Read Starlight Over Detrot with me.

The story is about.

Monster attacks. Crime. Illegal hallucinogens made from electric fruit.

They say things didn't use to be like this. They say things were different, before Luna came back 60 years ago, but Detective Hard "Hardy" Boiled of the Detrot Police Department has never known any world other than that demarcated by the seedy streets of his beloved decaying metropolis; a world in which the coroners sing and dance, surveillance bugs have personality disorders, and the Chief of Police is a scarier entity than most of the eldritch things the city attracts.

The grey unicorn who turned up dead outside the posh High Step Hotel seemed like just another case, but her missing horn is the pointy tip of a very large and nasty iceberg. It's up to Hardy and his friends - a rejected monster hunter, a psychic cab driver, and an underground antiques heir - to find out what’s going on in an investigation that promises to stick more than a cupcake into the very eye of Detrot.

Especially if Hardy has anything to say about it.

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Tuesday, April 13, 2021

Act One, Chapter 14: It's a Black Bag Affair

Chapter 14: Published January 21st 2013 was on a Monday and was in week 04 of 2013.

As of this writing it was 3,003 days ago

FiM Season 9, Epi 3 "Uprooted" would air April 13, 2019



I started counting hoofsteps in case I needed to get back this way.

We took a right. Then a left. Then another right. Up a short set of stairs. Down another. Another twist, another turn, and after a few more minutes of that malarkey I was completely lost, which was probably the point.

Okay, my dumb butt was lost after we turned left that first time.

 I already was getting quite tired of the disorientation, but then, again, that was obviously the point; knowing that fact helped, a little.

Oh gods... Cosmo is the one who breaks of the horns, not his crew sick...

on a lighter note... "breaking bad.” lets take a detour to go look up that show. Okay that show first cane out on Jan 20th 2008 and the last epi aired Sept 29 2013. Season 8, epi 5 "Grannies Gone Wild" would have Heisenbuck at Flim and Flam's Las Pegasus resort. Resembles Walter White from Breaking Bad

“Fine. Your mare, your problem. If you ever want me to take her off your hooves I can use a driver—” Cosmo licked his thick, brown lips and leered at Taxi. I was tempted, briefly, to say ‘Sure, go right ahead’ just to see the look on his face when she tore his testicles off, and was deterred only by an even chance that she’d go for mine.

And because Hardy isn't the smartest pony, he implied ownership... He's lucky she didn't go for his sack then and there.

So, a little bit of lying, and he gets Cosmo to at least listen to what he has to say and consider doing business. I'm not sure how many of Queenies little minions got left in the office, but the EXTREMELLY important thing is that ONE got left inside the diary which was left in the office. They walked out uninjured, so everything is going well according to the plan.

Bari was standing stock-still, gazing straight ahead. Something trickled down his lip from his left nostril. It looked an awful lot like blood. I knew that look; it was one almost exclusively worn by ponies who’ve just had an explosion go off right next to them.

I felt very cold, or would have if my brain were still attached directly to my body. As it was, I was stuck sitting in existential non-space and had to console myself with some mental squirming. Despite my decade and pocket change of experience on the force, it a very rare thing to hear two ponies discussing upcoming plans to murder someone. That someone being me was a whole basket of new and uncomfortable feelings.

Okay here is a call out to a movie, care to guess which one?

Letting off a little tune with their wings, a number of the ladybugs remaining in the car rose into the air and formed an arrow beside Taxi’s head, swinging in a circle until the tip stabilized pointing off to our left.

Swift’s eyes went round as she watched the floating insects. “Oh! That’s super neat!”

The bugs quickly rearranged themselves into a crude smiley face, hanging in mid-air, then zipped back into position

:D I'm pretty sure this is suppose to be like the fish in finding nemo


I love the quiet dialog between Hardy and Taxi that they do with just looks. 

*blink* 
So i was googling "hydra head used as a pencil sharpener art" and this came up as one of my options... Okay.


Moving on.

Oh hey look, the chapter ended. Lets have a peek at the comments, 23

#22 · Jan 28th, 2020 ·  ·  ·



Go read!





#20 · Jun 27th, 2014 ·  ·  ·

Chapter 14: "It's a Black Bag Affair" - the only thing I got is the saying "It's a black tie affair".

Also, (It may be a bit early in the story but:) I spent a few hours thinking on this story whilst I was mowing the lawn, and iv come up with my first prediction on whats going to happen.

At this point in the story, the only satisfying endings I can think of is if shipping happens or if Hardy or swift dies.(maybe also taxi) Hardy will die in some boss fight that rids Detrot of a big evil and swift writes a book about him and the case(called "The detective") and Hardy becomes Detrots golden boy. or swift dies and Hardy gets her book out.

One way or another, she is writing a book. I know this because she is a good writer, she loves action and mystery stories, and she is writing an ass ton under the title "The Detective" :twistnerd:

This is just the first guess. I still have 30 some odd chapters to read before i'm current.

Also (for obvious reasons):




#19 · Apr 6th, 2014 ·  ·  ·



It wasn’t in spite of the fact that every surface was either expensive wood, gold, or red velvet; it was because every surface was expensive wood, gold, or red velvet.

All that is missing I suppose is a massive black velvet kitsch painting of Faust and the four alicorn princesses dressed up as Elvis Neighley, playing poker while 3 sad clown diamond dogs howl at a full moon in the background.
:twistnerd:


Unicorn horns, at least a dozen of them in every color of the rainbow, all broken and shattered, lay in the bottom of that box.

Boooorrring! :ajbemused:
Come on Cosmo! You can surely do better than that with your trophies. Where is the ivory chess set? The ivory waistcoat buttons and suit cuff-links? The scrimshaw Monopoly pieces? Any foal can mash up a collection of dead bugs in a box, but it takes an artiste to pin the butterflies to a board and artfully arrange them for display...

I am disappoint.


and so much more,go read

#7 · Jan 21st, 2013 ·  ·  · Chessie

So I finally noticed that Jade has a nickname: "Spike". So this means that in theory, we've seen the decendants of Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, now Spike, plus Hardy makes a very familiar "Eeeyup"...



#9 · Jan 21st, 2013 ·  ·  · Type_Writer

Type_Writer

You know, it never actually occurred to me to make the link between Spike's name and using it as a racial epithet. Of course, now that it has...

Poco

Taxi didn't; she had water. Hardy had the scotch. :trollestia:

--CEO Kasen


#5 · Jan 21st, 2013 ·  ·  · Chessie



Mainly because of 




1903 Harry Houdini escapes from Halvemaansteeg police station in Amsterdam

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