Aye, thanks for the advice! I had 12 hours in mind more for a "proportional" reason. Since I'll try to keep the 48h voting period as a norm it made some sort of sense to have "1/4th" of it as a non-voting period.
I also thought that since i mostly post updates late at night thanks to work (or at least on late Brazil time) having a short period of moratorium would have no effect since most people would be asleep.
Foolish of me, truly, to underestimate SV reading habits. I'll see how a 2 or 3 hours moratorium works on the following turns, but this one seemed to have stabilized nicely.
And as you said, moratorium might be important to more important votes, in which the options are also single-pick (as in waifu votes or life or death decisions), so there is indeed wisdom in what you all say.
Also...
Our Master's too Mothy ironically, to really run the Cult efficiently.
Forge Master would have been wonderful. Picture the definition of "practical".
It clarifies 'no purchase'? It's suspicious, maybe cursed, and expensive; 'on hold' is the syntax for an item you're not interested in, until another buyer snatches it up or we change our mind.
Edit: The cost section is ambiguously worded, such that it might be interpreted as voting to buy the item, perhaps.
Aye. Lets make a habit of simply not picking the choice for buying if we will ignore it. On other turns there was a "buy" and "not buy" option, but I dont think its on this turn. Lets just not mention it if we wont decide to buy it, and spare us the copy-pasting for plan making.
Hmm... actually, looking at it, I think
not buying it--which is what I want--would be leaving it out entirely? There's two seperate options, but one seems to be "you bought this last turn" and the other is "stuff you can buy this turn".
@BirdBodhisattva if you could clarify that when you get a chance? I'll be removing it from my plan until then, just in case.
And this as well, putting the "last turn's shopping list" might have been overzealous. It would have been relevant if you were tight on bits, and if there were books or other things competing for your attention, but truly in this turn it just made things more confusing. Pardon.
Again, do not mention the buying option if its not being picked on your vote.
@BirdBodhisattva, what happens if The End is Beautiful ritual fails to deal enough wounds to kill a target? It says no matter what "Somepony, somewhere, will die", and I doubt that it would be the target, otherwise why bother with a roll? That leaves either the caster of the ritual or some random pony somewhere in Equestria (or some random minotaur/gryphon/changeling somewhere on the planet).
Second question, is The End is Beautiful's once a month limit a local or global limit? If our cult cast the ritual and another separate cult also cast the ritual within the one month timeframe would there be consequences or would things be okay?
First question, The End is Beautiful (and any Ritual, for that matter) will only fail if you miss a CD, so since the
WINTER CD is variable, so as to define what the target will face, you will only fail it if you do not reach the
LANTERN CD 60 part of it. If you fail to deal enough wounds to kill a target the target will still be wounded, its only a matter of whether you will "hit the intended target, or not".
Second question. That is a very good question. The fine print only mentions that it is extremely unadvised to try it more than once, so you might have to call Mansus tech-support for that.
Heart.
This cult is in a bad need of a mid-tier adept of the Heart A skilled adept of heart can navigate society like it's own bedroom and gives everyone a hug. And with our level of Moth and Winter lore we very much need it to counterbalance certain urges.
and I really think Heart would help with all the "make sure people don't go crazy or depressed" going on
This is a clerical matter I would like to address, so you may all take educated decisions and not lull yourselves into false expectations while in the crucial phase of planning for actions.
HEART is indeed about preservation, continuity and the dance, as well as other things. But take note of certain details: the optimism attributed to it is in fact the "preservation of the self", and the unflinching continuity of effort in face of adversity. In the CS game (and I say this only as a vague example, since this is NOT the CS game) while Heart adepts are pleasant and optimistic, some of them are downright unnerving as they grow in the Aspect. They are not smooth-talkers, they are merely "people who are never, ever,
ever in a bad mood" and that may or may not be contagious depending on the receiving party.
But I stress this, good mood is not contagious as a rule.
Also, mechanically, Heart will offer you no dice advantage for social aspects. The base Heart bonus is against "things which would harm your body", for example. It might be instrumental for combating Worms if you ever need to face them, and if they get within the range of your or somepony else's body, but by then I assume the situation will already be very dire indeed.
In fact, Heart might even have some combat uses. Poison resist and the likes, perhaps? But I wont elaborate any more, since it is not my place. I think this is as much as Velvet would know from her cult-going experience.
But on a final note, if smooth-talking is what you look for, then do not disregard Grail. Remind yourself that Soft Sweeps opened herself to you on a roll that involved Grail. And although Grail might be attributed to certain carnal things, it just might be the aspect that is closest to love.
Oh fuck me, Tartarus is a place that exists in this setting.
Correct.
And about editing plans, I'll trust you all to make a culture of it, don't see how I could help in trying to establish any sort of conventions since I mostly avoid discussions unless for clerical reasons. So yay.
