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Confringentur, Mk.2; a Madoka Magica / Fate/Stay Night crossover

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Day 34 Chapter 1
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    • You were never one for drinking in life; you had Taiga for that, and besides, alcohol-impaired judgement only gets in the way of duty when you're out risking your life to be a hero of justice for people you barely know. Maybe, if getting drunk were a thing that were possible for the heroic spirit you, you might have turned to drink to forget the things you had done time and again in the service of your pact with the World; not that you ever had the chance to drink on your missions, that is.

    So it should come as no surprise to anyone attempting to narrate your life that you have very little idea what to make for breakfast for someone that's hungover; and true, while you had plenty of opportunities to practice your skills on Taiga, the bizarre breakfast concoctions she swore by gave you little confidence then and now as to their efficacy. Instead, you've consulted with the equally-dubious wisdom of the internet, picking and choosing what would be, if not effective, at least a healthy breakfast for the beleaguered mother Kure. Eggs and fruit seemed like popular choices all around.

    Standing at the door to her apartment at around a quarter after five, you knock on the door, hoping that her alarm has gone off and that she is awake. Inside, you hear a muffled "I'm coming," followed by the telltale shuffle of someone with a hangover as the person inside makes for the door. There's a pause just outside, before the door opens and the morning face of Kure Minako greets you. Her hair is a mess and her clothes - last night's, you notice - are wrinkled and possessed of a faint 'lived-in' smell. "Hey," she says, the look on her face clearly saying it all to you. Despite the note you left her, she doesn't look like she really expected you to come back. At least her breath is fresher than it was last night, you find yourself thinking.

    You hold out the lunch box in your hands, saying as Kure Minako accepts it from you "I brought breakfast."

    The mother Kure smiles for you, trying her best to straighten out her hair and clothes as she beckons you inside, saying "Come on in." You do as you are told, taking your shoes off at the door as you follow her inside, smiling to yourself as you admire last night's handiwork. "I, uh, I read your note," she says, setting the lunch box down on the kitchen table. "I really appreciate you sticking around to clean up. Sorry I conked out on you, though. That was pretty rude of me."

    "You were drunk and in need of sleep," you respond, taking a seat at the table after Kure Minako does. "It would be equally rude of me to hold it against you."

    "Yeah, so about that..." Oh gods no, you don't want to hear her say that she remembers what she said to you last night. "Listen, I kind of can't remember anything after I threw up on the sidewalk, so if I said anything weird to you yesterday while I was drunk, I... I'm sorry."

    You don't let the relief show on your face; that was a close one. If she had remembered what she said, and she still felt that way when she was sober... It hasn't even been a full forty-eight hours since you two met; she's in no position to be offering herself to you. "You might have mumbled a few odd things, but you were slurring your words pretty bad; I couldn't understand a thing you said." You give Kure Minako a smile, and hoping to change the topic of conversation away from the events of last night, you say to her "Well, eat up. I'd hate for all this food to go to waste."

    Kure Minako wastes no time in opening the lunch box up once you've given permission. It's mostly Western fair - oatmeal with strawberries and bananas, an omelette with sausage and peppers, and a fruit smoothie - but she's had no complaints about your other offerings so far, so hopefully your choices go over well. Her eyes light up as she unpacks breakfast, and she says "I... Uh... Thank you."

    "You're very welcome."

    "Are you..." The mother Kure's eyes dart from you to food, then back to you, and she asks "Are you going to eat anything?"

    You shake your head. "No. Usually I'll have breakfast with Homura before she heads off to school, but she's still asleep now." You wave Kure Minako's concerns away, saying "Really, you're fine. I won't think it's rude if you start eating in front of me."

    Do you
    [ ] Talk to Kure Minako
    -[ ] about what? (write-in)
    [ ] Don't talk; just watch her eat
    -[ ] Creepy watch
    -[ ] Normal-person watch
    -[ ] Watch like she's your love interest

    [ ] Ping Homura awake and talk to her about your haul
    [ ] Wait until you're home and Homura is awake before talking about your haul

    [ ] Other (write-in)



    Monday, 18 April 2011

    Major objectives:
    - Maintain your relationships with Kaname Madoka, Miki Sayaka, Shizuki Hitomi, and Tomoe Mami
    - Go on another date with your girlfriend some time in the near future
    - Try to cultivate a better relationship with Sakura Kyoko
    - Try to figure out just how you want to view Mikuni Oriko in the future; you've gotten closer to her and you don't know what to do
    - Try to convince Shizuki Hitomi to summon Saber before anyone else is able to
    - Further your knowledge of Rune thaumaturgy and practice your chosen Rune
    - Further your knowledge of Reinforcement thaumaturgy under the tutelage of Archer
    - Help your non-Puella Magi friends gain enough personal power to fend off minor threats, at least
    - Prevent Kaname Madoka and Miki Sayaka from contracting and becoming Puella Magi
    - Make sure to deal with the Shirome trio soon, before any of them Witch out or that one Witch attacks them
    - Figure out a way to more reliably locate the Incubator in order to nip any problems from it in the bud
    - Find out some way to ward off the Incubator from Kaname Madoka; maybe your teammates could help you with that?
    - Have a nice and relaxing vacation with your friends and teammates where nothing goes wrong
    - Defeat the Witch known as Walpurgisnacht
    - Investigate, identify, and prevent the occurrence of the event that caused a fundamental force of this universe to be twice overwritten
    - Protect your Master from harm in this unusually dangerous loop
    - Protect your Master from harm and being taken advantage of by the denizens of the Moonlit World
    - Further your Master's skills in Magecraft, now that she has mastered the fundamentals of Projection
    - Aid your Master in coordinating her allies so that they stand a better chance of defeating the various threats plaguing the city
    - Await whatever Rin's sending to Mitakihara to aid your Master and her friends
    - Be a good dad to your Master
     
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    • Signupname said:
    Typical 4chan stuff, although without the /pol/ craps
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    [X] Plan A Lot More Than SVS Was Probably Expecting
    -[X] Talk to Kure Minako
    --[X] about when and where you should drop off her Lunch
    --[X] about if she'd be fine with dropping one of her side jobs soon if you lend her a sizable amount of money
    ---[X] and assure her that you don't need the money, so she could pay you back at zero percent interest far in the future if she really wants to push for paying you back; you'd be fine if she'd just accept the charity, which is preferable to you
    --[X] and be asked again by her why you're going so far to help her.
    ---[X] Answer by stating that you're selfish, in that if you have the power to help the people you know and care about then you'll do so without regret
    -[X] Wait until you're home and Homura is awake before talking about your haul
    --[X] What you do end up getting out of the haul for Minako will be put into a bank account, of which you'll probably ask Rin for help in setting up and depositing said money within it that won't draw attention to the fact that you robbed the local Yakuza
    ---[X] but not before meeting up with Rin after Homura goes off to school
    -[X] (Homura) Wake up
    --[X] and panic. You shouldn't have left Koito without cleansing her Soul Gem, and you don't know why you left it as is since you entered with the intention of cleansing all of their Soul Gems.
    ---[X] Was your mind manipulated somehow? Maybe by one of the Shirome girls' powers?
    --[X] Quickly get ready, eat breakfast, and be broken the news of Archer's haul
    ---[X] Give Archer your answer as to how much is going towards helping out Kure Minako and how much is going to you depending on the haul in question
    ----[X] Before joining your friends on their way to school, try to depart much earlier than you usually do and transform into your Puella Magi gear, making your way to the Church poste-haste and using time-stop to make up time to not be late if necessary
    -----[X] Yoink Koito's Soul Gem in time-stop and cleanse it - out of sight if you have to resume time to do so - and replace it, them none the wiser
     
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    Yes, haha, no one's ever made that joke before in the history of mankind. You're so original. You should be ashamed of yourself. That fruit's so low-hanging it's actually touching the spot on the ground where a dog pissed on earlier in the week.

    Never mind the fact that Kirika is Japanese, so she probably wouldn't be shitposting on 4chan if that were something she did.
    ---[X] Give Archer your answer as to how much is going towards helping out Kure Minako and how much is going to you depending on the haul in question
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    What are you thinking we would be amicable to keeping? Give your answer based on rough percentages, or throw out an amount in Yen you think would be sufficient for our needs that we'll donate any amount over that.
     
    SVS said:
    What are you thinking we would be amicable to keeping? Give your answer based on rough percentages, or throw out an amount in Yen you think would be sufficient for our needs that we'll donate any amount over that.
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    Agh, it's really difficult to say. Hm... Homura would definitely take enough to cover what she spent for Madoka's gift (which I'm pretty sure she hasn't given to her yet; we'll have to remedy this on their next date) and enough for future occasional expenses like that in the future, so not too much, really. It's not like Homura will be actively be spending the big bucks or make any investments due to time-looping cynicism so it's likely she'll cede the rest to Minako's cause. It's not like she can't send Archer to another city to do the same thing he did in Mitakihara, after all.
     
    SVS said:
    Yes, haha, no one's ever made that joke before in the history of mankind. You're so original. You should be ashamed of yourself. That fruit's so low-hanging it's actually touching the spot on the ground where a dog pissed on earlier in the week.

    Never mind the fact that Kirika is Japanese, so she probably wouldn't be shitposting on 4chan if that were something she did.
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    Forgot to respond to this. From personal experience on the site, I can definitely confirm that despite the joke being overplayed, there's definitely a large outspoken percentage of people in all corners of the site - particularly in boards that are completely unrelated to politics or the personal beliefs in question - that share sentiments with racism/Nazism, LGBT-phobia, conspiracy theories of all types, and general all around hatred for anyone and everyone other than themselves. You'll find stuff like that even in threads that are supposed to be innocent and completely unrelated. Of course there's plenty of people who are against said people doing what they do, but there are just as many of the before-mentioned people that I believe my stance remains true to an extent.

    Also yeah, what signupname said about where Kirika would probably be. :p
     
    Enetious said:
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    I think it's funny that you feel like you have to tell me what normal conversation on 4chan is like, like it's some kind of well-kept secret/super-secret club that only a select few know about. It's not. Most people on the English-speaking internet know it. I think the best thing 4chan does is that its userbase is allowed to be assholes to one another, while the worst thing it does is have a site culture that practically mandates that you have to be an asshole to one another, and that's the part that's more tiresome than people being edgy and offensive for shock value or because they actually believe what they say. But that doesn't change the fact that that one singular joke is so overplayed and stale, that making it is a lower-hanging fruit than anything short of jokes about current political events or actors.

    Seriously; I think I stepped on that fruit once while I was picking for actual ripe fruit still on the branches.
     
    SVS said:
    Seriously; I think I stepped on that fruit once while I was picking for actual ripe fruit still on the branches.
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    What fruit did you step on? :V (but yeah I'm dropping it like a rotten grapefruit on a sidewalk now)

    On an unrelated note, I'm quite curious to see what Archer got on his foray into vigilantism.
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    Um, what?
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    Homura was voted to cleanse all of the Shirome girls' Soul Gems, and not only for their own protection since, y'know, Witch. Homura left that Church without doing so for Koito despite knowing the dangers of letting her accumulate Grief, not to mention she's forced people like Oriko to cleanse their Soul Gems in the past. Since SVS hasn't addressed it as an oversight OOC, I'm taking a guess in that it's a Contessa-plot a deliberate or enemy action to prevent Homura from making sure that Koito doesn't Witch-out. After all, we can't exactly expect Part 3 to be all sunshine and rainbows until Walpurgisnacht comes around at the end. :p
     
    Enetious said:
    What fruit did you step on? :V (but yeah I'm dropping it like a rotten grapefruit on a sidewalk now)
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    Probably an apple, with a slight maybe for strawberry. There's good spots for picking both up by where my mom grew up, so one of those is the most likely candidate.
    On an unrelated note, I'm quite curious to see what Archer got on his foray into vigilantism.
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    Oh, you'll see.
    Homura was voted to cleanse all of the Shirome girls' Soul Gems, and not only for their own protection since, y'know, Witch. Homura left that Church without doing so for Koito despite knowing the dangers of letting her accumulate Grief, not to mention she's forced people like Oriko to cleanse their Soul Gems in the past. Since SVS hasn't addressed it as an oversight OOC, I'm taking a guess in that it's a Contessa-plot a deliberate or enemy action to prevent Homura from making sure that Koito doesn't Witch-out. After all, we can't exactly expect Part 3 to be all sunshine and rainbows until Walpurgisnacht comes around at the end.
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    Or I could be waiting to address it in-character when we wake up.
     
    SVS said:
    Or I could be waiting to address it in-character when we wake up.
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    I have no idea what that entails, nor do I know if what I put in my vote is necessary or not. Is this all a part of Homura's master plan all according to keikaku, was Homura mind controlled, was Homura so tired that she forgot for some reason even though she's a Puella Magi, did Homura already do it offscreen, has Homura become self-aware that she's being controlled by a bunch of people reading about her life in a questing forum and is rebelling? 😅

    In all seriousness should I be altering/removing that part of the vote, or can I just let things be as is? If it's some QM secret, feel free to be really vague or outright ignore that part of the vote if you can't tell me. :stickouttongue2:
     
    Enetious said:
    Homura was voted to cleanse all of the Shirome girls' Soul Gems, and not only for their own protection since, y'know, Witch. Homura left that Church without doing so for Koito despite knowing the dangers of letting her accumulate Grief, not to mention she's forced people like Oriko to cleanse their Soul Gems in the past. Since SVS hasn't addressed it as an oversight OOC, I'm taking a guess in that it's a Contessa-plot a deliberate or enemy action to prevent Homura from making sure that Koito doesn't Witch-out. After all, we can't exactly expect Part 3 to be all sunshine and rainbows until Walpurgisnacht comes around at the end.
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    Can a Soul Gem be cleansed when not in Soul Gem form? Because Homura has no way of making Koito put her Soul Gem in a form that can be cleansed. Not without just shooting her in the kneecaps or something that will just generally make her less cooperative in the future.
     
    NMS said:
    Can a Soul Gem be cleansed when not in Soul Gem form? Because Homura has no way of making Koito put her Soul Gem in a form that can be cleansed. Not without just shooting her in the kneecaps or something that will just generally make her less cooperative in the future.
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    It's always in Soul Gem form, technically, just in different shapes. :p Yeah, Homura can cleanse her Gem if she's not in her Puella Magi form.
     
    Enetious said:
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    You don't have to delete anything if you don't want to, but I had a different plan in mind for planting the seed and addressing it than you did.
    NMS said:
    Can a Soul Gem be cleansed when not in Soul Gem form? Because Homura has no way of making Koito put her Soul Gem in a form that can be cleansed. Not without just shooting her in the kneecaps or something that will just generally make her less cooperative in the future.
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    Enetious said:
    It's always in Soul Gem form, technically, just in different shapes. :p Yeah, Homura can cleanse her Gem if she's not in her Puella Magi form.
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    Not if it's in ring form. I've never seen a Soul Gem that's still in ring form be cleansed before, and I think what NMS is getting at here is that, if Koito kept her Soul Gem in ring form, there'd be nothing we could do to forcibly cleanse it, as far as I'm aware.
     
    SVS said:
    You don't have to delete anything if you don't want to, but I had a different plan in mind for planting the seed and addressing it than you did.
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    Agh, I'll stick with what I have for now assuming it doesn't mess anything up. It makes me really curious as to what might be happening in the background, and if it'll be related to anything that'll probably pop up in between now and Walpurgisnacht. Can't wait to see the next chapter! :)
    Not if it's in ring form. I've never seen a Soul Gem that's still in ring form be cleansed before, and I think what NMS is getting at here is that, if Koito kept her Soul Gem in ring form, there'd be nothing we could do to forcibly cleanse it, as far as I'm aware.
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    Hm, I see your point, I just assumed that they could considering that it's only ever been noted that the ring form was meant to make it easier for a Puella Magi to take it with them and not lose it.
     
    Enetious said:
    Agh, I'll stick with what I have for now assuming it doesn't mess anything up. It makes me really curious as to what might be happening in the background, and if it'll be related to anything that'll probably pop up in between now and Walpurgisnacht. Can't wait to see the next chapter!
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    Someone will be panicking when we wake up in the morning, so it's not as if your panic mandate will be wholly ignored, but whether it's us or not remains to be seen.
     
    [X] Plan Enetious But Without The Panicking
    -[X] Talk to Kure Minako
    --[X] about when and where you should drop off her Lunch
    --[X] about if she'd be fine with dropping one of her side jobs soon if you lend her a sizable amount of money
    ---[X] and assure her that you don't need the money, so she could pay you back at zero percent interest far in the future if she really wants to push for paying you back; you'd be fine if she'd just accept the charity, which is preferable to you
    --[X] and be asked again by her why you're going so far to help her.
    ---[X] Answer by stating that you're selfish, in that if you have the power to help the people you know and care about then you'll do so without regret
    -[X] Wait until you're home and Homura is awake before talking about your haul
    --[X] What you do end up getting out of the haul for Minako will be put into a bank account, of which you'll probably ask Rin for help in setting up and depositing said money within it that won't draw attention to the fact that you robbed the local Yakuza
    ---[X] but not before meeting up with Rin after Homura goes off to school
    -[X] (Homura) Wake up
    --[X] Quickly get ready, eat breakfast, and be broken the news of Archer's haul
    ---[X] Give Archer your answer as to how much is going towards helping out Kure Minako and how much is going to you depending on the haul in question
     
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    Enetious said:
    --[X] Quickly get ready, eat breakfast, and be broken the knews of Archer's haul
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    NMS said:
    --[X] Quickly get ready, eat breakfast, and be broken the knews of Archer's haul
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    All this talk of whether or not to remove the panicking, and NMS even went so far as to make the relevant edit to remove the panicking, and yet somehow neither of you noticed that "news" is spelled incorrectly.

    EDIT: I know I should have addressed this earlier regarding this particular part of both of your votes, but I only just noticed it now.
    --[X] What you do end up getting out of the haul for Minako will be put into a bank account which you'll be setting up at a local bank under the I.D. of Emiya Shirou, your past self
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    We do not have any identification on us. Like, at all. We'd have to wholesale forge every single piece of paper we needed, and the bank might get suspicious if we make a deposit of "a fuckton" at the same time that the local Yakuza have just lost "a fuckton" of money. Do either of you have any comments on this?
     
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    SVS said:
    We do not have any identification on us. Like, at all. We'd have to wholesale forge every single piece of paper we needed, and the bank might get suspicious if we make a deposit of "a fuckton" at the same time that the local Yakuza have just lost "a fuckton" of money. Do either of you have any comments on this?
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    ... hm, y'know, that could be a problem, couldn't it? I'd say that Archer could leech off of Shirou's documentation and just project the necessary I.D.s and such, however I just remembered that the only thing Archer can definitely and permanently remember how to project in detail are things that can be stored in his Reality Marble.

    Luckily Archer's meeting up with Rin before then, amirite? Archer might be able to get Rin to make an account for him to use, or help him get an account under the Shirou or Archer's identity of this timeline. Gonna quickly edit my vote to reflect that.
     
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