Look at her rolls:
No mention of invoking her reroll, yet she got one in both checks anyway. I think she just rolls all Grail checks with Advantage.
Twas a joke my friend. Because QM has made no effort whatsoever to hide that Marinette is his favorite character.
As for planting false evidence I think idea to focus Eclipse on Forge instead of Lantern have some merit. Crystal Empire will reappear soon and our tank army would not manifest itself on its own
Now you made me worried, if all they know is Lantern then Fascination becomes a real risk.
But you're okay with the implications of the Wolf Sacrament?
Don't worry, Fascination is actually Moth-aspected! I'm sure it'll be fiiiiine. Pay no mind to the fact that it's a disease of the part of the soul that's Lantern major.
Oh, forgot to say something about this. We could make a deal with Midday Dew like we did with Fair Trial to have lore research be handled by him while the collection is done by our ponies or something, we could also request access for Celestia's other advisors and make a giant government sponsored cult.
Can you really call something that is practically a whole branch of government a cult?
Valid, but we already have 2/3 of the rulers of Equestria on our side(and one of them is our daughter who just killed someone for us)so I think we will have some control over it when Daybreaker is gone, maybe enough to push more stuff without anypony knowing it was our plan in the first place.
They're not subordinate to us at all. They're a separate, peer organization that we have zero control or influence over. And there's no real reason for that to change, even if the Lores become official.
I doubt that it will become easier with time. If investigators don't find it until next turn we will need to attempt to deal with it. Even building swarming with cops would not stop pony with enough Moth or Grail.
That was probably on Copper's orders. Tracking her down would be nice, but I wouldn't assume hostility from the get go as long as we aren't interfering with her business. Names seem to be quite mercenary until they are befriended.
What stopping some other cultist from making a new agreement with her? Every Name has a price for its services and I doubt that Neighina is only Name that works for free. On the other hoof if other cultist agrees to pay her costs why Neighina would not accept new deal with them?
I wouldn't forget this: my interpretation is that each entry in the plan lowers the detection breakpoint/DC. So we better not get too fancy; my guess is that around two entries should be a decent tradeoff.
says "One or several"; I'm not sure whether that's referring just to the number of copies we're leaving behind or the number of Lores we can reference. There is a chance Our Lady of Wires messed this up (@OurLadyOfWires to clarify) but it sounds like we may leave behind multiple manuscripts with different lores for the cost of checking that one box. If we want the Bureau or Eclipse to advance rapidly, we could give them our whole library, except maybe Lantern, to not advance the doom clock. Our library is at
so that's a lot of progress we could give.
It's also possible that Names have better/more rerolls than we do, and they just don't apply them because they're uninterested in doing so, while Mareinette seems to be actively interested in us and our favor (and therefore wants to excel bcuz really good result -> more Velvet reputation points, clearly). We already know that Biedde has better rerolls than we do, for instance.
Isn't the big problem with leaving behind an artifact as a hint is that being able to recognize Lore-magic as Lore-magic and not just magic-magic requires already knowing about the Lores? So a Lore artifact left behind would just look like a regular magical artifact.
But is it for the worse or for the better? We know by now that focusing on single Lore is bad for the pony stability. Mono Lantern is not healthy. Of course if we end up directly fighting Celestia it would be better if she can't use Lores to her advantage. But other than that having equal spread of Lores is positive thing. Like how we taught Selene, one Lore lvl at time. Plus if Celestia spends actions to learn other lores then she does not spend them to increase her Lantern.
Her falling into some other cultist's hands I'm not as concerned about compared to being in Copper's hands. A hypothetical other cultist does not have a personal vendetta against Velvet. Though assuming Neighnia did lose her bindings and is fully in the Wake, I'm not sure why she would reenter servitude after becoming free. Though if she's back on the market then I'm fine trying to expand Velvet's Name hotel. The question then is how do we juggle all the upkeeps for so many Names? It would be yet another drain on our resources and actions.
