Yes, I've considered that. I don't think Sayaka is the kind of person who will end up having that happen. I rather expect her to get very involved chatting with people and forget all about it until after.
I dunno if I agree. Sayaka isn't exactly famed for her tendency to
not obsessively worry about things until they start to eat away at her.
Hey. Has the subject of generating flash-bulb effects in combat been brought up?
We generated a laser, how far is it to just make a bright flash of light?
Should be easy enough to do. We could also try dialing the laser's power down enough to just blind the target instead of burning them.
An alternate take:
[x] A few hours,
maaybe the whole day if we do end up getting in touch with Tokyo, or if some crisis comes up. But probably, what, four or five hours? Look at Mami for confirmation.
-[x] The plan was just a quick visit to check up on people and cleanse some Soul Gems and Grief Seeds. You don't need to commit to it now, Sayaka. We don't need train tickets or anything, so feel free to wait on deciding.
[x] Shall we move this discussion to someplace more comfortable?
-[x] Use a Grief platform to fly everyone back to Mami's place. Offer to clean everyone's Soul Gems. Offer Sayaka her apology cupcake for waking her up.
[x] Ask Homura and Mami by telepathy if this is a good time to talk to Sayaka about Walpy. Ask to form the privacy construct, then do so.
[x]
There's another thing that we need to talk about.
-[x] When multiple witches interact with each other, under rare circumstances, they can merge into a single, stronger witch. There's one such conglomerate that has persisted for
hundreds of years, gathering strength all the while. It is known as
Walpurgisnacht- the "night of witches".
--[x] Indications are that it's going to arrive in Mitakihara
at the end of the month.
---[x] Indicate for Mami to confirm all this.
[x] Homura knows more than I do, but the basics are that it's enormous - skyscraper sized - and manifests in the real world, not in a barrier.
Some of its familiars are full-sized elephants, and others are dark mockeries of magical girls.
-[x] Leave an opening for Homura to say as much or as little as she wants.
--[x] There's a very good chance it's going to level the entire city if unopposed: in the past, appearances of Walpurgisnacht were attributed to enormous storms, or volcanic eruptions - natural disasters of that magnitude.
[x] We're going to try to stop it. Defeat it, once and for all.
-[x] Homura's already hacked into the weather service to issue a hurricane warning and order an evacuation of the city before it hits, and we're going to ask almost every magical girl we know to fight alongside us.
-[x] We won't force Sayaka to risk her life - and with how powerful Walpurgisnacht is, even with the best plan, there's
always a risk - but if she's willing to help, then we'd
be glad to have her with us.
[x] If she asks why we didn't mention this earlier:
-[x]
We didn't want to do anything that might push you into contracting. If I'd told you that there was a threat to the entire city coming, would you have even thought twice about signing up? We hoped that with the three of us plus the other magical girls we were planning to recruit, we would be able to win without you having to make that sacrifice.