That went about as I'd hoped. Which is good, because we've had a couple very good votes in this conversation.
you watch as she tamps down on the fear, her mouth setting firm, her eyes turning to you as she visibly weighs current circumstances against fear.
"OK," Homura says. She looks up at you, meeting your eyes properly, and nods. She looks a little happier, just a little less strained and and a little less worn. "I... alright."
Homura takes another deep breath and straightens, nodding more firmly.
"It makes sense,"
Homura reacts to her
own logic just as well as she reacts to
our logic: She can subdue her fears by going over plans and the reasons why they'll work.
I actually thought of a way for Sabrina to be able to reference timelines that worked, in fact. It's something that we've backpedaled away from previously, because we had no good explanation, but we do have one.
"Of course I would know how things would work if things were fixed - it's why I'm here."
That would work. It's probably even correct, in that metaknowledge is probably one of the bigger tools we have for fixing everything.
I've got a sneaking suspicion for a while that a large scale mind manipulation device might just be behind the strange insanity that ended up gripping asunara in pmkm
Not really. IIRC most of the nuttiness is rooted in events predating the memory field, and what happened after is well-explained by the lack of cleansing. And, well, the generally low quality of the writing, but that's another story.
I think I'd rather ask the Saints about mind control protection than immediately attempt it ourselves
What time is it? I think we can probably poke them right now, since I don't remember it being particularly late.
As
@Kaizuki noted, we already have an agenda:
"Whatever can be scheduled," Mami says happily. "We'll make it an officially informal visit, perhaps."
"Perhaps!" you agree. "But... I do want to be prepared for it. Protective enchantments?"
"Yes, of course," Mami says. "Perhaps we could work on that during our practice session later today? Especially since Sayaka copied Miss Kure's antimagic."
A slightly-edited catgirl, mostly cleaning up and expanding on details.
[X] In whatever order makes sense:
[x] Brainmail the Pleiades. Topics:
-[x] Current events. How are things? The situation in Tokyo.
-[x] Defenses against mind magic.
Move this further up, and explain Tokyo to motivate the question about mind magic.
[X] Enchantment topics:
-[X] Use/share enchantment booster for rapid prototyping.
-[X] Protective enchantments. Mind shields, antimagic, maybe danger-vision from one of the sight powers, etc.
-[] Quietly make a ring for Homura to enchant for Madoka.
-[x] Griefhax with emotion-enchanted grief.
Expand to general protective enchantments; I think that we'll end up focusing on mental defenses, but Sayaka having Kirika's antimagic is a good point.
[X] Mention invitation to shizukidinner to Homura & others
-[X] Ask about inviting Homura
Unchanged.
[X] Sanitized summary of Tokyo for everyone
-[X] Light on details; you'll write the details up later so you don't mess up while extemporizing (and so you can run it past Homura first).
Clarify the intent here. Note that we can't tell Madoka too much until we've run it past Homura, as promised.
[X] Mention wanting to bring mental health professionals into this somehow. Cite Akemi & Norikos as example of why.
Unchanged.
[X] Mention Oriko's new powers. Same routine as earlier, explain how wish magic works, but go for emotion and romanticize it a bit to work better with Sayaka and Madoka.
-[x] Telepathically give Homura quick notes on various conversational maneuvers as you make them, e.g. rational approach for her but emotional+romantic approach for Sayaka+Madoka.
Expand on this. Sayaka's probably going to some issues with it, same way Homura did, and we can use the same evidence, but we have to spin it a bit. We can also use this as an opportunity to give Homura a practical demonstration complete with realtime feed of explanations, though we'll want to keep those explanations brief so we aren't splitting Homura's attention too much.
[X] Ask Homura to stick around for a while after by telepathy.
I can't remember what the motivation for this was, but I figure there's at least something so I'll leave it in.
