[FO:E] Fallout Equestria OOC 2: Ante-Up My Little Ponies

[BladeofObliviom]

Hey... If Eleyew was with them, why didn't Stern just hold her as a hostage? I mean, wouldn't they just have held her and sent some radio message or something (assuming they could broadcast) and asked that they turn themselves in and she goes free? I mean, if they do guess the Old Appleloosan party is a bunch of "heroes"...

Stern isn't exactly the brains of the Operation. She's Red Eye's top lieutenant and enforcer, but she's a Talon at the core; She wouldn't do something like that without express orders from Red Eye to do so. Further, she doesn't have any real reason to believe that the group actually cares about her enough to do something as hideously foolish as to blunder directly into Red Eye's home base.

[Chaotic Bob]

...oh yes. That would be what was bothering me all day. Neglecting South...
Shall be corrected shortly.

Anyway.
Sometimes bluntness is the simplest and nicest response.

And Blade has the generally correct idea about Stern.

[Lycan 01]

Stern is a bitch.

That's the plain and simple truth. She is a cruel, heartless bitch who loves to torture people and doesn't care about the slaves. You don't wanna know half the stuff she did in the fic.


So, her killing Eleyew was way more in character than her holding Eleyew hostage or using her for anything besides hamburger meat. Yeah, she might have had some value as a hostage, if the 'heroes' really did care about her. But the alicorns said Eleyew wasn't involved with Old Appleloosa, so she had no reason to believe the 'heroes' cared enough about her to warrant her survival.

Sure, Red Eye is probably going to be annoyed with her. But she's the second-in-command for Red Eye's entire operation and basically the de-facto Queen of the Slavers. She can kill pretty much whoever she wants to, and get away with it.



Eleyew made Stern mad. And you don't make Stern mad and live.

[MCerberus]

Broadmare Scav Post used to be a serious place...
Until it took a Ministry of Morale to the knee.

[TheAmishPirate]

Yeah, I don't feel good about it either. But it's a decision I 100% agree with. Eleyew did two huge things wrong here:

1) She talked to Stern as if they were equals. Including calling her the B-word after she'd just exploded a random slave. In this position, you act as polite as humanly possible, answer questions quickly and exactly, and don't say more than you have to. You don't repeatedly insult them, demean them, and act like they aren't about to kill you. This person is above you, you are below them, that is that.

2) She was wasting Stern's time. All she needed to say was "I'm the relative of one of those involved" and she's valuable again. But she beat about the bush, talking about things Stern ultimately didn't care about, and insulting her to boot. And once the report came in that she wasn't at Old Appleousa, that was that. Time's up.

I don't like seeing characters go, but consequences are consequences, and it's not worth flank-pulling to ignore them.

[Rebonack]

Scav Post has a certified Ministry of Morale Party Technician dropping beats and spreading good cheer. Hard to stay serious when that's going down!

Don't forget to smile!

[TheAmishPirate]

Whoops. Got caught up in that last post and completely forgot why I came to the OOC thread in the first place, heh.

@Lycan: Waiting on you in Girdershade.

[Chaotic Bob]

I have edited my South post for Ponyville.

Somehow I completely missed Blade posting for it at the end, before I posted myself.

[BladeofObliviom]

I have edited my South post for Ponyville.

Somehow I completely missed Blade posting for it at the end, before I posted myself.

Hey, uh, Bob? Pineapple's a mare, so you know.

[Chaotic Bob]

Ah yes, pronouns and Bob.
Bob and pronouns.

I'mma be blunt here.
Pronouns get all sorts of flipped around in my head when I have to deal with anything more than two characters. I dunno why!
But they do.

...so this might happen a lot, and I apologize.
*cough*
But I'll fix it.

[BladeofObliviom]

Ah yes, pronouns and Bob.
Bob and pronouns.

I'mma be blunt here.
Pronouns get all sorts of flipped around in my head when I have to deal with anything more than two characters. I dunno why!
But they do.

...so this might happen a lot, and I apologize.
*cough*
But I'll fix it.

It wouldn't be fair for me to be mad, or anything. I do silly mistakes when writing all the time. They happen.

[Lycan 01]

I should probably also point out that I neglected to describe Eleyew's death in detail because I thought Dark Elf Bard might want to do so herself, or at least post Eleyew's last thoughts before her death. Once Bard posts her last thoughts/reactions/whatever, or if she doesn't want to do so, I'll post Stern's next course of action after she's sure the pegasus is deceased.

Whoops. Got caught up in that last post and completely forgot why I came to the OOC thread in the first place, heh.

@Lycan: Waiting on you in Girdershade.

I have edited Girdershade into my newest post.

[TheAmishPirate]

Though, why are you using Weapons Knowledge, when there are 3-4 specific skills for weapons in the Fallout games?

-Guns (pistols, rifles, shotguns)
-Explosives (landmines, grenade launchers, grenades)
-Energy Weapons (lasers, plasma, railguns)
-Heavy Weapons (minigun, missile launcher, fat man)
-Melee Weapons (knives, rippers, baseball bats)
-Unarmed (hooves, power fists, hellhound gauntlets)

Daggum it, I'm missing posts right and left today. >.<

The way I see it, Weapons Knowledge is more hooves-off than the associated weapon skills. If you had points in Guns, then you'd know the down and dirty facts about shooting guns. You'd know how to compensate for recoil, know to squeeze the trigger instead of pulling it, and how to reload quickly in the heat of battle. If you had points in Weapons Knowledge, you'd know the book-smarts information about weapons, but not much on how to use them. For example, you'd be able to examine the Kneecapper and tell what sort of enhancements the modifications give it. Or you'd be well-versed in various weapon-related myths ("I hear that this Soarin guy? Back in the war? He had this crazy, wing-mounted lightning gun...") and such. I picked it because I wanted Fleetwing to be a guy who is adept at collecting and finding rare weapons, but isn't actually that competent in their use.

...in fact, describing it like this, there's no way this would ever work as a Secondary Skill. Too broad, in both its applications and areas of effectiveness. So, yay! Knowledge gained!

[Rebonack]

>_>

What I'm thinking of doing is using the Primary Skills to refer to the skills specifically in Fallout with a little bit of alteration to fit the setting. Those would be:

Armor, Battle-Saddle, Explosives, Fire Arms, Medical, Melee, MEWs, Repair, Science, Speech, Stealth, and Survival.

Of course there are also the race-specific skills like Flight, Weather Control, and the various types of magic Unicorns can pick up. Changelings get Faerie Fire (spooky green energy/cocoon goop) and Glamor (magic that alters perceptions usually in a subtle way).

Secondary skills cover specializations within Primary Skills. There are tons of different kinds of guns, energy based and otherwise. A character skilled with Fire-arms might be AMAZING with pistols and not so hot with rifles. That would be expressed in their second skills.

The secondary skills can be used to describe things a character knows how to do, but they aren't particularly amazing at. That would work much akin to the specialization above, except the pony wouldn't have the corresponding primary skill. Like, say, a pony might have First Aid as a secondary skill without Medical as a primary skill.

Secondary skills also cover specializations not touched by the standard Primary Skills. Cooking, singing, gambling, rare or unusual knowledge, interpretive dance...

So Weapon Lore or Historical Knowledge or what have you would indeed fall under the last category of Secondary Skills. Secondary doesn't mean something a character isn't good at. Depending on the context it can be something a character is GREAT but that thing they're great at isn't one of the common Primary Skills.

[Lost_Deep]

Okay, I put Toluene just outside of Shatterredhoof, in the southern wasteland thread. for anypony in the area that wanted to talk to the quiet green pony who is a long way from home.

[TheAmishPirate]

*dispenses with knowledge*

Ah, that helps a lot, thank you. I was thinking that Secondary Skills could only really count as random skills that weren't likely to see a lot of in-game use. I think if i break Weapons Knowledge down into a few smaller Secondaries, that'll get his skillset across much cleaner.

[PurityIcekiller]

Lost_Deep, if you need ponies to interact with, Night Jewel's over in Salt Lick City plotting world conquest trying to rebuild her supplies.

[Lost_Deep]

Salt lick city is a long way from Toluene's home, unfortunately. Thanks for the offer, though.

[Luka]

Uh... I'm not sure about the Willd Rabbit Woods' part, but should we wait for MCerberus/Finder to post? or react to Ebony?

[BladeofObliviom]

Uh... I'm not sure about the Willd Rabbit Woods' part, but should we wait for MCerberus/Finder to post? or react to Ebony?

Oh, erm, shoot. Sorry, Finder. Thought I'd waited for everyone.

[PurityIcekiller]

Uh, Bob? I'd kind of appreciate a post for Bright Eyes as well. Thanks.

[Chaotic Bob]

Editted it in.
Usual case of "hitting post instead of preview", only I got distracted afterwards.

[Luka]

Uh.... Is Finder just tackling Luka or something? cuz he was rushing towards them and it seems Finder is acting like if he was still right there

...Or Finder's not reacting to him? In that case then never mind

[MCerberus]

At this point 'tackle' would mean 'clumsily fall on', he's kind of shouting from the back.

[TheAmishPirate]

@Lycan: I hate to keep being the squeaky wheel, but I think you might've forgotten the Girdershade folks again. Swift and Gleamy are passing their rounds unless directly addressed/scuffle breaks out.

[Tychris1]

Ducard to the sort of rescue!

I'm surprised Finder hasn't defecated all over the woodland floor yet considering all he's seen today.

[MCerberus]

Tychris, I find it interesting that Lam. is being called "The Traitor" (with caps). In the FwM universe, Razoreye (doesn't go by that name there, reasons) was griffin special forces against the forces of...

"The Traitor" (with caps)

[Tychris1]

Huh. Well..... Aint that something? I've been using that term to Dehumanize him, and it seems that dehumanized correlations just kind of get strapped onto him whether or not I intended for them to (Lamia monsters from DnD, "The Traitor").

I really need to make a stat sheet for him.

[BladeofObliviom]

Huh. Well..... Aint that something? I've been using that term to Dehumanize him, and it seems that dehumanized correlations just kind of get strapped onto him whether or not I intended for them to (Lamia monsters from DnD, "The Traitor").

I really need to make a stat sheet for him.

He's like, a quarter-step away from being Enclave Secret Service Agent Frank Horrigan. Is that really necessary?

[Tychris1]

Frank who what now?

*google*

Well.... That's a semi accurate description. I like the voice too, feels kind of right.