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

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I had a Moth sacrament theory.

What if it gives us something that's kind of the opposite of [Honored Guest]? [Honored Guest] essentially allows Mareienette to take our place; to weave with our thread through the tapestry of history, such that noone can say Velvet did not do the social.

Moth Sacrament could give Velvet a [Dishonored Guest]. A Mr. Hyde-like persona, equally impenetrable to [Honored Guest.] We make a brand new thread with which we can weave through the tapestry of history, that simply is not Velvet, even if it acts with Velvet's body. We'd get +1 AP that has to be spent as our Dishonored Guest. The Dishonored Guest cannot do Social actions for us, since it's not us. And we'd have limited control over our alter-ego in much the same way that we lose control of mid-action choices with Mareienette.

And if generating a Dishonored Guest is the end, perhaps the thing we reveal to our victim in the process of building it in the Sacrament is all of the nasty and unpleasant parts of Velvet that we shove into the Dishonored Guest. They see that we have taken the evil in the heart of ponykind, built an unaccountable agent with it, and set it loose with all of our resources.

It'd also be very like the QM to make it a vague-horror-mine, instilling paranoia about exactly what our alterego is doing...
 
Earth-Destroyer said:
3 AP on Celetia is already to much in my opinion. 2 is already almost a full week of work on Celetia if she not out of the death spiral by then then it beyond Velvet's ablity to affect.
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No way that something directly compared to halting a nuclear meltdown takes less effort than the Knock Sacrament.
 
I don't see how the Tower is even the slightest bit relevant. It's explicitly labeled as "Gives a SH scrap" because it's a special location that requires you to reach SH sacrament to make progress on one of the quest's Endings. The other locations are normal mansus locations, that might give reagents or low-level influences or Dreads or whatever completely random nonsense, and only gives scraps on a highroll. We are not going to reach Moth Mastery via mansus scraps unless we find a bunch of moth scrap studyables on expeditions and need to highroll to get the last one or two.

Normal mansus locations are "Roll on a random table to get something." At best it's 20% of a scrap if we're lucky, and then divide further since it may be any of like 4 different kinds of scraps potentially. They're explicitly more random and less rewarding than new locations for a reason.
 
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ses said:
The other locations are normal mansus locations,
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Your explicitly ignoring the Wolf in room here.

As it has clearly been pointed out by the QM befriended higher powers can do a lot to aid Velvet. An example of this can be seen in Mareinette making it so that Velvet doesn't loose all her personal actions due to dancing with death.

Getting lessons from visiting a higher power repeatability during a turn and asking for lessons was a valid option for most of the quest.
 
Shaper47 said:
As it has clearly been pointed out by the QM befriended higher powers can do a lot to aid Velvet. An example of this can be seen in Mareinette making it so that Velvet doesn't loose all her personal actions due to dancing with death.
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mechanically speaking, dancing with death was never meant to have you lose all actions though. So that's more narrative flavouring than a mechanical advantage.
 
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