Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience

[OurLadyOfWires]

I have a small question that I wouldn't mind throwing here. Mostly because both alternatives are fine, and for all that I am not opening a vote, I would be intrigued to see yall's opinion on it.

Currently, the distribution of actions looks something like this:

Spoiler: Who does what

[X] Plan: Prisoner Chomping
-[x] (Free) Sell Edge 3 artifact
-[x] (Detectives) Follow Up: Dodge City
-[x] (Constables) Follow Up: Tall Tale
-[X] (Commissioner) Introduce Lore: Forge
-[x] (Director) Lantern
(MAREINETTE) - (Mareinette) Honored Guest: Spoiled Rich & Filthy Rich
(BIEDDE) - (Biedde) Channel an Edge Influence
(BALDOMARE) - (Baldomare) Channel a Lantern Influence
(SELENE 1) - (Selene) Soothe the night
(RARITY) - (Rarity) Focus on her work
(SELENE 2x) - Perform the Reflection of the Tapestry x 2
--[X] Target: Easiest Level 7 book to acquire
--[X] Target: Easiest Forge 6 reagent to acquire
--[X] At Jade's old house
-[X] Acquire a prisoner, preferably not an innocent civilian
(CHERENKOLT) - Build a prison
-[X] Obtain a dead body
-[X] Perform the Attention of the Laws (Edge) (x2)
(SERVANTS, TORN RISEN) - Cover your bases (-2 Follower AP, +1 Velvet AP)

Remaining followers
Fluttershy: 1
Velvet Axe: 2

The only two actions I haven't locked in who should perform are the two AotL and the prisoner picking.

Pretend for a moment that there is no dice roll involved, and that the chosen character will succeed. Do you all think Velvet would ask Axe to do it, or Comet?

Or rather, which one could make for a more interesting scene?

To be clear, there will be a dice roll involved. And Axe has better stats to do it. But I can't help but wonder if it would be more interesting for the Comet x Velvet dynamic if she asked him instead.

I'll probably have Axe do it. But the fact I am thinking about it does make me wonder...

 

[OurLadyOfWires]

Also, I think we messed up. Did we approve a follower's plan that had fourteen demands, for our thirteen followers? (Jade Whistle has no actions for this turn).

EDIT: and before anyone panics, I don't really care. It's such a minor thing, really. Worst case scenario, I'll have the body dug up on the beginning of the turn, and have the new Risen start counting its summoning period at the beginning of turn 22 rather than the end.
So don't worry. I want to write and get this turn going, not throw us back into a voting session just because of some minor bureaucratic issue.

 

[Rafuki22]

Or rather, which one could make for a more interesting scene?

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It would be more interesting for Axe because she would have an idea of where that prisoner is going to end up.

 

[Shaper47]

Hold it to account for holding things together for centuries after the Hours royally fucked up reality, the Mansus, and each other? We've been down this road before, the QM has gone out and directly corrected you on this, there is nothing to hold Harmony to account for.

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Hold into account for what happened to Velvet's precious Alicorn daughter.

Let's consider the Warding of the World for instance.

Some here think Harmony held things together and set up sone Wards to protect the world from the worms

Some think it was the Hours who reinforced the Heart wards and that they have been protecting the world this whole time despite Harmony's probably unknowing sabotage.

You can't have things two ways.

Either Harmony knew enough about Outside threats like the worms to take action or they didn't.

Which brings the situation of Luna being wormed and then forced to forget the threat of the worms and made to blame herself and vulnerable to being wormed again into focus.

Let's be honest here it doesn't matter how good Harmony is, isn't doesn't matter at all what Harmony's intentions were. What matters to Velvet is just how knowingly responsible Harmony was to her daughter being hurt and how knowingly responsible it was to her daughters future safety.

It's basically like Soft's old family situation.

Pretend for a moment that there is no dice roll involved, and that the chosen character will succeed. Do you all think Velvet would ask Axe to do it, or Comet?

Or rather, which one could make for a more interesting scene?

To be clear, there will be a dice roll involved. And Axe has better stats to do it. But I can't help but wonder if it would be more interesting for the Comet x Velvet dynamic if she asked him instead.

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Comet has the history to support just an endeavor.

Axes better stats aside, Comet knows were to find disreputable targets, how the law enforcement works i.e. who he can target that won't draw as much suspicion.

Like, would Velvet trust that Axe won't pick a noble for her target who's kidnapping would draw a lot of heat from his family compared to Comet hitting somepony who isolated from the world.

Also, I think we messed up. Did we approve a follower's plan that had fourteen demands, for our thirteen followers? (Jade Whistle has no actions for this turn).

EDIT: and before anyone panics, I don't really care. It's such a minor thing, really. Worst case scenario, I'll have the body dug up on the beginning of the turn, and have the new Risen start counting its summoning period at the beginning of turn 22 rather than the end.
So don't worry. I want to write and get this turn going, not throw us back into a voting session just because of some minor bureaucratic issue.

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Leash grants an extra action.