Why not just directly focus on the thoughts and emotions we want to communicate when we pour magic into Aurora's grief seed, with the intent to communicate?

Hm. How about this, then?

[X] After waking up...
-[X] Do normal morning things.
-[Q] Listen to Durga, Anna!
--[X] Chat with Mami. Don't bring up srsbsns yourself, let her do it if she wants.
--[X] See if you can multitask while enchanting grief. If it's awkward, instead stockpile enchanted grief during SCIENCE.

[X] Before leaving...
-[X] Ask Mami if she'd stick with Homura for a while after school. You'll see her at the gate, but you need to go to Kasamino with Sayaka...

[X] Walk to school with your friends.
-[X] Have fun chatting. Fill everyone else in on your schedule, and invite them shopping on Saturday morning.

[X] Contact Yuki to confirm your meeting. Ask if it'd be possible to meet with the other Fukushima groups afterwards.
-[X] Contact the Shiogama refugees and ask if you could meet this afternoon.

[X] SCIENCE!
-[X] Set a timer.
--[X] Analyze your grief: is it homogenous, or are there "impressions" of who or when it's from?
-[X] Feed Aurora hope. Try to convey that you want to help her directly, with your emotions.
--[X] See if she reacts to specific hopes/thoughts in particular. Give her more of anything she seems to prefer.
---[X] Check if group discussions/IRC chats in particular resonate with her.
 
[X] Redshirt Army

I wonder if we'll have time to enact project chibi sweat shop. Or is that not something we actually want to do?
Nah, scrub the sweatshop, if chibis can enchant grief, so can robot arms. We are kicking the chibis out and replacing them with a Fully Automated Luxury Gay 4-Space enchanted-grief factory.

And we'll run it for the benefit of our Community.
 
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Feeling conflicted about Sabrina maybe having been created in part specifically to do that?
We'll just have to keep paying attention for context. Among other things, she might realize the potential vulnerability that comes with full connection. Love is scary. Our relationship is also moving at a dramatic pace. It's hard to keep up with that?

Patch the missing elements, for great justice.
Consider the outcomes, take the risk. Consistent action is a viable plan, for someone with radical thinking. We really can't afford the blowback of ignoring a person that we know will fail if we don't see their thinking improve. This is the case with Kana Hijiri. If we don't know a roadmap to the future, walk there a little every day.

[X] After waking up...
-[X] Do normal morning things.
--[X] Headsup our audience during the Radio Mitakihara, then add Hijiri in gently. Affirm if possible. If she doesn't answer, or is negative, no need to propagate that mood.
--[X] Chat with Mami. Don't bring up srsbsns yourself, let her do it if she wants.
--[X] See if you can multitask while enchanting grief. If it's awkward, instead stockpile enchanted grief during SCIENCE.

[X] Before leaving...
-[X] Ask Mami if she'd stick with Homura for a while after school. You'll see her at the gate, but you need to go to Kasamino with Sayaka...

[X] Walk to school with your friends.
-[X] Have fun chatting. Fill everyone else in on your schedule, and invite them shopping on Saturday morning.

[X] Contact Yuki to confirm your meeting. Ask if it'd be possible to meet with the other Fukushima groups afterwards.
-[X] Contact the Shiogama refugees and ask if you could meet this afternoon.

[X] SCIENCE!
-[X] Set a timer.
--[X] Analyze your grief: is it homogeneous, or are there "impressions" of who or when it's from?
-[X] Feed Aurora hope. Try to convey that you want to help her directly.
--[X] Represent your intent as various senses, and abstract emotions.
--[X] See if she reacts to specific hopes/thoughts in particular. Give her more of anything she seems to prefer.
---[X] Check if group discussions/IRC chats in particular resonate with her.

Are we warning everyone about Soujos after speaking with Yuki?
Added the sensory modality line to try out basic meditation / transaction concepts. Some communication is more visceral when it is presented to a particular person using the sense they prefer. Sound, either language, music or environment. Vision, abstract, realistic, still or moving. Proprioceptive, balance and contact feedback. Smell. Taste. This is the jacked-up nervous system emulation of a human we are talking to, we just need to mind the differences.
 
Our relationship is also moving at a dramatic pace.

This... this is an Understatement. It's only been 17 days since we met Mami back in that Alleyway. It's only been this morning in Sabrina-time that Sabrina realized their relationship has upgraded to full-out romance... this was back on November 18, 2018 our-time. Within those 17 Days, Mami and Sabrina have gone from being close and trusted friends with each other to being head over heels (With Sabrina making the more overt moves cause hivemind politics demands the snuggles)... this is on top of her finding out we were literally born from a wish to make her life happier (along with the rest of the Mitakihara Girls and Magical Girls in General)... making us a literal magical dream girl. So Mami feeling more than a little overwhelmed how quickly (from her time perspective) the relationship shifted and changed on top of everything else revealed (including her stated and implied deaths over countless timelines in Homura's attempts to save everyone especially Madoka) is more than a little understandable.
 
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This... this is an Understatement. It's only been 17 days since we met Mami back in that Alleyway. It's only been this morning in Sabrina-time that Sabrina realized their relationship has upgraded to full-out romance... this was back on November 18, 2018 our-time. Within those 17 Days, Mami and Sabrina have gone from being close and trusted friends with each other to being head over heels (With Sabrina making the more overt moves cause hivemind politics demands the snuggles)... this is on top of her finding out we were literally born from a wish to make her life happier (along with the rest of the Mitakihara Girls and Magical Girls in General)... making us a literal magical dream girl. So Mami feeling more than a little overwhelmed how quickly (from her time perspective) the relationship shifted and changed on top of everything else revealed (including her stated and implied deaths over countless timelines in Homura's attempts to save everyone especially Madoka) is more than a little understandable.

Look, I can't understand all this fearmongering over Sabrina's relationship with Mami progressing too fast. As a PMAS quester, I can easily attest that we've been dating Mami for years, and we still haven't even kissed. :V
 
Look, I can't understand all this fearmongering over Sabrina's relationship with Mami progressing too fast. As a PMAS quester, I can easily attest that we've been dating Mami for years, and we still haven't even kissed. :V

More probably because @Firnagzen makes for an effective Sword of Damocles to prevent such shenanigans (for evidence, need I point out Firn's post a few pages ago?) rather than any effective restraint on our part... without him I think this Quest woulda descended into some very... "interesting"... directions... rather rapidly. But I digress.

I wasn't outright suggesting we were moving too fast in our relationship with Mami... I was suggesting that we might be moving a touch too intense for her. What I mean is on top of us being... well.. ourselves and not your usual Japanese high-school student when it comes to giving and displaying our affection towards her (along with the gradual increase of intensity of said affection due to the disconnect in time dilation between ourselves in our-time versus Sabrina and in-game time)... Mami is juggling with how her perception of the Magical Girl World is crumbling day-by-day with each revelation about what the little Rat has really been up too along with every other crisis we end up dealing with and steamrolling everyone around us to dance to our tune (even when we don't mean too).

Anyway, apologies if I came across as scaremongering, I was more going for caution and keeping an eye on Mami's reactions more closely so we don't accidentally smother her and steamroll her (as is the habit) when we're trying to prop her up... along with a friendly reminder of what Mami's perspective of the whole thing is like since while for us its been years since the Quest began... for Mami its been a couple of whirlwind weeks... with Walpurgisnacht right on her doorstep!

Okay, and maybe a little snark at the habits of some of the votes around here ;)... at least I'm honest? :V

GUYS QUICK MORE VOTES SO I CAN BOTHER FIRN

[X] Herocycle

Have a vote on your quest to bug Firn.
 
Okay this is torture.

The latest round of head-jiggering has left me with -- not even a song, just, like, a couple lines of whatever stuck in my head twenty. Four. Fucking. Seven.

I'm reading fics to the tune of Stanley steamer right now. I wish it would go die. I wish that company had never been born.
 
Yes, she does. This has been alluded to like multiple times in the updates where he catches herself going "Oh yeah, that literally only happened this morning."
 
Look, I can't understand all this fearmongering over Sabrina's relationship with Mami progressing too fast. As a PMAS quester, I can easily attest that we've been dating Mami for years, and we still haven't even kissed. :V
What do you mean we questers haven't kissed? Doesn't this count?
Okay this is torture.

The latest round of head-jiggering has left me with -- not even a song, just, like, a couple lines of whatever stuck in my head twenty. Four. Fucking. Seven.

I'm reading fics to the tune of Stanley steamer right now. I wish it would go die. I wish that company had never been born.
Oooof. I don't suppose listening to actual music drowns it out or switches tracks?
Wait. Huh. Does

Does Sabrina experience the same time dilation that we do????????????????
Well, she makes jokes in that direction at least.

And I won't lie: In the anime adaptation I have in my head, she'd make references to time passing between episodes, seasons, and cuts to commercial.
 
In case it wasn't totaly clear, I'm not really much like Kahn. In fact, let's go with that...
Okay this is torture.

The latest round of head-jiggering has left me with -- not even a song, just, like, a couple lines of whatever stuck in my head twenty. Four. Fucking. Seven.

I'm reading fics to the tune of Stanley steamer right now. I wish it would go die. I wish that company had never been born.

The recommended distraction was "God Save the Queen," IIRC. "Scotland the Brave," however should have merit.

Yes, she does. This has been alluded to like multiple times in the updates where he catches herself going "Oh yeah, that literally only happened this morning."
Sabrina has it easy, because it isn't ever going to contribute to isolation, and sometimes it's actually a useful quirk. Merlin in one setting lived his life backwards.
 
[x] Redshirt Army

I for one am excited to see how Firn's gonna pull off that image going through Sabrina's head.
 
[x] Redshirt Army

I for one am excited to see how Firn's gonna pull off that image going through Sabrina's head.
You refer to the inclusion of Hindi chanting during the morning greeting? Sorry, it just doesn't make a confluent engram IMHO. There are multiple reasons.
If you mean advertising jingles, religious content is tame by comparison, NP. We might feel like lifting all the dust mites out of the flooring as a result...
 
I was more referring to the literal image of quester hijinks, but I guess random chanting will also be interesting.
 
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