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

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Greymere said:
Real contentious vote here, I see :V
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I just pray this won't blow up in our faces (again).

Sigh, well I suppose wasting Mareinette on Whiteknighting pre determined this vote.

Not exactly happy about long term consequences of delaying investigating Stalking but playing it safe is admittedly understandable.

Hopefully Celestia will be defused so turn we won't have to keep helping Cadance.

We have Befriending Forge Name, Baldomare Sacraments, investigating Stalking and Befriending Smiles on the to do list afterall.

I'm kinda thinking of scrying two level 5 heart books. Would be nice for reaching heart 4.
 
dcoconeo said:
Dealing with Fascination or Despair would be terrible for our timetable, best not to get greedy and just stick with level 4?
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There's also the fact that "scrying Heart books" of any level only makes sense in the context of Celestia being defused entirely, seeing as the turnover for scryed material is 3 turns...
 
Shaper47 said:
I'm kinda thinking of scrying two level 5 heart books. Would be nice for reaching heart 4.
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Even assuming an optimistic timeline, barring a a miracle roll, we have a few turns left at most. Level 5 books are more than likely long expeditions. Better off looking for a level 3 book or two and mostly relying on lessons and/or influence from Mareinette if you want to get Heart 4
 
dcoconeo said:
Dealing with Fascination or Despair would be terrible for our timetable, best not to get greedy and just stick with level 4?
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Depends on how Baldomare's Lantern Sacrament works and how easy it is to get a max winter influence really.

If we're going for a Winter Sacrament we'd be aiming for a max Winter influence anyways afterall.

Greymere said:
There's also the fact that "scrying Heart books" of any level only makes sense in the context of Celestia being defused entirely, seeing as the turnover for scryed material is 3 turns...
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Depends if we're allowed to scry and perform expeditions in the same turn.

We've been allowed to pre turn scry before.

Solace2117 said:
Even assuming an optimistic timeline, barring a a miracle roll, we have a few turns left at most. Level 5 books are more than likely long expeditions. Better off looking for a level 3 book or two and mostly relying on lessons and/or influence from Mareinette if you want to get Heart 4
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Our last level 6 book expedition was only a short expedition. So expedition time is uncertain (aside from a level 6 Grail book, we know that would be a short expedition).

I've been suggesting level 3 Heart books for ages now and nobody has been interested. Heart 5 books provide 2 scraps for us an gives traits.

Using Heart influence for level 3 scraps is such a waste.
 
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dcoconeo said:
Not at all, Neighnia is not with us, and if we lowroll that we would be in trouble?
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Well we have a bonus of 93 if Velvet's rolling for herself.

So a dc of 57 with a reroll for a max influence.

Not sure on the exact percentage but decent odds.

If what we care about is just reading protection then a level 3 influence with maybe a Winter Aotl or two is probably good enough.

So a dc of 17 with a reroll for level 3 influence (one winter scrap).

Besides the Winter influence could be called the turn before hand so I don't see how we would be in trouble.

Even with just a level 3 influence Velvet has around a 80 bonus to resist dread or fascination with a reroll.

At worst we lowroll despite the preparations pulling a Selene and get a fascination or dread. Fascination which can be dealt with an expiring light snatching maid.

If we're actually staying around long enough to care about dread we could just have Selene perform the Incision of the Heart.

But the likely hood of problems actually appearing are extreamly low.
 
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So in preparation we now have:
1x scrying, 1x expedition of unknown difficulty which needs people to go on them, 1x aotl (yes, those are resources too), 1x action for influence, 1x book reading for up to 2 Lore Scraps, and finally we risk 1x ritual if something goes wrong.

Or we could just use Marienette on this and save all that trouble and lead time, if we have two extra Turns (2x teaching, 1x Influence).
 
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