Or maybe i'd just be chased away from the forum by the internet equivalent of a pitchfork carrying mob. I suggested this same crossover on another place, some time ago, and that was the reaction i received there.
I'm sorry, but I just have to answer to this specific bit: If that was the reaction you got to simply an unusual crossover idea, you were clearly on the wrong forum and you're better off here.
quests are mostly, I've found, a trinity thing: Sufficient Velocity, Spacebattle, Questionable Questing. They're the big three, and on these nearly anything goes (with most (but not actually ALL) of the nsfw vm18 content going on QQ). Ohter websites don't really count that much in comparison. I know of maybe another that has somewhat decent quests on it, and I can't remember its name right now.
And on a final Quote-note, someone mentioned a doubt about "how other Cult Masters would plan to save Equestria" if you had chosen other aspects to define your cult.
That was an interesting thought experiment, during the first turns, and let us say...
Although i am a Winter enthusiast, as a human being i think its good that you didn't chose that direction.
And as a (sorry excuse of a) writer, i am personally thankful that you did not pick Grail.
so, I imagine that Winter would have been something really cruel, like killing most of the light.
Grail you probably didn't want because it would be even harder to write, so... maybe we'd have to persuade all the powerful beings of the setting? Alicorns, Discord, Tirek, Chrisalis... unless it would have been trying to talk with the Worms themselves... which I can't imagine working AT ALL.
Knock is probably escape to another dimension, Lantern making people and factions aware of it, Forge/Edge probably some kind of combat, Heart would likely be finding ways to make you immune to them, and secret histories would probably search for an answer in the far past...
Also, in that fight with Tirek, it was the power of four Alicorns... against literally the entire rest of the world, including Discord IIRC.
Not quite the rest of the world. A decent percentage of Equestria's population though.
Your sister is getting better. You know it.
...well, she was.
It has been centuries now that almost every single moment of your day is planned and counted, sometimes down to the very second, and it has been centuries now that you have given up even your meals so you could attend more meetings or take care of more issues.
...Celestia and Luna REALLY need to learn to delegate more. Celestia with her meetings, Luna with her dream duties. Surely it has to be possible to teach other ponies how to dreamwalk?
Of course they'd be more vulnerable to the shadow beings, but Luna could either escort them to the various doors, or they could learn the needed Lores/Magic to protect themselves.
And those eyes look at you, directly at you, and you see that they recognize something that summons from within her a sensation that you cannot describe. As if she is looking at anything else, but not at her beloved older sister.
...oh, poor Luna.
so predictable, and yet so tragic. Hopefully she'll recover.
You quickly look around you, tension rising within you as your experienced eyes analyze the full extension of the damage.
Half the castle is gone.
...ok, this is a BIT beyond what I expected!
Shining…? Oh, Shining Armor, the stallion she has been going out with. You remember vaguely that he is captain on your Royal Guard, probably, and something tells you that he knows somepony else who is close to you…
damn, she's REALLY out of it!
[Princess Luna is now missing, she is nowhere to be seen in Canterlot after the "unexplained explosion" destroyed half the castle. Every last mare and stallion in service of the crown has been called for to search for her.]
...ok, we'll want to be the one to find her. I'm not sure just how much we should tell her, but we NEED to be the one to find her!
Wow. We nuked a city already. Nice.
Seeing people justify this is gonna be grand.
I'll just point out it was half a castle, not a city.
I wonder if the Master expected this to happen and he just didn't care/accepted its cost, or if it took him by surprise..
Because she was trapped in a looping nightmare and, by circumstance, woke in a way identical to the start of the loop. Not aware that she had woken up, she acted in pure panic. Any deaths were not intended, or not even considered a possibility as she thought she was still in the nightmare, and a result of her using an explosion to nope herself out of there faster than she could fly.
on that note, once she recovers and realizes what she did we'll have a NEW outbreak of severe guilt to deal with.
Or, well, she will.
-Wolf's Due Dice roll: 32 ponies dead. Interpret that number as you may, the damage was done to the castle, not the city, but this is an extremely personal opinion. To some, it might be far, far better than expected, to others Velvet's hoofs might as well be as stained as Comet Feet's and Windy Flakes'.
my personal opinion
1)if the Master WANTED this to happen, I'm going to leave the cult and likely try to work against him. It's one thing to have accidents happen, another to willingly cause them.
2)If the Master suspected this would happen, but thought it was an acceptable cost, I'd want to leave the cult but maybe be willing to work with him from, say, under the princesses, if needed. I'd certainly want to keep his actions under control as much as possible to limit damage, but he DOES have precious knowledge we (and Equestria) likely need, and the answer to a morally ambiguous/uncaring character (but not an outright evil one) is to try and use them for good rather than trying to kill him, at least as long as he can be useful. He's a dangerous asset, but an asset nonetheless.
3)If the Master didn't expect things to go like this and is surprised by it I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. Ponies died, but we're basically at war. Deaths are inevitable.
Generally speaking I'm cautious of the Master, his objectives and his methods, but not completely set to go against him yet. Just... let's say halfway there.
I figure we could try and find her in the dream world and just pose as a lucid dreamer and from there see if we can't introduce her to the Mansus and let her natural curiosity drive her closer into our cult to gain knowledge.
I doubt lucid dreamers can actually travel from one dream to another though. That seems like something that would conventionally require dream magic, and only Luna seems capable of it.
Though I would HIGHLY suggest AGAINST getting twilight involved right now as her loyalty to Celestia is absolute and she tells her beloved teacher/second mom everything and after what just happened the last thing we want in attention of any kind looking our way.
Dear Princess Celestia,
Today I learned that while sometimes your friends can act in a suspicious way, you should always give them the benefit of the doubt and not let your imagination jump to the worst case scenarios. You should also always give them a chance to explain things, no matter how bad it looks.
Also I joined a cult. Rarity really makes the culty look work, by the way.
Your Faithful student,
Twilight Sparkle.
