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Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
We are 4 turns away from having a cult at all with the Bureau. If you're so pessimistic on turns until All In then dont use the phrase "Another" cult, since this cult comes online faster than the one you dont think will be online at all. The entire reason we voted for a prisoner this turn is... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
I should clarify that I don't think that the consequences of their actions will be undone, but that the Stains as ongoing effects will stop existing after Velvet dies or ascends. The text is very clear that if Velvet dies the Stains will stop existing, and ascending would follow the same logic... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
She will explicitly not receive any instructions about the wider metaphysics of the setting or literally anything except how to use rituals. -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
Soft has never recieved Lore instructions and you can consult the character sheet to confirm that. Her only lore is YOUKNOWWHATYOUDID 3 -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
We haven't taught our family the Lores yet. We're blocked from doing so until Heart 4. Soft has no lores other than STAIN 3. Tools is the worst option by far. Soft doesn't know what she's doing! She needs Velvet to actually communicate! That means actual leadership not tossing some pocket nukes... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
Gift Her Freedom doesn't stop Soft Sweeps from doing what she's doing. We'll get a vote on how involved we want Soft to be, and we can absolutely vote for Soft to be in charge of the Support Group in a primary position of leadership. All it does is actually commit us to whipping them into shape... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
I'm pretty sure "training a cadre" is what we're paying to get when the QM says that it'll take "one or two turns" of setup to be a functioning cult. I dont want to take the Wolf option. I want to take the Outer Circle of fairly normal noob occultists. None of that requires invoking the Wolf... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
The best way to get Glory is by having the Wolf cult actually provide us with stuff. Having a cult that we can direct is going to pay the investment back in spades. 1 Velvet AP is very valuable yes, but having an entire cult complete with Cadre and outer circle minions is going to pay back... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
In the Master vote QM said that he would always give an explicit warning whenever an option would change our epilogue. We have never gotten any such warning about the Stains despite it being a frequent subject of discussion. If P then Q, if not Q then not P. -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
We were told that the Stains don't change the Glory epilogue. -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
Complaints about spending Velvet AP on getting an entire cult's worth of minion actions, but instead we want to commit to advancing the Wolf's footprint in the world (even if less than a full RA) for the sake of... what, a hypothetical way to maybe remove Stains that we wont be able to invest AP... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
It takes the Bureau four turns assuming we burn our Commissioner action every turn on getting them ready faster to be completely ready. QM said the wolf cult will be ready to operate as a cult in "One to two turns". Taking the most pessimistic assumption from that is fine, but in that case we... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
Okay then. Windy Flakes' cutie mark is a snowflake, which is far more unambigiously the symbol of his primary Lore than a book with butterflies around it is the symbol of Moth. I want to make Soft happy, and more crucially I want Soft to actually know what the heck she's doing with the Lores... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
In the aftermath of the assault on the changeling hive, the thread was constantly predicting the Master was just about to commit a random mass slaughter for literally no reason other than "to douse the lights". Baldomare's cutie mark is the actual straight up Lantern. There's no interpretation... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
One to two months is literally faster than the Bureau will be online even spending all our Commissioner actions doubling the rate we get online. And frankly Outer Circles are important. They provide the ability to do more actions. -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
That's absurd, being more directly involved is obviously going to be better for Soft than dumping some rituals on her and then not involving ourselves any further. -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
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... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
Leading a cult is very different from being in a cult! QM spent IRL years and over half the quest constantly bemoaning that we dont have a cult in the cult-based game and not-so-subtly hinting that going it alone and making up for it with our omni-competence is making it harder than it needs to... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
I was still open to counterarguments, I'm moderately leaning toward it right now and arguing for it, but I wouldn't be shocked if a thread regular managed to make a cogent effortpost that convinced me! I was trying to open the floor to that. I dont think she's in danger of being shoveled like... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
I think we take the plunge and [X] Gift her freedom. The Outer Circle here seem likeable, and from their conversations they dont really seem that different from the Outer Circle of the Wildhoof Club. They're clearly not wolf-crazed monsters determined to commit pointless atrocities no matter...