A very happy Thursday to you all today. Novel Idea here, as usual, with your (mostly) weekly Manehattan Project Update!

We’ve got something fun for you today. A new staff member!

Silver Chord, originally from the world of FiMFiction, now joins on on staff as a writer for Gardens of Equestria: This Coming Storm. He will be handling a great deal of the terminal, logs and journals that will give you a bigger glimpse into the changed reality of the Mojave in This Coming Storm.

While it may seem like a small task, terminal entries are one of the core elements of storytelling in the Fallout games. One of the things that was consistently praised about Smuggler’s Run was the storytelling, even though it was completely non-interactive, told only by a series of terminal entries on Stark’s computer. There are many other examples, first of which being the Vaults in Fallout. Almost all of those stories are told either through audio diaries or terminal entries of some sort of another.

While I will be writing a fair amount of them (as I wrote the Smuggler’s Run material), Silver Chord has graciously offered to tackle the enormous task of helping bring the history and world of GoE to life. Through him, you’ll learn about the plight of the scientists in the Rock Farm, the fate of the former inhabitants of Stable 16, the Visionaries deal with Redeye, the history of Stable 207 and much, much more!

I am thrilled to have someone take part of the burden for this huge task. So please welcome him!

Here’s his own short bio:

(Testing. Testing. One. Two. Thre– Wait, what…? I’m already on the air… Oh, okay.) Silver Chord is just another writer who happened to have been dragged into the project by sheer dumb luck. He’s one of the people who is responsible for writing many of the terminal entries that will be seen throughout GoE. He’s a seasoned writer and has been writing for at least six years now, and yet he has never won a single NaNoWriMo competition ever… Yeesh. When Silver is not writing, he’s either writing stories about ponies, pursuing his musical passion in string instruments, or playing video games. Feel free to bug this guy as much as you want. He doesn’t mind the company.

You can see the material he’s already done at on his author page on FiMFiction.com.

I’m also pleased to mention that we potentially have a new member of the technical team with some serious skills. I hope to introduce him to you all soon!

Until next week folks, have fun and stay safe!

-Novel Idea