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Also while I don't necessarily object to contacting Oriko, I do feel we should ask Homura on the matter first. If just to show her we're not fully relying on Oriko. Those trust concerns are still present and haven't been resolved in the least.
 
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Muramasa said:
Be apologetic. You know that she's upset that you bailed out on her at the last minute,
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Does that sound not apologetic to anybody else, or is it just me?

Maybe 'it was improper of me to postpone our meeting at the last minute', instead? (Ignoring how she feels insulted, since she seems to mind that sort of thing way too much, and accepting that we did something wrong, excuses aside).

Muramasa said:
Also while I don't necessarily object to contacting Oriko, I do feel we should ask Homura on the matter first. If just to show her we're not fully relying on her. Those trust concerns are still present and haven't been resolved in the least.
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A conditional to ask Oriko, if Homura doesn't know where to find Ono?
 
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"Well, that's the plan," Sabrina said, looking between the two girls. "It should be a lot of help in testing, and frankly, you two are some of the only megucas who'd trust each other enough to do it, so..."

The two girls looked at Sabrina, with a strange mixture of expressions.

"No."
"Yes."
"Kirika, no."
"Kirika yes."
"Why?"
"Because."
"It's useless. What would it tell us?"
"I wanna try it."
"No."
"Come onnn."
"Do you want to follow her ideas, of all things?"
"Well, I do, so I guess that means you do, too?"
"...Fine."

Sabrina watched Oriko's body twitch for a second, before slumping... then, just as suddenly, sit straight up again. "Woo, what a rush!" she said, in a voice that was curiously off. She raised the orange gem in her hand, and smiled. "So I guess it worked, huh?"

"How does it feel?" Sabrina said, cautious but nonetheless silently cheering in her head. Cheers. The Cheers theme. A picture of Madoka dressed as a penguin.

"It feels great!" said Oriko, as she stood from her chair... and promptly fell flat on her face. She quickly stood up, shaking her head. "Uh... sorry, sorry, I guess I'm not really used to this dress... or this weight in the front." She frowned. "It's kinda... I dunno, like wearing platform shoes and a backpack, I haven't really figured out where all my limbs should be yet."

"Well, I always was a bit clumsy."

Standing outside the yard was Kirika, straight-backed, with an unfamiliar slight frown on her face. "It is nice to have a body like this."

Sabrina stood by, seemingly taking notes in her head. "Okay, looks like you got the hang of that body quickly." Quick. Chocolate milk. Buy Mami some chocolate milk. "So, uh... alright, why not just try doing stuff, see if anything happens?"

"Oh, doing stuff," Kirika said, the disdain clear in her voice. "Truly, you are a marvelous scientis- ow!" She flinched, visibly jumping. "I bit my tongue!" Oriko rushed to the other girl's side, stumbling over the dress, as she sputtered at the sudden pain. "I thought these teeth were adorable, but - ow."

"It's okay," Oriko said hastily, hugging the other girl. "You get used to it." She grinned a familiar grin, though the effect was somewhat lessened due to the lack of the snaggleteeth that currently occupied the other girl's mouth.

Sabrina just watched the brief silence, unsure of what to say. Idly, her grief orbs began to merge into a set of Legomen. Eventually, the two girls pulled away.

"Hugging feels weird now," Oriko said, a confused look on her face that had once been utterly unknown on it.

"Height," Kirika answered back, dusting herself off. "Ordinarily, I'm four centimeters taller than you. You probably haven't gotten used to it yet."

"Neat!" Oriko said, looking around the yard. "Hey, uh... I gotta go to the bathroom. I mean, you gotta go to the bathroom. I mean, uh..."

"Kirika, I didn't have to go before -" But Oriko was already stumbling her way into the house. Sighing, Kirika looked back at Sabrina. "She's a lovely girl, but she can be such a fool."

"Huh?" Sabrina said, looking up from her currently-in-progress one-one-hundredth scale recreation of the opening scene of a monster movie that wouldn't exist for another two years. "Oh, yeah. But that's what makes her endearing, right? That she can be so silly but still know she cares about you?"

Kirika blushed slightly, before passing it off with a shrug. "I suppose so. If nothing else, it's a good change of pace to have a fool who I appreciate the presence of." Sabrina, paying more attention to getting the details on Knifehead's arms right, simply nodded, and Kirika seemed to surrender. "She's been in there for a while," she noted. "Shall we get her, for additional science?"

Sabrina's ears immediately perked up at the sound, and she smiled. "Sure!"


"Ooh, yes, Kirika, you're very smart."

Kirika peered at the current owner of her body through the crack in the door. Sabrina looked fit to burst with giggles. Kirika just sighed.

"You're such a cutie, and you've got great fashion sense, too!"

Oriko was standing in the bedroom, in front of a full-length mirror. She'd squeezed herself into an old school swimsuit, and was currently striking poses that looked somewhere between fashion magazine and shounen protagonist.

"You're the best girl ever! Now, let's go to America, and..." Abruptly, her head turned, noticing the crack in the door. She shrank back, a massive blush spreading across her face. "Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry!"

Kirika shrugged, and opened the door, walking into the room and putting her arm around the other girl. "Kirika, it's alright," she said. "I knew you were doing something like this. I just wish you would ask permission first."

Oriko looked up, still blushing heavily. "R-really?"

Kirika allowed a smile onto her face. "Goodness, Kirika, if you wanted to see me in swimwear so badly, you could have told me. At least then, I would have gotten myself a swimsuit that fits."

Oriko let out a bark of laughter, and hugged the smaller girl again. Sabrina, who had been watching the affair with some amusement, chose that moment to let out an ahem. "Okay, you two, it's nice to see you're taking this well, but... there's one more thing I wanna test."

"Say no more," said Kirika, lifting the light grey gem. In a flash, her black jacket and miniskirt were replaced by Oriko's enormous white dress and hat. She lifted her arms, stretching out in the new uniform. "It feels like it always does. Fits perfectly." She conjured up one of her spheres. "And there's the weapon."

Oriko, eagerly, pulled out the yellow gem and twirled it between her fingers. The swimsuit was quickly hidden under Kirika's white stockings and black long-sleeved coat, with the claws protruding from the cuffs and the eyepatch pulled jauntily over her face. She looked rather comical, but seemed much more comfortable in the old outfit than she had since the switch. She looked at Kirika with a frown. "Aww... I don't look good in your clothes." She glanced at the mirror. "Oooh, but you look great in mine!"

"Likewise," Kirika nodded back, before turning her gaze to Sabrina. "In any case, I suppose the experiment is over?"

"Huh?" Sabrina said, her eyes refocusing. "Oh! Oh, we're still on this. Yeah, we're all good. You can go back to your bodies now. Just switch Soul Gems, then start running."

The taller girl seemed to pout. "But Orikoooo..."

"Kirika, it's fine," the shorter girl said, plucking the grey gem from her collar and handing it over, before reaching around the back of the other girl and pulling the yellow diamond. "In any case, what does this change?"

"Huh?" Sabrina and Oriko spoke at the same time. Kirika shrugged, walking to the windowsill and wrenching it open.

"We are together, are we not? My body is already yours." With those words, she promptly vaulted out the window.

"Wow," Sabrina said. "How sappy can you get, huh, best buddy?" She turned, to see Oriko standing stock still with a massive gleaming smile on her face, looking as if she had just won the lottery.

Sabrina shrugged, and muttered "Weirdos," before jumping out the window to land on a pillow of Grief.
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For my story earlier, Krek drew this. He's a cool dude. Go check out his art thread.

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Muramasa said:
Also while I don't necessarily object to contacting Oriko, I do feel we should ask Homura on the matter first. If just to show her we're not fully relying on Oriko. Those trust concerns are still present and haven't been resolved in the least.
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It's not as if we need to trust Oriko for this. Either Ono's where she says, or not.
But we should make an effort to get the information out of Ono first (because working off Homura's however-old information might require a tedious timestopped search, which nobody wants, and Ono probably won't be alone at the end of it), and an effort to work off what Homura knows before we drag Oriko in (same issues as working off Homura's information, plus it means dragging Oriko in for something her power's probably going to take issue with. Again).
 
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FlatlineAskari said:
It's not as if we need to trust Oriko for this. Either Ono's where she says, or not.
But we should make an effort to get the information out of Ono first (because working off Homura's however-old information might require a tedious timestopped search, which nobody wants, and Ono probably won't be alone at the end of it), and an effort to work off what Homura knows before we drag Oriko in (same issues as working off Homura's information, plus it means dragging Oriko in for something her power's probably going to issue with. Again).
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If we're at the point we need to ask Homura for insight, then it's pretty much implied Megane isn't going to provide her whereabouts because she's simply not cooperating. So the vote as it stands is appeal to Ono, then ask Homura and if all else fails contact Oriko.

@Onmur

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Hmmmm ...

[] Nothing dangerous, I hope?
[] Anything we can help with?
[] I realise that it's really hypocritical of me to put off meeting you and then to press when you're the one busy. I'm very sorry about that. I really shouldn't have done that. It was disrespectful and I shouldn't have treated you that way. Express regret.
[]I didn't want to put it off, but I unfortunately had a few emergencies including having to save a friend's life.
[] You'll soon learn that a magical girl's life is filled with emergencies. Which is why we need to speak to you urgently.
[] This is a dangerous job, and to be frank, we need to make sure that you are properly trained so that you don't get killed.
[] If you are very busy, we have ways of preventing our meeting from interrupting your activities and we can stick with the basics.
[] May I ask where you are? Or, if you prefer, where you'd like to meet?
[] If she's still reluctant, ask about the condition of her Soul Gem. Sound worried.
[] If she's being difficult, ask Homura if she has any idea where Ono is. If Homura is unsure, ask Oriko. Include Homura in the conversation.
[] Ask Homura if she's willing to use her power
 
DracoDracul said:
90% sure this leads Homura to immediately abandon Timeline. 5% chance of instant witch out, 4% of murderous rage, and 1% trying to get with Oriko to make Kirika jealous.
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I don't think the % need to add up to 100%, not like the options are mutually exclusive.

*Next timeline*

Sabrina wakes up. "Ugh, that was a clusterfuck." She looks around, noticing Madoka and Sayaka aren't around. Exiting the alleway, she can only spot a couple of girls walking around, with their arms linked together. "But I guess I'm part of the loops, after all. That's neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee..."

Sabrina double takes, looking at the 'couple': A girl with green eyes and ash blonde hair in a red Shirome uniform, chatting animatedly with a dark eyed girl with long, black hair wearing the Mitakihara School uniform.

"...eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee..."

Looking more closely, the black haired girl's skin seems unusually pale and thin, and her ribs can be seen poking through her shirt. Gaunt as a skeleton.

"...eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee..."

But more striking, a tall, black and pointy witch hat sits on her head, as if the most normal thing in the world.

"...eeeeeeeeeee-."

Sabrina's mouth snaps shut. She rubs at her eyes, and looks agai- nope, still happening. Homura and Oriko walking around together, for all the world acting like girlfriends. This shouldn't be happening.

Only one thing to do.

A moment of concentration, and Sabrina's magical costume snaps into existance. She promptly takes her Soul Gem and, as she frowns in concentration, this one starts filling up with sickly dark grief. Once it's half filled, a wave of her hand empties her Soul Gem, leaving it pristine once more.

At this point, Homura and Oriko have taken notice of her, Oriko looking confused at the 'new' Magical Girl, while Homura's haggard eyes widen, surprised.

Sabrina doesn't look back. An effort of will, and the floating grief takes shape: A metallic grey disk, covered in curved lines and sporting three circles, one in the middle and two at each side.

The familiar looking copy of a shield lights up in their senses, Witch, Witch, Witch, but before anybody else can do anything, Sabrina snaps the shield in place on her left arm, and turns it.

Let's hope the loop was shared one way only.
 
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Since someone mentioned Sabrina as a Servant...

Class: Caster
Alternate Classes: Archer, Rider
True Name: Sabrina
Alignment: Chaotic Good

Class Skills
Territory Creation - EX. Using her power over Grief, Sabrina is capable of forming a Barrier, a closed space similar to a Reality Marble. Sabrina is capable of altering the Barriers interior as she sees fit, though it requires a long period of concentration.

Item Construction: C. Sabrina can create nearly anything with her Grief; however the item ceases to exist outside of her radius.

Any more and I have to start plagiarising Fate/Desiderantes Affectibus.
 
Firnagzen said:
You blink at Homura over Mami's shoulder, faintly startled that Homura even offered. And you're tempted to take her up on that offer. It'd hopefully sort things out, letting Mami have her quiet night, while Homura sorts out Ono... Well that last bit's a problem, isn't it.

That's what you tell yourself, anyway.
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Firnagzen said:
You're not going full Gilgamesh again, you're not.
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Huh.

Onmur said:
OK, from that thread... How quickly would Homura flip her shit?
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FlatlineAskari said:
Loss of their respective waifus drives Homu to nuzzle Oriko instead. :V
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Is this the part of the thread where we start discussing crack pairings?:V
 
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