I am pretty sure that is Daybreaker
Remember, Daybreaker is Celestia. She is just angrier, and maybe a little more focused on certain topics. But she is just as smart as, well, herself.
So, if you are Celestia, and you are trapped inside your own mind by a thousand years' worth of addictions, habits, and that pesky "kindness" you trapped yourself into upholding, how would you plan your jailbreak?
Brute force doesn't seem to be working. So, what do you do?
you become the little devil whispering from your own shoulder, of course.
Scandalous.
Alas, the cruelty of how certain words can be interpreted. We might never know what she really meant with that specific and ambiguous phrasing
you damn tease!
"Two" of something is still a plural.
fair. I imagine it COULD in theory go faster, but there's no real reason to push the pegasi that much.
You know, originally AotL summoning was under the rule of "one Velvet action gives you two charges". Since it's the kind of "quick and cheap" thing that warrants more efficiency if you spend actions on.
But I actually really, really like this suggestion.
Your friends are already Lore-mature enough to be able to do this, so why not.
A new "General action" has been created for your followers. You may now spend one Follower Action to gain one AotL for Velvet on one specific Lore (may be picked multiple times).
(This has already been edited into the latest threadmark.)
But please don't "tie my hands" here. If you ask for several AotL, I WILL pick characters who know Lore stuff. So, don't forget your servants don't use the Lores, and that (if you ask for nine AotL) I will have Baldomare casting you that level-one Ritual, while your servants go "search for books" which you hoped Baldomare would have done instead.
Still, again, great suggestion! Thank you for it.
I doubt we'll ask for THAT many AotL, even for Biedde.
I imagine we might go for 4? have it done by Comet, Jade, maybe Rarity, and the free one.
That covers 8 rolls of Edge (as if I remember right an AotL applies to two edge rolls, or a single clash), and it's likely the fight will be over by then one way or the other...
@OurLadyOfWires IMPORTANT, CAN we have confidants (probably Jade or Baldomare seeing as they're the Lantern ones) study low level artifacts then? and how would it work?
It's fairly important to planning, as we have many artifacts that could help in expeditions or rituals, and we really only have the lvl 4 ones that are worth Velvet's time in particular due to scrap gain if we can delegate that.
Oh sweet. Rarity action is free and getting an extra AotL makes Biedde sacrament a lot easier.
I'd go for 3 or 4 total, really. We absolutely have to avoid the worst case scenario of "Velvet gets 2 wounds again and goes to 1 or even ZERO health".
...yes, I know, Biedde is supposed to stop if he brings us to 1 health.
BUT WHAT IF HE ROLLS TOO WELL AND DOES TWO DAMAGE AT ONCE?
It's unlikely, but it COULD happen. Imagine something like "Velvet is at 2 health, Biedde has 49 accumulated "progress" to the damage.
Then he rolls 51 over. THERE, that's 2 damage.
-[X] [RARITY] Focus on her work. (Guarantees she will "succeed" on her career roll)
Unnecessary. Rarity is doing well on her job. Bird repeatedly told us he'll warn us if this action is necessary.
We should do Commission for the extra bits, which we need for many things, particularly the very rewarding expeditions we have, but also potentially heart books, Scrying and summoning rituals in the short term future, potentially the winter sacrament (30 actions each...)
...oh, I forgot another question I had for
@OurLadyOfWires
Considering that Winter Sacrament is basically an un-aimed use of EiB, does that mean it's still NOT recommended to do more than one per turn, or can we do 3 in the same turn "safely"?
We need two level 3 heart books if we want to use an influence to get to level 4.
That costs a total of 60 bits, 30 bits per level 3 book.
We can definitely afford it.
IF we find them, of course. But yeah, if we can it would be worth it. I don't think this is the right turn for them, though. Maybe the next one?
Oh boy. We're real close to Glory. But we're also real close to Daybreaker. And odds are that getting blood of the Outsider might kick up enough fuss to alert Daybreaker too. Don't forget, once we get the blood, we also gotta bring it to the Mansus to get to Glory.
Also... Poor Diamond Tiara. I hope she was only drooled on and not... Licked in... Improper places.
The implication of the expedition description is to me that the MOMENT we're done with that we'll RUSH to get the blood and go through the Tricuspid.
so I'm not THAT worried about this in particular.
The Names are explicitly not aware of the path Velvet discovered. Baldomare made that very clear when we had our revelation and spilled it to her. If they did know, they'd be gunning for Selene and Celestia right now over our rapidly cooling corpse. Except maybe Biedde, I'm not sure he is capable of deciding to try and make himself equal to the Colonel like that. Mareinette at least would be gunning for a chugging of sweet sweet Outsider Power straight from the tap though.
To be fair Mareinette might very well be literally unable to go through the Tricuspid.
She is, after all, an Alukite. The Old Laws might stop her from doing that.
Okay, all caught up, time to go compose a plan draft. Preliminary thoughts:
Must Do
- Forge's Redemption
- Knock lesson
- DoA Sacrament x 3
- Family FO
- Cadance (Commissioner FO)
- Teach Selene
- Mareinette social on Spoiled Rich
- Explore the Summit
Would Be Nice To Do
- Baldomare Sacrament
- Memory of Light
- Soothe the nights
- Find Neighnia
- Find the Windigo jars
- Study the Level 4 artifacts and/or Moth book
- Scry-scout BtRC, pt3
- Locate Windy
I'd replace Cadance FO with Friends FO.
Explore Summit is the free mansus point, nothing to say against that except we can't afford a dedicated action so hopefully the single point is enough. If not, maybe next turn we can dedicate an action to it.
I still disagree with Baldomare SH over Personal SH Sacraments, but we've been over that enough.
Honestly I'm not sure I even WANT to scry-scout BtRC 3, we could just send Axe + Biedde + Selene, pile artifacts on them, and let them do it on their own. Scrying is unlikely to change things that much.
While I largely agree with your list, Bird already said that using the Commissioner Actions on Cadence would be a redundant waste if we were also doing the Family/Friends Fleeting Opportunity. I personally would rather spend that action on getting a better look at what Eclipse is doing.
the FRIENDS one in particular.
Friends and Family are two separate FO actions.
Agree with you on this I totally do.
Not sure about exploring the Summit though that could be dangerous.
eh, probably not more dangerous than our average Mansus excursion. Is the Outsider juicer search, we HAVE to do it.
If you would look at my list, you would note that I only have the Family FO option on there and not the friends one for this exact reason
Mostly bcuz like. We already see our Confidants pretty often, narratively speaking. Maybe it would help w/ our other friends, but I don't think it's important to do so except for Cadance.
so you don't want to reassure poor Rarity and JADE that yes, you're really fine?
...actually, have we seen Jade
at all this turn? We've seen Rarity, FLuttershy, our family... but there's been no mention of Jade that I can remember.
@OurLadyOfWires Did Jade visit us this month? I'm now a bit worried about her.
Current bits: 409 (196 from previous turn, 160 from monthly salary, 53 from Rarity's dividends)
...
WAIT A SEC
we have a LOT of bits.
That is actually
enough to do Canterlot Part 3!
I think I'll put it in the plan... draft coming in a bit.
