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  1. Steady Gaze

    Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience

    For what it's worth, I really appreciate the amount of thought you put into this. 🫂 It's always strange in quests how the player character's thinking is depicted — the QM has to come up with a post hoc narrative justification for why the player character did what they did, without leaning too...
  2. Steady Gaze

    Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience

    Oh, I actually fully agree with you; that's pretty much what I was saying previously. It's just an issue of language/communicating the idea. Like, I would say that a moral atrocity that is justified is no longer truly a moral atrocity, and that it would be clearest (to me at least), instead of...
  3. Steady Gaze

    Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience

    Ah… sorry for misunderstanding. So if I were to try to understand better, your real position is that is not actually wrong for Velvet, since we have the good reason of the worms, but the real issue is that, first, she pretends that her reasons for killing are not actually for power, and second...
  4. Steady Gaze

    Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience

    I don't have a strong opinion on appeasing Smiles specifically, so I won't deny that it could've been a terrible idea from the outset. However, I would caution against using absolute terms to dismiss the question entirely. Is Velvet killing someone "just" to gain power acceptable? Consider the...
  5. Steady Gaze

    Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience

    [X] (THRONE) You will try to change things. I feel a similar feeling as the Twilight-swap vote. We're already in a sort of bad ending, so we ought to seek situations with greater "variance". Hoping that the princesses can fix things isn't certain either. In other words, LET'S GO GAMBLING LET'S...
  6. Steady Gaze

    Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience

    Props for the lore-accurate swear. :V Random thought: With access to the royal treasury, I eagerly await the vote on whether to embezzle or not! :V (Hay, we already have control over the Bureau's budget.)
  7. Steady Gaze

    Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience

    I know there's no italicized text saying this, but my interpretation of the update is that we straight up cannot go on the expedition anymore. Or, at least, it now makes no sense roleplay-wise for Velvet to abandon an explicitly given duty like that. A bit dramatic, but now the choice of...
  8. Steady Gaze

    Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience

    [X] (VELVET) You will personally join the Bureau in the expedition. [X] (CHERENKOLT) Cherenkolt will personally join the expedition. @OurLadyOfWires:
  9. Steady Gaze

    Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience

    Ah… how noblebright. It makes me think that some kind of "go back in time to the beginning of the quest and redo everything with your memories intact" due to some Secret Histories nonsense would be a very !!FUN!! effect. :V I forget whether OurLadyOfWires goes back through old pings or not...
  10. Steady Gaze

    Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience

    I may not be the ponyindividual you wish to see, but I apologize for my absence nonetheless. 😇 In classic fashion, once the backlog became unmanageably large, I just kept putting it off until, well…. Nevermind that; here we are now, with me all caught up. @OurLadyOfWires I provide my usual...
  11. Steady Gaze

    Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience

    Delayed reaction, but if I may be contrarian (with all the reactions of relief to the "In which obsession becomes a virtue" extra) for a moment: the ponies of the previous age were ponies, just like us. To be charting a different course than they has me wonder if we truly know better, or if...
  12. Steady Gaze

    Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience

    Ah… my heart. 💔 I will say that this option is "safer" in that there is less chance of things getting worse, as is often the case with inaction; things will stay as they always were. (I mean, we should heed what the QM's said about suspicion and needing to sink AP into getting mirror Twilight...
  13. Steady Gaze

    Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience

    Oh yeah, I think this is legitimate, in that, in my view, the strongest (meta?) argument against this is that Velvet is an unreliable narrator. The update explicitly says We've been arguing over the ethics for pages and pages, but Velvet herself has seemingly given zero thought to any bad...
  14. Steady Gaze

    Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience

    …huh, I'm not too late. And the thread has really gone while I was gone. I've said (1, 2, 3) most of what I wanted to say before. People don't seem to be incorporating the uncertainty of outcomes in their calculus or incorporating that much nuance into their views. But I guess that's arguing on...
  15. Steady Gaze

    Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience

    We never met Sunset Shimmer :'(. And honestly, I kind of assume her track is a multi-action one, and we only have one left. Regardless, I think it would be one of these: [] They are young and impressionable. Thankfully, you are a responsible adult. (Hang out with Rarity and Fluttershy, your...
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