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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
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What are some stories about the equus? Memorable equus stories, wild encounters, and fan fiction.
Seth edmonson explorer notes 1: this zebra-like horse called an “eqqus” by the natives seems to be a curious thing, once this animal is soothed with food it becomes a literal workhorse, the eqqus can gather the islands native berry species in a flash. And it can carry a lot of weight. One time i invented a saddle for the eqqus and i saw a woman sitting on a rock jotting down something on her notebook, she looked at me, gasped like she just realized something and then quickly jotted down something on her book, -sir seth edmonson.
Night-Mare
Chapter 9
Quinn motioned for Steven to sit. "The lantern," she started, "is a weapon, our only defense against the Night-Mare."
"Why," Steven asked leaning forward. "Is she afraid of fire?"
"No," Quinn said, waving Zoe and Roman out of the room. "We've tried scaring her with torches before. It's not the lantern itself she's afraid of, it's what the lantern stands for."
"And what's that?"
Quinn's voice became a whisper. "The horseman. The only being that can command her."
"Then kill him and take the lamp."
Quinn shook her head, "Can't. She protects him. It's impossible for us to get to him."
"If she's so afraid of the horseman, why does she protect him? Why doesn't she just kill him?"
"The lantern isn't just for show. If the horseman wills, he can send the Mare on a blind rage by simply lighting her on fire. It makes her extremely dangerous but, as you can imagine, it's excrutiating for her. She burns like oil, sets the whole forest aflame.
"They say the reason the forest and sky are so gray, is because when she runs through the forest covered in flames, she leaves nothing but ashes, and the sky and new plants are forever stained gray by her destruction."
"Couldn't she run into the water?"
"She can't leave the forest, neither can the horseman, or any poor creature that winds up stuck there. She just has to wait until the flame burns out. Running seems to make the flame die quicker. Don't know how that works since oxygen feeds flames..." Quinn leaned forward. "I had Elliott go on a journey to a hermit deep in the forest with the lamp. We were hoping the hermit could tell us something about it, a way to focus its power on destroying the Mare, not commanding her. But, he never made it."
Steven sighed. "And what did Leo have to do with all this?"
Quinn froze before sighing back. "Leo, was… one of the Dead Band."
Steven's heart skipped a beat. Leo, a dead man?
"We found him lost in the forest, gray. His eyes were blacked out. We captured him and brought him back to our camp. After a few days, he started to look human again, and after weeks he was back to his normal self. He joined us as a thank you."
"So that's why you treat him like a lost trinket?" Steven scoffed. "Because he used to be in the Dead Band?"
"We still don't know the extent of that forest's power," Quinn said darkly. "For all we knew, he could have turned any moment. And the lamp," she added quickly, "We were afraid it might harm him, like the Mare."
"Chief," came a voice from outside. A woman stepped in. "The Conquerors are claiming the herds."
Quinn scoffed, "They've done it before-"
"Yes, but this time they brought their forces."
Quinn sighed and turned to Steven, "We'll continue this later." Without another word, she left.
~CL1
This is how I got a high lvl equus:
I was just looking for a high lvl baryonx on the back of my argy and I found a group of equus one of them was a lvl 145 (max 150) suddenly a Rex started to attack them ,startled all of them started running randomly, but the lvl 145 started running in the water ,then a sarco started to chew on it's ass i swooned down and grabbed the lvl 145 equus and put it in a taming pen near my base.
I named it "The Lucky One" cuz' if I wouldn't have been there in my argy he would be in the sarcos belly. BTW I tamed it using a 10x balm
So my first attempt to tame one of these in a new server. So I was walking alone a beach when I spotted a beautiful white one (it was not a unicorn), I got 15 carrots when I saw it was only level 1. Then I attempted to tame it. It ate all of my carrots and then bucked me off. So then I got 20 carrots and tried again. In the end it ate 30 carrots and 22 mejoberrys (sorry for typo) and it still would not tame. In the end I left after wasting about an hour trying to tame a level 1 horse.
A. Arii, your wish is granted :)
Night-Mare
Prologue
Elliott threw bushes to the side as he ran through the dark forest towards the beach, his only chance at safety. He stumbled, but quickly rolled back onto his feet. He couldn't afford to slow down.
Not here.
There was a woman's blood curdling scream in the distance behind him, but it was cut off quickly, replaced by the sounds of disturbed birds fleeing from the gruesome scene. Elliott didn't dare look back. He didn't need to, he knew what was happening and he didn't want to be next.
He stumbled again, his leg sliding past a sharp rock as he fell. The rock cut a deep gash. He screamed out in pain, quickly throwing his hand over his mouth. Biting back the scream in his throat, he struggled to his feet again and started limping towards the beach. He could deal with his wound there, but there'd be no wound to deal with if he was dead.
There was a sound in the distance behind him that was growing louder and closer: pounding hooves. Elliott pushed himself to go faster, but the gash on his leg was hindering him greatly. He could hear the whinnying of a fearsome beast behind him. He dared to look over his shoulder, and his eyes met the glowing orange orbs that acted as the beast's eyes. It was right behind him.
In a split-second decision, Elliott threw himself to the side, out of the monster's path. He looked back to the path as the beast thundered past him. He collapsed to the ground and stared up at the sky. He closed his eyes and breathed a sigh of relief.
And then something pressed down on his chest.
He could hear the crunching of his ribs giving way, but he couldn't scream. He dared to open his eyes. Two great orange orbs stared back at him. A large, black hoof was pressed against his chest, slowly crushing him. Elliott reached for his pike nearby as tears began to fill his eyes. He never got the chance to defend himself. The monster horse reared and slammed its hooves down full force on Elliot's chest.
~CL1
Finally got a male horse today(so far I’ve only been able to get females), lvl 15. I get them all bred up and as I’m waiting for the babies to pop out, I find a much much higher level, and better color male. Why does this always happen???
I got a nice mutation out of the lower level one,so not too mad
I found a lvl 60, put it in my base make 21 Dilo kibble for it, start taming it and it would go up by intervals of 3 WITH KIBBLE, I decide to use the 10x balm out of frustration and I get like 53% with 1 kibble and as I’m riding it asks to feed and instead my character eats the kibble. I kept trying and trying till I tamed it and now I have 2 kibble, these things are good but omg they’re so frustrating to tame!
So I was out one day looking for a equus on rangnorock since there the most common thing in highlands I finally found one that was level 250 I had some rockarots but then as soon as I got on he ran over towards 3 gigas near the wyvern trench I was like uh oh I'd better jump off or else in bacon so I jumped off the gigas ignored the equus and ate me btw I was a level 1 I'm a pro at ark I'm just saying noob because of my level I was a noob I had nothing i respawned and there was a unicorn right in front of me
So here’s a story: As a person that rides horses, I was pumped when I found one of these. After about 12 minutes, I tamed a beautiful Equus. As I was heading back riding my pterodactyl, my equus following behind me, a freaking level 100 Carno comes up and decides “I’m about to ruin this person’s career” , kills my equus with no regrets, snaps my pterodactyls neck and tore me to pieces. From now on I will murder every single carno with no mercy in the most brutal ways possible. Rip Fred and Carol the equus and pterodactyl