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  1. spiderhellian

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

    It’s funny. I am also reminded of that discussion around possession. Betting on harmony makes me think of betting the Master will be oh so impressed. Sure, maybe. But we’re dealing with Monsters here. Who is better at keeping Mareinette in check? It’s Velvet, who knows what Mareinette is and...
  2. spiderhellian

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

    The Case for Mareinette We should commit to Mareinette this turn, and commit to the Grail Sacrament. It is a major source of strength now and in All In, it saves us considerable resources, we can handle corruption better than Cadance, and it is not as corrupting as many fear. First, to be...
  3. spiderhellian

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

    Well, losing out on the RotT is a shame. Yeah, it seems like Memory of Light is indeed the first step in a long hard road that I imagine only gets us to the Door when it comes to Harmony. Seemingly without mechanical benefits along the way. I don’t think we should invest more effort here. It...
  4. spiderhellian

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

    It's been almost 2 years…. But now, finally, Velvet Covers nears Apotheosis… the ultimate power is so close she can almost taste… Finally, finally, she will embezzle funds! :V
  5. spiderhellian

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

    Oh my gosh, my excitement when I saw the title and the 8.8k words. Loved it. Absolutely loved it. Love the characters — including poor, glorious, Drummer Clap. Loved seeing Velvet from the outside, and she really was fittingly scary here. Loved the path they went down, and where it took them...
  6. spiderhellian

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

    I agree using him for grave robbing was a sad day. I definitely don't want to gamble we'll have no decent use for him over the next three turns. We could do the Sacrament this turn! I find it hard to imagine we can't fit in 1 bonus AotL for a ~70% chance of victory...
  7. spiderhellian

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

    This all seems so crazy to me. This is a Name. A Name! It's so. Damn. Cocky. To think that no, we're not going to need +40 to our combat over the next 3 turns. Or have to do another defense of our home. Or get an Edge Sacrament in a straightforward, no-risk-of-death, manner. Or have any task...
  8. spiderhellian

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

    We don’t even know what Soothe the Night does yet, lol. We don’t need to pre-commit to it!
  9. spiderhellian

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

    Ohhh, this is delightful. I thought we might see The Mother and The Axe. But I love that this focused on Axe’s story — which has only rarely engaged with Velvet’s. Her tale is threaded through with her sister and Silky, and we got to see that tale brought to a lovely end. Subrogate is hilarious.
  10. spiderhellian

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

    Wait a sec, this is still wild. We know Windy and Neighnea and 2 Windigos are still out there!
  11. spiderhellian

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

    No? It disintegrated because it timed out!
  12. spiderhellian

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

    Bird: I'll tell you if a decision has ramifications on your epilogue. Reader: Ah, but what if the decision has secret, sneaky, ramifications on our epilogue! Like, come on. You can not want to do the Mareinette Sacrament, fine. But at some point this is just silly.
  13. spiderhellian

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

    I wonder if the forgive/don't forgive choice was whether Steppes would go with Biedde. Does he have anything tying him down, binding him to his past, a debt yet to repay? And the resent/don't resent choice was how much we would know about it. Does it bother us to see our Uncle move on, do we...
  14. spiderhellian

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

    I don’t know. I sorta thought Steppes was going to die, after this scene. Pass away in his sleep. Should I be upset… he’s not? Is this fate literally worse than death? Going to war with the Edge name seems insane. Unsummoning him, with Neighnea and Windy and two Windigos out there, seems...
  15. spiderhellian

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

    Oh :( Was this.. inevitable? Is it that nothing left to tie you up means nothing left to bind you? Nothing more to grieve or atone for, nothing left to keep you there? Though maybe this was how it was always going to go.
  16. spiderhellian

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

    I’m quite doubtful we’d be surprised by a Sacrament like that. Even if it was a “bonus”. Unless I’m misunderstanding what you’re saying.
  17. spiderhellian

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

    [X] You will not forgive him. But deep down, you do not resent him either.
  18. spiderhellian

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

    Let’s be real, we have no idea which options cause or don’t cause problems downstream. Intentionally. If Bird wanted us thinking about that, I think he would have given us something to go on. We have zilch. I don’t want to make this based on what we think the resulting effects will be, because...
  19. spiderhellian

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

    But it didn’t. To us, yes, it feels like it happened to a different Pony. One we’ve never seen and do not know, But not to Velvet. Not to Velvet, who just remembered everything that happened, for the first time in forever. Yes, she got lucky. She got very, very lucky. I agree that she should...
  20. spiderhellian

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

    I think this is one of those circumstances where our perspective as players might not be aligned with Velvet’s. Because we’ve only known Steppes as our beloved mafia Uncle. We don’t have a grudge against him, or really see anything to forgive. But this is actually a huge revelation. And I’m...
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