Stories set in the Oversaturated World, some silly, some less so.
(FoME)
Few people ever pay attention to EweTube ads, but this one drew notice. There was no blaring music, no fast-moving visuals. Just a man looking into the camera, speaking with conviction.
"I am Aqua Regia, and I'm here to ask you a question. Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? 'No,' says the man in Chopperton, 'it belongs to the poor.' 'No,' says the girl in the Baconium, 'it belongs to Sunset.' 'No,' says the man in Neighjing, 'it belongs to everyone.' I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose... Triumph. A city where the artist would not fear the censor; where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality; where the great would not be constrained by the small! And with the sweat of your brow, Triumph can become your city as well."
"Eccentric billionaire..." Aria frowned at her news copy. "How many eccentric billionaires are there, anyway? Whatever happened to that Ebon Musk guy; he still trying to get into space?"
"We're on live," Sonata singsong-said.
"Please, half our viewers watch us to see when we go off script. Anyway, eccentric billionaire Aqua Regia's viral marketing campaign for his proposed underwater utopia has gotten a lot of interest from fringe communities and a cease and desist order from Ridiculous Games. Mr. Regia has expressed a continued intent to follow through on his project, though he has expressed willingness to rename it. For more, we turn to our senior oceanic correspondent of the day..." Aria tossed a die onto the newsdesk. "Adagio Dazzle."
"Thanks, Aria." Adagio beamed for the camera. "Speaking as someone who's seen her share of underwater cities, allow me to say this: They don't work well if you don't have gills. Sonata?"
"Sunset Shimmer has confirmed that she has no intent of helping with this project, nor any desire for the sweat of anyone's brow but her own. Mr. Regia declined to comment further, saying that his message speaks for itself."
(Masterweaver)
"...Okay." Rainbow Dash waved a hand at the TV. "Are people seriously using magic to mimic whatever they like in fictional media?"
"Well, yes. Childhood fantasies come true and all that." Rarity quirked an eyebrow. "Why, are you surprised?"
"No. Just disappointed." Rainbow sagged in her chair. "I mean... the sirens are reporting on what's literally Triumph City! Underwater cities are cool and all, but isn't the whole point of the game, like, extremist separation from society is bad or something?"
"Or something..."
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Extremist separation from society is bad and Ayn Rand's novels aren't really something to base a society on.
Yes, well, if you want to watch the world burn, but are too concientious to actually burn the one you live in, why not make your own?
I said this before when I found it in the original forum post but I'll say it again here: Aqua Regia is a fantastic name for the equine version of Andrew ryan/ Ayn Rand. The Royal acid, that which dissolves wealth!
And then the Sirens and the Non-Equestria Seapony/Siren aspects make their own underwater city.
with Blackjack, AppleJacks long lost relative with an eyepatch, and Hookers, the FIsherman seapony aspect who catches Massive fish "like THIS big guys!"
I strongly suspect that Mr Regia is going to suffer a Bioshock.
History is full of people who think "they got it wrong, but I know better!" No doubt Mr. Regia thinks that the problem is not extreme libertarianism, but poor decision making, such as not keeping the lower classes properly pacified, cutting off all contact with the outside world, and stitching people into armored diving suits. It's not like enough people literally believe in the setting for their to be gene-modifying sea slugs on the sea floor. (I think. )
Please ask Sting what he thinks about the popularity of Every Breath You Take at weddings sometime. Misaimed fandoms writ large with magic are terrifying to contemplate.
The dangers of extremist separation from society and a completely unchecked Free Market in the first game. The second was about the dangers of unchecked religion and socialism. The third game...
...I'm still trying to hammer out as well, actually...
7892077 There's no such thing as 'choice' and 'free will', basicly. Not the message I, for one, would agree with.
What Triumph city is going to accomplish is exactly what Sunset is trying to mt accomplish for herself. I could ha e phrased that better probably
It is kind of appropriate to go underwater: if you have the absolute conviction that you're an entirely self-made man of course you'll want to be swimming with all the sharks. It must be comforting to already be the biggest one you can conceive of. ...Practically, they might do better than Rapture for a while - the city's greatest initial problem was a drastic underestimation of how much human labor it would take to manage the basic mechanics of, as Adagio commented, doing it without gills. If magitek's good enough yet, not having to bring in a large labor force you're simultaneously designing an economic system to force out of existence would help. You've still got a more hostile environment and need people who fit into a society better than normal instead of the reverse, but if you don't happen to get somebody too ambitious in the mix... yes, slowed down. Triumph might hold off on drowning long enough for the fireworks to be spectacular.
Always assuming that - as going underwater here isn't quite so "cuff off from all society" - nobody starts a war with the hypothetical abyss-dwellers. Or that Aqua Regia isn't a byproduct of the stars becoming right to begin with.
What are the odds! I recently read a Bioshock crossover, which was the only reason I caught on at the cease and desist order.
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Wait. Stars are right and deep ocean creatures... Are you suggesting The Great Old Ones possible influence? I certainly hope not, they're a threat even Oversatureated Sunset might have trouble defeating.
Aqua regia (/ˈreɪɡiə, ˈriːdʒiə/; from Latin, literally "regal water" or "royal water") is a mixture of nitric acid and hydrochloric acid, optimally in a molar ratio of 1:3. Aqua regia is a fuming liquid. Freshly prepared aqua regia is colorless, but it turns yellow, orange or red within seconds due to the formation of nitrosyl chloride and nitrogen dioxide. It was named by alchemists because it can dissolve the noble metals gold and platinum, though not all metals.
never trust someone named after a chemical that dissolves gold