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The witch of work, with an obsessive nature. Perfectly disguised as a human named "Boss", she wanders around her work place -her barrier. Normal humans can enter and leave the barrier freely until "boss" says otherwise, showing her true form to those infortunate enough to make het angry. Until this happens, no meguca can detect any difference between one and the another.
 
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Direct Intervention pt. 35
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    • "Because, Homura," you hiss, meeting her eyes with a steely gaze of your own, "I want to stop her."

    That takes Homura by surprise. "What?" she asks blankly.

    You snort. "If she wanted to kill Madoka? Madoka would be dead," you say.

    Homura's eyes harden. Before you can respond, she snarls in your face "I- she has!" She leans forward in the greatest display of emotion you've ever seen from her. Separated as you are by a single arm length, she's nearly shouting in your face. "She has k-killed Madoka! And you want to bring her back?"

    "Yes, she did!" you snap back. "After she'd been driven into a corner, after she lost Kirika, after she lost everything! Do you want to see what she has left now? What traps she set up in event of her death? She said she was hiring someone - maybe she left instructions 'in event of my death'?"

    "And I'll stop-"

    "I'm not done," you snap. "And Sayaka. If she wanted Sayaka dead? Sayaka would be dead. She wouldn't have used a fire, or left some note justifying it. Maybe we have to kill her, and Kirika too. I don't want to have to do that. But if it comes down to it? I'll... help you with it. But the big question is - why? She must have a reason, and I'm not supporting her, but there must be a reason! If we know that, then we can stop whatever she has planned."

    "Homura, please, trust me," you plead. "Yes, Oriko killed Madoka, once. If it comes down to it, if they're a danger to those we... know... I'll help you. But before it comes to that, I want to try, Homura."

    Homura sighs, anger seeming to fade somewhat. "Kindness and idealism have no reward. You know what's happened, so you know that," she says tiredly, closing her eyes. Just as you're about to protest, though, she holds up a hand, and you bite back any comments you might have made. "I... I've trusted you this far, and..." she swallows hard, "you've done better than I have, so far. I, we'll try this your way."

    [] Say something
    [] Get Kirika's Soul Gem
    [] Start healing Oriko
    [] Write-in

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    Hmmm. Homura has a modicum of trust for you. How odd.
     
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    • That went... smoother than I'd hoped.

    [x] Thank Homura, sound touched. We won't let her down.
    [x] Leave Kirika's Soul Gem for now; we don't want to give her another chance at anti-magic pulse.
    [x] Homura holds Oriko's soul gem.
    [x] Start healing Oriko to "not obviously already dead" levels.
     
    [x] Silver

    Well, Homu's gonna Homu but it looks like our talk with her while were back at Mumi's had an impact at least.
     
    Uhh...how long would it take Homura and Sabrina to heal Oriko back into consciousness? Unless Sabrina is significantly better/faster at healing than Homura is, by the precedent set by the bombing incident...wouldn't it take, like, a dozen hours? Granted, we have timestop, but still, that's quite a while longer to go without sleep. Also, Kirika still has two functional/non-broken limbs. We might want to do something about that, particularly if we're not going to be in constant timestop.

    Further, Kirika might think that Oriko is dead (or about to die, with her being unable to stop it). If we come out of this timestop, we need to make sure she doesn't witch out on us, which means Sabrina needs to cleanse her, too, on a semi-regular basis. Or we need to tell Kirika that Oriko isn't dead yet, and so long as neither of them try to start a fight again, it'll stay that way.

    Also, does Oriko know about the whole lichbomb thing? I'm not saying whether or not she did in canon, I'm talking about here and now--does she know yet?

    Lastly: it seems like Oriko genuinely wasn't expecting anything like this to happen at all. Either she's developed a blind spot where, if she doesn't see something with her precognition, she assumes it's not a possibility for the near future, or she doesn't even bother thinking things through rather than just using her precognition to make all of her plans and goals. The fact that Oriko isn't hiding inside a witch barrier (or at least somewhere surrounded by mundane civilians, or somewhere obscure), but casually walking alongside the river with Kirika suggests that the very notion that her use of lethal force to threaten Mami's friends and potentially even kill Sabrina would result in them trying to kill her in return never occurred to her.
     
    SaltyWaffles said:
    Lastly: it seems like Oriko genuinely wasn't expecting anything like this to happen at all. Either she's developed a blind spot where, if she doesn't see something with her precognition, she assumes it's not a possibility for the near future, or she doesn't even bother thinking things through rather than just using her precognition to make all of her plans and goals. The fact that Oriko isn't hiding inside a witch barrier (or at least somewhere surrounded by mundane civilians, or somewhere obscure), but casually walking alongside the river with Kirika suggests that the very notion that her use of lethal force to threaten Mami's friends and potentially even kill Sabrina would result in them trying to kill her in return never occurred to her.
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    There's nothing casual about superhuman leap locomotion, she probably was running somewhere.

    We know her precognition isn't perfect already, but we don't know anything about its limits.

    I really don't get where the idea that a witch's barrier would be a good hiding spot comes from. Those would be obvious locations to check. Not a single person in the whole thread thought to check construction sites for Oriko, but around a dozen suggested checking every witch's barrier we could find.

    I'm inclined to think the precognition is as others suggested much earlier being able to know what is said in the thread and react to our turn plan before the turn plan fires. It would explain her being catchable during the timestop quite easily since the timestop went on for a dozen turns and she only was able to react to the first one since she was locked down during the others.
     
    inverted_helix said:
    There's nothing casual about superhuman leap locomotion, she probably was running somewhere.

    We know her precognition isn't perfect already, but we don't know anything about its limits.

    I really don't get where the idea that a witch's barrier would be a good hiding spot comes from. Those would be obvious locations to check. Not a single person in the whole thread thought to check construction sites for Oriko, but around a dozen suggested checking every witch's barrier we could find.
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    Sabrina can sense grief. She cannot distinguish between a magical girl's grief and a Witch's grief. All she senses is just grief.

    And why would we automatically think to check construction sites of all places? That makes less sense than wanting to look in Witch Barriers.
     
    inverted_helix said:
    We know her precognition isn't perfect already, but we don't know anything about its limits.
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    Actually, there's enough hints scattered about for you to begin putting things together.
    I'm inclined to think the precognition is as others suggested much earlier being able to know what is said in the thread and react to our turn plan before the turn plan fires. It would explain her being catchable during the timestop quite easily since the timestop went on for a dozen turns and she only was able to react to the first one since she was locked down during the others.
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    Word of GM: No. She has actual precog, with defined limits.
     
    Dirtnap said:
    Sabrina can sense grief. She cannot distinguish between a magical girl's grief and a Witch's grief. All she senses is just grief.

    And why would we automatically think to check construction sites of all places? That makes less sense than wanting to look in Witch Barriers.
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    Precisely why she would hide in construction sites rather than Witch's Barriers. Everyone expected her to hide in a Witch's Barrier. The thread was drowning in suggestions we search Witch Barriers.

    No one ever thought of a construction site. There was no reason to. That's the kind of place you hide. Not the first place anyone would think to look.
     
    It's the old industrial district, actually. Sabrina's hunted a Witch there before, and passed through there a couple of times to and from Kasamino, and I've devoted some words to describing it. I wouldn't have Oriko hiding in a place completely unmentioned in story.
     
    Long things short: If there's not actual IC reason to make a valid choise, it won't happen. Heartbeats are not an option in quests.

    [x] Silver
     
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