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  1. Steady Gaze

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

    I honestly could go either way on sabotage vs. no sabotage... I might change my mind but I like all the leading plans equally right now. [X] Plan: A Paradoxical Riddle [X] Plan: Primer and Warning [X] Plan: Not Underestimating the Bureau [X] Plan: Safe and Sound [X] Plan: Just lore A lot of...
  2. Steady Gaze

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

    If I'm picking up what the QM is putting down about how Velvet and the Bureau would think about this, disclosing the existence of the Worms right now, by itself, won't be very effective. Keep in mind the Bureau has no corroborating evidence that the Worms are the threat, so seeing a one-off...
  3. Steady Gaze

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

    Can someone fill me in on the arguments for the "cold" or "smoking gun" options, if any were made previously? I know we've been calling it a "doom clock" but how is it that Celestia or Eclipse would make the connection that it was the Lores or Path Through Nightmares that hurt Luna? I guess the...
  4. Steady Gaze

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

    Seeing Copper's infrastructure makes me a bit envious and wishing we'd gone more wide instead of tall. How many ponies must she have had in her employ? Hundreds? And a whole skyscraper for a base? Imagine if we'd focused on recruitment more; we could own Ponyville by now, have our own...
  5. Steady Gaze

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

    A thought experiment: what if we simply did nothing about Copper from this turn on? Does this mean Copper gets out of our mane forever? What could've been. Windy, you may be next, though I hope it's a milder epilogue like "Windy Flakes… rotted in a cell in the depths of the Lunar Bureau for...
  6. Steady Gaze

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

    Hm. Were we not to send Selene, I'm not sure this would come up. I mean, we have sent Axe out on the Canterlot expedition alone and it wasn't an issue. But I can see this is saying Selene will be able to assert her will to override what would otherwise be the Name's best judgement of our wishes...
  7. Steady Gaze

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

    I didn't get to commenting when that last update actually came out, but reading it made me want to kill it with fire 😆😨 just due to being scared of it getting out of hoof and wanting fewer competing lore-equipped factions (although that ship has mostly sailed). Grimdark: Also I thought of...
  8. Steady Gaze

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

    Related to these thoughts: there's a song from EPIC: The Musical, which is an in-production musical about the journey of Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey, called Monster when Odysseus basically comes to this realization, that his "kindness" to the enemy is actually cruelty to himself and those he...
  9. Steady Gaze

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

    Do people really care about "minimize innocent/civilian casualties if it doesn't harm other objectives"? I could add it to the Leave No Trace plans if that's the consensus (ideally no one who voted for the plan already strongly objects) and it helps reassure people. But I'm pretty sure the team...
  10. Steady Gaze

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

    I threw in but I agree with so not sure if this is too much or if it even needs to be said :V
  11. Steady Gaze

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

    I feel pretty confident in Jade's scrying + Baldomare Lantern + Mareinette Grail to find everything we need. I don't know if interrogating Copper is too risky. We could potentially throw in a sentence "Only attempt to interrogate Copper if the risks are minimal and we are unable to locate the...
  12. Steady Gaze

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

    Moratorium is over. Open fire! @Greymere "Plan Leave No Trace" is your variant exactly. (Let me know if you want any edits to it.) To summarize, we try to eliminate Copper as stealthily and leaving as little evidence as possible, whether through making it look like she tucked tail and ran, or...
  13. Steady Gaze

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

    Fair enough, thanks for clarifying. This isn't as surgical as I'd like, since the Bureau will start asking how their activities leaked before they even set hoof in Manehattan, and I respect them enough to think they might realize it doesn't add up, even if it would explain why everything is a...
  14. Steady Gaze

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

    Related to both of these thoughts, the issue is how we just seem to be unable to find the time for proactive social actions. How long have we had Applejack as a contact? And I recall the QM had to get us from acquaintance to friend using a reward for hosting the party, rather than a social...
  15. Steady Gaze

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

    Oops, really edited that out now. I left no trace. :V
  16. Steady Gaze

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

    Edited in both of these. I noticed @spiderhellian's plan has them taking a ton of stuff, I guess in the hope that something will be useful, just in case? And yeah, let me know what variants might actually have people interested in them.
  17. Steady Gaze

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

    Here's an idea for a plan (I looked a bit at @spiderhellian's plan for some inspiration as well): [] Plan Leave No Trace -[] [BUREAU] You will assault Copper BEFORE the Bureau picks her trail. -[] Assault an opponent (Copper Secateur) --[] Who is going? (WRITE IN which followers will go) ---[]...
  18. Steady Gaze

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

    Wanted to try my hand at writing the objectives for a Copper assault done BEFORE the Bureau gets her trail. Maybe someone can incorporate it into their plan: ---[] Make Copper disappear. If possible, have Mareinette "clean up" Copper on her bed as she sleeps in the middle of the night, or if...
  19. Steady Gaze

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

    This approach, of saying "this is the story, stop asking me questions 😡" worries me a little bit. Is Velvet just talking about the official story that should be spread "in this house", or actually trying to gaslight the Bureau? I kind of wish Velvet had gone with something like "my memory is...
  20. Steady Gaze

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

    Hmm, I didn't think of the possibility of Axe getting "killed" during the assault on Copper and us being left without any wrong keys for three turns. But that would be a strong argument for making wrong keys this turn. Ah yes, trauma is a difficult thing. The best things we can do are to...
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