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Honestly, maintaining immortality or youthfulness has to cost magic, so if we never meet up with Nao and she runs out of grief seeds, she COULD die of 'old age'.
 
Lewd jokes aside.

We just pushed our magic through Mami's Soul. So, um. Oops?

Now waiting for Mami's reaction when we explain we want to do that... on a maybe permanent basis. :p

"You'll never be alone anymore, Mami!"
 
I do think that the critical word in that sentence was "may", as in, "it is physically possible for this to happen". Kyubey's hypothesis about this being humorous would then be the curiously dramatic difference between the technical and colloquial uses of the word "may" - technically it's "This is not actually physically impossible", while the other is "This is a thing you have to worry about happening".
 
You know, when the Grief spread out into a cloud, I was actually worried that it might just hang immutably in the air like the spheres do and create a cloud of particles that would kill you to walk through. Like if Clockblocker froze sand in the air but with particles orders of magnitude smaller.
 
Firnagzen said:
"So there are no time-critical issues that might occur?" you ask, tilting the platform forward a little as you dive for the warehouse.

"There are," Kyuubey says. "If you should delay for long enough, she may die of old age."
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I am actually kind of stunned that Kyuubey was trying to make a joke instead of being completely serious, given the whole.... y'know.... "OH SHIT GUYS WE ONLY HAVE A FEW BILLION YEARS BEFORE ENTROPY KILLS THE UNIVERSE".

I'd totally buy the Incubator thinking of a young girl "dying of old age" as a "time-critical issue".

Which is kind of funnier in its own way, IMO.
 
Fucking rat. It's too easy to feel comfortable around it, even knowing what it is.

Everyone feel free to raise your KB PARANOIA meters.
 
Firnagzen said:
"There are," Kyuubey says. "If you should delay for long enough, she may die of old age."

You give the alien a baleful stare. Is it joking? It can't be joking, it doesn't know how to joke. Then again, it might, if only from reading joke books. The mental image is disconcerting, to say the least.
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Eh, I'm not that surprised. We already knew he was capable of being a smartass from that sarcastic little bow he did when Homura kicked him out of her apartment in episode 8. :p

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"She isn't in any pressing need of Grief Seeds, though like most she'd be more comfortable with a larger buffer of Seeds.
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I don't think I trust this statement. From Kyubey's perspective, magical girls have no pressing need for Grief Seeds because they're supposed to witch out.

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"I'm- I'm fine," Mami says. "That just- felt really strange. Intrusive."
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Huh. I figured that we'd need to have Mami present to test this, but not for that reason.

Hopefully if done with her permission instead of unexpectedly, the sensation might be less intrusive?

We should probably open with something like:

[ ] Apologize to Mami. You tried channeling magic through the ribbon she gave you. You didn't realize she would feel it.
-[ ] You won't do that again unless she's with you and okay with it.
 
*blinks* That was a surprisingly non-hostile response to Kyubey, which was not what I expected, given my previous attempts bashing my head against a brick wall on the issue. I wish I'd been around for the discussion...
 
defenestrator said:
So taking the result of that experiment to absurdity, we might be able to have near global range, if there's a daisy-chain of meguca within magic range of one another, like turning soul gems into cell towers. That and, uh, if they don't mind of being uncomfortably aware that Big Sister Sabrina is piggybacking on their signal to remotely cleanse a new contractee in Sudan or somewhere.
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Uh... no.

Mami's wish magic is "connections", and as a result we were able to use her ribbons as a "conductor" to extend our range.

That in no way implies that we can "piggyback" off of any soul gem like you are proposing.
 
Basically, what we'd need to do is lay a grid of Mami's ribbons around the entire world so that there was a ribbon within 100 meters of every place on Earth.
 
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Vote draft.

[ ] Apologize to Mami - you wanted to see if her ribbons could conduct your magic. You should have forewarned her.
-[ ] Ask if she's feeling alright. If she is, ask if she'd be okay with testing it together in the afternoon.

[ ] Ask QB how his honesty policy interacts with jokes and figures of speech - would a magical girl die of old age, if she survived long enough? Wouldn't the aging stop at some point?

[ ] Practice maintaining your utility fog, seeing how much effort it takes and how much it impedes your concentration.
-[ ] Keep practicing it during the flight to Kazamino.

[ ] Greet Kyouko and Yuma. Ask for an honest appraisal of how noticeable/disturbing your new trick is to other magical girls senses.
-[ ] Ask for thoughts on Sayaka from them. Discuss payment and logistics.
-[ ] Mention that Mami's hosting visitors tonight and probably tommorow. First full training session Wednesday?
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[ ] Apologize again and explain.
-[ ] By giddy about your success.
-[ ] Properly ask Mami for help, maybe in the afternoon, if she's OK with it.

Maybe we can give Mami permission to push her Magic through our Soul just to be fair. :V

[ ] After talking with Mami, Ask Kyuubey:
-[ ] About Magical Girls and immortality.
-[ ] About Kuroki Matsuko: Is she alive? Witched? Where is she? Will he help us help Kuroki?
--[ ] If Kuroki is alive an not-Witched, put everything else on hold and try to meet her.
--[ ] Try to meet Kuroki before going to Kasamino.

[ ] Try to keep the utility fog 24/7, unless it bothers your friends.
-[ ] Measure how 'full' is your range. You might not need to give Kyuubey Grief anymore.

[ ] Kasamino time!
-[ ] Formally apologize: You won't have time for lunch this time. Terrible thing.
-[ ] Ask how they feel about Sayaka. Discuss payment and logistics. Accept anything reasonable.
-[ ] Aside: Ask Yuma if she'll give you the play-by-play of the KyouSaya meeting.
 
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