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To be honest I don't think the concerns wrt Mumi are all that well-founded unless this takes a lot longer than I expect it will.

[X] Ugolino
 
Ugolino said:
Ehhh. It's a short conversation with someone who isn't a threat, but I mean...There's pinging her and letting her know you'll be slightly delayed or something?

What do you think it's missing?
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Pinging Mami would be good. Also, a reminder we're still transformed. If we're talking to Sasa, I'd rather not bring up magic.
 
If we do talk to Sasa outside of timestop right now, we should have a plan for what to tell Mami about why we're delayed. Talking to her in person, without any magic bullshit, is likely to give the best results, so I would like to do it at some point today. By the same token, though, I don't expect the talk with Sasa to take a particularly long time, and we'll know exactly where she is once timestop ends.

Since, IIRC, lunch is ending anyway, maybe we should just head back to the rooftop, say bye to Mami, and then talk with Sasa before having the Kyouko meeting?
 
Redshirt Army said:
If we do talk to Sasa outside of timestop right now, we should have a plan for what to tell Mami about why we're delayed. Talking to her in person, without any magic bullshit, is likely to give the best results, so I would like to do it at some point today. By the same token, though, I don't expect the talk with Sasa to take a particularly long time, and we'll know exactly where she is once timestop ends.

Since, IIRC, lunch is ending anyway, maybe we should just head back to the rooftop, say bye to Mami, and then talk with Sasa before having the Kyouko meeting?
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We could lose her at the mall, and Kyubey can approach her during the time it would take to find her again. At which point defusing Sasa gets a lot tougher.
 
Redshirt Army said:
If we do talk to Sasa outside of timestop right now, we should have a plan for what to tell Mami about why we're delayed. Talking to her in person, without any magic bullshit, is likely to give the best results, so I would like to do it at some point today. By the same token, though, I don't expect the talk with Sasa to take a particularly long time, and we'll know exactly where she is once timestop ends.

Since, IIRC, lunch is ending anyway, maybe we should just head back to the rooftop, say bye to Mami, and then talk with Sasa before having the Kyouko meeting?
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1. Mami is in school and lunch is over. A ping is all we need.
2. This is just first contact. If we're delayed, we can explain further.
3. I'd rather not risk Sasa moving. Bird in the hand...
 
Muramasa said:
We could lose her at the mall, and Kyubey can approach her during the time it would take to find her again. At which point defusing Sasa gets a lot tougher.
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Hmm.

There is a slight risk of a Sasacontract before we can intervene, though it really isn't a large window of opportunity, and it's not like QB knows we're paying specific attention to her.

The bigger issue is that in the time that it takes us to say our goodbyes and travel back to the mall, Sasa might leave... but from my own experiences of moping around shopping malls while hella depressed, I don't think that's a huge risk. She'll be the only potential in that general area, so...

Basically all I'd need to be on board with Ugo's approach is something concrete and reassuring we can tell Mami.

Also, @Firnagzen , point of order - before the timestop was initiated, how much time was left before the end of lunch?
 
Ugolino said:
1. Mami is in school and lunch is over. A ping is all we need.
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No, it's not. They've finished eating, but it's still on lunch break with everyone sitting at the table, and we ducked out to talk to Homura in timestop, then grabbed Mami into timestop for a moment, and put her back.
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The rest of lunch passes with happy chatter, as you pass the glasses around for comparison. Homura turns them down, and you don't really press the issue - you'd debated it with yourself enough, really. And speaking of which...

"Hey, Homura?" you say as you lay aside your empty lunchbox. "Could I have a word?"

She nods at you, laying aside her own lunchbox. "I was going to ask," she notes.

"Alright," you say, bouncing to your feet. "I'll be back soon, Mami."

She smiles at you, patting your hand. "Alright."

You follow Homura around the corner, a blaze of violet light meeting your eyes as she transforms and reaches for her shield. She pauses, raising the shield for you to see before cranking it aroun-

-d. Her outstretched arm rests on your shoulder, her free hand offering you a bit of string. You grab the string, leaning against the wall. "So what's up, Homura?"
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"Anyway... is there anything else?" you glance from Mami to Homura, and at their shaken heads, you turn back to Mami. "So... there's a few more things I want to talk to Homura about. I'll be with you soon, OK?"

"I-" Mami glances around at the frozen, muted grey hues of the world. "A-alright."

"It's nothing bad," you reassure Mami, pulling her into a hug and burying your face against her shoulder. "Alright? It's just something private."

"A-alright," Mami says. She tightens the hug a little, pulling away a moment later. "Alright, I'll... go back to the bench?"

"Mmm," you agree, standing and guiding her up. You smile as you walk her back over to the bench, opposite a frozen Madoka, Sayaka, and Hitomi. You can feel Homura following you. You pull Mami into a tight hug again. "I'll be with you in no time at all, yeah?"

"Yeah," Mami says, smiling weakly at you as she separates from the hug and settles back down on the bench. "Alright, I'm removing the ribbon now." She takes a deep breath and lets the ribbon fade, the bright colour leaching out of her as the timestop claims her.
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Godwinson said:
No, it's not. They've finished eating, but it's still on lunch break with everyone sitting at the table, and we ducked out to talk to Homura in timestop, then grabbed Mami into timestop for a moment, and put her back.
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Sigh.

[]Let Mami know roughly what came up. We...we're sorry we can't be back with her for lunch, but we'll see her after school?

maybe?
 
Y'all voters done fucked up in promising to be right back and then up and running off on a wild-goose chase out of a misplaced drive to do something simply because Firnagzen was dealing with school and wasn't updating quickly.
 
Ugolino said:
Sigh.

[]Let Mami know roughly what came up. We...we're sorry we can't be back with her for lunch, but we'll see her after school?

maybe?
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Will that be enough? I mean, we left her with:
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"Anyway... is there anything else?" you glance from Mami to Homura, and at their shaken heads, you turn back to Mami. "So... there's a few more things I want to talk to Homura about. I'll be with you soon, OK?"

"I-" Mami glances around at the frozen, muted grey hues of the world. "A-alright."

"It's nothing bad," you reassure Mami, pulling her into a hug and burying your face against her shoulder. "Alright? It's just something private."

"A-alright," Mami says. She tightens the hug a little, pulling away a moment later. "Alright, I'll... go back to the bench?"

"Mmm," you agree, standing and guiding her up. You smile as you walk her back over to the bench, opposite a frozen Madoka, Sayaka, and Hitomi. You can feel Homura following you. You pull Mami into a tight hug again. "I'll be with you in no time at all, yeah?"

"Yeah," Mami says, smiling weakly at you as she separates from the hug and settles back down on the bench. "Alright, I'm removing the ribbon now." She takes a deep breath and lets the ribbon fade, the bright colour leaching out of her as the timestop claims her.
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And now we're just going to pop back in over brain-Skype and tell her, "Oh, BTW, across town now, talking to a random Potential. L8r!"

Really, the point of this excursion was to eliminate Sasa as a suspect in the Sayaka attack. We have now done so. If we want to come back and try to magically fix her problems, fine, but let's not cause any new problems in attempting to fix some old ones, yeah?
 
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Godwinson said:
Y'all voters done fucked up in promising to be right back and then up and running off on a wild-goose chase out of a misplaced drive to do something simply because Firnagzen was dealing with school and wasn't updating quickly.
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Yeah we made a mistake. But...

Godwinson said:
God, you guys are making Sabrina be even more scatterbrained than I am, and that's saying something!
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This right here. This isn't helping. At all. Stop.
 
"Mmm," you agree, standing and guiding her up. You smile as you walk her back over to the bench, opposite a frozen Madoka, Sayaka, and Hitomi. You can feel Homura following you. You pull Mami into a tight hug again. "I'll be with you in no time at all, yeah?"

"Yeah," Mami says, smiling weakly at you as she separates from the hug and settles back down on the bench. "Alright, I'm removing the ribbon now." She takes a deep breath and lets the ribbon fade, the bright colour leaching out of her as the timestop claims her.
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Emphasis.

This isn't difficult. Sasa isn't contracted. Now we know she didn't cause the Sayaka Maria event.

Mission accomplished.

KB contracting Sasa is fearmongering. Unless KB can follow us in timestop, there's not reason for Sasacontract to happen in the next few minutes.

As I see it, we have 2 options:

1 - Leave Sasa alone. We've got what we wanted.

2 - Leave her a note asking to meet us. Go back to say bye to Mami and Homura and everyone, then come back and meet Sasa on our own time. There's a chance she might run off, there's a chance she'll be intrigued and stay. Anyway we hunt her down and fly her over so she can join us for Kokolunch.
 
Godwinson said:
Y'all voters done fucked up in promising to be right back and then up and running off on a wild-goose chase out of a misplaced drive to do something simply because Firnagzen was dealing with school and wasn't updating quickly.
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I've already expressed my thoughts on that particular approach, but right now it's time for damage control.

I refuse to let a misplaced line of dialogue sabotage our interactions with everyone going forward.

[x]Hey, Homura...I'm going to try talking to her, okay?
[x]Ask her to let you out of timestop just out of sight. Detransform first.
[x]Walk up to Sasa. Ping Mami.
-[x]Let Mami know roughly what came up. Talking with Homura...Something came up, and we need to talk to someone for a bit out of timestop. We...we'll be back with her as soon as we can...We're sorry we broke our word...It's not dangerous, it's just...something we should do.
--[x]Is she okay with this? We'll try and be back as soon as we can, we can talk to her via telepathy the whole time...
[x]Hi. What's up?
-[x]You look like something's bothering you. Want to talk about it?
[x]Talk to Mami via telepathy if she needs us.

Onmur said:
Emphasis.

This isn't difficult. Sasa isn't contracted. Now we know she didn't cause the Sayaka Maria event.

Mission accomplished.

KB contracting Sasa is fearmongering. Unless KB can follow us in timestop, there's not reason for Sasacontract to happen in the next few minutes.

As I see it, we have 2 options:

1 - Leave Sasa alone. We've got what we wanted.

2 - Leave her a note asking to meet us. Go back to say bye to Mami and Homura and everyone, then come back and meet Sasa on our own time. There's a chance she might run off, there's a chance she'll be intrigued and stay. Anyway we hunt her down and fly her over so she can join us for Kokolunch.
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Yes, we know. That's not the point at all.

Three words: Sasa needs help.

We're right here. We can give that help. We've found her. This may very well be the situation she contracted in the Oriko spinoff over. I don't think it's a good idea to just write her off to contract out of her issues and likely get herself killed, never mind how she's going to be a headache, and laziness with notes is almost as bad.

I don't want to play a character that's callously apathetic about others. Full stop. It boils down to "there's someone miserable. What would Sabrina do?"

So let's not just write Sasa off, yes?
 
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Ugolino said:
I refuse to let a misplaced line of dialogue sabotage our interactions with everyone going forward.

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I don't want to play a character that's callously apathetic about others. Full stop.
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So rather than go back for a couple minutes to make sure we don't continue to screw with Mami's mind, when we have no reason to believe something will change with Sasa's situation over that span of time, you're insisting that we... be callously apathetic about what Sabrina's actions might result in, simply because you dislike that a line of dialogue... slows your plan by a few minutes?

EDIT: Perspective here -- you're weighing the added time-stop search time of narrowing down where the delinquent who is lazing around might have traveled over the span of the few minutes we'd be out of time-stop back at the school, against Sabrina basically making a liar out of herself in her reassurance to Mami.
 
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