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  1. Steady Gaze

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

    Delayed reaction, but if I may be contrarian (with all the reactions of relief to the "In which obsession becomes a virtue" extra) for a moment: the ponies of the previous age were ponies, just like us. To be charting a different course than they has me wonder if we truly know better, or if...
  2. Steady Gaze

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

    Ah… my heart. 💔 I will say that this option is "safer" in that there is less chance of things getting worse, as is often the case with inaction; things will stay as they always were. (I mean, we should heed what the QM's said about suspicion and needing to sink AP into getting mirror Twilight...
  3. Steady Gaze

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

    Oh yeah, I think this is legitimate, in that, in my view, the strongest (meta?) argument against this is that Velvet is an unreliable narrator. The update explicitly says We've been arguing over the ethics for pages and pages, but Velvet herself has seemingly given zero thought to any bad...
  4. Steady Gaze

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

    …huh, I'm not too late. And the thread has really gone while I was gone. I've said (1, 2, 3) most of what I wanted to say before. People don't seem to be incorporating the uncertainty of outcomes in their calculus or incorporating that much nuance into their views. But I guess that's arguing on...
  5. Steady Gaze

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

    We never met Sunset Shimmer :'(. And honestly, I kind of assume her track is a multi-action one, and we only have one left. Regardless, I think it would be one of these: [] They are young and impressionable. Thankfully, you are a responsible adult. (Hang out with Rarity and Fluttershy, your...
  6. Steady Gaze

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

    I guess one regret I will have is that we apparently won't have an opportunity to meet Sunset Shimmer. Which option would make us most likely to meet her?
  7. Steady Gaze

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

    I think Mirror Twilight would slightly understand if we explained that it isn't actually possible to bring her back because we think it would destroy somepony else. That would be a good way to attempt to slightly diffuse her consequent unhealthy fascination at not being able to experience the...
  8. Steady Gaze

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

    FYI you need to @ OurLadyOfWires if you really want them to respond to your questions; they ignore all quote notifications because they can't be distinguished from quotes from stories.
  9. Steady Gaze

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

    So, I think there are some interesting moral principles at work here. In the trolley problem (if you're unfamiliar, it's a moral quandary where a trolley is going to run over some number of people, but if you flip a lever, it will go onto a different track and run over fewer people), there is a...
  10. Steady Gaze

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

    So, the argument against boils down to the idea that, if we bring mirror Twilight back with us, we are admitting defeat, in that we will never fix our Twilight. And you know what? I think that's right — we have failed our Twilight completely, and I see the chance of that situation changing being...
  11. Steady Gaze

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

    You know what? That was enough to convince me, haha. Well, actually, the QM did mention there are some routes that just peter out… …so since we've picked some that clearly have multiple steps, "exploring"/deviating from these could have us hit one of the dead-end routes. Like, the "cellphone"...
  12. Steady Gaze

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

    Am I crazy for actually wanting to take this Twilight back with us?? (If it's even possible.) Like, we've royally messed up our Twilight anyway… Supposing bringing EqG Twilight back with us would "replace" our Twilight, I know it's a morally compelling argument that it is perhaps better to let...
  13. Steady Gaze

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

    Oops, my memory didn't serve me well. It's something the QM hinted at, I believe. Remember how Celestia's attitude degrades from paragon, to shaken, to distant, to enraged? Making the amulet (to raise and lower the sun/moon) and giving it to Cadance was abdicating responsibility for the...
  14. Steady Gaze

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

    This is actually the truth. I've said it before and am very guilty of this myself, but the coolest options/rewards always seem to be labeled "Mysteriously do a thing (???)", basically having the vaguest descriptions along all the options. This results in them never getting picked since certainty...
  15. Steady Gaze

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

    [X] They are young and impressionable. Thankfully, you are a responsible adult. (Hang out with Rarity and Fluttershy, your real-life confidantes) [X] "Miss Sparkle? See me after class." (Approach Twilight Sparkle) [X] You are here for a reason. Get. It. Done. (Further your search for Axe's…...
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