'Do you think it's a good time to tell her about Walpy?'
'...'
'I guess...'
'Walpy?'
'Yes, what?'
'Uh, I mean, you know, Walpy, Waluigi- Walpurgisnacht, I mean.'
'Never. Say that. Again.'
'Got it. Got it, sure. Never again.'
"What the hell is going on? Why are you making faces? Am I missing something?"
Spoilsport.
[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 Walpurgisnacht. Ask to form the privacy construct, then do so.
[x] There's a couple more things 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 by 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.
-[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 welcome her to the team.
[x] If she asks why we didn't mention this earlier:
-[x] Grimace. With my unique power, and this amount of forewarning, we're in an unusually good position to put together a coalition against Walpurgisnacht. Pushing you and Madoka to contract was the
last thing we wanted to do at that point.
[x] If Sayaka asks about the
other thing: it's a bit unpleasant and not in the "big enemy, will fight" way, so it should probably wait until after the picnic...