Having her take the "Focus on her career" action makes her autosucceed her career roll
Don't worry too much, if we get that level 6 book for Baldomare we can take her SH Influence next turn and double down on the Sacrament.
The only two real ways to improve Rarity's career besides upping her level in the lores, we came up with is to scry for a Forge artifact that would help/assist her.
ops, you're right, not sure how I forgot that.SH4 for Sacrament actions
(Edit: Though if we're walking around with a +40 SH Influence, we might want to set aside an AP to search for an Outsider on T20, so someone with ridiculous SH bonuses would still be contributing)
My lack of urgency on that is that I'm hoping to get lucky, AND next turn we can probably spare another AP, plus the Frangiclave expedition probably... so there's 3 points of exploration this turn, probably 3 next turn, AND possibly a scrap from sacrament actions, AND possibly books from the canterlot expedition, AND maybe we'll find other books on frangiclave expedition...
some level of procrastination is kind of unavoidable. We just can't do everything we want.
Working on it without an influence is just foolish. so to work on it now we'd have to either take a reagent AND Call of influence actions to make an SH3 (or 3) reagent, or use the free reagent crafting for it instead than to help Jade find a lvl 6 book.
context matters.
or Grail artifact, potentially.
RotT evidence and have the Mare take up the search then?
If we're summoning Biedde next turn, Frangiclave almost certainly isn't happening until T21, especially if you want to double up on Sacrament actions on T20, which mean any loot we get from Frangiclave expedition won't be available for study until T22.
I'm like, 95% certain that we've used Grail on Comet before. It was Jade that we were told that Grail wouldn't really have applied to, because those were different sorts of conversations being had.
I believe she had. Sometime around when we were on the verge of leaving the cult, we were told that if we asked Rarity to do something she might put her career at risk, which wouldn't have been an issue if she'd hadn't failed at least once.
I won't comment on mares until we get them and see what they're good for.
Right... It depends a lot on the kind of expedition it is.
There's also the matter of bits, because summoning Biedde is pretty expensive
I guess, but I also don't really see that being an issue in the immediate future. It's not like we're going to be sending her on expeditions anytime soon. We've got Names (and Selene) for that, and maybe even Raw Prophets (Grail spirits) in the near future if we find them in the Church's depths, instead of risking our incredibly valuable source of More Bits.
Great omake.
Maybe we could use 1 Velvet action in book searching in Ponyville when she is under Baldomare's Influence? Or to be cheaper just send the servants instead, we do only need Heart 3 scraps at the moment. There is always Mareinette of course but burning through her max level Heart influence(plus the Heart lesson) already could be wasteful if the Sacrament options are good. The only place left in the Mansus that has any canon association with Heart that I found is the Orchard so we could go there(the others were the Temple of the Wheel and the Spider/Tribal door and they got Wolf'd so...)
I mean, why though? Like even if we completely finish researching it this turn, it's not like the next step is going to be the "I win" button. So I don't see why it would qualify as urgent as opposed to like, medium-to-high priority just like the Outsider search.
There is no point to the Leash on Shining. As in, we literally didn't choose to take it off. The QM took it off for us automatically because we reached a point where it had no extra effect on the relationship.
Well. This definitely made me want to go exploring the Malleary as soon as possible. Even if we don't assume this exact Name would be there, I do really want to see the Forge Name.
Because it is a Victory condition that makes the world a better place, that is why. About that, you are right it is not an instant victory but I remember something Bird said about that Nat 100 from Jade that went kinda like this:" Jade's way of doing it was easy." So I think we actually skipped some of the most annoying parts and got the straight ahead way and that makes my brain go"hum, opportunity".
I mean there's a reason that I've been assuming that Frangiclave is going to cost us a small fortune and 3 AP to get, and it's not because I expect it to be easy to get
Fair enough.There's also the matter of bits, because summoning Biedde is pretty expensive
).and we're saying that's false. The moment we're at risk of not getting that third success we can just let her focus on her career. And Ideally we limit the commissions to max 1 every 3 turns, MAYBE 2 if/when we're REALLY desperate as long as that third turn is a career focus action.
Very much this.
Servant search... maybe. but servant + (probably) fluttershy is likely to be our standard +1 AP action. and we might NOT find a lvl 3 Heart book, and anything else (except expedition books I suppose) would be useless to us.
what? Jade doesn't have Knock, how could she?
We have at least a few more turns before lvl 7 book, and we COULD just give her an extra lvl 5 to gain more time if we had to.
...we're on QQ now, when will Cadance invite Velvet and Stormchaser to some private soirée ?
Expedition is near certainly 15 days (3 velvet actions) and fairly expensive. We might want to go heavy on it, and that to me looks like
uh. That's true. I could see the Frangiclave being sacrificed in the process.
Considering what the source of the "need to climb" impulse is, I wouldn't be surprised if it eventually got replaced with "make progress toward Glory some way" if we manage to completely run out of areas.
Don't forget the variable +5 to +15 from the SH3 artifact.
Other Lores exist beyond Knock, Heart, and Grail, you know. Having a +50 expedition bonus isn't going to save the DoA if she runs into a DC 160 Secret Histories obstacle.
It would be very nice to chain MitL together. Summon one, at the end sacrifice it to summon another…