Pharynx:
Estimate (noun): a rough or approximate calculation.
Consider that. Cool your fins. Use your brain. You do have a brain, don't you? You haven't removed it to make room for more muscle?
I gave you estimates. I'm not going to come back to the hive and hold your hoof just because you think I'm taking too long. This is a new way of doing things and ponies can hardly be trusted to act in a timely manner... and you know as well as I do that changelings competent enough to run a full infiltration operation on their own are hard to find.
The railway surveying party will reach the border soon. I've included another copy of the estimated route, in case you've lost yours. And I will repeat for you, again: I am expecting of you that their time with our 'local guides' will be entirely uneventful. They will be unhappy and nervous from the effects of magic deprivation. Don't use it as an excuse to terrorize or feed on them. We need to get this done before winter really sets in to start construction in the spring, and I've already had to stretch just to get this group to agree.
If you want to remain my regent, you'll do this properly.
Continue regular updates.
C.
The great part about shapeshifters is that this can be read as a legitimate question.
Chrissyi is making good on those railroad plans isn’t she.
And she has dumb, impatient ‘lings on it doesn’t she.
Wait, is pharynx sending a message to someone, or is chrysalis sending a message to pharynx?
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Given it's addressed to Pharynx and signed with a C, it's pretty clearly Chrysalis writing to Pharynx. Having the person it is to at the top and the person it is from at the bottom is standard letter format.
nice work
You know, while I'd never consider him for permanent rulership, Thorax would probably make for a wonderful regent of the sort Pharynx is attempting to be here.
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Oh ok
Have to imagine a dead magic zone would cause all manner of problems for a construction team with even vague dependence on it.
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No no no.
Thorax is a terrible choice for Regent.
Now an Ambassador? Considering how soft and wimpy Thorax is, he would be a great choice to be a representative to the ponies. He would not antagonize them, and he would keep his feeding under control. Already that makes him perfect for the job.
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that way, Chryssie can make him and Spike best bros earlier than planned.
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I see Changelings as similar to the Goblins Role playing game. Unless something Specifically needed The Changeling's body will adapt to its current physical environment. You can literally Nail ones ears to a second floor balcony outside the safety rail, and it's feet will eventually reach the ground, Either by growing Absurdly long legs, or having it's ears stretched to an absurd length. I wouldn't be surprised if they tried to building an airship by inflating a number of 'lings with helium for use as lift cells.
Yeah, thats sums him up pretty well
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Depending on the type of Hive Cryssy wants. We lack a reasonable amount of information here.
However I am talking about the final form of Thorax and Pharynx.
When Pharynx first appeared he was attack first ask questions latter, no softness allowed.
Thorax when he first appeared and as a Grub was cowardly, used to being beaten down, and letting others walk over him.
So I agree that right now Thorax is a TERRIBLE choice. In the future, its possible things will be different. But even right now he isn't a great Ambassador. He needs to spend time with Ponies as an infiltrator.
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Did someone say GAWBLINS?
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Goblins rpg?? I need this
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I like games with weird Character Story driven building Themes.
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But you DID say GAWBLINS... right?
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YOU! You failed the 132nd Gawblin Test.
I've got my eye on you...
This talk of railroads makes me wonder if some 'lings would get bitten by the model railroading bug. But they do it either full scale or something like Walt Disney did with something large enough to ride on it. And they use up materials and time on it and yelling and ear pullimg gets involved.
Kinda lost on this part... Is it about the railroad for the Crystal Empire?
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No, to the Badlands where the Changelings live. Chrysalis mentions wanting one put in back in Chapter 9.