…Don't you roll and storyboard everything at the beginning of a turn? Or is there enough flexibility in this one that you held off on some things? Or did I just remember wrong in general?
Oh, I try storyboarding to the best of my abilities. But now that we have the benefit of hindsight, I can say that my storyboarding is often stumped whenever one of the updates involves a vote
You know, that thing that basically says game over if we're not ready by the time it hits?
A shame the "Exile DLC" is not compatible with our current "Mod: Happy Family!" we have installed, innit?
We could be a real ass and have her say she wants to learn them.
To get her memories back for example.
True. But denying a child something they want is a part of parenting. Especially if the child "thinks" what they want is for the best. Knowing better is the parent's job.
The fact that on this particular circumstance Stormchaser would be wrong is just another point of realism. Parents aren't perfect. Even Velvet isn't a perfect mom.
Hey Bird, out of curiosity, do you mind pulling back the curtain on how our two convincement points came about? Is that just how well we rolled, or just the amount of… personal clout, I suppose would the best way to put it, that we have with Stormchaser?
The only thing I am willing to do in good conscience is to point that your Attention of the Laws was consumed.
Apart from that, it involved a
lot of rereading old sections of the quest. But since it also involves factors you don't know about, I can't say much more.
That's the thing, they wouldn't be gutted. I highly doubt Ponyville has enough of a police force to capture and contain… oh, a third of the town or so, if my estimations are right?
The "numbers" aren't nearly that high. However, I think you have the right idea when it comes to "reach".
As in. Cult Influence in Ponyville is currently at "+9". Which means you have +9 in several actions that involves interaction with the city at large.
Won't get into numbers. But think about it like this. Every shop you want to buy from, every aspect of the town you want to interact with, the chances of a cult member being able to "nudge" things in your favor to the point of justifying a +9.
One third of the town is way too much, way too dramatic. But one cashier in every other shop, one pony who "knows somepony" that can help you with a particular issue, somepony who just happens to be walking along the street and is suddenly interested in helping you. That sort of thing doesn't require one third of Ponyville to be in on it. It doesn't even require one tenth of Ponyville to be part of the cult.
But even if you only have one cult member in every three houses, that's one agent interested in making sure his family, and his two neighbors, are within the cult's influence.
(But still, you're right about worrying about the logistics of arresting a large, somewhat decentralized,
Moth-based institution with at least a three-digits member count)
Fundamentally I am operating under the assumption that Bird created Dull Glass as a credible and meaningful threat. As an antagonist.
Yes.
Also, again, your intel on Dull Glass is severely lacking. Your only efforts towards that have been, to date, having Rarity investigate him.
And don't get me wrong, I respect Rarity's abilities (and yes, I do know she reads investigative novels) and she had her fair chance at dice rolls. But she is still only a Grail Initiate. Hardly what I'd call stacking the odds in your favor.
(And before you beat yourselves over it, remember the amount of things you have to worry about. If you couldn't muster more effort towards that, then you couldn't.)
Stormchaser would be against us even teaching Selene the level 3 lesson if we tell him about what happened. And would outright fight us on the ritual to restore Luna.
Not quite. You're free to do the Level 3 lessons. The ritual to heal Luna, however, will depend on this vote, indeed.
Velvet gives Celestia her arguments to gain her permission to proceed but Stormchaser can't do the same.
I wasn't going to make any comments on this running argument between you and Ericwinter. But let me just point out there is an extremely large problem with this particular piece right here.
...also, strictly speaking we never got involved with murder. We were partially responsible for the death of the guards, Luna's madness was an unintended side-effect, the changeling were all enemy infiltrators which don't count, and the whole purpose of the expedition was (in our eyes) to not only remove a threat but to save the prisoners.
A series of miscalculations and accidents, but from those standards we're actually barely in the clear I think.
I'm not saying I agree or disagree. But let me just say I always enjoy seeing these thought processes.
"It's not that bad when we get it wrong!", "We didn't know, we couldn't have known!" or "It was an accident!"
Truly,
history is written by the winners
Shame on you bird, where's the option to tell him about our new step-son? I cannot stomach the discrimination, smh. #Releasethewolfreleasethetruth
"So, Stormy, I know you always wanted a colt..."
"Well, yes. I did fancy having a tiny-you unicorn running around. And Silky could learn a lot from having a little brother. But, uh... we have already been through this dear. We agreed that you can't... quite...-"
"Oh, no, no no. Don't worry Stormy. I'm not bringing that up. Much better, I'm here to tell you I brought a solution!"
"You...
brought a solution...?"
"Yes! To your son-wanting problems!"
"..."
"..."
"Sweetheart, did you just bring
another foal home?"
"Not a foal, Stormy. Something much better!"
Like, say, war with the crystal Empire maybe?
We're probably due for that one. And that's if Discord doesn't act first. Or if the Plundervines don't suddenly start invading Ponyville from the Everfree.
...or, you know, maybe we'll be invaded by Parasprites and suffer a famine due to them.
(Writes down suggestions)
"You'd be surprised at how many ideas I get just from reading what you guys say..."
@BirdBodhisattva would we need actions to understand which lores Stormchaser and Silky are inclined to? I think we know them enough that it should be easy to determine.
Let's keep the cart behind the pony, not the other way around.
@BirdBodhisattva from what I know the 2-circle rituals we know (except Tapestry) are considered self-evident as long as you know the basic configuration of the 2-circle setup.
Wouldn't teaching Stormchaser/Celestia the basics of the lores, and then showing them those circles, be enough to have them understand how they work and what they'd do?
Refer to this post:
He hasn't thought about one yet.
Irrational, isn't it? I agree.
-for an explanation on "Parental Irrationality".
Discord is not appearing in the story he is in another HISTORY
"I'm sorry
Mario Fluttershy, your
Princess Discord is in another
HISTORY"
Thank you for that mental image. I can 100% imagine Discord snapping his fingers, and putting himself in a dress inside a cage, while dressing up Fluttershy with a characteristically red hat.
Aye, that's it for properly catching up. Vote-closing has been set for our usual 48h after update, so that's Saturday night.
I hope you are all doing well!
