Torgamous
Aspiring Gynoid
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Sure, if we can get the hacker girl on full time to handle paperwork issues.
Puella Magi Adfligo Systema
- Thread starter Firnagzen
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- puella magi adfligo systema puella magi madoka magica be gay do crimes (gay) female protagonist bad decisions dating mami tomoe (tomoe mami) diabolical laughter friendship is the best ship handholding identity crises microwaving tea gets you put in the bad place names are important the body is the fursona of the soul this is not the baked goods thread we don't talk about rionna what could possibly go wrong? who in the world is azure sanfrancisco?
- Location
- Illinois
I have no idea whether funding will be an issue or not. Probably not, we can just have Homu go Homu some more money and as you say we have other sources soon available
DB_Explorer
Purveyor of alternate realities.
- Location
- San Diego, California
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Sabrina: I'll give you clear seeds and money and cakes from Mami. I can even help you find a girlfriend
Hacker: ... what if I want a boyfriend?
Sabrina: .... .... I understand those words... but not when they are all together like that.
The Narrator
Disembodied Voice
- Location
- Somewhere Offscreen
Turning carbon into diamond is probably within our power, but because of DeBeers' rigid monopoly on the diamond market, selling them would be incredibly difficult.
The Narrator
Disembodied Voice
- Location
- Somewhere Offscreen
Might be able to produce rare and valuable nanomaterials or cheaply smelt metals or all sorts of other possibilities.
Hitting bad guys and /looting them, RPG-style, will probably work for a few months of starting cash. After we've got some more girls around with more powers, new opportunities might present themselves, or at least we'll have the numbers to tackle various business ideas like courier services (the MSY classic). And we're going to need to take an interest in real estate eventually anyway, just to house everyone.
Hitting bad guys and /looting them, RPG-style, will probably work for a few months of starting cash. After we've got some more girls around with more powers, new opportunities might present themselves, or at least we'll have the numbers to tackle various business ideas like courier services (the MSY classic). And we're going to need to take an interest in real estate eventually anyway, just to house everyone.
This feels like a dumb idea, but if Sabrina can keep solid grief in constant motion in her sleep without any mental stress, she could also provide electricity as a perpetual* motion machine.
*Six to eight hours every evening
*Six to eight hours every evening
Aranfan
Team Plasma Grunt
As a player of meguca micro empire quest, I could tell you all about that kind of shit.
Or at least, when I am not on the phone.
- Location
- Illinois
Veb no. I understand you edited it. But you can't have both of these. We can tell Sayaka about the mop on the way to Sendai?
Also: two votes based on Kai changes have more votes than Brinavote combined, but less separately.
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Vebyast
Nascent Transhuman
[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 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 anything about the magical girls in Asunaro. It's a silly place, but you think you need to know. For reasons.
[x] Wacky hijinks aside, you're idealistic, not stupid. This is serious business.
-[x] You're essentially proposing to create a small nation. Even with cleansing dealt with you'll still have to keep the peace. Keep hunting witches, find ways to eat that don't involve thievery, put past grievances aside and carry on with their lives, girls that are too traumatized to function...
-[x] You can probably police Mitakihara up to several dozen girls, but to really scale you'll need to find more people like yourself and your teammates. Girls that are skilled, capable, motivated, and, above all, moral.
-[x] You'd like to hire Bennouna - real-money compensation, robbing the yaks is easy, or you can figure out something else, on top of the clear seed you think you'll already be giving her - as a recruiter and diplomat. Anyone that she meets that you should talk to, you'd like her to put you in contact with them. You can supply money to put them on planes to you, or you can fly out to meet them.
-[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 knows anything else that might be useful.
-[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 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 anything about the magical girls in Asunaro. It's a silly place, but you think you need to know. For reasons.
[x] Wacky hijinks aside, you're idealistic, not stupid. This is serious business.
-[x] You're essentially proposing to create a small nation. Even with cleansing dealt with you'll still have to keep the peace. Keep hunting witches, find ways to eat that don't involve thievery, put past grievances aside and carry on with their lives, girls that are too traumatized to function...
-[x] You can probably police Mitakihara up to several dozen girls, but to really scale you'll need to find more people like yourself and your teammates. Girls that are skilled, capable, motivated, and, above all, moral.
-[x] You'd like to hire Bennouna - real-money compensation, robbing the yaks is easy, or you can figure out something else, on top of the clear seed you think you'll already be giving her - as a recruiter and diplomat. Anyone that she meets that you should talk to, you'd like her to put you in contact with them. You can supply money to put them on planes to you, or you can fly out to meet them.
-[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 knows anything else that might be useful.
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- Illinois
We can go to the beach, scoop up a bunch of sand, and process it into 450mm ultra high-purity silicon wafers, which IRL won't come onto the market for another 5 years. We could become billionaires practically overnight.
Well, it might take a little longer than that, since apparently when we stopped the Great East Japan Earthquake last week we saved a few of the big 300mm silicon wafer suppliers from having to shut down. Oops?
Still, ultra high purity silicon is ridiculously valuable, expensive to produce, and will make us a boatload of cash if we can supply it in quantity, or even in small lab-scale amounts.
[x] Vebyast
Well, it might take a little longer than that, since apparently when we stopped the Great East Japan Earthquake last week we saved a few of the big 300mm silicon wafer suppliers from having to shut down. Oops?
Still, ultra high purity silicon is ridiculously valuable, expensive to produce, and will make us a boatload of cash if we can supply it in quantity, or even in small lab-scale amounts.[x] Vebyast
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- Location
- Illinois
grmph
This should still be a question, we're not sure if she wants one or not, though, well, probably does. Also we didn't fucking tell explain that they can hatch normal grief seeds because apparently that doesnt fall under "explain clear seeds" lol :/ so maybe that goes in? OTOH maybe that goes in privately to her so she doesn't link it to the witchbomb instantly in front of Mami? Idk
Mami already knows that Grief Seeds take grief from Clear Seeds; she was there when we discovered it in fact. She also knows that Seeds that are too full can hatch into Witches again. That's not going to witchbomb her.
- Location
- Illinois
No, but Nadia doesn't, and if Nadia knows the witchbomb, she'll likely react to the idea of grief seeds taking grief from clear seeds the same way that we did: "HOLY SHIT SOL GEM???"
Mami doesn't have the witchbomb to make the connection with.
While true, I should note that Homura didn't make the connection until we pointed it out. And Nadia's had just as much experience with not accidentally disclosing the lich/witchbombs herself, so I really doubt she's going to just freak out and accidentally Mami on us.
Vebyast
Nascent Transhuman
Sadly, that's exactly the kind of thing that we'd be completely incapable of doing. Read these three articles for an illustration of the obstacles to that kind of thing:We can go to the beach, scoop up a bunch of sand, and process it into 450mm ultra high-purity silicon wafers, which IRL won't come onto the market for another 5 years. We could become billionaires practically overnight.
Well, it might take a little longer than that, since apparently when we stopped the Great East Japan Earthquake last week we saved a few of the big 300mm silicon wafer suppliers from having to shut down. Oops?
Basically, those silicon wafers, while expensive and valuable, are bought and sold through channels that we're basically incapable of breaking into. Commodity markets and exchanges, futures, lots of negotiation and contracts. People aren't going to buy from us at all without being able to, for example, visit our factory and get a sales pitch. Similar problems exist with selling large volumes of fabricated matter. Diamonds would be an excellent option but are impossible, not because of DeBeers, but because diamonds these days have to be chemically and physically marked to establish that they didn't originate either synthetically or in conflict zones. Diamonds may also run into supply-curve issues; we can't assume that the market is large enough that we wouldn't dramatically increase the supply and screw everything up. Similar issues exist with schemes like fabricating and selling trans-uranics and other exotic pure elements.
Hrm. Ways that get around these.
- Contact research labs and offer to do exotic chemical syntheses. We have a few chemists in thread, so bullshitting shouldn't be at all hard.
- Advanced metalworking to contract. We lose some of the advantages of a CNC mill - well, maybe, I wouldn't be surprised if we can griefhax something off a flash drive - but we can trivially handle requirements like inert atmospheres and weird-ass shapes and fixtures that'd normally costs tens of thousands of dollars of labor-time. Again, research labs. Firn probably knows full well how expensive it is to get a piece of custom metal fabbed for a physics apparatus.
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Onmur
Archangel of Nutella.
[Q] Take over the Yakuza already.
-[Q] Show off powers and have Yakuza think a way to replace their unsavory practices with other ways of making money off magical powers.
--[Q] Use truth detectors and shit to make sure they're not pulling one over us.
---[Q] ???
----[Q] Profit.
-[Q] Show off powers and have Yakuza think a way to replace their unsavory practices with other ways of making money off magical powers.
--[Q] Use truth detectors and shit to make sure they're not pulling one over us.
---[Q] ???
----[Q] Profit.
Always Happening
We could have prevented this.
- Location
- On a train with no brakes
Silliness aside, I think it would be prudent to remind everyone that dealing with the Yakuza at all is only safe with Homura and/or Sabrina present. They still have a bunch of guns n' shit, you know, and ordinarily-lethal injuries can still cause magical girls to despair (assuming they don't clip your soul gem with a stray shot-- like Kyouko's, which is right near her center of mass)
Gadjo
Doka
[X] Godwinson
This seems kinda pointless. Walpurgisnacht doesn't really require more than what we already have access to. If infinite Tiro Finales and railgun shots and whatever other grief shenanigans aren't enough to grind it into a fine, grief-y paste, then the dissoluzione bianca will be. Feathers is the actual threat, and we have no idea what that'll require or what it'll even be capable of.
Karnewarrior
Leastmost of the Hanged Man Arcana
Contact the government and break the masquerade in exchange for government funding for research into magical commodity production and possibly military assistance.Sadly, that's exactly the kind of thing that we'd be completely incapable of doing. Read these three articles for an illustration of the obstacles to that kind of thing:
Basically, those silicon wafers, while expensive and valuable, are bought and sold through channels that we're basically incapable of breaking into. Commodity markets and exchanges, futures, lots of negotiation and contracts. People aren't going to buy from us at all without being able to, for example, visit our factory and get a sales pitch. Similar problems exist with selling large volumes of fabricated matter. Diamonds would be an excellent option but are impossible, not because of DeBeers, but because diamonds these days have to be chemically and physically marked to establish that they didn't originate either synthetically or in conflict zones. Diamonds may also run into supply-curve issues; we can't assume that the market is large enough that we wouldn't dramatically increase the supply and screw everything up. Similar issues exist with schemes like fabricating and selling trans-uranics and other exotic pure elements.
Hrm. Ways that get around these.
- Contract research labs and offer to do exotic chemical syntheses. We have a few chemists in thread, so bullshitting shouldn't be at all hard.
- Advanced metalworking to contract. We lose some of the advantages of a CNC mill - well, maybe, I wouldn't be surprised if we can griefhax something off a flash drive - but we can trivially handle requirements like inert atmospheres and weird-ass shapes and fixtures that'd normally costs tens of thousands of dollars of labor-time. Again, research labs. Firn probably knows full well how expensive it is to get a piece of custom metal fabbed for a physics apparatus.
But more seriously, we're going to have to assume a low-budget economy until we have girls that are old enough to become entrepreneurs. Which means about 4 years for the money to start coming in.
Of course, once we have the time, all we really need to do is rob the incubators of advanced alien tech, patent it, and sell the patent. Simple, lucrative, and only marginal danger of irritating a type 2 kardashev civilization into attacking us with orbital weaponry or infantry strikes.
Vebyast
Nascent Transhuman
I've been feeling like that. It's also kind of redundant; we already told her about walpurgisnacht, and the recruiting thing will cover that pretty handily. Edited out.
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