Vibes, mostly. And I gotta disagree w/ the "personal Sacrament is best" thing, considering that our personal Lantern Sacrament requires us to eat people and Baldomare's doesn't. And I really don't want to do our personal Grail Sacrament (or Mareinette's, but that's a different issue).
Well if we can use a criminal, then I don't think it matters with Lantern. If needed we can have one of our Luna agents imprison a criminal, say that we are personally interrogating them then do our ritual. Also what exactly is the problem with the Grail Sacrament. I'm forgetting what exactly The Act does to our three minions.
Can't help but think that Lantern Sacramenting a Bureau prisoner would be... more than a bit suspicious? Considering the body can't even be used to make a Risen afterwards, and if it's at all analogous to the Lantern process in CS we're going to be basically eating their soul/personality.
Yes it would be suspicious but i'm sure there are ways around that suspicion, like setting up a jail break, or saying the person attempted to use a teleportation magic and succeeded. As for the Grail, The part about brainwashing is kind of strange to me, because if two people care about each other to the core, then you brainwash them int caring about each other to the core. What is the practical difference of the before and after. It honestly completely depends on what the exact effects of the ritual are, and as far as i can find, I couldn't find a cost, DC check or even the outcome.
There's a difference btwn "deeply caring about someone" and "I will force you to longer be capable of even thinking about 'leaving' me NO MATTER WHAT".
Well, I would have at least read the letter from Fair Trial, but fair enough.
Well, to be fair she IS not only their boss, but has explicitly authority higher than anyone in the country except Celestia. And, in only SOME respects, Cadance, Midday Dew and Fair Trial, and even that's only in very specific cases/niches.
I'm kinda curious about what gets just destroyed. fanmail? baseless threats? subtle attempts at bribes that are not blatant enough to prosecute? Invitations to Parties?
It's a first step.
...Did she somehow get a human (or at least minotaur/bipedal) book?
maybe because the other Velvet's she's trying to look through are ALSO attempting to meditate?
intriguing.
...winter?
forge?
...does the scar go through that one too?
so, is our SH power to possess other Velvets for some time? That would be interesting, and could give us access to other sources of lores, and maybe even Sacraments.
well, apparently SHE IS.
I'm starting to wonder... Windigos came and brought the Winter again?
intriguing. The Realizations are tied to our original body, apparently. And yet our knowledge of the other Lores is presumably NOT gone...
...Amore?
...oh my Glory...
...yep. she saw the MARRIAGE.
I really hope Shining is alive and will give her a chance here.
mh... if next turn we went for a full SH plan (Sacraments, money and book search, AotL, SH influence) maybe we could also dedicate a Confidant or Name action to... escort the new Velvet around, to explain things and keep an eye on them?
I really need to watch it sometimes. I only really know two or three songs from it, and that's it.
We might be able to use a conditional? Maybe we can have the scrying happen before we finalize the turn, just like we sometimes did summons before the full planning session.
Nope. We are not tainting our Grail with the Sacrament of an Alukite.
Still better than permanently brainwashing our very closest friends and allies I think. Though... @OurLadyOfWires could Velvet dedicate time to better understand what the Sacrament will actually do (or alternatively you more explicitly tell us if she already knows) WITHOUT taking it?
I have no idea what you are talking about
About this small debate, I'll figure it out later but I really have no interest in writing Velvet's personal Knock Sacrament. I'm still thinking if I'll just cross it out or not, but for now eh.
Not that I remember. Rolling better just gives you more or better options, but not cheaper ones.
No. The subtext tells you all you need to know, or all you can know.
eh, if you want to just cross it out it's fine.
Oh, I agree.
uh, I'll have to check in a bit.
We can't find and clear an expedition on the same turn. So if we want to try and do Frangiclave expedition T20, gambling on whether it or BtRC2 have a good enough book, we'd have scry it T19.
Bird you can't just say this and not elaborate what the words were, my curiosity will kill me.
Oh, delightful! That's satisfying.
Whose Heirloom could it be if not the Watchman? The Colonel would leave one of Edge and the SiR Winter. Meniscate maybe? I suppose the SiS is an option too…
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and someone said it first!
It seems I spoke too soon. Sorry for doubting you Bird.
Yknow, I won't get into the habit of threadmarking omakes that were already posted in the other site. But this extra ending definitely justified it. This was hillarious.
Thank you kindly! Finally got the time to fix them now.@OurLadyOfWires: your regular delivery of copyedits
I also wasn't going to comment on any of the awesome omakes we got. I like commenting on all of them, but I don't have the time right now as I am threadmarking them.
"Bird! Bird! Worshipper of the Hour that is literally based on Agony! Please, release me from this pain I feel!"
"Marked as insightful" I suppose.
Watchpony. He said the words were wrong not the truths they represent, but I could be wrong too.
Sure, I definitely think that it's likely that it would also have high-level books (if not necessarily Level 7, since Frangiclave is there and is the key to a Name's friendship). But then, we also thought it was likely that one of the Blank Plains' locations would give us a Winter scrap ("it's the Winter area! how could it not?"), and we all know how that prediction turned out.