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[x] Mitakihara: Collect everybody.
-[x] Ask Kyouko if Yuma's coming, if not, leave her with Madoka and friends.

[x] Figure out a comfortable way to travel fast. (Griefhax inertial canceller?)
[x] Collect Fukushima, drop off Atsuko in Mitakihara, collect Asunaro.

[x] While travelling:
-[x] Do basic stuff to improve timestop comfort (privacy if needed, background music, etc). Take requests.
-[x] Gather/share basic info to help expedite then later planning sessions.
-[x] Enchant grief in the background.
-[x] Grab some materials (dirt, metal debris, etc.) for use as projectiles.
-[x] Clear a bunch of Grief Seeds for extra cleansing and extra Grief ammunition.


[x] Once everyone is gathered, do planning.
-[x] NARRATIVE: Planning can be elided over/described in broad strokes.

[X] Make sure everyone is aware of the abilities of everyone else in our allied group.
-[X] Figure out appropriate synergies and possible team-ups.

[X] Share all info known about Iowa and their threat level.
-[X] Establish rules of engagement. Avoid collateral to civilians, try to capture them alive if at all possible, make sure you stay alive.

[X] Gathering information will be critical.
-[X] Outline a plan for gathering info as we approach Myanmar.
-[X] Deliberate over a potential detour to Thiruvananthapuram to rescue/interview past victims.

Here's my refinement of all this, after taking a bunch of Tylenol and fighting through my headache. I've condensed @Kaizuki 's vote into half the wordcount, while incorporating a number of @The Phoenixian 's suggestions.
 
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I have like two issues with that. I mean, I have vaguely more issues than two but I have two that I actually GAF about right now.

First, a line justifying live capture to Mika is probably necessary imo.

Second... The specific stuff about Sayaka's plant/paper control is mandated if we're going to talk about that shit in this vote. She's not gonna come by that on her own; nobody is.
 
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[X] Redshirt army

Changed my vote. Looking back over the past weeks, I think the problem is trying to align and define the sheer amount of options we have at our disposal. The logistics of arranging the fighting force, particularly with the need for partial secrecy or obfuscation, seems challenging and leading to contention, sometimes on a more personal level. A broad, high-level vote like this, where we leave the details to Firn, is what I think we need at this point to meaningfully progress.
 
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[X] Redshirt Army
[X] Convey our gratitude if Yuma would be willing to guard Mitakihara.

Oh thank goodness, a streamlined summary.

I still think we should at least express that we would like if Yuma would help guard our friends and our city, even if we don't directly request it.
 
All aboard the "last day of voting give Firn a headache by bandwagoning a slightly different vote" express, famed for its awkward name and derailing with only mild provocation.

[X] Redshirt Army
 
Thought on the previous ... drama (for lack of a better term). People come to a story like PMAS for a wide variety of reasons, and they stick with a story as long as PMAS for several more...then you have the very special breed of people that try to vote and discuss those votes. (I'm saying we are all nuts but its cool)

Everyones social quirks, how they read people, how they express themselves, comes across differently over forums. Both in terms of how someone will write and how someone else will interrupt that. Communication being a two-way street and all. You also lose all sorts of extra things like tone of voice, non-verbal cues and the like.

And as the joke goes Sabrina is bad at social... for various reasons but including the fact that many of us (myself included) are not paragons of social skills. We are then trying to work out how to social in a text medium rather than the real world are brains are (normally) wired for.

What I'm getting with this is that people might come across in ways they don't intend to. Or maybe they do intend to come off in that tone but don't realize how badly it might be received.

@Kaizuki , @The Phoenixian you two are among the most active and involved posters here - you both tend to make large posts going over events and breaking stuff down for analysis. You both can get very involved in your votes and analysis, which is good - you up there with Redshirt in terms of people I think of for this thread.

PMAS is old enough that at this point its less a game or anything like that and more of a collaborative story thats being made. Key word here is collaborative. No one here is trying to choose a 'wrong' choice just to see what occurs. Hell no one is really on divergent blocs for general courses of action - its tactics and methods which are normally debated. Any differences are genuine differences of opinion rather than any insurmountable positions on differences of tone or something more fundamental to the quest.

Theres no need to be aggressive or catch peoples attention - the quest is like five years old - we are all just a little invested. Explain your position, explain why it does not work with the other guys position, suggest changes.

So as the words at the bottom of the thread say - Be Kind To Each Other.

Edit: Also its a quest, its here to entertain and engage - if you need to take a breather, take a breather the forum should be here the next day.
 
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I don't know when I'll be in a state to interact with Kai again, be it weeks or months or longer, so I guess I should say this here and now. I think the thing with the fight between me and Kai here is that it isn't fundamentally about differences of opinion, and that's something I think a lot of the calls to peace missed.

It's a relationship issue.

The PMAS community is deeply precious to me and, out of the entire community, Kai was the friend I'm closest to out of anyone. Without question. He's someone I've bared my soul to, seen his soul bared to me, and stood beside in conflicts within it. Even if it now feels like some of those conflicts were dumb things to do. I don't think I've ever expressed that to him in explicit words, but I probably should have, and I probably should still.

This whole... month? two? since the start of the Iowa conflict, has been a wound in that relationship. Throughout all of it, I feel like I've subconsciously chosen to focus on patching it up quickly, because I'm a fundamentally lonely person and friends are rare and dear to me, and that as a result I've just let things drive in deeper. In writing this, I'm probably still doing so, even if it might be wiser to wait.

Pinning down what exactly set me off so hard is a difficult thing to do, especially in the moment. I think maybe it was being spoken to as though by an authority figure, instead of by a friend. If so, that I wear a mask of calm practicality and almost never remove it probably didn't help that. I am not, fundamentally, a calm and practical person; I simply aspire to all the things that I am not.

Saying all this out in public instead of PMs may be a little weird but... fuck it. I'm not in any state to talk to him directly and it needs to be heard by him. Plus maybe this track will be useful to diagnosing future issues in the community at large too. (I say, unable to drop the mask)

I don't know how to finish so... yeah.
 
I cannot wait to see how Sabrina is emotionally next update because these past voting cycles have been... something.
 
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