I kinda disagree with the point in the vote about going home. It's worth having the
plan, but there is no way I'm going to be okay with glossing over the Mami dinner date as the middle bit of a single update. Not unless Firn puts out an unprecedented 6K or something.
[Q] Correct Homura.
-[Q] It's "that won't be necessary", not "that isn't necessary".
No no, she was right: It
will be necessary at some point in the future, but it
isn't now.
Point. We're going to be focusing on defensive magic items during the day before Asunaro tomorrow, so I'll probably cut that down to just practicing Grief Control enchantment during my next revision.
Hmm. I almost forgot about something super important. Should we try and contact Koko before the date, or after it...? If we're distracted and not giving Mami our full attention now, she'll notice, especially given that we just did a timestop chat in front of her.
I'm leaning towards confirming training is happening with her after the dinner with Mami wraps up, at the moment.
Our schedule for tomorrow is probably looking something like:
• Wake up, breakfast, escort Mami to school, etc.
• Prolonged defensive speckled magic enchantment session, focussing on immediately useful long term practical effects.
• Meet with Koko and apply payment directly to the forehead.
• Lunch
• Contact her for permission, then do some basic remodelling to get Oriko's warehouse hideout up to full livability standards. (If not for the Asunaro girls, then for the Shiogama girls, which are homeless and due here any day now.)
• EXECUTE PLAN: CAW CAW (But actually just pick up Kazuza like a sane person. Well. Mostly sane.)
• Asunaro Social Wheeeeee~!
• Maybe some Sayaka training or witch hunting or something, I dunno.
• Sleepover with Kazuza, probably.
That schedule needs two alterations: One, we're already scheduled to pick Up Michiru at 11 AM
"... how about I go over there at, say, eleven, pick you up, and be back in time to meet up for lunchtime?" you hazard. "Would that work?"
"That works for me!" Michiru says.
"That-" Mami swallows. "That would work."
[snip]
"Hm... if you're coming over for lunch, would you like us to prepare something?" you ask.
"Lunch swap!" Michiru says decisively. "I'll cook something, and you cook something."
"Sounds good," you say.
Mami smiles, a little. "I'd like that," she says.
"Then it's decided," you say.
So yeah, we
don't want to be late for that. (Just for the sake of putting in in the thread, when it comes to looking up flight time to Asunaro, it occurs to me that just looking up where Ishinomaki and Sendai are in relation to it should be enough to to get a rough idea of our airspeed so we know when we have to leave.)
Schedule issue #2 is the the fact that we need a slot to talk to Sayaka tomorrow. Either during lunch or, far more likely, afternoon/evening.
So we at least need to move up Asunaro CAW CAW and pencil in Sayakatalk.
On which note...
If it's deemed advisable, I still have a question I'd like to ask Homura.
Tomorrow I want us to fill in Sayaka on our metaknowledge, at the very least, and possibly also talk to Sayaka about whatever it is that's up with
her.
However, as a result of this, the witchbomb may come up. It's not something I intend to actively
raise tomorrow, but we've seen the results of keeping big secrets from Sayaka, and if we tell her that we know everything she may ask us about secrets.
So I want to see if what it's safe/unsafe to tell her and, to my knowledge I haven't found anything on how Sayaka reacts to the witchbomb outside of Rebellion. (Which implies she reacts both well and empathically, but that's
after she's been kinda-sorta dewitched herself and an unspecified amount of time to work through the issue.) There's her dismissing Homura's claims in canon, whatever the details of them actually were, and as far as I know that's it.
So as a result I'd like to broach the idea of asking Homura about Sayaka and how she reacts to the witchbomb in Homura's experience. Something like:
[]One last thing, you want to talk about Sayaka. You'd like advice on the witchbomb, and how she generally handles learning about it.
(There's also another aspect in my consideration here: As we start taking refugees in, the general infohazard quotient is going to increase, both to us and to the refugees. If we act outside the city during that time, we're not going to be around to solve everything. So having our friends informed not only nullifies those threats, it also gives them an avenue of help. Which I imagine Sayaka will deem especially important.)
(Related and conversely, the witchbomb isn't just a big secret, it's also a big secret for
Sayaka to keep. Including from Mami. When it eventually
is time, that should probably be laid out to Sayaka
before we tell her.)
Other thoughts: While I would previously have also asked about past loop... reading between the lines... that doesn't sound like a good idea right now.
