Summary for people who don't know?
This is one of XDU's entirely untranslated events, literally all I have is the oneliner summary "The gears enter a labrynth related to a fake-homosexual sentient kimono" and the detail I apparently got from somewhere about Tsubasa reminding the aforementioned sentient kimono of their old boyfriend.

As that just raises further questions, it was of course the first thing that came to mind when a relic kimono was mentioned.
 
The Midnight Incident - Prelude
The Midnight Incident
Prelude

Thursday Afternoon, June 25
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[Director Samui asks the Senshi for Help]
When you called Director Samui to check in with her about whether she thought she'd be okay, given the impending Onogoro attack, seemed stiff and rather frightened, though you could tell even over the phone that she was trying to be brave. She said:

"Sailor Moon, I'm more grateful for the warning Crystal Millennium gave us than I could easily explain. That was enormously helpful. If you see this 'Unnati' again, please tell her that we owe her a great debt as well."

Then she stopped for a moment, but somehow you knew she wanted to say more, so you waited and listened.

"I… I have to be honest, Sailor Moon, I know that I have no right to ask this. Not after everything that you've done, not just for the government, but for yokai all across Japan. And I… I understand what you've told us, that you believe this attack is in part a trap designed to- to imprison you, to limit your powers, whether or not you expect it to succeed. But…" she pauses. "Unnati's warning only goes so far as to tell us the scale of this binding ritual, and the numbers they'd need for that alone mean that this attack is going to be powerful. We don't know what to expect. We're still improving our defenses, but I don't know if we can handle a full force attack by the Ministry- not that they've ever had cause to make one in a very long time. So I… no, we would… would very much appreciate any further aid you and your Senshi might be willing to offer. I'm sorry for asking for even more, after all you've done for us this week alone, let alone in the past two months… but we're desperate. I'm desperate."



The Sailor Senshi aren't going to ignore a call for help like that. But who's coming along? Planvotes only. Choose one option from each group on the list.

[ ][PLAN] PLAN NAME GO HERE

[ ] Usagi, who was coming no matter what her parents said
You told your parents. Either they agreed, and you're going after that, or they didn't agree… and you went anyway. Lives are at stake.
OR
[ ] Usagi, but only if her parents approved.
You told your parents, and abided by their wishes, whatever those wishes were.
OR
[ ] Usagi, who didn't tell her parents.
You can literally just vanish from your bedroom in the middle of the night. They probably won't even notice, right? They won't find out until maybe later. Well, probably later. Better to ask forgiveness than to seek permission; lives are at stake. You never promised not to do this, did you?

[ ] Ami, because you asked.
You know perfectly well that she could get through a day in school practically- maybe literally- in her sleep. Her mother is too exhausted from her long shifts to pay much attention to what happens at home that late, and Ami can teleport in and out anyway.
OR
[ ] Not Ami; you didn't ask that.
You could tell she had a certain squirming discomfort about being gone that late on a school night. She'd have done it for you in a heartbeat, but you said it was all right. Also, come to think of it, if something goes wrong and the Onogoro wizards actually do manage to trap you in MCAT headquarters or something, having someone ten times smarter than you are on the outside until you can break out would probably be a good thing.

[ ] Makoto
She volunteered almost immediately. She lives alone, no one will notice her missing, and while she admits it's a school night, she says that getting by the day after can't possibly be worse than that time she had to beat half the 'Hentai Horde' into the dirt before homeroom started. You aren't sure who that is and you suspect you don't want to know, but anyway, you'll be glad to have Makoto with you.
OR
[ ] Not Makoto
You asked her to stay behind. That may not have been the best decision, you admit. But if this sealing trap works… there will need to be someone with raw power and force left behind on the outside of it, to keep up the fight until you can wiggle loose somehow.

[ ] Rei
When Makoto pointed out that no one would notice her missing in the middle of the night, Rei followed up shortly after by saying the same thing. It being a school night doesn't bother her much, any more than it does Makoto.
OR
[ ] Not Rei
You had to get pretty stern before she agreed to stay behind. You could tell she didn't like it. But you had your reasons. Among other things, she knows a lot about shrines, and apparently if Onogoro succeeds, you're going to be stuck in place in a way that has something to do with a kami dwelling at a shrine. She might be able to help you wiggle a lock open or something.

[ ] Minako
She didn't so much "volunteer" as "casually assume she'd be there." When you pointed out that she's living with Miss Sakurada now and all that, she didn't act as though it- or school- was anything particularly important.
OR
[ ] Not Minako
It took you nearly twenty minutes to argue Minako into submission on this, and she didn't like it one bit. She said a few things you hope she didn't mean. But she'll be staying home and getting a full night's sleep. Well, somehow you doubt she'll actually sleep. Or… actually sleep well, you mean. But she'll stay in the spare room in Miss Sakurada's home. You managed that much.

[ ] Haruka and Michiru
They teleported back from Syria very late Wednesday night and, you gather, only got a little sleep before having to go to school today, Thursday morning, and try to explain where they'd been on Wednesday. You don't envy them. But when the time came to have a little call-around about the plans for tonight, Haruka said nothing about any of that. All she said was "we're ready to go if you need us" and Michiru said "that's right." You're glad for the help.
[ ] Neither Haruka nor Michiru
They're very tired, and after all the work they did interfering with the Knights of Oblivion in the Middle East, they deserve some rest. Besides, if something goes wrong at MCAT headquarters, you'll feel better knowing they're still outside any seals and free to act. On some level you know they'd stop at nothing, for your sake.

[ ] Naru
She doesn't especially enjoy fighting, she's much closer to the kind of being Onogoro is expecting to seal, and her mother might well notice her disappearing from her bedroom. Not worth the risk.

Setsuna
You are not bringing her into this. You looped her in on the call just so she'd know what was happening, but she says she learned her lesson on Monday and never once suggested that she'd be coming along.

Minori
Not only no, but HELL NO.
 
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[X] Usagi, but only if her parents approved.
[X] Not Ami; you didn't ask that.
[X] Makoto
[X] Rei
[X] Minako
[X] Neither Haruka nor Michiru

Conveniently this leaves a breakout team on standby and well rested if it goes wrong anyway.
 
I'd say H&M can be on standby but for the Inners, I can't say if we want the whole crew present or not.
 
[X] Plan Belay Rope

This gives us four of our strongest fighters (and giving us a priestess at our back with precognition), while leaving Ami and the Queensguard to act as door-openers in the background. Also, best not to have the Queensguard fight tired; that never goes well.

Edit: Looks like someone had the same idea I did, and made a plan first. Let me bow out...
 
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I think it is better to bring a larger force especially with the focus on evading being caught in the trap.

[X] [Plan] Inner team, Outer reserves.
-[X] Usagi, who was coming no matter what her parents said
-[X] Ami, because you asked.
-[X] Makoto
-[X] Rei
-[X] Minako
-[X] Neither Haruka nor Michiru
 
Lunar asked for plans so:
[x] Plan Belay Rope
-[X] Usagi, who was coming no matter what her parents said
-[X] Not Ami; you didn't ask that.
-[X] Makoto
-[X] Rei
-[X] Minako
-[X] Neither Haruka nor Michiru
 
I want to say we leave Minako behind. It's just her whole issue of her trying to completely abandon her civilian life and this might be feeding into that. You know?
 
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Conveniently this leaves a breakout team on standby and well rested if it goes wrong anyway.
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This gives us four of our strongest fighters (and giving us a priestess at our back with precognition), while leaving Ami and the Queensguard to act as door-openers in the background. Also, best not to have the Queensguard fight tired; that never goes well.
This needs to be a plan vote, from the sound of it.

I want to say we leave Minako behind. It's just her whole issue of her trying to completely abandon her civilian life and this might be feeding into that. You know?
I dunno. The thing is, on the one hand, we want her to ease back into having a civilian life. On the other hand, she's NOT had a civilian life that her duties as a magical girl and in particular her Being There For Usagi are kind of all that's holding her together.

There's such a thing as pushing someone too hard 'for their own good' and that's not necessarily a kindness or a good long-term strategy.
 
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Is it wrong that I want Onogoro's ritual to partially succeed only for one of the senshi to say something along the lines of "I am no mere god!" and break out?
 
[x] Plan Belay Rope

I'm dubious of bringing Ami since she seems to both be the only one who seems actually reluctant to go, and also is probably the best placed (other than maybe Rei) to break a binding from the outside. No for the Queen's guard, since they just got back from a mission and are clearly exhausted. Four Senshi should be enough for... most things, anyway.
 
I'm dubious of bringing Ami since she seems to both be the only one who seems actually reluctant to go...
The thing about Ami is, she cares, probably too much by any reasonably objective standard, about school. Like, a lot. She's not at all reluctant to "help Usagi," when it's put in those terms, I think. But part of her just dreads the idea of not being the A+ Little Miss Perfect student every day in school.

Minako, Makoto, and Usagi all have a history of not doing great in school; the risk that they'll not do great in school again, on a specific day or in general, isn't going to scare them so much.

Rei's somewhere in between, but feeling disaffected at school itself and being very "into" her Senshi life, and Usagi in particular, seems to be bringing her around to that same point of view.
 
[x] Plan Belay Rope

I was thinking of having Rei stay out so she could help break us out if needed, but I don't want to make Ami go against her mom and I want one of them in each group.
 
I was thinking of having Rei stay out so she could help break us out if needed, but I don't want to make Ami go against her mom and I want one of them in each group.
Well, the thing about Ami is that I'm pretty sure her mom doesn't know she's a Senshi. So it's not even a matter of her actively going against her mom. It's just that if her mom happens to notice that she's not at home at literally midnight, there is going to be trouble.
 
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