Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience

[Sveta08]

I love the narrative, but I'll say here and now that an action like this will be interpreted as "Mareinette, go find me a new contact" with vague mentions that it's for a future Moth Sacrament. For mechanical purposes, that is, because I really need to "translate" your actions into something actionable.

And if you guys eventually like the jerk-with-a-heart-of-gold that Mareinette possibly befriends, that's on you

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... he
Hehehe.

And it's not like we don't know a good and kindly pony in town who would only be too happy to join in a dance. A play. A party... Giving freely of themselves but not trying to letting too many others nearer... Isolated in a strange way, ever and always yearning...

So pretty in pink.

 

[Venerable Ro]

Much as I want Selene to spend time in the city of her sister, she wants to guard Velvet. And, looking at the line up for the turn, we could swap her guard for a search... But we would be down a guard then. And considering the others who are searching are like to be Jade, Rarity, and the servants? None of those could replace her as guard.

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Way I see it, this turn we intend to crush Copper like The Lionsmith crushing a worm, after which we will be safe(er) to resume our eldritch activities. This turn we shall make sure there won't be any follow-up from Copper's last available turn. I also note that our family feels unsafe, Luna will be able to help with that as well with her presence.

If the plan specifies Selene will guard, then Selene will guard. But if the plan has vague or general wording, I'll pick whatever pony is best for whatever action.

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Lucky me, my plan addresses that already.

 

[Earth-Destroyer]

Several of the plans, Mine and Greymere's especially, have Selene joining in on the expedition to the grave already. So, the choice is between her Guarding and Searching for the Outsider.

Much as I want Selene to spend time in the city of her sister, she wants to guard Velvet. And, looking at the line up for the turn, we could swap her guard for a search... But we would be down a guard then. And considering the others who are searching are like to be Jade, Rarity, and the servants? None of those could replace her as guard.

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Every expedition need someone to commit their action to do it. Even short one. Selene's to valuable to waste on simple guarding when we will 6 guards from the Constables this turn anyway, on top of Biedde. Any force large enough to get thou that will kill Velvet whether Selene their or not.

 

[Greymere]

Okay, absent any sudden Bird-related revelations, here's my final(?) draft:

[X] Plan Time's Up - Rarity Working
-[X] (Detectives) Investigate the Commissioner's attackers
-[X] (Constables) Guard the Commissioner
-[X] (Rarity) Focus on work
-[X] (Selene) Winter Realization
-[X] (Selene) Guard us and our home
-[X] (Mareinette) Honored Guest: Filthy Rich and Spoiled Rich
-[X] (DoA) Wrong Keys
-[X] (Fluttershy) Ask Comet to lead an expedition: A Grave on a Hill
-[X] (Baldomare-Free) Give her the Level 6 book if the expedition is successful, otherwise give her the Knock 5 book
-[X] Perform the Reflection of the Tapestry
--[X] Target: Copper and her cult. Their location, their resources, their defenses, anything and everything about them
--[X] To be performed on an inconspicuous place, located by Baldomare
-[X] Assault an opponent (Copper Secateur)
-[X] Search Canterlot for the Outsider (x2)

[X] Plan Time's Up - Rarity Searching
-[X] (Detectives) Investigate the Commissioner's attackers
-[X] (Constables) Guard the Commissioner
-[X] (Selene) Winter Realization
-[X] (Selene) Guard us and our home
-[X] (Mareinette) Honored Guest: Filthy Rich and Spoiled Rich
-[X] (DoA) Wrong Keys
-[X] (Fluttershy) Ask Comet to lead an expedition: A Grave on a Hill
-[X] (Baldomare-Free) Give her the Level 6 book if the expedition is successful, otherwise give her the Knock 5 book
-[X] Perform the Reflection of the Tapestry
--[X] Target: Copper and her cult. Their location, their resources, their defenses, anything and everything about them
--[X] To be performed on an inconspicuous place, located by Baldomare
-[X] Assault an opponent (Copper Secateur)
-[X] Search Canterlot for the Outsider (x 3)

Every expedition need someone to commit their action to do it. Even short one. Selene's to valuable to waste on simple guarding when we will 6 guards from the Constables this turn anyway, on top of Biedde. Any force large enough to get thou that will kill Velvet whether Selene their or not.

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It's not about whether or not we actually need it, it's about attending to the emotional needs of our family. Selene included.

Edit: Whoops, totally forgot to add my guard upgrade vote

[X]A tighter security detail, at all times.

 

[Pittauro]

I can't remember when you were hurt the last time. But maybe check the "you are wounded!" mechanics? Someone already alluded to them in the discussion.

But if you want the chance to heal two wounds, you'd need to spend at least one action healing. Plus, you already promised Mareinette one action. So, if you wanna heal two wounds, you'd only have two Velvet actions free this turn.

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yeah, but you also started giving us a free social actions a couple turns or so ago.

So we'd have 2 actions, AND one "social only" action.

or do we not have that one this time?

I was planning on Comet (leader) + DoA, actually, since DoA's specialty bonus applies to the most number of obstacles (i.e. anything not social in nature) and as a short expedition, it should be fairly easy so DoA can just brute force her way through.

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Mareinette might be better, just in case there's a social obstacle Axe AND Comet would be useless for?

Think of the racist village we found on our very first expedition to find Selene.

I believe the thinking there is that the Moth Sacrament doesn't shed anything, or just buries your self-hatred further under your new, ever-changing mask, and that Dancing with Death would have stripped that latest, most deep-set crutch away. After all, if we had shed the parts of us that we hated, then there wouldn't be a mask to see through at all for the Sacrament Tribute.

Are you sure we're getting the free Social for work-life balance when our current state is, "should be fully dead"?

As for why Baldomare instead of others, the big problem the Grave Expedition hints at is finding the thing. And Baldomare is exceedingly good at finding things.

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fair on Moth.

No idea on social, I just want it confirmed one way or another.

 

[Venerable Ro]

Every expedition need someone to commit their action to do it. Even short one. Selene's to valuable to waste on simple guarding when we will 6 guards from the Constables this turn anyway, on top of Biedde. Any force large enough to get thou that will kill Velvet whether Selene their or not.

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Comet goes for the Grave, Biedde goes for Copper.

 

[Greymere]

Mareinette might be better, just in case there's a social obstacle Axe AND Comet would be useless for?

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Eh, we can hash out who exactly is going where once we actually get to the expedition vote.

(also re: sending DoA or Baldomare, remember we can let DoA borrow our SH3 artifact for a virtual Secret Histories 3 level on top of her +50 to everything not social! Or to Mareinette, for a lower general bonus but ability to deal with social situations)

 

[Shaper47]

Should go for books. We need more heart books (forge books also welcome).

No, you literally can't. Check out the effects of Knock level 0. That is your mechanical key into the House of the Sun.

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@OurLadyOfWires

Huh, but isn't there another way? Afterall one color still remains for Velvet.

Just burn some old picture of Velvet with her dad when she loved him.

They burned them, and then they swallowed down the dirty ashes that remained.

That night, sixteen of them had the Dream

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Or is that still a knock thing?

Soon

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Soon

 

[Earth-Destroyer]

It's not about whether or not we actually need it, it's about attending to the emotional needs of our family. Selene included.

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That just indulging in needless worry not being productive. If anything that the opposite of being a good parent.

 

[Greymere]

That just indulging in needless worry not being productive. If anything that the opposite of being a good parent.

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It strikes me as a very reasonable worry actually, considering that if we were anyone else we would be dead. That isn't something that can just be brushed off and ignored, for Velvet or for her family.

 

[Pittauro]

[X] Plan Time's Up
-[X] (Detectives) Investigate the Commissioner's attackers
-[X] (Constables) Guard the Commissioner
-[X] (Rarity) Focus on work
-[X] (Selene) Winter Realization
-[X] (Selene) Guard us and our home
-[X] (Mareinette) Honored Guest: Filthy Rich and Spoiled Rich
-[X] (DoA) Wrong Keys
-[X] (Fluttershy) Ask Comet to lead an expedition: A Grave on a Hill
-[X] (Baldomare-Free) Give her the Level 6 book if the expedition is successful, otherwise give her the Knock 5 book
-[X] Perform the Reflection of the Tapestry
--[X] Target: Copper and her cult. Their location, their resources, their defenses, anything and everything about them
--[X] To be performed on an inconspicuous place, located by Baldomare
-[X] Assault an opponent (Copper Secateur)
-[X] Search Canterlot for the Outsider (x2)

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If we're not having Rarity do Commission, I'd say bet on her passing the career roll and add her to the pool. She can do outsider search that way, an extra roll.

If we still get the free social, I think Mareinette grail influence is better.

I prefer Axe knock lesson, but all things considered it doesn't change THAT much, and I suppose if we're attacked and SOMEHOW a Windigo or Ash-ghoul reaches Velvet she can at least try to use the Keys against them.

 

[OurLadyOfWires]

I think they're counting the free social action. Unless we don't get that this turn?

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Are you sure we're getting the free Social for work-life balance when our current state is, "should be fully dead"?

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Niche question, but thinking about it there is no reason to deny the free social action.

Free mansus action (and any Mansus exploration) is vetoed. Rituals are vetoed. So on. But... well, no reason not to have a free social action, indisposed as you may be.

I might cause the free social action to give you a malus to a healing roll. But since healing rolls only happen if you don't pay to auto-succeed in the healing dice, that is legitimately not a big issue.

Good catch. So yeah, free social is still a thing.

And it's not like we don't know a good and kindly pony in town who would only be too happy to join in a dance. I'm a play. A party... Giving freely of themselves but not trying to letting too many others nearer... Isolated in a strange way, ever and always yearning...

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I actually laughed out loud here.

No, this idea is just too great. It's just too perfect.

"Bird, we want to find Pinkie!"
"Forget it. He will never let us meet her. We want to find an unrepentant murderer instead!"
And in this Quest's great kindness, the dice gives you-

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And about what was mentioned just now, no need to fuss who leads what expedition. Telling me you want expeditions will just prompt an Expedition vote phase in the middle of the turn, and then we can hash out "how many free leaders we have" and "who goes where with what."

The only Non-short expedition we have is the underground of Mt. Canterlot, and I don't see any interest in going that way. So as long as you have two free ponies, you will be able to have two leaders (and however many in the strike group) going either to the grave or to Copper.

Alright, that seems enough. I'll be unavailable for a while now. Good day to us all!

 

[Earth-Destroyer]

It strikes me as a very reasonable worry actually, considering that if we were anyone else we would be dead. That isn't something that can just be brushed off and ignored, for Velvet or for her family.

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It needless and useless as well. It gains us nothing and wastes Selene's action. We will have 6 trained guards and Biedde this turn for protection. It would take 3 of those new summon at max strength to stand a chance of cracking that level of defenders. And if we are facing down that level of threat anyway we would need all the names to not die.

 

[Greymere]

If we still get the free social, I think Mareinette grail influence is better.

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Main reason for that is that I want to use one of our AP on a family social action, which has never really been dependent on our Grail. And as Filthy Rich and Spoiled Rich are, respectively, one of the more potentially interesting Confidants (bcuz bits) and the current most palatable Moth Sacrament target (if we want an asshole) and therefore the ones we want to be most certain actually get a relationship level-up this turn (also so we can get Spoiled on our contacts list). And also since it's a two-in-one, it'll be less efficient so having Mareinette throw her ridiculous Grail bonus at it should countermand it a bit.

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If we're not having Rarity do Commission, I'd say bet on her passing the career roll and add her to the pool. She can do outsider search that way, an extra roll.

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Added a variant, for anyone who cares to nitpick between Rarity focusing on work and Rarity (likely) joining the Outsider search.

 

[Shaper47]

[X] Plan More Heart
-[X] (Detectives) Investigate the Commissioner's attackers
-[X] (Constables) Guard the Commissioner
-[X] (Rarity) Focus on work
-[X] (Selene) Winter Realization
-[X] (Selene) Guard us and our home
-[X] (Mareinette) Honored Guest: Something else? (We intend to put on a performance in the near future, with Mareinette playing a central role. But we need a victim lead, would fair Mareinette be so kind as to seek out an ideal costar? For the Moth Sacrament we need a reprehensible pony to inflict a reprehensible fate upon without regret, Mareinette knows the sent of such all too well.)
-[X] (DoA) Wrong Keys
-[X] (Fluttershy) Ask Comet to lead an expedition: A Grave on a Hill
-[X] (Baldomare-Free) Give her the Level 6 book if the expedition is successful, otherwise give her the Knock 5 book
-[X] Perform the Reflection of the Tapestry
--[X] Target: Copper and her cult. Their location, their resources, their defenses, anything and everything about them
--[X] To be performed on an inconspicuous place, located by Baldomare
-[X] Assault an opponent (Copper Secateur)
-[X] You would like for somepony to search for books…
--[X] In Ponyville, and its… great assortments of libraries? (HEART, FORGE)
-[X] Jade's house is now adequately clean. Or at least sufficiently presentable for ponies to work on it. You should…(Forge-aligned ponies are better suited at attempting these tasks)
---[X] You might need a place to… "store" your enemies.

[X] Plan Take them Alive

[X] Plan: Talon-Ro Wartime Surveillance

[X] Plan Time's Up - Rarity Digging

 

[Earth-Destroyer]

[x] Plan Eliminate Threats. Setup for befriending 2 Names
-[x]A tighter security detail, at all times.
-[x] [DETECTIVES] (VENGEANCE) Somepony dared attack the Commissioner. Find their trail.
-[x] [CONSTABLES] The Commissioner is just too important to leave unattended. Run security. (Order them to "Guard" you for this turn.)
-[x] [SELENE] This body is new to her, but it is old to the world. She must learn of its abilities and privileges. (Grain +5 to her General Bonus) (TRAINING ACTION)
-[x] [SELENE] Something else? (Expeditions Grave on the Hill)
-[x] [BALDOMARE] Scry Copper and her forces.
-[]x (Baldomare-Free) Give her the Level 6 book from Hill Expedition.
-[x] [MAREINETTE] Channel an Influence. (Heart)
-[x] [AXE] Ask for a Knock lesson.
-[x] [Biedde] Lead the assault on Copper.
--[x] Priority 1 Unsummon/Flip the Winter Name, and retrieve the means of summoning ritual/Painting
--[x] Priority 2 Kill Copper
--[x] Priority 3 Retrieve all the valuables.
-[x] [RARITY] Focus on her work. (Guarantees she will "succeed" on her career roll)
-[x] [FLUTTERSHY] Search for the Outsider
-[x] [Jade] Search for the Outsider
-[x] [Servants] Equestria is full of undiscovered places. You must learn their secrets…
--[x] Search for a place that is recent in its ruin, whose History is decided. Mundane as it might be, it might still bear treasures. (Search for an "easy" expedition)

 

[DelightedOne]

[X] Plan Outshine v2
-[X]A tighter security detail, at all times.
-[X] [DETECTIVES] (VENGEANCE) Somepony dared attack the Commissioner. Find their trail.
-[X] [CONSTABLES] The Commissioner is just too important to leave unattended. Run security. (Order them to "Guard" you for this turn.)
-[X] [JADE] Research "A Memory of Light"
-[X] [SELENE] Realize something about Winter. (Unlock her Winter skill) (TRAINING ACTION)
-[X] [MAREINETTE] Channel an Influence. (GRAIL)
-[X] [AXE] Ask for a Knock lesson.
-[X] (Baldomare-Free) Give her the Level 6 book if the expedition is successful, otherwise give her the Knock 5 book.
-[X] There is something in Canterlot that you simply must find. Look for it. (Progress 0/200, applies Intrigue and Secret Histories) 3 times.
-[X] You need this to be done. Send a pony on an expedition.(The Grave on the Hill)
-[X] Perform the Reflection of the Tapestry(Copper and her Cult)
--[X] To be performed on the safe place Baldomare directed you to.
-[X] [COPPER] Send somepony to attack this opponent.

Might vote for other plans with MoL later. But I think after that Wolf episode without the lores we need to get some Harmony in Velvet's hooves, if she reaches Glory and there is that much Wolf in her... the World is fucked.

[X] Plan Take them Alive

[X] Plan More Heart

 

[Nevermort]

[X] Plan Take them Alive
-[X] A tighter security detail, at all times.
-[X] [DETECTIVES] (VENGEANCE) Somepony dared attack the Commissioner. Find their trail.
-[X] [CONSTABLES] The Commissioner is just too important to leave unattended. Run security. (Order them to "Guard" you for this turn.)
-[X] [SELENE] Realize something about Winter. (Unlock her Winter skill) (TRAINING ACTION)
-[X] [SELENE] Guard her mother.
-[X] [MAREINETTE] Channel an Influence. (GRAIL)
-[X] (AXE) Craft Wrong Keys. (She will give you three Wrong Keys, which will expire after five turns. Only once per summoning.)
-[X] Jade's house is now adequately clean. Or at least sufficiently presentable for ponies to work on it. You should… (Forge-aligned ponies are better suited at attempting these tasks)
--[X] You might need a place to… "store" your enemies. Alive. Dig a small prison under her house.
-[X] Perform the Reflection of the Tapestry.
--[X] Target: Copper and her cult. Their location, their resources, their defenses, anything and everything about them.
--[X] To be performed on an inconspicuous place, located by Baldomare.
-[X] Research "A Memory of Light".
-[X] Jade's house is now adequately clean. Or at least sufficiently presentable for ponies to work on it. You should… (Forge-aligned ponies are better suited at attempting these tasks)
--[X] You might need a place to… "store" your enemies. Alive. Dig a small prison under her house.
-[X] Lead an expedition. (A Grave on a Hill)
-[X] Lead the assault on Copper.
-[X] Search Canterlot for the Outsider.
-[X] (BALDOMARE) Prolong her stay by giving her the Level 6 book if the expedition is successful, otherwise give her the Knock 5 book.

Does not matter that much who exactly leads expedition as long as we have sufficient number of ponies. And Biedde failed to defend Velvet, so while the last word on who does what is with QM I am kind of tempted to make him dig the ground

[X] Plan More Heart

[X] Plan Time's Up - Rarity Digging

 

[Sveta08]

[X] Plan Time's Up - Rarity Searching

Other thoughts are for later

 

[Maer]

[X] Plan More Heart
-[X] (Detectives) Investigate the Commissioner's attackers
-[X] (Constables) Guard the Commissioner
-[X] (Rarity) Focus on work
-[X] (Selene) Winter Realization
-[X] (Selene) Guard us and our home
-[X] (Mareinette) Honored Guest: Something else? (We intend to put on a performance in the near future, with Mareinette playing a central role. But we need a victim lead, would fair Mareinette be so kind as to seek out an ideal costar? For the Moth Sacrament we need a reprehensible pony to inflict a reprehensible fate upon without regret, Mareinette knows the sent of such all too well.)
-[X] (DoA) Wrong Keys
-[X] (Fluttershy) Ask Comet to lead an expedition: A Grave on a Hill
-[X] (Baldomare-Free) Give her the Level 6 book if the expedition is successful, otherwise give her the Knock 5 book
-[X] Perform the Reflection of the Tapestry
--[X] Target: Copper and her cult. Their location, their resources, their defenses, anything and everything about them
--[X] To be performed on an inconspicuous place, located by Baldomare
-[X] Assault an opponent (Copper Secateur)
-[X] You would like for somepony to search for books…
--[X] In Ponyville, and its… great assortments of libraries? (HEART, FORGE)
-[X] Jade's house is now adequately clean. Or at least sufficiently presentable for ponies to work on it. You should…(Forge-aligned ponies are better suited at attempting these tasks)
---[X] You might need a place to… "store" your enemies.


This lets us prep for the Grail(Mareinette) and Lantern Sacraments. If the first target survives Lantern, we can Grail them. Otherwise, we at least have a storage space for a future Grail/Lantern victim should we need it.

On top of that, we're prepping for Moth Sacrament, and we're rewarding the fears and loyalty of our family and subordinates with trust and reliance on them. Even if it isn't truly needed, it'll have good narrative effects, and let Luna start to connect with her bureau. Not that it'll be a major connection, but it'll start to build it regardless. Besides- we wanted to pony-ize her, what better way than having her daughter around more frequently and seeing her efforts to protect her mommy?

 

[Greymere]

This lets us prep for the Grail(Mareinette) and Lantern Sacraments. If the first target survives Lantern, we can Grail them. Otherwise, we at least have a storage space for a future Grail/Lantern victim should we need it.

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Tbh, I have to say I'm not terribly interested in our personal Lantern Sacrament anymore. Baldomare's Lantern Sacrament sounds like it should remove the penalty for reading old books, which would massively decrease the AP burden of reading/decoding all those old high-level books we'll be digging up from expeditions, which in turn will help us level all our Lores more efficiently.

 

[Venerable Ro]

I'm very disinclined to bring any influences on Velvet right now due to her nonexistant lores. Her usual skill in navigating them is due in no small part to her reliance on Lore-expertise to self-medicate anyway, so the Influences are just more of the same. Now she's got none of that, already emotionally shattered, and we want to throw [An Incarnadescence] on her? [That Old Yearning] pretty much turned novice-cultist Velvet into a puppet of her impulses, and right now Velvet has even less resilience than she had then.

It's not a good idea.

 

[Earth-Destroyer]

Tbh, I have to say I'm not terribly interested in our personal Lantern Sacrament anymore. Baldomare's Lantern Sacrament sounds like it should remove the penalty for reading old books, which would massively decrease the AP burden of reading/decoding all those old high-level books we'll be digging up from expeditions, which in turn will help us level all our Lores more efficiently.

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Or we could just get Baldomare as a friend and then she would be willing to translate a batch of books for us.

 

[Greymere]

Or we could just get Baldomare as a friend and then she would be willing to translate a batch of books for us.

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Bird has already said before that we're the only one who can do study actions.

 

[Talon Tiger Dino]

Lantern Sacrament is a bunch of Scraps away anyways.

 

[Pittauro]

I actually laughed out loud here.

No, this idea is just too great. It's just too perfect.

"Bird, we want to find Pinkie!"
"Forget it. He will never let us meet her. We want to find an unrepentant murderer instead!"
And in this Quest's great kindness, the dice gives you-

Spoiler: Image

And about what was mentioned just now, no need to fuss who leads what expedition. Telling me you want expeditions will just prompt an Expedition vote phase in the middle of the turn, and then we can hash out "how many free leaders we have" and "who goes where with what."

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I'm getting "Cupcake" flashbacks.

If you don't know, it's an infamous fanfic about Pinkie making cupcakes that I think Mareinette would find very tasty.

The only Non-short expedition we have is the underground of Mt. Canterlot, and I don't see any interest in going that way. So as long as you have two free ponies, you will be able to have two leaders (and however many in the strike group) going either to the grave or to Copper.

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I'd love to do Canterlot, but sending anything less than TWO Names there is foolish, and we don't exactly have 240 bits to reserve for that...

Maybe we'll have the slack to scry it next turn and then we can think on it.

Main reason for that is that I want to use one of our AP on a family social action, which has never really been dependent on our Grail. And as Filthy Rich and Spoiled Rich are, respectively, one of the more potentially interesting Confidants (bcuz bits) and the current most palatable Moth Sacrament target (if we want an asshole) and therefore the ones we want to be most certain actually get a relationship level-up this turn (also so we can get Spoiled on our contacts list). And also since it's a two-in-one, it'll be less efficient so having Mareinette throw her ridiculous Grail bonus at it should countermand it a bit.

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eh, I'd still rather do Grail, but I admit you have a point.

 

[spiderhellian]

I disagree, but I'm interested in where you are coming from.

What do you think she should do instead?

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We need Luna on searching for the outsider if we want a chance of success this turn without Baldomare involved.

So I'd give her Commission again, as next turn we WILL need even more bits for Mares, Canterlot Part 3, healing ritual, and who knows, maybe a follow up on Comet assault. Also

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Why do this when we don't need the bits this turn? It stresses Rarity out, it's worth giving her a cooldown period when it's not necessary

oh no, she's already trailing some of us! nobody is safe, the 4th wall won't protect us!

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keep in mind she's a friend that's making a game of seeing if she can convince us to eat our own daughter. THAT has been the implication so far.

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WOW! THANKS MAREINETTE! I TRUST YOU IMMEDIATELY!

 

[Maer]

Tbh, I have to say I'm not terribly interested in our personal Lantern Sacrament anymore. Baldomare's Lantern Sacrament sounds like it should remove the penalty for reading old books, which would massively decrease the AP burden of reading/decoding all those old high-level books we'll be digging up from expeditions, which in turn will help us level all our Lores more efficiently.

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A valid point.

Frankly, I do agree with you there. That would be a major bonus, and also have us spend more time with her- in conjunction with us progressing her friendship path, it may even provide some unexpected side benefits, narratively speaking. Even if only little tidbits from our conversations with her that can help us on other objectives. After all, she may become more talkative and willing to share her thoughts and knowledge as our friendship progresses. Or not. Still, the possibility is there.

I also wonder if we could social Beyond Reproach to get our main guy some insight into the Lores and help reduce and suspicion or concern he may have based on what skepticism we've seen him show. Among other benefits…

Below this are more just… wandering thoughts and ideas? Less important than anything else we're doing or currently working on.

Beyond the above, I'd like to work on 'Memory of Light' a bit, if only to get it off of Jade's sheet and see what it offers- if anything. What it offers might let us determine if continuing down that path would even be worth it still, mechanically speaking- narratively it likely touches on Harmony, but we're getting to the point where narrative and mechanical balancing is an issue.

The secret Library needs improving, we need more friends to use that library, and we need the actions that such would provide. Mareinette helps, the free social action COULD help, and other such actions can assist us. But again… it's an investment. Still… we could use a better library and more people able to make use of it.

 

[Pittauro]

I'm very disinclined to bring any influences on Velvet right now due to her nonexistant lores. Her usual skill in navigating them is due in no small part to her reliance on Lore-expertise to self-medicate anyway, so the Influences are just more of the same. Now she's got none of that, already emotionally shattered, and we want to throw [An Incarnadescence] on her? [That Old Yearning] pretty much turned novice-cultist Velvet into a puppet of her impulses, and right now Velvet has even less resilience than she had then.

It's not a good idea.

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on the other hand the "lore of pleasure" would likely be the best kind of pain medication in existence.

 

[Shaper47]

Tbh, I have to say I'm not terribly interested in our personal Lantern Sacrament anymore

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Our personal Lantern Sacrament is focused on all the cool bits of Lantern though.

The laying hoofs and seeing memories is one of the best parts of visiting the mansus.

Besides we've still got more cool things we can investigate in the Mansus which our personal sacrament would help with.