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OK, I don't want to alarm anybody, but I'm somehow certain that, if we manage to convince Walpurgisnacht to do cheap-soap-opera-drama rather than tragic-drama, this will happen:



Look at this picture.
 
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Onmur said:
OK, I don't want to alarm anybody, but I'm somehow certain that, if we manage to convince Walpurgisnacht to do cheap-soap-opera-drama rather than tragic-drama, this will happen:



Look at this picture.
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Pic doesn't work unless quoted.

EDIT: Refreshed the page, it suddenly worked.

Anyway, still waiting on that Mura vote. This seems like the best at the moment.

[X] To Homura: Thoughts? Prod her to talk if she seems she wants to say something, but not too much.
[X] When you find her, remotely check Ono's Gem and Seed's grief levels.
-[X] If she's fine, go home.
-[X] If she needs cleansing, ask her to meet you outside.
--[X] If she doesn't, insist and explain the dangers of Soul Gem corruption, starting with Grief Spirals, then Death.
---[X] If she still won't cooperate, warn (Apologize?) her and cleanse her Seed remotely.
 
Hannz said:
Pic doesn't work unless quoted.

Anyway, still waiting on that Mura vote. This seems like the best at the moment.

[X] To Homura: Thoughts? Prod her to talk if she seems she wants to say something, but not too much.
[X] When you find her, remotely check Ono's Gem and Seed's grief levels.
-[X] If she's fine, go home.
-[X] If she needs cleansing, ask her to meet you outside.
--[X] If she doesn't, insist and explain the dangers of Soul Gem corruption, starting with Grief Spirals, then Death.
---[X] If she still won't cooperate, warn (Apologize?) her and cleanse her Seed remotely.
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Pic works fine for me, but yeah, this is pretty much our current best.

Edit: Abstaining for now
 
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Hannz said:
What's there to fix? :confused:
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Well, it could read:
[] If she still won't cooperate, warn her and cleanse her Seed remotely.

or:

[] If she still won't cooperate, apologize to her and cleanse her Seed remotely.

At least, that's what I intended. I don't want to apologize, but I don't know, maybe there's some value in doing so... Basically, I don't know.
 
Oh, come on guys, if you want to give a battle theme for Walpurgisnacht, at least give a proper one :lol
 
Megane is insulted. We delayed this meeting for roughly five hours and she doesn't really even have an explanation as of why. To her, we've been disingenuous. Or to be more frank we don't come off as genuine even in spite of our apology. She doesn't believe it.

"If there's nothing else, I have matters to attend to," Megane replies, voice hovering somewhere south of arctic. "As I'm sure you have, with your busy schedule."
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For all Megane knows, we spent the last five hours getting a facial, doing our nails, and having a blast with our friends with her none the wiser. And she's insulted by that. As she see's it, we blew her off just because we could.

Following that, the easiest mindset to fall into is to get there and force a cleanse. It's such an easy mindset to fall into after that bout of attitude from her. And it's a mistake. If we want to win Megane over, we absolutely cannot force the issue.

We may get her to cleanse, she won't witch, but we've effectively lost her forever.

Instead, right now. If we have any hope of convincing Megane to meet with us, we need to be as absolutely upfront and genuine with her as we can be about why we delayed on meeting with her as we did.

Our actions need to be accounted for. Us choosing to stay with Mami, the incident with our barrier (in broad strokes), Sayaka getting attacked by a witch. Megane doesn't know any of this. We do have our reasons. They don't even have to be the best reasons, they just have to be reasons that Megane can understand.

Further, it wouldn't be a bad idea to go over our intentions for Megane as a part of this team. Our team. We invited her to join us. As a teammate and as an equal.

She doesn't feel like an equal, that's for sure.

We're...

Ugh. We're going about this completely wrong.

Throwing up a vote in a bit.
 
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Onmur said:
Thankfully, Sabrina is no man.
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Does this mean that we could kill the Witch-King, if we ever travelled to the LoTR 'verse? Because most of their magic is subtle stuff, like a painting who's power is in it's metaphorical beauty, as opposed to our magic, which is like a tank ( This tank, specifically, because America, that's why) that fuels itself and who's drivers are AI that do nothing but think of new ways to apply Tank to every situation that doesn't have enough Tank in it (which is to say, all situations). Until the people in charge came down on us for wanton use of magic, we'd steamroll pretty much everything they have. It'd be glorious...
 
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Muramasa said:
Our actions need to be accounted for.
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Accountability? I guess we would prefer to get the details, if the situation was reversed.

Mind, the part of the vote that attempted to explain a friend of us almost died today, was interrupted before it could even start to be voiced. We need a way for Ono to want to listen.

Maybe we can let her know we're close by and actually hang around in a tent, eating marshmallows? Give her time, and see if she comes out on her own?
 
Onmur said:
Accountability? I guess we would prefer to get the details, if the situation was reversed.

Mind, the part of the vote that attempted to explain a friend of us almost died today, was interrupted before it could even start to be voiced. We need a way for Ono to want to listen.

Maybe we can let her know we're close by and actually hang around in a tent, eating marshmallows? Give her time, and see if she comes out on her own?
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I've parsed that, as that part of the vote being presented in a way that was inadequate. Like it was more of an off-hand comment or it didn't fit the previous narrative. Not that that approach can't work if it's presented properly.
 
Muramasa said:
I've parsed that, as that part of the vote being presented in a way that was inadequate. Like it was more of an off-hand comment or it didn't fit the previous narrative. Not that that approach can't work if it's presented properly.
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I don't know. I had fully intended for that part to be important. It wasn't meant to be an off-hand comment. What would be the point of apologizing if we didn't even bother to give some kind of explanation? I just assumed that since it was excluded that meant it was the wrong approach.

Although you probably are right on me screwing up the wording, placement, or presentation of it now that I think about it. And it would best to be more genuine instead of forceful, regardless. I think I'll just follow your vote then.
 
Muramasa said:
I've parsed that, as that part of the vote being presented in a way that was inadequate. Like it was more of an off-hand comment or it didn't fit the previous narrative. Not that that approach can't work if it's presented properly.
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Or we're being affected by magic. Unlikely, and I don't know how that would work, but I think the idea should be thrown there. We thought we should be wary of this at some point.

EDIT: Something to keep in mind, with the...
Mami purses her lips lightly in consideration. "Miss Ono, if I may," she says slowly. "When we found you, your Soul Gem was dangerously dark. Do you require aid?"

"No, of course not," the girl answers immediately, the words seeming snapped out on reflex. Rehearsed, almost.
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this, and how she didn't want to accept the free Seed (and later asked about giving it back first thing), we know Ono doesn't like help. Which really sucks, because she needs it...
 
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Onmur said:
Or we're being affected by magic. Unlikely, and I don't know how that would work, but I think the idea should be thrown there. We thought we should be wary of this at some point.
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That sounds a little like shadow running.

Are we planning on dropping the soul gem bomb on her? Because she probably needs to be told about to justify why we're hounding her like this. When we get to where she is, we should probably tell her straight up that there is important knowledge that she needs to know that can be the difference between life and death and that it should be told in person. We wouldn't be out here bothering her if it wasn't important. Impress how important and it shouldn't wait. Probably followed by an explanation of why we couldn't make it earlier. Then if she's still obstinate or busy, that we'll just wait until she's ready to meet us tonight. Or something along these lines, I'm not sure. Obviously, things will probably change if her soul gem is in really bad shape.
 
Agent Whiskers said:
That sounds a little like shadow running.

Are we planning on dropping the soul gem bomb on her? Because she probably needs to be told about to justify why we're hounding her like this. When we get to where she is, we should probably tell her straight up that there is important knowledge that she needs to know that can be the difference between life and death and that it should be told in person. We wouldn't be out here bothering her if it wasn't important. Impress how important and it shouldn't wait. Probably followed by an explanation of why we couldn't make it earlier. Then if she's still obstinate or busy, that we'll just wait until she's ready to meet us tonight. Or something along these lines, I'm not sure. Obviously, things will probably change if her soul gem is in really bad shape.
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Homura better have that tent and those marshmallows.

Yes, she'll probably listen if she understands keeping her Soul Gem clean is a matter of life and death.

EDIT: Might sound like shadow running, but [unknown cosmetic magic] could very much be one of those magicks that influence people to act a certain way. While it's very much possible that the placement of that part of the vote was just too awkward, it was also kind of an important point in showing the importance of the situation as a whole; if Ono's magic somehow tries to keep things as she sees them, it's not that farfetched that it forced us to skip that part of the vote. /slight paranoia, just throwing all the ideas on the table.

EDIT EDIT: Hopefully, announcing ourselves and waiting on her for a while will help somewhat. Nothing complicated.
 
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Now I'm thinking, just as a test, we could have tried making a "Magneto's Helmet", as in an object that would stop mental intrusions, before telepathing Megane. Not sure how that would tell us anything, but maybe it would have disallowed interaction between our brain and Soul Gem and we would've collapsed and the grief eating our brain, and I'm going to sleep now.

I kind of want to wait on Mura's vote, but sleep calls.

[X] To Homura: "Thoughts?" Prod her to talk if she seems she wants to say something, but not too much.
[X] When you find her, remotely check Ono's Gem and Seed's grief levels.
-[X] If she's fine, go home.
-[X] If she needs cleansing, ask her if she could meet you outside. It's a matter of life and death.
--[X] You'll wait for her.
---[X] If she starts grief-spiraling or something, cleanse her remotely.

"If she's fine, go home." Ono wants to be regarded as an equal. Her making us wait until tomorrow was her pushing back at us for mostly one-sidedly postponing our meeting and then calling for it whenever we 'wanted'. So, if she's fine, let her.
 
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[] To Homura: "Thoughts?" Prod her to talk if she seems she wants to say something, but not too much.
[] When you find her, remotely check Ono's Gem and Seed's grief levels and monitor them.
-[] Telepath her
--[] Tell her that there is something you absolutely have to talk about in person. This really can't wait and is a matter of life and death to magical girls.
--[] Explain that you couldn't meet earlier because one of your friends needed your immediate help and support. Then there was an accident with your magic and, another one of your friends was attacked by Witch.
--[] You wouldn't be out here and bothering her if it wasn't important and something that she needed to know.
[] If she is busy then you would be willing to wait, but you needed to meet tonight.

This is what I got so far, but I think it might need some more work. Not sure if it's genuine enough.
 
Agent Whiskers said:
[] To Homura: "Thoughts?" Prod her to talk if she seems she wants to say something, but not too much.
[] When you find her, remotely check Ono's Gem and Seed's grief levels and monitor them.
-[] Telepath her
--[] Tell her that there is something you absolutely have to talk about in person. This really can't wait and is a matter of life and death to magical girls.
--[] Explain that you couldn't meet earlier because one of your friends needed your immediate help and support. Then there was an accident with your magic and, another one of your friends was attacked by Witch.
--[] You wouldn't be out here and bothering her if it wasn't important and something that she needed to know.
[] If she is busy then you would be willing to wait, but you needed to meet tonight.

This is what I got so far, but I think it might need some more work. Not sure if it's genuine enough.
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I can definitely see this working, you may even be able to add this to @Muramasa's vote, so it sounds like a plan to me.
 
[x] Whatever Mura votes for

Pre-emptive incase I miss the deadline, I'll be largely unavailable tomorrow, and Mura seems to 1:1 my thoughts on all of this. As for what we tell her, I think "One of our friends was attacked by a witch" is sufficient.
 
Not really happy with this. Too wordy. Whiskers has a better streamlined vote but maybe he can use some of this?

[] Telepathy. Ask Homura if something's wrong.
-[] Listen.
[] Slow down the grief carpet. Tell Mami and Homura you want to try one last thing.

[] Telepathy Megane. Patch in Mami and Homura.
-[] "Miss Ono, I would like to explain what exactly happened, that caused such a significant delays." (Continue on, even if Megane doesn't respond.)
--[] I fully intended for us to meet after school today. We we're planning to meet you at that cafe as promised.
--[] I have a very dear friend that's struggling with a personal issue... and something happened during school that made me very worried for her. After that I wanted to be with her and help her through it in any way I could. I realize that this would cut into our appointment. But I was worried about my friend. I contacted you, hoping to maybe set our appointment back for just an hour or two. Just enough time to cheer my friend up and then come back to meet you.
--[] ...It didn't work out. I made a mistake. I made things worse.
--[] That's only about half of it. I have another friend and she asked me to do something today. I told her I just couldn't do it and I knew she was disappointed. A few hours later she was attacked by a witch. She almost died.
---[] But we we're able to get her out of harms way. She's okay. Just shaken up. I really should contact her later.

[] That's most of the big stuff. I've had time for dinner and that's about it. I'm very sorry it took me this long to get back to you.
[] I have the time now. There is a reason why I keep asking about your gem. I'm asking you, as your teammate, please meet with me. What we have to talk about is very important. It will save your life.
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Agent Whiskers said:
because one of your friends needed your immediate help and support.
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Agent Whiskers said:
This is what I got so far, but I think it might need some more work. Not sure if it's genuine enough.
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This is the only part that I take issue with, because of how vague it is. I understand that we can't really go into detail about it without making Mami unhappy, but perhaps it could be worded better somehow? Otherwise I can't see anything wrong with it...
 
[X] Telepathy. Ask Homura if something's wrong.
-[X] Listen.
[X] Slow down the grief carpet. Tell Mami and Homura you want to try this again one last time.
-[X] Telepath Megane. Patch in Mami and Homura.
--[X] Tell her that there is something you absolutely have to talk about in person. This really can't wait and is a matter of life and death to magical girls.
--[X] Explain that you couldn't meet earlier because one of your friends was suffering from personal problems and needed your immediate help and support. You had planned on contacting her only a little while later, but then another friend of yours was attacked by a Witch.
--[X] You are so very sorry it took you so long to get back to her especially with a matter as big as this. You wouldn't be bothering her like this if it wasn't important and something that she needed to know.
[X] If she is busy then you would be willing to wait and stay up for as long as it takes, but you needed to meet tonight. It could potentially save her life.

How is this?
 
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Iffy on the last line. We'd pretty much be speaking for Mami and Homu as well, and I don't think it's right to speak for them or impose upon them as such. I kinda get what you were going for here but the execution leaves some problems.
 
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