Yeah, we've tried occasional brainstorming, but very few useful ideas that we can actually do have come out of it.
What's the point of training if you're not going to train them to do it right? Even if not explicitly modeled, we do know that shield use doesn't fall under the magical girl instinctive combat reflexes, and needs to be practiced.
No, it's because of that that it's a problem.
Depends on whether the work can be done on multiple houses in parallel, or only one house can be refitted per month. I'm assuming that most stuff can be done in parallel. @inverted_helix would have to make the call on that.
Mami's apartment can be traded for $1200 per turn. It's not going to get us $100k+.
Yeah, we need to talk to them. Also talk to the girl in area 3 (should do that this turn, really). And then some time with the Coalition.
I said sell, not rent. Or are you saying the GM won't allow us sell it?
I was thinking of it as more likely whatever was providing for Mami's material needs was some sort of long term Trust set up by her parents, which limits her flexibility in using it. At least that was my logic.
You'll be able to use it in the next turn plan. (Since this turn is already locked in.)
About half and half. Hiko can't spare whole squads of elites in the same way Hino can.
I think developing Mami's ribbons would be the way to go. Besides increasing what she could conjure with them and increasing their effectiveness, she may be able to go in the direction of having them form around her like impromptu body-armor. Would work as strength, speed, and duribilty enhancement like in Tsugumomo.
Actually just re-watched her fight with Homura yesterday. Still amazing.
Main sticking point is whether to get the artifact permanently. Access to renting any other artifacts she has could be pretty significant.
The thing about Rebellion Mami is that:
That sounds reasonable, but I don't know how well it would fly with other groups. There's a pretty strong association between where you live and what territory is yours, and it requires quite a bit of trust. Plus, that's already a diplomacy action: Free Passage.
I don't actually understand what you mean with this section.
While it's at least theoretically possible to brute force the barrier down even with them supporting it, it's unlikely to happen in either case. She can't judge with high certainty because she mostly uses it against other magical girls. Youma have a bit more magical power behind them than elites do, but it shouldn't be a problem.
She'll try to integrate everyone already there, she doesn't plan to push anyone off their land.
Prices still have some negotiating room, though to get much change you'd need to come up with something new to offer.
You current charms only really last a few seconds, so neither Kyouko nor potentially Mami clones are really that feasible.
I never thought of that before but it kind of makes sense.
See that's always been my perspective on Rebellion Mami, but it's been debated a lot in this thread whether or not that was the case.
Yes, basically what I'm asking for is Free Passage to be built into the Tokyo agreement. If we are going to be the influence bringing everyone together,then I think we ought to do it.
It's OK. I was muddling through a few different ideas there, and am still not entirely sure what conclusion I was trying to reach.
Good to know. Means we're not looking at a significant power imbalance between them. Also means that requesting the bugeisha group for specific instances shouldn't be necessary, though we may want to still have them available for repairs.
OK. And the intent is to get a section with as few natives on it in the first place as possible, anyway.
OK, this sounds workable.
Though with the Safe Passage, should we try to put up say, safety measures and/or defenses just in case other, more hostile groups of meguca show up?It's OK. I was muddling through a few different ideas there, and am still not entirely sure what conclusion I was trying to reach.
Good to know. Means we're not looking at a significant power imbalance between them. Also means that requesting the bugeisha group for specific instances shouldn't be necessary, though we may want to still have them available for repairs.
OK. And the intent is to get a section with as few natives on it in the first place as possible, anyway.
While it may be troublesome, I do appreciate when a GM does something like this. While I have actually argued in favor of diced vs diceless systems with a RL friend, I also find it frustrating in a lot of quests when it seems like almost nothing can be done without rolling dice, and dice are a really poor substitute for actual interaction.
Also annoying is dice used for non-random things, because that randomness will inevitably cause things to look crazy. Well, sometimes a bit of crazy is fun, but usually better in small doses.
OK, this sounds workable.
Something like:
With the massive disruption of Tokyo due to the youma events, and the chaotic mixing of people together, there's no guarantee that the final scattering and re-gathering of groups is going to fit the desires and needs of the individual girls. While those without homes can always be provided residences by the group they join, those with families and schools may end up living in locations outside the zone of control of the group they want to associate with.
To avoid that becoming a new source of conflict, we'd like to ensure that Tokyo as a whole be considered a Safe Passage area. Girls should not be separated from their families simply for the sake of territory. Obviously grief cube hunting is still restricted within a group's boundaries, and we're sure there are situations that would otherwise need to be resolved by keeping people in or out of various zones, but at least for family and school, boundaries should not be a limitation.
We don't expect this to be a common issue, and it's unlikely to affect things at an organizational level, but we do want to ensure a common understanding and mutual agreement to this issue with any group in the Tokyo area, so as to help maintain friendly relations between all parties.
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I can maybe see Hiko agreeing to this on a one-to-one level, but being reluctant to agree to it on a general level. Without actual agreement from the other side, it's sort of like trusting that the Iwata incident wouldn't have happened. If you're not comfortable with who has control of the territory your girls are living in, how can you trust that they won't be harmed or used as leverage against you?
It might be easier (and probably a better approach) to just get the Safe Passage agreement between the two of us, with the understanding that we'll be trying to do the same thing with other groups, and perhaps get a mutual Safe Passage with anyone either of us makes such an agreement with.
Both Hiko and Mami are very protective of their girls, so I could see that neither would be entirely comfortable with a completely open Safe Passage in Tokyo, until they got to know all of the individual groups. On the other hand, that same protectiveness may make them more likely to want that general Safe Passage, to be more certain their girls are safe as they travel the city. But at least between the two of them, I think they can work together.
It certainly makes things take longer setting up the sides and what hints you have and letting both sides angle at each other for the interactions.
While it may be troublesome, I do appreciate when a GM does something like this. While I have actually argued in favor of diced vs diceless systems with a RL friend, I also find it frustrating in a lot of quests when it seems like almost nothing can be done without rolling dice, and dice are a really poor substitute for actual interaction.
Hence the fact that out of 60 girls none of them were good writers
I wrote two paragraphs on character motivations but then realized that spelling it out kind of spoils things.
Anyone not part of a Safe Passage agreement is subject to the normal issues of traveling through foreign territory, which is usually met with a, "Get out!" response. Setting that up explicitly would be redundant, given that that's the default state for most organizations.
