Time Flow (Puella Magi Madoka Magica/???)

You have failed, again. You couldn't defeat the Witch, there you lie broken and buried under the remains of a building. The world's cruelty knows no bounds, the one light in your life, the only thing you haven't cut away, is about to sacrifice herself, again. The incessant laughter that echoed throughout the city is suddenly cut off, the Witch is slain and the heroine falls. The tomb of rubble prevents you from hearing her screams or seeing her trash in pain, but you don't need to; they are already carved into dozens of your memories.

Kaname Madoka has become a witch, and you failed to save her. It takes the last of your strength to raise your hand to your shield, the gears spin and time flows in reverse. The rest of the world forgets the tragedy you have sworn to prevent.

Homura Akemi awakens in the hospital room that has greeted you after each of your failures… No, that isn't right, the room is different. The equipment is older, more worn down. It isn't the strangest thing to change with the variances that occasionally appear when you have gone back in time. It doesn't matter, nothing will stop you.

With practiced focus magic flows to your still recovering heart … your magic isn't doing anything. Were you just imagining the feeling based on your expectations? You raise your hand and call forth your Soul Gem.

Your Soul Gem doesn't appear.

There is no ring on your ringer.

Your shield is gone.

You are nothing more than the worthless girl who could only watch as everyone died around you, all those years ago.

The roar of your heart racing pounds through your skull, and then it skips a beat. And another. Each breath comes only in small pained gasps. The heart monitor screams an alarm. Then the world becomes still and silent. Tones of gray coat all you can see as time stands still.

So there is one tool left at your disposal. Without your shield, you don't have your storage and turning back time again may be impossible, what's more the loss of the strength and agility you had access to with magic reinforcing your body presents an even more immediate issue.

You are weaker than you ever have been before. You have no more chances. You will save Madoka even if it is the last thing you do.

There are 9 days until your transfer to Mitakihara Middle School.

There are 45 days until Walpurgisnacht attacks.

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Choose 5. Please vote by plan.

[]The Devil You Know
Kyubey, the incubator, the parasite, if there is anything in the world that has some level of understanding of what has happened it would be that thing. Enough of its usual haunts are known to you, but finding it is still left up to chance. Even if you have to make another contract to save Madoka it would be worth it.

[]Weakness
The amount of time you have spent with the enchanted body of a magical girl nearly eclipses the time you had spent as a normal human, and your baseline is even weaker than what could be called normal. Teach your body how to move, how to fight your foes, how to survive the pain. You can't be weak ever again.

[] Magic without Magic
Something has changed in the nature of your time stop, whereas before you could feel the slow and constant drain on your magic, you felt nothing in the moment you used it. You must find whatever you can about how it has changed, some weakness or gap in its capabilities making itself know in the middle of a fight would be disastrous.

[]Known Threats
The Rose Witch, the Dessert Witch, the Box Witch, the Shadow Witch, the Artist Witch, the Class Representative Witch, The Bird Cage Witch, Oriko Mikuni and Kirika Kure. All the threats in Mitakihara, you know when they usually first emerge, you could eliminate some of them in advance. It is a line you never crossed before… but if you must, it is yet another sin you are willing to bear.

[] Uncertain Friends Allies
Mami Tomoe was your first mentor as a magical girl, she led Madoka and you smiling into a world none of you were ready for. Then the truth broke her and she turned on her friends. There is so much you owe her and so much you curse her for, l but she is still skilled and experienced enough to be of use. Reaching out again will be painful.

[] The Unknown World
It wasn't limited to just the hospital, Mitakihara Town as a whole has changed. The skyline has lost the diverse collection of architecture it once had, the streets are cracked and marked by holes, and buildings are boarded up and abandoned. Hope seems to be a fleeting thing even among the normal people of the city. It is far too wide spread to be the effect of a witch or a simple variance, you should find the source.

[] Explosive production
The art of making a pipe bomb is one that you have practiced to the point of mastery. Each careful action in your hands becomes a meditative process, fleeting moments where you could relax while still being productive. Even a small supply is enough to eliminate any one of the threats you will face.

[] Supply Procurement
Perhaps you had taken for granted how much leverage even the basic enchantments magic afforded you. Now you are reduced to needing to rely on mundane tools to fulfill the same roles. A method of transport, tools for entering and egressing from locations, something to protect your vulnerable body, concerns you never had to solve before that are now urgent.

[]Acquiring weapons: Lighter
The Yakuza do not know it but they have acted as your greatest supplier of small arms and ammunition. Most would overlook them, but even mundane weapons can harm and kill witches and magical girls with your level of precision. While you now have to answer the question of storing your equipment there is little risk to the endeavor.

[]Acquiring weapons: Heavier
There is a great deal of risk and reward to stealing from the JSDF and the Americans. The sheer destructive force of their heavy weaponry and explosives can serve as an answer to most problems, however taking even a small amount is all but guaranteed to invite scrutiny and retaliation.

[]The Cat
In seven days, at 4:13 pm a black cat will be hit and killed by a car. Madoka Kaname will find her and damn herself with the wish she makes. These events can not be allowed to happen. There is time before it must be done, but being prudent now allows for more flexibility later on.

Statistics

Diplomacy: 0 (6-10)
Friends were something you had once, for a few brief months almost a lifetime ago. Letting others near you is simply a cause for more pain.

Martial: 10
Where true leadership eludes you, your awareness of the battlefield has been honed to a razor's edge.

Stewardship: 13
People would call you cold and unfeeling, but you know all too well the value of being prepared and not breaking under pressure.

Intrigue: 14
The disparity in raw power between you and other magical girls and witches has time and again forced you to be more cunning and to take whatever edge you can grasp, no matter the source.

Learning: 12
You are no scholar but you know what you need to know, chemistry, ballistics, and exactly enough of what is taught in school so that zero issues arise.

Prowess: 3 (17-14)
Years of surviving have taught you how to fight and given you a skill with firearms far beyond most, however your body can no longer keep up with your expectations.

Traits

A Hardened Heart
You have pushed away everything that isn't necessary, and cut off every part of yourself that didn't help with your mission. There may be a day where the girl you once were could exist again but you doubt you would live to see it.
Diplomacy -10, Homura is defeated after four degrees of loss rather than three. Will change if you could ever rebuild the bonds you once had (Progress 0/4)

A Weak and Worthless Body
Before you became a magical girl you had spent years in and out of various hospitals, the point you return to your body had only just recovered enough from your last surgery to once again walk without assistance.
Prowess -14. Each action taken to remove this trait reduces the penalty by 2. (Progress 0/7)

Explosives Expert
From the most simple pipe bombs, to more complex affairs with remote detonators, and even the preparation of your own explosive compounds, you are at the peak of what can be done without a dedicated lab of industrial equipment.
Actions taken to make homemade explosives automatically succeed, allows for the creation of advanced explosives with the proper supplies, doubles the bonus to disarm explosives.

Master Gunfighter
Anyone can shoot a gun, but it takes a special level of dedication to put a bullet exactly where it needs to go, and you have long since gone past that point. And every minute optimization that can be performed ekes out the space you need to survive.
Roll twice when using firearms in combat taking the better result, prowess bonuses from firearms are increased by 30%.

Equipment

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