- Location
- Ohio
That little thing you quoted was just a timestamp, so any title works.
Who Needs Harmony?: An MLP Empire Quest
- Thread starter Questor
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That little thing you quoted was just a timestamp, so any title works.
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- Back in Cali
That was only so the QM could go to the post. I could have quoted any part of it and the same thing would have happened. Like I said once a post is made editing a tag in does nothing.
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- sweden
Given that we are currently at 87 omake threadmaeks, I think I can confidently say that we all REALLY enjoy what you have done here.
Pleasure to be here really.
Oh LOL.
For a moment I thought you meant we had 87 omake bonuses banked and I was like wut.
How about Crystal Dominion? We could turn the Crystal Ponies into the Equus equivalent of Canadians.
Honestly at the moment they're in the same position as our Diamond Dogs used to be, outcasts looking for safety and too weak to do much themselves... plus there's the matter that Sombra has likely given the royal treatment to their nobility (turned them to stone, shattered the statues and spread the rubble across the frozen wasteland).
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- Missouri
I really like that anthem you've got going, it's got just enough of a mix between cheer and industrious work spirit that fits pretty well with the crystal ponies I feel. Almost like a harmony song of getting things back to normal for them with aspirations towards a brighter tomorrow.
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- sweden
There is one key difference here though.
The diamond dogs didn't really have much of a culture before. The crystal ponies had their own language, traditions, laws, flags and symbols, achivements and their own city.
Yes, a nation that has once been destroyed can never live again. But a culture is not so easily destroyed, the memory and history will live on even if they only become myth.
In this case, honey will be more effective than vinegar. If we come and help them rebuild to be one their own nation again then never in the history of the crystal ponies will they not remember who liberated them and helped them in their darkest hour.
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- Existence
I'm honestly afraid of when we defeat sombra cause let's be honest we will. He is honestly my favorite villain...okay only villain I like and the idea we are just going to remove this guy is rather sad. Although his tendency to not staying in his grave might continue. I just don't want him to die with a single stroke I want him to be someone we know is out there in the world just not where.
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- Back in Cali
It isn't a single stroke this is the thrid time we are killing him. Because the other were the same as killing him. He lost his body, he has lost more of his power and now we are close enough to destroy his orb.
Except, most cultural sites and most of the population has been demolished and culled by Sombra. We are looking at a population that just might not even have any historians, artists or other such individuals alive since they might've not been able to survive the harsh conditions of their toil.
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- Existence
I meant as the first time attacking him the other times we are defending.
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- Back in Cali
Doesn't matter most armies are defeated on the defensive instead of on the offensive so that is par for the course. We made sure that the time we actually decided to attack would be stacked in our favor. There was never going to be multiple attempts to invade there was only ever going to be the one time. Planning to attack several times because you don't stack the deck in your favor gets you the same situation that Sombra is in. This war has cost a ridiculous amount of blood and treasure already. We have spent thousands of units of wealth and killed hundreds of thousands of people on both sides this is no minor investment and he has nowhere left to run. We are not the ponies that simply let threats go and come back we will kill him or break his power so much he is worthless.
Not to mention a hundred years of Discord followed by a tyrant so terrifying that some Crystal Ponies would take their own lives rather than remember his rule. In canon Sombra managed to erase all mentions of the Crystal Heart, even locking memories away behind a veil of fear. Their population has been decimated from the hundreds of thousands Sombra used as cannon fodder, we have four thousand huddled in tent cities. Our heroic liberation combined with the generosity of our citizens, I wouldn't be surprised if the Diamond Dogs had competition in the 'worshiping the Emperor as a quasi-deity'.
Oh and I just realised the best real life comparison we have for the liberated Crystal Ponies would be Holocaust survivors.
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- Existence
while we wait for the update i have to comment on this:
Season 9: Sombra is back...but his voice! IT'S TERRIBLE!
THEY RUINED HIM!He went from a dark lord to a snob!
*takes club and bashes away season 9* HERESY WE DONT SPEAK OF THAT
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- California
This quest has both saved Sombre from season 9, but doomed him to death. He lived long enough to die a
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- Saipan
You either die a villain...or live long enough to become a snob.
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- Ohio
They might be jaded on the concept of rulers and worship if it is similar to the holocaust.
Nervos Belli
Don't think this means you've won!
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- Murica
If we really want to have Sombra around as an antagonist for later, there's nothing saying a tiny fraction of his essence can't survive the phylactery being destroyed, and slowly recover over several centuries. Proper villains always have an exit strategy, after all.
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- Ohio
That is why we can put a nail of Orichaclum in his skull. Nail that shadow to the ground and use a mold to fill it in with anti-inflammatory magic metal.
Cruel, but he both has it coming and double tapping is a thing.
I mean, if your first "rational" thought after finding out you are a shadow creature is to murdurize people who are nothing but nice to you, then you are going to get struck down with prejudice since we now know what your plans are.
Edit: it is fine if you want to fight him again, I think I was too harsh, and did not mean to sound callous and utilitarian. He was fun to fight.
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- USA
I will say though that despite what he has done to his people and us he is probably the best thing that could have happened to this quest, He gave us a challenge to face and a threat to fear and eliminate. Without him what would we have done for all those turns? research explore meet and repeat it would have gotten old to fast, but this, this gave us the perfect wrench to throw into this whole quest. And one im sure we are all enjoying trying to defeat.
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- Ohio
He is a good enemy and helped us grow. It showed other nations we are strong even without magic, and was the first threat outside of the gryphon lands.
I sort of feel bad for suggesting painful, permanant ways to get rid of him.
Maybe he will be back in the future, but we will have the downtime to explore some more at least.
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- A house
Honestly, I feel like we should give QM a bit more credit. Like, sombras real bad, yeah, but there was potential for other possible threats with the yaks earlier, the missing money going somewhere that we still have yet to find, chances of the dragons of neighpon actually being ticking time bombs if they wake up or somesuch, and so on and so forth.
Sombra just happened to explode to the surface first... and so far, I think he may wind up being the easiest threat we'll face. No tactical planning, full of hubris, no research done on his enemy outside what he personally witnessed... the future looks bright from atop a mountain, but looking around, there may yet be taller peaks to climb.