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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... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
We didn't do commission this turn. You saying we get them immediately if we take it next turn? though the 100 bits WOULD be enough. If we're willing to send a SINGLE Name, that's even better for us and we can easily afford it. You make a great point. Send Mareinette on one, Axe on the other... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
We PROBABLY can, actually, if barely. We started the turn with 105 bits. After adding 200 from Edge 3 artifact sold, -60 for the two tapestry rituals, and + 53 from the loot, we're at 298. Next turn we should be able to add Rarity (let's call it 50, probably a bit more) and our wage (160)... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
It kinda depends. Windigo is 3 health and +55 combat, with Velvet being 3 health and (presumably) +34. We also still have the two bodyguards. But until this turn we also had Biedde on Guard, who'd definitely be able to manage at least one Windigo. Now we have Smiles, and we should seriously... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
While I'm not necessarily against it, Dreams do not inherently reveal the informations we'd want them to. And I'm not sure just how much Selene can MANIPULATE a dream to get what we want out of them. It could be interesting if we sent Luna to reveal "Velvet got to me and brought me to her... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
Basically this. leaving him alone MIGHT very well explode in our faces, but our main focus has been, rightly or wrongly, on strenghtening ourselves. Presumably We're outgrowing him, so even if he ends up becoming a problem, in-between the Bureau and our own growing personal power he should be... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
no, wait, that's genius! Reveal our full involvement in the Cult while using Silky and Selene as a shield. There's no way that won't work! :V -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
Velvet on expeditions would be more doable if we could allow Followers to lead, saving Velvet an action. 2 actions to send Velvet on one of the Long expeditions would be viable. 3 is asking for a lot. @OurLadyOfWires I don't suppose you'd allow that? -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
Not quite. Like with Master as Cadance's alicorn child, it's an action that can't be taken back. It's just that we don't know what the consequences of those decisions would have been. Master could have become a future tyrant, or an enlightened Prince who adapted to Harmony. Colonel might be... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
it MIGHT taint our epilogue. has a CHANCE to. It's very much possible that the Colonel was not a wrong choice. It was simply a risky one. It's putting faith into an higher authority we know very little of. It's giving up a measure of agency. It's basically the choice, if we can call it that... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
the lvl 6 book was an extremely easy and cheap expedition, this one is an extremely expensive one. It's very much not the same case. Literally all expeditions have given loot FAR above the cost we payed for them so far. INCLUDING the lvl 6 book. -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
To be fair, we'll near certainly also find other stuff there. Rituals, books, artifacts... so the expedition is still better in a "bang for bucks" measure. Then I still see no reason for not doing the Sacrament, if the guy dies anyway. Is this about the fear of Mareinette's sacrament being... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
I'm mostly hoping she doesn't end up picking the first guy to annoy her that day, really. ...was it, by any chance, a great secret of betrayal? ...is it wrong that I'm kind of regretting this choice already? For all we know the Colonel is not a bad boss here... Really, Colonel could be...