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Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
It kinda depends. Windigo is 3 health and +55 combat, with Velvet being 3 health and (presumably) +34. We also still have the two bodyguards. But until this turn we also had Biedde on Guard, who'd definitely be able to manage at least one Windigo. Now we have Smiles, and we should seriously... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
While I'm not necessarily against it, Dreams do not inherently reveal the informations we'd want them to. And I'm not sure just how much Selene can MANIPULATE a dream to get what we want out of them. It could be interesting if we sent Luna to reveal "Velvet got to me and brought me to her... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
Basically this. leaving him alone MIGHT very well explode in our faces, but our main focus has been, rightly or wrongly, on strenghtening ourselves. Presumably We're outgrowing him, so even if he ends up becoming a problem, in-between the Bureau and our own growing personal power he should be... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
no, wait, that's genius! Reveal our full involvement in the Cult while using Silky and Selene as a shield. There's no way that won't work! :V -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
Velvet on expeditions would be more doable if we could allow Followers to lead, saving Velvet an action. 2 actions to send Velvet on one of the Long expeditions would be viable. 3 is asking for a lot. @OurLadyOfWires I don't suppose you'd allow that? -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
Not quite. Like with Master as Cadance's alicorn child, it's an action that can't be taken back. It's just that we don't know what the consequences of those decisions would have been. Master could have become a future tyrant, or an enlightened Prince who adapted to Harmony. Colonel might be... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
it MIGHT taint our epilogue. has a CHANCE to. It's very much possible that the Colonel was not a wrong choice. It was simply a risky one. It's putting faith into an higher authority we know very little of. It's giving up a measure of agency. It's basically the choice, if we can call it that... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
the lvl 6 book was an extremely easy and cheap expedition, this one is an extremely expensive one. It's very much not the same case. Literally all expeditions have given loot FAR above the cost we payed for them so far. INCLUDING the lvl 6 book. -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
To be fair, we'll near certainly also find other stuff there. Rituals, books, artifacts... so the expedition is still better in a "bang for bucks" measure. Then I still see no reason for not doing the Sacrament, if the guy dies anyway. Is this about the fear of Mareinette's sacrament being... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
I'm mostly hoping she doesn't end up picking the first guy to annoy her that day, really. ...was it, by any chance, a great secret of betrayal? ...is it wrong that I'm kind of regretting this choice already? For all we know the Colonel is not a bad boss here... Really, Colonel could be... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
eh, I don't know. We don't yet understand just what the Mask unveil is like. Is sending them away that quickly THAT cruel? mh... I suppose the cruel interpretation is "my savior revealed itself to only want to use me to gain power, and then she abandoned me, and now I have no reason to be..."... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
the main reason I think is that taking the minion means the Leash is not available for most of this turn, which means we might not be able to take the Moth Sacrament immediately and might have to wait one more turn. Though I think it was mentioned that, DEPENDING ON MINION BUILD, it would be... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
I still think it's probably just a political scandal, though death IS possible. So next turn we should get Mareinette Friendship, Grail Sacrament (but without the power because we're not Grail 5), Moth Sacrament, and probably one SH SAcrament. we'll also do the expeditions for Baldomare... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
Well. I'm satisfied with the result. A bit sad about biedde and about wasting the free minion, but it's fine. Hopefully Smiles' friendship is something we can get cheaply and quickly. And also hopefully the sacrament is immediately useful -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
I can't really imagine Smiles friendship being worse in ANY way than Mareinette, really. Also to be fair... we don't even know HOW letting the Master do his thing would have affected the ending. As Bird said, a CHANCE of affecting the epilogue for the worse is NOT a certainty. There WAS a... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
not on OUR initiative, at least. Twilight might still reappear, but if she does it will be EITHER because someone ELSE saves her (probably Soft Sweeps, really, unless Cadance pulls a miracle), or because someone decides to use her against us. -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
now if only you told us, say, what the Knock Sacrament we didn't pick would have done, or if Twilight was always going to be captured after we didn't break her faith, or what happens to not-ponies that reach the Branding Door... 😞 I'm kinda tempted to vote for him, I feel bad for him! ...but... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
true. and you can't really become a GOD without taking risks. Now, there's still valid reasons to take the Coward's way out... but I'm still leaning Smiles. Smiles is objectively better than Biedde in every single way (including guarding. just use the normal action for that, and the free... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
full disclosure, we don't KNOW for sure that he's befriendable without joining his side/taking his Sacrament, AND it comes with the added cost of having to pay more in general. We need to summon Smiles (100 bits + reagents + AP for summon), we'll need to pay his maintenance later unless we... -
Esquestria: The House of the Sun - A pony cultist experience
That's not quite accurate. We could very well summon the Name next turn or the one after, depending on what we're willing to give up in terms of other bit-using stuffs (like the expeditions). I do agree that it's unlikely we'll get the Edge Sacrament if we don't take it now, though. Finding a...