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

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Pittauro said:
...and I'm still worried about Sombra potentially appearing. It's been nearly 2 years in setting, shouldn't the Crystal Empire be back REALLY soon?

If we go meta and assume 1 show season = 1 year, Sombra is beginning of season 3, so 3rd year...

and we're on turn 22. There's a very real chance we might get Sombra in 3 turns or so.
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Actually. Regarding this. We may want to consider having our detectives investigate "threats from outside" next turn while our Constables are (probably) handling Dodge City.

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-[] [DETECTIVES] The dangers in the dark come from outside of Ponykind as well. Listen to the rumors. Study the myths. Look for the threats from without. (Search for Expedition Sites for your later consideration. Additionally, keep an ear on the ground for other "foreign" threats)
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At worst, we'll just get an expedition site(s) that we can raid for loot. But Pittauro is right that we seem to be coming up on the time for Sombra to reappear, and this might be pretty much the only way for us to get some advance warning before we suddenly have to deal with a powerful, ancient tyrant.
 
Greymere said:
Actually. Regarding this. We may want to consider having our detectives investigate "threats from outside" next turn while our Constables are (probably) handling Dodge City.
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I did some math on that.

Turn 9 was Hearts warming so turn 21 should have been it. Turn 9 was in season 1 so we were in season 2 ep 11 in turn 21.

The Crystal Empire only returns in the first episode of season 3, so we have quite a bit of time left.
 
I'm generally pretty pro expeditions, they're great ways to get the resources we desperately need. The fact it is a Bureau one though does make it a little more complicated because I don't know that we can just take everything like we normally would. Yes they're now our Cult and we can definitely benefit, but they do have to operate at least somewhat through official channels on these, which means Celestia and the other government groups will know most of it for good and ill. No matter what we pick it'll be nice to see if/how Bureau expeditions differ from others.
Going personally though probably gives us some options to grab a few choice things and guide the narrative on the ground, which honestly may be just as important. Velvet is still the head of the bureau, but the fact she wasn't involved in the set up will likely limit what she could gain and her influence a bit.
As cool as I think her going with the influence could be, I do worry about injuries. Not in a game over kind of way, more just setting us back on Biedde's sacrament attempt.
 
DelightedOne said:
I did some math on that.

Turn 9 was Hearts warming so turn 21 should have been it. Turn 9 was in season 1 so we were in season 2 ep 11 in turn 21.

The Crystal Empire only returns in the first episode of season 3, so we have quite a bit of time left.
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On one hand, that would be good if true. Less things for us to deal with.

On the other hand, do you really want to rely on Bird keeping the timeline exactly the same in order to not get blindsided?
 
DelightedOne said:
I did some math on that.

Turn 9 was Hearts warming so turn 21 should have been it. Turn 9 was in season 1 so we were in season 2 ep 11 in turn 21.

The Crystal Empire only returns in the first episode of season 3, so we have quite a bit of time left.
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Greymere said:
On one hand, that would be good if true. Less things for us to deal with.

On the other hand, do you really want to rely on Bird keeping the timeline exactly the same in order to not get blindsided?
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Also I think it's pretty clear that the show is not in perfect order. And it's not like we have an heartwarming episode each season,for example.

The making things that are DEFINITELY in order if say are the season starters and Ender's. Which are usually (though not quite always) villain conflicts. I think the only exception is S1 with the grand galloping gala?

In any case, we definitely went beyond S1 end (the gala that never happened here), we passed beyond Discord's release (and who knows what's going on with him. Maybe being moved from the garden made the petrification last longer), and we kinda accelerated Chrysalis.

That leaves Sombra.

Other than him there should also be Tired later on in theory... But I think the fanon assumption is that he escaped when Cerberus left Tartarus in the episode where Twilight does time travel... So we should notice that if/when it happens?

Oh, and there's always starlight too. He's actually most likely already out there's and could EASILY be a cultist that uses a lore ritual (or a lore sacrament/realization power maybe?) to steal cutie marks, if we assume it's not just a "normal" spell...
 
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