Plot:
We all know the story. Of how Nightmare Moon wanted to bring about eternal night, her jealousy of her sister bringing her to almost taking out her wrath on our very world. We thankfully know that Celestia, our princess of the sun, was able to prevent this, saving our empire and perhaps our world.
But what if she failed?
What if she was unable to save the sun? What if the world was brought into eternal night? What if we lost everything we held dear to the following darkness?
This is the story of what happened... in a world without light...
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It has been a month since the sun had been extinguished from our sky. an eerie darkness blankets the landscape constantly. It is impossible to tell night from day, if such things existed anymore. The only small sources of light are the stars, far off in the heavens. It is cold, and it grows colder every day that the world is without a sun. The Royal sisters have disappeared, and their whereabouts are unknown. Perhaps they were killed along with the light of this world...
Ponies are rarely seen anymore. Most have either fled underground or have done their best to survive on the surface of the world. The only light seen that isn't from stars is from candles, flashlights, or makeshift torches. The only abundant flammable material left is the forests of the world that have begun to whither and die. Ponies on the surface constantly move, scrounging around the abandoned corners of the world like crows trapped in the bowels of hell. Primitive torches are made, and are the only sign of life in the dark world of Equestria, spare for the occasional bump in the night. When ponies cannot move, they die, simple as that. There is no such place as "home" anymore, only places to stay and leave. As the world grows colder and colder, ponies must scrounge more clothing, wearing many layers of tattered cloth just to survive.
While the end of the world is a harsh one indeed, the most common and simple way to get by is to scavenge resources from old buildings. Planting crops is impractical, as there is no sunlight with which to grow them, so those that cannot find their own food have to resort to much more horrid methods to survive, whether taking supplies from other survivors, or much more...
Bandits frequent the ruins of Equestria, and have become rather commonplace throughout the wastes. Survivors who cannot defend themselves tend to die quickly. With guns becoming more and more scarce and impractical to use, many ponies resort to using crudely made melee weapons to fight against whatever threats arise in the darkness.
You have survived this long, eking out an existence from whatever things you have managed to gather to stay warm and fed. One night, you see flashing lights in the distance. They look like lightening, but are far too green to be lightening and too straight and calculated to be flares or fires. Running out of supplies, and almost out of hope, it's up to you to discover what this light is...
Through a world blanketed in darkness, through snow-covered fields, bitter cold, and dangerous beings, you must survive.
This is our last hope.
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((Every post not in double-parenthesis past this point is going to be considered part of the RP. Let's get this show started!))
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Black. Frightening. Lifeless. Hopeless. This is the world we live in now.
Outside of your home, the world is blanketed in an eerie darkness. There is no day, just an endless, bitter cold, night. The night sky is only populated with the teasing stars in the vast reaches of the heavens. Even the moon is now dark, and even something as simple as moonlight is just a distant memory.
The only light in the world is that of campfires, or flashlights and torches that traveling ponies use to light their way as they scavenge the detritus in the dark for tins of food or any bits of fuel they can gather to prevent themselves from dying in the air that is cold enough to freeze blood.
You were simply in a shelter, be it your own home or perhaps a building you made your own. You sit by whatever source of light and warmth you have, hoping to maybe get some sleep. As you pull together what scraps of covers you have to keep yourself somewhat warm, you start to drift away, hoping that maybe tonight you'll dream of better times, when there was a sun, animals, living plants, foals at play, or maybe something as simple as a warm summer breeze.
You are startled by a flash. You rub your eyes in shock. It can't be anything real, you must've been half dreaming. Then it happens again. A flash of green light, coming in from the window. You get up quickly and look out. There again. A long line of green light, forming in what was once the north before dissipating and reforming some time later. You watch, perplexed for a while until the flashes stop. You wonder what in the name of Celestia those lights were as you ponder what to do next...
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Doc stood at the window with his mouth agape. He stood for what must've been thirty minutes before ending his wait for the lights to reappear. His grabbed up his things, a surge of excitement, something quite rare then, flowing through him. Whatever the light was, he simply had to know. They did not seem natural, nor pony-made, no, they were much to great for that. Perhaps only an Alicorn could create a signal that large, and the only known ones were almost certainly dead.
Doc shook the thoughts out of his head. He took a deep breath, opening the door and gasping at the sudden coldness and blackness of the world overtook him. Outside, it appeared as if though Ponyville were built in a cave, above them, shimmering gemstones glittering. Doc payed no mind. He knew that if he were going to die, it'd be going to find those green lights. He would rather die uncovering the secrets of one last phenomenon than by waiting to run out of food in a house. He flicked his lighter a couple times, his only way to see in the darkness, as he set out.
(Consider this a good time for the characters to get introduced :>)



