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

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Maybe we could help with the A Memory of Light research? Probably not the best use of us even if possible but it could be interesting
 
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I will probably have Update Thoughts later, but for now I thought I'd list out some of the options that people have brought up for our reassigned AP while moratorium is going.

-Steppes Fleeting Opportunity

It's a Fleeting Opportunity, of course people will be interested in it. Unclear benefits or consequences, if any.


-Study Lantern artifact

Gets us +1 Lantern scrap and the ability to use Selene for scrying and (if we ever find a summoning site) summoning MitLs. We have a Lantern AotL currently available to make it more likely to succeed. May also be able to make a bit of progress on the Moth book if we're lucky.


-Find a three-circle ritual site

Either by scrying or physically searching while the SH Influence is active. Lets us use Jade as a scryer without having to disrupt Rarity's work, as well as the ability to summon creatures for All In and general use like MitLs, Windigos, and eventually the Forge Name.


-Call an Influence

Most likely Lantern, for Moth book studying next turn. Could potentially be helpful, but our chance of getting a +30 or +40 Influence isn't great considering our lack of reagent. Could also be SH for our personal Sacrament, but again, bonus not great.


-Find a Level 7 book ourselves

Sure we could ask Jade to do it, but we're just as good in Lantern, we still have our reroll, and we're not going to take it badly if we fail. Considering since Jade only just got pushed out of a downward mental spiral.


-Study the Moth 5 book

Something we can do if we want to make sure we'll finish it next turn so we can have Moth Sacrament lined up for T23. If we're lucky, we could even finish it this turn.


Any others that I might have missed or not thought of?
 
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Greymere said:
-Study Lantern artifact

Gets us +1 Lantern scrap and the ability to use Selene for scrying and (if we ever find a summoning site) summoning MitLs. We have a Lantern AotL currently available to make it more likely to succeed. May also be able to make a bit of progress on the Moth book if we're lucky.
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Surely we'd study the Winter 4 artifact we got from Copper's cult if we went for artifact studying rather than a single decipher roll for 30ish progress?

Greymere said:
-Study the Moth 5 book

Something we can do if we want to make sure we'll finish it next turn so we can have Moth Sacrament lined up for T23. If we're lucky, we could even finish it this turn.
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I can't imagine us doing this without a Lantern Influence.
 
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Surely we'd study the Winter 4 artifact we got from Copper's cult if we went for artifact studying rather than a single decipher roll for 30ish progress?
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The Winter artifact doesn't really open up any options for us besides other people doing Windigo summoning, which both needs a summoning site to even be an option and is unlikely to be as useful in the short-term as Moth Sacrament.

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I can't imagine us doing this without a Lantern Influence.
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Why? A single study action focused on the Moth book, with AotL + reroll, gets us an 80% chance to finish studying it this turn.
 
OurLadyOfWires said:
Silky Stream has gained her cutie mark: A key, a scroll, a seven-colored colored laurel wreath, all before the backdrop of a faded house-like triangle. Cutie mark interpreters will see all the signs of a diplomat, or a negotiator. And yet, those in the know will see the other signs hidden in plain sight.

This is the first cutie mark ever that makes a clear reference to the Lores. You wonder what this means.
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Awww, Silky takes after her mother. But I wonder if Harmony is aware of this or if the cutie marks tend to be automatically given.

She is so gonna have all lores when she grows up.

OurLadyOfWires said:
-Lapdog: "You are sure it was called that, although it bears no resemblance to a dog at all. Still, this miraculous device, too intricate to be used by anypony but a unicorn, will aid you greatly." (You may produce TWO Lore Manuscripts instead of one, of one level below your current level on the selected Lores. Costs one Forge 1 reagent to use.)
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Uuuu, interesting. We could finally level up the Library at a moderate pace with this, could be useful if the Bureau needs it.

Sveta08 said:
We are going to the Dreamlands next turn.
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Any reason why? Because we are kinda booked for the whole turn if we want more power.

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The whole trip was a bust outside of Frangiclave-get. Laptop is kinda useless and we apparently failed to unlock anything from poking at Harmony.
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Or maybe that was what was supposed to happen since we don't really know if we could have had more tiers of success or if that was all there was. Or even if there was more we could have needed to have some Harmony in Velvet to get it to take us seriously instead of a kid who sneaked into backstage of a play and got sent back out.

Arrkhon said:
Maybe we could help with the A Memory of Light research? Probably not the best use of us even if possible but it could be interesting
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Jade has about 55% chance of finishing it in one turn + reroll so we could help. But I'm honestly wanting to just risk it.
 
Oh, Axe.... and oh, Velvet...

She needs time to grieve, I think. And considering what we've found this turn, I do believe that narrative-wise it would be good to check with Steppes. But is the faded triangle the House of the Sun or the House of the Moon?
 
Venerable Ro said:
Well we simply must invite him to Silky's Cute-Ceanera, it wouldn't be a party without him!
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That is an EXCELLENT point.

In unrelated news apparently our chance of winning the Edge sacrament is 62% with one AotL, 75% with two AOTL, and 81% with three. Dang biedde doesn't mess around. Rerolls every odd-numbered roll are brutal.

The only thing I'm sad about is that the Steppes FO isn't going to be done while Velvet is under the effects of [A Resolution]. Because having him show up while Velvet is in Scary Commissioner mode would have been peak comedy.
 
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