It's even easy to justify with conventional physics/geometry. Just have it move in a spiral pattern, slowly getting closer. You can't exactly guess where it started that way.
That said... Do we have an idea of how earlier than it striking its target can we feel it? Mostly because... let's say it's targeting our family and not us, and we're not with them.
Does it take days to get to them? Weeks? for how long it would be in our range before reaching us?
A good suggestion. And if nothing else works, eldritch geometry will save the day.
And about your second question, I won't make it a problem. You will always be able to stop an attack against a pony you in your family
except for Stormchaser when he is away from home.
Your other contacts, on the other hand, are all fair game to die without you knowing.
As for the Wrong Keys, isn't DoA's stay shortened because of giving those away?
Pretty sure someone answers this later on, but don't worry. That was just her monthly action.
Ah I haven't done a Grail Namehood victory
What?
B-but... But Marinette is the key-holder that helps you in that most tasty of victories...
Btw @BirdBodhisattva, shortly after your departure I wrote two apocrypha (there was a third by another member as well). Not sure if you're intending to go through the backlog of posts at a later date, but wondering if they could be threadmarked.
In which it's all Discord's fault
In which it's all Discord's fault, and Celestia knows it
[Not sure preferred title]
I could finally sit down to read these properly (though I haven't been able to see the whole discussion during my absence period). And your two works are delightful! Discord's growing dissatisfaction with the world, and eventual scheming, actually made him sound a lot more "humanized" than I thought possible. He actually felt like a prankster.
And your work in depicting Celestia really showed, at least in my opinion. Her point of view definitely had that "larger and greater" feeling, as if she can sense things that other ponies cannot, or that her mind is simply more expansive. So, I read your AN at the end and I think you did great! Thank you for sharing it with us!
Also thank you for pointing out Emissary's writing. No need to check, but if you know of any other omakes that appeared during those months let me know!
(Speaking of which,
@Emissary let me know if you want that title changed if you ever see this)
On that note I wanted to ask. Has there been a WoG that explained why the Names that are still around didn't just claim their Respective Hour's posts? Like I can buy some of them not wanting to like Baldomere and others like DoA being unable but all of them? Especially the Master? Something has to have happened to make that impossible
Nope. And it's probably an Important Plot Thing, so I don't imagine we'll ever be getting one either. We'll just have to figure it out ourselves via Velvet.
Greymere is on point, to answer your question.
Quick question @BirdBodhisattva, are Mansus expeditions scaled to the region we found them in? Like, could we reasonably expect the Temple would be significantly easier to traverse than the Church, since the Temple is in the Mansus Tutorial Area?
I shouldn't say "yes", but in all honesty it would be disingenuous to day no.
Mansus had been planned from the start, and the Woods is the ground floor.
"Congratulations, Velvet Covers, you have just located the tutorial!" the booming voice said to the speedrunner.
@BirdBodhisattva you say you were going to lower the wolf cpunter to a 6 max? I distinctly remember that being the mechanical manifestation.
I don't really think much about it. Not because it is not important. No, by no means that's the case. But instead, because...
Well, the way I see it, there are two possibilities.
The first possibility, which I think is the most likely, is that you will never pick a
Regrettable Action again. Or that you will AT MOST pick one more.
The
second possibility is that... assume you reach 6
Regrettable Actions (ignoring Softy Softy Sweeps). What happens next? What is the current state of the
world in that scenario?
If we ever get that far, what would ever stop you guys from picking a
Seventh? In fact, why wouldn't that last step be
better than
whatever else is running loose in Equestria at that point?
I don't think much about it, because whatever happens will happen. I openly like the Wolf, and I hope the Mother of Wolves is the ending we reach, but I also am not silly enough to believe that will ever happen.
So, uh. Seven, six, those numbers might sound relevant, but I really don't think they are. Important, sure, but not exactly relevant for any plans you guys might prepare today or tomorrow.
I hope that makes sense.
Hello! I binged (nearly) all 750k words in an embarrassingly short amount of time last week. Thank you BirdBodhisattva for putting so much time into this
Thank you kindly! And I am glad you have joined us. Do chime into the discussion whenever you feel like!
Just wait until we have to talk to Twilight
Yeap. That, and rolling to regenerate your health. You did choose not to guarantee your healing, after all.
Also hey @BirdBodhisattva are you gonna tell us what Stromchaser's trait for SH 3 is or is it someting we're gonna have to figure out?
About that.
Individual ponies' Realizations and Sacraments are a thing. Or rather, they exist and I keep track of them. But it would be too much information to add them as relevant, quantified bonuses. The decision-making and micromanaging that would occur, to have Jade's Realization applied
here and Rarity's Sacrament used
there, is not something I am currently looking at kindly. So, no need to worry about that.
Or rather, Velvet knows what it is because Stormchaser told her. But since it is not 100% required for some decision-making, I don't feel myself forced to tell you. I much rather weave it into the story and present it in a narrative way that is entertaining and fun, rather than make a dry-cut answer of "he can do X".
I think it makes for a better story.
"demanding"?
"even if they"?
Right you are. Thank you!
The frustrating thing is that... I basically have nearly all tier 6 lores, EXCEPT for the one I need for the riddle!
It's asking me Grail 6, and I have all the other 6s except for, you guessed it, GRAIL (And Knock and Edge admittedly)
That is delightful. I remember how long I scratched my head until I figured out that the riddles needed Lores to be answered.
Which annoys me a great deal. Also, no follow you heart because of it.
Aye, indeed there is. And I apologize if it annoys you.
But on a very small note, I think all the updates to date can be read even if you entirely miss the invisitext.
Yes. Even the Carcass of the Wolf. Because if you miss the invisitext, it reads like a nightmare, and the invisitext stops exactly when the nightmare ends. And that is exactly what was intended.
And that seems to be it!
Let me know if I missed anything. I'll set the vote to close in... two days? That sounds about right.
