With rerolls a lesser reagent really suffices.
Hm? It's about getting to the Mansus (ish), not what's going on with the Wake. Tbh Baldomare's SH expedition seems like it might give us the most info… it's never too late!
Why do you say this? Because we'll want the Influence later on for the Duel anyways? I see a few reasons:
Well…
You are correct.
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I would say "three word message" as it's more direct, but either is correct.
every single one of you knows ("every" makes the verb have to be singular to agree)
voice
I don't think "sweating cold" is a real phrase. Better to rearrange this to be able to use the phrase "cold sweat" directly.
So, a hilarious thing about English is that the word "no" is ambiguous in this situation, if there is a negation in the original statement:
The phrase is stay of execution (reference).
Will we complete the sacrament if we simply initiate it, or do we actually have to deal a wound to Biedde to succeed? The quote makes it sound like the latter is intended. Just don't want anyone to be disappointed if they think it's the former during planning.
You know, part of me wishes there would be a timeskip or something, so we could see the effects of Silky's "education" of absorbing info from all the "honored guests" she's surrounded by when she grows up. If Velvet is overpowered, how OP do you think Silky will be if she's educated in the lores (passively or actively) from such an early age?
What habits do they find peculiar, and how do they relate to the "weight" of being "[one of] the first [lore users] in so long"? I imagine we don't have the information about what the world was like when the lores were widely known to ponykind, so this is just one of those things we'll have to wonder about.
I (out of character) think the gesture was an honor!
Provided it's actually harmless. Buthas me looking like:
This is... basically telling him to do nothing. Since Bird said the non-100 bit extension options don't eat his AP.
I mean:
We can send him to go find her. That is absolutely a thing that we can do.
I see we have a dyad in the making here
One of the obstacles could have used Edge, and a max Edge Influence would have actually let us wound her, twice, while only getting hit once in return (reducing +40 Grail Influence to +30). It's hard to tell exactly how much better things would have gone beyond that considering we would have also had the Edge 4 reroll, but just the Influence would have helped a lot.
We should. That being said, I don't think we should bother w/ a Forge 4 reagent. Forge 3 gets us to <97% just fine, and ~2% increased chance on a 20 bit ritual isn't worth the extra 35 bits to make a Level 4 reagent, imo.
When Biedde and DoA say the world is bent, they seem to be quite literal about it.
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.I'm kind of partial to this idea, actually. (Or heck, even scouting Windy.) Perhaps Mareinette was the best Name for the job, but I don't doubt that Biedde will do fine, at least in terms of "scouting" out her operations from a more military angle. I'm not sure what the "reward" of having an Edge influence while talking to Comet Feet will be. Just extra flavor text? Or something actually cool happening/some interesting information? I guess we can't know what in advance, but I would prefer the intel to just "you were more badass when talking to Comet".
It's an Edge roll. Or at least, Bird heavily implied it was an Edge roll when he said an Edge AotL could probably help. Which means it's getting a +40.
For reference.
One scrap away and very easy to do, all things considered. 1 social or Mareinette action + Leash if we want to cheese. 2+ if we don't. Main obstacle here is thread opinion. I'm personally fine with doing this Sacrament.
Four scraps away. Two can be easily obtained by having Baldomare channel a Lantern Influence, but that still leaves two Level 4 scraps left to find, which aren't exactly abundant. This one is probably a decent amount of time off, just due to the number of scraps we need. Fine w/ Baldomare's, obviously, just give her DoA and a Risen for a turn; DoA's hardy enough that she shouldn't be desummoned from it and the Risen is basically disposable anyway. Also regarding our personal Sacrament: I know I had previously mentioned using Copper for it, but since we'll probably end up dealing with her one way or another before we reach 4/4 scraps, we'd need a different target. Having Mareinette or Biedde find and kidnap a serial killer or
No information yet. Currently at 0/4 scraps since we just hit Forge 4, but I imagine that we'll probably pick up a Forge scrap when we go to explore the Malleary. A Forge Influence from the unknown Forge Name would boost it up to 3/4 without any further bit sources. Putting this with the Lantern Sacrament in "far enough away to not think about it for now".
Currently at 2/4, max Edge Influence will bring it up to 4/4. Which if we're getting into a fight to the death (or a duel against Biedde), we'd definitely want that +40 anyway. Biedde's is much more likely to happen imo, considering our current list of Worthy Opponents is rather short and 3/4 are Name-level entities. This one is actually pretty close to happening I think; we could feasibly attempt it as soon as our scar is healed and we're up to 3/3 Health. It'd need a max Edge Influence and multiple AotL (Edge), but it's feasible. I would personally like to acquire some kind of equipment beforehand just to squeeze out some extra combat bonus (preferably an Edge artifact, but mundane weaponry is always an option), but we could try it after the scar is healed. We should wait until after we have Frangiclave though, just so we don't accidentally fuck up all our DoA-related plans. Well. Plan.
Currently at 1/4. Unlike most of the other Lores, we have no easy source of scraps or max Influence presently or anticipated in the near future, as that would require acquiring Neighnia. Which may happen if we go to kill Copper, if we demand Neighnia's bindings from her beforehand. If we do manage to coerce Neighnia's bindings out of Copper, a Winter Influence from her would put us at 3/4. Could take a lesson to get that last scrap or just try and find it in the Mansus somewhere. Sacrament itself is easy, if somewhat pricy (90 total bits); main obstacle is thread willingness, as with the Moth Sacrament. I'm personally willing to vote for it. Also in the "far enough away to not think about it right now" category, for me.
I don't like either of these and will not be voting to take either of them. We should see if Baldomare can scry an alternative Grail Sacrament source, but my confidence in that producing results is not high. Moving on.
Currently at 3/4 and have already spent the +2 scraps from max Knock Influence. That being said, we're about to go get the Frangiclave (Knock 6 artifact) in the next two turns, and studying that would put us at 4/4. We techically have a personal Sacrament, but Bird has mentioned before that he mostly just really, really wants to write DoA's Sacrament. Which, fine w/ me tbh, DoA's sounds more interesting just on vibes alone. We'll probably want to be running +40 Knock Influence when we go to do this, though, which means DoA won't be free for expeditioning.
Not much to say here, we're already working on this one via personal Sacrament. Though as much as I would like to have Baldomare channel a SH Influence and do double Sacrament next turn, between doing Forge's Redemption and I suspect at least one or two Fleeting Opportunities relating to bringing Cadance and Shining Armor fully into the fold, and Frangiclave expedition needing to be scouted, that may not end up happening.
No. Mansus expeditions are always Velvet solo.
There is one Hour who can call back the dead, or rather those in Nowhere. We just need to track down the Elegiast and convince him to think of someone for us, no biggie
so combat bonus would be +80, +120 with influence.
is that line new? It makes sense, admittedly.
Oh, no, that is indeed intentional
And about your previous question, I won't add that information because I have been trying to work on my brevity skills. But if it doesn't say it will cost his action, then it won't cost his action.
Merciless truth, I would think.
She very much has mercy.
She also told us an extremely valuable piece of information in exchange for... some wine. Very high quality wine, but still just wine.
Well, it's basically just like... a test, right? And a good test should ultimately be fair to the testee. And a mortal fighting an Edge Name (with a combat specialty) without any sort of external support isn't really fair to the petitioner.
I'd assume the other way around based on the game prerequisites of for passing the Tricuspid Gate. It's either reaching Lore 7 and a specific ritual that allowed one to pass the gate, or something like the transition from 6 to 7 requires said ritual (the equivalent of a Sacrament+), and the moment you hit 7 you could pass the gate.
damn.
Or, in other words, keeping watch in the least threatening way possible.
he's a very polite Name. It won't stop him from killing you if he has to (or wants to), but at least he'll be polite about it...
I wonder WHICH habits they speak of.
uh.
Quite the contrast to the old grandpa persona.