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I'll admit that the trusting in our daughter option is really cute.
You know Soft has a brother who can act as a Forge 6, Grail 3 artifact.
With Soft knowing rituals she and her little friends can cast Forge's Redemption.
Yeah, but the cult came because of Soft, so while yes, we would have a cult, i don't think they would be as..."enthusiastic" as they would be with Soft.
We should also focus in what the QM isn't saying, because that screwed us over a few times.
Looking at it from a bigger to lesser short term...
[X] Gift her inspiration.
We plainly have no time for freedom
And frankly this cult seems to be heavily infiltrated by Harmony and uninterested in attacking people that aren't within it already, I feel that giving them inspiration is the best way of helping it along
More that, if we're leaving a cult to its own devices and putting our trust in its leader to keep things under control, I'd really rather the cult leader actually be aware that she's leading a cult.
Influence or power? Power can exist in the form of influence and influence can be obtained by power.
What we have now is the choice of giving that to Soft's cult(that is going to be our cult soon).
Also the cult is not growing, it is decaying, the ponies are actively losing the Wolf spark that...
QM mentioned that Velvet won't benefit from the cult if we don't take over it. Tools doesn't get Velvet anything, if we want to extract ourselves from the situation with the minimum price paid, we should take Influence, because getting Mayor Mare to good friend isn't much of an ask and they...
…This really isn’t about what Velvet gets out of it? It’s what the cult gets out of it, and the cult is not really a tool in our hands?
Bird made this pretty clear — this is more. question of what “price” we’re paying more than a question of what “reward” we’re choosing.
More stain-equivalence is influence. Tools are influence. They come in different forms, but when you’ve got a big and growing cult in Ponyville, that is levelling up in some regards here, it’s going to have influence over Ponyville.