I read it as the money being for the mutual defense pact, not guarding Airi.
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Torgamous
Aspiring Gynoid
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Is that second question supposed to allude to Iowa, and if not could you add something about asking about them?
UbeOne
Daydreaming CPU
- Location
- Philippines
- Pronouns
- She/Her
I would.
Torgamous
Aspiring Gynoid
- Pronouns
- She/Her
I think it's to Sayaka's credit that she hasn't said she told us so yet.
DB_Explorer
Purveyor of alternate realities.
- Location
- San Diego, California
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Yuki: Claims building as a genius loci
Sabrina: Total dominion by force over everything inside 100 meters
Result of Spar: Glorious
Sabrina: Total dominion by force over everything inside 100 meters
Result of Spar: Glorious
The Narrator
Disembodied Voice
- Location
- Somewhere Offscreen
That wouldn't really be a "mutual defense pact" so much as it would be "running a protection racket."
Onmur
Archangel of Nutella.
A bit all over the place, messy, and maybe with more actions that can fit in one update, depending on Firn's muse's mood but hey, 150 words exactly, going by Xenforo.
[X] Bargain.
-[X] Confirm.
--[X] Hint you could pay more, were you to work closer together.
[X] Call friends.
-[X] Ask to include O&K in the meeting with Yuki. SOCIAL reasons.
--[X] Don't push.
--[X] Update O&K if they agree.
-[X] Tell them about Yuki's Nydus Network.
[X] Before leaving:
-[X] Dump all but one Seed's worth of Grief on KB.
[X] Whenever appropriate:
-[X] Thank Rin. For today and for back then. Acknowledge her efforts to do the right thing.
-[X] Ask Yuki about other meguca groups. Volcano lair? Should we be concerned, beyond helping megucakind?
-[X] Offer to include the Sendai Group in the pact, or to make a separate one with us.
[X] Yuki.
-[X] Back to Mitakihara.
--[X] Everyone's invited.
-[X] Meet your friends at the school gates.
--[X] Praise Mami. (Warn her Yuki's a fan).
--[X] Find a cafe or tea house to chat/discuss.
[X] Bargain.
-[X] Confirm.
--[X] Hint you could pay more, were you to work closer together.
[X] Call friends.
-[X] Ask to include O&K in the meeting with Yuki. SOCIAL reasons.
--[X] Don't push.
--[X] Update O&K if they agree.
-[X] Tell them about Yuki's Nydus Network.
[X] Before leaving:
-[X] Dump all but one Seed's worth of Grief on KB.
[X] Whenever appropriate:
-[X] Thank Rin. For today and for back then. Acknowledge her efforts to do the right thing.
-[X] Ask Yuki about other meguca groups. Volcano lair? Should we be concerned, beyond helping megucakind?
-[X] Offer to include the Sendai Group in the pact, or to make a separate one with us.
[X] Yuki.
-[X] Back to Mitakihara.
--[X] Everyone's invited.
-[X] Meet your friends at the school gates.
--[X] Praise Mami. (Warn her Yuki's a fan).
--[X] Find a cafe or tea house to chat/discuss.
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mCooperative
meanderingCephalopod
- Location
- Back in Mitakihara after like 1000 years.
What's that last sentence asking about? If we're clarifying about whether volcano lair group specifically, probably say "Ask Yuki about other meguca groups. Volcano lair? Should we be concerned there, beyond helping megucakind?" (same wordcount) If we're asking about groups in general, and maybe heading toward questions about Iowa, would "Ask Yuki: Other meguca groups? Volcano lair, Iowa? Others to concern ourselves with, beyond helping megucakind?" work? (same wordcount)
Otherwise, seems good.
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[x] Onmur
Although I do want to ask about Iowa at some point; it seems like they'll probably turn up to be a problem.
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Onmur
Archangel of Nutella.
I was somewhat startled while reading by Moe's... rather chill demeanor.
I mean, she was reasonable back then, all in all, she is a merc and as Yuki said, has had worse, but would you connect this:
With this?:
Moe might not be moe but she seems like she can handle some shit.
I mean, she was reasonable back then, all in all, she is a merc and as Yuki said, has had worse, but would you connect this:
With this?:
Moe might not be moe but she seems like she can handle some shit.
SaltyWaffles
I am dissapoint, son
- Pronouns
- He/Him
"Funds are easy to get"? Seriously?
What are we going to do, rob the local Yakuza again? How sustainable do you think that is? Maybe they restocked their cash after the first robbery, but I kinda doubt it (given that they had absolutely no clue who stole it the first time, or how). But after it happens a second time a couple of weeks later? Yeah, no, they're not gonna keep anything but bare essentials there.
Robbing ATMs? That's not something we can abuse--if we do it too much/often, it'll cause problems even with the masquerade in place.
Robbing banks? Banks don't carry that much money, specifically to avoid losing lots of money to a bank robbery.
Stealing money electronically from big corporations is much more feasible, so long as we don't steal too much at a time or too much from the same corporations. Of course, we'd need super hacking powers for that, and the only one we know of with such powers is very mercenary. We could do a teleportation service, but that would require Sakura, and she fucking hates us for some unknown reason. Healing services are probably the best substitute we can get in the short term, except that we don't have any healers on our team (the closest we've got is Yuma).
In this update, Sabrina specifically noted that she was starting to run low on cash.
Torgamous
Aspiring Gynoid
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Yeah, that's why we're paying in gold.
- Location
- The Surface Of A Hostile Planet
Just turn random garbage into gold by rearranging protons. Or go grab some gold out of Earth's mantle. Or go asteroid mining. This isn't a major concern.
Always Happening
We could have prevented this.
- Location
- On a train with no brakes
NYDUS
Also I told you guys about monomolecular razor clouds.
Also I told you guys about monomolecular razor clouds.
The Narrator
Disembodied Voice
- Location
- Somewhere Offscreen
Keep in mind that her last memory before being degemmed in Sendai was having two of her limbs cut off by grief blades and hit dead on with a Tiro Finale.
Vebyast
Nascent Transhuman
If we need more yen than we can get by fencing gold on the street - which I suspect is unlikely - then the Shizukis would probably be more than pleased to be faced with the problem of profiting off of a metric ton of gold that we've manufactured literally out of thin air.
SaltyWaffles
I am dissapoint, son
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Let's make sure we could actually do that safely before we think money is a non-issue. Especially with asteroid mining--so far, we haven't even confirmed if we've broken the sound barrier yet. In order to make asteroid mining even remotely practical, we'd need to make sure we can create detailed flight instruments and navigation systems, plus a FAR greater top speed. And then there's the trouble of identifying whatever minerals/elements we're mining while we're doing it.
As for the former method--again, let's be careful with that. Just...you know, make sure we're not splitting any atoms and creating a big boom while we're at it.
We'd need to set up a steady, consistent way to exchange gold for cash, too.
Onmur
Archangel of Nutella.
'... So fighting the Fukushima on their ground is basically a nightmare.'NYDUS
Also I told you guys about monomolecular razor clouds.
'But you won.'
'Yeah, Grief is overpowered like that...'
'It's still your victory, Sabrina!'
'Yeah!'
'Indeed.'
'Well, thanks! Also, Yuki's got some sort of Nidus Network going on, and-'
'Nydus.'
'What?'
'What?'
'... Did you-?'
'The Fukushima are trustworhy as long as you pay. You should allow them to claim territoty on Mitakihara for ease of transport, it will be very useful come Walpurgisnacht.'
'... What?'
'Don't leave the mercenaries waiting, Sabrina.'
'Right. See you all later.'
'Bye.'
'See you later, Sabrina.'
'Right, later.'
...
'Mami?'
'Yes?'
'Homura was totally covering for Sayaka there, wasn't she?'
'Totally. Do I want to know?'
'... I'll talk with Sayaka first.'
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Vebyast
Nascent Transhuman
Nanomechanical lever arrays. A grief-telescope 100m in diameter, sensitive to 8pm photons (right on the border between gamma and x-rays) and pointed at the asteroid belt from Earth, would be diffraction-limited to an image resolution of about a centimeter. Forget seeing our target asteroid, we could pick out a nice spot to sit down on it for lunch.
Grief. Count the protons in the nucleus. Done. When Sabrina first set up her utility fog she spent a few minutes chasing around individual electrons and only couldn't capture them because she wasn't thinking in terms of probability clouds.
Griefhax is magic. Just need to specify our problem right.
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Appletank
Acquire Cheese
1) Re: Speed
I'm pretty sure top speed really isn't a concern. I think the only reason we don't regularly break Mach is courtesy reasons. We can easily accelerate at (g) for as long as we want, from what we've seen. Faster if we don't need to worry about our fleshy body exploding. Though going to the asteroid belt is gonna be a bit of a side quest. Also, from what more scientifically minded have told me, the emissions Earth releases should be enough for a grief based sensor to detect and guide us back. Don't know if we can move grief accurately enough to aim for asteroids, so I'll leave that to others.
2) Re: atom splitting
Yes, Fission releases a lot of energy, but its only really dangerous if in a chain reaction. IIRC, Grief can basically ignore physics, so we can contain the boom by covering it in grief, while we rearrange proton and neutrons around. Do it in a bunch of separate cells if need be.
The Phoenixian
The Glacier Witch
- Location
- My own little world
I'll point out that by striving for efficiency, creativity, and laziness rather than raw power, superior answers may be produced. For instance, turning pencils and batteries into diamonds to extend the value of gold and ease the sale of diamonds.
Limits are the origin of creativity after all.
Writing it up right now.So who wants to pull the same "Is it okay if the gold is in the form of simple unmarked jewelry?" trick on Yuki that we did on Kyouko?
... as I have been for the past few hours. (dammit annoyingly slow brain. :/)
The Narrator
Disembodied Voice
- Location
- Somewhere Offscreen
The difficulties of getting around the enormous amount of red tape required to legally sell diamonds would remain no matter what the source of carbon for said diamonds was.
Appletank
Acquire Cheese
Is the market of diamond tools also restricted?
The Phoenixian
The Glacier Witch
- Location
- My own little world
My point isn't about the source of diamonds, but the form. The question is whether that red tape still present if the diamond is already cut and incorporated into jewelry. Graphite was chosen as a source because it's a pure form of carbon that doesn't require us faffing about to collect from the atmosphere or anything like that, just to refine. Which can probably be done with luce prima + mechanical compacting.