In this post: Kaizuki stream-of-consciousness-es for a while, bemoans things, laughs at Homura's reactions, then proposes a serious vote / alteration. Skip to bottom and read upwards to avoid irrelevant stuff.
We said that we'd give them away for free. I see nowhere where we said we'd give them away to anybody that asked without conditions attached. We impressed on Bennouna that we were biasing toward reasonable magical girls and I see no reason why we wouldn't continue doing that. We additionally just made it clear that we expect to fight people that make trouble, and "doing evil shit with our clear seeds" is obviously one of the things that we'd be dealing with.
Personally, I don't see how we could sell them in the first place. We can steal shit from organized crime whenever we want money. We have infinite grief seeds. What else could we ask for?
Selling them would be fucking retarded, but the answer to your question is "YO COME MITAKIHARA FITE WPN GET CLEAR SEED!"
That is a very one-time sort of benefit, of course.
Anyway, I think "free" was quite thoroughly interpreted by Nadia as "
free, no terms." I dunno.
[X] Feed Kyuubey the grief that you just removed from Bennouna's soul gem. Politely insist that Kyuubey leave - its presence is an unwelcome disruption at this meeting. You have some more grief that you'll give it later.
-[X] If it refuses, use grief to remove it from the area, nonviolently.
[X] Hold Mami's hand, tracing out reassurances with your fingers.
[X] If Bennouna asks why our group wants nothing to do with Kyuubey, tell her it was concealing some information from Mami and the rest of the group that it really should have shared. If insufficient, break to voting.
-[X] If she doesn't ask, don't bring it up.
[X] Share information on your abilities, in particular the creation of Clear Seeds, offering proof or demonstrations when requested as practical. Inquire about other girls who might have similar powers, and if she knows of any examples of large scale cooperation between girls that "went right" and operates smoothly.
[x] Since you have this ability, and can spread it by creating clear seeds, you'd like to try and improve the global situation for magical girls in general. You'll keep trying to improve the clear seeds, and ideally find a solution that doesn't require grief seeds at all. But... you know it's not that easy.
-[X] You've foreseen lots of problems with infinite cleansing - abuse, people rejecting it because it's "too good to be true", upsetting power structures, general making-things-worse.
[x] So you'd like her assistance as well - both with sharing information she thinks is useful for our purpose, properly compensated of course, and in spreading news about our offer to people who she thinks would be reasonable.
-[x] That said, even unreasonable people who ask about us, should hear our offer. We know word is going to get out, and it'd be better if our position wasn't misrepresented. We really don't want there to be fights and conflict due to it.
[x] If the questioning calls for it, or if you see an opportunity to raise one of the other topics you wanted to discuss, break to voting.
This vote lead to us offering clear seeds for free.
*sighs*
OTOH: Homu clueing in:
"You're mad," Nadia says, folding her arms. "This city will be drowned in magical girls."
"I know," you say. You can't help but notice the way Homura's attention snaps to Bennouna
Lol. The reaction XD
So... In terms of actual plans... Well we could reverse course here but that would be a major derp. Ok, so, free clear seeds for everyone.
Uh.
Scenario: Kyouko-but-not-actually-Tsundere comes to Mitakihara. Gets clear seed. Robs stores for a living, is rude, beats people up if they try to stand up to her. What's the plan to deal with that?
Yeah, that was always a potential issue, CS or no -- any threats to cut people off cleansing were always going to be bluffs at best. But reserving CS always left us with a
very useful asset -- frankly, my plan had been to single out gucas to essentially "deputize" or "commission," pass them a CS, instant powered-up law enforcement.
Weeeeeee are going to need a jail. Ahahahaha we're going to need a jail this is fucking
great.
Okay, well, Godwinson's current vote component for "id like to get you to talk to other groups" is not good. Alright. I don't like Narrator's either, neither is going to be thorough enough -- his "work for us full time" is... Nadia
travels and he doesnt specify that she'd still be traveling. No. And more than that, frankly, I want to add enchanting skill to the list of desirables. We're going to need to build
so much fucking infrastructure if we want any semblance of order, it's not even funny. And frankly we can repair Nadia's opinion of us if we make it obvious that we're plannng.
Ok, ok, we're not sunk yet, we have antimagic sitting around, we can build suppressors and we can... Ok. We're going to need more money because
nobody is going to go job-hunting, they're just going to come here with nothing but their damn guca uniforms
hoping, and then we're going to have a city full of superpowered jobless hobos without the skill/willingness to panhandle. We're going to need to provide
housing and
money on top of seeds, because otherwise crime rate is going to skyrocket. Jobs and/or access to entertainment (money will handle the latter thank madokami for vidyagames). Policing is going to boil down to antimagic cuffs, we don't have a
choice. Bag'em, tag'em, parole'em, and then let the muggles handle it from there. We can get startup capital out of the Yaks, we'll need to either build a relationship with them and take protection money from them or else get Oriko's powers back and play the stock market for consistent income, unless we get lucky with a better idea. And we're going to need to jump on this
fast.
Fuck.
Ok.
I'd like to do the following: let's throw out the "muse aloud" thing at the end of brinavote, and replace it with a serious talk. Frankly, there are skillsets that we are going to
need, and we can actually get things rolling in a positive manner here. We can convince Nadia that we're not entirely insane, just
thoroughly idealistic and
completely hell-bent on upending fucking everything, we're going to have to do it by showing off actual plans, and
we can do that. Ok. Ok. And, hell, ok, yeah, we can do this. Holy shit.
Okay, the "Muse aloud" line in
@Godwinson's vote needs to go or be changed, if nothing else, Narrator is
right about it being wrong, because yeah, we have bundles of
cash which are better currency than gold. And more than that we need to actually deal with the fact that we're setting up a situation where everything is notgoing to go very well and we're painting a picture to Bennouna of us being a stupid insane idealist because we're not addressing any of the obvious issues that will arise from en masse immigration.
My suggestion.
[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] Anyone who is particularly skilled at enchanting.
-[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.
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X] After talking about news in other places...
-[X] You're completely serious about free clear seeds: if she'd like one, you'll make one for her. But, if she's interested, you'd also like to hire her on part-time as a sort of recruiter and diplomat in exchange for monetary compensation. You're not going to ask her to alter her travel plans, but frankly, Mitakihara is going to need skilled, capable magical girls with enough morality to hold a job in exchange for a better-than-living wage, housing, and cleansing... In exchange for a good life.
-[X] You're idealistic, not stupid. With the seed issue dealt with you're still going to have to convince people to deal with witches, not commit crime, etcetera, etcetera... And you're going to have to be able to enforce rules -- non-lethally -- if it comes to that. And frankly, you'd very much like to pay her to carry around the resources to put anyone interested in that sort of offer on a plane to here.