I'm of the opinion that fighting or negotiating with the Incubators is about as useful as commanding your legions to make war on Neptune by going down to the beach and stabbing their swords at the surf. Or, to be more blunt, they're part of the fundamental backdrop of the setting, rather than an agent we can meaningfully manipulate or harm. Since the scope of the quest is fundamentally about the individual struggles, rather than grand cosmic battles against platonic ideals. Because again:
The "Hard Girl Making Hard Choices" thing would be to ignore all the 'little people' and aim for the grandest scope of effect possible. And entirely missing the point of the quest.
Godwinson, I'm not talking about some grand strategy to reformat the universe here. Just whether we can stop Kyuubey from going to certain means instead of contracting Madoka above all other costs.
And I'll note that we have never really looked into whether Kyuubey is as subtly changed by the wish that everything could be fixed as everything else seems to be. We haven't ever asked what other purpose he might have had that the wish-to-live omake alluded to, that made him say "we lost" even as the incubators had definitively won the fight against entropy.
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Okay, I don't trust myself right now. I remember far too keenly last time we had the Oriko discussion come up in the midst of an enchantment session and I still have the mental scars.
They're a very large part of why I've been acting the way I have, even.
But I don't trust myself and certainly not with so little spare wordcount, So I'm just going to take this potential mess... and...
...Trust that we're not going to get through the afternoon in a single update, so we can put some actual dedicated
focus into it all when the time comes.
So I'm just going to cut that bit and, since it was raised, let's be grief-efficient.
Because if enchantment/trance time is coming up as a limiting cost to how much we can do? Then we should see if we can abuse a potential way we've found around it.
[X] In whatever order makes sense:
[x] Brainmail the Pleiades. Topics:
-[x] Current events. How are things? The situation in Tokyo.
-[x] Defenses against mind magic.
[X] Enchantment topics:
-[x] Suggestion for Sayaka: Copying enchantments, enchantments that copy other powers?
-[X] Generally focus on protective enchantments.
-[x] Try to make a tracking enchantment using the emotions you made your wings from.
-[X] Make emotion-enchanted grief and use it to make and share an enchantment booster for rapid prototyping.
--[X] Try to recycle the enchanted grief from the booster after you're done with it, by poking it out of the edge of your range and spinning it.
[X] Ask Hitomi about inviting Homura to the Shizukidinner.
[X] Sanitized summary of Tokyo for everyone
-[X] Light on details; you'll write the details up later so you don't mess up while extemporizing (and so you can run it past Homura first).
[X] Ask everyone besides Hitomi if they'll be staying for dinner.
-[X] Include copious leftovers for Homura.
[X] Leave the Oriko discussion for later, but before Hitomi needs to leave.
So it occurs to me that we've talked about Oriko and Kirika on IRC in the past, but we haven't asked if miss "hangs out in a tree awake all night" (because she sleeps in timestop) would be interested in such a thing so she can reach out while she's otherwise just being a bodyguard. Or miss "I have as many bodies as I want!" for that matter.
(Especially as Homura would have a better idea of what she's doing than we would.)
A la: [] Ask Homura (and Sayaka?) she'd like the meguca IRCs sometime if she'd like to it might help her recruit folks with her phone.
Can anyone see a reason we can't talk about the matter now?
