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We don't have to take him up on this right, now, but we should at least meet the girl when we have time. Enchanting experience and stealth makes her a useful contact, assuming Kyubey isn't just setting us up for a fight or a fall here.
 
I can buy that acquiring a stealth enchantment for travel use will be to our benefit. Obviously, QB would appreciate less wasted energy on his part as well. However, the bunnycat always has an ulterior motive.

The biggest issue here is the meeting with Kyouko, and then later Asunaro. I'm absolutely loathe to miss either of those, and an hour is very unlikely to be enough time to squeeze in yet another meeting, much less actually get the enchantment.

My current inclination is to get the name from QB, but not commit to meeting that particular girl until Mami and/or Homura potentially vet her. However, we should also not dismiss the stealth enchantment idea entirely - make it clear that we're not entirely impossible to cooperate with.

As an outline, something like:

[ ] You'd be willing to acquire a means of masking your travel from mundane observation, but have prior commitments for this morning in particular. You could try to schedule a meeting for later on this week, but you'd like more information first.
-[] What is QB willing to tell you about her?

[ ] Be noncommittal. You'll think about it and get back to him later.
-[ ] (Assuming she wasn't the girl in question:) Speaking of girls with concealment powers, will you tell me anything about the whereabouts of Kuroki Matsuko?

[ ] You were planning to attempt to find a way to make your grief invisible using "normal physics" principles. Doing so for your grief cloud would reduce the amount of memories that need to be altered when you travel, correct? Any suggestions?
-[ ] Shoo QB away after the conversation, proceed to science.
 
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To be honest, it's not quite an offer we can refuse.

A magical girl is a magical girl.

We should get info on her, then try and meet her whenever we can, so we can extend our Grief Cleansing offer to her.
 
My general thought I've had on Kyubey's actions as of late is that it may well have run some calculations and figured that staying on Sabrina's good side and letting her do her thing may well yield more energy in the long run for various reasons(more efficient extraction from seeds, possibility of enrichment or reshaping the stuff in some way before handing it over, etc.). Alternately, it's figured that Sabrina witching out would be spectacularly awful on a scale that not even they can deal with and is willing to accept a somewhat slower rate of energy accumulation because there really isn't much of an alternative, and is resigned to trying to nudge her in directions that will lower their overhead to compensate. Or both.
 
Vebyast said:
Kyubey knows our schedule. Obvious gambit is therefore obvious: it's trying to keep us from doing ribbon science.
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We very obviously shouldn't diverge from our preplanned schedule because of QB, but making grief invisible was part of the docket for today's SCIENCE session anyway, so I'm kind of open to playing along. We shouldn't involve QB much if we can help it, though - we want to be able to truthfully tell Mami we weren't working with it behind her back.
 
Could Kyuubey mean the stealth girl we were looking for anyway? That would be pretty convenient and there can't be that many stealth girls around. I think we should at least get her name and going against him on this isn't really worth it IMO.

Firnagzen said:
After that, it's time to pack and be ready to leave for the day. You and Mami take turns to change - you put on a blouse and a pair of pants. You are going to Asunaro, after all, so you have to be appropriately equipped to blow their minds with proper clothes.
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All is good. Maybe we should pack some extra pants just to make sure.
 
4Dname said:
Well regardless of how we feel about Kyuubey we should not ignore a chance to peacefully make contact with another magical girl. This seems to be a fairly safe offer, and is perhaps a chance to throw Kyuubey a bone without risking to much our self. We should still be cautious though and ask lots of questions. Make sure there is no hidden features in the enchantment that Kyuubey could use against us and stuff.
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As far as "dangers of asking" goes, my questions are:
1: What's the opportunity cost? (say, drive for tech advancement wise for instance. Not something we can deal with IC, but worth considering OOC)
2: What's the nature of the introduction? Telepathy or in-person?
3: How much time will this take?

The second, more specific, being more relevant. The chapter suddenly being named "We don't go to RavenholmAsunaro..." pushes me from kinda wanting a lot of spare time to deal with potential problems, to really wanting a lot of spare time.

If it's just conversation over telepathy for now, that's pretty doable and a lot easier to deal with than meeting in person.

Beyond that, Who is the-
Gnarker said:
Propably:

[ ] Talk to Kyuubey
- [] Who is this Girl? What's she like? What is her likely reaction to us?
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Yes, this. Also stuff like her affiliation might matter.

Because if this is going to bite us, if it's not a scheduling issue, then I imagine it's in the interpersonal side of things.

Other questions that might matter: The exact nature of the "stealth" enchantment in question. (Mental manipulation to convince others that we aren't there might play out a lot differently than via light refraction, which is different from stealth via phasing out of reality.)
 
What I gather is that we need to briefly get details on this meguca from Kyuubey, then go on and do our Ribbon Science.

We can ask if the girl is lacking in Seeds, then if she's not, just make KB wait; we don't have to do this right now.
 
Also, <3 Mami, making breakfast in bed work.

"Alright," you say, walking closer and bumping your shoulder against hers - you'd hold her hand, but both of yours are currently full with carrying the stew.
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And jeez, Sabrina, wanting to hold hands in public? Lewd.

Does anyone remember what we wanted to talk with Sayaka, exactly?
 
Right, my instinct is to interrogate QB about unrelated science so I will not bother with him.

[] Ribbon science
 
With another polite nod for the truancy officer, you head off. You have science to do, and Mami's ex-student to kidnap.
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Now seriously considering sweeping down on Kazusa's group like a villain of the week and declaring our intent to kidnap the sweet cinammon roll girl.
 
So, assuming hostility here, I've come up with a way that Kyuubey wins no matter what we choose.

So to do that, he'd need to be talking about Kuroki, and have her be low on seeds. That was already our running assumption on her status, and literally abducted by aliens is a good excuse for the weird dead end we came across.

If so, then the following results are possible.

1: We refuse the offer/delay the offer
When we refuse the offer, kyuubey can blame us for letting Kuroki witch out, and even if he doesn't bomb us with that as he leaves, we still are hit a little by feeling like we've been a dick to kyuubey and he has justifications for being more hostile in the future.
2: We do not refuse the offer
Kyuubey gets what he wants when we fail to do the ribbon science. It's entirely possible this ribbon science will be necessary when we're in Asunaro or at some other point later on in the chapter.

Just putting that out there for now because I need to do other things. I do hope there's some way to defuse the situation if it's actually this bad though.
 
Firnagzen said:
It's not sight; it's not wired into your visual cortex. It's more like someone drawing on your skin with a million tiny little pins, each one a photon twanging a tiny, tiny bar of Grief.
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Fun fact: If Brina does this enough, it will end up wired into her visual cortex. In the case of Tactile->Visual sensory substitution, neuroplasticity is aggressive enough to do this in a matter of hours [1]. Sabrina's hooked up closely enough, and getting sufficiently high-quality information, that'd I'd guess she's already got it working.

Sabrina doesn't quite have the perceptual description right, though. Journalists who've tried assistive devices using the technology describe it as sight. Not like sight, but actually feels like looking at things.

[1] Cite is a book, unfortunately. Bach-y-Rita, Paul, ed. Brain mechanisms in sensory substitution. academic Press, 1972.
 
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Maybe we should ask Bunnycat for the girl's phone number? Wait do we even have an phone? Nevermind. Put us in contact with telepathy? Maybe just invite them to come science with us? Kyuubey provides a respawning test dummy. I guess we could try dissecting him as well.
 
Karnewarrior said:
So, assuming hostility here, I've come up with a way that Kyuubey wins no matter what we choose.

So to do that, he'd need to be talking about Kuroki, and have her be low on seeds. That was already our running assumption on her status, and literally abducted by aliens is a good excuse for the weird dead end we came across.

If so, then the following results are possible.

1: We refuse the offer/delay the offer
When we refuse the offer, kyuubey can blame us for letting Kuroki witch out, and even if he doesn't bomb us with that as he leaves, we still are hit a little by feeling like we've been a dick to kyuubey and he has justifications for being more hostile in the future.
2: We do not refuse the offer
Kyuubey gets what he wants when we fail to do the ribbon science. It's entirely possible this ribbon science will be necessary when we're in Asunaro or at some other point later on in the chapter.

Just putting that out there for now because I need to do other things. I do hope there's some way to defuse the situation if it's actually this bad though.
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The chances of thie meguca KB's talking about being Kuroki is somewhere around 0%.

The meguca in question is one experienced with enchantment.

Kuroki is new.

Shadowhope said:
Maybe we should ask Bunnycat for the girl's phone number? Wait do we even have an phone? Nevermind. Put us in contact with telepathy? Maybe just invite them to come science with us? Kyuubey provides a respawning test dummy. I guess we could try dissecting him as well.
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We do have a phone.
 
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