I've been worried about Windy for a while. I made a split plan from Greymere's solely based on that.
While I'm still a bit partial to taking Copper alive, you make a compelling argument. Darn, that's disappointing. It feels like our rate of scrap acquisition was much higher early game when we had time to read books and mess around in the Mansus. Also, I wonder how Our Lady of Wires is going to model the risk of a prisoner breaking out or generating suspicion. If I recall, in Cultist Simulator, the prisoners just die (of ill health?) after a period. (See the wiki.) But then
So potentially they could just say prisoners get kept safely indefinitely just like the game. @OurLadyOfWires can you tell us anything about the prisoner mechanics you have planned? Or you could reserve your right to keep it secret of course.
Fixed. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. EDIT: Although
is under "Exclusive actions". So it seems like Jade is the only one who can do the research?
Yeah, none of my approval votes are showing up.
It was, actually. We'd get scraps for just going about our regular activities quite often (we got a Grail scrap for initiating Rarity, for instance), not to mention lower level books were both cheaper and more common than the kinds of books we need now. But that just won't fly now that we're more knowledgeable about the Lores. Plus, the number of scraps we need is just going to keep increasing the higher level we get.
Well, we're near the Everfree. Scavengers could easily have gotten at the bodies before they were found and made off with pieces. It's a simple and actually fairly probable explanation.
At least the Velvet phase should be fairly simple
One thing at a time.
Who knows.
Thank you kindly! This is very helpful for these kinds of votes. I'll look over the tally-leaders myself later, but I'm busy right now.
What? No.
Hold that thought.
Thank you! I will go add it now.
No. But if you have a prison, and get your first prisoner, you will be introduced to it.
You need an action to heal two wounds, there's no way around it, the influence just buffs the chance of success.
This is from this threadmark.
If servants really generate suspicion then it is too a malus, and coupled with the fact that we were explicitly told that forge pony would be better it is not at all obvious who would be considered as a better choice.
Grail would be useful for social actions. But if we go without Influence I think giving Velvet SH book and searching for books in Ponyville may be best choice. We would need two Heart lvl 3 books to get to 2 scraps from Heart 4 then use Heart influence this turn or turn after.
I think this new "Rarity Digging" plan is underrated and superior to all the other plans that create a prison, since they don't make a lot of time for searching for the Outsider. I'd like to have the option of capturing Copper available at least.
If we find out it's too difficult to keep a prisoner, we can feed her to Mareinette right away. (Don't forget that this approach also gives us information on prisoner mechanics for the future.)
) as a plan that will likely find us the outsider ASAP. Frustratingly, I remember there was some discussion on how exactly the Outsider search dice work and how many we actually need, but it's kind of buried now. If anyone has a link handy…This is intriguing as the only plan that has us/Mareinette attempt to talk to Twilight, but I would rather leave that to next turn and have Selene enter Twilight's dreams. (Imagine if we had Mareinette for that crucial post-Catastrophe meeting with Twilight, given the results we can see her getting now? Ugh.) It will be a lot lower stakes, and she will be more open and even suggestible. (Sidenote: Twilight and Luna's interactions in canon, while not too remarkable, are a fertile area of thought in fanfictions. How did Luna relate to Twilight as the pony who helped free her from her nightmare state? And who became a princess too? I would also be remiss not to mention the shipping, but it seems improbable in this quest.)
Y'know, no, I had never considered this. The imagery of 4 things Old and Terrible marching on Copper -- led by Rarity, fashionista extraordinaire -- is a funny one, and I'm glad I now have considered it.
Lots of possibiltiies at AnyDice here.
And don't forget the interesting narrative of 2 Grail adepts on opposite sides.
Yeah, fair enough, I guess it's paying 25 bits for an extra +~21 on the Outsider search.
