The invaders overflow was 54, so having Velvet's combat be 5 higher would have resulted in an overflow of 49.
well, technically speaking something something butterfly effect.
If we did anything different, Bird would have rolled the dice at a different moment, and gotten a different result
Instead of Wolf Sacrament, we should have simply not poked the most hazardous mansus location we know of on a turn we were strongly suspecting an attack.
I already said I'm sorry
You I really want to discuss this with Selene and Cadance. The thought of them disapproving is a major sticking point of the thread from taking the wolf sacrament. We should find out if that's just fear mongering or a real issue.
Shaper, you're being intentionally obtuse.
NOBODY will EVER approve of Velvet going to the Wolf (except maybe in the most desperate of situations, and even then it would be LITERALLY a deal with the Devil), because the Wolf is probably the closest thing we've ever met to
pure evil outside of the Worms.
If they agreed to us doing ANYTHING for the Worms, they
1)
don't understand what the Wolf is about
or
2)
the alternative is something that they personally just can't accept, like Velvet can't accept the death of her family members.
Even that is not an objective or even subjective judgement on the wolf. It's just an admission that Velvet (or anyone ever willing to deal with the Wolf) would rather damn the world that give up on some very specific things.
ANY choice to go to the Wolf is inherently very selfish, basically. Sometimes understandable (see the Regrettable Actions Velvet took. I'd argue they're ALL understandable), but NEVER really justifiable.
With Evil, Velvet put her own life above raising the level of suffering in Equestria/the world.
With Paranoia, Velvet put "moral outrage" at the door implying that she had to prove unicorns were above pegasi and Earth Ponies to resort to the most evil power she had to destroy it. I'd call it temporary insanity, basically. Out of Character we judged the inconvenience and time-resource costs of getting through that door another way a price we were just not willing to pay, for a variety of reasons.
with Ash, we decided that better the world suffer than Cadance, basically.
In all three cases I'd say it's selfish, but understandable. They're very human reactions/decisions all things considered.
That does not make them ok. There's a REASON if Velvet regrets all such choices and they're basically the ONLY thing she has not admitted to Stormchaser and Selene, when she told them quite literally everything else.
