Yesssssssssss... It's kind of cheating, but we should make sure Mami receives a soul-hug-actual-hug now and then. A hug beyond hugs.

[] Later, ask Mami to for a ribbon to keep. Maybe as a bow, if it would look good on you? A bracelet, a collar?

With the express purpose of sending Mami Soul Hugs. :D

...
"Episodio Incrocio!"
... Incrocio? ... Crossroad?

... Crossover?

:V


Typossssss...

Mami nods, face setting grimly. "Someone needs out help,"

There's a heavy stench of smoke, noxious and cloying, and there's a wailing, tone that saws through the air in a constant, grating tone.

Kazumi's the first to start giggling, delighted laughter filling the emptiness of the after-hours office building. ANd that sets you all off, except Homura - but even Homura seems to lighten up a bit, perpetual glare easing.
 
Idea: Kazumi works best in teams of seven.

The Pleiades are seven.

After Kazumi, Kaoru, and Umika came here, our joint team consists of seven meguca.

The hunt went very well.

:V

I think the only reasonable answer to this would be handing it off the Pleiades, they're the one that need it the most.
Yes, clearing the Seed and giving it to the Pleiades is still a good idea.


[] Clear the Seed and give it to the Pleiades. Since there's seven of them...

So... do we go to the homework place?

[] Ask if you can all join in the homework session. Us truants promise to not make too much of a racket.

If we want to talk with Sayaka, we can talk with her right now...

[] Tell Kazumi and Sayaka to try and copy this:
-[] Make a privacy sphere.
-[] Pull Sayaka inside and metabomb her.
--[] If she successfully copied the privacy effect, ask her to let Hitomi know later. Madoka already knows.

?
 
[] Clear the Seed and give it to the Pleiades. Since there's seven of them...
[] Ask if you can all join in the homework session. Us truants promise to not make too much of a racket.
[] Tell Kazumi and Sayaka to try and copy this:
-[] Make a privacy sphere.
-[] Pull Sayaka inside and metabomb her. Subtly check if she's aware of the Law of Cycles.
--[] If she successfully copied the privacy effect, ask her to let Hitomi know later. Madoka already knows.

The cost of preparedness - measured now in time, later in grief.

Make no mistake, we will face ever greater threats. Our friends must be ready.

The front line of this war is not in the labyrinth, but rather, inside the mind.
 
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Mind out of the gutter, thank you - they are minors.

"So," you say, as the moving slides of your Grief Power-Point come to a stop. "Any questions?"

Kyoko's face is somewhere between the pasty white of oatmeal and the bloody red of apples. But she isn't speaking to you. "Pink girl, no offense, but if all of that was true, and if it turns out we have to do this over again, could ya try for a wish that doesn't know everything about my life story, or try to recruit me for her team?"

"B-but I didn't do anything!" Madoka stammers. "Well, I did, but... ah..."

"I don't see why you're so upset," Oriko says to Kyoko. "The... implementation... is unorthodox... but if we're accepting the presented claims at face value, then this must necessarily be the best of all possible worlds."

"Hah! Real original, Leibniz, but haven't you ever read Voltaire? Hell, even Augustine and Plantinga made more sense than that."

"Kyoko," Homura says stiffly. "I think we're discussing Madoka and Sabrina, not religious apologism."

"Same difference! Or do you think that theodicy doesn't matter, just because we're talking about pink instead of God?"

"Listen, I did not drop out of Catholic school so I could listen to this-"

You aren't listening to any of them, though, because Mami looks like she's on the verge of tears. Or peals of laughter.

"Mami?"

"I don't believe it," Mami mutters, and laughter finally wins out. "I should have known I was dating a toddler!"
 
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Are you sure this place will not make me got high blood pressure? Because i'm pretty sure this is way too sweet for my taste. :V
 
I still prefer us to just walk through a barrier dissolving everything within 100m. Nice and safe, no chance of the witch or her familiar getting us. No tension, no frantic searching, just complete and utter control/destruction.

Unless there's some reason not to do so I forgot about?
 
Eh, it's more of a bonding moment with the Pleiades and with Mami, Homura and Sayaka. Being in a support role is just fine.
 
"Hah! Real original, Leibniz, but haven't you ever read Voltaire? Hell, even Augustine and Plantinga made more sense than that."

"Kyoko," Homura says stiffly. "I think we're discussing Madoka and Sabrina, not religious apologism."

"Same difference! Or do you think that theodicy doesn't matter, just because we're talking about pink instead of God?"

"Listen, I did not drop out of Catholic school so I could listen to this-"
Angry erudite Kyouko is perfect. Can that be canon? Pretty please? The "pink instead of God" line is the best.
"That was amazing!" Kazumi squeals, grabbing her two friends' hands and bouncing in place.

"It was!" Mami agrees. "I think we all worked well together."

"You think so?" Sayaka asks.

"Yeah," you agree. "Nice work with the clones, Sayaka, and the lightning at the end there."
I'm with Kazumi here. We went through that barrier like a thunderbolt thrown by an angry deity. Didn't even slow down, we just blew through everything in front of us with elegant but overwhelming power. Flawless teamwork, too.

We should mention that Sayaka's clones probably directly contributed to us arriving in time to save that woman's life. She was already suspended over hot coals; probably had at most five or ten minutes left. The fast detection of the Barrier, along with the scouting once inside, were critical.
 
"So," you say, as the moving slides of your Grief Power-Point come to a stop. "Any questions?"

Kyoko's face is somewhere between the pasty white of oatmeal and the bloody red of apples. But she isn't speaking to you. "Pink girl, no offense, but if all of that was true, and if it turns out we have to do this over again, could ya try for a wish that doesn't know everything about my life story, or try to recruit me for her team?"

"B-but I didn't do anything!" Madoka stammers. "Well, I did, but... ah..."

"I don't see why you're so upset," Oriko says to Kyoko. "The... implementation... is unorthodox... but if we're accepting the presented claims at face value, then this must necessarily be the best of all possible worlds."

"Hah! Real original, Leibniz, but haven't you ever read Voltaire? Hell, even Augustine and Plantinga made more sense than that."

"Kyoko," Homura says stiffly. "I think we're discussing Madoka and Sabrina, not religious apologism."

"Same difference! Or do you think that theodicy doesn't matter, just because we're talking about pink instead of God?"

"Listen, I did not drop out of Catholic school so I could listen to this-"

You aren't listening to any of them, though, because Mami looks like she's on the verge of tears. Or peals of laughter.

"Mami?"

"I don't believe it," Mami mutters, and laughter finally wins out. "I should have known I was dating a toddler!"
BEST. GIRL.
 
It's silly, but I always had this image of Koko-Dad reading Lewis, Dante, and Milton to his daughter every night in lieu of traditional bedtime stories. :oops: :p
It makes perfect sense! Especially when you consider all the teaching buffs that Mitakihara seems to've had, I wouldn't be at all surprised if Kyouko actually has this knowledge.

IIRC Kyouko's father may've been a bit of a heretic, so I figure he's either totally ignorant of religious philosophy or rabidly well-read on the topic. :p
 
Oh.

So that's how it feels.

It's Mami, saturating the world around you. Every good memory you've shared with her, every bad memory muted by the simple closeness the both of you enjoy. You can feel the faint terror of abandonment buried not so deep, and you can feel her adoration, the simple devotion to you. It calls to mind Mami, the hugs you share and the times she cried on your shoulder.

"Oh," you find yourself mouthing.

Good news! I am no longer worried!

Bad news! I now want to do this more often.

Also, I want to immediately tell Oriko and Kirika about it.
 
It makes perfect sense! Especially when you consider all the teaching buffs that Mitakihara seems to've had, I wouldn't be at all surprised if Kyouko actually has this knowledge.

IIRC Kyouko's father may've been a bit of a heretic, so I figure he's either totally ignorant of religious philosophy or rabidly well-read on the topic. :p
Exactly! Heretics are either people with no bloody clue what they're doing, or people who are well studied and knowingly break with accepted teachings.

His success before he split from said doctrine implies he wasn't the former.
 
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