There is a reason why I put a question mark next to Selene's name. Partly bcuz I don't know if Selene would even want to do it, but also because either a filly or an alicorn knocking down Copper's door would raise more than a few eyebrows.
Maybe, maybe not, but I do think that Celestia isn't the only Alicorn capable of being pissed about someone attacking her family.
If all is fair, I'd say let's not send Selene just yet. She wants to guard Velvet, and has yet to finish her training.
Maybe prioritize getting everything Lores-related and only as a second priority destroying everything they can't take with them.
I mean... I want to say no? But very technically, they can do some simple errands for Velvet that she could use to piece together information and cross out some suspicious locations?
Yeah, just saying how many study actions you wanna do and then a list of priorities is way better. Easier to plan, understand, and execute.
It is hilarious to read this and remember this was Velvet's regular life 18 turns ago.
Normally, I prefer to have the results of an action take place only at the end of the turn.
She is, predictably, quite dodgy about the errand she wants you to run. But it doesn't look like a knock influence would help much.
I can guarantee that any book of Level 5 or more will reset her summoning period.
I can second this. Even in canon CS, the Baldomerian was very useful for Lantern checks in expeditions.
This is legitimately acceptable.
I have decided that I just won't let you upgrade any followers to Level 5 until you have at least one Sacrament yourself.
Is it?
Actions will happen on the best possible order to benefit Velvet. So don't worry about that.
Nah. I changed that mechanic. Decoding a book will now insta-read it, with dangers and all. And you just get the scraps you'd get from reading it (and any other rewards, problems the book might be hiding).
Hmm, jumping into another unknown world with typical confusing instructions from a poor communicator…
Hmm... in that case, it should be fine asking DoA for a lesson this turn and having her make more keys next turn. Which means... we'll probably want to go back to a more social focused turn, if we don't need to burn through the Knock book ASAP, and our followers (aka Selene) wouldn't be able to make use of the Lantern artifact this turn anyway. Which, if we're going social (Grail Influence or not) would free up Baldomare's AP for scrying Copper.
No? That would be ideal, even. There's nothing stopping us from scrying and sending her along, as long as her AP isn't doing something that isn't scrying.
I will read this as "Something Heirloom". Could just be friendship progress, but friends also let each other borrow powerful artifacts, we did it for Rarity after all.
Oh, that is a good point. Even if Baldomare is a noncombatant she is still a Name so that would be enough to send her on the raid, the fact she helped set up the whole thing is the cherry on top of the sundae.
Just wanted to point it out since I know that some people, myself included, tend to default to thinking in terms of "one of each type of action", and Baldomare joining the expedition was usually described in plans earlier in the turn as being for "finding bases" and the like.
Now hold on a sec.
If we don't need to worry about being able to carry a max Knock Influence at T21 to speedrun DoA's Sacrament, then it's pretty much objectively better to hold on to the Knock book undeciphered for now, since we can either use it as a Knock scrap source even once we're at Knock 5, or we can feed it to Baldomare in an emergency. As for the artifacts... we could either study them now, which would consume two Velvet AP and a Baldomare AP. Or we can study them on T22 for 1 Velvet AP and 0 Baldomare AP. It's just... not very efficient if we can't actually getting immediate use out of the artifacts.
If we're going after Copper, we should be damn sure that we're going to crush her in one go, no half measures or mistakes. Otherwise she's just going to keep draining our AP if we have to keep trying to hunt her down or defend against possible attacks which we could instead use for more productive things. Like, say, looking for the Outsider.
Oh no hubris has afflicted me as well.
Fair enough!
She needs to know, that to the end, we were simply Better Than Her
to be fair Copper would have trouble raising her cult's lores. At least compared to Velvet's.
eh, it was basically a lifetime ago. we were still at like All 0 Moth 1!
shame.
yeah, I'm going to assume we'd benefit from SH Influence to "find" stuff.
oh, not even which expeditions we do, just that we're doing "some" ?
well, this is at least confirmation of the first requirement, to reach lvl 5 ourselves first.
| Action(s) | 'Free' Action | |
| Rarity | Focus on Career or Commission | ⨂ |
| Fluttershy + Comet Feet | Leader of Grave on the Hill | ⨂ |
| Jade Whistle | Scry Copper | ⨂ |
| Baldomare | Outsider | Attack Copper? |
| Daughter-of-Axes | Knock Lesson | Follower to Grave on the Hill, Attack Copper? |
| Mareinette | Grail Influence | Attack Copper? |
| Biedde | Attack Copper | Guard |
| Selene | Winter Skill, Outsider | Attack Copper? |
| Servants | Outsider search | |
| Velvet 1 | social | |
| Velvet 2 | social | |
| Velvet free social | social | |
| Velvet free mansus | ...I think it HAS to be a new location? can we just give it up? |
yeah, Artifacts is not really worth it if we can't use them now.
Ah! You are planning to attack her this turn! That was something I was unaware of.
oh, right!We don't get Free Mansus, that's a Knock Realization which we don't have access to.
Any thoughts on Scrying Copper and Windy?
TBH i would like Mareinette to talk with Twilight at some point in the near future, if not turn 20 atleast turn 21, if we have the chance, that post of mine was also liked by the OP and i don't know what to think about that.
Windy should be for later, Copper is in our faces and with a knife in our direction.
How did you manage to miss me talking about the Name hit squad?
Technically, we don't need to. Especially since, uh...