Meh, anything after 1 was a downgrade anyway.

>>42716392
Well that's what's going to happen.

>>42716642
I doubt it. Fallout makes Bethesda way more money. they don't seem to give a fuck about elder scrolls these days.

>>42716679
But they already announced a new Elder Scrolls a few years back. Tho we haven't seen anything of it since, apart confirmations that it's still in the works.

>>42716679
Anon, the next ES is already in active development. Bethesda did announcement trailers and everything. Of course when it actually comes out is anybody's guess but it's been announced, which is way more than can be said for FO5.

>>42717369
>Killing joke
No, that wasn't the effect of killing joke.

>>42717533
I dunno, I think being turned into a marketable plushie and sold to that one Korean guy who collects them is a pretty deadly fate

>>42717369
No continue.
Only sadness as Fire Chief Dinky watches her world burn and wonders if the balefire or radiation will kill her first.

>>42717669
It's the fire.

>>42717675
Remember this is the mare who brings Laughter to the wasteland. She looses everything and still chooses to spread joy So don't ever give up!

>>42717684
Good thing she got her back after 200 years

>>42703409
>Pic
Where Saddam?

>>42716639
Fallout 1 sucked.

>>42718004
Then the rest of the series was a disaster by that metric.

>>42718057
Lol. No it wasnt.

>>42717841
>got her back
Anon, I...

Maybe after PH I'll try and read Heroes again.

Its been a while since I did one of these, so Anons tell me about your sidefics that you've been writing tell me about your main character and companions, the region, the side characters, your main villain(s) everything and I will respond to them and give my honest takes on them.

>>42718802
So, fic ain't fully done, mostly concept ideas. But the story gonna involve my girl Blitzhoof. The idea I had is that the story kinda takes place after the Enclaves fall by Lil'Pip, but Blitz gets a radio transmission about remaining Enclave forces wanting to regroup in a facility located south, so she starts going there. Companion wise, this is still in the works, but thinking of having a zeeb or earth pony with her. Villain wise, gonna have a warlord - maybe like a rouge Steelhoof ranger- and her former Enclave commander.

>>42718802
>Pic Not Related
It's in the planning stages, had the idea years ago and just recently started to practice writing again. Been working on a few other projects to get into practice before trying a FOE story proper.

It's a one shot set 20 years before the main story that can fit into a bigger story if I get ambitious.

MC is Pressure Point, earth pony stallion, bigger than average, but smaller than Big Mac. guide/guard for hire in Everfreeside near the Strip of New Pegas.
Three odd things about him:
First- He's always clean, spends most of his caps on baths and old world mane/hair care products. This helps him in charming mares, though it's not the reason he's obsessed with grooming.
Second- The armor stays on at all times and covers his cutie marks. He won't show them to anypony. He's touchy about it.
Third- He cannot hit the broad side of a barn. He's a hoof-to-hoof fighter with the perks and a salvaged pipbuck to back it up. He carries a shotgun, though mostly for looks.

Companion- (at least for the one shot story)
Heypenny, unicorn mare from Tenpony. Daughter of Day Trader, a major caravan owner. She's good at business, but believes in heroes due to a certain DJ. She's near the Strip because her caravan got ambushed and her guards are all dead or wounded and she has a business meeting she needs to attend.

The one shot covers Pressure trying to convince a large family of settlers to hire him and getting turned down due to a larger crew with more guns nearby. Heypenny overhears the pitch and picks him because he looks presentable.

The bad guys are some raiders that Pressure has an agreement to bribe for safe passage, but the dilemma comes in that the guard crew ditched the family and Heypenny wants Pressure to save them. I won't spoil the ending, but Pressure Point doesn't believe in heroes. Just caps and dead ponies who didn't know better. But maybe that's enough sometimes.

>>42718977
Wooo let's go Stubby! I'm already a fan of Blitzhoof, so I'd love to read about her. I like your plot hook of trying to get together with Enclave Remnants.

I intend for Pressure Point to be in his 40s post-Little Pip, so the one shot is a story from his youth that he's telling to others in a bar, which would include Blitzy. Yeah, that means he obviously won't die in the one shot, but it's his memoir so he'd have to be alive to tell it.

>>42719003
Hehe, well glad you like her. Well It's less her trying to get together with the Enclave Remnants and more following her own personal philosophy when it comes to war in a way.

>>42718977
Unironically very solid fic idea, we don't get many stories after the day of sunshine and rainbows, a trio of MCs is somewhat refreshing to see, and do love the idea of a main villain that already has a pre established relationship with the MC. I do have one big question for Blitzhoof is she a Dashite or is she like the Enclave remnant soldiers we see in New Vegas where she just kinda decided to hang up the uniform/Power armor and if so why?

>>42719071
Actually, she ain't a Dashite. She is still Enclave soldier akin like in New Vegas. Only she still kinda wears her old uniform, just has removed the insignias on the Enclave. Her reason why she still wears it can be considered somewhat selfish. Enclave will fade away with time and will be forgotten, only seen as a very bad dream. Her wearing the uniform is kinda indication to herself that she's still stuck in this dream and only upon finishing her planned deed will she be allowed to wake up finally.

>>42718980
Honestly not much to say since it seems like you have everything figured out, but I will say its pretty cool to have a MC that's morally dubious for once.

>>42719125
Thanks! His companions are the ones who drag him into helping, usually against his better judgment.

I finally bit the bullet a while ago and ordered the MoI FO:E print and have been quite happy with my purchase so far. I'm now starting to mull over the thought of getting MN7. I'm still a bit hesitant though - unlike my copy of FO:E which splits around 600k words over four nicely decorated volumes that feel pretty good to read in bed, the only printed version of MN7 I'm aware of crams over a million words into a single volume (and also looks a bit plain in comparison, though that's probably a matter of taste). I'm worried it won't actually be very nice to read, too heavy to hold comfortably, pages so thin you can see the words of the page behind and you need to be really gentle to avoid tearing them, etc - and I'm also a bit wary about durability, I remember owning two hardback copies of the longest harry potter book as a kid and they both fell apart under their own weight over time, and MN7 is longer than that entire series let alone a single book. It's also really expensive - I came across fuzzy's post announcing the original print run and it was priced then at $70, but the one I'm seeing now is $180 (not even including shipping) - what on earth caused the price to go up by over 150%?

Does anyone own one of these? I'm fond of MN7, it's definitely something I'd like to have a physical copy of - but I wouldn't just be burning well over $200 for a gigantic paperweight, I'd want to be able to enjoy reading it without it falling apart or giving me back pain. I know Zemming shows up around here from time to time - if you're reading this Zemming, sorry if it sounds like I'm dumping on your hard work, I'm just cautious about splashing out so much on this sort of thing.

>>42719177
Well looking forward to seeing how this one shot will pan out

>>42718802
Okay, let me try to gather my scattered thoughts on it while waiting for something. I don't have my plan document on me right now, but that's mostly outdated by now anyways since I've changed and refined a lot of things while focusing on my ongoing fic.

The main plot driver of the story is a new faction fun the Zebra lands. About a generation back, the two tribes on the isle of Maregascar achieved a diplomatic victory in their war through political marriage. Though not perfect, the peace turned into an alliance and the kingdom of United Tribes was born. As an island nation, it was protected from enemies and could develop agriculture, crafts, and sciences. By the start of the story they've run out of space on the island and send expeditions and colonizers to all shores. One such party lands in northwestern Equestria to found Landfall Village, both to claim more arable land and to search for the great sage Zecora.

Enter our main character, Stream Song, a tribal Kirin. He's wandering the Wasteland to find the Queen of Sun and Rain, as ordered by the tribal elder after a prophetic dream everyone in three village saw. He's a little on the quiet side, a marksman of some renown, and fucking hates ponies, especially unicorns, after getting betrayed and sold to slavery by the merchant whose caravan he was hired to guard.

Our second character is Nia, a zebra shaman and the matriarch of Landfall Village. She is searching for any sign of Zecora to recover the lost knowledge of old. She can be a bit cold and distant and places the needs of the many before the needs of the few up to even sacrificing a few to save many. But, she is also wise beyond her years and quick to learn - including about friendship after spending most her life so far getting groomed to lead by her mother.


Third one of the four is Star Seeker. She is a crystal pony pegasus from the Empire's one "stable", Plan B that opened not that long ago and, luckily, ran into the Zebra colonists first. She is naive, friendly, talkative, and doesn't give others enough personal space. She also likes to drink which makes her even worse. She's obsessed with the sky and stars, despite having never seen any.

Finally, we have a yet unnamed bat pony stallion. He's gay. Like, very gay. And fruity. He's there to hit on Stream but also have enough sense in him to not go too far with it. Apart that, he's a reliable and capable companion. He still needs a lot of work and may end up getting dropped entirely.

The story is about the group exploring the Crystal Empire, running into fragments of its past, and seeing how the Empire and Equestria ended up falling away from over another towards the end due to Equestria stooping too low during the war. We get a few glimpses of the past through the eyes of Sunburst, the head of research and one of Cadence's council.
A second plotline, involves bringing agriculture back to Equestria. The Enclave doesn't take too kindly to the Zebra rain dances.

>>42719331
I think you should drop the bat pony, I can't imagine him being anything but bad.

I'm also not sure the crystal empire will make for a very good setting, it was one of the most bland and shitty parts of the show, just "what if we took normal equestria but took away any trace of personality and made everything out of toyetic translucent plastic". Not that it would be impossible to create something good but it'd be an uphill battle - you'd have to walk the line between coming up with a vastly more interesting crystal empire than the one depicted in the show while also not being so detached from the original that it's not actually the crystal empire any more. Maybe you could place starlight glimmer there? None of the stories I'm familiar with ever made use of her and I think she's one of the characters with the most potential for an interesting wartime and/or post-apocalyptic story, you could say she relocated there to be with sunburst and develop something interesting revolving around whatever she got up to.

Why has your pegasus never seen the sky and stars, now that she's out of the stable? Can she not just fly up there and take a look?

>>42718977
I'm also thinking that titling chapters as "orders" since it plays more into Blitz's military lifestyle. also, after some quick thinking I'm def gonna go with like an earth pon as her first companion, second one still debaiting on zeeb or maybe unicorn or griffon.

>>42719239
>>42719239
I own one of the first printings of Murky, I'll admit I haven't checked it in years, but it was readable. I'll try and dig it out, I moved a while ago and its still in a box somewhere.

>>42719331
You definitely need to either flesh out the bat pony or cut him. A character cannot be more than a one off joke if they're just their sexuality.

Sounds like Stream Song and Star Seeker will be bffs.

How do you guys come up with plots? I love coming up with characters but dang I can't seem to come up with things for them to actually do.

>>42720010
Eh, I usually get inspirations from various sources and build off that.

>>42718802
I'm in an annoying spot because I've got a plot bunny running through my head but it's for a story that's pretty much just for me.
>get invited to a Fallout Equestria tabletop game
>turns out it's actually just Fallout + Ponies, not the fic; I'm the only one in the whole group who's read it
>well, whatever. I can dig that too
>make my dude. He's one of the last living Pitt kids from the DC BoS except in this case DC is Canterlot
>means he was born a slave, rescued when the Steel Rangers burned Philly to the ground, and then spent his formative years fighting super mutants and raiders all the time; very violent upbringing but stable/upstanding role models
>get permission from the GM to include some facets of FoE's setting like the Enclave having weather control systems block the sky above the region and stuff since we're chillin' all the way in New Pegasus
>makes an interesting (to me) dynamic where my dude never even saw the sky until he was in his mid 20s
>has become semi-obsessed with Luna since the first thing he saw of the sky was the full moon, and because he views her as a kind of protector of the dead due to stories told to him by his mother
>on bad/awkward terms with both sides of Lyons' BoS/Outcasts split so he's been wandering the wastes five years trying to link up with another chapter
I basically want to write his biography up to the point he gets to New Pegasus and links up with the party, but the fact that the setting is a weird midpoint between games and fic, and the fact that the game he was for is on indefinite hiatus means it's literally just a story for myself which makes dedicating time to it feel like a waste, especially since I'm just generally busy. There's also the small issue that I only have a very vague idea what his march through the Wasteland proper would even look like. Most of the ideas I have for him are early life/life in Canterlot. Between him seeing the moon and getting to New Pegasus is a big question mark.

Also, I'm just now realizing I have no idea how to write melee weapon combat for an earth pony in power armor since they have a helmet... I probably need to brush through the OG again to see if I'm forgetting something.

>>42718802
It's a detective story/political thriller set a few years after the OG fic. Setting is a new port/farming town near Baltimare, established by some stable ponies and refugees from Fillydelphia and Friendship City. The protagonist is a young detective for the town's small police force who investigates a dead body, trips over some memory orbs and ends up uncovering a plot that threatens the security and leadership of the town.

Early on he gets paired with a grumpy ex-enclave mare, and the two learn to work together as they solve the mystery.

>>42720235
>melee weapon combat for an earth pony in power armor since they have a helmet
I believe that's called "hooves"

>>42720490
Melee *weapon* combat. I want to give him a super sledge because I think they're neat but I don't know how he'd actually hold one.

>>42720497
Why would he hold one? Why would he use a melee weapon when his hooves are already the best he could ask for? Give him a pony equivalent of a power fist if you're insistent that him just tackling and stamping on things with enormous force isn't enough.

>>42720688
Like I said, mostly because I think the Sledge is cool and it's a fluffy piece of Brotherhood tech.

More concretely, I came up with a formative bit in his Steel Ranger training ages ago when he was still slated for being a Scribe that involved him picking one up and going to town on an ambush after an IED the size of a small car cut his squad lead in half. I like the imagery of him picking up his fallen superior's weapon and charging. It feels more 'knightly' than just running up and bucking someone's jaw off.

You're right and obviously this can be retooled, but I'll have to dig around and find some way to get the vibe right.

>>42720724
You are over thinking the issue with the supersledge, just say they added a weapon mount on the helmet for melee combat.

>>42720010
Come up with your bad guy and his motivation, then let him loose in the world. Then have your heroes need to addresss it. And remember your bad guy's plans are always moving forward, even if the heroes are busy with other things.

>>42720873
Me again, You could have him use his tail, Applejack used a lasso with her's multiple times.

>>42714960
Instructions unclear, dick stuck in mare.

>>42720897
I actually really like the tail idea. For one it's a cool parallel to how the Enclave suits have weaponized tails, and for two the fact the character's an Appaloosa pony makes any way he can follow in Applejack's hoofsteps worth bonus points from me. I think I'll definitely roll with that.

>>42721151
Not Blackjack I hope

>>42721351
Glad I could help!

>>42721807
What if I smashed her little face in with a brick? What then?

>>42721828
Also you might not like what happens next.

>>42721934
Calamity can kill me, but that won't un-murder the "lightbringer"

>>42719331
Pretty cool to see a fic set within the Crystal Empire and its extremely refreshing to see a Kirin MC I actually don't think I've seen a Kirin MC desu, I love the cast you have going on so far and yeah the Bat pony needs to be reworked or dropped, because it does need to be stated that people will be expecting either him or the story itself going out of its way to explore what the fuck the Bat ponies were and what were they doing during the war and a whole long ass lore dump of your take on them. if you do drop him entirely either turn him into a side character if you want to salvage the character at least, and I personally suggest that if you drop him you should replace him with either a ghoul of some kind, because one Ghouls are really cool and many stories don't make them MCs which is pretty sad to see ngl or you could do something like a Steel Ranger from the local chapter, a sentient robot/cyborg or a member of a unique faction or a minor race like a Yak, a Deer or hell a Raindeer, just spit spalling ideas for you.

Are there any FoE stories anybody would like audio recordings of? I'm looking to try to get into reading stories from fimfic as a bit of a hobby.

>>42719239
I've had a physical copy of murky for a few years, I took it on cons, on trips and a bit everywhere and it's still intact so on the build quality side, you have no concern to have, the page are also pretty solid for their width and they are slightly see trough but not enough to be an issue, the book does weight a bunch though so it can be a bit tiring to hold while reading

>>42721797
Why not?

I will one day write a fic where an Anon gets isekai'd into FoE and becomes violent a pony/zebra/griffon/whatever else eater

>>42722359
But she's a better pick than Littlepip.
And both P-21 and Stygius have proven that you can dick her safely.

So, after a bottle of hard apple cider. I kinda got the idea for an opening prologue to my fic. It's gonna be a tad simple and somewhat action based. Basically the idea is gonna be like this: A little colt is running through the desert and accidentally stumbles upon Blitz's slumped over body, as he's about to run away Blitz calls to him asking for water. After drinking it, the colt explains how bounter hunters chase after him and his mother, so Blitz asks where they are. They find the mother, who is surrounded by four bounty hunters. Upon seeing Blitz, one of 'em recognizes her Enclave uniform, as they begin to mock her and saying how the Enclave was destroyed and they're just murderours. Blitz scoffs at this, a gun fight then breaks out. After which the surviving bounty hunter recognizes who Blitz is, which freaks out the colt and his mother. Blitz then executes the bounty hunter, then looks at the kid and says how this was her repayment for the water before departing away, leaving the two stunned.

>>42722700
Dubs so you know its good.

>>42720235
Neat premise can't really comment on much since its not FOE its own Mlp Fallout crossover and the other anon basically gave you better weapon ideas, although you could have a ripper in shape of a makeshift unicorn horn chainsaw weapon.

>>42720399
Unironically fuck with this premise heavy, I don't think we get much detective stories at all for FOE, and big question does the MC and Enclave mare fuck in the end? we continue the trend and trope of main character falling in love and fucking a Pegasus, which is a weird trope to see in FOE ngl.

>>42722852
They're just friends by the end of the fic, though if I ever write a sequel (lol) they'll definitely be fucking.

The story started as a reaction against the bleakness of Project Horizons. I wanted to write something fresh and Fallout-y, guess I fell into some of the same FoE tropes anyways though. Oh well, at least the MCs aren't gay

>>42722837
Ye, thinking should be a good opening, Kinda lowkey and hopefully gauge some curiosity about it, especially her being Enclave and still helping someone.

Would (You) take the reins?

>>42720235
you should give him either a power fist on his hind hooves he does power kicks with, or one of the shotgun punch things the legion use (also on his hind hooves)

>>42723402
>take the reins
>Horn is free
That's a trap. She's 100% in control of the situation.

bump

>>42723402
No escape.

>>42723402
>>42723402
And waste a good opportunity to get away form the wasteland's most dangerous raider? Hell naw, I can get a venereal disease elsewhere.

Besides, she doesn't have wings.

>>42725171
Pet.

>>42718980
I played with some AI for a while, got pretty close to what Haypenny looks like. Cutie mark and her collar/tie are off, but otherwise I'm happy with her.

>>42725288
Her mane and tail are copper colored, while her coat is verdigris (the color of aged copper patina, like the Statue of Liberty). Her cutie mark probably wouldn't have that shiny gleam on it. Her collar should be more like Mayor Mare's but blue with a brown ribbon/western style tie.

She'd have saddle bags and possibly some armor too. Probably a 10 mil pistol or the like for a weapon.

>>42725234
Cuddles would be good, hopefully she wouldn't get mad about it.

>>42724841
What would BJ's voice be like?

Littlepip/Mad Max crossover

>>42725763
Damn, Pip behind a wheel and going crazy would be nice.

>>42725804
>going crazy
But she already does that part.

>>42722225
Good to know, thanks anon. Do you have any idea what happened to make the price explode? If it were still $70 I'd go right ahead with barely a second thought, but $230 total for a book is really painful to contemplate

>>42726080
I assume printing costs went up since the first printing.

>>42726080
no idea why prices went up, I don't remember if it was absolutely everything or ministry of image that is located in russia but if it's them, the war could be an explanation for the price increase

>>42726208
I know there's been inflation but surely it doesn't explain that big an increase, does it?

>>42726237
MoI seems to be Russian based on the packaging of the copy of FO:E I recently ordered from them - not sure about Zemming but the impression I've had hasn't pointed that way.

Cute FOE griffon

>>42726943
Such a cuddly an fluffy girl.

>>42726237
Pretty sure Absolutely Everything was US, but I could be wrong. I have first editions of FOE, Pinkeyes, and Murky from them.

>>42726943
She looks pretty happy despite the bomb collar.

>>42723402
Two weeks ago I would've said no but I got roped into (no pun intended) doing a bondage bit with one of the player characters in the game I actually run and... idk if I'm into it but it definitely makes more sense now.

This started as an excuse for me to write more about my starbeast autism if you can believe that.

>>42723601
You say that like it isn't part of the appeal.

>>42722852
If you don't mind me rambling more about the overall idea, the core of Valiant Rome's character (the main guy) is that he is, eventually, supposed to evolve into the platonic ideal of a chivalric knight. Or at least a Fallout-y version of one.
>born a slave in the deepest, darkest pit that is Fillydelphia
>raised on embellished heroic stories of his late father and religious parables of Celestia, Luna, and the Elements by his mother, which form a lot of his early moral core
>Steel Rangers bust in to Filly and shoot anything that looks at them sideways, adopt a couple dozen kids that look promising and skedaddle
>Rome loses his mother in the transition but the dramatic improvement in his lot in life is hard to ignore. Becomes a dyed-in-the-wool Ranger very quickly even as a colt, takes the Codex's lessons very seriously and dives headlong into historical and technological study
>war against Canterlot super mutants begins
>Rome is all-in at first, but the mounting casualties tell more and more over time as Rome loses ponies he considers family and friends, and eventually his childhood sweetheart
>casualties get so bad that Rome is retracked from Scribe to Knight after showing combat and possible leadership aptitude in a mission gone bad
>in these years he comes progressively more and more jaded. He rises to the rank of Knight Sargent and inherits command of a squad; he's competent but losses continue to mount and they weigh on him more and more. Eventually only one other Filly kid is left, and Lions opens the chapter to wastelander recruitment to bolster numbers
>Rome believes in the mission but has slowly become appalled by Lions' methods and his willingness to spend soldiers like ammo. When the Outcast split happens he's talked into leaving by one of his few remaining social links, an ex he's still on good terms with
>too much a damn hero to give up totally on 'fixing' Canterlot completely which leads to a lot of friction between him and the rest of the Outcasts.
>eventually this leads to him getting a 'get lost' assignment of traveling west and contacting the Elder Council to do something about Lions. Which *is* important but getting him out of leadership's hair is definitely a bonus
>suits him up in their last set of T-51b, his ex's lucky laser rifle, some supplies to get him running, and sends him out into the wastes
>adventure????
The central personal conflict would be Rome's pragmatism competing with his heroic ideals and loyalty to the order. Not really sure what he'd actually get wrapped up in out in the wilderness though.

>>42727489
Worst part is Lions would eventually win the war of attrition, since the muties were running out of I.M.P., but the cost...

>Nightseer kind of related.

>>42728029
Yeah... with some meta knowledge it kind of winds up looking like Rome welches. But if you assume the Steel Rangers pull exactly two dozen kids out of Filly and two are left by the time he gives it up (in Fallout 3 it's actually just one, Kodiak) to seek another solution then that's a 91% attrition rate which is absolutely hellacious, especially for a group as insular as the Rangers. And we also know the outside recruits suffer high casualties themselves so there's not even much solace for Rome in trying to herd outsiders into not getting their asses killed because they inevitably fail in the endeavor.

I don't think it's unreasonable for Rome to come to the wrong conclusion for what are essentially the right reasons. Lions fighting it out in a never-ending urban brawl is just straight up a misuse of his resources, especially since he doesn't make any obvious strategic gains from it. The fact that he would have won the grind doesn't ameliorate his missteps as commander.

Weird enough, in the games the Outcasts kind of do what Lyons really ought to be doing in the first place; using the endurance granted by PA to do long-ranging patrols outside the city and bolstering themselves with all the robots they can get their hands on.

>>42723469
His whole talent revolves around taking stuff apart and reassembling it, so suit mods are definitely on the table. I do like the gunhoof idea (I like the powerhoof too but that might be more complicated to integrate on the road). I'm also entertaining the thought of him integrating a 10mm into the side of his helmet, because nothing says 'fuck off' by being able to kill with a glare.

Shoot a mare
With a gun
Hoofington sure is plenty of fun
Throw a colt
Off a roof
Andyou'llspend your vacationin The Hoof
Gas your home
With chlorine
You can get here by mass murdering
This is bliss
It's a goof
Pony, everyone's coming to The Hoof!

En-er-va-tion
Melt the flesh off your face
Join the Reapers
Take the rocket up into space
This is hell
This is fate
But now this is your world and it's great
So rejoice
It's the truth
Pony, everyone's coming to The Hoof!

Sung to the tune of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMHlUiIvr3w

>>42728863
That fits.

Anyone got some input on supernatural/Wasteland creatures I could cram into FoE New York/Manehattan?

I've already got three variants of starbeast: Pisces, Volans, and Cancer. Need to spice it up some but I'm sorta drawing a blank on what fits the locale besides mutant crabs.

>>42729207
Scorpio, attracting lots and lots of radscorpions around it.

>>42729207
Hmmm, radigators in the sewers.

Radrats, only really dangerous in groups,

Maybe some kind of magical creature made from the ash-infused shadows of victims burnt into walls when the balefire bomb exploded? That last one would be super hard to fight, maybe water can harm them? And bright light could cause them to freeze in place. Call them Ash Stalkers or something.

>>42729207
Oh! Oh! How about something necromancy related? Like maybe specters of soldiers

>>42728029
>pic
Nightseer did everything wrong.
You can't change my mind.

>>42731078
Hey Murky, how is it hanging?

>>42731078
I can just imagine the other slaves doing this to him for fun. (Their's, not his.)

>>42731483
>(Their's, not his.)
I figure that's a given.

>>42731483
He's doing an important job. Red Eye has en entire factory of slaves working to keep that fan spinning.

Every stable being a fucked up failure is boring. I imagine several survived just fine, and had parties and holidays and normal pony shit going on inside.

>>42732778
Most likely. You wouldn't really hear about them because the natives would have just stripped them for parts or lived out of them until they went defunct. And since Scootaloo was actually trying to make successful communities and not just running amoral 'what if's then I think you could expect Stables to generally be built to a higher standard than Vaults, which were often two steps short of an out and out scam.

>>42732995
Which is ironic since there's so many FoE fics these days that the numbers of the 100 or so canon stables have all been used up telling all sorts of crazy stories

>>42733177
Sure, but we don't have to care about other stories if we don't want. I only use FOE, Some of Pinkeyes, Murky, and Heroes. PH is not canon, at least nothing past like chapter 20.

So plenty of Stables are fair game. And I love the fact the CMC gave instructions to ditch the experiment if things went bad. Unlike Vaults, Stables were designed to save ponies.

>>42733222
But some of those stories could be good though! And we'll never know...

>>42729897
>Maybe some kind of magical creature made from the ash-infused shadows of victims burnt into walls when the balefire bomb exploded?
I REALLY like this one... but it doesn't fit with the version of Manehattan I'm running. Manehattan had an entire additional cloud city built on top of it in my AU that mostly protected the middle layer from being leveled by megaspells.

I think I might adapt this if the party wanders into the area where the remains of the cloud layer fell though. Have the spirits show up as voids/shadows in the fog or something similar. They could be remnants from all the pegasi who got vaporized at once. It's a very fluffy idea and I'm glad you suggested it.

>gators
I really should've thought of gators. Not only are they in the fic but sewer gators are a classic NYC meme. Definitely going on the list.

>rats
Party is a little past the point large rats would be meaningfully dangerous... Or they will be soon. I guess they could be disease vectors. If nothing else it would be a good idea to diversify my low level chaff once they get away from the coastal areas so I'll think about it.

>>42733177
>Stable 27-and-a-half where [author's fetish warped into nightmare social experiment] happened
>[Main character that the author uses to vent some severe childhood trauma] escapes the stable and goes on an adventure of some sort

>>42734024
You just described P-21's Stable 99 story arc.

>>42734583
pffft

Vote for the stablemares!
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>>42733763
Glad you like them. Yeah the rats are mainly to chew up healing items and spread disease. Molerats fit the same bill.

>>42735147
They better win or else ScotchTape gets it.

Oh how the mighty have fallen.

>>42733763
Pothead ghouls.
They wander around the city in small packs looking for one more hit of [chem].

Not sure how close you're basing it off actual NYC, but some of the megacreature fossils or artist's impressions from the natural history museum could've become animated by necromantic magic from the megaspells.

Trash and chemical golems rising from the sewers.

And last but not least, giant water creatures from the Central Park's lakes. Mutated giant swans or geese? Or just the ol' classic sea serpent gone crazy.

>>42735924
I like the evil night at the museum idea. Place seems safe until the skeletons start moving...

>>42735772
Ehhh, we all have crack story ideas. To be fair FOE is a crack story idea, it just happens that putting something as wholesome as ponies in Fallout makes everything that much more tragic and heroic.

>Pic related- Scotch Tape is cute even if PH is the Hazbin Hotel of FOE

>>42735112
Is it wrong though?

>>42735147
Sad to see Blackjack out, but Pip curbstomping the dog put a smile on my face.

>>42736139
Even a shattered world of radioactive ponies is preferable to a world of canine-equine halfbreeds.

>>42736092
Not at all. I fully agree.

>>42736139
There is only one true Pip after all. And she is Little.

>>42733763
You could make them "living" spray paintings instead of pony shadows for a more run-down urban feel. That'd also let you make 'em p much anything you want.

>>42736758
The subjects of paintings in the museum, while flat, can leave their painting to attack. Their weaknesses are paint thinner, fire, and destroying their canvas. Caused by a mix of preservation spells and the nasty from the bombs.

>>42737704
>tfw the FoE game I was a player in went on hold as soon as I got my GMG
How could you have hurt me this way, anon? I was so close...

Also does his other shoulder have a goddam M202?

>>42737800
>Yeah, M202 or at least the Equestrian equivalent.

>>42736518
Why does she want to shoot herself?

>>42738376
Ran out of Sparkle Cola?

Aight, hecking guns, how do they work?
How do them ponies use weapons?

>>42739069
Read the book and find out.

>>42738376
Girl officially snapped.

>>42739069
Very carefully.

>>42735692
Why though?

>>42735692
They didn't, I blame the nard that kept going on about Arbu and being a pain in the ass.

>>42740021
This thread was a total car crash in slow motion. I still don't get how it got so bad.

What would their Nightmare Night costumes be?

>>42740845
Littlepip's

>>42740845
Murky's

>>42740845
Hired's, Serenity picked it.

>>42740845
Blackjack was drunk and forgot, so got this last minute Kirin thrown together by Scotch Tape.

>>42741300
It may contain pieces of actual Kirin too.

>>42741331
Kirin raider bits lol

>>42741427
>Kirin raider
Now those would be terrifying as fuck.

>>42741300
Kirinjack sounds like fun

>>42742069
The blood red scales suit her well.

>>42741982
There's a surprising number of FoE kirin OCs

>>42735772
>the mighty

>>42719417

>Why has your pegasus never seen the sky and stars, now that she's out of the stable? Can she not just fly up there and take a look?
Nope. She just isn't a good enough flyer to get all the way up there. There was very little space to practice underground so while she can fly, her flight muscles never grew like they would in the pegasi we know of. Nothing that can't be fixed, but this is like a month after Plan B opens so she hasn't had enough practice and exercise yet. Plus she's been told she really shouldn't since she'll get shot up there.

On another note, I think I'll rework the bat pony into a pegasus and make him a minor villain in the form of an Enclave captain or other low ranking leader our group runs into a couple of times.

>>42742069
I wanna see her go nirik

HEY UTEUK HAVE YOU READ MURKY YET

>>42743252
>UTEUK
Who?

>>42743821
I just realized Littlepip is wearing human style shoes on her back hooves and I can't unsee it.

>>42739720
I see, thank you

>>42743252
I WISH HE WOULD

>>42743880
>and I can't unsee it
Damn it. You ruined it for me too.

So is kkat male or female or gay or a tranny or what

>>42742668
>flight muscles never grew
>hasn't had enough practice and exercise yet
>she'll get shot up there
Fair enough, those are good reasons. Tell me a bit more about Plan B, I'm increasingly curious about it. Who built it, and sheltered in it, and why was stable-tec not involved? (I get that the CE had drifted apart from Equestria, but I can't see that mattering to the CMC) What was it like compared to the stables? Was your pegasus a rare accident of birth or did they have an equal share of pegasi down there, and if the latter did the stable have any interesting adaptations to accommodate them or take advantage of their abilities? You said it was lucky that they ran into the Zebra colonists first - how did that play out? I wouldn't have expected that to be a happy encounter, if the vault opens and the first thing they find is a group of the zebras that bombed them, here to claim and settle their land (which I'm pretty sure is the farthest from the zebra homelands of anywhere in pony territory, by most interpretations of the setting's geography), surely they'd assume they were an invading army fighting the same old war? If that does play out peacefully I think you should take the time to have them navigate it properly, it'd be a mistake just to handwave it and pretend the stable dwellers wouldn't be at all bothered to emerge and find a bunch of zebras settling their land.

>I'll rework the bat pony into a pegasus and make him a minor villain
Good plan. Only advice I'd give, just in case, is don't get tempted by the idea of him being "a villain, but a cool one that I'm sure everyone will like and maybe we'll redeem later!" (Psychoshy, for example) - from the brief sketch you gave he'd be best used as a nuisance that the party (and vicariously, the readers) take considerable satisfaction from eventually getting rid of permanently. Just let him show up, be obnoxious, and be cathartic to kill and then forget about.

>>42744994
Haven't you read the story? It's Littlepip's autobiography. Kkat is just Littlepip's pen name or ghostwriter. The story was sent back in time using magic to maybe prevent the war, but ended up in the human world instead.

In my unconfirmed (and with zero research done) head canon Kkat is a female, but I've heard others say male and they probably have some evidence. My recommendation is not to worry about it.

>>42743447
https://derpibooru.org/tags/artist-colon-uteuk
They're an artist. Pretty good one.

>>42744994
The bets are still out on that one.

Chapter 43. I think this is the first chapter of Project Horizons that I just didn't like. It felt like Blackjack's suffer bar maxed out so the setting had to give her some rest and therapy to cope so she could suffer more. Coping isn't character development IMO. Also that 'star maiden' zebra thing was namedropped, I can feel all the late-chapter BS starting to get established.

I like Blackjack because she's a victim of circumstance. She's just a regular pony living her shitty life in 99 when happenstance forces her to leave with every insane Wasteland villain in pursuit. Much unlike Littlepip, who wandered out on her own free will and promptly began judging and murdering everypony just because she could.

I wish Project Horizons had been about how BJ can't just ditch EC-1101; the Wasteland wants her blood and her PipBuck, and it'll follow her if she hides or flees, killing innocents along the way. Then her arc could be about accepting her quest and gearing up to survive it with her friends. None of this 'chosen one fated to win' bullshit.

>>42745935
Littlepip didn't exactly leave of her own free will. yeah she could have stayed, but she'd have gone from social outcast to near pariah in the Stable. Velvet likes to claim she looks at the consequences of actions, but she really screwed Pip over. And no one else was willing to be the voice and hammer of morality in the wasteland. Leaving evil be does not make you good. It makes you a sheep that's been told to ignore evil. No offense to sheep.

But yeah poor Blackjack got shafted (pun intended), the suffering fetish Somber has is not character development, hell it's not even healthy for the writer. In the end, BJ got a weeb destiny thrust upon her and that's sad.

Flutterbump

>>42746577
Littlepip's adventure was more self-directed (when her friends weren't manipulating her). There wasn't a Deus or Sanguine or Cogitum after her most of the time.

Making PH about how to survive an impossible quest, rather than an anime suffer party, would also fix how inconsistent Blackjack's character can be.
>Admits she's not smart or experienced
>Insists on figuring out EC-1101 herself
>Mopes about how she wants a quiet life instead
>Chooses to lead and kamikaze her party into danger
>Pretty good at shooting only in self-defense or when justified
>Suicidally miserable over every pony she kills

I guess this is what you get when a manic depressive writes your protagonist.

And then immediately after in Chapter 44 is when this guy shows up? Lmaooo, talk about tonal whiplash

>>42745935
>I can feel all the late-chapter BS starting to get established.
It's KINO though. Don't listen to the boring faggots in this thread.

>>42747736
WRONG

>>42747792
You just don't like space horror and edgy anime stuff. I was completely satisfied with the ending. PH is the most epic and interesting FOE fic that exists. It's not boring shit like the original FOE written by tranny.

>>42747836
>space horror
Cosmic horror, my bad.

>>42747665
Stygius was awesome. I love the dude.

>>42747949
What a handsome stallion, I sure hope nothing horrible happens to him

>>42745092
Plan B, the Empire's only "stable".

Built by CrysCon, it is pretty much a carbon copy of a stable. Stable-Tec was forbidden from constructing stables outside Equestrian borders, but Scootaloo happened to lose a copy of plans on one of her visits to the Empire and her friends there, Sunburst and Starlight.
It was never officially finished as the fateful day dawned as it was undergoing final tests. As such, the original inhabitants were the construction crews and engineers who built and designed it and were supposed to be sealed in there for just a week for a full systems test. It wasn't an even split, but it did include all three races; the Empire wasn't nearly as internally split as Equestria was anyways.

As for the first encounter after the door was open?
Well, the newly emerged crystal ponies, unfamiliar with the terrain and hazards, weren't the ones initiating contact. They were not happy to find a zebra matriarch marching into their fledgling village, but they also weren't familiar enough with the Wasteland to shoot before asking. There may have been some gunboat diplomacy involved in the deal as the Overmare realized their security who barely knew how to use their standard issue 10mm's were no match to the armed to the teeth and battle hardened zebras. But, the deal struck was not at all unfair. Zebras provide protection, spare parts, and training while crystal ponies give fresh produce and labor in return. While tensions still exist, it has mostly worked so far and a few like Star Seeker have even decided to move to the zebra village.

>>42747836
>>42747736
>>42747949

>>42748782
I'm still laughing every time I read the name Plan B though...

>>42748993
It is, quite literally, a plan B; a fallback option. It was constructed to ensure at least some crystal ponies would survive should the worst come to pass and the other protective measures taken prove insufficient.

Look at this mare

That's what happens when you die!
https://vocaroo.com/1my9rYPUqezZ
It's pain that gets worse and worse forever!

>>42748460
That's what I hate about Somber.
He breaks all the good ponies.

>>42748782
Scootaloo happened to lose a copy of plans on one of her visits to the Empire and her friends there, Sunburst and Starlight
Sensible.

>supposed to be sealed in there for just a week for a full systems test
How did they deal with food etc? Were they already equipped with everything they needed for the next couple hundred years, minus the actual inhabitants? Did the construction team just happen to have a reasonably even gender split?

>gunboat diplomacy involved in the deal
>tensions still exist
Alright - in that case I'd just make sure those tensions are felt, there'll probably be some among the ponies who really object to the arrangement and aren't smart enough to appreciate there's no real alternative to it. Maybe try to have something happen with one of them at some point.

>>42749162
Who is she?

>>42749162
>he fixed her
They said it couldn't be done

>>42749734
Looks like an Overmare.

>>42749734
Unnamed Stable 99 Overmare

>>42749044
I know but I keep thinking about the morning after pill called Plan B. Sorry lol.

Fun question: What song you think fits your FOE OC. For Blitzhoof I have this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4lp7W4tX8Y&pp=ygUQVGhlIEdvb2QgU29sZGllcg%3D%3D

>>42750381
What's the theme for Air Raid?

>>42750381
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSTK5LSVqrc
Only the finest tribal type jams for Bitey Maretooth

>>42750381
Good pick for Blitzy.

For Pressure Point this really fits his virtue of perseverance. Once he's decided to do something or made a deal he follows it through. And he does break a few hearts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvlTJrNJ5lA

>pic unrelated but cool as hell

>>42750505
Thank you and very nice choice for Pressure Point.

>>42750443
>Bitey Maretooth
Song seems apt given the name.

>>42750381
I have a couple in mind for my boy Valiant Rome but the one that best encapsulates what he's all about would be I Still Believe (Grand Designs) by The Call. Although I'm going to link the cover by the Protomen because it's cash money.
https://youtu.be/dDJIZkZ7L3I?si=FACBePTeb29oH7jg

Didn't the megaspells hit on or around Nightmare Night?

>>42750808
In OG Fallout they fell on Oct 27th, which is why FO4 has paper pumpkins everywhere even 200 years after the bombs fell. Don't remember if the date in FoE is named.

>>42750592
What's Valiant Rome's story?
Good song btw.

>>42750808
>>42750869
In the Fallout universe the bombs dropped in the early morning of Oct 23rd 2077. That's why it's Fallout day.(Ignore the tv show, it fucked up the West Coast bomb timing.)

>>42750881
Man, I remember this scene making me feel bad for DT for the first time ever. This was long before S5 came out, back when she was seen as the perpetual bitch with little to no positive qualities.

>>42751064
Yeah, I've always had a soft spot for spoiled girl bullies, lashing out because they're lonely due to busy parents. So this scene hurt. Sure watching her get some payback would have been nice, but not like this.

>>42750381
I thought about this heavily since I never imagined a song for Mulberry but after hours listening to my playlist I come to the conclusion that Happy Nation fits him like a glove, with it representing his struggle to keep old Equestrian ideals alive in the Wasteland.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vNnB4oLZNo

>>42751945
What's the story begind that image?

>>42751953
That's Protégé and Murky from Murky Number Seven. The Derpibooru page says its from chapter 21. I think they're in the outer metro tunnels?

>>42752112
Correction, it's probably the asylum.

>>42750871
He's the guy I ramble about in this post: >>42727489

If you want exploits from the game he's from... I don't have a lot. I built Rome pretty incorrectly due to some misunderstandings I had about the system going in and by the time I reworked him the game had to go on hold. I did blow up a gryphon mercenary by repeatedly venting my suit's reactor at him, which was funny but not reproducible. His main contribution in fights was that he could be such a mean looking bastard that it conferred damage an Intimidation bonuses to people around him, which I thought fit with the angry as fuck former Sargent.

Most of the fun in playing him was all RP stuff.
>on his way into Caliponia he got buried alive in a rock slide and only survived because his pet eyebot tracked down a friendly bat pony, Drill Bit, who would eventually become his fiance
>slowly became sort of a mentor character to the tribal gryphon chemhead, who is easily the one he's opened up to the most about his background other than his future wife
>once got his bell rung so hard by a super mutant ambush he fell back in time eight years and started trying to find his old squadmates. His only real slip-up on letting out his faction affiliation to date, and apparently only the gryphon caught it (Drill Bit already knew by this point and helped him cover).
>constantly warring with himself over playing the part of a mercenary and pursuing leads on what's happening with the local chapter
>hid his affiliations well enough he wound up getting drafted by The Mouse (House) to mount an expedition to Big MT and stop the NER from getting their hooves on its stuff, also talked the party into holding the best stuff out of Mouse's hooves
>the one singular prude in the party, which has been kinda funny
Lots of fun drama with the gryphon character since he's the only one that doesn't treat her like the kid sister of the group. They do beers and he tells her she's sharp but kind of a dumbass or does anecdotes and life advice. They complain about their girlfriends (who are both in the party) to each other. Lots of fun chemistry with them, especially since they're effectively sharing frontliner duty.

Rome may or may not be plotting to completely overthrow Mouse in the longterm, although for now he's got his plate full trying to actually FIND the local chapter, keeping the NER from hunting them down, getting to Big MT, and cracking down on what may be The Master 2.0 brewing up on Black Mountain.

And he's gotta figure out how to introduce his technophile girlfriend to the family.

... he is a very busy pony.

>>42752551
Oooo! Now that's a fun backstory!

>>42752146
>Wasteland asylum
Now that sounds like fun.

No more Murktober...

>>42753369
Welcome to No Nuts November.

>>42753390
Blackjack would never!

>>42753470
She did! Several times!
But not to Stygius though. He was too good for that.

Why we have no more Anon or human in Fallout Equestria fanfic. I think that concept has a lot of potential.
Cloud you offer me some, Anon, if you know some?

>Grenade machine guns
>12.7mm SMGs

How nice of Somber to follow the Fallout tradition of not knowing how guns work

>>42753825
Those are just straight up guns from New Vegas, anon. Idk exactly what you're trying to get at. Also a 12.7mm SMG would just be an SMG in like .50AE or something; hilariously overkill for a compact package but doable if you wanted.

>>42753885
>It's real
What the fuck, Obsidian

>>42753885
Now I want a 9mm rocket launcher.

>>42753885
>>42754045
>>42753825
>12.7mm SMGs
ASh-12/ShAK-12, since it uses same ammo as RSh-12.
>grenade machine guns
Baryshev Automatic Light Grenade Launcher.

Never underestimate what slavs can do.

>>42743880
>>42744743
I fixed the grave error of Littlepip having human boots for you.

>>42754284
>I fixed the grave error
You motherfucker.

>>42753825
The 1911 handgun that's fudd lore accurate
It won 2 world wars. Anti-aircraft, anti-tank, anti-demon (Celestia's caliber), and has the stopping power to knock a dragon on its ass.

>>42754284
There is a special place in hell for you. And I'll see you there because, damn it, you made me laugh out loud. Fucking "fixed" image name. lmao

>>42754045
That's also the 40mm unique, lmao. Although the generic is 25mm I think which is pretty close to what a lot of militaries are actually looking at for newer man portable grenade weapons. I know China actually has put work into a 'grenade sniper rifle' platform for mountain fighting.

And it's not like Fallout hasn't always had weird gonzo guns like the 10mm in the first game being a mag fed revolver. The real crime of Bethesda is that shit is just ugly and doesn't even have cool factor outside of their boxy laser weapons.

>>42754284
>>42754633
I concede that these guns are real, but it's still ridiculous strapping them to little ponies.

Those anti-dragon cannons on Steel Rain can't be any bigger than 75mm or else he'd topple over!

>>42755313
Oh, I thought this was Deus for a moment.

>>42755313
You act like dual 75mm cannons isn't hueg as fuck for something portable on foot.

>>42755904
I was trying to be charitable. They'd probably be more like 37mm guns. But either way, you ain't killing a dragon with those things

>>42755313
>Steel Rain
I can't remember much about him. Except that he was a total ass wipe who deserved to be hated.

>>42755313
Modern soldiers routinely carry 84mm rifles. The answer is the cannon can be whatever caliber you want if you make the projectile lighter or slower (and especially slower). If you're not worried about velocity at range, you can lob quite the hunk of explosives over a wall.

bump

>>42754284
This is what Taint does to a mare.

>>42757191
grim

>>42756751
Saving this thread from falling out.

Why are there no Red Eye fics? He's the most interesting antagonist in the entire setting.

>>42757850
He makes Anons too horny to think straight

>>42758003
No, that's Air Raid.

>>42757850
Hard to write for without seeming dumb and his current breathing status doesn't help.

>>42758351
>his current breathing status doesn't help
That in itself shouldn't be a problem.

>>42758351
>letting that stop you

>>42757850
People really don't write stories for main villain characters in FoE at least, it also doesn't help that Red Eye is from the main fic and most people leave Littlepip story alone outside a few mentions of it so they can focus on their own story.

bump

>>42750381
I just listened to Fine by Lemon Demon and it's inspiring me to work on my F:OE OCs, particularly the line "I know that every bomb has a silver lining".
I think it's got the kind of tone I want for their story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRiGeDMKpKU

>>42759189
>People really don't write stories for main villain characters in FoE
We need more post Unity mutiecorn stories. There's too few of those.

>>42761204
If only we got some, I'm sure we'd get some good characters

>wanna ramble about my FoE game
>mostly its just been party logistics
I did introduce the raider virus to the party. An all-pegasus gang in the city is infected with a specific strain of it and sent one of their 'aspirants' against the party as a test. The diamond dog took him alive and managed to rock-magic it out of his system (since he was still early stages), although he's still a bit fucked up.

In character they don't really know whats up, but the player pretty correctly guessed he was infected with rabies when I described the symptoms. I think other players are under the impression he was fucked up on bathtub psycho.

Besides that the party's current home base is about to be attacked (or is currently under attack I guess), and they're slated for their last 'intro' mission before I let them loose on the city proper. So that's exciting.

>>42762355
>but the player pretty correctly guessed he was infected with rabies when I described the symptoms
Ah yes, the famous the raider rabies.

>>42760766
Nice song choice

>>42752551
How prudish are we talking?

>>42762521
Doesn't the FoE raider virus leave a bunch of perforations in your forebrain just like rabies does?

>>42762855
Not so much anti-sex as much as strictly vanilla by choice. A lot of Rome's exposure to overt sexuality was from abuse he witnessed as a slave or raiders getting their kicks, so if it was anything kinkier than two married ponies making tender love to each other he had a pretty strong aversion to it. Also he's BoS/Steel Ranger so you can imagine he was just generically reserved.

Same deal for drugs. He kept some combat stuff on his person for emergencies but he was always harping on the gryphon for being too Gung ho about popping them (and she did start using Psycho recreationally although he never found that out IC).

Compared to most of the other party members he was practically a nun.
>Bat pony came from a vault with no family units so most relationships were more or less open; Rome had to argue her into an exclusive relationship
>turbo nympho unicorn who slept with just about everything that moved - was probably a futa. Romantic partner of the gryphon girl
>pegasus with great stonking tits who hated people in general but was also a slut.
>'baby' dragon shortstack that was the player's excuse to say 'yes' to everything. Did all the drugs, was probably fucking the Tops talent scout, and joined the White Horshoe Society under the party's noses
Ironically the gryphon tribal sorta had the same relationship expectations as Rome so she had a lot of trouble putting up with her girlfriend being a slut. In their case she found a set of friendship/empathy bracelets that helped prove the unicorn really did love her and wasn't just stringing her along, so she found a way to put up with it after a couple of hard conversations.

One background detail that never came up but I thought was funny: Rome has the entire Zebra Sutra memorized cover to cover due to his time spent cataloging books during Scribe training. Somehow it wound up in his cohort's batch and it turned into a huge bet. Rome's talent happens to give him really excellent memorization skills.

>>42763060
>hated people in general but was also a slut.
Just, why?

>>42763060
>the FoE raider virus
That's a thing exclusively tied to Project Horizons, but kind of, yes. Raiders outside of PH don't have that stuff though.

>>42763122
Huh. I'd totally forgotten that was a PH thing. It just sorta made sense with how feral the raider ponies are in FoE that I guess I ran with it.

Welp. I'm running an AU anyways so I guess that's just how it is now. I'll have to go back and resume my deep dive into the setting to make sure I haven't missed something else important.

>>42763115
Her player is generically a big misanthrope is why. Sandy was odd though because she was also a strange mix of 'live and let live' to the point that she took massive issue with putting down raiders who waved the white flag, no matter what they were doing prior.
>walk into Primm
>the convicts have won the siege and are in the process of feeding the limbs of the locals to their dogs
>Rome wants to put them all to the sword
>NOOOO YOU CANT DO THAT THEY SURRENDERED
>(after we accidentally blew the front half of the Bison Steve off by daisy chaining some cars)
She was so weirdly cynical but also ready to lap up any dumb sob story she got served. I could never tell if she was actually just dim or if it was the player.

Glowing Alicorns.

>>42763122
Yeah, it was unnecessary to add a raider disease. There's really no need to give an excuse for being a piece of crap raider.

There are basically 3 types of raiders:

You've got the criminal types, think not much worse than old school gangsters. They'll kill, but only to send a message. Too much killing is bad for business.

Then you've got the street gang types, they'll kill and enjoy it, but communication isn't impossible. They're more likely to shoot you in the face though.

And then you've got the insane ones. The decorate with corpses types, they're not interested in anything but pain, pleasure, and whatever their brand of crazy is.

You've also got a lot of gray areas, like Fiends in New Vegas, they're the 3rd type, but they can restrain themselves to trade for drugs.

And you've also got some groups, like the BoS who at times are little more than raiders with good tech. Some mercs are little better than raiders, like the Gunners.

>>42763319
That's metal as fuck and the imagine dragons file name is a nice touch.

>>42763319
Would.

>>42763269
Well, the player and their PC def sound like an interesting combo.

How do you guys handle death in your stories/games?

As a GM I tend to only punish players if they're being stupid or its a boss fight. And the bad guy doesn't go after downed players, they've got active targets to focus on.

As for stories, I try not to create characters just for them to die. I have a beginning and a ending planned. How the characters get from A to B is more played out in my head. I try to have the characters go where they will, rather than force them down a path. So I have issues killing them off.

>>42763705
As a GM I usually have a character death be epic or well if the players have actively pushed my buttons. Had that happen in a Cyberpunk game.

Story wise, if I do have a character die I want that death to be memorable for the reader and even have some impact.

>>42758619
I still don't get how you ended up liking her of all ponies.

>>42763971
It's long and complicated but I see her snowpity is heavily damaged and buried deep. I want to see her smile.

>>42758619
>>42763971
Who are they?

>Green mutiecorn that wears Luna's skeleton
What the fuck lmao there's some crazy stuff in OG FoE

>>42764349
The one on the right is Daisy. She's one of th e worst security officers in Stable 99. Yes, she's even bad by 99 standards.

>>42764961
Ahh, I vaguely remember her. That must be some snowpity.

>>42763662
What was worse with Sandy is that she was so apathetic she routinely tried to dodge plot hooks, which led to plenty in-character friction on its own. I was not upset when that player had to bow our for IRL stuff.

To his credit, he did eventually come back with a unicorn who was way less abrasive. Had a fun interaction between her and Rome because she was an empath and while Rome keeps a great poker face behind that he's a huge mess, so he wound up accidentally bombarding her with all his very loud subsurface feels while they were running an errand for the Followers once.

>>42763541
I think it works in FoE to specifically explain the Fallout 3 style madmen that seem to be omnipresent in the Wasteland. There's a really sticky question of 'where the fuck do these people even come from?' and having the Enclave seeding isolated groups with something that turns them berserk is a surprisingly tidy explanation.

Not that banditry doesn't happen but the specific kind you see in the prototypical Fallout raider burns itself out very quickly. 200 years after the megaspells you'd be way more likely to see fueds like the Hatfields and McCoys than roving bands of rabid murder mare's.

New Vegas does it pretty well; the Mojave is in a state of upheaval since the NCR are moving in and forcing smaller bands out of their territory while the Legion does the same, which bottles all the refugees and survivalist bands up in the no-man's-land between them.

FO4 sorta tried to do this by making the setting a collapsed/sabotaged state but it fumbled it in the final step by still having the 'raiders' all effectively be one generic faction without goals, or having them fight over weird objectives like a 200 year old brewery.

>>42763705
>games
Haha. I don't know yet. This is the first time I've run something like this.

>stories
Fact is that some characters are made to die. The big secret is that the death
>must directly effect more than just the main character's feelings
>shouldn't be foreshadowed by how you the author adjust handling the character
E.G. info dumping should be happening well before their death becomes relevant to the plot (unless it's an obvious last stand or something).

Not that I have an easy time killing characters off myself.

>>42764909
I still hate Nightseer for that.

>>42765375
Honestly, a lot more people in real life than you'd think are barely part of society. Get rid of the social and governmental structure keeping them in check and they'll kill you as soon as look at you. So raiders make sense to me, they were/are the standard default most humans go to outside of structured cultures.

>>42765666
Trips confirm. But you have to admit, it gave her one hell of a look! And she uses blood magic!

>>42758619
I'm up to some evil shit

>>42765709
>one hell of a look
Maybe. But I like Luna too much to let that slide. This is a personal grudge of mine.

>>42764909
How badly do you think Luna fucked Nightseer with her Divine Alicorn Futa Spirit Cock in the afterlife for desecrating her bones like that.

>>42764909
See, she should have worn Lunas skull like a fancy hat instead.

Is Project Horizons supposed to have music in it? There's some Youtube links in Chapter 45, but aside from that I've never seen music linked within the story.

>>42767650
Not really. I think Somber just got this wild idea to start adding music for "muh kewl anime scenes" around ch.45

>>42767799
Cuz he's a fucking weeb.

I like when an author link music they listened to while writing or had in mind for a scene. Or if a song is being played in the story it's okay to link that. But trying to put a song into the story as background or fight music is lame and shows the author doesn't think they can express the scene without it. Put that in the author's notes, not in the middle of the story. Otherwise do a reading or animate it.

>Pip is getting that Rainbow Power.

>>42767162
Whatever the answer is, it's never enough.

>>42767935
Don't forget, Nightseer is a victim of the Godess, which is Trixie, who was messed up by Twilight Sparkle's plan, which was done with the Ministry given to her by... wait for it... Princess Luna. So Luna did it to herself.

Though if you want to get technical, Luna got her power from Celestia, after Tia's send them to the moon joke went way bad. But only cuz zebras are retarded when it comes to space. so blame the zebras.

>>42768198
I don't think Twilight planned for Maripony to get hit by a nuke during the testing of the IMP.
Or am I missing a fic where Twilight was a Mr. House/Ozymandias fusion and planned the entire war for (((reasons)))?

>>42768227
As Watcher says: "The portal to hell is opened with the incantation of good intentions."

She might not have meant for it to happen, but it did.

>>42768227
Also the Fallout TV show trying to retcon the rich business people/Vault-Tec into starting the war is retarded. Mr. House didn't want the war, he wanted to run his business and go to space.

Some of the original creators have even come out and confirmed that no, that's all BS. That China launched first because the US was attacking the Chinese mainland.

The whole thing was rigged, mind you, but not by Vault-Tec. It was all done by the shadow government that became the Enclave. The writers are just being anti-capitalist commies sympathizers. ;-)

PS Show can't be canon anyway since there's no way that birthday party happened at 6am in California. The bombs hit the east coast after 9am and they had warning because Cali got nuked first.

PPS This is why Stable-Tec was 20% cooler.

>>42767922
Honestly, part of me feels he saw some authors do it for their fics and went "Oooh! I should do that myself!"

>>42768351
I mean, the Enclave is kinda the twisted version of the US, who also used the VAULTS as their means of various twisted tests on humans, all because they wanted to blast off into space. An this even ain't some stuff you can blame on Bethesda, this is OG Fallout lore that you can discover in Fallout 2.

>>42768198
Don't care. Nightseer was cut off from Unity in Canterlot. What she did was her own choice. Fuck her. And not in the good way.

>>42768198
I wouldn't read too deep into what Luna did or didn't do in the base FoE since all Kkat had to go on for her was 30 seconds in S1E2 where she had one line after getting blasted with the gay beam. And also Luna Eclipsed but I think that aired when the OG was almost finished.

>>42768351
Enclave rigging the war is stupid too though

>>42768351
>Fallout TV show
Ignore that. It's garbage.

>>42769182
>Homage throwing Pip down the Tenpony Tower
Uh oh.

>>42767799
A couple of stories did that. I's pretty dumb though. Especially when the links break and don't get maintained.

>>42722991
>though if I ever write a sequel (lol) they'll definitely be fucking
Based.

>>42727489
Neat concept, has your GM incorporated the fact that the Outcasts are quite cut throat and brutal with what we see with Defender Sibley with what he did to the Gary clone and the fact he tries killing McGraw after fulfilling his end of the bargin.

>>42769182
>"Fly dumbass! Fly!"

>>42770363
Good to see the sport survives the apocolypse.

>>42770448
But it has mellowed out. Cadence must weigh a lot more than Littlepip.

>>42770363
Free Unicorn mare rides.

>>42768325
You can't really blamce her for the retardation of the zeebs. 90% of the shit is on them.

>>42770249
The Outcasts were unlikely to show up in person at all. The game took place in New Pegasus, in a timeline where the Courier died in their shallow grave and Benny got the Chip, all that post is is background stuff I came up with for Rome over time.

There was some weird stuff shaping up with the Mojave BoS. They'd gone through with capturing Helios 1 and the NER had a bounty out on their suits. Unfortunately we didn't get a chance to interact with them.

That ordeal would've been hairy for Rome. Drill Bit (his girlfriend) came from a vault where tech never really stopped developing so her people would've been a huge trove of info and tech. Rome falling in with an outsider would have been bad enough but I was expecting navigating that particular minefield to be a huge, if entertaining mess.

does anyone have a torrent for the lossless version of wasteland echoes? itch keeps cutting the download because of my shitty connection

>>42771474
nevermind, I just found there is a desktop itch app, it works with my duct taped router

>>42766820
That's pretty horrifying. I look forward to your progress.

>>42771617
If you want I'll upload chapter 20.5 in lossless for you when I get home. You can't get it from itch since they changed their adult content policy. Pretty sure its another payment processor demand. Those assholes need to be regulated as utilities, I'm getting tired of the corrupt money scum telling me what I can and can't buy.

>RaiderPip because why not?

>>42771385
Sounds pretty interesting, Drill Bit came from some Institute-like Stable then?

>>42771656
I'd love that thanks
>You can't get it from itch since they changed their adult content policy. Pretty sure its another payment processor demand.
we really live in the most boring dystopia, I hate big corpos

>>42771673
We live in the gay retarded cyberpunk future

>>42771662
Drill Bit was from a vault experiment that went a bit too well. The population was almost entirely bat ponies and diamond dogs so they were actually really well suited to coping with underground life, and over time they expanded the vault more and more. Eventually they actually found a dragon buried in their particular mountain who was responsible for a lot of early technological innovation and he helped them continue innovating/unfucking their culture (because the vault experiment also included fun stuff like completely dissolving the family unit).

In practice Drill Bit was a Deep Rock Galactic character. Her vault were running up against the setting equivalent of the NV tunnelers so she had a fair bit of experience doing underground combat engineering n' stuff.

She had been attached to a surface expedition as an engineering advisor prior to the game but they happened to pop up right in front of Sombra's Legion and got wiped. Drill Bit, as far as she knows, was the sole survivor and bumped into Rome while fleeing the encroaching Legion front. Part of the reason they got so close, since they both met each other at their respective lowest points and helped build the other back up.

>>42771731
Yep, minus the cool shit.

>>42771755
That's cool as hell.

>>42772058
>No cool deep dive VR.
>No awesome cybernetics.
>We don't even get hologram versions of our waifus to toment us with them not being real.

I got baited again bt shitty default FOE fiction award and because of this I came here to demand from you recompense in the form of fics where idiotism aura has been lifted and I can see some realpolitic, uplift( i.e. not being dumb and reading pre-war manuals) or even better some AU without apocalyptic war instead of default dumb misery porn with 200 years of magically spawning raiders, endless loot, eldless supply of "cool" stables and worldending threats for every MC ever. Do you know something like that? Or at least gimme good slice-of-life stories about creatures or more exactly griffons, dragons and hyppogriffs.

>>42772206
>Or at least gimme good slice-of-life stories about creatures
Ew.

>>42772092
Pretty accurate summary. yeah.

Made it through Project Horizons Book 3. So far it's been worth it. I'm impressed by Somber's ability to inject enough cartoon silliness into this story to make it 'feel pony,' despite all the macabre violence. It's helped that the grimderp has actually dialed down from the insanity of Chapter 33.

I still don't like Blackjack's lack of a character arc, if that makes sense. She gets plenty of development in terms of processing and getting over trauma and all the bullshit she's faced. But other parts of her, like the masochistic morality and the drive to solve EC-1101, are just kind of asserted and haven't changed. Also BJ's stopped tripping over memory orbs and is now just having forced flashbacks every 20 minutes, which is lame. At least most of them aren't about fucking Goldenblood.

Looking forward to the Thunderhead and Society arcs, though I don't expect to make it fully through Book 4. At least not right now.

>>42771673

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GiEtsIe1HMnZNkRr9J13kHUB3ZsSaFYo/view?usp=sharing

Here's Chapter 20.5 for anyone who wants it. I has both Vocie of Littlepip and Wasteland Echoes versions and all available qualities including lossless. We should add it to future thread posts.

Let me know if the download works, I'd had issues with it before.

>>42772537
>finished book 3
The wild stuff is only just beginning.

>Finish a second read of FoE
>Check next fic
>1.8m words
Huh? Buhuh?
Read, zebra, read! I guess

>>42772703
nice, thanks for the dolphin porn anon

>>42773412
Only the best for you!

>Sea Swirl in Fallout Equestria, she has 2 dolphins for a cutie mark.

>>42773362
PH is a wild ride. Buckle up and get ready. You're in for an experience.

>>42773362
PH is really controversial. But personally, I liked it more than the original FOE.

>>42773664
Stars... What are they? Lovecraftian Outer Gods?

>>42773664
I'm from the part of the community that dislikes PH. It has good stuff in it and Somber is great at writing chracters. But its one part suffering porn and one part weeb fantasy.

Plus Goldenblood goldenblows.

Psychoshy is pretty cool as a character design though.

>>42773713
Project Horizons would have been great if it leaned into Lovecraftian horror rather than an anime religion fantasy.
Zebras nuking Equestria because they had discovered the soul-devouring meteor underneath their city and were attempting to harness its power is fucking cool, and a better reason for the apocalypse than 'muh coal'.

>>42774005
>pic
One hell of a party.

>>42774005
Honestly, not half a bad idea. It could have started as a war over resources and then the Zebras learned about the shit Equestria has uncovered and went into full crazy mode since they believe the princess have become corrupted

>>42773713
Nobody knows. That's part of the mystery.

>>42764349
Daisy - Stable 99 security, notoriously cruel, huge frame mare
Dummy - Retarded, too silly to die

>>42774507
>Dummy
The Dummy? The Kipp Dummy?

>>42774664
That's what they want you to think

>>42774742
I didn't hear a no.

I love Blackjack. I just do.

>>42775084
Same

>>42775155
I can't help it... I know that she.. Well... To a point, she's actually quite a well-written character... She just gets caught up in the authors' anime fetish...

Oh, we're at the end...
Did you have a good time?

>>42775211
>>42775211
>>42775211

>>42775155
>>42775169
You better prepare your balls.

It's been a good ride, cya in the next one.