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CornyBones said:
It's not an either or thing. We can try to fix the clock as we're talking, or even just apologize for it specifically. Or we buy one get wrap it up, and leave it on her window sill with a sorry note.

It's something inoffensive and nice we can do for no cost to ourselves, and it's better than just talking at her.

Can you tell me that you honestly think trying to do something about the clock will have a negative outcome?
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It will have a negative outcome because it is her clock. It doesn't matter what we do with it, she will see it as us meddling with her thing, or perhaps with the results of something she very purposely did.
 
SynchronizedWritersBlock said:
It will have a negative outcome because it is her clock. It doesn't matter what we do with it, she will see it as us meddling with her thing, or perhaps with the results of something she very purposely did.
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Her broken clock, that she will need to expain to her parents.

[] Attempt to fix clock, if Ono objects leave it alone

We don't know that she'll see it that way. The vote leaves it open if she does, but if she doesn't then their's no reason not to.
Onmur said:
Hold on, I'm just realizing this. Wasn't the idea of fixing Ono's clock to piss her off?
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...no? I legitimately do not understand where this sentiment comes from.
 
CornyBones said:
Her broken clock, that she will need to expain to her parents.

[] Attempt to fix clock, if Ono objects leave it alone

We don't know that she'll see it that way. The vote leaves it open if she does, but if she doesn't then their's no reason not to.

...no? I legitimately do not understand where this sentiment comes from.
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Can we just say it's bad manners? Seriously, picking up other people's stuff without permission is bad enough, and hell if Ono will ask anything of us right now, considering we just broke into her house.

Take into account it's Ono, who seems to put so much care into everything being done the proper way and that bull... and she's might've just spent the whole day stewing on her own Sabrina hate with Kyubey whispering in her ear...

At this point, she might even take offense if we ask at all.
 
I would rather just reimburse her for the clock at some point. That involves much less ****ing around with things we don't understand as well as we think we do.
 
Ugolino said:
While I agree with the sentiment (characterization and whimsy are nice) and don't like playing a Socialbot 9000 or votes that try and do that, Ono might not be in a mood to hear it.

@Muramasa
Can we ask permission to try and fix her clock?
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Muramasa said:
I would rather just reimburse her for the clock at some point. That involves much less ****ing around with things we don't understand as well as we think we do.
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Not sure how Shadowrunny this is, but if we fix the clock without gloves this may be ammunition towards potential legal problems if somebody tries to attack or at least inconvenience us that way.
 
Conjured Blade said:
Not sure how Shadowrunny this is, but if we fix the clock without gloves this may be ammunition towards potential legal problems if somebody tries to attack or at least inconvenience us that way.
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..We're probably a magical wish-construct that has no issues with casually breaking the masquerade. I'm pretty sure that isn't a problem.

"Oh,yeah, I broke her clock. I'm also a magical girl who can control despair and has a messiah complex. I'm staying with a kind hearted veteran and working with a time traveller back to stop a terrible future from happening. I might be a time traveller too, by the way, but I'm not so sure about that. Oh yeah, and I'm trying to fix the entire horrible system where girls die pointlessly fighting against insane monsters, that's another thing. Sorry, got a bit side tracked there, what were you saying about a clock?"
 
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[x] I can ask Mami to release you right now if you promise to stop being violent and pay full attention to what I have to say.
[x] You are burning through an insane amount of magic. To put it in perspective, the average magical girl can go about a week before they need to use a grief seed. You are going through at least one grief seed a day even without fighting a witch. That's irregular and not sustainable.
[X] Atleast part of that problem stems from you constantly running your magic. You have it running even now. I believe I've already told you, but you don't seem to be getting the point: if your gem goes black you're dead. I can't save you at that point.
[X] I need to ask you about your power. Are you able to shut it off?

[X] Ask Megane why she seems so dismissive of witches.
[X] If it's clear she doesn't understand how dangerous witches can be:
-[x] You seem to be horribly underestimating the threat the witches present. I take it you've fought at least one. I really hope you're not treating one witch as a base line for all the witches your going to encounter. I've seen girls on the wrong end of a witch fight. Some injuries we're extensive enough that they weren't able to rejoin society, and Mitakihara has no healing specialists.
-[x] Underestimating the witches will cost you your life. That goes for everyone in this room. Not just you.
[x] When we found you, you were about to fight a very dangerous witch with half your soul gem already corrupted, no grief seeds to fall back on and yourself in no emotional state to be fighting witches in the first place. As I said. High corruption effects your mental state. It makes you much more prone to negative thoughts and feelings; Makes you feel fear, sadness, anger, anxiety, depression. All of that effects your judgement. Fighting witches like that is a recipe for disaster.

glad you took some of my considerations from before :)

i may want to include something about kyubey being a manipulative bag of not lies but mute point at this stage, maybe later and hey if she witches out we have a perfect test subject to try and undo witching
 
One hand encounters her bedside table and seizes her clock.

You're already moving a moment before the clock shatters against the wall behind you with a sharp crack. Pieces of plastic and tiny gears bounce all over the room before freezing in mid air, claimed by the timestop.

Uh, so I actually know quite a lot about clocks. It's actually quite feasible that we could repair this - it's almost certainly an electric clock (it has gears, so it's clearly not digital, but it has plastic, while mechanical clocks are almost always made purely out of metal), and thus is a fairly simple repair. The gears and battery will, by design, fit easily into the plastic frame that I assume held the movement, like in all cheap electric clocks. The plastic frame is likely barely damaged and easily repaired, and the case (be it ceramic or plastic) will be similarly easy to fix with the convenience of magic. The crystal is either acrylic or plastic, and is as easy to repair as a vase would be.

I expect that fixing this clock would be within even our meager magical ability - the only real challenge would be repairing the case and perhaps the movement's frame, as the gears almost always fit together intuitively in an electric clock.

Magic conveniently solves all the difficulties of clock repair - ordinarily you have to be very precise and careful with all the tiny parts, and the smallest bit of misapplied force could irrevocably ruin the movement.
 
CornyBones said:
So are we saying 'no' to the conciliatory clock gesture?
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Actually, I kinda want to remove the grief ring on her - then repair the clock - as we leave, giving the impression of timestop being a different world.

You decide if that is good intent, though.

@Corncake: Yeah, placing things in place is one thing but attaching two shards to each other....I mean, we can heat it up but still.
 
The effective vote would be to describe how often the average magical girl needs to cleanse, and then comparing what she's done to that, and then demand to know what the hell she's using all that magic on, and that she stop immediately, because holy shit, in order to maintain the pace of grief seed usage, the only fucking way she will be able to find enough witches to sustain that pace will be to feed people to familiars to farm witches as often as possible. And that is fucking unacceptable.

...possibly with less swearing.

Maybe.

This is assuming she doesn't go to us for cleansing, which seems like something she'd do.
 
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@techsy730: I know it is a bad social action - I've had trouble with people not only walking uninvited in my room but also stealing valuables from it before.

However, I did the math on her grief accumulation - with linear, static accumulation of grief, she would have lasted till morning, though going past the Mamirecommended point for a cleanse.

But grief is exponential, and experiences are nonlinear - a boring evening with homework is certainly less dangerous than a nightmare for magical girl.

So, then, I came upon the question: Given the possible risk of death, how many Ono lives is worth bungling social with Ono? Or if you will, is Ono's usefulness more valuable than fraction of her life?

I decided to err on the side of not risking her life.
NitroFumetsu said:
feed people to familiars to farm witches as often as possible. And that is fucking unacceptable.
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She'd also need her own pet witch, likely enough - otherwise might not have enough familiars. Sayaka only wandered upon the one outside barrier, after all.
 
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