Hey everone! So I figured I would draw up a map so you can all see just how far Flix has gone, as well as open up comments to a general Q and A about this story so far.
I'm also stalling since the next few chapters have to synch up with some of goldfurs chapters not yet started, and considering that I write about 1k a chapter and he writes 10-15k a chapter it will be a while (hes not a machine!), im gonna be going back and doing some back chapters... like "Celestia uncensored", Its just as bad as you think. and "Discord teaches the birds and the bees"
Okay so here is the Beginning: I have converted parts of the equestrian map to work for google earth, so due to Vanhoover being next to luna bay. I figured Luna bay is Puget Sound. So here is the course Flix more or less took as he left western equestria.
(( http://i.imgur.com/SsJVzOb.jpg If you can't see the image ))
He narrowly avoided the Hawaiian Islands and kept going to the southwest until he ran into one of the Island Tribes of Sea Ponies. Located on the real world Island Nation of Vanatu, The Maewo Barrier Island.
(( http://i.imgur.com/womJp4N.jpg If you can't see the image ))
Later the now group of three continue west, traveling through the straits (real world straits separating Australia and Papua New Guinea) afterwards they were caught in a storm off the coast and Flix was knocked out, Orlonda and IkaIka decided to head toward where Ika thought was shore, and they landed on northwestern Australia where they met the aboriginal BunYip tribe.
(( http://i.imgur.com/jtTIuv0.jpg If you can't see the image ))
Here is the fully zoomed out version. For comparison. The furthest Path made was the UK ( Griffon Homelands ) So Flix really is the explorer of the family!
(( http://i.imgur.com/i6QJiJq.jpg If you can't see the image ))
So yes, take a while, mull it over, if you have any questions let me know!
Ill answer any and all of them, world building questions, character questions. ask away!
Very neat thank you for the time and effort you put into it. NOt sure about Goldfur not being a machine the way I've seen him turn out chapters at times. Of course some of that is when the muse strikes with a ton of idea that flow readily and don;t take you off in random directions
So how many days has it been for the trip so far?
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How many days total or what time are they currently linked up to in the main story?
Hope they don't hit any flatback turtles on the way to shore? Might be egglaying season.
images.watoday.com.au/2013/11/26/4954902/NestingFlatback_MarissaSpeirs_729-620x349.jpg
They nest there between October to April.
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At the time of the last real chapter "Just when things were getting good" he been gone for about 10 months. This chapter also lines up so its happening at about the same time as chapter 7 of Quantum Gallop (I think)
Well, this literally puts everything in a new perspective. Though when Luna said a number exceeding ten thousand kilometers I knew it was equivalent of traveling to Australia, so no surprise for me there. Still, nice to have it visually demonstrated.
This type of thing, and the discussion of Luna decorating the sky, are some of the things that hurt my brain when I think about it too logically. How in Equus (I think that is what the planetary name is?) do Celestia and Luna control the rising and setting of the sun and moon, when it is the rotation of Equus that does it?! (And since time zones have been discussed...)
I could see it if Equus was like Diskworld, and had a (relatively) small sun and moon.....
Don't get me wrong, I LOVE the universe Goldfur and AlaskaIsCold are creating, and will be donating to Goldfur's paypal soon ((Does @AlaskaIsCold have something similar?) It's just that occasionally there is something like this that will cause my Disbeleif Suspensometer to short out and go "Wait, WHAT?? :)
Has anyone done any writing resolving this type of brain strain?
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Most Bronies seem to assume a Ptolemeic universe & that the world is the size of Earth. To me, that makes no sense. A Discworld model & fairly small, I'd say
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this reminds me of "Austraeoh" stories, where their "world" was a small part of a Halo or Ringworld style artificial world that had been broken to pieces long ago...
I wonder if they traveled North again they might meet Qilin.