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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Thursday, April 8, 2021

Act One, Chapter 9: Not That Kind of Shipping

Chapter 9: October 6th 2012 was on a Saturday and was in week 40 of 2012.

As of this writing it was 3,105 days ago

Season one Epi 22 "A Bird in the Hoof" would air April 8th, 2011


Yeah, its prob best to just let Swift think last chapter was all in her head. *snort* you said the three words again Chessie, I'm tempted to go find a new parody if I wasn't on such a time crunch. 

Rose lives in the Skids, right in the middle of Cyclone territory. Hmm.. Perfect, Swift being to uncomfortable to look out the window actually makes a lot of sense

“We just passed into the territory of another group of Cyclones.” Taxi answered, very nearly in a whisper. “I don’t know this end of town very well. There are lots of different ones out here.”

There is a lot of different Cyclones, so that slightly better than Nazi version we heard earlier? Might not be the ones we deal with. 

Scallop. I went back in my memory a few years and found an image of a dead colt in his late teens with a shell for a cutie-mark. He’d been raped, killed, and tossed in a sewer grate. Juniper and I had chased down the fat buck that did it through a mound of witness statements over the course of four months. When we caught him, Juniper’s gun officially ‘misfired’ and the bullet ‘just happened’ to ‘ricochet’ and rip the slimy manure-sucker’s scrotum off; my cutie mark didn’t so much as twitch.

... Good

Aroyo Cyclones - This is the group we are going to be dealing with.  Them with their little baggies that let them talk to their mysterious ancestors. 

Some of them were pretty creative; I’d never heard anypony suggest that particular use for peanut butter and razorblades.

Charity Soul. Looks like Rose has another name. And her space is currently being ransacked as Hardy goes in. I'm making some adjustments to the Who's Who, I doubt anybody will notice, but just incase.  Yes, things got changed. Oh, Ruby Blue, there is her real name.. Okay, even more things got changed.

I love that TINY Swift caught the huge pony.

Swift blushed ferociously, then sought a distraction from that topic by looking thoughtfully over at the trunk. She shoved the top open and poked her head in. “Um... there’s nothing in here, sir. It even looks arcanely reinforced.”

:D

 “Go around ze back.”

Taxi revved the engine before calling out, “That’s what I kept asking you to do but nooo, you had to work!”

*snort*

And now we go into the dragon's actual lair. Oh, I love the whole Daring Do fan! Biggest Fan, HA

I'm leaving a lot out because honestly, I'm to enthralled to talk.

But I will say, Hardy caring about Swift's impression of him.  Says a lot about him dont yah think?

Oh hey look, the chapter ended. Lets have a peek at the comments, 38

#33 · Jun 20th, 2014 ·  ·  ·

Chapter 9: "Not That Kind of Shipping" - I don't think this is anything. Maybe a little joke to "moving" the guy around like a package. But beyond that, I got nothing.

I'm not completely sure why, but my brain keeps giving Scarlet the voice of Mr. slave from South Park. (With a very little bit of Big Gay Al)

#31 · Mar 31st, 2014 ·  ·  ·

“Eyeball on a stick.”

frozen eyeball. An eye-scream popsicle if you will... :pinkiecrazy:

I mean, what exactly was I supposed to do? Rub her nose in some roadkill?

We prefer the term "carriage tenderised hors d'œuvres".

Keep the blues and twos off.

Will not the Battenberg markings be a dead give-away though?

She took off with a twirl, beating her wings with slow, purposeful sweeps as she called out, “Cyclones! Fly!”

Fly, fly, FLY!

#26 · Oct 9th, 2012 ·  ·  ·

MrZJunior They are, by far, not the creepiest thing we have planned. They're meant to be on the mild end of the spectrum.

Yes, Pratchet is one of our influences. He does world-building in a way I never will be able to if I write for a hundred years.

Sykes was actually a reference to Charles Dicken's character 'Bill Sykes'. I always loved that character's accent as Dickens wrote it. I wanted to try a really thick accent on a character Sykes was the name that came to mind.

-Chessie

The Mop Is AFK Fair warning, many of my characters are gender-benders, gay, or just plain WEIRD. I'm pan-sexual so if I cross any enormous lines in believability just tap me. The gender thing just doesn't occur to me.

I will say I haven't planned any sex scenes of any kind in the main story. I figured that would just be uncomfortable to write. That might change, but somehow I doubt it. Everything I do has been about the characters and I don't see how writing a drawn out clop scene will improve them or their interaction with each other enormously. Again, that might change... but I doubt it.

The Cakemeister Stella's personality is based on mine heavily. Yes, I'm really like that only frequently more perverse. He's the closest thing to an author-self insertion there is.

No, I don't have scales, yes, I have been known to use my more staunchly conservative acquaintance's brains for playthings.

-Chessie

#15 · Oct 7th, 2012 ·  ·  · Chessie

nemryn

Kinda odd that you missed that, yeah.

Great, now I'm doing it. Except, it's more like 50% Twilight, and 50% Christopher Walken, because that blind reading at Canterlot Gardens impressed "Twilight Sparkle with Christipher Walken's voice" onto me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTl0Hx9Z7ZE

#13 · Oct 7th, 2012 ·  ·  ·

nemryn

You know, I tried reading the Chapter 8 note in Twilight's voice. Her "Dear Princess Celestia" voice.

I didn't get far without laughing. Hard.

Twilight is Magic

As always, you flatter us! Such kind words!

--CEO Kasen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p_aFeRkGXg

#2 · Oct 6th, 2012 ·  ·  · Chessie

I love this story more, and more for every chapter that come's out. Also are scarlet and hardy going to be anything :twilightoops: would just like to know. Chapter was great loved every second of it cant wait for more.

Chessie

#6 · Oct 6th, 2012 ·  ·  ·

The Mop Is AFK Heh, Scarlet is mostly just Hardy's bitch. That would be ADORABLE but, yeah, no... not unless you wanna write the story that happens in. Feel free. Scarlet's a cutie. Maybe Hardy drinks too much one night?

Applejinx I... know I have an editor but that's no excuse. I'll try to fix that stuff as I go along. I'm getting better but I think even the finest professional writers have to do multiple drafts and we, unfortunately, don't have the luxury considering the release cycle we're on. We basically get ONE draft and that's it.

-Chessie

#1 · Oct 6th, 2012 ·  ·  · nemryn


:D



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