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Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
kind of irrelevant. Mechanically, expeditions have challenges of specific types. If the Guards are meant to be a Moth or Edge challenge, then Grail will just not be used or be relevant. We don't get to pick the Lore we use unless that lore was already meant to be used there. if Mareinette was... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
that mirror is going to be deep in the castle, Probably in the most guarded areas of the Eclipse quarters, we won't get it without a massacre EVEN if Celestia wasn't there. It's just not worth it -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
This is true. Like, sure, All In presumably won't be easy, but... IF we manage to befriend all the Names we're bringing Baldomare, Axe, Mareinette, Smiles and Cherenkolt, Plus Velvet, plus probably one Risen and maybe some Mares in the Light, and I'm not excluding we might bring Rarity and/or... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
We don't get to keep all the Bureau loot. Presumably it depends. Look at Tall Tale. If we had done it alone, we could have brought the weird changeling thingy back to Ponyville. We probably could have studied it for lore gains as if it was an artifact, maybe applied the Leash or used Incision... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
mh... next turn if I remember right we should have 508 bits. 180 on Forge 4 + 6 300 if we send two people on Lantern 7 that's 480. mh... What if we scried for Lantern 7, so we can send just Axe + Cherenkolt in the appropriate configuration? That would save us many bits. Maybe enough to also... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
In which case, just make the forge 4 one IF the expedition fails. Which it probably won't -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
or, you know, maybe @OurLadyOfWires would allow a conditional vote? Do Forge 6 expedition first, IF it fails we make the reagent? Considering the single reagent is actually a free action I don't see why Velvet couldn't just wait to find out if she needs it or not. Maybe even make the forge 4... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
questions, because I ALWAYS forget apparently. 1) Can we refine Forge 4 into Forge 6 the SAME turn we make forge 4 reagent? If not, we could probably do both actually. Spend 80 bits to make Forge 4, and send Smiles on the expedition, so if it succeeds we DON'T need to make Forge 6 (consuming... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
extra loot, saving a Velvet action, all Expeditions so far having gone overwhelmingly well, having already scried for it, the fact failing a challenge often just has you retry it. Sometimes get a wound or malus, but often not even that. do those actions get refunded? It's not been mentioned yet... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
5 things. Moth Sacrament, takes one action and a leashed Spoiled Rich Grail Sacrament for Mareinette Friendship, we have the prisoner, takes a velvet action the Lantern 7 book expedition, probably Axe + Cherenkolt in artifact form (plus all our artifacts for support) the forge 6 reagent... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
For all that I want to see what's next there. For all that I think there's still a chance of Harmony being relevant post All-In. Realistically, NOW it's not the time. We have to focus on All-In preparations, the sacraments, the Names, the Expeditions, and this latest disaster with Selene and... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
lessons learned, yeah. Sure, act decisively, but try to keep a contingency plan. If Celestia had known, MAYBE Nightmare Moon wouldn't have happened. Also ouch seems that things are truly dire! Here is the secret, Selene: We don't know either But we're good at faking it until we make it (or... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
Mh... Maybe something to consider on turn 24 actually. Turn 23 we have the two expensive expeditions (135+150=285 bits minimum), + whatever else we end up doing. Probably one or two Manehattan expeditions, maybe a Mare in the Light. If I had to guess, we might have to pay something like 40... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
MY hope is to make it in two turns really. 4 Velvet + Mareinette actions per turn (with one cover your bases per turn at least on Velvet) Mh... @OurLadyOfWires do we get the extra action from befriended Smile in the same turn we befriend him? If so, we'd actually "recover" one action in that... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
Sure, the point is that we have other sacraments and names to work for, and Smiles basically requires 8 actions from Mareinette and Velvet... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
You forgot the GRAIL lessons for Mareinette! 4 scraps for Heart, 4 scraps for Grail, brings them to Heart 4 and Grail 5 (unlocking the actual Sacrament power). That said, I mostly agree with you. Baldomare and Mareinette especially are in extremely high demand between SH, Lantern and Grail... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
but, if an action is important enough, we can use a Name to support them. For example, Smiles for the Assaults, Baldomare for Research, Mareinette for diplomacy, and Cherenkolt for creation/destruction -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
There's always Sugarcube Corner. Maybe you'll even meet the legendary Party-In-Splendour... ...I'm forgetting the difference. Maybe the Director was the formal title of Luna? If not, what am I missing? Well, we lost the Edge Influence AND we made a Name enemy. So yeah, sick kinda fits. Also... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
where do you get the "one and the same" thing? Mareinette is Mareinette, and she's FULLY in the Wake right now. Ruined Church has nothing to do with her now. and I'd be very surprised if we got surprise extra requirements for her friendship out of nowhere. Not really true, it's competitive... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
oh, that's an interesting way to put the dichotomy of Lionsmith vs Colonel. The world that is, vs the world that COULD be. Which is basically another way of going "status quo" vs "the revolution": Indeed, Velvet has been growing every turn, for the whole quest. And her rate of growth is kind...