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Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
oh, I remembered something. As long as she's a minion, we can use Rarity's house for a ritual, can't we? -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
Sorry, Biedde is not allowed to come 😇 but more seriously, Mares in the Light have Edge 3, and while we don't know their general bonuses it's probably at least +20, so they likely have +35 in combat, which is only a bit worse than Mareinette's +40. Selene would also by then have +50 with the... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
as things stand we likely won't have the scraps for the grail sacrament anyway, unless we gets high level grail books and artifacts in the next couple of expeditions, so that's not really a worry. and as for lantern, we have a simpler alternative in Baldomare anyway. Really it seems like the... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
To be friends with her, we have to redeem her at least a tiny bit though, don't we? At least to the point she won't go around eating children except maybe Cozy Glow. Unless we actually want Velvet to consider a child-eating cannibal a friend. It adds a whole new level of urgency when Velvet... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
We still want to enable her, to give her the means for such a plan. Thus far that's mostly the coming LVL 4 lessons and maybe Memory of Light research. We'll see what else she's going to ask of us. Also does Selene KNOW that we're on a countdown to sun eruption? ...wrong question. VELVET... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
Also frees multiple villains so Twilight might gain some self confidence by beating them again... Not one of his best moments, really. Hey, remember how I often say I believe the quest won't end once we reach Glory and that maybe we'll turn Long or there will be more obstacles? Another... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
...you know, I just had a realization. The road to befriending Mareinette is OBVIOUSLY to introduce her to Cozy Glow. I'm sure they'd have a delightful little dinner together! 😅 -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
Unless Glory or Harmony give us the power to change Mareinette back into a not-Alukite, she's MAYBE redeemable in the sense that, as her friend, we MIGHT be able to aim her at "evil" ponies instead of the good ones. Or, in other words, she can be a "tamed" monster, to a point. Even that is a... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
In her defense it's heavily implied that becoming an alukite changes you, so she's a monster because she's following new instincts, at least in part. Of course that doesn't change the end result, but I feel that It's not free choice, and in a way her alukite nature DOES make her do it. Still... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
I don't know if sympathizing with the cannibal is very harmonious... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
You know, this bit makes me realize something. It makes SENSE that Mareinette would deign herself to be bound to Velvet. She IS a monster. We shouldn't forget that. But even monsters have feelings and emotions, and maybe their own code of honor. And Velvet is, after all, the one who "saved... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
on a nat 100 from Jade, by the way. without her nat100, unlocking it would have likely been harder. Same for Rite of Mother and Father I imagine. Because on that path we'll better understand the nature of Alicorns and their powers, and from understanding comes power. Maybe not directly for... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
oh, no, I basically want to either intimidate Spoiled Rich in NOT talking about it, or something along those lines. She WON'T tell Filthy Rich, because... why would he believe her? Appearances will likely be something along the lines of "it SEEMED we were becoming friends, but we had a falling... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
I'd personally be willing to consider it in very specific situations, but... I don't expect it to be relevant, so why would we waste an action on that? If anything, the "item storage" option might be more valuable in the short term. For all we know one or more of the artifacts we found (or will... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
It was in a different dimension. That kinda counts as warded as default, and means NOTHING in regard to other defense. That said, yes, SH is likely to help, but we can do without if necessary. Well, Dear Velvet, I can definitely say there's some Roamanian influence in the architecture and... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
to be fair we're not THAT far off from Lantern Sacrament. At current rate we can probably do it on turn 23. turn 21: lantern artifact (1 scrap), influence (2 scraps). Turn 22: get the last scrap, potentially from Baldomare lesson. I'm still obviously in favor of Baldomare's though. Easier... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
that's... actually a good point. Of course using those poor prisoners for that is undeniably evil. It's basically what the Master did to Twilight, and we basically betrayed him over that (though mostly because he did it to what we thought of as a friend and useful potential follower) -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
right, my bad. good point on Tall Tale I suppose. Did you count the SH artifact bonus to research? In any case yeah, I suppose Tall Tale is not worth it. Still, maybe we should have Axe search for a summoning location like Baldomare did (she'd have +30, maybe she can also use the SH... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
we have 3 full turns to find the lvl 7 (or another lvl 5) book, I'm not too worried. We might very well be doing ALL IN Expedition by then. and if we study the Knock book, that would actually free Axe to do an expedition THIS turn. Axe, Biedde, Selene. Send them to Tall Tale with artifacts to... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
summary of the spoiler tab is that I don't think we can afford expeditions due to Name actions being too important. I'm starting to think we should have Baldomare give us a Lantern influence, and then we do 1 or 2 study actions for 1)Knock book (frees Axe's action. This COULD allow us to send...