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

[Greymere]

Sending multiple Names is kind of pointless, it's not like their general bonus stacks. Most likely we send Axe plus artifact Cherenkolt (zero bits, same lore levels added) to handle the book hunt. Artifact Cherenkolt gets to lend 9 total lore levels to every expedition he's sent on for zero bits. Plus the SH and Lantern artifacts.

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Are we considering +30 Lore bonuses pointless now? Barely even a couple of turns after we sent an entire trio of Names plus an alicorn just to kill a single, mortal pony for the explicit purpose of covering all of our bases?

 

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Are we considering +30 Lore bonuses pointless now? Barely even a couple of turns after we sent an entire trio of Names plus an alicorn just to kill a single, mortal pony for the explicit purpose of covering all of our bases?

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25 bits and zero AP is a lot different than 125 bits and their full turns. Sending extra names on short expeditions is easy fun and profitable. For a long expedition we are absolutely going to need to rely on Axe's general bonus plus artifacts and fun sized Forge name. See how we've repeatedly failed to find room in the bits and AP budget for BTRC 3.

Axe was literally designed to solo long expeditions. This is what she's there for.

 

[DelightedOne]

Hell it might even be Windy.

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Cloudsdale indicates a Pegasus, Windy was an Earth Pony from what I remember.

Whatever is involved though Copper thought it was worthwhile which means it's probably pretty valuable.

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Copper was also very petty and controlling from what we saw.

And the description states that it could be a thief or a traitor(just please don't be Zephyr Breeze). So I'm not really vibing with an expedition called "debt collection" being that important.

Look, given Celestia's Celestianess that's the least likely victory for us to get. We're on the end run and have no way of dealing with our Daybreaker problem which I believe were pretty sure locks out that Victory.

Even if we recreate the path half of the key is lost to us.

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Remember what we talked about? That we would wait before stating anything about this subject?

We still have no definitive confirmation of it being impossible to defeat Daybreaker and saving Celestia, so we wait till Selene tells Velvet what happened while she soothed the night this turn.

 

[Greymere]

25 bits and zero AP is a lot different than 125 bits and their full turns. Sending extra names on short expeditions is easy fun and profitable. For a long expedition we are absolutely going to need to rely on Axe's general bonus plus artifacts and fun sized Forge name. See how we've repeatedly failed to find room in the bits and AP budget for BTRC 3

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BTRC3 isn't the key to a Name's permanent loyalty, and it's never been anywhere close to a priority. Long expeditions, especially one for a Level 7 book, are also going to be more difficult. The exact kind of situation where the oomph of sending more than a single Name is absolutely warranted.

 

[Shaper47]

We're almost certainly going to need to send multiple Names on a long expedition (which is CRITICAL),

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And "we don't have the AP" isn't even true. The only possibly scenario where that could be true is if, for some reason, you are prioritizing the Manehattan expeditions over Name friendship missions.

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We don't have the bits for a long expedition for multiple Names given your instance on wasting any chance of us gaining bits all the time.

We'd need at least 360 bits for a long expedition to go after a level 7 book. Baldomare, Axe and Mareinette at very least.

Which runs counter to our priorities to befriend our Forge Name and hide from Celestia. Not to mention a SH Sacrament or any other Sacraments like Winter. There's also people's insistence on paying Biedde and also refusing to use him to get bits.

The math just doesn't add up.

Which is why need these expeditions to gain loot probably in the form of bits.

Cloudsdale indicates a Pegasus, Windy was an Earth Pony from what I remember.

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We could have lived at Cloudsdale and we're a Unicorn.

 

[DelightedOne]

We could have lived at Cloudsdale and we're a Unicorn.

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Wait, what? Was it mentioned somewhere? Because the only options we had for where Velvet would live were: Ponyville, Canterlot, the Crystal Empire and Manehattan.

 

[Greymere]

We don't have the bits for a long expedition for multiple Names given your instance on wasting any chance of us gaining bits all the time.

We'd need at least 360 bits for a long expedition to go after a level 7 book. Baldomare, Axe and Mareinette at very least.

Which runs counter to our priorities to befriend our Forge Name and hide from Celestia. Not to mention a SH Sacrament or any other Sacraments like Winter. There's also people's insistence on paying Biedde and also refusing to use him to get bits.

The math just doesn't add up.

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Yeah we would need at least 360 bits. And guess what, Shaper?

We're gonna have at least 500 bits next turn, possibly 550 depending on Rarity's exact dividend numbers, considering there's a snowball's chance in hell that we don't have Rarity on commission. Are you really going to argue that 500/550 bits isn't enough to pay for the reagent expedition and sending three Names (+mini-Kolt) on the book expedition? Especially when, considering the degree of coverage that would result in, they'd be practically guarenteed to not actually use up the full 360 bits?

We absolutely can afford it. Sure, maybe we'd have to delay the SH Sacrament (again). But also, again, the chances of the Name Brigade actually using up the full 360 bits is rather low, which should leave plenty of bits for our SH Sacrament.