Nothing about Winter would suggest that it is at all useful in regards to defending against RotT. It's the Lore of defending against mental attacks, of which RotT is certainly not.
I imagine so? Well, maybe not the ones that need deciphering, since they're in another language and I think Velvet has been leaning on her hoof-reading for those. But if we wanted to clear out the low-level books, I don't imagine why not. I think we'd have like a 70 - 80% chance for each book, since we'd be rolling X + 12 (Learning) + 5 (Well Read) + 5 to 15 (Artifact) -> X + 22 to 32.
I suppose, but we wouldn't have our Winter levels to give better protection from Fascination and Dread.
Mine does three out of the four, just saying
That's only for high-level books. The low level ones (all of the ones we have are < Level 3) don't carry those kinds of threats considering they're literally just like. Mundane handbooks about e.g. camping that Velvet can wring occult knowledge out of because
She does the translation manually and checks with her Lantern Realization. It would be weird if she couldn't decipher the books by studying and needed Lantern 3 for it.
Understandable, but the Winter Realization will always happen if Selene invests 1 action in training since her Diligent trait makes her train 1 action for free. So as long as the plan you want only uses 1 Selene action for whatever that isn't training she will complete it.
Mine does three out of the four, just saying
Wouldn't it be better to lock the Winter Realization and then have her Diligent trait train 1 action for free?
Ahhh gotcha. Probably still not a good idea though, considering that massive penalty.
Iirc, the 'ideal' set up for the Library is for the books to go ( [1/1] + [2/2 + 2/2] + [3/3 + 3/3 + 3/3] ) and so on and so forth. It's a little weird how it works out when you start mixing different level books though.
It makes no difference what we tell her to train, she only has 2 training actions left to do, so Diligent takes care of 1 and we tell her to do another. Result: Training complete.
Curses
Not exactly. I don't remember exactly how Bird explained it on the original thread, but it basically amounts to that you need x^2 book levels per set, where x is the Level you're working toward.
Huh. I didn't know that being the first to post a plan made it count as a vote. Thought it would need Xs. My apologies.
Agreed. I can't remember if there were rolls needed to idenify artifacts though, so bear that in mind. But, I would say for both the Knock and Lantern, for summoning and scrying.
I think we should give Rarity some credit. She's Grail 3, Forge 1 now. She should have a good chance of doing fine on her career roll even if she's not auto-succeeding.
Lantern definitely takes priority. We only get scraps if the source is >= our current level, so we won't get scraps from the Knock artefact, but will from the Lantern.
or, you know, book searches in Ponyville for both heart 3 AND expedition books.
If only we got Stormchaser actions!
as I repeatedly said... we took SOME risks this turn (church while same turn we risked being attacked), But we also took a LOT of precautions (Mareinette guard, Biedde summoning, Edge influence), so while there's definitely an argument that we risked too much... we were also REALLY really unlucky.
ok, so no point in family action this turn, maybe the next one.
good to know. so if we were willing to take the risk on Biedde we COULD face his challenge directly (with all the obvious risks), or more reasonably we can assume we do that ritual early in the update and we'd be at 3/3 for the rest of it.
eh, depends on what we're willing to give up.
At least the ritual should be fairly easy?
we can still "use" our appearance to get concessions and "pity points" so to speak.
for the record, I'm all for Baldomare Lantern (simple and easy really, just give her two Mares we summon just for that! They can even do their normal actions before the expedition!), and I'm slightly more willing to do Mareinette Grail than Personal Grail but still hate them both.
considering Bird's frustration for "please go and reach the Glory PLEASE", yeah, I'm pretty sure he'll put old Baldie on Outsider.
winter protects the mind. if you wanted to defend from scrying you'd need Moth.
keep in mind that Selene also has the third action she uses on training. So even if we don't pick Winter ourselves she might do it on her own.
well, moth on leashed good friend was described as being fairly cruel, so the target being someone we wouldnt' feel guilt about is still better.
Just posting it doesn't count, you were right, but nothing stops someone from editing the Xs in afterwards, thereby making it count.
I think we should give Rarity some credit. She's Grail 3, Forge 1 now. She should have a good chance of doing fine on her career roll even if she's not auto-succeeding.
The main bit-expenditure upcoming will be Beneath the Royal Castle pt. 3, which is pricey, but also not urgent. Unless you think it'll give a ritual space
Lantern definitely takes priority. We only get scraps if the source is >= our current level, so we won't get scraps from the Knock artefact, but will from the Lantern.
Disagree on these being a must-do, especially when the opportunity cost is DoA's Sacrament.
We can't really trust our Confidantes to do a summoning, even with the artefact, other than maybe Luna (who won't use it).
