Ignoring that she has 1,000 years of acclimated books, artifacts. Her public libraries not even the restricted ones had lore 6 books aplenty. You can assume she has 10-20 sources of lore just from that alone.
the +10 from a cadre would be nice. the >+15 from a trained cadre would be even better.
It's still piling up MORE costs we can ill afford right now.
I think that's only part of the lesson.
Truth is that, to some extent, the means ARE the ends.
I'm actually wondering... it's not impossible that INSPIRATION leads to Soft recruiting Twilight, because she'd think her useful to her cause.
Honestly that heavily imply that Velvet's death is desirable for the wellbeing of the world.
I mean, the way I see it the Carapace Cross as "the race that ruled before humanity" is basically the occult version of "they're the dinosaurs, and the gods from stone are the gods of the jurassic world".
and even if she didn't, she's not Velvet, our rules are not her rules.
This reminds me of the conversation we (the thread) had before/after/during the Burning of Canterlot. Iirc, a not uncommon sentiment at the time was that under any other circumstance, Velvet would probably deserve to stand judgement before Celestia and get ashblasted or thrown in prison (depending on her mental state). Unfortunately, Velvet is also the main character, and facing justice just means that the quest comes to an unsatisfying end.
No it doesn't? We just go play with Soft's cult(or the Bureau if we are lucky).
That would a) still be an extremely unsatisfying direction for the quest to end up taking imo, esp so close to endgame, and b) was not the case during the time I was talking about.
I think the negative consequences are the potential harm they could be doing with those rituals. They are going to use them, after all.
So Soft Sweeps is going to learn all the rituals by heart?
Okay, took a second look at the options and. Apologies, because I'm writing this on my phone. There's a word here of 'inspiration' that occurs in both the first and last options, which makes me think that 1, inspiration is probably bad, and 2, that the last option might advance Softy's stain count by two.
And while I also don't quite like the idea that Softy would be thinking we're testing her, I suppose that would be better than the above options.
I think we should not expect them not to use knowledge that we will give them, we are told that Soft will consider it test after all.
Earlier in the quest, my initial thought on what to do if you died was "whoever has custody of Silky".
About this, and since "Tools" is winning.
What an inspiring speech. Truly, Velvet is a great mother.
I hope there is a vote for it of it happens. Soft, Selene and Axe? The thread will light up with the flames of war!
Let it be remembered I cursed All In. Good luck if you all go for it.
Called it. But it was pretty obvious.
Well, I don't know about that. Giving someone several magic guns and then not thinking about what they will do with it sounds like trust to me.
Correct.Well, I don't know about that. Giving someone several magic guns and then not thinking about what they will do with it sounds like trust to me.
I forgot. Thank you.
And this is why Freedom is the better choice that people should vote for, because it is Velvet taking an active interest in her adopted daughter's interests and taking the time and effort to properly guide her and her friends through the Eldritch Horrors!
Don't think of it as "losing" AP, think of it as "trading" AP. Velvet will give her attention to something else and will be able to do other things in a different scale than before.
Nahh, I'd argue Influence is only better than Inspiration (which considering it extra-Wolfs Softy, isn't saying much). It's the only one that explicitly has something bad happen basically right away to one of our contacts, and would force us into committing to speed-socialing her just to avoid probably-not-her-death. We're going to have a Level 7 book and Level 6 reagent to go after next turn, we really need to have Mareinette available for that, and we have better targets for our free social action (like Cheerilee).