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Random832 said:
What exactly do we think Mami thinks happens when a soul gem "runs out of magic"?

Because at some point, the best and worst answer to Homura freaking out about it is "What am I supposed to do, just let them turn into witches die ________?"
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"Run out". Don't have to make any assumptions about what Mami thinks.
 
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Cannongerbil said:
After we broke the lichbomb on her? Presumably, she thinks they just die. She has no real reason to think otherwise right now.
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Plus, Rin said that in front of her. Edit:
Firnagzen said:
Rin holds up her hand, an unaccustomed look of determination on her face, her shoulders set stubbornly. "No, I know that our s-souls are in our Soul Gems. I know we'll d-die if we don't get enough Grief Seeds. But haven't we deprived them of Grief Seeds?"
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Onmur said:
Just a thought, but could we bother Oriko to look up when's Akiko gonna snap out of her catatonia, if ever?
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What do we care?
 
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FlatlineAskari said:
Plus, Rin said that in front of her. Edit:
Rin holds up her hand, an unaccustomed look of determination on her face, her shoulders set stubbornly. "No, I know that our s-souls are in our Soul Gems. I know we'll d-die if we don't get enough Grief Seeds. But haven't we deprived them of Grief Seeds?"
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Wait, what? Wasn't that before Mami lichbomb? Are we sure that was in front of her?
 
She should have gathered from Sendai, if not her extensive experience beforehand, that wandering around as a territory-less meguca is a good way to get killed. We could just say "What are we supposed to do? Turn them away and leave them to die?"
 
Random832 said:
Wait, what? Wasn't that before Mami lichbomb? Are we sure that was in front of her?
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No and yus, respectively. Mami lichbomb was immediately after the Masami incident, this was post-war.
Rin holds up her hand, an unaccustomed look of determination on her face, her shoulders set stubbornly. "No, I know that our s-souls are in our Soul Gems. I know we'll d-die if we don't get enough Grief Seeds. But haven't we deprived them of Grief Seeds?"

Sakura looks... startled, blinking at Rin with both her eyebrows arched high on her forehead. Tamiko frowns minutely, a pensive frown flickering across her face as she purses her lips in thought.

You watch, face carefully blank. Mami bumps her hand against yours, and you oblige, grabbing her hand again. She makes a contented little sound, and presses a little closer to you.

Sakura speaks up. "Those are ou-" Her speech falters halfway through the sentence.

"I've seen what fighting over Grief Seeds gets us," Rin says, her hands clenching. "I heard it, Sakura. I heard the screaming. And you told me to stay there, at the back." She looks at you, then the University girls, her eyes hard and resolute. "Would it be enough, Miss Tsubaki? If we gave you our Seed stockpile?"

... unexpected.

Tamiko's pensive frown shifts into a heavier, inscrutable frown, while Yumi presses her lips flat in an unhappy, ruler straight line. Sakura looks conflicted and annoyed.

You cough lightly. "Rin... Ultimately, we could leave this city without either side feeling mistreated. There can't be... facets that'll cause conflict in the future."

Haru sighs. "Two years too late to prevent mistreatment."

"Haru!" Chouko says, glaring a rebuke at the white haired girl.

"No, no," you say diplomatically. "It's fair enough, I guess." You carefully avoid noting that you weren't around two years ago. You decide not to directly address Rin's proposal for now. It's on the table, you guess, but you need to think about how to address it properly, judging from the reactions.

"Look, I want... if not for you to get along, then for you to at least coexist in peace and maybe cooperate. My position remains the same. I'm willing to come and help ease the pressure of hunting and magical girl life, with my powers, on a..." you rock your free hand from side to side, "... semi regular basis? And emergencies, of course."

Mami's hand tightens on yours, fractionally, and you squeeze back reassuringly.

"Ultimately, I want you to at least try to cooperate," you say. "And I have a suggestion... it's really just a suggestion. Miss Tsubaki, it seems to me that your problem is that you haven't had the breathing room to build up a buffer of Grief Seeds, correct?"

Chouko nods. "You... could say that," she allows.

"Well, I think it's reasonable for every girl I can access to have a buffer of Seeds," you say firmly, quashing the faint twinge of guilt over your... insistent imposition of your world view. Only your opinion, you remind yourself. "So how about this. I accept used Grief Seeds, and for every three, I return two refreshed ones. The last one, I redistribute to whoever needs it."

The University girls and the Sendai girls exchange wary, faintly baffled looks, neither seeming to want to be the first to speak. Eventually, Chouko does. "It's a... nice idea," she begins. "But... do you propose to drop by every time we fill a Grief Seed? We can't... keep them for too long."

"About a day, Sabrina," Mami supplies, an apologetic, faintly worried tone in her voice. "You can only keep a full Grief Seed about a day... maybe a little more... before they hatch again. They're... right. Sorry."

You squeeze her hand lightly, trying to reassure her. "Thanks, Mami," you tell her. You frown slightly, thinking about your next move.
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The conversation could go something like this:

"Hey Homura, Mami. Magical girls are going to start hearing stories about the magical girl who cleans soul gems for free. I'm expecting some to start showing up in Mitikihara at some point. We need to decide how to deal with this now that we have no real need for territory. Personally I think more meguca against Walpurgis can only be a good thing, so long as they follow some guidelines (like staying away from Madoka, not hurting civilians ect). Besides, I can't just let them die when I could do something to help so easily."

Then if Momura is really against it we could offer to send them into the next town over and just griefjet over occasionally to cleanse.

I'd prefer to have more magical girls in Mitikihara though.
 
[x] "Kyouko had a grief seed problem. She didn't have any seeds on her, and was still taking care of Yuma, so I gave her a seed and offered cleanses. We had a fun spar and she said we aren't friends and that she isn't being tsundere, which is a huge step up from last time. Overall I'm calling it a success."
[x] "Also, I asked her to send over any girls she kicks out of her territory, so...that might be happening? Sorry about not asking first, it was kind of spur of the moment."

[x] Lunch:
-[x] Tell the others about the meeting with Kyouko and Yuma.
-[x] Inform Homura about the possibility of megucas appearing in Mitakihara looking for cleanses in the near future.
-[x] Ask Sayaka if she's settled down at her new place yet.
-[x] Telepathy Madoka and Sayaka. Ask how they're holding up.
-[x] Plans after school? Nagisa can probably come today.
-[x] Mami suggested a picnic earlier. We got to find a day to do this.
-[x] Talk about different kinds of tea.
 
FlatlineAskari said:
What do we care?
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We don't want unstable bitch-face showing up wanting revenge in the middle of something important. If we get advance warning we can plan around her.
Torgamous said:
We could start a magical girl soup kitchen. Maybe working there will help Madoka feel useful.
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Hell, why not. Let's just win the lottery (or some other precog related money fuckery or steal from the Yakuza, or a bank), then set up a bunch of nice apartments for meguca to stay in. It'd be fun.
 
Jackercracks said:
Now that I think about it, we need a bit more detail than "Inform Mami and Homura about the possibility of megucas" if we want to get through lunch without an interrupt.

We'll say "oh yeah some meguca might be stopping by in town because of things I did" and Homura will have a minor freak out because oh my god unknown magical girls threat threat threat panic! and start pressing about whether they're a threat to Madoka and then we'll have to have another vote.

Might as well pre-empt it.
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[x] Lunch:
-[x] Tell the others about the meeting with Kyouko and Yuma.
-[x] Ask Sayaka if she's settled down at her new place yet.
-[x] Telepathy Madoka and Sayaka. Ask how they're holding up.
-[x] Plans after school? Nagisa can probably come today.
-[x] Mami suggested a picnic earlier. We got to find a day to do this.
-[x] Telepathy Homura. "This just occurred to me, but there might be a few girls appearing here in the near future, after what happened in Sendai. Just a head's up, keep an eye out for them, okay?"
-[x] Talk about different kinds of tea.
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Position moved because I'm pretty sure that whatever we say to Homura, it is probably going to put a kibosh on the small talk, assuming ti doesn't necessitate a break in the update to deal with Homura's reaction. Hence getting the important bits of the small talk out of the way first.
 
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Cannongerbil said:



Position moved because I'm pretty sure that whatever we say to Homura, it is probably going to put a kibosh on the small talk, assuming ti doesn't necessitate a break in the update to deal with Homura's reaction. Hence getting the important bits of the small talk out of the way first.
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Assuming you meant

-[ ] Telepathy Homura and Mami. "This just occurred to me, but there might be a few girls appearing in Mitikihara in the near future, after what happened in Sendai. Just a head's up, keep an eye out for them, okay?"

Then it seems like a very smart idea. We're likely going to have to tailor our pitch to how Homura reacts anyway, so we might as well do it like this.

Edit: Gadjo reminded me we should probably include Mami seeing as it's her town too
 
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Cannongerbil said:
Position moved because I'm pretty sure that whatever we say to Homura, it is probably going to put a kibosh on the small talk, assuming ti doesn't necessitate a break in the update to deal with Homura's reaction. Hence getting the important bits of the small talk out of the way first.
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Why don't we just tell her afterwords in timestop, and why don't we tell Mami at all?
 
-[] Telepathy Homura. "This just occurred to me, but there might be a few girls appearing in Sendai in the near future, after what happened in Sendai. Just a head's up, keep an eye out for them, okay?"

Is that the phrasing you intended? "appearing here, after what happened in Sendai." would make more sense.

I also wouldn't say "This just occurred to me", because it makes us seem like we aren't thinking much about long-term consequences. Can see mom getting exasperated at that. Plus, you know, this is something we have thought about ever since we left Sendai. Maybe:

"I've been thinking that there might be a few girls coming here looking for me, after word about what happened in Sendai gets around."

Would address it to both Homura and Mami, too. No reason not to?
 
Also, if anything is going to put a kibosh on small-talk early, it's this line:

-[] Telepathy Madoka and Sayaka. Ask how they're holding up.

I intensely hate the how are you holding up constant questions. How necessary is this to ask? We don't have to bring this up unless it's obvious that people are uncomfortable, right? So can we not?
 
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[X] "Kyouko seems like she's having a hard time taking care of herself and Yuma, she had no seeds left and her gem wasn't clear, so I gave her a seed and offered cleanses. We had a fun spar and she said we aren't friends and that she isn't being tsundere, which is a huge step up from last time. Overall I'm calling it a success."
[X] "Also, I asked her to send over any girls she kicks out of her territory, so...that might be happening? Sorry about not asking first, it was kind of spur of the moment."

[x] Lunch:
-[x] Tell the others about the meeting with Kyouko and Yuma.
-[x] Inform Mami and Homura about the possibility of megucas appearing in Mitakihara looking for cleanses in the near future.
-[x] Ask Sayaka if she's settled down at her new place yet.
-[x] Telepathy Madoka and Sayaka. Ask how they're holding up.
-[x] Plans after school? Nagisa can probably come today.
-[x] Mami suggested a picnic earlier. We got to find a day to do this.
-[x] Talk about different kinds of tea.
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For now I'm going to go with this vote, but it would probably be a bit better with SWB's suggestions from the last two votes.
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Seems convincing, SWB and Cannongerbil.

[x] "Kyouko had a grief seed problem. She didn't have any seeds on her, and was still taking care of Yuma, so I gave her a seed and offered cleanses. We had a fun spar and she said we aren't friends and that she isn't being tsundere, which is a huge step up from last time. Overall I'm calling it a success."
[x] "Also, I asked her to send over any girls she kicks out of her territory, so...that might be happening? Sorry about not asking first, it was kind of spur of the moment."

[x] Lunch:
-[x] Tell the others about the meeting with Kyouko and Yuma.
-[x] Ask Sayaka if she's settled down at her new place yet.
-[x] Plans after school? Nagisa can probably come today.
-[x] Mami suggested a picnic earlier. We got to find a day to do this.
-[x] Telepathy Homura and Mami "I've been thinking that there might be a few girls coming here looking for me, after word about what happened in Sendai gets around. Just keep an eye out for new magical girls in the city, okay?."
-[x] Talk about different kinds of tea.
 
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Gadjo said:
Why don't we just tell her afterwords in timestop, and why don't we tell Mami at all?
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SynchronizedWritersBlock said:
Would address it to both Homura and Mami, too. No reason not to?
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Doesn't this cover informing Mami?
Cannongerbil said:
[x] "Also, I asked her to send over any girls she kicks out of her territory, so...that might be happening? Sorry about not asking first, it was kind of spur of the moment."
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