Wise Wolf
Grinding the whiskey wheat
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I had a Moth sacrament theory.
What if it gives us something that's kind of the opposite of [Honored Guest]? [Honored Guest] essentially allows Mareienette to take our place; to weave with our thread through the tapestry of history, such that noone can say Velvet did not do the social.
Moth Sacrament could give Velvet a [Dishonored Guest]. A Mr. Hyde-like persona, equally impenetrable to [Honored Guest.] We make a brand new thread with which we can weave through the tapestry of history, that simply is not Velvet, even if it acts with Velvet's body. We'd get +1 AP that has to be spent as our Dishonored Guest. The Dishonored Guest cannot do Social actions for us, since it's not us. And we'd have limited control over our alter-ego in much the same way that we lose control of mid-action choices with Mareienette.
And if generating a Dishonored Guest is the end, perhaps the thing we reveal to our victim in the process of building it in the Sacrament is all of the nasty and unpleasant parts of Velvet that we shove into the Dishonored Guest. They see that we have taken the evil in the heart of ponykind, built an unaccountable agent with it, and set it loose with all of our resources.
It'd also be very like the QM to make it a vague-horror-mine, instilling paranoia about exactly what our alterego is doing...
What if it gives us something that's kind of the opposite of [Honored Guest]? [Honored Guest] essentially allows Mareienette to take our place; to weave with our thread through the tapestry of history, such that noone can say Velvet did not do the social.
Moth Sacrament could give Velvet a [Dishonored Guest]. A Mr. Hyde-like persona, equally impenetrable to [Honored Guest.] We make a brand new thread with which we can weave through the tapestry of history, that simply is not Velvet, even if it acts with Velvet's body. We'd get +1 AP that has to be spent as our Dishonored Guest. The Dishonored Guest cannot do Social actions for us, since it's not us. And we'd have limited control over our alter-ego in much the same way that we lose control of mid-action choices with Mareienette.
And if generating a Dishonored Guest is the end, perhaps the thing we reveal to our victim in the process of building it in the Sacrament is all of the nasty and unpleasant parts of Velvet that we shove into the Dishonored Guest. They see that we have taken the evil in the heart of ponykind, built an unaccountable agent with it, and set it loose with all of our resources.
It'd also be very like the QM to make it a vague-horror-mine, instilling paranoia about exactly what our alterego is doing...