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Magical Girl Escalation Taylor (Worm/Nanoha)

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Geas said:
Oops. My bad. I tend towards defaulting to canon names when applicable, even though I really shouldn't when it comes to Dragon.

Theresa who's Theresa I didn't say Theresa whatchu talkin' 'bout?

*Whistles innocently*
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I just have some big problems with Dragon's "canon" name. First in that it doesn't come up until the epilogue. Seocnd in that Dragon herself didn't pick it, but Armsmaster. Third in that Tess is a nickname for Theresa, so he named her Theresa Theresa. And fourth in that it's a very dumb play on words that I personally would find insulting more than endearing.

So yeah, I stayed far, FAR away from anything related to Theresa in this quest.
 
[X] Accept one vial and trade the other for one favor. Vote to pick the vial will follow.

We've already got them on our side, so a favor in this case would means something of EXTREME importance and unusuality. I think one of them is more than enough, while we keep a free power in a vial.

landcollector said:
I'm of the camp that feels Danny's time in the quest is passed, so *shrug*.
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This... Will... SO fuck us in the ass if we actually go through and ignore him forever, I just know it.

You might feel like Danny has nothing more to offer, but he's still Taylor's father, and before the brain damage they were reconnecting and being a family again.

Things like "it's going to fuck us later" and "Danny doesn't offer anything" are OOC thoughts. "Danny is the last remainder of my family and doing the possible to try and get him back is only natural" is not only in character, and not meta, but understandable.
 
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Honestly I want to avoid the Danny quest line because if we somehow miraculously heal him I'm probably going to curl up in a ball and cry for a bit.

Life was not kind enough to return mine.
 
[X] Accept one vial and trade the other for one favor. Vote to pick the vial will follow.
 
[x] Trade both vials for two favors.
-[x] We want to expand Opperation Pentagram to the Fire and Police Deapartments, Military and highschools.
 
Kyr'am said:
I can see expanding it to the others you suggested eventually, even if it won't be for years at minimum, but why do you want to give random high school students magical powers?
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Because it's tradition! Magical girls are always highschoolers!

More seriously, I want to give powers to the entire city, state, country and world as a whole, and Schools are convenient as both a concentration of people for us to scan and, well, frankly, schools are supposed to be places where you LEARN THINGs (supposedly) so what better a magical training program than a school? If you'd prefer colleges, then go around and hit the senior years of the highschools exclusively.
 
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Byakugan said:
More seriously, I want to give powers to the entire city, state, country and world as a whole, and Schools are convenient as both a concentration of people for us to scan and, well, frankly, schools are supposed to be places where you LEARN THINGs (supposedly) so what better a magical training program than a school? If you'd prefer colleges, then go around and hit the senior years of the highschools exclusively.
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Suffice to say, I think you won't find much support for that goal for a long time, if not forever. Personally at least, I'd much prefer to keep it pretty limited (first responders only seems pretty reasonable) overall, and at least for the next little while just stick with expanding it throughout the PRT.
 
landcollector said:
As I understand, Operation Pentagram's desired goal is to test how well enhanced PRT squads handle parahuman engagements. Not "give *everyone* Magic".
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And it's testing pretty well so far!

It's the same argument as gun rights really. The only way to stop a badguy with a gun is a goodguy with a gun. Theoretically that's cops and security guards, but they're minutes away when your death is seconds away. Completely overwhelming supervillains with magical supers who aren't loony toons driven to conflict is perfectly in line with Operation Pentagram's purpose.
Kyr'am said:
Suffice to say, I think you won't find much support for that goal for a long time, if not forever. Personally at least, I'd much prefer to keep it pretty limited (first responders only seems pretty reasonable) overall, and at least for the next little while just stick with expanding it throughout the PRT.
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I'm fine with that. It's very Starship Troopers. But I like being ambitious.
 
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Frescopino said:
And that's reconnecting. IIRC, the thing they were calling each other names about was the very fight were Danny ended up brain damaged.
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No, the last thing they said to each other was Danny yelling at Taylor for helping the TSAB and wanting to feel special, Taylor accusing Danny of abandoning her for the BB ferry, and Danny questioning whether Taylor was even his daughter. They pretty much didn't talk to each other again between then and the Behemoth fight.

While the roll was shit and made things complicated, from a drama perspective it was pretty damn perfect.
Byakugan said:
-[ ] We want to expand Opperation Pentagram to the Fire and Police Deapartments, Military and highschools.
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This is not the right time for that.
Byakugan said:
Because it's tradition! Magical girls are always highschoolers!

More seriously, I want to give powers to the entire city, state, country and world as a whole, and Schools are convenient as both a concentration of people for us to scan and, well, frankly, schools are supposed to be places where you LEARN THINGs (supposedly) so what better a magical training program than a school? If you'd prefer colleges, then go around and hit the senior years of the highschools exclusively.
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I think magical girls are traditionally in elementary or middle school, actually. Also, this sounds like a good opportunity for Plan Pokemon.
 
[x] Trade both vials for two favors.

Honestly, Legend and Alex are better suited to finding good recruits than Taylor is, so they might as well take them. The favours are much more useful.
 
Silently Watches said:
Also, this sounds like a good opportunity for Plan Pokemon.
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Hmm, good point. I'd sort of confused them, given Pentragram was done in game by using the method from plan pokemon. Give everybody a Furry and let them figure it out.
Silently Watches said:
I think magical girls are traditionally in elementary or middle school, actually.
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Heh, yeah, I suppose that's true. They did tend to be more middle and elementry than highschool.
 
Byakugan said:
And it's testing pretty well so far!

It's the same argument as gun rights really. The only way to stop a badguy with a gun is a goodguy with a gun. Theoretically that's cops and security guards, but they're minutes away when your death is seconds away. Completely overwhelming supervillains with magical supers who aren't loony toons driven to conflict is perfectly in line with Operation Pentagram's purpose.
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Take it a step further. The reason Project Pentagram is working so well is because the "test subjects" are highly trained specialists in their field - meaning they can get into a fight without falling apart. They are almost perfect candidates for becoming combat mages. But who says every mage needs to be a combat mage? What about finding would-be doctors who can heal? What about management types to keep an eye on what all the Familiars of the Gear are doing? (Running a cost-benefit analysis or keeping an eye on the budget.)

Project Pentagram can be expanded just to see how much being a Mage changes someone. That's going to be critical for the government / governments of the world to figure out in the long term. It will also let them start the groundwork for integrating magical healing with regular healing in the case of the doctors.

For bonus points we see a lot of people flying almost compulsively in the Nanoha-verse. What are the long term health effects of that? If someone in a management position starts flying because they just think it is cool what will that do to their health? Does flying require more or less calories than walking? Are they going to end up with muscle loss in the legs because they fly all over the place?

Note I'd personally get a kick out of seeing someone who really, really wanted to be a doctor but just didn't have the right mind for it. Someone who could study and study and just not do good enough at pre-med classes in college. But wait, magic doesn't need those classes, it needs math..
 
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