Clearly turning the world into a spinning ball instead of a flat dart board makes the Worms keep skipping off the atmosphere because their trajectories are now all wrong.
The first part of your argument makes no goddamn sense because in any turn we pursue the Sacrament we'll have to pop the Influence anyways because without it we have a snowball's chance in hell of managing a wound before he reduces us to 1 Hp. As for the second, I still find it hard to believe Edge will be our convincing Lore here.
We know something is keeping the Worms out, we know Harmony is attracting them, we know it can kill the lesser variants but not the kind that would give Hours trouble so it stands to reason that the wards of the old era are still around. Also, I believe one of the Names did check on the Wards and they are holding.
Dude you want Velvet, the head of the Pony CIA, to put a Name of the Colonel in charge of routing out a Cult in rebellion of the current govt? He's gonna make the streets of Manehatten run red with blood if we send him in with no restrictions. Sure low level cultists won't be throwing themselves at him but that means nothing when he's hunting them down himself.
And what do you know you guys just voted for Stalk, I wonder what we'll do when a slew of injuries with no explanation start popping up in Ponyvile and an investigation is launched.
wait, you mean the +1 from lvl 0?
I kinda care about the cult, because when you remove a leader two different things can happen
Implication is that she's here like Mareinette is here.
That, yes. And to be fair it does occasionally get missed out, but it's supposed to be the case. Not that a +1 really matters most of the time…
Nope, you are misremembering one of Baldomare's answers in "The many unavoidable questions you asked Baldomare". Here is what she said:
So, no the wards of the Hours are gone but something(very likely Harmony) is keeping the Worms out... That made me think a new theory.
Moments like this are why I miss Insightful reacts!
Hm? What is this in reference to?
No, see, Insightful reactions were just more paranoia fuel. Do not fall for the QMs tricks!
Wow that is quite an insightful view on the reactions...
…You seem to be misunderstanding how the Influences work. They fade at the end of a turn, period. We don't get some half-turn of Influence effect or whatever next turn that we could sneak in the Sacrament during while he goes off and does something else. If you want an Influence at all next turn, we're going to have to spend the action to get another one.
No need.
No.
Ehhh, mechanically speaking he has an action on top of auto-guard. So really, he is only unavailable if he goes on the monster-hunting expedition, or if I explicitly tell you he is away.
That is way too much.
Sveta08, I legitimately appreciate you, and I mean this in the best way possible.
Aye. Same.
To be entirely fair—and this isn't me criticizing or even making a suggestion, just noting a comparison—some quests handle the problem of time spent learning by giving skills or traits progress bars that require multiple actions to complete.
I mean, he's a Moth. It makes perfect sense that he would just happen to pick the right day to be on guard by sheer chance.
By the way, your vote is split from the rest because you didn't seperate that parenthesized bit.
Sveta08, I legitimately appreciate you, and I mean this in the best way possible.
But what?
Huh, that's surprisingly dogmatic. In the Cultist Simulator game one can gain health and strength via mundane means over the course of the game and then apply it to further their occult efforts.
Could be handled by something like "Every three martial or training actions gain 1d3 points of Martial, up to a cap of 12 (training and practical experience, but not dedicated enough to be an expert).
Honestly? I've kinda gotten the sense that being half a continent away is just not a Name problem in general. DoAwas basically crossing the continent in moments when adventuring with the Crusaders—she reached the edge of Equestria IIRC—Baldomare didn't really obey conventional distance both when going to the Changeling hive and when jumping to Canterlot, Biedde appears to have visited Manehatten on his off hours, probably by cutting the distance between or something.
I know, right? Imagine some art form has completely died out, but then your mom is filthy rich and entertains herself with the "eccentric" hobby of summoning the foremost experts of that art from back in time. Silky could become a prodigy. (Succession quest??)
You don't have to roast us like this
I've heard breadcrumbs like this from the QM before, but I do feel like we've been neglecting the social/training aspect of the game. My philosophy when it comes to games like these is that most of the actions we spend not putting out fires are spent on "capital investments" that improve our position. Followers basically give us more actions; AP hell may be a sign that we haven't inducted enough ponies into our faction.
I wouldn't say dogmatic, if by dogmatic, you mean "excessively sticking to rigid preconceptions without a good reason". It's a question of scope and game design. Sure, Cultist Simulator lets you do that, but that's similar to arguing with your mom by saying "my friend's mom lets him do X, why won't you?" The QM chooses the rules and what the game is actually about; it's best to argue in terms of this game's mechanics and design and why it would actually be better if that were a thing. We are already pretty overpowered in terms of combat stats.
Any more could strain credulity.
We are sending the Name whose job it was once to hunt traitors, malcontents and revolutionaries to hunt a cult in open rebellion. Careful or not if Biedde has no restrictions on his conduct he will stack bodies or did you fail to read the part where the only reason he spared Steppes and co was because Silky spoke well of him?
Right I will reiterate once again how dreaming of the Mansus works because you seem to misunderstand the mechanics;