“Human Resources” Shouldn’t Be This Literal: A PMMM/ProjectMoon Quest

kaillll said:

Roland will be Mad.
really really mad.

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It's not too likely honestly.

While Roland will probably be pissed at Argalia. He already did expend all that anger by murdering and destroying Argalia's dream right infront of him way back in The City, twice.

Logically (which is a very risky word I know), there's a very low chance for Argalia to do something wrong in the Library if he is hopping alongside X there, as:
1. There's nothing for him to gain in the Library anyway, he's thrown his lot in with X.
2. He also probably is aware enough of X's personality to know she won't like it.
3. He will get shit stomped if he tries it.

Argalia already died once, so he's probably not stupid enough to purposefully look for trouble within the Library.

Of course, that's discounting the likelihood of his mere smug presence (I mean he would be directly invited this time around instead of being an uninvited guest, he is probably gonna have a smug face on that ball of his) aggravating 2 of the Library's denizens (X's wonderful sister, Angela, and her 'best-friend' Roland).

On the slight bright side, we completed Der Freischutz's sapling and can use Magic Bullet.

...oh! Let's sprinkle some pumpkin powder on it!

Uh...isn't it a horrible idea given what the 7th bullet do?

[x] Pursue Into The Emerald City

Nope, we are not letting The Adult have Madoka for a single second, the only results of that is at best Agnus principle, at worst love town 2.0, they wish they were that horrible.

You do not let the mad scientist have your friends in their grip, you do not let them have time to breath, you do not let them have time to curse your daughter's friend into a monster, we have to act now, not later, now.

It doesn't matter we don't have our full strength, it doesn't matter even if we don't take the girls with us, we are not letting Madoka to what is very likely to quickly become a fate worst than death.

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Like, we have seen repeatedly what the Adult does to people, letting her have a single second to try and submit Madoka to that is not a thing we should do.

If we come and begin to lose, there is a possibility of us using our true form or Madoka manifesting EGO from the stress, both can get us out even if at a cost, if we don't come, there is a high chance we will find that Madoka is already cursed or worse.

The Adult is an abnormality that loves her plans, in retrospect we should not have waited that long to act, and we really shouldn't let her have time to implement them now.

[x] Pursue Into The Emerald City

Is it a bad idea? Probably. Is the alternative worse? Who knows! But, hey. Madoka learned to be self-sacrificing from us, right? Only fair we rush in to rescue her specifically, I think.

I'm on the edge of my seat either way. This is really well done!!! Good writes!!!

To clarify, if you choose to pursue, everyone's coming. None of the kids are going to be willing to sit this out regardless of their condition, even if you tell them to. No splitting the party!

...Even Homura!?

Are you asking me if Homura is going to try and help rescue Madoka regardless of her own physical health?

Because I think you already know the answer to that.

But she can't even walk! Her legs are missing! Is she just going to use her time stop and drag herself everywhere? Is one of us going to have to carry her into battle? She's missing an arm too, so we can't even give her the tactical piggyback ride.

EDIT: That kind of reminds me of a video game with a similar premise, actually. Still a bad idea.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4eC1PzNacI

I'm voting no on the pursue option. As... dubiously humorous it would be to see that, it's just not practical. If we have to take the wounded kids into the thick of the enemy forces and the Adult's fortifications, we're bound to lose at least one of them permanently.

[X] Retreat and Recover in the Library

'Tis but a flesh wound.

And yeah, I guess she'd have to. Except time stop is currently not working, so it's either crawl or be carried.

Lepidoptera said:

'Tis but a flesh wound.

And yeah, I guess she'd have to. Except time stop is currently not working, so it's either crawl or be carried.

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This is why I didn't want it to be a pursuit situation.

There's more than enough reason to race and crash into the emerald city with our full force.

But the rest of the kids need to atleast recover. Sure, the Adult can do horrible things to Madoka if left to her devices for too long, but if we rush in, the Emerald City itself will do horrible things to us because we aren't prepared enough.

Sayaka is down, Homura is a slightly harder to carry Leonia, and why would Hitomi even follow us?

If we pursuit, we would've to force them to stay in the Library for their own good...

But I don't think X can actually go through with that kind of decision.

And another thing is, if they stay in the Library, they can't reinforce us once we are in the Emerald City. Not without immense risk to the girls themselves.

Especially when Homura's time ability is monumentally important to us (seriously why did she has to go and get herself disabled! Atleast pull Mami alongside you into timestop for support!).

It's risky. It's so risky. It's literally a question of risking the few (X, Argalia, Leonia, Kyoko, and Mami) and besieging a location with a panicky mindset, potentially running into a trap and die, risking the many (carry alongside Homura, Sayaka, and Hitomi???) with us, or risking Madoka getting distorted/contracted/etc etc.

I can't choose to bet on Madoka. This is a SIEGE on the Emerald City, a literal den of monsters with more magical girl forces, a bunch of revive distortions, and whatever traps one of the most cunning abnormality devised up.

Honestly speaking, there's a reason we voted to have the girls rest before going for an assault.

Just attacking with our full force healthy is hard enough.

questioningmeme said:

But the rest of the kids need to atleast recover. Sure, the Adult can do horrible things to Madoka if left to her devices for too long, but if we rush in, the Emerald City itself will do horrible things to us because we aren't prepared enough.

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That logic doesn't work, if we gice the Adult more time, she will be even more prepared for us, and we also will have Madoka that suffered from whatever the Adult wants to do.

Plus, you really think Homura won't ressent us if we don't go to save Madoka with her right now?

She can be carried, her timestop is perfectly able to help us without her needing to move, and I absolutely and utterly refuse to let Madoka become the subject of anything the Adult concoct just because we decided she was too scary.

Think like the Adult, what would she expect? She's patient, she doesn't care what happens to others, she doesn't like taking risks.

Not going now is doing what she wants, what she expects, we have a better chance to take her by surprise by going now, and that is important.

The librarians can't leave the library, so that means no reinforcements from them anyway, Roland's reaction to taking Argalia in is going to lose us time, Homura's is going to try and go alone if we're not careful knowing her, doesn't matter that she doesn't have legs, Sayaka will also protest given her heroic nature, as will Mami, this is her friend that was taken there, taken by a monster that we know is a sadist mad scientist.

Taking them to the library will 100% appear as if we are going *hard woman making hard decision* to our children right now, and given the stakes, I would agree with them.

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Plus, what do you think our stop at the library is going to give us we don't have right now? A little time for the girls to calm down? They will not calm down with their friend in this situation. Time to heal for them? If we take enough time for that, we are letting the Adult prepare whatever horrible fate she has for Madoka in peace, plus all he traps she will do knowing we will come knocking on her door.

Think, the Adult had to act fast to attack us right now due to something we did, do you think giving her time to prepare is good when we may well actually catch her with her pants down if we attack now? The risks of not going far outweigh the risks of going IMO, by several orders of magnitude.

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questioningmeme said:

Honestly speaking, there's a reason we voted to have the girls rest before going for an assault.

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The main reason for that was to allow them to enjoy the day and stabilize their mental state, letting them wait while we prepare while their friend is in the Adult's hands is likely to have the opposite effect.

[X] Retreat and Recover in the Library

Argh, I don't want to vote for this!

Nyarky said:

her timestop is perfectly able to help us without her needing to move

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Again, Homura's time stop is currently nonfunctional due to either level of damage she has received or something the Adult did. She cannot use it until she receives some level of repair.

Should also probably note that Argalia's banned from the Library for being too loud no matter what choice you make. If Regroup is chosen, he'll be bringing Hitomi home and keeping an eye on her and her family/looking for Sayaka's parents.

On the psychological angle, you also have to remember that if we let the Adult free to do her thing on Madoka, she will gladly take the occasion to reveal her in a way that make our girls crumble in despair at the worst possible time, risking Sayaka and Mami witching out and Homura and Kyouko melting down.

And probably X too, even if it's not the Adult's goal, there is a high chance whatever she reveals having done to Madoka is likely to make X break down in guilt.

Like, I feel as if I just read a scene where Bonesaw just kidnapped our best friend in worm, and everyone is going *oh, yeah, sure, let her have her time, we'll recover the corpse later, no problem.*

Kdblya said:

[X] Retreat and Recover in the Library

Argh, I don't want to vote for this!

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Then vote for going!

Seriously, the Adult expect us to not go, waiting is just letting her put more traps and do whatever she wants to Madoka.

Lepidoptera said:

Again, Homura's time stop is currently nonfunctional due to ethe level of damage she has received or something the Adult did. She cannot use it until she receives some level of repair.

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Which will take too long to be a good idea anyway, any second counts right now, so that doesn't change much in the equation about going or not, waiting that long is just asking for Madoka to distort horribly.

[X] Pursue Into The Emerald City
Might not be the best idea, but we have to go after her

Actually, you know what? Going into the emerald city to save Madoka is great, adding a plan to it is better:

[X] Pursue Into The Emerald City
-[x] Insist on Hitomi and Homura going to the library to be protected and recover, if Homura tries to protest, explain that she will serve Madoka better by being able to reinforce our assault than by going in her current state.
-[x] Tell Homura to ask Binah how to help Madoka get EGO right now while she is in the library, having a way to have her stop being a hostage is great.
-[x] Make a detour to obtain the EGO weapon you have unlocked, any detail that the Adult doesn't know about will help.

Homura is the only one who is actually hurt in a really significant way, so having her be the only one to go recover make sense, and giving her a duty that helps Madoka during that time will make arguing for it easier.

If the decision is made to enter the Emerald City, planning the attack will be a separate vote. The precedent chapter will involve detailing all of X's knowledge of the Emerald City and its defenses, as well as summarizing your forces. No plans are needed at the moment.

Has anyone seen Saving Private Ryan? Running in now feels like that. We're going to throw all these injured girls at the Adult (and her considerable forces) to be tortured, maimed, or killed to try to save one person. It feels awful to leave Madoka with the Adult, but the team is already in really bad shape. Can we even get through the Adult's front lines in this state? Or would we be delivering more girls to be captured and brainwashed?

Sadistic of Lepidoptera to make us choose.

Finally, the proper time to use Beak. The Adult's Punishment mustn't be delayed!

[X] Pursue Into The Emerald City

Be reasonable people.

It's not just X vs the Adult. It's our tiny little group (with Sayaka downed, Hitomi who needs to be protected, and Homura who is in literal pieces), fighting a whole Emerald City, with traps, distortions, magical girls, and the Adult herself.

Aren't you aware of the idea of fighting a magus in their own workshop vs outside of it?! I feel like Rin telling Shirou off for being stupid right now because this is stupid!

Atleast let Homura fully recover first before we rush in! She's LITERALLY ALMOST-dead-weight. It's pointless to rush in if we end up losing someone else instead of Madoka because the group isn't fully healed up.

Do remind yourself that the Adult has all the data needed to deal with Mami and Sayaka, one of whom is hurt right now with goddamn gemstones growing out of her.

This is suicidal. Especially since Homura isn't ready to rewind time for us. It's not like I'm asking to let the Madoka have the Adult as her fucking mom. I'm just saying to atleast make sure to not indulge in Homura's suicidal tendencies and actually get her killed.

Nyarky said:

-[x] Insist on Hitomi and Homura going to the library to be protected and recover, if Homura tries to protest, explain that she will serve Madoka better by being able to reinforce our assault than by going in her current state.
-[x] Tell Homura to ask Binah how to help Madoka get EGO right now while she is in the library, having a way to have her stop being a hostage is great.
-[x] Make a detour to obtain the EGO weapon you have unlocked, any detail that the Adult doesn't know about will help.

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By the way, Sayaka needs to get going too, she's hurt with some kind of damage to her arms and legs, probably not as serious as Homura in Pieces over there, we might be able to instantly heal Sayaka by just cutting them off, but still.

I do admit, telling Homura to ask Binah about EGO is a good way to distract her. We all know that Madoka is not getting E.G.O, not in her current state of being a sleepy beauty.

Der Fruityshooty's E.G.O would be an immense boon because his bullet basically has Dark Flame and therefore never has to worry about not murdering anything he's shooting at. If we are to attack, obtaining it would be a priority. It would be ideal if we could somehow recruit JBird with us since that bird is overpowered, but the Adult left us with little choices here.

However, this is a bit irrelevant since the current vote can't include plans.