I thought it was because Cadence does not have any Moth and thus can't hide her Lore knowledge from Celestia. As for treasury, it assumes that Celestia allows Cadence access to strange and powerful artifacts.
Even if she doesn't, it'd be pretty easy to find and acquire the artifacts necessary, considering we're presumably about to befriend the expedition-specialist Name and if we study the Lantern 4 artifact we'd get access to a scryer w/ 3 AP (hint hint). And we can use them later for All In, so it's not like it'd be a waste of time to go looking for a couple of nice Forge and Grail artifacts.
Well ritual also involves Cadence hammering on Twilight horn with a hummer, but I guess she can practice on Shining first.
We made our bed and it is time to lay on it and stop making excuses with unreliable, in this case, morality.
Her horn isn't the main issue, it is the lesser issue.
Leaving her alone also isn't a cure, and that's something that we will most likely do due to the action economy hell.
Sometimes the only and best possible answer from Velvet in particular is nothing?
Wait and hope is all good, but sayings don't apply the same in every situation, we have no guarantee that doing nothing is the best thing to do.
If we shouldn't pull the lever because we may make things worse we might as well give up alredy, because as shown before, sometimes we have to choose our poison, and inaction certainly wasn't the better choice those times.
actually I'll ask.
asap indeed, BUT depending on the risk to Velvet she MIGHT be willing to wait some time. Keep in mind we can't exactly teach her the lores when Celestia can SEE if someone has lore affinities... unless she can justify learning them somehow, ideally WITHOUT pointing to Velvet.
not the same. That's arguably a wrong decision, but it was taken to make CADANCE happy.
exactly!
My main hope is Selene's dream-soothing, and if allowed maybe having HER recruit Twilight for her efforts to "fix" Celestia.
I don't know if we should really be recruiting Twilight to the Daybreaker situation. Having Luna sooth her dreams is really the furthest we should ask her to meddle if we can ask at all, and anything further should be up to Selene's discretion.
I don't think that's a very good reason, as this was an optional side quest where we lose literally nothing by not accepting it. On a more practical level, Mirror Twilight won't actually be that useful, as Jade is already a powerful Lantern ally, it would take us 3-4 turns at the minimum to make her comparable (when we're already on a tight schedule), and comes with the extra hassle of making sure the ponies who know her don't realize something is off.
In the initial Grail roll that got us stuck in this situation, there was a possibility of using the Forge's Redemption to salvage our relationship. While that may not specifically apply anymore, having her horn back will probably help at least a little with her mental state (as her Cutie Mark revolves around magic, and the show tends to imply that a pony not being able to do their talent can cause/exacerbate mental issues).
I would say it's less of an Action Economy issue and more that Velvet had been asked point-blank not to interact with her, and she is seemingly too guilty to talk about it to anyone else.
You are trying to reach too high imo, i don't really think that soothing her dreams or somewhat revealing, because Twilight isn't dumb, that Velvet knew about Luna are going to be good for Twilight or Velvet, because what will Luna tell Twilight about her dissapearance? And Twilight will ask.
Wdym "what will Luna tell Twilight about her disappearance"? She could... just tell her most of the truth? That she re-experienced her memories of what turned her into Nightmare Moon, it re-traumatized her, and she spent the past year or so basically sleepwalking as a child to preserve her sanity.
It's mostly Selene's decision anyway. Daybreaker is HER problem, for the most part. I'm just brainstorming possibilities.
Luna hid because she had to recover after an evil "mental" attack, and only recently recovered enough to come back, and found out her sister is unstable.
My guys, I love player agency as much as the next person. But I need you to understand the Twilight boat sailed away a long, long time ago.
... We need to study the Moth 5 book yesterday.
If you believe that is the only question she will ask you are very, very wrong.
How did you even come to that conclusion?
Look at the situation objectively. Velvet won't do anything with pony Twilight ever again. And we know that the Wolf cult wants Twilight, and they are the only remaining faction, that cares enough to work on Twilight.
No I dont. Which is why I was confused why you singled out the question of Luna's disappearance as the thing that would cause issues, and not... pretty much everything else?
Okay, there are 2 things wrong with this theory:
Leaving things for the last minute is never a good idea, so I would argue it is that urgent actually. I still want to scry the highest possible level Moth artifact we can find that would hide our Lores for that exact reason.
Well, i suppose that i could have phrased it better.
I wouldn't say that, it's just that we chose wrong wording or just were plain unlucky, more of the latter i would say.
And also making a morally wrong choice by abandoning a Twilight again.
