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

[Talon Tiger Dino]

Let us keep in mind our immediate goals: keeping Cherenkolt and Baldomare in the Wake. What do these goals require? Money. Money for the Rituals to find stuff, money for the Expeditions to get the stuff, and in Cherenkolt's case money to refine the stuff we got and money for the ritual to cure Velvet's ensuing radiation poisoning.

What do our remaining Sacraments after this turn require? Well, for Personal Forge it's money for alchemical ingredients. For Cherenkolt Forge it's money for workshop materials. For Winter it's money for rituals. For Edge (if we fail) it's money for rituals. For Baldomare Secret Histories it's money for an Expedition with her. For personal Secret Histories it might be money for some preparatory AotLs, I don't remember the exact mechanics for it. For Moth we need Spoiled Rich. For Mareinette Grail we need a prisoner. For personal Grail we need some Confidantes. For Personal Lantern we need a prisoner. For Baldomare Lantern we need people to go with her on an expedition, but if you want MitLs then you need money to summon them.

Oh, and if we fail to get Edge this turn then we'll need money to either keep Biedde in the Wake or to summon him back later.

Note how our most (6-6.5/11) of our immediate and long-term methods of accruing power require bits. Note how none of our immediate goals require a 3-circle ritual site. Note how summoning things with said 3-circle ritual site would cost money. What do you think we should be prioritizing? Advancing the chance of getting a ritual site by a turn, or increasing the chance of finding something of monetary value in the hive?

 

[ses]

Your horn flickers to life as you bring out all the valuables you had stolen. Priceless magical artifacts you had pilfered with your "royal authority", magical scrolls that you did not even have time to read yet, and jewelry that had been produced by the perfectionist hoof of pony savants. You collect the artifacts and nothing else, they at least will be useful in the coming war you will fight.

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This was Queen Chrysalis's first instinctual response to realizing she needed to flee her infiltration. We can assume that whatever leadership the changelings have now have similar modus operandi to their late Queen. So yeah. There's a very good chance based on the text that changelings would keep moveable assets in their hive pilfered from their current infiltrations to act as insurance if they need to flee.

Artifacts, Books, Jewels.