Admittedly I don't remember a whole lot of details, particularly concerning chapter 4, so I'm liable to mix things up or maybe even get things wrong. In any case, now Our Hero has supplies and a gun and stuff. I do admit I've always liked shotguns in video games.
Anyway, there's something with a sniper that I don't remember all that well, just another obstacle in Our Hero's ongoing quest to not die. In any case, she holes up at Carousel Boutique for the night and I think she finds a statuette...
Anyway, goes to sleep, then when she wakes up the next morning and raiders attack. There's something with a grenade and one of the raiders is killed.
Wow, I'm really bad at remembering this chapter.
Anyway, Our Hero has a moment of shock after having killed someone. Then she finds Twilight's Library. There she finds all manner of prisoners and corpses that have been tortured and raped and she goes from shock to outrage. Oh the outrage. More on that later. She goes through Twilight's library, messily clearing out the raiders and freeing prisoners, one of whom appears to be a zombie pony that gives her The Wasteland Survival Guide. Or maybe she gets that later or in the next chapter, I'm not sure. Anyway, big long action bit, and now we come to another problem:
The action scenes, at least until we get to chapter 12, are dull, dull, dull. While I read this part of the story I found this sequence was going on for so long that I wondered "exactly how many rooms does this place have, anyway?"
Anyway, she clears out the next in there. One bit in particular. She comes across a raider who's holding a prisoner at knife-point. In the narration she comments on how stupid this is of said raider. She points out the flaw in his strategy, and he drops the knife and runs out screaming. Out Hero then shoots him four times in the ass.
Now here's another problem. Throughout the story, Our Hero is going to be giving us a lot of angst about "what is the Wasteland doing to me?" Mainly in regards to the whole "killing ponies" thing. This will come up again and again. I often find that the angst is annoying, for one simple reason. She just gunned down a fleeing, unarmed enemy. While that bit alone gave me a bit of a not-good feeling in my stomach, the subsequent angst just gets irritating. We keep getting points about how the horrors of the Wasteland are making her do terrible things. But this isn't character development. This is the third chapter. This is the starting point. The thing is, the Wasteland isn't doing, the Wasteland already fucking did. She does make a point of mentioning that she wasn't far-gone enough to kill a sleeping raider, so that we're still certain she's the good guy. I'll continue on this point in later chapters when the problem reasserts itself a bit more later.
Anyway, she meets up with a spritebot that talks to her, and a figure called Watcher tells her she needs to "seek out virtue." The "find Prissy Whine" thing that set off the start of the story gets resolved in a few chapters, but this is the main underlying plot line of sorts. Our Hero talks with Watcher, the latter of whom is delightfully vague because you can't spoil stuff this early, then they go their separate ways. Our Hero finds an old poster with Pinkie Pie on it, aaaaand all I really remember of chapter 4 is that she spends most of it going around, scavenging supplies and weapons and stuff, and she finds Little Macintosh, which will be her signature weapon for most of the story.
Then she puts on some raider armor and gets shot. We hear the name of her attacker: Calamity.
But I think I have a better name for him.
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