Friendship is Dragons
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Page 730 - Evading the Issue
Author Notes:
Guest Author's Note: "Eventually I came to the realization that refrigerators, with their metal exterior and dense insulation, are a decent defense against the elements, gunfire, and explosives."
Newbiespud's Note: Starting with this, we've got a grand total of eight pages of guest comics! I was a bit more stringent about quality and theme this time around, so it's not as many as I would have liked for a sabbatical. Still, three weeks will do.
Nice concept. Now who here wants to raise their own little pony?
It doesn't have to be the main 6.
Me, Applebloom.
Nice story, but the ending kind of spoils it for me.
I can enjoy both happy and sad stories, but I don't like stories that, for example, show us a thief re-make his life after leaving prison, get a proper job, get to know his family again... And then end after he's gotten addicted to drugs, killed his family in a drunk-driving accident, and returned to crime.
I can see how some people would consider MLD to have a fairly normal, possibly even 'happy', ending.
But for me, the story would have been easier to enjoy if either they just cut off the story while it's still happy, leaving it a light pony-on-earth story, or the suffering had been there in greater amounts from the start so I could stick to enjoying her suffering rather than growing attached (I do read 'Prequel', also known as 'Making a cat cry: The adventure', so I'm not unused to 'misery porn' as they call it)
I'm also going to guess that [Insert name of pony wearing hat here] doesn't realize that the fridge (if it's not completely destroyed) might not fly away, and you'd be stuck in there without food until you either open it, or starve.
Still, I give a 'Bravo!' for evading the AoE of a nuke, not an easy feat to pull.
Donner party.
... that must be one of the most normal names I've ever heard.
In many of those tests, they had built shelters to test various designs and materials. The scene should have ended with Indie running through a door before cutting to the countdown and blast. In the next scene, when some inspectors were looking over the wreckage, they find Indie in the shelter, eating a can of beans and demanding to know what took them so long to find him.
I would read it for sure
Like an audio play, or some such.
Alas, I suppose we shall never get to see ponies tinker with bombs outside of Digo's guest comics.
Perhaps someone will, eventually (*dramatic sigh*), create way to hack ponies into roleplaying games.
I am sure Newbie would even be an acceptable GM.
Such a shame he's far too busy with the comic and will never, say, start a youtube channel.
On the other hand, with the Smarmony Gang's creativity, they'd probably only come out lightly bruised out of this.
http://www.equestriadaily.com/2016/03/official-pony-roleplaying-game-on-way.html
"Dang it, Doc! I told you not to question it!"
Dang it, Digo, now you've got me wanting to get better at drawing so I too can start making Fallout-DnD-Pony-ish guest comics to throw at Spud!
But anyway, I like Jackie. She sounds like the kind of out-of-box thinker that I could work with. I mean, these are the kind of Hail Mary type plans that I would come up with... with mixed results, obviously. Too bad she's probably not going to survive this. Even with a +10, the DM will have to be really forgiving for this to even have a chance of being remotely successful here.
But I concur: more guest artists! (Within NS's quality standards, of course.)
And I am trying out some art. I have been for a long time and I do occasionally try to do a one panel comic when the mood strikes me (Like showing off Astral's reaction when Pyra attempts to apologies to someone on the other side of a video camera). It's just doing something like this feels a bit... intimidating. But then I felt the same way with my previous guest comics so it's nothing I can't get over.
Mythbusters would beg to differ.
... I think I got the next best thing though. ... though maybe not...
Really, the Our Townians (Ourians? Townians? Towns-People? I think I like 'Towns People' as a name for them)
Anyway, the Towns People also need an episode if they're to truly have forgiven her (and in general, really, especially as one of my favorite reactors, and the one I feel most needs the encouragement, seemed quite taken with a certain Pegasus)
You're still essentially 'spoiling' that it's going to be more than just momentary nervousness.
Props for having only 1 snake on the doctor's staff.
Also, figures the day I come back is the day guest comics show up... Sorry 'Spud, I would have worked on a guest comic if I could. :/
Switchblade came about as a foil for Doc when I started drawing the comics and writing a fanfic. I wanted to make her a raider, but from a sane tribe like the Great Khans in New Vegas. Her personality inspired by Wanda Sykes. Maybe someday I'll play her as a PC. She'd be a fun character to RP.