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

[Greymere]

Is this our first actual tie? I think it is. We've had some close calls before, but they always broke just before the voting period finished.

 

[Oblex]

[X] Gift her freedom.
[X] Gift her tools.

The former is my preferred option, I'll remove the latter if it stops freedom from winning.
I have more reasoning/thought but expressing/writing here is hard and I lack time. Short summary below:

- Inspiration. No. Leave Our Precious Softy Alone Thanks.
- Influence. Ah yes the force multiplier option. No.
- Tools. Distribute free guns to suspected terrorists. Still very bad but less bad than other options. We already know ash ghouls are easy to acquire anyway and they'll do that without us.
- Nothing. This is just inspiration^2. NO.
- Freedom. Permanently costs an action. Big ouch. Less stuff we can do. Most options over the current disaster and fits narratively with violet's controlling tendencies. We should've curbed this earlier, now we're paying for it. We'll keep paying for it unless we do something.

Edit: Softy's cult isn't perfectly wolf aligned, they don't want it all to end yet. There's an opportunity for us for us to push here and redirect it to something healthier/more normal. It will be hard but worst case is similar to the likely tools outcome anyway.
Likely tools outcome being that haven given terrorists guns they do terrorist things and then us as commission has to step in, cult gets killed/arrested, innocent casualties, softy implicated, have to use nepotism to try and bail her out. With freedom's failure this could happen in a less directly bloody manner but we would also be implicated.

 

[Shaper47]

Furthermore, this missive seems to be surprisingly safe and tame, considering how old it is.

You should not expect this from other pieces of writing of this age.

Click to shrink...

Right, so I was kinda surprised at the lack of trait or other goodie from the book. 5+ books are special remember. But it seems the books safety had something to do about that.

Should probably remember to get more winter or at least have a personal max Winter influence at the same time as we go Even Further Beyond with Baldomare's lantern influence to get Moth 6.

 

[Witherbrine2671]

[X] Gift her inspiration

Knowing the line is important, that way we can make informed choices

 

[Talon Tiger Dino]

[X] Gift her freedom
[X] Gift her influence

All right, I've been convinced that just chucking murder rituals to Soft Sweeps miiiiight be subpar. Plus if we really shape this cult and can set Soft Sweeps to a higher involvement level, perhaps we can ask her with help reforming the Wolf, make that the big thing to help with. After all, the Wolf Divided is one of the few things Velvet cannot arbitrarily handle as an Hour, so best to get our ground game against him running as soon as possible.

Seriously, think about it, they are a weird Wolf therapy group, so turn them into a therapy group for the Wolf. It'll be the cult equivalent of turning some of his power into a particularly spicy pacemaker, it'll be great.

 

[Earth-Destroyer]

We cannot afford to lose out on an action when we are so close to to the final mission. The cult would not give us anything as we will win before it could possible pay off. The timeline for the cult being an overall positive is like 8-10 turns minimum. It two turns of nothing just to get the cult to minimum capability IE what the turn 1 cult was, then at least 3 mores turns to expand it to the point it can do well anything. When we are on track to win in 4-5 turns, it not even close to breaking even action wise.

Soft Sweeps can handle the town just fine, and frankly would be a better then mayor mare anyway.