what fun is there in being a supercompetent (not-)evil overlord if you can never brag about it and break a few of the (not-)evil overlord list's rule?!
Old Cult was NOT capable of doing that. Jade is not capable of doing that.
Is it okay to double post?
I think they're less strict on QQ than on SV and SB.
Thanks for the tally!
[X] Plan: Most Value for the options
[X] Plan: Servant, Mareinette, Bureau
[X] Plan: Mareinette
I'm a fan of these. And will toss a vote Mareinette's way because I think it would be fun
If we do get 5 servant actions, I wonder if we should go for 3 cover your bases... mostly I just don't have an idea for a Servant/Fluttercomet aciton. I guess "look for Heart books" works, or maybe we'll need Comet on one last Outsider search.
We could take servant actions from the merchant instead of bits. So 7 blackmail AP, + our servants + Fluttercomet (it should be Cometshy since its shorter) makes 3 Velvet AP.
we could. I think we'll likely have leftover follower actions though.
Medium expedition so we can't send extra people without using it as their action. And need at least the Knock lesson, probably the SH influence.
Inmediately, it would take too many turns and AP to raise Velvet Heart Lore to 4 and do the family training.
Any particular reason why we can't just use the Bureau for Tall Tale? Velvet could just go with them to take care of anything lore related the changelings might have.
I'm pretty sure that also means Velvet won't spend her personal AP(or that of her followers) in this case.
It will take 3 turns at best to get to All-4, better get Selene to her most powerful possible self as soon as we can.
Not really we need 4 scraps and have access to 2 from Mareinette using heart influence. So we just need to find 2 more we could easily get those by having Boldamare search for books.
Mostly to get loot! And perhaps to soften them up.
Yeah, but we want Baldomare influences if we want a solid chance at SH sacrament success, and it might help with Knock sacrament too…
Honestly, Luna's innate +30 once she's fully trained and Jade's inability to use her old house as a ritual site is one of the biggest reasons I want to try and study the Lantern 4 artifact in the next turn or two. +70 on the Lantern roll is nothing to sneeze at, even without a reroll, and she'd autosucceed on the SH check w/ our SH3 book (while Jade still runs a risk of failing on this one).
Tbh I'm leaning more toward taking Baldomare's invitation so we can just get it done already. I would rather have the slightly less interesting (but still very interesting) Sacrament that seems to involve alternate pasts and which, as per Word of Bird, will in some way let us explore more of the setting's history rather than delaying and dawdling for multiple turns because we can't find the time and confidence to both a) have Baldomare give us an Influence and b) take two SH vision actions in the same turn.
Imagine our followers doing any ritual other than scrying
Fair, Lantern roll is basically with the artefact.Yeah… getting an influence for two turns is one reason it might be worth trying the CoI. But I don't want to see what happens when we fail a SH sacrament action. And The reroll's value makes the 2nd part hard as well.
Him and Mareinette might be doable actually. We COULD free Axe by studying the book potentially.
upgrade immediately. we're at 0/4 in heart, and Selene progressing on the Daybreaker issue seems to be gated behind finishing her training, so I'd rather do that.
If we go on our own we have more freedom to do what we want. Get loot, plant evidence for the Bureau to find, and so on.
We could IN THEORY make it in two turns, but it's unlikely.
Generally speaking we have a LOT of artifacts, so after we study them any of our Names AND Selene (and, to a lesser extent, the mortal followers like Jade and Rarity) can ALL do pretty well as ritualists.
eh, Baldomare actions are currently near as valuable as Velvet's I think. We have lots of things to scry after all, and maybe we'll even be able to use her to study the low level artifacts...
hey, Mareinette once did an Incision of the HEart on us!Imagine our followers doing any ritual other than scrying
We'd be using up Baldomare's AP to have her channel a SH Influence for our personal SH Sacrament anyway, and I doubt it's any riskier than our personal Sacrament. Plus it's pretty unlikely that we'd fail it, and then we'd have SH5, would be able to explore the Tower, and whatever the Sacrament power is. Sure, we have things we'd want to scry, but none of it except potentially the Windigos/Neighnia is even remotely urgent, and can be handled by either Jade or Lantern artfifact-boosted Selene anyway. And as a reminder, the Tower is very likely the entrance to the House of the Moon, and there's almost certainly interesting stuff in there, considering its history of playing host to things supposedly dead (the Wheel still turns in the House of the Moon).
She already finished her training or will finish it this turn, All-4 is just a bonus.
Huh, that's a thought. It basically trades a Velvet action for an Axe action, and we get extra stuff out of the Velvet action. 64% to do the book in one, basically guaranteed in two.
Hmmmmm...
Only need one Knock scrap! (And one Moth scrap.)
The problem is that Velvet's AP is likely to be much more valuable than DoA's next turn. Just off the top of my head, we're likely to want to do some combination of the following: DoA's Sacrament (will probably require multiple AP), Forge's Redemption, initiating Cadance/Shining into the Lores, leveling up Selene, one or more Fleeting Opportunities regarding either the aftermath of Velvet's near-death experience or the results of the investigation. Sure, there might be room for a study action, but even then I think it would be better off being used to study the Moth book instead of the Knock book, seeing as we have a guaranteed source of a Knock scrap currently summoned but the only guaranteed source of Moth scraps is currently a pile of Ash.
