I just... can't understand why anyone thinks the Feathers thing makes any sense. It's just not rational. Unbeknownst to us, our newly-discovered Barriers provide Feathers unheard-of influence on the world outside. So she... immediately uses that world-shaking power to prank one of our less-important friends, no lasting harm done, and leaves a feather behind just to make
sure we know it's her. And then, predictably, we never use our Barriers again, the magic she supposedly needs us to keep using in order for her to interact with the real world.
I mean, it's
possible that Firn decided our primary antagonist is a drooling moron, but I really hope not.
Doesn't have to bomb us. Just get information from what we say and ask and feed us half-truths to trick us into doing dumb things. Kyubey is good at what he does. Talking to him is very very dangerous.
Keep in mind that his usual targets are teenage girls who trust him far too much. We are a rather harder target... I'd like to say because we're calmly rational about these things, but more likely because about half of us would violently object to Kyubey asserting that the sky was blue.
We're not emotionally unstable, we have a huge store of canon knowledge, he can't outright lie, and if we do talk to him we'll probably ignore whatever he says anyway. There very much is a ceiling to how risky this can be for us.
That is a bit odd. But it could just be that Oriko tried to contact us, but we were unavailable for half an hour. Or she looked into her visions and contacted us the very first moment that we would be amenable to any sort of conversation. If she had tried contacting us earlier - just after we had exited the Barrier while Mami was still near catatonic, for instance - that would have been bad.
She also told us that it would be safe if we left it for an hour, when actually Sayaka was right outside the Witch's Barrier.
I read this quote as Oriko contrasting our actions (things just "change") with what happened here (instead "spliced/truncated").
Hrm. That's a plausible reading, I guess. Oriko is not being especially coherent in this scene, so it's hard to tell.
My point about Sayaka almost certainly walking to the Witch like normal still stands, though.
This only happened when a large group of people were kissed.
Out of a sample of two, yes...
We don't actually know how far the first woman walked. So, really, it's a sample of one.
Hitomi was attacked along with a massive group of people, once, in a city known to have a massive witch infestation. It's really not that unlikely. The point is that you're ignoring Mami and Homura who know a lot more about how this works than you do.
From the scene where Madoka found Hitomi, it doesn't seem like
the group she was in was attacked. It looked like unrelated people from all over the city were attacked, and they only gathered into a group at the warehouse.
I still don't think Mami and Homura were nearly as unambiguous about the situation as you do.
If the 100 meter range limit is only surpassed within our barrier and not outside f it, it's usefulness is limited.
Yes, but we
don't know that it's only surpassed within our Barrier. We haven't tested it. It's worth pointing out that Walpurgisnacht somehow learned to evoke Barrier-like effects, heavy environment and physics manipulation almost certainly beyond our regular Grief abilities, outside of a Barrier and at a range greater than 100 meters. This is very likely on the Barrier tech tree. I'd like us to be seasoned Barrier manipulators before Walpurgisnacht gets here, so that we can learn as much as we can from her.
I'd also be more than satisfied if our unlimited range only works within the Barrier but our Barrier can interact with the real world at multiple simultaneous points more than 100m distant. Which, again,
we haven't tested.
Just grief up Mary Poppins's bag if you want that effect.
Do we know this works? Do we know Bags of Holding aren't sufficiently dimensional-shenanigans-y to cause the same problems as Barriers?
We can't even handle conversations with teenagers. Never mind a master manipulator like Kyuubey.
That's strictly speaking true, if you're worried about us making Kyubey fragile and emotionally dependent on us...
There's things we know that witches can do with barriers. We are not guaranteed the same abilities,
Mami and ourself both seemed to think that our Barrier is completely normal, as Barriers go. Just because someone new is making the Barrier doesn't mean all our accumulated knowledge about them vanishes.
We actually did this stuff in Sendai.
I don't think we did even close to all you're claiming. I will accept citations, though.
Well, yeah. The thing is, what does a vote to simply freak out do? Besides waste time and word count that is.
I think the hope is that it will improve our social link with Homura. Which seems worth it to me.
Besides, I prefer it when Sabrina acts more genuine, and I think she needs a hug right now.
[X] Hug your mom and be freaked out together.
