ok, so, quick summary for myself and maybe others.
threadmark by threadmark. Maybe if it's good enough
@OurLadyOfWires can threadmark it.
VERY QUICK SKIM AND RECAP: ALL OF TURN 17
THE MEMORABLE REALIZATION
Selene has a dream... or a nightmare... about
knocks on doors. When she opens those doors, nothing is behind them, but OTHER doors somewhere in the dream-mansion start with their own
knocking sounds.
Behind the final door, where the
knock was shorter and quieter, are the Dreamlands.
And in the Dreamlands, Velvet was waiting.
Selene, for just a moment,
remembers
But Velvet stops her, right at the end. Selene's not fully ready yet.
And so Selene wakes up, still not fully remembering, as the memories went to her other self. But she remembers how she felt. She remembered how close she was to
remembering.
And she's
angry at Velvet for taking it from her
THE MONSTROUS MOTHER
We summon Mareinette. the ritual includes the sacrifice of a large black boar, which we use reagents to keep alive for long enough to be stabbed and bled enough to satisfy the ritual requirements.
Baldomare does not appear at the ritual site though.
She appears in Silky's bedroom. Only a panicked and immobile and crying and terrified Soft Sweeps standing between them
and Velvet stares down the (actually very polite, for an eldritch monster) Mareinette, after she (tries to) reassure us that she means us and Silky no ill.
she also says she understands what we're thinking, what we're feeling
, and that she can't wait to TEACH US.
The implication is that she hopes to turn us into something like her. to have us WILLINGLY eat Silky.
Mareinette leaves the room, and finds residence in a wine cellar.
TURN 17:
we can now visit the Ruined Church.
THE MONSTER OF THE VELVET ESTATE
There is a monster living in the Velvet Estate.
well, more than one.
Selene goes to ask the Daughter of Axe to help find the door that holds her memories. She says she'll do "something" to help, but has a price.
...earlier in the day, The Daughter of Axe met Mareinette, and threatened her to keep away from "the hatchlings". Mareinette only laughs, replying that...
well, the Daughter of Axe knows/believes that soon, Selene will be gone, and finds it depressing.
She knows we share
something with Soft Sweeps, and finds it concerning
One is chance, two is a warning… and three is a pattern.
The Daughter of Axe
is convinced we mean to eventually eat Silky.
She is convinced... that there's TWO monsters in the Velvet Estate.
TURN 17 - RESULTS, PART 1
a pleasant afternoon with our closest friends (Fluttershy, Jade, Rarity). While
COMET is going to spend time with Stormchaser (still can't believe they've somehow become sort of friends...)
We finally read the Lantern 6 book, and study the edge 3 artifact. we reach lantern 4 edge 4.
TURN 17 - RESULTS, PART 2
We meet Midday Dew, from the (our personal nickname for it) Eclipse, the "researchers". He delivers us Candle Dust, basically a Lantern 0 one-use artifact that gives someone a chance to reveal a changeling. (a 1 in 3 chance)
We're also given our first target for the Bureau.
The Blueblood Family, the descendants of unicorn royalty and the highest ranked nobles in Equestria.
THE MOST DELIGHTFUL OF VISITS
we're visited in our sleep by Neighnia. we only survive thanks to the Wrong Key we kept.
We realize Copper is trying to kill us. We also assume she was also responsible for the previous attempt, the far weaker EiB ritual that hit us the previous turn.
TURN 17 - RESULTS, PART 3
We send a (relatively weak due to bad rolls) Path to Nightmare ritual attack against Copper.
The world is reintroduced to the concept of Occult War. Baldomare is vindicated. She was oh so surprised we were not all already killing each others in our competition to reach Glory...
We also get a grail lesson from Baldomare (in the form of a nice story that could be about anypony and nopony at all, about a pony that's born, grows, wishes, desires, lusts...)
And we get the Knock tier 4 influence (which comes with 2 scraps)... by having Axe bit us and poison us.
Velvet is pretty angry once she wakes up. She outright intimidates and screams Axe into submission.
Grail 4 get.
ONLY YOU
Celestia summons Lady Fair Trial. She basically says she has lost faith in ponykind, and when Fair Trial says there's still goodness in her fellow ponies, she's made the supreme and uncontested judge of Equestria's supreme court, with the power to basically break and make laws
It's up to Lady Fair Trial, and to those few ponies still trusted By Celestia (presumably Velvet and Midday Dew from Eclipse) to prove there's still good in Equestria. That there still are ponies worth of trust and power.
Lady Fair Trial is the last chance of ponykind to prove themselves
worthy.
TURN 17 - RESULTS, PART 4
Cadance talks to us about her doubts in her relationship with Shining, about how she wants him to ask her to marry him.
We reassure her,
and make sure he asks her.
Also Velvet meets Lady Fair Trial, and is convinced to have our prisoners be submitted to a fair trial (pun not intended, I swear!) to prove to the princess and Equestria that... well, that we can be trusted, and that the Lunar Bureau is not a secret police above the law and beyond anyone's reach.
Basically it's a way to reassure the common pony that no, we will not disappear them into the night without a chance to defend themselves.
TURN 17 - RESULTS, PART 5
Shining is forced (by us) to propose to Cadance. Nobody will ever know
We explore the Ruined Church and climb upward.
We climb through the Concursum. We reach a cliff overlooking the Worm Museum, and meet
Biedde, the Edge Name, Last Soldier of the Colonel, keeping guard over it.
NOT AGAIN
Silky gets to see (in a dream) Velvet Axe being dragged back to her prison in the Mansus by countless chain.
...damn, I actually felt REALLY sorry for the Axe here!
TURN 17 - RESULTS, PART 6
Soft Sweeps NEARLY hugs us, but freezes up at the last moment. CURSES! FOILED AGAIN!
She also NEARLY calls us MOM! CURSES AGAIN!
Thanks to Jade, we learn the Rite of the Mother and Father.
The Ritual that will awaken Luna, and have us say goodbye to Selene forever.
THE THING THAT KEEPS US GOING
We see Soft Sweeps
stealing the leadership of her support-group for people who lost friends and family recently / start her own cult grow and take charge of her support group, and help more ponies.
They grow so fast!
THE FINAL REALIZATION
Selene is angry. she accidentally takes it out a bit on Silky, scaring her.
then, when Velvet tries to scold her,
she stands up to her (though it's in a dream)
. It's the final Realization, the edge one.
She is ready
A PARENT'S DECISION
Stormchasers begs us for one more month to have Selene be happy and to live as a full and real family.
Next turn, he'll take part in the Rite of the Mother and Father, and Selene will be no more.
TURN 18 SOON TO COME. I'm taking a break and instead reading the last update and the discussion. I'll write the summary to turn 18 later on, or maybe in a day or two. we'll see.
