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

[OurLadyOfWires]

I have a small question that I wouldn't mind throwing here. Mostly because both alternatives are fine, and for all that I am not opening a vote, I would be intrigued to see yall's opinion on it.

Currently, the distribution of actions looks something like this:

Spoiler: Who does what

[X] Plan: Prisoner Chomping
-[x] (Free) Sell Edge 3 artifact
-[x] (Detectives) Follow Up: Dodge City
-[x] (Constables) Follow Up: Tall Tale
-[X] (Commissioner) Introduce Lore: Forge
-[x] (Director) Lantern
(MAREINETTE) - (Mareinette) Honored Guest: Spoiled Rich & Filthy Rich
(BIEDDE) - (Biedde) Channel an Edge Influence
(BALDOMARE) - (Baldomare) Channel a Lantern Influence
(SELENE 1) - (Selene) Soothe the night
(RARITY) - (Rarity) Focus on her work
(SELENE 2x) - Perform the Reflection of the Tapestry x 2
--[X] Target: Easiest Level 7 book to acquire
--[X] Target: Easiest Forge 6 reagent to acquire
--[X] At Jade's old house
-[X] Acquire a prisoner, preferably not an innocent civilian
(CHERENKOLT) - Build a prison
-[X] Obtain a dead body
-[X] Perform the Attention of the Laws (Edge) (x2)
(SERVANTS, TORN RISEN) - Cover your bases (-2 Follower AP, +1 Velvet AP)

Remaining followers
Fluttershy: 1
Velvet Axe: 2

The only two actions I haven't locked in who should perform are the two AotL and the prisoner picking.

Pretend for a moment that there is no dice roll involved, and that the chosen character will succeed. Do you all think Velvet would ask Axe to do it, or Comet?

Or rather, which one could make for a more interesting scene?

To be clear, there will be a dice roll involved. And Axe has better stats to do it. But I can't help but wonder if it would be more interesting for the Comet x Velvet dynamic if she asked him instead.

I'll probably have Axe do it. But the fact I am thinking about it does make me wonder...

 

[OurLadyOfWires]

Also, I think we messed up. Did we approve a follower's plan that had fourteen demands, for our thirteen followers? (Jade Whistle has no actions for this turn).

EDIT: and before anyone panics, I don't really care. It's such a minor thing, really. Worst case scenario, I'll have the body dug up on the beginning of the turn, and have the new Risen start counting its summoning period at the beginning of turn 22 rather than the end.
So don't worry. I want to write and get this turn going, not throw us back into a voting session just because of some minor bureaucratic issue.

 

[Rafuki22]

Or rather, which one could make for a more interesting scene?

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It would be more interesting for Axe because she would have an idea of where that prisoner is going to end up.

 

[Shaper47]

Hold it to account for holding things together for centuries after the Hours royally fucked up reality, the Mansus, and each other? We've been down this road before, the QM has gone out and directly corrected you on this, there is nothing to hold Harmony to account for.

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Hold into account for what happened to Velvet's precious Alicorn daughter.

Let's consider the Warding of the World for instance.

Some here think Harmony held things together and set up some Wards to protect the world from the worms

Some think it was the Hours who reinforced the Heart wards and that they have been protecting the world this whole time despite Harmony's probably unknowing sabotage.

You can't have things two ways.

Either Harmony knew enough about Outside threats like the worms to take action or they didn't.

Which brings the situation of Luna being wormed and then forced to forget the threat of the worms and made to blame herself and vulnerable to being wormed again into focus.

Let's be honest here it doesn't matter how good Harmony is, isn't doesn't matter at all what Harmony's intentions were. What matters to Velvet is just how knowingly responsible Harmony was to her daughter being hurt and how knowingly responsible it was to her daughters future safety.

It's basically like Soft's old family situation.

Pretend for a moment that there is no dice roll involved, and that the chosen character will succeed. Do you all think Velvet would ask Axe to do it, or Comet?

Or rather, which one could make for a more interesting scene?

To be clear, there will be a dice roll involved. And Axe has better stats to do it. But I can't help but wonder if it would be more interesting for the Comet x Velvet dynamic if she asked him instead.

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Comet has the history to support just such an endeavor.

Axes better stats aside, Comet knows were to find disreputable targets, how the law enforcement works i.e. who he can target that won't draw as much suspicion.

Like, would Velvet trust that Axe won't pick a noble for her target who's kidnapping would draw a lot of heat from his family compared to Comet hitting somepony who isolated from the world.

Also, I think we messed up. Did we approve a follower's plan that had fourteen demands, for our thirteen followers? (Jade Whistle has no actions for this turn).

EDIT: and before anyone panics, I don't really care. It's such a minor thing, really. Worst case scenario, I'll have the body dug up on the beginning of the turn, and have the new Risen start counting its summoning period at the beginning of turn 22 rather than the end.
So don't worry. I want to write and get this turn going, not throw us back into a voting session just because of some minor bureaucratic issue.

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Leash grants an extra action.

 

[Talon Tiger Dino]

Hold into account for what happened to Velvet's precious Alicorn daughter.

Let's consider the Warding of the World for instance.

Some here think Harmony held things together and set up some Wards to protect the world from the worms

Some think it was the Hours who reinforced the Heart wards and that they have been protecting the world this whole time despite Harmony's probably unknowing sabotage.

You can't have things two ways.

Either Harmony knew enough about Outside threats like the worms to take action or they didn't.

Which brings the situation of Luna being wormed and then forced to forget the threat of the worms and made to blame herself and vulnerable to being wormed again into focus.

Let's be honest here it doesn't matter how good Harmony is, isn't doesn't matter at all what Harmony's intentions were. What matters to Velvet is just how knowingly responsible Harmony was to her daughter being hurt and how knowingly responsible it was to her daughters future safety.

It's basically like Soft's old family situation.

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You are the only person I know of who thinks that the Hours reinforced the Heart wards and are protecting the world. So far we know that the Moth Incinerated itself, the Forge of Days locked the Tricupsid behind herself and never made a key, and that the Wolf Divided engaged itself in a very spirited suicide attempt session that is still going on as we speak. The Colonel isn't even at his post guarding the Worm Museum, Biedde has been left behind to do that; the pattern thus far is not one of preservation and protection.

And yeah, Luna had her turbo-trauma locked up. Exposing her to that stuff left us with a 15% chance of being a raving lunatic, a 15% chance of thinking reality was a waking nightmare, a 31% chance of being an unreponsive shell losing sanity points each month as the Worm of her memories eats away at her, a 3% chance of suicide, and finally, a 1% chance of being a Wormhost all over again. Instead, we ended up with a foal whose memories were *still* locked away because being a worm host for a thousand years really is that objectively terrible. We got lucky rolling the Selene result, and that we were able to gradually undo the metaphorical locks ourselves through a combination of Harmony and Lores.

 

[spiderhellian]

Also, I think we messed up. Did we approve a follower's plan that had fourteen demands, for our thirteen followers? (Jade Whistle has no actions for this turn).

EDIT: and before anyone panics, I don't really care. It's such a minor thing, really. Worst case scenario, I'll have the body dug up on the beginning of the turn, and have the new Risen start counting its summoning period at the beginning of turn 22 rather than the end.
So don't worry. I want to write and get this turn going, not throw us back into a voting session just because of some minor bureaucratic issue.

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I think that last time we used a Risen, we also did this "Dig up > Summon > use on CYB immediately" strat?

 

[Greymere]

Pretend for a moment that there is no dice roll involved, and that the chosen character will succeed. Do you all think Velvet would ask Axe to do it, or Comet?

Or rather, which one could make for a more interesting scene?

To be clear, there will be a dice roll involved. And Axe has better stats to do it. But I can't help but wonder if it would be more interesting for the Comet x Velvet dynamic if she asked him instead.

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A little difficult to ignore DoA having better stats for it, when we have the looming shadow of needing to promise Mareinette something at the end of this turn and it will be very expensive if we don't have a prisoner ready.

Also, I think we messed up. Did we approve a follower's plan that had fourteen demands, for our thirteen followers? (Jade Whistle has no actions for this turn).

EDIT: and before anyone panics, I don't really care. It's such a minor thing, really. Worst case scenario, I'll have the body dug up on the beginning of the turn, and have the new Risen start counting its summoning period at the beginning of turn 22 rather than the end.
So don't worry. I want to write and get this turn going, not throw us back into a voting session just because of some minor bureaucratic issue.

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The intent was to call a Risen to fill out the last slot, yes. Or to Leash someone, if it somehow failed. Tbh, I can't really think of any point where we summoned something and the summoning period started the turn after we summoned them.

I mean, tbf, 'summoning things' for us has pretty much always been Names, but still. We've always gotten access to their AP on the same turn they were summoned.

 

[ses]

Also, I think we messed up. Did we approve a follower's plan that had fourteen demands, for our thirteen followers? (Jade Whistle has no actions for this turn).

EDIT: and before anyone panics, I don't really care. It's such a minor thing, really. Worst case scenario, I'll have the body dug up on the beginning of the turn, and have the new Risen start counting its summoning period at the beginning of turn 22 rather than the end.
So don't worry. I want to write and get this turn going, not throw us back into a voting session just because of some minor bureaucratic issue.

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You had previously given approval on "No need to call for a vote on what to do with the Risen, if the graverob fails just take away the Attention of the Laws it was going to cast"

 

[OurLadyOfWires]

Thank you! That's what I thought (and I'm glad I would have reached the same conclusion anyways, means I still have the same mindset). Just wanted to double-check.