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House of the Moon: A Pony Cultist Experience

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Ah, here's an idea.

[Z] The Traitor's Minstrels: It took quite a bit of digging (and an "unscheduled" visit to the Royal conservatory's basement archives) but you've managed to uncover the beautiful songs penned by your Lunar Sovereign, long suppressed by her treacherous sister. But no longer! The Tyrant's own efforts shall be her undoing, as you have been able to convince the Royal minstrel to play a selection of "new" songs at the upcoming soiree.

The Tyrant shall be forced to listen to the music of the rightful Princess of the Night and be unable to speak against it!


View: https://youtu.be/qVKsWT1OdAE
 
Vebyast said:
To explain the joke, since all of the write-ins so far have been a bit on the mean-spirited side of things: The goal here is comedically ineffectual misguided competence, where we get to laugh at how much effort and expertise and cunning Loyal List is putting in to do something with a positive outcome that she really should have predicted better. The humor arises partially from the juxtaposition of Loyal List's competence when executing her plan with her utter miscalculation of the plan's effects and inability to create a plan that accomplishes her strategic goals. Every prank nefarious act of eldritch sabotage must contain its own (hilarious) downfall. Ants and bureaucratic sabotage are too effective, there are serious negative outcomes there.

[Z] Replace the tyrant's imperialist-monoculture rose gardens with mixed native flowers in order to undermine her civilization's preferred order

Stated outcome: Anarchy and madness
Actual outcome: Butterflies and a "best gardening" award addressed to "whichever anonymous pony did this under our noses"

[Z] Play quiet music at night to subtly disrupt their sleep

Stated outcome: Sleepless nights and nightmares
Actual outcome: Lullabies, beautiful music, Loyal List learns the violin

[Z] Set up all the guards on blind dates with ponies they would appreciate (and that would appreciate them, gotta make this durable) to distract them and make them fear the consequences of failure

Stated outcome: Guards not at their posts, emotionally compromised guards
Actual outcome: Happy relationships

[Z] Send Celestia's favorite student on a wild goose chase

Stated outcome: Distraction, annoyance, tying up valuable horsepower
Actual outcome: Friendship, life lessons, Twilight in position to defuse the whole Nightmare Moon situation when it pops off

[Z] Go through the stacks finding lost paperwork and mailing it to its owners to force them to act on it, costing the population time and creating a tidal wave of incoming forms that will bring the bureaucracy to its knees

Stated outcome: Despair, confusion, overwork, sloppiness
Actual outcome: Everyone's insurance magically unfucks itself, taxes are painless this year

[Z] Find a mystically appropriate room in the palace and cover its walls and ceiling with occult truths to put the fear of the night into the ponies of Canterlot

Stated outcome: Spooky
Actual outcome: Meticulously correct planetarium and room scale star chart
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The fun in itself is to take it seriously in a silly way.
And ant can be solved by a flutter shy ant talker or ants eating everything spilled on the floor or just celestia with a magnifying glass
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[X] The Traitor's kitchens
Heavy cream dont hold the butter and Lard is a legitimate baking ingredient perhaps some coconut oil and extra chocolate
LET THEM EAT CAKE
 
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[X] The Traitor's conditioner
Celestia's glowing fur and ethereal mane have induced envy from generations of society mares. Temporarily deface that beauty via neon green dye.

Because I seen celestia liking a reasonable prank, not being seen as a god.
 
[X] The Traitor's floors
I want to see same cartoony running in place.

Twilight Sparkle's room is probably full of books from the royal library. Maybe some of them would be overdue.

[Z] Sneak into the Traitor's apprentice room.
Surely there will be something incriminating in the Traitors's apprentice. Once there she can figure out a bette- why are there so many books in this room? Some of the books she wanted to borrow from the library but they haven't been available. The librarian is not going to like this, she better return those books.
 
[X] The Traitor's kitchens

[ ] The Traitor's Propaganda
Centuries of erasure, defamation, and self aggrandizement must end. You'll replace the traitors lies with with the truth!... Well, sort of the truth. If you have to fill in the gaps with creative interpretations, well, that's the traitors fault for erasing so much!

[ ] The Traitor's Night
More than a thousand years of the same boring day was bad enough, but the same night sky too? Travesty! Abomination! Boring! You'll light up the sky with your own art, in honor of your glorious queen. If it disturbs the traitors sleep all the better.

Might come up with more later.
 
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[X] The Traitor's kitchens
In recent centuries, the Traitor Princess has let herself go soft and incapable of facing true threats to Equestria. Make her that much softer by adding extra heavy cream and sugar to all her meals.

On top of this being a hilarious way to work against Celestia, it gets bonus points for being thematically parallel to how nightmare night has portrayed Nightmare Moon as gorging on candy when she doesn't just straight up commit canibalism

Okay if this is not the proper format for the psuedo-write-ins I appologize but here we go

[Z] The Traitor's Court
You don't wish to harm the foolish ponies that are ignorant of the Traitor's crimes by complicating their legal proceedings, but messing with the schedule to overwork the Traitor as a poetic mirror to how Nightmare Moon's own court was undermined by the Day court.

Its unclear right now what resources she has, or what position Loyal List is in, and thus if she could effectively DO any of this, so this might have to be something for late in the story when she has more "experience" with her plots.

[Z] The Traitor's Light
You can't bring on the night like your beloved Queen, but you will do all you can to deny the Traitor the pleasure of her Sun- and light in general, through a profusion of new heavy curtains and sabotaged light fixtures, leave the Traitor in the dark as much as possible

Basically the same as the slippery floor thing, leaving ponies suddenly in the dark, and with just as many ways it can go wrong- canterlot is mostly unicorns after all, a simple light spell should be ubiquitous

[Z] The Queen's Glory
Lay the groundwork for your Queen's return by sharing the glory of her night sky with as many ponies as possible, potentially finding sympathizers as well, (stargazing event)

I just love the Idea of Loyal List trying to get people into the stars, while feeling them out for her culty shenanigans, only for her to just come accross as another weirdly obsessed pony sharing a hobby. Bonus points if she eventually gathers a cult (astronomy club) this way, complete with preparing for "when the stars are right"
 
Talon TigerDino said:
Oh I love the stargazing idea! The night skies can be so very beautiful.
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I know, and I love how the vibe of an eager stargazer, an avid fan, and a fervent cultist, could easily be mistaken for each other, not only letting Loyal List do her thing without weird looks (or weirder looks then any passionate pony would get) but potentially mistake others for being also in favor of Nightmare Moon, but not wanting to outright say it
 
[X] The Traitor's kitchens

Revenge is a dish best served cold. This obviously means that the best revenge is ice cream. Or cake.
 
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