Axe didn't even know what CHILDREN are. if you remember, she thought we had cursed some grown-ups into being smaller.Wooo! Finally! Luna is back! And she still has Selene's memories/feelings!
...I wonder how DoA's going to react to this development. Cause I don't think she knew that Selene was a) secretly an Outsider and b) secretly an amnesiac adult alicorn
Edit: Actually looking back DoA didn't believe that Selene would survive that transition, though she wasn't sure what was actually going on. Hah! Take that DoA! We know what we're doing (sometimes)! Pay no mind to the fact that we weren't actually sure whether or not that would happen.
It'll depend on the conversation we're going to be having after this, presumably. But yeah, I would think that since New Luna is Luna + Selene, she should retain the Lore levels and we might be able to introduce them to the Bureau through her.
I don't think it'll solve our death-by-sunfire issues if we get tied to the pre-laundering Lores or the cult. I do think it'll help with actually getting the Lores into the Bureau though, if only because our boss being in on the whole Lore thing means we mostly just have to be careful of Celestia rather than both alicorns.
of course, but it puts us in a much better situation on ALL fronts.
I think there's a CHANCE it would save us from Celestia's wrath, as we'd have Luna's word on how basically Harmony got us to her and her parents asked us to keep her safe.
That is actually part of my plan for next turn(if I even have the capacity to make one for real).Maybe we should go talk to him next turn
Not just Luna, Cadance would too. If she was brave enough to stand in front of Celestia when she was about to incinerate a rude noble imagine what she would do for Velvet.
If that happens Celestia is definitely going to be at least a little more trusting of the lores, since there would be proof they could be used for good.
also, you know, more trusting of Velvet.
The Alicorn bonus + her magic stat should take care of the Grail dc, so the Forge 4 reagent would be enough if she was going to do it without Velvet.
See, I think even months out is too optimistic. Because Celestia's current state is not just about Luna being gone, then impersonated. It's also about Celestia having lost her faith in ponykind as a whole.
Yeah but it is kinda implied her price will rise every time we give her something, so much that we may end up shooting ourselves in the foot trying to keep her with us.
Bird outright stated that her requests to stay bound would escalate but if we start gifting her shit I think she'll follow the same rules the other Names do and even if she doesn't and all this buys us is two more 'free' bindings then that's 6 additional months we don't need to answer the Marinette question.
I suspect that once we befriend DoA, our supply of Wrong Keys will not be as limited as it is now. Considering she has thousands if not millions of the damn things just laying around.
We might want an action of reagent making, really. Making three lvl 4 reagents to prepare for healing rituals for Velvet, Shining and Twilight.
we don't know the price yet. we know it's a gift or a favor, but as we don't know the kind, we can't yet decide if it's worth it.
well, we're hoping, but we're also waiting to see what LUNA wants to do.
...this makes me wonder...
Funny thing is DoA is just carting around a key ring stuffed with Wrong Keys, she can probably casually roll summoned beings that aren't Names by just swinging that thing around. Problem is Marinette isn't a summoned creature, where other Names leave their greater whole in the Mansus both Neighina and Marinette are fully present in the Wake so that part of the Wrong Keys probably doesn't apply.
The first and perhaps the second request we can pay but the last we will refuse yes. However gifts given of our own accord don't count as that.
Lol, lmao even. Marinette is a Grail Alukite and unrepentant about it too. The eons may have mellowed out Baldomare but they've made her worse.
That's probably our best bet but it's still difficult and the kind of thing only the Forge and Knock Names could do in any reasonable time frame while working together.
I fear you missed what I was trying to say here, the problem is not how much information and power we can bring, how heavily we can stack the deck in our favour when it comes to the reveal of us being a cultist.
Would Mareinette even care which species foals she gets to eat? Does eggs count?What about local predators? Changelings?
Celestia and Luna potentially can Harmony beam her even without Mane 6. All we need is to sincerely believe that we are helping her, so Mareinette does not suspect anything and only feels our care for her. It totally helped Luna .After all worst thing that can happen is thousand years long vacation on Moon's surface
This should be main focus. I don't think that Mareinette is any kind of priority at the moment. How to best put it...
Well we decide what to tell Luna to begin with. We can give her very short version of our side of events so she does not need to hide much things from Celestia and talk about the rest further down the line or give Luna detailed description of events if it is available option .
But we have nothing except for speculation!
I mean, arming Biedde with several keyrings full of Wrong Keys and some kind of anti-Mansus creature weapon plus Luna with A Resolution also sounds like a viable plan.
they very much can't. They MIGHT be able to kill her MAYBE.Celestia and Luna potentially can Harmony beam her even without Mane 6. All we need is to sincerely believe that we are helping her, so Mareinette does not suspect anything and only feels our care for her. It totally helped Luna .After all worst thing that can happen is thousand years long vacation on Moon's surface
that's admittedly true.
It may or may not help to point out that, at the time, the Cult was actually acting against the Changelings. And we kept Ponyville from catching fire.
Okay this might just be me but I don't think mechanically being able to kill her will mean we have the ability to actually do so. To clarify what I mean, on paper we could get a squad together that just low diffs her but it wouldn't work for one reason or another. As in she's reduced to a blood smear but still alive and at that point we're left with imprisoning a diminished Name Alukite who hates our guts, which I suppose is better then just leaving her to muck about in the wake. The reason I think this is that in universe (I'm talking SH here not the quest) there has never been mention of an Alukite being struck down, Hours, Names and Long yes but never an Alukite. It'd take the direct intervention of an Hour to do so and I really don't want to burn another RA.
For the first statement I don't think it will matter.