And people were worried that Nadia wouldn't know about Soul Gems. Seriously, she's an information broker that travels the world, she knows her stuff. Hell, she's probably been witchbombed already. Actually, we need to make sure that she doesn't think that Mami has been witchbombed.
It seemed obvious to me from the story that she both knows the witchbomb and knows that Mami does
not know it:
"Yeah," Sayaka says, jaw tight. "We all know about our Soul Gems."
Madoka nods, twisting her fingers against each other.
"Mmm," Nadia says, making a peculiar, slashing gesture with her fingers and palm flat. "I understand. Shall we continue?"
You blow out a breath, glancing at Homura. Ironically, she seems the most settled out of all of you, eyes flickering over to you a second. She nods infinitesimally before returning her attention to watching Madoka and scanning the area.
Sayaka and Madoka and Mami know about soul gems, Nadia and Sabrina and Homura know that there's more to it than that.
[] Drop a privacy device, tweak it to not filter telepathy. Explain purpose.
Nadia's purpose is to spread information. A privacy device is kind of self-defeating.
Proposed addition to the question list:
[] Ask if there's any way to set up a system where we'd freely refresh Grief Seeds for any girl who has used ones, rather than giving them to Kyubey.
-[] You see, I have an interest in further research into Grief Seeds and Clear Seeds that makes me very interested in having them stay on Earth, and not letting the evil bunny take them away.
I like the general idea, but I think we can convey the intent more clearly without reference to Kyuubey by asking the following:
-[] Since many girls will be unwilling to travel to Mitakihara, does Nadia have any thoughts on we could setup a courier service for girls to send grief seeds to be cleansed/cleared and then returned?
Starting from Godwinson's vote
[X] In no particular order:
-[X] Hey, does she have a cell number, or an email address you can reach her at?
-[X] Ask her about magical girl current events. Anything interesting? Anything potentially dangerous looming?
-[X] Ask about the oldest magical girl she's heard of, and how old is she.
-[X] Ask about magical girls whose magic allows them to manipulate the soul. You have a source who indicated one would be coming here soon, and you want to know more about them, if possible.
-[X] Ask about magical girl groups that are particularly large, powerful, influential, or
nasty. You know you're going to cause some waves with your offer of cleansing and clear seeds, so you want to know about groups that might cause issues.
-[X] Ask if she made all the enchanted items on her, or if she purchased them, and if the latter, how does she keep them charged.
-[X] Ask her if she knows of any magical girls who are fluent in Japanese, are decent people, and have any of the following powers:
--[X] Long-range teleportation or portals.
--[X] Any sort of danger sense that can be used to find threats to other people before the occur.
--[X] The ability to enhance or amplify the magic of others.
--[X] The ability to protect the minds of others from being tampered with.
--[X] High-end healing abilities.
-[X] Ask if she knows any magical girls who might be willing to travel to Mitakihara to fight a city-destroying witch. There'll be free cleansings and maybe a fabulous cake!
-[X] Ask if she knows anything about the magical girls in Asunaro. It's a silly place, but you think you need to know. For reasons.
-[X] Ask if she knows anything else that might be useful to know for a girl who wants to help people.
[X] Muse aloud about how you've
kinda thought about hiring her to serve as a diplomat of sorts to other groups, but since you'd give her a clear seed and clean her soul gem
anyway, the only thing you'd really have to pay her with is "borrowed" yakuza gold, and that's not any fun.
-[X] That reminds you, you should tell Sayaka about the mop.
Adding some topics from Vebyast:
-[X] You also wanted to try setting up a forum or IRC or similar for magical girls worldwide. Helpful for disputes, forming treaties and defense agreements, airing out disagreements in a context that can't escalate to violence immediately, getting in contact with you, lots of stuff.
-[X] While you're on the topic, tell her about the part where you think you can be anywhere on the planet in six hours. Maybe you can fly her to her next destination!
And some of my own:
-[X] Mention Sabrina's unique karmic potential as an explanation for her unique abilities. Hopefully this will help reassure people who hear about Sabrina and think that it's too good to be true.
-[X] Ask about the organizational structure of the larger groups. If we're going to have a lot of girls in Mitakihara, we need to know how to organize them without chaos.
-[X] Since many girls will be unwilling to travel to Mitakihara, does Nadia have any thoughts on we could setup a courier service for girls to send grief seeds to be cleansed/cleared and then returned?
-[X] Inform her about the Ishinomaki conflict.
-[X] Trade knowledge about Walpurgisnacht.
