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

[Arrkhon]

Personally I stopped playing along and found the fourth page by Force, the rest was quite straightforward though
Thanks for the recipe btw, can't wait to try it out!

 

[Sveta08]

Yoooooooou Bastards! You rotten worm-meal foul-tongued, thrice-damned Jerks!

I was two thirds of the way through a beautiful Winter Heart Eulogy to post up on after a Year and a Day of silence! A delightful delicious perspective on the fruit never to be tasted, always to be ripe and the feeling of the heart going still before the teeth!

Now I can't!

What a wonderful frustration this is!

And oh how much I get to read now!

 

[Pittauro]

Personally I stopped playing along and found the fourth page by Force, the rest was quite straightforward though
Thanks for the recipe btw, can't wait to try it out!

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...uh, right. I suppose I can do that.

feels a bit like cheating, but better than stay stuck.

Here I go!

EDIT Well, I cheated my way to page 4... even being there, I'm still not sure WHY this page was the spot.

 

[Sveta08]

Very well! My mania consumed and pages and more consumed with a ravenous hunger I have not experienced in many a day!

Poetics. Bah. They get in the way.

I shall play along with the words of The Master once I have a PC to read and see with. But until then! You all get my thoughts on the things and such from the votes I was too foolish and blind in quiet Winter to realize were alive yet again.


As such!

I wonder how Velvet would feel about it, knowing that Mareinette schemed to get inside the house... by helping making the cute-ceñeara perfect.

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..damn it, she's making it really difficult to continue to distrust her!
Why is Mareinette being so WHOLESOME?! It's surreal!

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This made me laugh.
Of course she would! She was a Mother once. I wonder if she was a Mom too?

The cute-ceneara on the whole was just such a beautiful and vindicating read. It's a Hello through a peep hole. A wave seen through a kaleidoscope. The recognition of Names in seeing both the focus and the limits, the nameless voice of a thing beyond. It's where Harmony does not perhaps understand, but can touch upon the ideas. It's an expression of growth and learning

And more importantly, it answers to me cutie marks. A refinement of more primordial potentiality.
How curious indeed then is Silky's.
If course Our Dear Lady could taste the difference in the air. Of course she has the Heart for it.



Oh. There was someone somewhere that mentioned if Celestia was facing fascination. And, forgive me for dispensing with the poetry but
Yes?
Define to me what Fascination is that she does not have.


Now as for votes?
Eh,,I would have advocated for the Stepps action, but I hold no feelings either way on how it fell. And the Cultistry is ....
I think it is the right choice, even if it does place restrictions. There is too much... Uncertainty in other paths, too high of costs. Time. It's imperfect, but such is the cost of our time. A perfect solution is always just far enough out of reach that it will open more vulnerability to reach for it.
I think influence is a curious one that could be quite fun.

I wonder how it will change Pinkie?


As for the most recent!

...
I don't agree on the risk undertaken by it. There feels too much riding at this time to do something so foolhardy for so uncertain a reward.
But I do understand. And Symbolically? It's perfect.
Velvet reaches out for more than she should, and hungers in real ways. She can afford no half measures if she is to wage a one pony war with the powers that have been. Maybe in another History she could have gone with more, had more voices and hands beside her, a cult and procession beside. But she concentrates power, and has risen high.
She does not have the time to be so... Patient now

But there is a phrase I heard once and have taken a liking to.
"Mages are only human when surprised"
Velvet is. And is not yet free of her bonds of life. Nor the constraints therein.

And something foul I realized no one else mentioned (for shame!) when discussing this raid and such potential Worthy Foes.

What part of the Sacrament with Birdde makes you think it's optional now? He has set off with intention, and the sacrament has intention when he returns.
When have you known Biedde to stop as circumstances change?

Worthy Foe or not, there is a fight to be had.
A Measure of Resolve.

 

[Talon Tiger Dino]

Very well! My mania consumed and pages and more consumed with a ravenous hunger I have not experienced in many a day!

Poetics. Bah. They get in the way.

I shall play along with the words of The Master once I have a PC to read and see with. But until then! You all get my thoughts on the things and such from the votes I was too foolish and blind in quiet Winter to realize were alive yet again.


As such!




This made me laugh.
Of course she would! She was a Mother once. I wonder if she was a Mom too?

The cute-ceneara on the whole was just such a beautiful and vindicating read. It's a Hello through a peep hole. A wave seen through a kaleidoscope. The recognition of Names in seeing both the focus and the limits, the nameless voice of a thing beyond. It's where Harmony does not perhaps understand, but can touch upon the ideas. It's an expression of growth and learning

And more importantly, it answers to me cutie marks. A refinement of more primordial potentiality.
How curious indeed then is Silky's.
If course Our Dear Lady could taste the difference in the air. Of course she has the Heart for it.



Oh. There was someone somewhere that mentioned if Celestia was facing fascination. And, forgive me for dispensing with the poetry but
Yes?
Define to me what Fascination is that she does not have.


Now as for votes?
Eh,,I would have advocated for the Stepps action, but I hold no feelings either way on how it fell. And the Cultistry is ....
I think it is the right choice, even if it does place restrictions. There is too much... Uncertainty in other paths, too high of costs. Time. It's imperfect, but such is the cost of our time. A perfect solution is always just far enough out of reach that it will open more vulnerability to reach for it.
I think influence is a curious one that could be quite fun.

I wonder how it will change Pinkie?


As for the most recent!

...
I don't agree on the risk undertaken by it. There feels too much riding at this time to do something so foolhardy for so uncertain a reward.
But I do understand. And Symbolically? It's perfect.
Velvet reaches out for more than she should, and hungers in real ways. She can afford no half measures if she is to wage a one pony war with the powers that have been. Maybe in another History she could have gone with more, had more voices and hands beside her, a cult and procession beside. But she concentrates power, and has risen high.
She does not have the time to be so... Patient now

But there is a phrase I heard once and have taken a liking to.
"Mages are only human when surprised"
Velvet is. And is not yet free of her bonds of life. Nor the constraints therein.

And something foul I realized no one else mentioned (for shame!) when discussing this raid and such potential Worthy Foes.

What part of the Sacrament with Birdde makes you think it's optional now? He has set off with intention, and the sacrament has intention when he returns.
When have you known Biedde to stop as circumstances change?

Worthy Foe or not, there is a fight to be had.
A Measure of Resolve.

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Well we ordered him to prepare us for Sacrament, we can also order him to pivot to something else if we get the Sacrament on our own. He is, after all, a slave to the chain of command.

 

[Sveta08]

Well we ordered him to prepare us for Sacrament, we can also order him to pivot to something else if we get the Sacrament on our own. He is, after all, a slave to the chain of command.

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A Blade unsheathed, a Weapon given and a test put forth...

And you would entertain the notion of staying that hand? To route the blade?
How meager the resolve to be swayed at the slightest opportunity. And for the measure, for the Fact that it would be easier!

A weapon does not question it's weirder, but it does demand from them some degree of follow through!



All of this is to say,
This is a story as much based on narrative as it is by raw mechanics. Shifting Biedde that way feels...
Significant

 

[DelightedOne]

This is a story as much based on narrative as it is by raw mechanics. Shifting Biedde that way feels...
Significant

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Yeah. Kinda like this.

Velvet: "I would like to make an appointment with you for the end of the month. I will require an Influence".

Biedde: "Very well".

*Velvet does the improbable and gets a Edge Sacrament*

Velvet: "oh, seems like I won't need your assistance anymore. But thank you for your already given help."

Biedde, probably after losing a plot: "... Very well."

And then we pay him 60 bits to stay in the wake.


I truly don't think it will be too important. Unless by taking Biedde's Sacrament we unlock a sidequest or something like with Axe.

 

[jelloloaf]

Might be because I'm on mobile and can't easily manipulate the images and/or translate the obscured text, but I can't really find page 3. Any hints? (Feel free to ambiguously ignore this message if it's too overt and/or just requires one of the above.)

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Seconding Pittauro's hint, I think it works pretty well:

WHAT WAS THE FIRST OF THE SECOND?".

What do we have TWO of in this quest? And, secondarily, where would jelloloaf be able to put the pages?

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Help, help, a Percussigant dropped a Moth 6 book into my forum thread and now all the cultists therein have a buzzing in the brain, are consumed by fascination, and are discussing eldritch lore like "there is the perspective of the message and the perspective of the message" as if it should be readily comprehensible!

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"Sie denken nach, so als ob das Nachdenken wichtiger wäre als das Ziel, das sie damit zu erreichen hoffen." 4:17

Thanks for the recipe btw, can't wait to try it out!

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Stay safe, and I hope you enjoy!

I was two thirds of the way through a beautiful Winter Heart Eulogy to post up on after a Year and a Day of silence! A delightful delicious perspective on the fruit never to be tasted, always to be ripe and the feeling of the heart going still before the teeth!

Now I can't!

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Post it anyway
And welcome back, Sveta. Good to have you.

feels a bit like cheating, but better than stay stuck.

EDIT Well, I cheated my way to page 4... even being there, I'm still not sure WHY this page was the spot.

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I'd argue that it's not really possible to cheat, except perhaps by refusing to engage with the premise and getting the answers off someone else, and even then it's more cheating yourself out of what I hope is an interesting experience of being a real-life cultist for a little while, digging through old documents and piecing together fragmentary clues. (My reasoning was that the surroundings fit the text.)

In short, this is supposed to be fun. If you're not enjoying part of the experience, feel free to skip it. Just know that I'll be silently judging you the whole time for not figuring it out

 

[Sveta08]

Post it anyway
And welcome back, Sveta. Good to have you.

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I will have to change it significantly, but I can manage that.
Give it time.

 

[Pittauro]

What part of the Sacrament with Birdde makes you think it's optional now? He has set off with intention, and the sacrament has intention when he returns.
When have you known Biedde to stop as circumstances change?

Worthy Foe or not, there is a fight to be had.
A Measure of Resolve.

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To be fair, presumably the fight would be significantly easier with Edge 5. Not just for the +5 to combat, but presumably the Sacrament power. It would be pretty weird if it wasn't directly applicable to the fight after all.

A Blade unsheathed, a Weapon given and a test put forth...

And you would entertain the notion of staying that hand? To route the blade?
How meager the resolve to be swayed at the slightest opportunity. And for the measure, for the Fact that it would be easier!

A weapon does not question it's weirder, but it does demand from them some degree of follow through!



All of this is to say,
This is a story as much based on narrative as it is by raw mechanics. Shifting Biedde that way feels...
Significant

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Maybe we can deflect him towards Comet

I'd argue that it's not really possible to cheat, except perhaps by refusing to engage with the premise and getting the answers off someone else, and even then it's more cheating yourself out of what I hope is an interesting experience of being a real-life cultist for a little while, digging through old documents and piecing together fragmentary clues. (My reasoning was that the surroundings fit the text.)

In short, this is supposed to be fun. If you're not enjoying part of the experience, feel free to skip it. Just know that I'll be silently judging you the whole time for not figuring it out

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well, In case you want to "patch" the workaround, I "cheated" by Doing an in-thread research for you posting the words of the hint.

Though even like that, I found page 4 (and I STILL don't understand why it's there exactly), but can't find page 5

 

[ses]

well, In case you want to "patch" the workaround, I "cheated" by Doing an in-thread research for you posting the words of the hint.

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Pretty sure that's how you're intended to find it.

To be fair, presumably the fight would be significantly easier with Edge 5. Not just for the +5 to combat, but presumably the Sacrament power. It would be pretty weird if it wasn't directly applicable to the fight after all.

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If we get sacrament, the duel just gets cancelled and we are refunded the AP. It's really not that complicated. We've been told a million times that we're allowed to just refund the AP if we get injured, and once you get one sacrament the other one just becomes unavailable.

 

[Sveta08]

Bah!
Mayhap you all feel that way. But a weapon drawn is a weapon drawn. It is the unspoken promise and resolve. Biedde lacks such things as a friendship quest, and may lack a great many things. But there is...

It does not sit well with me, the idea of backing down and away on the precipice there. It is antithetical to Edge as a principal I feel.


Maybe you are right.
But it makes my gut squirm.

 

[jelloloaf]

well, In case you want to "patch" the workaround, I "cheated" by Doing an in-thread research for you posting the words of the hint.

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Pretty sure that's how you're intended to find it.

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It's not what I originally had in mind when I was writing, and I do think that there are more interesting ways to solve the puzzle, but I consider it to be a valid solution and I'll leave it available in the future.

Though even like that, I found page 4 (and I STILL don't understand why it's there exactly), but can't find page 5

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The 4 - 5 jump is probably the hardest in terms of knowing arcane thread lore. As a hint: "1871"

 

[Arrkhon]

well, In case you want to "patch" the workaround, I "cheated" by Doing an in-thread research for you posting the words of the hint.

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Personally I just searched for what was showing but not shown, the thing that's in plain sight but hidden namely the imagehost url, the search uses raw text and code rather than what's visible, in retrospect it just shows how Lantern is superior to Moth, no matter the confusion sewn the core remains the same