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Firnagzen said:
Said expression morphs into thoughtful interest a few seconds later. "I can do that," Sayaka says thoughtfully, thumbing through the gems in her pocket.
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This should be a thing.

"I can do that. I can do that. And that. Also, I can do that. And this. I can do EVERYTHING!"

"..."

"Except Grief manipulation, time stopping, and seeing the future."


Firnagzen said:
"Also, hey," you say, squeezing Mami a little. "Maybe we could figure out how to stabilise your ribbon-clone, Mami? I bet that'd be a nasty surprise for anyone -or anything- you might fight."
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Sneaky lying Sabrina, she just wants extra Mumihugs.
 
GiftOfLove said:
Mami for the Mami-throne.
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In the grimdark future, there are only mumihugs and brinahugs.

*Knocks and opens door to Mami's apartment*

"Hey, how's it going-"

*Floor is covered in piles upon piles of Brinaclones hugging Mamiclones, Mamiclones cuddling Brinaclones, Brinaclones spooning Mamiclones, Mamiclones nuzzling Brinaclones, Maidbrinas squeeze-hugging ChibiMamis, CatBrina being petted by Mami, ChibiBrinas serving as Mamiclones' hats, ChibiBrinas being cuddled by Mamiclones and by ChibiMamis and also by a Brinaclone, Sabrina buried under five Mamiclones, many many many Brina-Mami clones hugging all around*

"-I came in at a bad time. Later."

*Turns back around, leaves and closes the door*
 
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Kaizuki said:
Frankly? I think we need to go look for whatsherface, the girl we were looking for phone data on.
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We flew a search pattern over the industrial area earlier, but the text is vague on how long we spent on it. I was thinking that we'd spend about an hour on it, but it seems like we may only have been at it as long as it took to have a few conversations. If that's the case, then I agree that we should probably go back and search a little more thoroughly.

Maybe Mami could work on homework while we're flying?
 
Narratively speaking I strongly suspect that going to the location where her phone cut out will give us some form of clue as to where she has ended up. We do now have that location. The classic argument here is that it would be irresponsible and against character to not follow up on that.

The Kaizuki argument is that it would be stupid to not follow up on that.
 
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I wonder if we could make a grief bloodhound and try to track her by scent. Although we don't have anything with her scent on it, and bloodhounds often have trouble in urban environments....
 
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I wonder if we could make a grief bloodhound and try to track her by scent. Although we don't have anything with her scent on it, and bloodhounds often have trouble in urban environments....
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Magic trace is probably more plausible. It works for witches in canon, although that's grief rather than magic. Personally I'm more expecting to go in, look around and then realize there's something in the vicinity that we can't look at.
 
We scanned the area from overhead with our grief senses and didn't sense any magic. If there is a clue down there, we'll probably have to land and look for it the old fashioned way.
 
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We scanned the area from overhead with our grief senses and didn't sense any magic. If there is a clue down there, we'll probably have to land and look for it the old fashioned way.
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Our grief sense is really bad at picking up absences, because there isn't ambient magic or grief in the air. Eyesight is much better for that, potentially.
 
Look, just make it a Grief Puppy capable of tracking Grief, magic, and scents and people as good as we can make it.

If it manages to track down Kuroki, great, if not, cuddles!

Don't you want to see Sabrina and Mami cuddling a puppy?

Don't you want to take Grief Puppy to Homu's house to play with Amy?
 
Essay-chan desu!

Firnagzen said:
Mami cuddles against your side as soon as you sit down. You smile at her, wrapping an arm around her waist. "Are you alright?" you ask. "You've been a bit quiet."

She takes a shaky breath. "I'm alright," she says. "Just... I realise how much of your time I take up. You do so much good, Sabrina."

"And one of the best things I've done was helping you," you say, smiling at her as you lift off the platform. "So no, there aren't better things I could do with my time than spending it with you, Mami."

That earns you a smile. "Thank you, Sabrina," she says. "I- I'll try and keep it in mind."
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Does she really...

Oh, right. I think I knew that at one point. Probably lost it when I got sick.

Fact is, we've never told Mami that we would be staying in Mitakihara with or without her presence. As a result she falsely believes, especially at this point, that we are staying in Mitakihara as opposed to going around and handing out clear seeds entirely because she is our friend and would implode without our presence (after all, we know when Walpurgisnacht is happening, we could just come back then). She's improved in other areas enough that the effect is muted, but some part of her truly believes that if she just didn't exist a bunch more people would be getting helped by Sabrina.

Most of the time she doesn't think about it. But scenes like this... It's something of an existential guilt, and being that she's accustomed to having a positive view on her existence ("because I'm here, people don't get eaten by witches!"), well...

In the end there's only two things we can really do about it. One, we tell her that no, we wouldn't be running around away from Mitakihara all the time without her existing, and we do it veeeeery carefully because it has a twinned implication of "you're not that important." Two, we make her more important (points at theories about ribbon-conductivity). If she ends up playing just as large a part in helping people as we do, well, problem solved.

It's also frankly a rather minimal problem in comparison to the whole "we hadn't told her we liked being with her" thing from before the metabomb. Her loneliness issues are way worse than her guilt complex. Which, well, it's exactly that that fuels the guilt complex.

"I... Sometimes I think I'm a bad person because I don't want her to leave. Because if she'd leave, she could help so many people."

We can poke that and patch it up if we want. This... Would actually be a good time, or at least a relevant time. And it wouldn't particularly hurt her, either -- no breakdowns from this. But I think it should wait until tonight.
 
I'm bad at Social and freely admit it, so I'll hold off on concrete suggestions in that area. However, what I am good at is keeping track of stuff in the past. Thus:

  • We told Kyoko we'd get back to her with Mami's verdict on Friday. It's Sunday afternoon. If we don't get an answer back to her there, we look flaky - not least of all because Kyoko was sceptical of our ability to convince Mami, and we reassured her that "it's what we do". So. Get it done, or lose non-trivial credibility in Koko's eyes.
  • The Asunaro situation. We have explicit confirmation that the events there, up to and including character backstories, have been changed from PMKM canon. When we asked Oriko, while she had functioning foresight, all she said was "don't go there." While I'm still very much interested in the potential gains there, it absolutely behooves us to be careful. I can see several avenues for information gains tonight.
  • We promised Homura a discussion, and there's a number of things to discuss. Homura mentioned wanting our help on a "road trip" to a military base either this weekend or next week. I wouldn't mind just getting it done if Homura's up to it, but even if she isn't we can schedule a date for that. We can also bring up Asunaro, in case she has any specific knowledge there - and we can (and perhaps even should) mention the limits of our metaknowlege. Plus, of course, scheduling some experiments on how our powers interact that we should get done before WP, and apologizing once again for our gaffe.
Vauge outline for tonight:

• Go pick up some supplies for Kirika and Oriko.
• Drop them off. While there, ask Oriko to clarify her earlier statement about Asunaro, in a way that gives Oriko an out if it's something that Mami shouldn't hear (witchbomb security).
• If it's an issue that Mami would feel is worth resolving, ask for her input on Kazuza, and her help introducing you to them. Play up how important her history and knowledge will be to you - she's contributing to helping people.
• If the situation is urgent, inform Mami that you want to help the Subarus tommorow. You'll keep in touch with her, and you'll try to be back ASAP. Is... that okay? Otherwise, go with the flow.
• >>Reassurances to Mami about her not being a burden when saving people written by people better at social go here.<<
• Go home, relax a bit. Bring up Sayaka's training with Kyouko. Be tactful. >>HOW TO SOCIAL HALP<<
• Bring up the discussion you promised Homura.
• Message Homura, meet with her, and discuss:
• How sorry you are for slipping up. Sadly, you aren't perfect. You'll try harder.
• Even your strange knowledge isn't perfect. One of the incidental "facts" you knew about Michiru Kazuza turned out not to be accurate - at least, in this timeline. You're... concerned. What does Homura know about Asunaro, and Kazuza?
• She mentioned raiding a military base this weekend, or later this week. When would she like to do it?
• By the same token, you should really test a few power interactions between you at some point. Would Tuesday after school work for her?

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Counter suggestion:

- Ask about Koko now. It'll contaminate other mumi social if we do it later instead.
- Telepathy Oriko. Ask about what she meant about Asunaro. Bring Mami in if Oriko says something that warrants it, otherwise hold off there.
-> If it's sensitive (bad QB no), then we have to go to the Mikunis, otherwise why?
- Grab supplies while looking for / after looking for / before looking for
- Kuroki Matsuko (missing grl)
- Feed Homu your location over telepathy and let her come by at her leisure to talk. It'll be in timestop anyway so all you really have to do is an excuse (stretching?) to break contact w/ Mami for a moment (D: ).
- Do all the shit redshirt said with Homu because I don't know shit about that
- Go home
- Dinner with Mami
- Mami homework
- Mami social (Kaizuki has voting plans tucked away), should make her happy notsad
-> Including Asunaro
- Bed bed
- Wake up, do morning things, walk Mami to school. Take supplies to Mikuni house. Leave for Asunaro.
 
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