"...ought... ...explanation... ...might be best..."
You furrowed your brow, a voice? Was someone in your room?
Were you dreaming?
"...Sure! Just ask..."
"...ayaka-chan, I think... ...Backwards..."
More than one voice, they all sounded oddly familiar too? they were fading in and out, like form down a long tube or something? It was hard to describe...
What was that name? Sayaka-chan? Japanese for sure, and wasn't that from something?
"Wow, that's pretty!"
"This is a Soul Gem."
Shouldn't you be waking up right about now? You weren't normally this lucid in a dream... Then again, your dreams usually had pictures... This was less like a weird virtual reality experience and more like listening to a radio-play being recorded at the other end of a long tunnel...
Were your eyes closed even?
Wait... What did she just say?
"Mami?" Your voice came out oddly high as a mumbled whisper. Sayaka? Soul Gems? Only you were dreaming weren't you? Dreaming about Madoka?
You cracked one open...
"It's a jewel created by the girls that are chosen by Kyubey, born of their contract. It identifies them as a Magical Girl and is the source of their magic power."
In front of you, a familiar face framed by an even more distinctive hairstyle and almost immediately something pings in your mind, a sudden burst of information.
Mami Tomoe
Status: Contracted
Current Affiliates: None
Original Wi-
You tear your gaze away just as you can hear her voice starting to resonate in your head, like a recording of her at the time of wishing. She seems close to you as well, and you instinctively scramble backwards, trying to back away and give some space to this girl you... Just met? Sorta know but have never met?
What the fuck is going on here?!
"What do yo-Ah!"
"Kyubey-san?!"
For a moment your vision tracks over the other two as you turn, and if the sight of similarly distinctive features wasn't enough to spark recognition your mind once again helpfully supplied a weird little status report, or at least it started to.
Right before your legs slipped out from under you.
Desperately you tried to regain your footing but all you succeeded in doing was overbalancing. Something was wrong with you, your proportions were all off, what was this?! What was happening!?
What-!
*THUMP*
You hit the floor in an undignified sprawl and tried to roll, catching a flash of red eyes and white fur in the glass underside of the table as you scrambled to all fours and... Wait... All fours?
"Oh no! Kyubey are you alright?"
You stared up into the concerned face of Madoka Kaname.
She was talking to you.
...No way...
"Kyubey-san?"
...Madoka Kaname, Sayaka Miki, and Mami Tomoe...
You knew this scene... This was Mami's apartment right? But that meant...
Local Calendar: March 25th, 2014 Your brain helpfully supplied the date for you.
No...
You turned and ran for the window, ignoring the alarmed cries of the girls behind you.
"What is he doing? It's not a witch is it Mami-san?"
"I don't know! I don't sense one!"
A familiar face stared back at you from your reflection in the glass...
You had all of their attention now... Mami was peering down at you with concern, a flustered Madoka and a curious Sayaka flanking her on either side. You're pretty sure you weren't supposed to do what you just did originally...
May as well treat this as real for now anyways? Crazy as that sounds...
[] How do you respond?
Hello and welcome to Renegade Incubator Quest my answer to PMMM's grim and gritty magical madness in the form of a shipping quest!
Yes you heard me right, a shipping quest!
In brief? You, the questers, have collectively taken over the Mitakihara Incubator and severed it from the incubator network. You still have the powers of telepathy and the ability to make wish contracts but you have lost the ability to resurrect yourself, and furthermore you will still expected to do your part in the fight against entropy! If energy from Mitakihara starts to drop or you otherwise out yourself to the incubator collective they'll come after you and try to set things right, and worse still, if you manage to die in the course of events a regular incubator will simply replace you, and you just know they'll start undoing all your hard work!
Your goals are simple.
Find a better way than the cycle of grief to produce energy.
Keep the other incubators from discovering anything is wrong... For long enough that you can fix this at least...
Find love for each of the Mitakihara Magical girls. You can pair them with each other or with others, but do know that the Yuri goggles are at full power for this quest.
[o] "We thought we sensed a witch fast approaching here. We were mistaken; it is just a false alarm."
Hmmm... put Homura with Madoka (otherwise, there could be some trouble from Homura), get Sayaka with Kyousuke (the boy she pined for... we just need to get it into his head that yes, Sayaka likes him more than a friend), trick Hitomi into meeting Kyoko... still leaves Mami to get with someone...
[o] "We thought we sensed a witch fast approaching here. We were mistaken; it is just a false alarm."
Hmmm... put Homura with Madoka (otherwise, there could be some trouble from Homura), get Sayaka with Kyousuke (the boy she pined for... we just need to get it into his head that yes, Sayaka likes him more than a friend), trick Hitomi into meeting Kyoko... still leaves Mami to get with someone...
[o] "We thought we sensed a witch fast approaching here. We were mistaken; it is just a false alarm."
Hmmm... put Homura with Madoka (otherwise, there could be some trouble from Homura), get Sayaka with Kyousuke (the boy she pined for... we just need to get it into his head that yes, Sayaka likes him more than a friend), trick Hitomi into meeting Kyoko... still leaves Mami to get with someone...
[o] "We thought we sensed a witch fast approaching here. We were mistaken; it is just a false alarm."
Hmmm... put Homura with Madoka (otherwise, there could be some trouble from Homura), get Sayaka with Kyousuke (the boy she pined for... we just need to get it into his head that yes, Sayaka likes him more than a friend), trick Hitomi into meeting Kyoko... still leaves Mami to get with someone...
I mean he's possible I guess? If you guys really try... I will heavily favour Yuri options though, straight options will be like super hard secret routes.
Who else do we ship her with!?!?!There was no one else in the series she gave even a HINT of liking! There was subtext with Kyoko and Sayaka, Madoka and Homura is a given, I mean I guess we could pair Hitomi and Mami up?
[X] "Someone made a Wish to interfere with another Magical Girl's Contract. Doing so has side effects for both the one whose Contract was targeted and myself, although they are not difficult to correct. You have my apologies for the interruption."
Who else do we ship her with!?!?!There was no one else in the series she gave even a HINT of liking! There was subtext with Kyoko and Sayaka, Madoka and Homura is a given, I mean I guess we could pair Hitomi and Mami up?
[X] "I... I'm not sure. Something very strange just happened. Am I sick? I didn't think that could happen?"
Go for the sympathy vote! If the girls "nurse us back to health" it'll be a reasonable explanation of why we suddenly are acting differently: remember we need to watch out for Homura deciding to kill us.
There's just one problem: There's no Sabrina in this Quest, which means there's no one to ship Mami with!
[X] "I... I'm not sure. Something very strange just happened. Am I sick? I didn't think that could happen?"
Go for the sympathy vote! If the girls "nurse us back to health" it'll be a reasonable explanation of why we suddenly are acting differently: remember we need to watch out for Homura deciding to kill us.
There's just one problem: There's no Sabrina in this Quest, which means there's no one to ship Mami with!
