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meanderingCephalopod
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- Back in Mitakihara after like 1000 years.
Here's a question- how well would she have to saturate the area directly around where Walmartnight is gonna drop to be able to bring to bear the sort of area control we just faced? Because, as we just learned, even defensively that's a really good ability for getting out of tight spots- and unlike us, Walpurgisnacht doesn't actually saturate the entire area with murderfog. Yuki with area control would be very good for those instant evacs that, hn, I believe quests in general normally rely on Homura's timestop for? (Or at least Sayaka Quest's Walnutmart fight.)
Actually, we've got a lot of mobility in this quest, don't we? Homura in timestop, Yuki's teleport/area control, Sakura when she's willing to help, everything that Sayaka has managed to pick up, Sabrina's Super Supersonic Mobile Befriending/Oppression Platfortress... And a lot of area control/knowledge, between grief fog, ribbon grid, timestop, Yuki again, Sayaka again probably... Oriko if her precog ever gets back up and running.... Huh. Cool. Betcha we're going to need it all, at some point.
But yeah, as long as Yuki is on the lookout for more "London bridge is falling down- and so are the rest of the buildings in the area" type of hazards, she could be pretty important for keeping casualties low and keeping eyes on how the fight as a whole is going, as long as she's willing to play field monitor. Though, of course, this requires the Mitakihara party to be willing to grant her heavy local authority over the Walpurgisnacht fight space, requires Yuki to be able to establish that dominion (either in a practical physically-capable-of-it sense, or in a timely manner, the latter of which would probably also depend on if Homura would let her use timestop to set up an advantage this big, and on if Yuki could even establish dominion during timestop), and requires Yuki to be confident enough in Homura's intel about Walmartnight's location to think this is a good plan.
... lotsa requirements, really. Probably a plan for later- much later- as we actually start Walpurgisnacht planning. But in conclusions, good thought, important thought! And evac and logistic support has to be on the table even without Walnutmart field of combat area control saturation.
Speaking of Sayaka, she's got a lot of powers. A lot even by our standards, I think? What's the actual current list, was the one used in the omake a few pages back accurate? I feel like some time should be spent setting up an actual running plan of what powers we need to be suggesting she take advantage of (accounting for our metaknowledge and tendency to munchkin). Because there are a lot of "we probably want Sayaka to do this as opposed to trusting New Ally McGee with sensitive tasks", I feel like, and I get the impression they don't actually end up in the planning pipeline as much? (... then again, I may have missed some crosstalk, even speeding through all 5300 pages of this quest and not just chapter-hopping. Eh.)
Re: Vote thoughts:
Well it looks like Iowa may be incoming. We didn't really get much information about them from Nadia aside from that they tend to "raid cities"- we might should ask if Yuki has more details on what they do. What does "raid" entail- carpetbomb the mundane bits as well as the local meguca, cause terrorist-like symptoms, gang warfare, enough of a fuss to call down local military/defense force presence, what? Whatever it is, Yuki seems pretty worried, even with her owning basically the city and certainly the bits her group is heavily invested in. More information, at least so the thread can percolate about it until such time it becomes relevant, is prolly a good idea.
Even if it's not Iowa, Yuki is right that we're stirring up a fuss. We're between adversarial engagements at the moment, but with Iowa and Feathers and Walnutmart in the pipeline, plus whatever we inevitably poke with soulguca- Riona Mag Aoidh- and the Soujus, and any other incoming plot... Having a good idea of how threats are scaled, with Iowa details, would be of use for general preparations, I think.
Still want to ask about other locals like the supervillains in the volcano.
Point of order- since we're looking to talk more about the defense agreement and get to- and I just noticed Firn's note about getting back as school ends, nevermind.
If we want to broach the issues with Rin and Sakura, I feel like now may not be the best time. Since we're in the middle of things, it seems like we wouldn't be giving our full attention to whatever we poke our nose into. Maybe defer these thoughts to after we're more done with defense pact negotiations and Anri is safely ensconced?
... and as I end this ramblingly long post that I've been working on instead of what I'm supposed to be doing right now...
Speaking of incubators, where has Kyubey been? We had been looking for a chance to offload some grief onto him- I don't think we had the chance?
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