My avvie is paying off more now than ever. Giant wasps don't stand a chance against heavy bolters. Speaking of such, we'll need to have Sabrina fight something using a grief boltgun and/or a grief chainsword.
 
My avvie is paying off more now than ever. Giant wasps don't stand a chance against heavy bolters. Speaking of such, we'll need to have Sabrina fight something using a grief boltgun and/or a grief chainsword.
"FOR THE EMPEROR!"
Sabrina slams into the ground in front of the new magical girl, kicking up dust and shattering concrete. She is wearing a frankly ridiculously large suit of black armor, only her face showing out of the suit, and in her hand is a large, black, chainsaw-like sword. She grins, obviously giddy about how awesome her powers can be sometimes. The girl, already uneasy about attempting to negotiate her way into being allowed to reside in Mitakihara, falters for a moment, her whole body stiff, and poised to act at a moments notice, and then turns and runs, screaming for her mother like a little girl.
"No, no dammit, it was just a joke!" Sabrina yells after her, apparently unheard. Dispelling the constructs, she forms large, black wings, before thinking better of it and just forming a carpet, and speeds off after the new girl.
"Dammit, i knew this was a bad idea. Mami knew it, Kirika knew it, Oriko just laughed, I probably should have taken that hint..."
 
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"FOR THE EMPEROR!"
Sabrina slams into the ground in front of the new magical girl, kicking up dust and shattering concrete. She is wearing a frankly ridiculously large suit of black armor, only her face showing out of the suit, and in her hand is a large, black, chainsaw-like sword. She grins, obviously giddy about how awesome her powers can be sometimes. The girl, already uneasy about attempting to negotiate her way into being allowed to reside in Mitakihara, falters for a moment, her whole body stiff, and poised to act at a moments notice, and then turns and runs, screaming for her mother like a little girl.
"No, no dammit, it was just a joke!" Sabrina yells after her, apparently unheard. Dispelling the constructs, she forms large, black wings, before thinking better of it and just forming a carpet, and speeds off after the new girl.
"Dammit, i knew this was a bad idea. Mami knew it, Kirika knew it, Oriko just laughed, I probably should have taken that hint..."
And the hilarious thing is, Sabrina's weapon is a warhammer.
 
*puts aside everything*
*equips armor*
*waits for moment of stillness*
*strikes*

I dislike wasps. I'd sooner vote to kill Mami than let one live in same room as me, as they'll inevitable turn around and sting me, quite possibly in some uncomfortable place like on foot.
Live with the wasp stings. Do it for the Mumi. Perhaps you can befriend them and lead an army of wasps against your enemies.
 
Live with the wasp stings. Do it for the Mumi. Perhaps you can befriend them and lead an army of wasps against your enemies.
That's how I learned that they'll inevitably turn around and sting me. Not one of the other people in the room but me.
Fuck 'em.
It is like bristly species of incubators. Dumb ones, at that, at least incubators would betray you for their own gain.Yet smart enough to single me out. It's a kill or be stung world out there, Snake.
Would you prefer Mumi over no incubators at all?
 
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That's how I learned that they'll inevitably turn around and sting me. Not one of the other people in the room but me.
Fuck 'em.
It is like bristly species of incubators. Dumb ones, at that, at least incubators would betray you for their own gain.Yet smart enough to single me out. It's a kill or be stung world out there, Snake.
Would you prefer Mumi over no incubators at all?
Eh, they're not so smart. Move slowly and blow on them, they're too dumb to realise that you're not a localised storm front so they don't try to fight back.

Never been bit.
 
Let's make a swarm of Grief wasps next time somebody really pisses us off.

Go all Skitter on them with the Grief swarm. :D
 
Let's make a swarm of Grief wasps next time somebody really pisses us off.

Go all Skitter on them with the Grief swarm. :D
Well it would waste our enemies magic on terror and despair. Oh, you just made me realise something: the more horrifying our tactics the harder we are for enemy meguca to fight. As in, we could horrify them till their gem fills up and they can't use magic any more.

Let's not do that.

Edit: Although it does give me an idea for a horrifying meguca so infamous that hearing she's after you is enough to send people (eventually) into grief spirals over being so utterly doomed. Said meguca isn't actually very strong but just wished to be feared.
 
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Or super weak to mind reading. Her mind's made to be read, after all.
Imagine reading 5-10 pages of this stuff in 5 seconds. You'd end up with a raging headache, knowledge of 5 different contradictory plans, 3 types of fluffy animal, a flame war and a voting scheme. You could understand it eventually but I think the voting scheme at least would throw any mindreader for a loop, especially if they don't get told usernames. So no use in battle because you'd have to spend ages sorting through all the weird to figure it out. Not much use out of battle either, because her long term plans... aren't. Most of them get completely forgotten about by the next morning.

Like that raid we were planning for gem collecter girl, or that test where healing magic got pumped into clear seeds. You'd learn longterm plans reading her mind, but it's anyone's guess as to whether they would actually happen.
 
Imagine reading 5-10 pages of this stuff in 5 seconds. You'd end up with a raging headache, knowledge of 5 different contradictory plans, 3 types of fluffy animal, a flame war and a voting scheme. You could understand it eventually but I think the voting scheme at least would throw any mindreader for a loop, especially if they don't get told usernames. So no use in battle because you'd have to spend ages sorting through all the weird to figure it out. Not much use out of battle either, because her long term plans... aren't. Most of them get completely forgotten about by the next morning.

Like that raid we were planning for gem collecter girl, or that test where healing magic got pumped into clear seeds. You'd learn longterm plans reading her mind, but it's anyone's guess as to whether they would actually happen.
I figure 'reading' an actual mind would be super confusing, too.

If somebody mind-reads us, I doubt they'd be stunned for long. Sabrina's never had trouble dealing with her thought process, after all; I don't see why a magical mind reader wouldn't get the same meta-aid in translating text into thoughts.

Let's avoid mind readers if we can, though. Either they'd get hurt, or we'd get found out as thinking we might be a witch and that's not good for anybody no matter what happens.
 
Imagine reading 5-10 pages of this stuff in 5 seconds. You'd end up with a raging headache, knowledge of 5 different contradictory plans, 3 types of fluffy animal, a flame war and a voting scheme. You could understand it eventually but I think the voting scheme at least would throw any mindreader for a loop, especially if they don't get told usernames. So no use in battle because you'd have to spend ages sorting through all the weird to figure it out. Not much use out of battle either, because her long term plans... aren't. Most of them get completely forgotten about by the next morning.

Like that raid we were planning for gem collecter girl, or that test where healing magic got pumped into clear seeds. You'd learn longterm plans reading her mind, but it's anyone's guess as to whether they would actually happen.
Alternatively, they'll see this:
incubators math discard math pets fuzzys Asunaro caw caw
 
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For all we know white is a perfectly normal hair color in this Japan.
That's not why I'm calling her foreign.
"So..." Sayaka begins, drawing the syllable out. "For a foreigner, you speak excellent Japanese."

"But she's foreign! I'm sure she's good at it!"

...

Deep blue eyes, framed by delicate eyebrows and two short bangs of hair, look curiously back at you. High cheekbones lend you a distinctly un-Asian cast. Your shoulder length hair, it turns out, is a pure white, cut to a short fringe in the front.

"Hey, so you're Sabrina, right?" Kirika chirps at you. "Oriko asked me to look for a white-haired foreigner her and tell her that, ah, 'My apologies, but I am currently busy elsewhere.' Ah... yeah. That's it."

"Oh, sorry to bother you," she says, surprise crossing her face -probably at the foreigner speaking fluent Japanese- and bowing creakily. "Would you like the bill?"

You glance at Kyouko and Yuma again as you walk out onto the main streets, joining the midday crowds. You get a few more odd looks than you usually would - a tall, white-haired foreigner, a scruffy looking street rat with an enormous red ponytail, and a tiny, green haired girl do not exactly make for an inconspicuous group. "So. Moving on," you say. "About Sendai..."

And no wonder, really. You're the odd one out, aren't you? The foreigner, the one always showing up at odd places, the one messing around in things. The one who brought change and unpheaval to Mami, to Homura, to Kyouko. To the Ishinomaki girls, to the Sendai girls, to the University girls.
 
Well it would waste our enemies magic on terror and despair. Oh, you just made me realise something: the more horrifying our tactics the harder we are for enemy meguca to fight. As in, we could horrify them till their gem fills up and they can't use magic any more.

Let's not do that.

Edit: Although it does give me an idea for a horrifying meguca so infamous that hearing she's after you is enough to send people (eventually) into grief spirals over being so utterly doomed. Said meguca isn't actually very strong but just wished to be feared.
We want to find ways to resolve conflict between magical girls without resorting to violent conflict. We get quite enough of violence by fighting witches, thank you very much. But if things do come down to violent conflict (as they did in Sendai), then it's better if we are infamous enough that our enemies are completely terrified of us. That means that violent conflict is less likely in the first place and more swift to end with less potential for lost lives when it does happen.

This is one example where having a reputation as a paragon of virtue (who many would see as a pushover) is much less preferable than having a reputation as a terrifying foe.

Well, it's not like we are planning on conquering Japan.

Well, not just Japan, anyway.
Our long-term plans include inter-galactic domination (i.e. so that we control all of the grief in the universe).
 
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