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Occupied Equestria, Day 5, Mid to Late Morning
Anonymous
vVf+Z
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No.89111
89113
Six years after season 6, Occupied Equestria presents an alternative history where Chrysalis chose a different approach to her second attack on Equestria. The Changelings have conquered half of Equestria, while a former Equestrian colony - soured to Princess Twilight's notion of harmony with all creatures thank to their dealing with griffins - Invaded and took the other half. In Baltimare and the Equestrian Southeast, the magic of friendship has weakened, as Communists, Changeling infiltrators, Fascists, gangs, and corrupt creepy politicians threaten the city. This role play is based in large part upon the Equestria at War mod for Hearts of Iron 4, and uses D&d 3.5e mechanics.

Ash and Iron seem to want to head out from the abbey. Dark Star was having a conversation with the rescued foals after doing community service. Silver is having a surprisingly friendly conversation with Blue Skies about politics. Spark is babysitting and Brie is supposed to be doing the same. Onyx is sleeping.
1689 replies and 77 files omitted.
Anonymous
Me2Nm
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No.90065
>>90063
Welcome back. It seems Onyx is dealing with third plate utensilism.
Anonymous
lrhVE
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No.90066
90067 90071
All this just from washing utensils
Anonymous
Me2Nm
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No.90067
90068
>>90066
When you roll for stuff and get 1 and 2, you fail in a usually funny result
Anonymous
lrhVE
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No.90068
90069
>>90067
Trust me, I know too well
Anonymous
Me2Nm
?
No.90069
90070
>>90068
Are you Sardo, or Sparko?
Anonymous
lrhVE
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No.90070
90072 90204
>>90069
Eeeee
Anonymous
Utxpe
?
No.90071
90074
>>90066
Of course, Brie has little insect pie incubi. One just bit him, drawing blood, and then was confused when Brie said he looked pretty
Anonymous
Me2Nm
?
No.90072
90074
>>90070
Oh, it's the screeching master himself.
Brie suffered a hoof injury, if you recall. You'll need to bandage that shit later.
That Hippie With No Money
S4hiu
?
No.90073
90204
>>90022
Sister Ash's expression darkens.
"Just yesterday, I had to free two of those children from the clutches of a child molester. Two of the same children that were forcefully taken from the orphanage on a hill. The ones I took from that warehouse were starving in metal cages by the time I arrived, and all had to be treated for mane lice." She says
"To whome are foals taken and 'sold' in this manner supposed to be marketed to?"

>>90064
What is this heresy? It's like he wants to be cursed.
Also:
>Ponies
>Using sporks
Anonymous
lrhVE
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No.90074
>>90071
I meant he's adorable, but mein deutsch ist shlecht
>>90072
Meh
Silver
NJdlu
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No.90075
90204
>>90053
"It is fairly simple meal to prepare. You brown some ground hay in skillet, add in cream of mushroom soup, sour cream, salt and pepper, and while you cook this you boil egg noodles in pot. When noodles are done, you just mix them into dish, serve with extra sour cream to put in to taste, and enjoy. It is really simple and easy, and it is very popular dish in Severyana."

He sits down, taking another sip of his tea while memories of his time in Severyana are brought to mind for him to share. "There is not much to note about my time as colt, I suppose, but it would be good idea to start with my parents. My father was blacksmith, in St. Petershoof. He was this massive, hulking Earth Pony. Bay-colored coat, dark brown mane, brown eyes, and dark brown stripe running down length of his back, almost same exact stripe I have myself. He said it was family marking that all colts and stallions in his family had. To this day, I have not seen one pony who was ever as big or as strong as he was, but despite his size, he was really gentle pony. At least, unless you got him mad, and I mean mad, then he was rather scary pony to be around, and very scary to those who made him mad. He used to be Quartermaster for Equestrian Royal Guard before I was born, so he got to travel all across Equestria, meet different ponies, learn their customs, help them when they were in need, and generally get much clearer picture of world outside Severyana than if he had stayed in one place. He often said it helped to shape who he was.

"I never got chance to meet my mother. Apparently she was daughter of noble pony near Trottingham. She was weak and frail, exceptionally so even for unicorn. My father said once her mane was as golden as sun, her coat as fair as winter snow in St. Petershoof, and her eyes blue like pristine sapphires. Her family often kept her locked away in their manor house, as she was most frail of her siblings and they thought she would give their family bad name. All she wanted to do in life was to see some more of world beyond windows of her house, and to experience all that life had to offer. She got her wish when one day, her family's manor caught fire, and my father was part of local garrison that was called to help. He rescued her from burning wreckage, and they fell in love from that moment on. She absolutely adored how he had traveled all across Equestria and had all of these stories to tell her, and he enjoyed having somepony to take care of and who would care for him in turn.

"After couple years of living together, they decided to have foal, even though they both knew, with how weak she was, of risks it involved to her. As it turns out, those risks did exist after all. She died couple of minutes after she gave birth to me. Toll on her body was too great from birth, it just gave out. My father said she got to see me before she died, and that it...made her happy, before her end. That I helped her to pass away calmly into next life. I...do not know if I miss her or, or if I am supposed to miss her even though I do not. It is hard to miss what you never had in first place."
Anonymous
Utxpe
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No.90076
90077 90078 90079 90080
Just so you know, I am in transit now and will be for most of the night
Silver (OOC)
NJdlu
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No.90077
>>90076
Kinda figured from your change in ID. Have fun on your trip!
That Hippie With No Money
S4hiu
?
No.90078
>>90076
See ya
Anonymous
Me2Nm
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No.90079
>>90076
Good luck.
Anonymous
gYKef
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No.90080
90083
>>90076
Adios
Anonymous
Me2Nm
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No.90083
>>90080
You forgot the accent at the o
It's Adiós
Anonymous
Me2Nm
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No.90085
90086
Going to bed. Night.
That Hippie With No Money
S4hiu
?
No.90086
>>90085
Goodnight, Anon.
Spirit of a Vet (NOT Economist)
dV47L
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No.90087
90090 90094
>>89862
F in advance for the first whiff the Death Star takes of SS boy

Also, this may be helpful for future role-play.
Just remember to keep incognito mode on:
https://articles.extension.org/pages/10248/mare-reproduction

Anonymous
gidHh
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No.90090
90093
>>90087
At least he doesn't smell like Lavender and pussy
Anonymous
lrhVE
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No.90091
90204
Eeee's in bug-sitter
Silver (OOC)
NJdlu
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No.90093
>>90090
Fair enough point made.
Anonymous
Me2Nm
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No.90094
90095
>>90087
A scary prospect.
Will we reach the point where Dark Star intentionally kills another PC?
Shot on the balls, maybe? That sounds edgy enough for mature ratings.
That Hippie With No Money
BMCwp
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No.90095
90096
>>90094
Tbh, I wouldn't blame him.
Anonymous
Me2Nm
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No.90096
90097 90098
>>90095
It's understandable. No one really wants to be cucked. Even the ones who pretend they want it.
GM will probably explode if it ever happens and maybe will use Skies to kill Star if Silver is killed.
That Hippie With No Money
BMCwp
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No.90097
90098 90099
>>90096
Just have someone kick Silver in the balls, so his balls finally drop.
Stallions don't always kill eachother in the wild, but they will try to castrate eachother.
Anonymous
NJdlu
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No.90098
90099 90100
>>90096
>>90097
I'm still here, you know.
Anonymous
Me2Nm
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No.90099
90102
>>90098
Well, hello there. Be sure to amp up your armor. You'll need it when Star goes apeshit.
>>90097
Ah, civility always wins in the end.
Silver is treading a fine line with teasing a potential romance between him and Skies.
That Hippie With No Money
BMCwp
?
No.90100
>>90098
Whups..
Sorry.. hehe..
That Hippie With No Money
BMCwp
?
No.90102
90103
>>90099
>civility always wins in the end.
This is not even close to true irl, but my character believes that violence can almost always be avoided.
Anonymous
Me2Nm
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No.90103
90104
>>90102
Civility has to win in the end or else everything would go extinct. That's why muh social contracts exist in the first place.
Whether the type of social contract is from Hobbes or Rosseaux's way is not important.
That Hippie With No Money
BMCwp
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No.90104
90105
>>90103
I would say that humans generally maintain some kind of eternal strife between civility and barbarism.
Anonymous
Me2Nm
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No.90105
90106
>>90104
Understandable. Most real life balances are dynamic.
That Hippie With No Money
BMCwp
?
No.90106
90107
>>90105
Thus is the eternal struggle between law and chaos.
Anonymous
Me2Nm
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No.90107
>>90106
Speaking of law and chaos, how is Iron turning up in the alignment chart so far?
Anonymous
gidHh
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No.90108
90109 90110
Even though I generally loathe meta-talk and great walls of spoilered text, I would kind of like to know what people think is the alignment of the various characters
Anonymous
Me2Nm
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No.90109
>>90108
Not sure, actually.
Cauldron is neutral for sure, leaning on chaotic.
Skies is also chaotic neutral as well.
Marey and Thyme would be good aligned, maybe lawful.
Aside from them, I have no clue.
Anonymous
NJdlu
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No.90110
90111 90114 90115 90116 90166
>>90108
I honestly have no idea, but if I were to guess...Blue is probably Chaotic Neutral, Dark Star is Lawful Neutral, Ash is Lawful Good, Iron is Chaotic Good, Brie is True Neutral, and Onyx is Lawful Good.
Anonymous
MNNmE
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No.90111
90112
>>90110
>Iron is chaotic good
Uh sure. Iron's totally helping Ash out of the good of his heart.
I suppose Silver is neutral good,
maybe. Before he would be true neutral.

Anonymous
NJdlu
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No.90112
90113
>>90111
*shrugs*
Like I said, I don't know.
Anonymous
Me2Nm
?
No.90113
>>90112
Well, you weren't here when Iron started his adventure, so it's excusable tbh.
Nevertheless, I don't think we're going to use any sort of enchantment that adds bonus hit chance and damage due to alignment.
Even though it's totally plausible since it's in vanilla D&D.
Anonymous
SIs8i
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No.90114
90115
>>90110
>Ash lawful good
F for her druidic powers

That Hippie With No Money
lXb4I
?
No.90115
90117 90118
>>90110
>>90114
Sister Ash only has a mostly lawful demeanor when she's calm. When she's angry, she's chaotic and expresses it by burning things.
That Hippie With No Money
lXb4I
?
No.90116
>>90110
Brie is Chaotic Neutral. It's pretty obvious, imo.
Anonymous
Me2Nm
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No.90117
90120
>>90115
So basically she's neutral good.
Anonymous
NJdlu
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No.90118
90119 90120
>>90115
I'm not sure that evens it out.
Anonymous
Me2Nm
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No.90119
90121
>>90118
Don't you remember how she sacrificed the group just to burn heretic stuff back at that undead spawning place?
That's not what a lawful character would do.
That Hippie With No Money
lXb4I
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No.90120
>>90117
Exactly. Her affinity with law or chaos depend largely on what she judges to be best in the name of goodness.
She's typically mostly lawful because she values politeness and peacefulness, but she's willing to make a total 180 if the date of innocent Creatures is at stake.
>>90118
That's because usually only evil things make her angry. She's an ex-monk: she learned to control her emotions to an extent, but when she sees evil before her, she goes Holocaust mode.
That Hippie With No Money
lXb4I
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No.90121
90122
>>90119
This.

Also, sorry about that..
Anonymous
Me2Nm
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No.90122
>>90121
Oh don't mention it.
I basically saved the entire group from asphyxiation. Really didn't hurt Iron in the slightest.
Anonymous
Utxpe
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No.90123
90124 90126 90129 90136
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Some word of God about Kirins within literally the last five minutes

Attendee: “Are Kirins ponies?”
Jim Miller: “They are Kirins”
Attended: “But are they ponies?”
Miller: “No they are Kirins”
Attendee: “But are they related?”
Miller: “No they are kirins. That’s like asking if sharks are bears. They are two different things”
Anonymous
Me2Nm
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No.90124
90137 90139
>>90123
That's no god. He's an idol.
Interesting. Despite how similar they look, they're different species? I guarantee that they will somehow link it to ponies, like how zebras and ponies are from the same family or order.
Anonymous
T7Z/U
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No.90126
90127
>>90123
Are ponies kirins?
Anonymous
Me2Nm
?
No.90127
>>90126
You're asking the real questions here.
Probably no, but still.
Anonymous
BMCwp
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No.90129
>>90123
This makes sense.
The fact that Kirins have cloven hooves shows that they are a different kind of ungulate.
The only similarity they share with ponies is their physical builds and the shape of their heads.
That Hippie With No Money
BMCwp
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No.90136
90139
>>90123
Did they say anything else about Kirins?
That Hippie With No Money
BMCwp
?
No.90137
90138
>>90124
>I guarantee that they will somehow link it to ponies
I doubt it, tbh. Jim's monolithic thought process says it all.
Anonymous
Me2Nm
?
No.90138
>>90137
It's just a gut feeling I have.
Anonymous
Utxpe
?
No.90139
90140
>>90124
In a fantasy world, species don’t have to abide by the Darwinian-evolutionary theory of common ancestry

>>90136
Most of the commentary was about “Sounds of Silence,” but I also missed most of it
Anonymous
Me2Nm
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No.90140
90141
>>90139
They'll probably play with the idea later on if kirins become popular enough.
That Hippie With No Money
BMCwp
?
No.90141
90142
>>90140
Perhaps they will then. Kirins are the new batponies, as far as fan content is concerned.
Anonymous
Utxpe
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No.90142
90143 90144 90148
>>90141
I do recall a question about batponies, which I bothered to write down

Someone’s asked if bat ponies will be brought back. He answered something like “only if there is a valid story reason for it. We’re not going to bring back something just because fans like it”

I did get this quote verbatim:
“I don’t understand the fan obsession with bat ponies. They are literally on screen for like 4 seconds. They look cool...”

Also:
“Maybe we’ll just put a batpony on screen for 22 minutes”
That Hippie With No Money
BMCwp
?
No.90143
90154
>>90142
... Why do the showmakers hate us so much?
Anonymous
T7Z/U
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No.90144
90145 90154
>>90142
>tfw Equestria at War has shown more care to bat ponies than the actual show
That Hippie With No Money
BMCwp
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No.90145
90146
>>90144
You could say the same thing about reigndeer and diamond dogs, but nopony really cares about those guys.
Anonymous
Me2Nm
?
No.90146
90147 90154
>>90145
Are reindeer even canon?
I thought comics weren't canon and all.
That Hippie With No Money
BMCwp
?
No.90147
>>90146
Good point.
Anonymous
Me2Nm
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No.90148
90149 90154
>>90142
It's peculiar that they're not just placing more and more species to signify racial/societal differences, including subspecies of said species.
I suppose it's kind of hard to keep thinking up differences without going to extremely obsure or extinct societies like that tribe in Africa nobody cares about.
That Hippie With No Money
BMCwp
?
No.90149
90150
>>90148
If you look at the map they made, there isn't much room for more species, unless they make another continent to the West.
Anonymous
Me2Nm
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No.90150
90151 90154
>>90149
I guess that's true.
Still, I can see the map suddenly revealing a new world if the ride never ends and G4 goes on for forever, discarding the idea of a fifth one.
Aztec ponies when?
That Hippie With No Money
BMCwp
?
No.90151
90153
>>90150
Technically,the continent Equestria sits on isn't fully shown.
The "undiscovered west" could go on forever.
That Hippie With No Money
BMCwp
?
No.90152
90153
I'm going to go to bed soon.
Goodnight, Anons.
Anonymous
Me2Nm
?
No.90153
>>90151
That's true.
>>90152
Have a good night. I'll follow your lead and go to bed as well.
Anonymous
gidHh
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No.90154
90155 90156
>>90143
What do you mean?

>>90144
Eh, I sort of agree with Miller on that one. The "Moonshine"update goes so far as to call bat ponies "The Fourth Tribe," and with that 12% recruitment penalty it is either implying that bat ponies are one eighth of the population and none of them serve, or half of them respond to conscription and there are just as many bat ponies as there are of any other pony race. That doesn't make any sense with what we've seen in the show.

>>90146
Deer are in "The Best Gift Ever"

>>90148
The show has Dragons, Griffins, Zebras, Diamond dogs, Buffalo, Minotaurs, Donkeys, Changelings, Breezies, Yaks, Hippogriffs, and Deer, besides the races thus far exclusive to the movie, which is at least Kajit, Parrots, and the Storm Island creatures. This is besides the Earth Ponies, Unicorns, Pegasi, Alicorns, Crystal Ponies, possibly Bat Ponies, and also Saddle Arabian-styled horses that represent cultures from Egypt, Norway, Japan, India, the Aztec, England, Greece, The American South, Norwegian-Americans, Louisiana, and New York. What do you want from it exactly?

>>90150
>Atec ponies when
December 7, 2013. That's when the episode "Daring Don't" came out, which featured "native" ponies of the "Tenochtitlan basin"
Anonymous
T7Z/U
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No.90155
90157
>>90154
It's highly unlikely the -12% modifier represents either of those realities. Rather, it's likely it represents that, because of discrimination experienced by the other pony races, and the perceived slights against their favored princess in the past by the ruling princess, there's enough bat ponies deliberately avoiding service or potential service in the Equestrian Armed Forces to represent a 12% drop in Equestria's expected recruitable population compared to what they would expect to have from their conscription laws. If Equestria had the "Disarmed Nation" conscription law, meaning 1.00% of their total population would normally be able to be recruited into service, then the penalty would drop that to only 0.88% of their total population. It isn't a statement of how many bat ponies there are in Equestria, but rather how big the impact on Equestria's total recruitable population is from having no or very little bat ponies serve in the military.
Anonymous
Me2Nm
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No.90156
>>90154
>Derr are canon as spirits in a Christmas episode
Oh. I wonder if their race is still alive or were killed off by Windigos. I don't think there's a lot to go by if you want to describe how they live or something, unless you want to go the comic route.
I didn't watch that episode, so I can't say for sure.
>What do you want from it?
It's not that I want them to add species every Saturday. I like to guess what direction the show writers will go, see if I can predict what route they'll take.
Mind you, my predictions are not based on carefully constructed logic. It's mostly superficial guesses.
>"Daring Don't"
I remembered that episode the moment I posted it. I'll just pretend it says Incan ponies instead of Aztec. I don't think there are any direct paralells to them.
Anonymous
gidHh
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No.90157
90158 90160
>>90155
You're entirely missing the point. How could there be "enough bat ponies deliberately avoiding service or potential service in the Equestrian Armed Forces to represent a 12% drop in Equestria's expected recruitable population" unless bat ponies are at least 12% of the total population? The number is suspiciously close to half of 25%, which is of course a 1/4 share of one whole, which suggests that they are implying Bat Ponies are equal in number to the other races. That makes no sense for a race never seen in background scenes
That Hippie With No Money
BMCwp
?
No.90158
90159
>>90157
>race never seen in background scenes
Well, to be fair, they only come out at night.
Anonymous
Me2Nm
?
No.90159
>>90158
Checkmate, atheists.

Anonymous
T7Z/U
?
No.90160
90161
>>90157
I'm not missing the point, I'm hitting the issue right on its head. It never says or implies a specific percentage of the Equestrian population are bat ponies aside from the vague 12% you're getting from an unrelated figure (though in all likelihood this isn't too far off from reality), it never says or implies that each pony race makes up an equal portion of Equestria's population, and it never says or implies that each pony race's contribution to recruitable population is proportional to the size of their demographic. You're deliberately reaching to try to prove your point.
Anonymous
Utxpe
?
No.90161
90162
>>90160
Does it need any number other than the percentage in the recruitable population? That’s the same way they represent griffin minoritoes in New Mareland and pony minorities in Hellquil: through the effect on recruits of population. Come to think about it, recruitable population is the one and only regard by which population matters at all in HoI4? How is the recruitable population figure either vague or unrelated? It’s not vague st all because 12% is a specific number, and it’s not unrelated because recruit is directly related to population. How am I reaching, and why am I wrong for suggesting that it seems improvable to me that a race of ponies that make up 12 to 24% of the general population is improvable for a race that is never seen in the background or really anywhere outside of luna’s personal guard?
Anonymous
T7Z/U
?
No.90162
90163
>>90161
Look, if you weren't GM and if this was any other thread, I would probably argue with you from now until the end of days because we're apparently the most stubborn people on the face of the planet. As it stands, I don't want my character hobbled, tortured, hurt, maimed, or killed because I got into a lengthy argument with the GM about fucking bat ponies of all things. So, let's both agree that I think you're wrong, you think I'm wrong, in all likelihood we're both wrong, and that we should never speak of this again.
Anonymous
Utxpe
?
No.90163
90164 90165
>>90162
Wait, are you Silver? I though you were Spirit of an Economist
Anonymous
T7Z/U
?
No.90164
>>90163
Well, I've seen no reason for the Economist to be as dumb as I am.
Anonymous
Me2Nm
?
No.90165
>>90163
Maybe he's multiposting and we don't even know it. Woo~
You forgot the 'sardonic' part.
Anonymous
gYKef
?
No.90166
90167
>>90110
Close, lawful neutral
Anonymous
Me2Nm
?
No.90167
90168
>>90166
>lawful neutral
>jumps off a boat, essentially stealing a gold piece for himself when the group tells him he can't.
I somehow doubt that you're lawful. Maybe true neutral.
Anonymous
gYKef
?
No.90168
90169
>>90167
Oh don't worry, that'll make sense later
Anonymous
Me2Nm
?
No.90169
90170
>>90168
I suppose.
Still, your character follows the path you intended.
Anonymous
gYKef
?
No.90170
90171
>>90169
I like to think I've played him fairly LN with one or two strays off the path
Anonymous
Me2Nm
?
No.90171
90172
>>90170
It's somewhat hard to notice when you lack many groups.
I think your commitment to your job may be a show of lawfulness, maybe? In combat, you're kind of 'kill everyone because battles work that way and winning is what's most important' kind of fighter, which fits.
Overall, I think I can see lawfulness.
Anonymous
gYKef
?
No.90172
90173
>>90171
Thanks
Would I be wrong to assume Chaotic Good for Iron?
Anonymous
Me2Nm
?
No.90173
90174
>>90172
I think not. More like chaotic neutral, since I've done some loan sharking at the beginning.
Also may go back to the Waterfront Gang for some more money so I can get my tungsten fullplate.
Only thing that can turn him into CG is actually some mare whose charm can convince him not to do morally questionable stuff.
It could go the other way and turn him into CE, if the GM does it right.
Anonymous
gYKef
?
No.90174
90175
>>90173
CN is a fun alignment. A very "by the character's whims." And you're right, sometimes real easy to shift to CE/CG. Looking forward to seeing the story develop for all the characters
Anonymous
Me2Nm
?
No.90175
90177
>>90174
If only I wasn't weighted down by consequences to enact Iron's whims.
Onyx's still cleaning silverwareist sporks?
Anonymous
gYKef
?
No.90177
90178
>>90175
Yep, unless he's been kidnapped
Anonymous
T7Z/U
?
No.90178
90179
>>90177
The Sporks are rising up...
Anonymous
Me2Nm
?
No.90179
90180
>>90178
They can't rise up 'cuz they're not gamers.
Or something like that.
Anonymous
Utxpe
?
No.90180
90181
>>90179
DON’T IMPOSE YOUR UTENSIL STEREOTYPES ON US! THERE ARE SPORK GAMERS TOO!