So...

How does voting work with this quest? I've finished re-reading it (my third read of it in two years!) but I never actually voted.
Whichever plan gets the most votes is implemented. Generally, we start with a few people tossing out different plans to accomplish the thing we want to accomplish, then one of those plans will be adopted for further refinement over the course of the week, then a bunch of people vote for the end result of the refinement process while we wait for Firn to be unnecessarily apologetic about updating on Monday. Character interaction outside the plan is determined by an arcane mixture of Sabrina's established personality and the thread's discussion.

In this specific vote we're pretty aimless, so we're still kind of in the tossing out plans phase, though we seem to be going with The Phoenixian's vote out of desperation to move on to the refinement phase. If you see anything their vote could do better, toss it out and it'll be edited in or you can make a bid for Votemaster by making your own vote or cannibalizing theirs.
 
So...



How does voting work with this quest? I've finished re-reading it (my third read of it in two years!) but I never actually voted.
Actually, do you know how to use thread tally? Top of the page, under thread tools. You can use it to see popular vote plans, and the leading vote

If you see votes that are missing ideas, especially the leading vote, you can copy and edit in changes. Do make sure that those changes are visibly differentiated, either by bolding or changing text color.
 
[X] Prospect: You talked with Kyouko during Sayaka's training and... would Mami be up for talking with Kyouko tonight? In person

Ok so this

I... I wanna do it this way.

[] Ask if Mami is up for it Kyouko is willing to talk tonight, in person.
-[] Wait for response
--[] Hug
---[] You aren't usually this direct with your advice, but she should meet with Kyouko and approach the entire thing with complete honesty, emotionally as well as verbally. If it makes her want to cry, she should cry. If it makes her want to scream, she should scream.
----[] "If you fall, then I'll catch you."
-----[] And if Kyouko asks her if we told her how to act or something, she should just repeat every word.

Somebody check me on this idk if I'm doing anything dumb.
 
Ok so this

I... I wanna do it this way.

[] Ask if Mami is up for it Kyouko is willing to talk tonight, in person.
-[] Wait for response
--[] Hug
---[] You aren't usually this direct with your advice, but she should meet with Kyouko and approach the entire thing with complete honesty, emotionally as well as verbally. If it makes her want to cry, she should cry. If it makes her want to scream, she should scream.
----[] "If you fall, then I'll catch you."
-----[] And if Kyouko asks her if we told her how to act or something, she should just repeat every word.

Somebody check me on this idk if I'm doing anything dumb.

I like this. Seeing Mami and Kyoudere awkward at each other should be great fun, but Mami needs extra hugs to make it through.
 
Okay, can someone post this for me when SV comes back online?


Adjusting for Kaizuki vote and recent-thread rexamination...

[X] Warmly: You're glad you could help Sayaka find that place.
-[X] Sayaka taking time to think things over is wise. Pacing herself in the face of a long and difficult project is a good thing. Even if you often forget that yourself.
-[X] If things get hard to deal with, even if the reasons feel dumb or insignificant, we'll happily lend hand or a shoulder. Or insight from your weird surplus life-experience.
[X] Intercept coobie's post-witchbomb arrival and cocoon in grief for the evening.

[X] Invite Sayaka to dinner, but no pressure if she wants to mull things over in peace for the night.

[X] If Mami is up for it, Kyouko is willing to talk tonight, in person.
-[X] Wait for response
--[X] Hug
--[X] You think Mami should approach this with openness, honesty, and understanding. Emotionally as well as otherwise. Even as difficult and fraught as it can be, it's what brought your relationships with the people you care about. And you don't think the heart of the answer is different here.

--[X] "If you fall, then I'll catch you."
// Folded the talk on openness into the mix of incorporating Kaizuki's vote. Much as I'd like to talk to Homura and, hell, even Sayaka about it too, I guess they'll just have to listen in.

[X] Dinner
-[X] Take one off your to-do list: Experiment with magic cosplay and set the table as maid-brina. With hair extensions.

^^updated Yvonne vote by Yvonne posted by cat
 
Sabrina has a PHD then!

So she's like... a Mitakihara 8th grader

That's probably true and absolutely terrifying. Like, imagine that Mami will finish high school sometime in the future, attend a university, get herself a job... while Sabrina wouldn't even be able to become a janitor, because the job clearly requires the elementary understanding of the applied unified field theory.

So what, do we plan on leeching off Mami in the future? I think not.

The problem is, when do we have time to go to school and, are we actually smart enough to finish it?
 
"... and I'm not saying that it means something, but the you from the future was living together with Kyouko in the same apartment," Sabrina adds blithely. "I have it on good authority that your interactions were positively-"

"Okay, back up here," Sayaka says, clutching her head. "Me and... Kyouko? The same Kyouko who made it her life mission to beat ten shits out of me and get paid for it?"

"That's how she shows affection," Sabrina replies. "No, seriously Koko is so tsundere it's not even funny. One time, she offered to hook you up with Kyousuke-"

"What."

"-by beating him up."

"... that sound like Kyouko alright." Sayaka admits.

An uncomfortable silence ensues, interrupted only by Homura methodically thumping her head against the wall, somewhere in another room.

"So." Sabrina says.

"It doesn't mean I'm gay!" Sayaka bursts out. "Or even bisexual. Look, Sabrina," Sayaka tries for another time. "As far as I understand the, the metaphysics of Homura's time travel, that Sayaka isn't the same person as me. She could be into girls, or kami forbid, lasagna, I mean, I won't judge, too much, but it doesn't have to do anything with me. I'm my own person, and I say that I like Kyousuke. And boys," she adds. "But mostly Kyousuke."

"Pfft," Sabrina snorts out. "That's exactly the same thing that Sayaka number 59 told Homura that one time she's convinced her that she's a time traveler. Two minutes later, they were snogging."

"What!"

In the other room, the knocks against the wall suddenly intensify.

"Weird timeline," Sabrina explains, which doesn't explain anything at all, really. "Homura's complicated love life aside. Sayaka, there are some similarities between the timelines. That's how Homura navigates them, really. Mami is always Mami. Madoka always gonna Doka. Walpurgisnacht is coming at the end of the month. And Sayaka, a small chick ready to take wing and fly out in the big world, suddenly finds out she's not as exclusively attracted to the opposite gender as she thought," Sabrina gesticulates wildly, at one point flapping her hands like wings. "I mean, there's no conclusive statistical evidence, except oh wait, there is. One hundred thirty five Sayakas cannot be all mistaken."

"That's some weird ontological determinism you have going here, Sabrina, and I don't like it," Sayaka decides. "I'm going to pretend this whole talk never happened."

"Oh, for Madoka's sake!" Sabrina exclaims, exasperated. "I don't say all this to make you stop trying to win Kyousuke over! I'm just trying to say, if-" when "-you unexpectedly fail, you have other options! Some of which you didn't consider before, and it's alright, honestly, but continuing to deny it isn't he-"

"There's nothing wrong with liking girls, but I don't," Sayaka repeats a little forcefully, trying for patience and failing.

"Kyouko. In a wedding dress," Sabrina enunciates.

Right before her eyes, Sayaka goes beet red. She shifts her eyes, unable to meet Sabrina's impossibly smug grin.

In another room of Homura's apartment she so thoughtlessly offered for what was described to her as "a very private and very important talk about personal matters", the thumping goes on unabated.

N: I thought about what out eventual talk about Sayaka's romantic prospects could look like, and this is what I got.
 
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