Given how most megucas we've seen in canon and PMAS have less than a hundred meters, it's pretty clear what Mami means there.
No. We've never seen a
single meguca
anywhere that has even
encountered a range limit. For all we know
Sayaka can tag things she throws her swords at from a
kilometer away. The quote just convinces me more. She said it was unusual we were
restricted to 100 meters.And again, she saw us handle grief from 100 meters away before, so she
could not have been surprised if it was from our range being
big.
....Really? Those are pretty straightforward steps that we've tried in-story already, even.
Enchantment has always failed as has pinging a witch. We don't understand our attempts to understand grief seeds.
Her magic is her soul. Kind of the point of PMMM.
No. Her soul gem is her soul. Her magic is her
emotions.
And that'll go about as well as trying to timestop. ie: It won't work.
I have no idea what you're reffering to and am unconvinced we can't copy Homura's timestop,
Firn has indicated that our power has limits. Far out limits but still limits. We are not going to be able to mash the win button because we are not, in fact, a goddess.
Limits that are a lot further out than we first thought. So, we need to find out what those limits
are.
Mami laughing is a low bar to set for miracles- and is about the only positive thing to ACCIDENTALLY come out of what we've done. If it's not directly connected to our goals, it isn't worth putting time into researching because there are better ways to make Mami actually happy rather than random science.
Again, travel that got us to stop the problems at Sendai.
Not as helpful as direct dewitching research and not an efficient use of time. Also, by that argument we should have just skipped the middleman and gone straight for enchantment harnesses.
We should have but hadn't thought of it yet. The combat harness gave us the idea. Which, in itself, is a positive. Stiffling creativity prevents us from seeing solutions. Again, we barely know where to
start with dewitching.
Once we have dewitching, we can save every single magical girl regardless of when we do it since all we'd need is a grief seeed.
No, we can't, because we're stuck on this planet, where almost every single grief seed is not located.
Seriously, everything else is irrelevant until we achieve that goal.
Some more important goals:
1. Preventing all future contracts
2. Removing all Incubator influence from the planet
3. Preventing meguca from destroying each others soul gems
4. Preventing Kyuubey from arranging our deaths.
That's just off the top of my head.
Nothing we ever do will matter if we can't fix the Witch problem since when that happens Mami breaks every guca we know breaks and the whole thing comes tumbling down, never midn that it means we haven't actually changed anything if we don't do that. The guca system is messy and brutal and does need fixing- which involves social and free cleansing as the most important answer, not bullshit science- but it's the Witchout at the end that's the real threat.
False. If we make it so that grief accumulation is
utterly impossible under
any circumstance, this is not true and is in fact a bigger achievement.
I think we should not assume that our power is balanced for difficulty of any given situation. If you look at the way we take apart witches, it's pretty clear that we frequently encounter situations in which we are plainly overpowered.
Again, you're looking at this from too small a viewpoint. Our goal is to break the system. Killing a witch doesn't even move us vaguely in that direction, so our ability to destroy them is irrelevant. Our ability to protect a Universal population from a Universal threat is (at which we're utterly useless right now)
So it's not at all implausible on the face of it for SCIENCE! to allow us to cheat our way around local problems; the only constraint is that we can't insta-solve the plot as a whole. Science is systemized cheating, after all.
Cheat? It's the only thing that makes our goals achievable
at all.
SCIENCE is going to solve some of the quest's problems. That is the entire point of researching dewitching, yes. What is ludicrous is expecting the GM to hand answers from on high through a "grief book" since that isn't even an approach so much as "I don't want to do anything, I just want all of my problems to go away".
Divination is a technique used in many games completely legitimately. This is no different.
Also, the Witches and combat aren't Sabrina's challenge- social is.
Social is her
current challenge, because the real challenge is so daunting there's no point in even trying yet. The real challenge is
the Incubators.
That's far enough beyond the scope of the quest as to have no bearing on current research priorities. Frankly, I think dewitching also falls under this category.
No. If this quest finishes without every single meguca in the entire Universe under our protection, Sabrina has experienced utter, complete and total failure. As the system still exists. It's
not broken. Madokami did
infinitely better than that, so the quest will have ended with us being morally in the wrong for stopping Madoka from contracting. Anything less than saving the entire Universe is devastating failure.
I don't disagree about the Grief book; that was silly. I suspect our power pulls samples from nearby configuration space or some suchlike - "a working phaser" is a thing with not-that-many free variables, and aliens exist so they've probably researched one; our tricorder had writing we could not read, so it seems plausible that it did get pulled from "somewhere". In comparison, a "Book of Answers" is almost entirely de-novo; no such thing exists in any reality in range.
Of course it does. Do you really think no meguca has
ever written down
anything about her experiences?
