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  1. spiderhellian

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

    I think the Mother is pretty clearly the Mother of Ants. Unless that's a character that's been changed in this canon -- might be, given her human nature in CS Canon and her connection to the Lithomachy (which seems to have played out differently here). What she did, man, I have wondered a lot...
  2. spiderhellian

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

    …I think the time to have this argument was during the vote! The die is cast. Insofar as it’s worth rehashing old decisions, the focus should be on what we should do going forward, or how we could behave differently in things that come up. But even that is quite speculative during such a...
  3. spiderhellian

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

    C'mon man. Trust the QM applies.
  4. spiderhellian

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

    Honestly, we're like a few feathers-on-the-scales from going All In at the end of this turn. I think if anything goes wrong, we do that, and see how the chips fall. I guess there could be a choice when/if the Celestia-reactor blows up, where we decide whether to act immediately (by Wolf or...
  5. spiderhellian

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

    Yeah, agreed, that's not quite what I meant. More than the gate is the gate for both ensigns. The lock is that forge-strong lock. But they'd be approached from opposite sides: the Glory ending demands that we find the power to surmount the lock, the Harmony ending… something something teach...
  6. spiderhellian

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

    Huh. I know the start of this line is a through line of the quest, but I didn’t remember the last part of it. If we’ve seen it before, it didn’t catch my attention like it does now. Because it does, very much. We have a much better sense of what happened. But this makes me wonder… what went...
  7. spiderhellian

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

    …There's probably Harmony's colour in here, isn't there? There definitely is in here. I feel this is the kind of thing that is metaphysically tied to the state of the Mansus, in the same way a broken door or what have you is. Perhaps it's the lock that blocks the way to...
  8. spiderhellian

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

    There’s a quest I love where the readers do the rolls, in the lead up to an update. It is quite fun — and also incredibly stressful sometimes. What does that critical success mean, or that low-roll, how doomed are we or how successful… I can only imagine doing it here would be ten times as...
  9. spiderhellian

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

    Hmm. That was quite convincingly argued. Stealing from the poor pony prisoners is an interesting data point in this regards — for the life of me I can't really remember why we did it, but we did, and it's hard to argue that was even some brutal necessity. I especially appreciate that the...
  10. spiderhellian

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

    What is the song? Those lyrics go hard and I’d love to check it out! For what it’s worth, as someone who has been here for a while (though not as long as some) and yaps quite a bit (though not as much as others) — I really want to push back on this! Your perspective and vote is no less...
  11. spiderhellian

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

    Yeah, I think Smiles and Mareinette is totally enough to handle the expedition, but 15-25 bits just to keep things a little cleaner with Luna holding the leash does not feel expensive.
  12. spiderhellian

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

    [X] (THRONE) You will try to change things. [X] Plan: All and Two -[X] (YUXTABEI) Artifacts and curios: Everything -[X] (SMILES) Artifacts and curios: None -[X] (SMILES) Accompanying team: Mareinette and Selene
  13. spiderhellian

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

    This scene felt like something of a call back to that first Luna Search, where amidst hubbub and the princesses having abdicated their role, Velvet comes in and takes over. It’s a nice bookending — the start of her rise, and here’s where it’s wound up, potentially at the end. Let’s roll the...
  14. spiderhellian

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

    Enjoy! There is a lot ahead… :V
  15. spiderhellian

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

    Help, help, my cultist simulator horror quest is becoming an actual cult! :V
  16. spiderhellian

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

    Just imagine… Cadance: I… did it. I did it? I did it! Celestia is okay. Well, she's not okay. But she's not going to explode, not yet at least. The sun will fall and rise, at least one more time. Luna: COWABUNGA IT IS! 1d100 = 7! Cadance: Here we go again...
  17. spiderhellian

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

    Oh, here's a thought. An Alicorn can be created when an Outsider is borne into this world by Harmony An Alicorn can be made, somehow, with the light of Harmony suffusing a soul until it shines. So what would it mean for an Alicorn to be born? It would be some other force — one latent, strong...
  18. spiderhellian

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

    All In is right. There. The time to choose a different path was years ago, in game and IRL. It’s not wrong, the path we’ve chosen. It would be wrong to seek another so late in the day. But it sure is funny :V
  19. spiderhellian

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

    You see, even when we don't realize we're prioritizing the lores over Harmony… We're prioritizing the lores over Harmony :V Never change Velvet, never change…
  20. spiderhellian

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

    Pretty funny update to read after we've decided to go adventuring on a Long Expedition :V And man the glimpses of just what Harmony nonsense is going on will take some working through. And are all the more fascinating for it. Oh well… We’ve made our choices and cast our dice, truly, no turning...
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