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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Saturday, April 3, 2021

Act One, Chapter 4: Daisy, Daisy, Give Me Your Answer, Do

Chapter 4: Published August 18th 2012 was on a Saturday and was in week 33 of 2012.

As of this writing it was 3,146 days ago


when a Los Pegasus crime wave crested so high that it generated a physical embodiment of larceny, one that actually managed to make off with the city itself for about a week.

HOW THE HECK DO YOU MANGE TO STEAL A CITY?

yay, more for the Who's Who label :D 

 A divine scent wafted from somewhere, and I realized just how hungry I really was.

I'm really glad I ate LAST chapter!

I saw no less than six peeled oranges, the cracks between which she’d stuffed with cream and the entire thing was covered in a coating of syrup and cheese.

I don't know if this sounds good or not. Hmmm. Might need to try it. 

Swift reached out and picked a piece of meat off the carnivore’s plate, dangling it above her lips.

:D

“That’s what I taste like?!” She squeaked.

HAHAHAHHA

I couldn't help but laugh. "Hah! Kid, you're going to have to explain your stomach one of these days. You threw up over a little blood on a wall but eating another mammal doesn't toss your cookies?"

:D

Snobby Cow.  Heh. That's kind of funny actually.

Sykes eyed her with a certain broad interest, then, at some avian signal I didn’t pick up, his attention was gone. 

This ladies and gentlemen. This is proper. Look at someone, show interest, if they deny you, stop showing interest. Thanks Chessie

Hey griffin good morning... that's a proper name. :D look for it in the who's who. 

I noticed he wore slip-on rubber horseshoes

Face hoof

"We need to ask you some questions. We can either do it here or we can take a quick ride down to the station and ask them there. Our radio pony loves these jazzy tunes with a beat that’ll take the chrome off a police cruiser’s bumper. If you like, I can get her to pump some into one of our interrogation rooms just for your listening pleasure.”

Oh, Hardy, that's just cruel. 

You don’t hunt unless you have to! You don’t eat meat! All you want to do is drink and screw and devour my babies!”

I'm not going to lie, I just about thought he ate meat.

“Oh, Stella’s the Madame. I think you’ll find the meeting very interesting, and I don’t want it spoiled for you. I’m sure you understand.”

:D

The bathtub was damn near the size of my bedroom

Hardy has a bedroom? And I'd love a tub that big.


Chrysanthemum flowers are quite pretty


Oo I love Daylilies

I began shuffling through my pockets and finally came up with an ancient baggy half full of candy that’d become a near solid mass. Banging it on the edge of the fountain I broke it apart and managed to shake a piece out. I dropped it on the nearest flat stone. Moving to the next junction I looked left, then right, then dropped another piece and moved on.

Trail of Jelly beans! yay.

Pegasi might love the heights and unicorns adore their big towers and skyscrapers, but I’m an earth pony, and my hooves need to be on stone, dirt, or at least some real solid concrete.

heh

Prank wars were generally discouraged in the office, but that’d never stopped anypony from engaging in them. Although there was one story involving Iris Jade and a whoopie cushion - Precisely one story.

Sounds like its Jade's turned to get pranked again.


Oo Named another pretty flower... why does this one look so familiar?

That deceased filly, now off somewhere laid out on a slab, was a tiny piece of something important. I could feel it, right there in that golden scale on my rear end. Something truly sickening had happened in the penthouse of that hotel; an act so black, so full of merciless will, that I found myself enraged.

I watched quietly as the fury built inside me, then consciously unclenched my jaw and let my shoulders slump. Anger wouldn’t help her. Nothing but justice could help her. So, once more, I would be justice because there was nothing else for me to be.

I really don't have word for this. These two paragraphs are just so important. If this is your first read through, read them a second time and ponder. 

While you do that, I'm going to go update Hardy's entry. 

Oh hey look, the chapter ended. Lets have a peek at the comments, 32

#30 · Apr 20th, 2018 ·  ·  ·

I moved around to one side, avoiding the prints. Another group of steps began where the sky chariot’s carriage would have landed; they looked odd for some reason. There were five marks; Four hooves, and one much deeper point out to the side that seemed to be some sort of peg or cane. The unknown equine had leaned heavily on it.

Oh, you sneaky...

? I'm clearly missing something here.

#27 · Jan 23rd, 2017 ·  ·  · Frustration in Excelsis

a Los Pegasus crime wave crested so high that it generated a physical embodiment of larceny, one that actually managed to make off with the city itself for about a week.

- Let me say, this needs to be a short story from you guys. Because this sounds hilarious.

#19 · Mar 29th, 2014 ·  ·  ·


 While this one might not be one of their longer post... its still amusing. Just go read it yourself LOL


#17 · Dec 15th, 2013 ·  ·  ·


Here is another long comment that is worth giving a read.



#6 · Aug 5th, 2012 ·  ·  ·

Applejinx I've always felt like, in the end, ponies are doing what people should be trying to do. We should try to be better. Hardy, Swift, and Taxi (and future characters) may not be good people (any more than the Mane 6 are) but they're really trying to be.

This story has a lot of twists and turns, some of which will be pretty dark. You might have noticed Taxi isn't a very happy pony. Still, it's an adventure and adventures are no fun if it's all misery and sadness. It won't always be gentle, but if I'd wanted to write Fallout Equestria I'd write Fallout Equestria.

Mr.Budding might suffer but in the end, I like to think he'd recover. I might use him again, I might not.

If I'm honest, the story we have is only perhaps a quarter outlined. We have an ending. I'm hoping it doesn't end up anywhere near the length of something like Project Horizons but I will promise, if it does, I will not STOP flogging myself to make it interesting. I refuse to let it be boring or generic because this is the BEST fandom I've ever been part of and you guys deserve the best.

-Chessie

-- I'm going to butt in here. Project Horizons has 1,780,334 words, SOD has 1,464,560 words. She's short just 315774 words. 


2018 "The End in Friend" Season 8, Episode 17 aired. 


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