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That would match how even a glimpse and a touch was enough to start coughing out spores.
Earth Bet: House of the Sun (Cultist Simulator/Worm)
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- The Haustorium is said to be extremely dangerous, even to correspond with.
Witherbrine26 Can we modify the ritual to get a higher-level version of it?
For example, to turn a ritual of two circles into a ritual of three circles?
For example, to turn a ritual of two circles into a ritual of three circles?
Maybe we could give Charlotte as a long-term goal to find something that will allow us to persist despite the spores. That is why we have Confidantes, no? So we don't need to do everything ourselves.
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Well...
The Crowned Growth certainly still seems to have at least some influence over the place, considering the spores and the fungi.
At least for the first three obstacles, a member of the Inner Circle has one of the Lores as their major, so at least for this part we should be operating at effectively Level 6 as a baseline.
We should probably take advantage of being able to Call 2-turn Influences on other people, meaning that if we stick Influences on everyone on T17 they'll persist through to the expedition. Mopsy calling a Moth Influence on Delilah T17 and channeling one on us T18 gives us an additional +80 to Moth, and we can do a similar thing with Sol and a Secret Histories Influence via Theresa. Charlotte can Call her own Heart Influence with high likelihood to be either +30 or +40, and we can also Call a Heart Influence for another +30 or +40.
If we can't bring the Names, anyway. If we can, then they can still Call an Influence T17 for the appropriate parties and then just tag along instead of channeling Influences on T18. Or if we can't afford to bring them along.
Our weaker points are basically any Lore that we can't either abuse the location bonus to call powerful Influences for or that lack a Name to double-stack Influences with. So Forge, Winter, Edge, and Knock. Lantern technically also, but that can be supplemented with Sun Sparks if needed (and we can't bring Theresa).
I think we should have three main priorities over the next six turns:
1) Ransack the Mansus for as many spirits, scraps, and Names that we can find.
2) Deliberately scry + obtain powerful artifacts for the above 'weaker' Lores in the loadout.
3) Get to a minimum of All-3, which will probably happen just as a consequence of doing the above two things, tbh.
Is Mylissa not telling us, does she not know, or has it just not come up yet?
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Tbh we might want to wait on summoning even Theresa and just go ham on the Sun Sparks for a bit, since they're Lantern and presumably can still scry things for us while being cheaper and easier to summon, and we can just pick one to burn at random once we hit T15/T16.
Edit: Then again, Theresa can give us a SH Influence for maximum spirit-finding efficiency (+finding the Stag Door) so maybe it would still be worth it? We'd have to make sure to pay her renewal price though.
@Witherbrine26 just to verify, Sun Sparks can cast RotT on their own, right? Not just as sacrifices? I know they can't do three-circle rituals, but RotT isn't a summoning ritual, so...
Edit: Then again, Theresa can give us a SH Influence for maximum spirit-finding efficiency (+finding the Stag Door) so maybe it would still be worth it? We'd have to make sure to pay her renewal price though.
@Witherbrine26 just to verify, Sun Sparks can cast RotT on their own, right? Not just as sacrifices? I know they can't do three-circle rituals, but RotT isn't a summoning ritual, so...
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Summoning itself should be fine. This isn't the situation we were in over in equestria, we'll have the proper bindings and can send her back to the Mansus.
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Yeah, Mopsy doesn't seem as bad as Robigo or The Excelency Gnathobasis.
She is absolutely dangerous, even to people she likes (her idea of gratitude includes infecting a book with a soul-harming corruption), but with a proper binding and other Names around she should at worst be as bad as Marinette.
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Something to note about finding Level 5+ artifacts to bring along with us is that, unlike spirits (or Ashley), they won't cost us anything to bring along, and we'll be able to take at least five to use with maximum effectiveness (i.e. wielded by someone without that Lore).
No you cannot.
It hasn't come up yet.
They cannot. Unless said otherwise spirits cannot perform rituals, the exception is Names who can innately perform any ritual you know. Unless other circumstances arise of course.
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So was Mylissa referring specifically to Theresa here then or...? Because the way she phrased it seemed to indicate that said spirits could perform the scrying ritual, not just be used as fodder.
Ah, I see how that could be confusing. Apologizes for that. She is referring how they can be used to massively boost a scrying roll. It's been changed to be more clear that the intent is for them to be sacrificed.
Now it seems to me that the ban on visiting and divination of the library applies to all Names.
Otherwise, as soon as Mylissa found out that we could summon Teresa, she ordered us to do it and force her to perform a divination ritual in order to achieve the maximum possible success.
Otherwise, as soon as Mylissa found out that we could summon Teresa, she ordered us to do it and force her to perform a divination ritual in order to achieve the maximum possible success.
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Best-case scenario: Names can visit the Haustorium, but Lady Mylissa specifically is banned for some reason.
Then we take Aunt Mopsy and Teresa with us and pass 2 obstacles easily. A couple of Sun Sparks pass the third one, and then we don't know what is next.
Worst case scenario: all spirits are banned from Haustorium, or can't help us for some other reason (it just occured to me that Aunt Mopsy may be not exactly banned, but for example bound to stop uninitiated from entering... And since for now none of us is actually in the ranks of Know, that includes our entire cult). Then we just get as many Influences as we can(Lantern/SH from Teresa, Moth from Aunt Mopsy, Heart from Charlotte, Grail from us personally), and maybe try to find other expeditions where we can get artifacts.
Then we take Aunt Mopsy and Teresa with us and pass 2 obstacles easily. A couple of Sun Sparks pass the third one, and then we don't know what is next.
Worst case scenario: all spirits are banned from Haustorium, or can't help us for some other reason (it just occured to me that Aunt Mopsy may be not exactly banned, but for example bound to stop uninitiated from entering... And since for now none of us is actually in the ranks of Know, that includes our entire cult). Then we just get as many Influences as we can(Lantern/SH from Teresa, Moth from Aunt Mopsy, Heart from Charlotte, Grail from us personally), and maybe try to find other expeditions where we can get artifacts.
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Even if we can bring the Names, going the "stacking Influences" route decreases the total cost of the expedition on our end, so it might still be worth doing. Unless we find an expedition specialist Name a la the Daughter-of-Axes from Equestria. And also unless Mylissa is willing to have the cult pay for the Names to tag along.
They aren't really mutually exclusive routes.
I see no reason to take an Influence instead of a Name when we can take both.
And Names definitely will boost our chances significantly.
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They are tho? Having a Name channel an Influence should take their AP for the turn. Accompanying a long expedition also would consume their AP for the turn. So we'd have to pick one or the other.
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Ah, right. If we go double-Influence and they both call an Influence through a ritual and apply it themselves we do.
But even in that case it is better to bring a Name than an Influence, since Names just give a higher bonus.
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Alright, since the Haustorium is going to be such a dangerous and important expedition I've decided to try a much more complex reading using the Celtic Cross style this time:
Present: Page of Cups - Mme Bechet
Challenge: Ace of Cups - An Incarnadescence
Past: The Sister-and-Witch
Future: The Sun-in-Rags
Above: Page of Swords - Hint
Below: Five of Cups - The Creeping Breath Curse
Advice: Queen of Swords - The Maid-in-the-Mirror
External Influence: Six of Sword - The Wildering Mirror
Hopes/Fears: Two of Swords - The Lone and Level Sands
Outcome: Knight of Swords - The Diarist
It seems highly likely that Emir will get a lungful of of Crowned Growth spores, have a near-death epiphany, and will come out of this experience a wiser -if not healthier- person.
Present: Page of Cups - Mme Bechet
Challenge: Ace of Cups - An Incarnadescence
Past: The Sister-and-Witch
Future: The Sun-in-Rags
Above: Page of Swords - Hint
Below: Five of Cups - The Creeping Breath Curse
Advice: Queen of Swords - The Maid-in-the-Mirror
External Influence: Six of Sword - The Wildering Mirror
Hopes/Fears: Two of Swords - The Lone and Level Sands
Outcome: Knight of Swords - The Diarist
It seems highly likely that Emir will get a lungful of of Crowned Growth spores, have a near-death epiphany, and will come out of this experience a wiser -if not healthier- person.
THE FALL OF ST HYDRA
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OMAKE: THE FALL OF ST HYDRA
DID YOU KNOW?
WOE! WOE AND THE GNASHING OF TEETH! AMONG THE MYRIAD HISTORIES BLOOD SPILLS LIKE INK BOTTLES AND WORSE THAN LOSS WORSE THAN DEATH WORSE THAN TRANSFORMATION COMES THAT HORRID MASS OF THINGS BEYOND WHAT CAN BE ACCEPTED!!
THE WORMS HAVE COME!
AMONG THE MYRIAD HEADS OF SAINT HYRDA FIVE ARE LEFT BLEEDING YET PERSIST UNTO THE CURRENT! STILL FORWARD THEY MOVE, AND LIVE, AND BROUGHT LOW TO STRUGGLE FORWARD AS THE WORMS, OH THE MISERABLE WORMS DO WRITHE!
THOSE WRETCHED CREATURES! THOSE FOUL SHAPES! THAT WHICH HAS PRETENSIONS TO BE A HEAD AND A HYDRA BUT IS NOT BUT WORMS AND A CORPSE AND MERE WORMS AND A CRIPPLED SHATTERING SON AND SUN AND HE WILL DROWN!
DID YOU KNOW?
AMONG THE FLOOD AMONG THE DEBRIS AMONG THE FOULED AND TWISTING HISTORIES SHATTERED AND STRUGGLING YET DO THE HEADS OF ST HYDRA MOVE
IA! IA! PRAISE THE ST HYDRA! THE ONE OF MYRIAD HEADS OF MYRIAD NAMES THAT WHEN SUNDERED BECAME TWO NEW HEADS!
IA! IA! PRAISE THE ST OF THE FLOOD AND THE RICH BOUNTY OF EARTH AND INK AND BLOOD UPON WHICH CORPSE WORMS WILL DROWN!
DID THEY KNOW?
DID THEY KNOW THAT THE HISTORIES WOULD UNMAKE THEM? DID THEY KNOW BEFORE BECOMING AS CORPSE AS LOST AS TRANSFORMED THAT THERE WOULD BE NAUGHT AND NOTHING BEYOND DROWNING?
THE FALSE HYDRA AND THE WORMS AND THE CORPSE AND THE FALSE SON AND THE FALSE SUN SOUGHT TO BREAK AND ENSLAVE THE GREAT SAINT!
AND AS MYRIAD HEADS SHATTERED AND BROKE IT WAS THEY WHICH RAN OUT OF HEADS FIRST! FOR SAINT HYDRA SHALL NEVER BE BESTED IN FEATS OF MULTIPLICITY! NOT BY ANY! NOT BY MANY!
DID YOU KNOW? THAT IT WAS A NEAR THING DESPITE IT ALL?
VENERATE! VENERATE THE FIVE THAT STRUGGLE ON! VENERATE THE MYRIAD THAT BLEED THE FLOOD! VENERATE ONE ANOTHER AND VENERATE SAINT HYDRA!
ALL KNOW THAT WE EACH ARE A SCALE OF SAINT HYDRA! PERHAPS ALSO A MUSCLE! PERHAPS ALSO A NECK!
ALL KNOW TO ASPIRE TO BE NEW HEADS! FROM MYRIAD SHAPES UNTO MYRIAD HISTORIES!
THUS ARE WE ALL SAINT HYDRA! THUS IS THERE ONLY ONE SAINT HYDRA! FIVE HEADS STILL MOVING! THE WORMS WILL DROWN! THE SUN WILL SCREAM! THE SON WILL SEE THE CORPSE AND THE WORMS AND THE FLOOD AND SAINT HYDRA WILL TRIUMPH AS MANY AS ONE AS NOTHING UNTO SOMETHING AS SHIT UNTO THE SKY SO WILL RISE THE SCARAB HEAD TO ROLL THE SUN THE SON TO ROLL THEM OUT FROM EVERY SKY AND EVERY HISTORY AND AS THE TRIUMPH OF SAINT HYDRA OF SCARABS OF MANY HEADS OF NEW HISTORY IS MADE THEN IT IS THAT WE SHALL REVEL IN GLORIOUS HISTORIES SPROUTING FROM GROUND MADE FERTILE BY THE FLOOD!
PRAISE SAINT HYDRA! PRAISE THE HEADS ASCENDING! PRAISE THE SCARAB ROLLING! BE WISE! BE KNOWN! THE MYRIAD HISTORIES OF SAINT HYDRA RISE TRIUMPHANT! FROM FLOOD AND SHIT IS GROUND MADE FERTILE! FROM SHIT AND SOIL WILL RISE SAINT HYDRA!
IA! IA!
DID YOU KNOW?
WOE! WOE AND THE GNASHING OF TEETH! AMONG THE MYRIAD HISTORIES BLOOD SPILLS LIKE INK BOTTLES AND WORSE THAN LOSS WORSE THAN DEATH WORSE THAN TRANSFORMATION COMES THAT HORRID MASS OF THINGS BEYOND WHAT CAN BE ACCEPTED!!
THE WORMS HAVE COME!
AMONG THE MYRIAD HEADS OF SAINT HYRDA FIVE ARE LEFT BLEEDING YET PERSIST UNTO THE CURRENT! STILL FORWARD THEY MOVE, AND LIVE, AND BROUGHT LOW TO STRUGGLE FORWARD AS THE WORMS, OH THE MISERABLE WORMS DO WRITHE!
THOSE WRETCHED CREATURES! THOSE FOUL SHAPES! THAT WHICH HAS PRETENSIONS TO BE A HEAD AND A HYDRA BUT IS NOT BUT WORMS AND A CORPSE AND MERE WORMS AND A CRIPPLED SHATTERING SON AND SUN AND HE WILL DROWN!
DID YOU KNOW?
AMONG THE FLOOD AMONG THE DEBRIS AMONG THE FOULED AND TWISTING HISTORIES SHATTERED AND STRUGGLING YET DO THE HEADS OF ST HYDRA MOVE
IA! IA! PRAISE THE ST HYDRA! THE ONE OF MYRIAD HEADS OF MYRIAD NAMES THAT WHEN SUNDERED BECAME TWO NEW HEADS!
IA! IA! PRAISE THE ST OF THE FLOOD AND THE RICH BOUNTY OF EARTH AND INK AND BLOOD UPON WHICH CORPSE WORMS WILL DROWN!
DID THEY KNOW?
DID THEY KNOW THAT THE HISTORIES WOULD UNMAKE THEM? DID THEY KNOW BEFORE BECOMING AS CORPSE AS LOST AS TRANSFORMED THAT THERE WOULD BE NAUGHT AND NOTHING BEYOND DROWNING?
THE FALSE HYDRA AND THE WORMS AND THE CORPSE AND THE FALSE SON AND THE FALSE SUN SOUGHT TO BREAK AND ENSLAVE THE GREAT SAINT!
AND AS MYRIAD HEADS SHATTERED AND BROKE IT WAS THEY WHICH RAN OUT OF HEADS FIRST! FOR SAINT HYDRA SHALL NEVER BE BESTED IN FEATS OF MULTIPLICITY! NOT BY ANY! NOT BY MANY!
DID YOU KNOW? THAT IT WAS A NEAR THING DESPITE IT ALL?
VENERATE! VENERATE THE FIVE THAT STRUGGLE ON! VENERATE THE MYRIAD THAT BLEED THE FLOOD! VENERATE ONE ANOTHER AND VENERATE SAINT HYDRA!
ALL KNOW THAT WE EACH ARE A SCALE OF SAINT HYDRA! PERHAPS ALSO A MUSCLE! PERHAPS ALSO A NECK!
ALL KNOW TO ASPIRE TO BE NEW HEADS! FROM MYRIAD SHAPES UNTO MYRIAD HISTORIES!
THUS ARE WE ALL SAINT HYDRA! THUS IS THERE ONLY ONE SAINT HYDRA! FIVE HEADS STILL MOVING! THE WORMS WILL DROWN! THE SUN WILL SCREAM! THE SON WILL SEE THE CORPSE AND THE WORMS AND THE FLOOD AND SAINT HYDRA WILL TRIUMPH AS MANY AS ONE AS NOTHING UNTO SOMETHING AS SHIT UNTO THE SKY SO WILL RISE THE SCARAB HEAD TO ROLL THE SUN THE SON TO ROLL THEM OUT FROM EVERY SKY AND EVERY HISTORY AND AS THE TRIUMPH OF SAINT HYDRA OF SCARABS OF MANY HEADS OF NEW HISTORY IS MADE THEN IT IS THAT WE SHALL REVEL IN GLORIOUS HISTORIES SPROUTING FROM GROUND MADE FERTILE BY THE FLOOD!
PRAISE SAINT HYDRA! PRAISE THE HEADS ASCENDING! PRAISE THE SCARAB ROLLING! BE WISE! BE KNOWN! THE MYRIAD HISTORIES OF SAINT HYDRA RISE TRIUMPHANT! FROM FLOOD AND SHIT IS GROUND MADE FERTILE! FROM SHIT AND SOIL WILL RISE SAINT HYDRA!
IA! IA!
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Okay, so, new tentative plan:
6 AP + 3 Follower AP
1) Knock lesson
2) Summon Theresa
3) Explore the Woods
4) Explore the Overgrown Orchard
5) Create a ritual (mental Malus removal, Heart major)
6) Ashley Lore training
C) Assist with ritual creation
SS1) Sacrifice for Theresa (the fading one)
SS2) Sun's Plan: Emir
Decided to keep summoning Theresa on the itinerary since she can cast a SH Influence on us on T13, so we can go ham on finding the rest of the White Plane spirits, the Stag Door, and spirits beyond the Stag Door over T13/T14. We'll have to make sure we pay the renewal price though so she sticks around to either come with us or channel an Influence for the Haustorium.
6 AP + 3 Follower AP
1) Knock lesson
2) Summon Theresa
3) Explore the Woods
4) Explore the Overgrown Orchard
5) Create a ritual (mental Malus removal, Heart major)
6) Ashley Lore training
C) Assist with ritual creation
SS1) Sacrifice for Theresa (the fading one)
SS2) Sun's Plan: Emir
Decided to keep summoning Theresa on the itinerary since she can cast a SH Influence on us on T13, so we can go ham on finding the rest of the White Plane spirits, the Stag Door, and spirits beyond the Stag Door over T13/T14. We'll have to make sure we pay the renewal price though so she sticks around to either come with us or channel an Influence for the Haustorium.
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