OK, so... it looks like people are still kind of uncertain on the vote. Do you need more time to discuss it?

Also, just noting: No, Sabrina perceives time at a normal rate of one second per second, no jitteriness/stretching of perception.
 
First time chiming in here... I think that Jefardi & The_Phoenixian are on the right track in terms of approach (cautious, lots of scouting). I would like more information and exhaust all avenues of information-gathering, then do a reconnaissance via timestop if possible.

I'm particularly interested in if we can trace the connection from the timestop (perhaps Mami can sense the magical thread linking the storm to the source).

Even if this is not possible, we can still set up the attack and defense teams (and here I firmly believe that Homura & Sayaka should have final say in Kirika+Oriko) with an emphasis on not being too bossy and seeking cooperation. This concerns all meguca residents of Mitakihara and would allow us to be mindful of Sabrina's stated concern that she's dragging people along with her without their input.
Meanwhile, should timestop tracing not be possible, Sayaka and Mami can do their thing with the storm. At that point I think it's better to give us away (will act as a deterrent in itself - 'we see what you do and aren't without resources ourselves') and maybe force them to either back off or commit, depending on how long we have to reach them. Should they be close, shock and awe would be a viable tactic.

Anti-magic should be secret weapon. I would not like to involve the IRC folks, since that feels like too much to ask of random internet strangers.
 
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Vote update feat necromantic catgirl ritual. Ask Homu for the permission I guarantee she's going to give because methodology kinda demands it.

[X] Start running through messages rapidly:
-[X] To Homura: if she has a major objection to her magic getting revealed to our allies as part of dealing with Iowa you need to hear it now, because you -need- her for this and the social results of using her magic centrally to this operation while also trying to keep our allies in the dark about it would be spectacularly bad. While she's out of the city with you, you'll put Kyouko and a Sayaka clone on Madoka, and enlist whoever you can shake loose to help lock down Mitakihara.
//Homura trusts Kyouko. It will help.
-[X] To Mami: start now.
--[X] Sayaka, Kyouko, Yuma, Mika, Homura, Mami: Sayaka should get a clone with antimagic up here. Mami believes she can trace the effect. You'd like it destroyed as quickly as possible afterwards.
---[X] Homura: Timestop when the scrying effect is destroyed and have Sayaka help her hook up with us; we'll return to Madoka in timestop before making subsequent moves.
-[X] Oriko, Kirika: if they're willing to come for this fight, you're bringing them. And, well, Sayaka, Homura, and Mami are coming too. Fighting on the same side heals a lot of rifts.
//Full circle.
-[X] Kyouko, Sayaka, Mami, Yuma, Homura:
--[X] You're going to ask Kyouko, Yuma, and a Sayaka clone to handle protecting our friends while the rest of us grab our allies and go drop a couple clear seed's worth of magic on Iowa's face out of Homura's power.
//I've agonized over the wording here for too damn long. We can sort things out with her after this, now that we have Sayaka capable of backing us up on the necessity of all the cloak and dagger bullshit.
---[X] Sayaka should leave her clear seed with the clone. You're aware Kyouko has expressed disinterest in one, and you'd be leaving your team without one in Mitakihara otherwise.
-[X] The broad telepathy group we've been talking with:
--[X] Ask the Animators to coordinate with Kyouko and Sayaka to help safekeep Mitakihara. People have families here.
--[X] To everyone else: You're going to employ Homura's magic, which is going to change the operation completely. What this means is that you need a contact point from each group considering sending members to the fight to figure out where all the other members of their group are, and then give you a clear picture of where their contact point will be in about five to ten minutes. Homura has largely avoided disclosing the nature of her magic despite her long career and you've been working to honor that, so further details will be available at activation time.
[X] Text Momoe Shin: events you expected to be a week away have very suddenly turned into a right-now emergency that you're not able to just ignore. You've had to entrust Nagisa to Madoka, Hitomi, and Sayaka; they're responsible people and will make sure Nagisa makes it back to him on schedule if you can't make it back quickly enough.
[X] Break at timestop or at returning to Madoka's location via timestop.
//Next vote we're going to have to do a lot of talking with a lot of people, and we're going to want to take some supplementary actions to try to make timestop less creepy for passengers -- white noise generation might be a start, and honestly I could see us turning the MoF into a temporary multi-guca art project, for example.

E: oh what's the tally rn and wtf is going on lol, I just realized I needed to change this I'm not actually up to date

EE: Torgs actually totally right that composition should be decided as a group... It's another methodology issue. We'll end up with the same result but the path there is better. I'll make that change sometime tomorrow, I'm too dead atm, the Homura change only happened because it happened
 
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--[X] Sayaka, Kyouko, Yuma, Mika, Homura, Mami: Sayaka should get a clone with antimagic up here. Mami believes she can trace the effect. You'd like it destroyed as quickly as possible afterwards.
Don't destroy a resource before all of our allies have confirmed they've gotten all they can from it. Just have Homura timestop when Mami finishes her trace.
 
[X] Kaizuki

Good work @Kaizuki :cool2:

This version of the vote has all the parts I wanted from The Pheonixian's version of the vote, and has plenty of room for our friends to pick up the other thoughts in Sabrina's head! 😀

I am satisfied that any other investigation and scouting concerns will be addressed by the new vote discusaion that will begin with the timestopped meguca carpool / social war council. 😁
 
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I'm trying to make a vote that combines an initial attempt to get information from Pheonixian's vote but then uses Kaizuki's vote as a guideline for how to get moving when we switch over to acting.

It ends up a bloated monster of bloated meandering X___X
 
*grumbling*


Vote update feat necromantic catgirl ritual. Correctly being responsible about small children and their guardians is hard.

[X] Start running through messages rapidly:
-[X] To Homura: your immediate plan, pending the team's agreement, is to get a general location on Iowa, then stick Kyouko, Yuma, and a Sayaka clone on Madoka and have the rest of us grab our allies up into timestop and smash Iowa. If she wants to object to that she needs to do it now.
//Homura trusts Kyouko. It will help.
-[X] To Mami: start now.
--[X] Sayaka, Kyouko, Yuma, Mika, Homura, Mami: Sayaka should get a clone with antimagic and maybe Kazumi's power up here. Mami believes she can trace the effect, and pending the results of that you are probably going to want to destroy the scrying effect afterwards.
---[X] Homura: you'll call for her to initiate timestop in estimated 8-12 minutes. Once she's got it active she should have Sayaka help her hook up with us; we'll return to Madoka in timestop before making any subsequent moves.
-[X] Oriko, Kirika: if they're willing to come for this fight, you're bringing them. And, well, Sayaka, Homura, and Mami are coming too. Fighting on the same side heals a lot of rifts.
//Full circle.
-[X] The broad telepathy group we've been talking with: after some discussion you're going to employ Homura's magic, which is going to change the operation completely. What this means is that you need a contact point from each group considering sending members to the fight to figure out where all the other members of their group are, and then give you a clear picture of where their contact point will be in about ten minutes. Homura has largely avoided the nature of her magic getting out to anyone despite her long career and you've been working to honor that, so further details will be available at activation time.
[X] Telepathy Madoka, Hitomi, Sayaka, Homura: Madoka is your official unofficial fallback under the arrangements you made with Mr. Momoe. There isn't presently cause for alarm, but at this point you are concluding that you may not make it back to Nagisa in a timely manner. You'd like her to do two things: get in contact with her dad and get his guarantee that, all else failing, he'll pick both her and Nagisa up from the mall and let Nagisa stay at the Kaname residence until Mr. Momoe picks her up, and get in contact with Mr. Momoe, tell him that you've had a major problem come up, and set up plans with him to handle Nagisa.
-[X] Text Momoe Shin yourself, saying that you've had a major problem come up and have arranged for Madoka to make certain that Nagisa remains accompanied and gets back to him. If all else fails, Mr. Kaname will pick Nagisa up from the mall along with Madoka and Shin will be able to pick her up from the Kaname residence. Hitomi and Sayaka have also agreed to remain with Nagisa in your absence.
--[X] Include contact info for Madoka.

[X] If we discover the general location of Iowa as a result of the trace, immediately destroy the scrying effect and go to timestop, then break.
-[X] Otherwise, break when the trace completes and we know what Intel or capabilities we've gained from it.

*Falls over*
 
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My idea:

[X] Start working with the other girls locally and via telepathy to ensure everyone is on the same page.
-[X] Immediate goals are to trace Iowa with the storm and ensure the safety of our normal friends. Your idea is to have Kyouko,Yuma and a Sayaka clone with Madoka - the rest will help take down Iowa.
-[X] If any of the other girls has suggestions on how their powers might be better to defend the city or other tasking consider changing ttaskings.
[X] Have Mami manage the girls investigating the storm and using her magic to trace the storm - your worried trying to trace the connection might tip them off though, so allow some time to look into storm before attempting, knowledge might be power but you trust Mami.
-[X] Sayaka should get a clone with antimagic and maybe Kazumi's power up here.
[X] Tell the rest of the girls the plan is to see what you can figure out about the storm, and Iowa. But Everyone that's coming needs to be ready to move on Iowa immediately though - You would rather fight them outside our city.
-[X] See if anyone can research news in India, and reach out to our IRC groups. Though for the IRC groups you might have to do that personally.
-[X] Solicit any ideas on how to fool the storm... telekinetic and illusions maybe?
[X] If you have a trace but its tenuous or causes a reaction from Iowa you need to move immediately, the girls should understand your concerns and plan so if anyone sees something suspicious they can bring it up.
-[X] Talk to Homura, timestop is going to be useful in this situation as it gives us more time to act. But using it in this situation might require bringing more allies into timestop. You know showing her power to people is hard so talk to Homura, work with her on how to use her powers.
-[X] Talk to Oriko and Kirika, they should come when we move on Iowa, Oriko's scrying skills might help narrow down Iowa's location if we have to use limited information and Kirika's anti-magic is always useful.
-[X] Ensure Nagisa is supervised, safe and gets back to her uncle either on time or in a timely matter if needed contact him and explain a family emergency has come up and Madoka is watching her.
[X] We have an incredible ability to multi-task. We should act as a command node for the girls - we can hold conversations and get ideas from everyone. We can get reports about the weather over Sendai even as we talk in IRC and talk to Madoka - use this skill.
[X] Once Trace is complete break to a vote to evaluate any and all new intelligence or changes in situation.
 
I'm still onboard with Kaizuki's plan, though I think we should relay Kazumi's suggestion that Sayaka copy the storm using her copy of Kazumi's powers. It's not hugely relevant since she can copy the full powerset from the girl when we hit Iowa, but I'd really like to have her with that ability on hand for Walpurgisnacht.
 
I'm still onboard with Kaizuki's plan, though I think we should relay Kazumi's suggestion that Sayaka copy the storm using her copy of Kazumi's powers. It's not hugely relevant since she can copy the full powerset from the girl when we hit Iowa, but I'd really like to have her with that ability on hand for Walpurgisnacht.

All else aside, Sayaka copying the technique will give us data on its limitations, which is critical info.
 
[Jk] Convince Madoka to wish to be goddess of storms, mistress of rain, queen of gales.
 
So, chances are poor that I'll be updating tonight and even tomorrow. Apologies for that - I've been really scattered this weekend. (Too many things to do, plus being somewhat unfocused.)

I should be updating by Tuesday, but definitely before Thursday, and updating again the following Saturday (that's the 27th) after which it'll be back to normal.

That said, the vote remains open, if there are any changes to be made. I've started writing, but there's enough time that I can change what I've written!
 
So I wanted to draw a word cloud for PMAS - but that didn't pan out. Still here are some numbers that might be interesting.

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Threadmarks are not as interesting because Unforeseen Consequences dominate the chart.

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22 people wrote more that a million characters for PMAS.
 
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I'm still onboard with Kaizuki's plan, though I think we should relay Kazumi's suggestion that Sayaka copy the storm using her copy of Kazumi's powers. It's not hugely relevant since she can copy the full powerset from the girl when we hit Iowa, but I'd really like to have her with that ability on hand for Walpurgisnacht.

Sayaka should get a clone with antimagic and maybe Kazumi's power up here

It's buried in the latest vote update, although I've no idea why we would care about having that ability for WPN.


*Snorts*

Of course I'm seventh by post count and fourth by characters. Lmfao.

So, chances are poor that I'll be updating tonight and even tomorrow. Apologies for that - I've been really scattered this weekend. (Too many things to do, plus being somewhat unfocused.)

I should be updating by Tuesday, but definitely before Thursday, and updating again the following Saturday (that's the 27th) after which it'll be back to normal.

That said, the vote remains open, if there are any changes to be made. I've started writing, but there's enough time that I can change what I've written!

Get gud rest firn, we love you.
 
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*grumbling*


Vote update feat necromantic catgirl ritual. Correctly being responsible about small children and their guardians is hard.

[X] Start running through messages rapidly:
-[X] To Homura: your immediate plan, pending the team's agreement, is to get a general location on Iowa, then stick Kyouko, Yuma, and a Sayaka clone on Madoka and have the rest of us grab our allies up into timestop and smash Iowa. If she wants to object to that she needs to do it now.
//Homura trusts Kyouko. It will help.
-[X] To Mami: start now.
--[X] Sayaka, Kyouko, Yuma, Mika, Homura, Mami: Sayaka should get a clone with antimagic and maybe Kazumi's power up here. Mami believes she can trace the effect, and pending the results of that you are probably going to want to destroy the scrying effect afterwards.
---[X] Homura: you'll call for her to initiate timestop in estimated 8-12 minutes. Once she's got it active she should have Sayaka help her hook up with us; we'll return to Madoka in timestop before making any subsequent moves.
-[X] Oriko, Kirika: if they're willing to come for this fight, you're bringing them. And, well, Sayaka, Homura, and Mami are coming too. Fighting on the same side heals a lot of rifts.
//Full circle.
-[X] The broad telepathy group we've been talking with: after some discussion you're going to employ Homura's magic, which is going to change the operation completely. What this means is that you need a contact point from each group considering sending members to the fight to figure out where all the other members of their group are, and then give you a clear picture of where their contact point will be in about ten minutes. Homura has largely avoided the nature of her magic getting out to anyone despite her long career and you've been working to honor that, so further details will be available at activation time.
[X] Telepathy Madoka, Hitomi, Sayaka, Homura: Madoka is your official unofficial fallback under the arrangements you made with Mr. Momoe. There isn't presently cause for alarm, but at this point you are concluding that you may not make it back to Nagisa in a timely manner. You'd like her to do two things: get in contact with her dad and get his guarantee that, all else failing, he'll pick both her and Nagisa up from the mall and let Nagisa stay at the Kaname residence until Mr. Momoe picks her up, and get in contact with Mr. Momoe, tell him that you've had an emergency come up, and set up plans with him to handle Nagisa.
-[X] Text Momoe Shin yourself, saying that you've had an emergency come up and have arranged for Madoka to make certain that Nagisa remains accompanied and gets back to him. If all else fails, Mr. Kaname will pick Nagisa up from the mall along with Madoka and Shin will be able to pick her up from the Kaname residence. Hitomi and Sayaka have also agreed to remain with Nagisa in your absence.
--[X] Include contact info for Madoka.

[X] If we discover the general location of Iowa as a result of the trace, immediately destroy the scrying effect and go to timestop, then break.
-[X] Otherwise, break when the trace completes and we know what Intel or capabilities we've gained from it.

*Falls over*

I think this is overall a good plan, but may I suggest that we 1) Quickly investigate if Mami can trace passively via timestop? Just so we don't give ourselves away unnecessarily. 2) Wait with contacting Shin until we know more. Let's not burn his goodwill if we don't have to - remember that he's trusting his niece to almost-but-not-quite-strangers already.
 
2) Wait with contacting Shin until we know more. Let's not burn his goodwill if we don't have to - remember that he's trusting his niece to almost-but-not-quite-strangers already.
Maybe schedule the message to be sent in half an hour or an hour?

Assuming we can even do that, what with being up in the clouds and all. We might have to leave our phone somewhere on the ground before heading off, since cell phones don't like sending messages from this high.
 
It's buried in the latest vote update, although I've no idea why we would care about having that ability for WPN.
Thanks. Somehow I missed that and only noticed the antimagic half of that line.

As for why having it would be useful for WPN, I thought it would be handy for the familiars. There are a lot of them zipping around the sky. If Sayaka can monitor all their positions at the same time and dispatch clones accordingly, she could keep the familiars off the rest of our team and let us focus on the main witch.
Assuming we can even do that, what with being up in the clouds and all. We might have to leave our phone somewhere on the ground before heading off, since cell phones don't like sending messages from this high.
Of course, that's assuming our world's technology. You really expect me to believe no girl ever wished for better reception?
 
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