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DoA needs to teach a Knock Scrap in order for us to take her Sacrament, it's why I left her out. And Velvet cannot consistently rip out Max Level Influences.
When you are rocking 3 Name-Strength Influences, 1 Velvet-Strength Influence, and 1 Jade-Level Influence, you can afford to just run in.
Edit: I just realized we can get even crazier. Luna could call down another 2 Influences! Rarity can do 1! Heck, maybe even Comet for all 9 Influence flavors...
Clearly we just have all the Names (except Axe) give us an Influence in one of their Lores, we have our Confidantes call down Influences on Velvet for the others, and Velvet slaps an Influence on herself.
Then we bonzai that Sacrament.
(Though really, we probably only need SH and Grail...
Yeah, all things considered it's normal to have an emotional collapse when you learn of your loved ones being kidnapped, going through a miscarriage, or almost being assassinated. The fact she is still able to run a nation despite those hits rather than shutting down completely when such news...
Alternatively, we could drop one of those FOs, and trust that perhaps the Alicorn can recover on her own. Cadance is a pretty well-adjusted mare, all things considered. This one rough patch won't undo her. She isn't a child like Silky is, nor as supremely traumatized as Selene has been in her...
No, Selene knows how to teleport so she can also just pop up where she wills faster than any train. Honestly I just have to assume that our Names take boring mortal trains to places simply because they find trains neat.
I think that is an entirely unreasonable expectation. First off, one would have to secure a couple hundred dead bodies without arousing too much suspicion. Second off, one would need to warehouse a couple hundred ambulatory dead bodies in order to not arouse suspicion. Third off, none of our own...
I'm not. That's I've strapped as much Heart to the party as is possible. Because she's probably going to throw an arctic storm down a hallway at their faces.
And also let's not underestimate what 4 Names can do.
Yeah, and I thought it was wildly ooc since per Word of QM Velvet doesn't think about Starry much at all, so why would she be grieving her? She didn't lose anybody in the Catastrophe either, which is what the group was founded to help with.
The Expedition where the big stumbling block was combat, where Velvet didn't even contribute for 4/5 of the fight, leaving DoA to a 3v1? This time we are bringing:
Biedde
DoA
Mareinette
Luna
The Baldomare.
That is about four times as many combatants as last time, one of which we know...