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

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@OurLadyOfWires I know you dislike "social actions that combine multiple goals" and "planning for next turn way too early" but I was just curious as I was trying to figure out our options for getting a 3circle site next turn. If we do [HONORED GUEST] with Mareinette to try and grailbomb Spoiled can she also handle obtaining a non-suspicious 3circle site from Filthy? Especially if we sign off on whatever bits she needs to just rent a place from him. Would that be allowed without interfering with the "grailbomb Spoiled" objective too badly? We could also Leash Filthy if needed and I'm not sure how that would effect things.

Speaking of which how does budgeting work with social-fuing people? We were told way back when that 30-50 bits would be the baseline cost of social lubrication on trying to get people up to the threshold of Confidante (the explanation blurb on our contacts threadmark even says "actions OR bits"). Do we have to declare ahead of time that Mareinette has a budget or does she just not need one or what?

Honestly, I'm kind of just confused on how we're supposed to Confidante people on purpose. Like, how would we even approach bumping Cheerilee to confidante? I mean as players how would we approach it not as asking for metagame spoilers. Since as I understand it Confidante isn't the level you reach by just hitting the "spend an AP on them" button, but in previous cases we were offered votes that gave us our path. Is there just no option to Confidante Cheerilee unless a FO somehow shows up for her?

 

[Zxzx24]

I think a lot of these small details are difficult because we chose to "leave it up to Mareinette" and she isn't strictly beholden to act on our specific desires?

 

[Talon Tiger Dino]

I think a lot of these small details are difficult because we chose to "leave it up to Mareinette" and she isn't strictly beholden to act on our specific desires?

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Mareinette was working over Spoiled Rich, not Cheerilee.

 

[Zxzx24]

I am aware. I was referring more broadly to having mareinette perform those social actions on our behalf period?

And they did mention spoiled in their post above

 

[spiderhellian]

Mareinette is busted on social actions. She rolls what, +90? It's fittingly obscene. I don't think we particularly need to worry about her.

Honestly, I'm kind of just confused on how we're supposed to Confidante people on purpose. Like, how would we even approach bumping Cheerilee to confidante? I mean as players how would we approach it not as asking for metagame spoilers. Since as I understand it Confidante isn't the level you reach by just hitting the "spend an AP on them" button, but in previous cases we were offered votes that gave us our path. Is there just no option to Confidante Cheerilee unless a FO somehow shows up for her?

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I think the answer is "spend a social action on them." And then the dice are rolled and any anywhere from success, to figure out further things to be done, to not much happens. Probably the second is most likely.

…That uncertainty is tough. It's hard to justify actions on things with unknown challenges and unknown rewards. When there's often known challenges with clearer rewards at hand.

(Perhaps another variant on the issue that's pushed us from exploring the Mansus, really.)

 

[Earth-Destroyer]

Yeah questers not taking chances, even for things that would massively payoff because of 1% chance of failure, is to great a risk, is known issue.