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Manofass(2017): Beach Bum Anon Chapter 8: Walk with Gods [discont.]

By dadonequus_archives
Created: 2021-05-13 18:29:40
Expiry: Never

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    >This must be the stuff mars dust is made out of
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    >Ice cold sand that is jagged like shards of glass
  3. 3.
    >Shards that seem to not cut, only hurt to touch
  4. 4.
    >Or maybe they did, and you just can't tell for lack of light
  5. 5.
    >The abyss is still as cold and lightless as ever
  6. 6.
    >Your entire ass feels covered in pins and needles, resting here on this lonely glass-world
  7. 7.
    >Its probably trying to prod you along, the bastard
  8. 8.
    >The planet bastard, the Bastard Planet
  9. 9.
    >That is a fitting name, the Bastard Planet
  10. 10.
    >Cold and dry and sharp, the biggest bastard you've ever seen
  11. 11.
    >The longest bastard you've ever walked
  12. 12.
    >Well Bastard Planet, the endless bastard, I've decided not to play this bastard game
  13. 13.
    >I've seen what you can throw at me
  14. 14.
    >I fight monsters
  15. 15.
    >I can fight you, mister planet Bastard
  16. 16.
    >Planet Bastard, the planet of Bastards, you are a bastard made of trillions of tiny spiky bastards
  17. 17.
    >You aren't going to walk another billion miles across a billion tiny bastards to please this bastard
  18. 18.
    >You scoop up the little grains and pile them up into a mound, unsure of what to do to displease this and these bastards
  19. 19.
    >It tried to eat you when you shouted at it
  20. 20.
    >It tried to eat you when you changed directions
  21. 21.
    >Perhaps it will try to eat you if you stay in one spot and curse the bastard in your mind
  22. 22.
    >Perhaps all you need to do is not engage and you can win whatever standoff is going on here
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  24. 24.
    >Your little pile has grown into a small wall
  25. 25.
    >And on the sides of that wall you added more wall
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    >And you kept adding more and more wall until you were completely surrounded, and named your new fortification Fort Bastard
  27. 27.
    >And now you fought your battle of will in this small foxhole
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    >Or, at least, it should be a foxhole
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    >You can't really tell on account of the blinding darkness
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    >Oh well
  31. 31.
    >It's a little funny, how tranquil this place is
  32. 32.
    >Odd how a freezing wasteland of eternal moonless night turns out to be calmer than a horrible terrible freakshow and murder monster forest
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    >Except not really
  34. 34.
    >Not at all, in fact
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  36. 36.
    >An interesting thought presents itself
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    >Perhaps you have merely had your eyes closed the entire time?
  38. 38.
    >Unlikely
  39. 39.
    >You try and force your lids open
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    >Nothing happens
  41. 41.
    >Of course, you have no way of telling whether that's because it's really really dark or because you can't open your eyelids
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    >So you satisfy your question the only way you can come up with
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    >By jamming your hoof into your eyeball
  44. 44.
    >You yelp in pain as the giant toenail scrapes against your delicate cornea
  45. 45.
    >Progress!
  46. 46.
    >So, it must be that either there is a film over your eyeball or it is really, really dark
  47. 47.
    >The question, however, needs no further thought
  48. 48.
    >For in some unknowable distance across Planet Bastard's endless desert, you spot the faintest hint of a dark blue glow
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  50. 50.
    >Your nostrils feel like they've been flushed with rubbing alcohol
  51. 51.
    >A deep burning sensation has dug itself deep into your sinuses
  52. 52.
    >You wake up sneezing and teary
  53. 53.
    >After a short fit the sneezing all but disappears, leaving you to stare up at the ceiling with a small trail of snot oozing down your cheek
  54. 54.
    >Oh fuck, that's not a ceiling
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    >"Such delicate facilities for such a strong mind."
  56. 56.
    >You're in a teepee
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    >A big fucking teepee
  58. 58.
    >Laying on a small cot
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    >"Perhaps sensitivity to the master makes for a fragile body?"
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    >There is a slight haze in the tent, a familiar smoke that gives it a purplish hue
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    >"Trixie is proud to host such a receptive child in her modest camp."
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    >You shoot up at the name, suddenly all too aware of your dangerous company
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    >You twist your head to see Trixie's face mere inches away from yours
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    >"Although, maybe it is the fragility of body *and* mind which make you such an ideal colt."
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    >You try to squirm away, but her blue glow locks you in place
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    >"Tell me, Speedy, when did you first feel the touch of our master?"
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    >You swallow hard and stare into her eyes
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    >Stern, cold, and yet fierce with conviction
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    >You desperately stammer out a response, all of your forest macho drained in the wake of her commanding stare
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    "W-what?"
  71. 71.
    >She smiles at you, easing her force grip on you as if to calm your nerves
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    >"The man you saw, in your dreams. The same man you saw when we first spoke."
  73. 73.
    >Oh boy
  74. 74.
    >She's fucking goofy
  75. 75.
    >She has no idea what's going on
  76. 76.
    >Her hoof points out at the incense burning next to her throne, but in place of the symmetrical alignment of bowls was now a sizeable mass of smoking cones
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    >"Their fumes allow us to speak with the true master of this land, the only protector of the gifted and outcast.
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    >"You communed with him. When I first spoke to you, and again just now.
  79. 79.
    >"Tell Trixie, what did he look like?"
  80. 80.
    >Oh great
  81. 81.
    >Protector of the outcast, spoken to through magic candles, corpse immolation
  82. 82.
    >They are a bunch of Satanists
  83. 83.
    >All your fear washes away in an instant, annoyance quick to take its place
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    >The Conan O'Briens of the occult world
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    >You've dealt with their kind before, they aren't a big deal
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    >Beyond all the appearances and super hip millenial 'rituals'
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    >Beyond the top hats and exposed eczema sores
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    >They're just Satanists
  89. 89.
    >Holy shit
  90. 90.
    >They're Satanists!
  91. 91.
    >You clench the figure at your neck
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    "Wait, dude! This amulet look familiar to you? Any signifigance?"
  93. 93.
    >"None whatsoever."
  94. 94.
    >She answers without pause
  95. 95.
    >Well there goes that gamble
  96. 96.
    >You sigh and slump down in the cot
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    "The usual, I guess. Big horns, cloven hoof, fur 'n shit. Big wings, snake tail, the works."
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    >Of course, your dreams were about a terrible hopeless void, but she doesn't need to know that
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    >"What did you give to him, boy?"
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    "My heart, my soul, my undying loyalty and my very being."
  101. 101.
    >Yadda yadda yadda
  102. 102.
    >You've been around the block with these contrarian assholes
  103. 103.
    >Say the right things and they'll share their sheep liver soup and dusty ass weed
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    >Of course, typically they'd pack up shop the second someone gets gutted outside their weekend getaway
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    >And you can't recall any with the gall to actually spring someone like that Monster Mush broad did
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    >Must be some kind of local cultural thing
  107. 107.
    >She regards you for a moment, then grins
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    >"Trixie knew you were a lovely specimen the moment she first heard of you."
  109. 109.
    "Heard of me?"
  110. 110.
    >"Assaulting hospital staff and leading the friendship princess on a frantic chase, all in her own demense...
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    >"Deliciously humiliating. Of course, nopony else seems to care, but that is strictly because of the papers under the crown's horns.
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    >"If only the general public knew how foolish and falliable their leaders are, we wouldn't need to exist!"
  113. 113.
    >Her words are bitter and annoyed, and she waves her hoof dismissively in the air
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    "I thought you guys were just a woodfolk commune."
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    >"We are many things, that included! And don't go pretending you aren't one of us, now."
  116. 116.
    >She pats your head and her voice takes on a motherly tone
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    >"You are home, and there is no need to worry about all that."
  118. 118.
    >If her cult wasn't so laughable that would definitely be creepy
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    >"I don't think I've the heart to kill you, so you'll just have to sit tight for a while."
  121. 121.
    >That was the last thing he said to you before you were tossed onto some kind of cloud
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    >A few hours ago your sight finally returned, allowing you to make out the mass of goose down you were floating on
  123. 123.
    >The sky is a twisting kaleikodezcope, bathing you in lights of ever changing color
  124. 124.
    >Your entire body felt... off
  125. 125.
    >Lighter, more floaty
  126. 126.
    >There was an indescriptionable lag in your actions, like your brain and your body were just a little too far away
  127. 127.
    >You took to the air, to drop down from whatever impossible height you had reached
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    >But no matter how far you fell, you seemed to be even over the sun's reach
  129. 129.
    >Perhaps this is the area beyond the sky
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    >A strange nighmare realm of magical energy and no constants
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    >In your descent, you had passed dozens of other floating islands
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    >Sometimes they contained little houses, and upon entry you were thrown into impossible rooms
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    >Grand chambers with nonsensical stairways
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    >Black voids which pulled despirately at you, threatening to cast you out into some great unknown
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    >Floors of ponies from mundane office buildings to ancient war rooms filled with statues so lifelike it was as if their depicted characters were frozen in stone
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    >That was something a cockatrice could do, probably
  137. 137.
    >At random intervals you would catch some snippet of conversation
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    >Mundane, mostly
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    >Sometimes in different languages
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    >You couldn't tell where they were coming from
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    >Sometimes in your mind you would see such odd things
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    >An old man climbing a small flight of stairs
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    >Some teen deep frying flower stems
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    >A mare's smiling face before a wide expanse of sky
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    >The final room you found was some kind of field
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    >The grass was long and brown
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    >The sun beat you down like a druken factory worker
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    >But here there was some sense of normality
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    >You didn't feel that weightlessness, that sluggishocity of the bottomless sky
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    >Every now and then a cool breeze would drip the collected sweat off your brow and down the side of your cheek
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    >For hours you wandered, and the sun seemed to sway lazily in a pendulium, never quite dropping below the horizon
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    >Once you got hungry and tasted the grass; it was dry and somewhat salty, but filling
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    >Pretty soon you reached the edge of the world
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    >Quite literally
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    >The ground dropped off into more of the bright sky above, and the ground barely held together
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    >When you reached it you punged your hoof straight through the earth and almost fell off the side
  157. 157.
    >For some reason you wondered if you could fly back up once gravity had pulled you away
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    >"This is what the Zebrahari looks like now."
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    >You twist around to see Discord poking out of the grass several feet to your side
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    >He wears a weary face and stares far off the edge, into the sky below
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    "Heathen! Tell me where I am, and what neferimus deeds you have been up to!"
  162. 162.
    >You snarl angrily, charging up a spell to vaporize
  163. 163.
    >It only just now occurs to you that the magical restraint is gone
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    >"You're in my world. The interstice, as you once called it. More specifically, you are in a door reflecting the Zebrahari."
  165. 165.
    >Both names sound vaguely familiar, and yet seem unreal
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    >No matter, all the world belongs to Celestia and so his claim is impossible
  167. 167.
    >"As for what I've been up to..."
  168. 168.
    >He thinks for a moment, turns away from you
  169. 169.
    >"Chasing dreams, I suppose."
  170. 170.
    >Very well
  171. 171.
    >If he can't provide you with a straight answer willingly, perhaps you will have to subdue and interrogate
  172. 172.
    >You release your charge, a white hot beam of pure energy that scorches the grass around it, aimed at the heathen's gut
  173. 173.
    >The beam disappears, and Discord is unharmed
  174. 174.
    >He turns to you, rolls his eyes

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