To make people actually remember, here's it once for posterity: Minako is nonbinary and uses they/them. This message will be pinned so you people stop getting it wrong and pissing me off. If you get it wrong in the future I'm going to be much less nice, considering you have to scroll past it just to read the quest.
[X] Spy on Kasamino
-[X] Form a team. (ACCURACY 1: More people means more of a chance that they'll be spotted, but it also means less of a chance of losing magi).
Honestly there are just rumors all over the office about how Sayaka is weirdly resilient. Everyone in the precinct has a Sayaka story.
Like "She dropped her booth, it slid under a dumpster, then she picked up the dumpster to get it back."
"We were doing a training exercise, and she just headbutted a door open. Like off its hinges."
"She got hit by a bus and not only did she get back up, the bus was totaled."
Sayaka assumes that these things are gonna be wiped away by Kyubey but for some reason or another, it has not bothered to clean these ones. Probably because they're kind of mundane and can be brushed off as weird rumors.
By the way! I had forgot to say this, but I wanted Sayaka to think whether any of Mitakihara's adultgucas actually works in Kasamino, as that might be helpful?
Many years passed. Sayaka is a very busy woman with a (teenage!) kid, a stressful job (Witch hunting), a stressful side-job (police), a bunch of other kids (megucas she looks after in some capacity), a traumatized wife, a pile of her own traumas... It's too early to tell, I think.
By the way! I had forgot to say this, but I wanted Sayaka to think whether any of Mitakihara's adultgucas actually works in Kasamino, as that might be helpful?
Many years passed. Sayaka is a very busy woman with a (teenage!) kid, a stressful job (Witch hunting), a stressful side-job (police), a bunch of other kids (megucas she looks after in some capacity), a traumatized wife, a pile of her own traumas... It's too early to tell, I think.
[X] Spy on Kasamino
-[X] Form a team. (ACCURACY 1: More people means more of a chance that they'll be spotted, but it also means less of a chance of losing magi).
[X] Spy on Kasamino
-[X] Form a team. (ACCURACY 1: More people means more of a chance that they'll be spotted, but it also means less of a chance of losing magi).
"We're gonna form a super duper fucking group."
"We need them tough."
"Morally flexible."
"And young enough to carry their own franchise for ten to twelve years."
[X] Spy on Kasamino
-[X] Form a team. (ACCURACY 1: More people means more of a chance that they'll be spotted, but it also means less of a chance of losing magi).
"We're gonna form a super duper fucking group."
"We need them tough."
"Morally flexible."
"And young enough to carry their own franchise for ten to twelve years."
By the way! I had forgot to say this, but I wanted Sayaka to think whether any of Mitakihara's adultgucas actually works in Kasamino, as that might be helpful?
Many years passed. Sayaka is a very busy woman with a (teenage!) kid, a stressful job (Witch hunting), a stressful side-job (police), a bunch of other kids (megucas she looks after in some capacity), a traumatized wife, a pile of her own traumas... It's too early to tell, I think.
ALL these issues PLUS "My best friend is probably literally the safest person in the history of the human race right now" means you're probably not going to spend a lot of energy thinking about it.
[X] Spy on Kasamino
-[X] Form a team. (ACCURACY 1: More people means more of a chance that they'll be spotted, but it also means less of a chance of losing magi).
If we go with this option, will there be a predetermined team or will we get to pick? I would recommend not more than maybe 4 or 5 MG.
Okay that's good, I kinda had a nightmare scenario of having to pick through 50 plus magical girls and I imagine you didn't want to deal with that either.
Okay that's good, I kinda had a nightmare scenario of having to pick through 50 plus magical girls and I imagine you didn't want to deal with that either.
[X] Spy on Kasamino
-[X] Form a team. (ACCURACY 1: More people means more of a chance that they'll be spotted, but it also means less of a chance of losing magi).
[X] Spy on Kasamino
-[X] Form a team. (ACCURACY 1: More people means more of a chance that they'll be spotted, but it also means less of a chance of losing magi).
You clap your hands. You have an idea of how you want to build the team, and thankfully you do have a number of magi with abilities perfect for the job.
"Alright, I'll get a few of them ready."
"A few? You're sending in a team?"
"Just for tonight. Like, think of it this way-"
"I wasn't gonna disagree, Sayaka." Kyouko stands up. "I mean, I think it's a good idea, too. Even if they're spotted, it's better than just losing info. Or, god forbid, losing a magi."
"Exactly." You crack your neck. "Think it's time to patrol the bridge."
"Yee." Kyouko keeps pace with you as you both slowly leave the restaurant. You've got a number of different things to think about on the way there; you don't suspect they'll send anyone your way today, but there's only one way to know for sure.
You know two women who can easily commute to Kasamino, but only one of them, Erika, has an ability that might actually be helpful for spying. Namely, she is capable of seeing everything, from every angle, within a range of three-hundred meters. It is borderline omniscience within a vast area, with perfect placement and knowledge of all goings-on within. However, because of how taxing it is, it can only last fifteen seconds at a time, and she can only do it once every twenty minutes. Given the breadth of the information she's taking in, you can easily see why she wouldn't use it that frequently.
But even with that limitation, she's still a perfect scout; indistinct, completely pedestrian. But if things get hairy, her speed and combat prowess make for an easy getaway. Of course, that doesn't change the fact that she's probably gonna have to find work elsewhere if she's spotted, but it would hardly be the first time you've had to help magi relocate.
This does raise the question of why neither of them had heard of The Glow before now. You wonder if that's perhaps because they don't conduct magi business in the city, or that in the middle of normal work they simply don't bother?
You'll have to check on them later, perhaps.
Next on the list would be Suzu, with brick-red hair and ability to sense threats. This means all threats; existential, incoming, and immediate. She can sense them in waves, from deep discomfort when a threat is hours away to sharp signals when it's minutes out to borderline clairvoyance when danger is imminent. It doesn't stop danger from coming, nor does it make her invincible, but ever since you helped her focus her abilities, it stopped resembling, well, near-constant anxiety and more like an intense, long-running spidey-sense.
Green-and-yellow Takara is another choice. She sports the ability to disrupt communications, including scrambling the connection between a magi's body and their soul gem (though only temporarily). The more important part is preventing other magi from getting the word out, and potentially knocking them out long enough to make a getaway.
The most useful of the lot, however, would be Ume and her ability to vanish. It's not true invisibility; it doesn't last long and the warped air is easy enough to track if you know what to look for. But the trick lies in the fact that most people have no clue what to seek out. Her trick only works until it doesn't, but most magi will never, ever be able to find her.
They all responded quickly. They haven't worked together in this kind of group before, but if there's anything you've taught your magi, it's how to cooperate. You'll probably get some kind of report tomorrow.
[=]
Your name is Minako. And you haven't seen Takane on the rooftop today. You glance over, your eyes staring out in an attempt to find her somewhere. As though staring out into the nothingness of Mitakihara's skyline will make her appear.
It obviously doesn't work that way. But you so wish it did. You start to think that your messages last night scared her off. Maybe she didn't want to talk to you. Maybe you treated her like shit because you were mad. You didn't mean to do that. You shouldn't have done that.
You keep stewing in your own head, thoughts passing through at a million miles an hour, each one worse than the last. Finally, though, you hear footsteps. You whip your head to the side to see, well...speak of the devil.
Takane's already there. She's holding her arm, a little bit ashamed.
You hesitantly raise an arm to wave at her. "Uh...hey."
She gives you a soft smile.
"Hi."
There's a long, awkward silence. You both stare at one another before she scratches the back of her head. She stretches her hand and exposes what, to your eye, looks like a big green egg; a simple, gold-lined jewel, glimmering in the light...with a growing pool of black. She raises her hand over her head, and as she does so, the blackness spills.
It spills out of the edge, towards the ground, before it slooowly shifts upwards. The black smoke flickers as it flies up, up and uuuup towards, of all things, the Mitakihara monument.
The grief vanishes into the monument, sloooooowly pooling on its surface before vanishing entirely.
You stare up at the monument, then back to Takane.
"The...monument's related to magi?"
"In a way, yes," she says. "There's...okay, there is a lot to be said. Something like: it's a thing that falls from the monsters we fight after we kill them, and we use them to cleanse our...our soul gems."
You look at her for a second, then at the gem in her hand. Before you can catch yourself, she nods.
"The name is literal, yes."
You look at the thing flicker in her hand, the green swirling around. Finally, a few things click in your head.
"Souls are real?"
"Very."
"And...that's...uh...that's yours?" You point at the thing.
"Yes." She slowly walks towards you. "It's a trade; your soul is removed, and your body is made immensely stronger."
"That black stuff is dangerous?" You look up at her.
"Too much of it can-" she cuts herself off, internally debating telling you something that honestly...you're already going to guess, "-kill a magi, yes."
That explains a lot.
She scratches her head. "Sorry for just dropping that on you out of nowhere, but I...I'd kind of been neglecting it. I don't need to cleanse often, but sometimes it just gets bad."
"Huh." You think you should be more surprised than you actually are. You scratch your chin; a little bit of discomfort from how you're just kind of accepting the existence of souls and that the giant bizarre monument is a massive magi-related something. But to your credit, you're taking it in stride.
[] Write-in some questions to ask your girlfriend.
[] Don't ask anything else; she doesn't need to think about it more.
Adhoc vote count started by TheOneMoiderah on Jun 14, 2019 at 10:21 AM, finished with 8 posts and 5 votes.
[X] Does she want to talk about what happened, or Magi stuff, or anything like that? Or would she rather just hang out and talk about silly stuff, like how bad of a film you can find for your next movie date?
