I for one will certainly be voting for Edge Sacrament. We wasted Biedde's action on graverobbing this turn! The fact we're not pumping him for [A Resolution] every turn like clockwork is a high crime. And we're nowhere near the Moth sacrament clock and the constant arguments about it are silly. We're miles ahead of that counter. We can do studying on the turn we're not doing Baldomare SH and can get a Lantern influence off her. I just hope we get Axe actions back soon so that we can start doing expeditions. I really really want to start doing more expeditions. Lantern AOTLs are such a waste of an AOTL compared to getting [A Splendor] on a turn where we have multiple AP worth of studying built up.
Though this makes me sad that there wasn't more of a push for Personal SH pt 2 with our action refund. We're not going to be able to get SH Influence from Baldomare again for a while.
we were out of rerolls on SH and the DC is ABOVE 110. it was considered a bit too risky.
As for Biedde. I'm leaning Edge Sacrament too. The ONLY valid alternative would be I think to send him leading an expedition instead, and that's probably not worth it right now (and we could send other people instead).
Wait... if we manage to hit Perfect Frost that means that studying the Winter 4 artifact we got from the Gardeners puts us ready for Sacrament doesn't it? It's only like a 33/43% chance depending on how much cash we burn on a Reagent but if we get lucky I'd absolutely support doing the Winter sacrament turn after next. I'm not sure what our plan is for the final scrap if we only roll a +20 or +30 influence though. I doubt we want to spend the bits to shell out for a Winter 4 reagent though, that just seems like a bad investment to payoff ratio compared to cheaping out and making a level 2 or 3 reagent.
It would be kind of funny if we ended up wearing max level Edge-Winter-Heart influences at the same time, considering the subversion wheel.
uh. yeah, we COULD in theory, if we were lucky, manage that.
I also expect we might get one or more winter scraps from the winter sacrament actions themselves. It would be the first time we kill someone with what's effectively an "un-aimed" End is Beautiful.
a "Called" influence lasts two turns. doing one winter sacrament action would be fine-ish, and then we could do the other two the following turn. Or Vice-versa, I suppose.
Problem is I don't think we have the actions for it. But it's an option.
We have a Mansus Exploration action upcoming to "Explore the Summit" and we're been seeing a lot of Edge rolls on the top floors the same way that the Blank Plains were full of Winter rolls and the Branding floor had lots of Knock rolls and the Woods pre-Ash has lots of Moth rolls. Yes an Edge influence is valuable on any turn where we're exploring the upper floors of the Mansus.
It's certainly more of a benefit than burning an entire AP on deciphering one book that will take less than half an AP with a Lantern Influence. Heck, I'd even be okay with doing Calling of Influence: Lantern instead of Calling of Influence: Winter next turn if you really want study actions next turn. Not like we need it to be max level, a +30 influence would still halve the average actions needed to read the book, and Lantern rolls certainly aren't out of the question on Mansus exploration. And at least that way we can get Baldomare SH Influence on turn after next for Personal SH Sacrament rather than using her action for A Splendor
Lantern ritual influence is not the worst idea, though if we do it with Baldomare we get the tier 4 (and thus 2 scraps) automatically, which is pretty nice. It of course only lasts 1 turn and consumes her action, which we really need for SH influences AND the expedition though...
...Honestly IF we go for Lantern (or Winter) influence, we might very well want to make a lvl 4 reagent, even if it's that expensive, because managing to call a tier 4 influence simplifies things immensely on the scrap-gathering side.
We were seeing Edge exploration rolls when we were exploring in the area past the Tribal Door, specifically. Considering that we're now both on a new floor entirely ("The Summit" vs. "Beyond the Tribal Door") and exploring a very Forge-aligned location (Malleary), I'm not expecting us to be using Edge as our main exploration Lore. Normally we'd get to see which Lore's going to predominate over a location based on the Door's aspect, but it was very broken.
Also the Wastes is still Moth btw, its exploration Lore hasn't changed post-Ashening.
I wonder... would having an edge influence granted by THE LAST SOLDIER OF THE COLONEL just make things
worse if we met the presumably last follower of the Lionsmith?!
