I'm no good at politics, and I suspect that the rest of the thread is similarly out of its depth, but we know for sure that some of our friends can handle this - In particular, Madoka, Sayaka, and Hitomi are apparently vicious. You know how we depend on our friends in fights and when we're trying to make people feel better? Well, we can depend on our friends here.
[x] Talk to Sayaka on the way back...
-[x] Try to come up with a good way to include Madoka and Hitomi in the political analysis. Audio recordings, a phone running in a pocket, verbal debriefings, something else? You don't want to bother them at class or put too much stress on them or Homura, and there isn't a chance in heck that you can take either of them to Tokyo in person.
As for the memory magic: Call Mami, call our friends in Asunaro, call Kirika, get everyone working on defenses. Again, we have friends who are better at this than we are.
[x] When you get back:
-[x] Brainmail Umika, Kirika, and Mami. Tokyo is apparently run by a mindfuckguca and you would appreciate defenses. Any tips or ideas for equipment?
All politics is local, they say. Let me assert that the problem is solvable with some substitutions. I would not quickly dismiss your political ability, let's do what is possible.I'm no good at politics, and I suspect that the rest of the thread is similarly out of its depth, but we know for sure that some of our friends can handle this -
-[X] Try to come up with a good way to include Madoka and Hitomi in the political analysis. Audio recordings, a phone running in a pocket, verbal debriefings, something else? You don't want to bother them at class or put too much stress on them or Homura, and there isn't a chance in heck that you can take either of them to Tokyo in person.
Less hilarious, but consider also: She's also Sabrina's mother, and Sabrina was born from her failure.So it's probable somebody has already made this observation before, but it suddenly hit me, and it needs to be said.
If Sabrina is representative of Sufficient Velocity, does that make Homura SB?
- She received magical girl powers, and logically decided to fight her enemies instead with her stolen supply of illegal but otherwise completely mundane military ordinance. Because guns.
- Hyper-competent in a few skillsets
- She latched onto and became obsessed with one girl in particular, and would go to any lengths to protect her.
- She has good intentions, but also has a history of going way too far in pursuit of her goals because "restraint" isn't in her vocabulary.
- She's absolutely cannot into social.
- She struggles to resist the sunk cost fallacy.
- Again, not a bad person, but she's probably going to break the planet at some point.
We'll need to convince Homura that involving Madoka in this wouldn't be irresponsible of us considering her safety.We're totally hosed if we try to handle this ourselves; politics would already be painful, and throwing in mind magic puts the situation well past us. Sabrina's weapon is a hammer for a reason. We need to get our friends involved, and Sayaka telling us that Hitomi and Madoka are terrifying politicians is exactly the kind of stroke of luck that Madokami would hand us for this kind of thing.
Didn't we have a talk earlier about giving Madoka a means to help without contracting?We'll need to convince Homura that involving Madoka in this wouldn't be irresponsible of us considering her safety.
Yep. I think that we reuse the arguments we had about helping Madoka feel like she's doing something. Additionally, I think that it might be enough to get Madoka and Hitomi good recordings and let them pore over them to produce analyses, and getting recordings is already something we need to do if there are mindfuckgucas in play.We'll need to convince Homura that involving Madoka in this wouldn't be irresponsible of us considering her safety.
Yes, we did, but the reasoning we gave was something that shielded her from interacting with outside magical girls. Introducing Madoka to unknown magical girls is going to cause Homura problems.Didn't we have a talk earlier about giving Madoka a means to help without contracting?
Yeah, we don't want to bring Madoka of all people into an improperly analyzed environment, and not just because Homura might kneecap us for suggesting it.Yep. I think that we reuse the arguments we had about helping Madoka feel like she's doing something. Additionally, I think that it might be enough to get Madoka and Hitomi good recordings and let them pore over them to produce analyses, and getting recordings is already something we need to do if there are mindfuckgucas in play.
Yeah. The closest Madoka gets to this situation is sixty miles away, listening through a phone in our pocket and feeding us inferences by telepathy. And we might not even need that.Yeah, we don't want to bring Madoka of all people into an improperly analyzed environment, and not just because Homura might kneecap us for suggesting it.
I think we're going to get a lot of unwanted questions from our friends not in the know if we tried to set it up that way.Yeah. The closest Madoka gets to this situation is sixty miles away, listening through a phone in our pocket and feeding us inferences by telepathy. And we might not even need that.
I'm not sure what you mean by that. Might just be because I haven't been paying attention for a while and have forgotten something, but which friends are those?I think we're going to get a lot of unwanted questions from our friends not in the know if we tried to set it up that way.
Ah. Was thinking it would be weird to say Madoka has to stay home but Hitomi can come? And me thinking something like that comes off strange. Granted I'm kinda half asleep right now.I'm not sure what you mean by that. Might just be because I haven't been paying attention for a while and have forgotten something, but which friends are those?
Oh. Yeah, I was thinking that Hitomi has no more business being "on the ground" than Madoka does and they'd both be better placed on the other end of a phone line doing analysis. If for no other reason than it'd give us two people spotting for memory stuff and able to go back and forth about their analysis in a lower-stress environment where they're able to talk freely and think out loud, which is good for that kind of thing.Ah. Was thinking it would be weird to say Madoka has to stay home but Hitomi can come? And me thinking something like that come off strange. Granted I'm kinda half asleep right now.