The destruction of earth is a bad end no matter if we save other civilizations or not.
Er yes? There are degrees to failure.

Re: Coalition
I don't think we should be pushing to hard right now. We have already burned a lot of political power to get all off these people here.

Maybe go for Yuki bases everywhere, but nothing more than that.
 
I don't think we should be pushing to hard right now. We have already burned a lot of political power to get all off these people here.

Maybe go for Yuki bases everywhere, but nothing more than that.
The name is something we'd said we'd do, and it doesn't cost a lot really. Actually, trying to put Yuki bases everywhere sounds a lot more costly than making up a name.
 
Re: Coalition
I don't think we should be pushing to hard right now. We have already burned a lot of political power to get all off these people here.
That's not how political power works, outside the realm of discrete favors that we mostly haven't touched. Right now, coming off of a very successful group effort to do something that would've been problematic individually, is a great time to talk about tying ourselves closer to each other.
 
Hm, I think a quick check in on the prisoners then shifting focus to the coalition is probably the right move. Solidifying our position and making sure everyone's on the same page before the Tokyo meeting would be a big help and this is a pretty good time to do it.

And I am in favor of getting teleportation hubs set up. It's pretty obvious that we trust Yuki at our backs or we would not have entrusted prisoners to her.

[X] Kaizuki
 
It's quite possible that the Incubator does see us as at least somewhat useful. After all, we're keeping some, but not all, meguca from witching out in the short term. On the planetary scale, we're not affecting how much grief is collected just yet, but we are providing a small surplus through keeping grief-producing meguca alive. Also, if we can find a way to drain all the grief from a grief seed and restore it to a soul gem, that's effectively two witchouts for every meguca, which is a significant bump to The Incubator's harvest.
Eh .... I kinda doubt that. Meguca really don't produce all that much grief compared to Witchouts. Especially since long term, we're denying Madoka's wish. He weighs several thousand years worth of Meguca and chooses annihilating the Earth Now. We'd need to be able to have something several orders of magnitude more energy dense than a planet eating Witch, and be able to hold the mechanism from him, otherwise he'll copy it then push for Witching out Madoka anyways.
 
Can I get a quick activity check, I know we've talked around Sayaka making off like a bandit with Iowa's powers, but do we actually know if she's made copies yet? I can't remember reading anything that says she's done so yet.
 
Hold on, maybe I'm missing something here, but as Yukiportation is a direct manifestation of her Wish magic, as opposed to generalized, enchantable magic, is the teleportation hub thing even feasible without relegating the leader of Fukushima and one of our founding members to permanent magical taxi service status? That seems a bit presumptuous.

That said, I'm enormously in favor of attempting what could turn out to be the founding of the Great Meguca Nation, so I'ma stop my lurking and actually vote for once. The worst that could happen is probablt an amused chastisement for being overenthusiastic, so:

[X] Kaizuki
 
[X] Kaizuki

I may still not fully agree, but until and if I or someone else comes up with something that I do... well almost right is better than undecided.
 
Can I get a quick activity check, I know we've talked around Sayaka making off like a bandit with Iowa's powers, but do we actually know if she's made copies yet? I can't remember reading anything that says she's done so yet.
She's been with Iowa and Fukushima since the battle ended, and we have not. She's had plenty of time offscreen to copy their powers, but as she's offscreen we haven't seen her do it.
 
So many of us, including myself, suspect that we are Walpurgisnacht.

Has anyone ever brought up the idea that we are Kyuubey from a past timeline affected by a wish?

We have stalker level intel on anyone and their grandmother, have a tendency to disregard our emotions in favor of more goal oriented plans of actions, almost like we consider them a foreign or irrelevant, and really like socially manipulating things despite being kinda clumsy at it.

And we are kinda obsessed with grief.

Not saying it's likely, but my sleepdeprived mind had this thought and I thought I might wanna share it now that I'm more awake.
 
"Call me when you're ready to talk," at most. I know having a schedule is convenient for us, but this is not the time to sort one out.
That is a good point. Here's Kaizuki's vote with that edited in:

[X] Give the Mandalay girls their space. They're clearly overwhelmed.
-[X] Call me when you're ready to talk.

[X] Check in on the prisoners.
-[X] Find out what all their names and powers are, and Yuki's read on their personalities.
--[X] Mention that according to Nadia, one of them must be a sub-3 month experience new hire? Any indication on which one?
-[X] Ask Yuki what secure containment procedures she's planning on using.
--[X] If there are safety issues or Yuki plans something unacceptable (i.e. more than just gemming), break to voting.

[X] Take the Yuki express back to Fukushima with everyone, assuming it's safe.
-[X] Mika, Kazumi, Yuki, Shiogama, Mami, Kyouko, Homura, Sayaka (and anyone who cares is welcome to listen in)
--[X] So, just so everyone is on the same page, the current state of, eh, politics is that Mitakihara is official-official in defense pacts with Fukushima and Asunaro, guarantees the safety of everyone living in or around Mitakihara as a matter of course, is unofficially guaranteeing the safety of anyone possessing a clear seed, and is officially guaranteeing Mika Nakano in particular following everything she's done to help today. Functionally, you're already most of the way to a mutual defense coalition covering everyone here.
---[X] The thing is, you figure that ties between everyone here closer than the status quo could be incredibly valuable to all involved. Without Yuki it might not make too much sense. But the fact of the matter is that with Yuki's power, if everyone here is willing to extend the necessary trust to each other, this coalition -- which has just demonstrated a level of power head and shoulders above even Iowa Group -- could be minutes away from each other. And that changes so many things. It means that it would be a waste for things to be only about defending each other.
----[X] It would be extremely simple to establish free movement via Yuki's power between Mitakihara, Fukushima, Asunaro, and Mika's holdings in Ishinomaki, or any combination of those places or others -- which would be very nice by itself, but the real value of closer ties would be in the communication, cooperation, and exchange that trust and free movement would allow. Mami has demonstrated that someone without the specific ability can learn to do things like making clones -- not to mention style hair, access a hammerspace, etcetera. Mika is probably capable of giving other people flight through enchanting if she feels like it. If Akemi is up for it, luck manipulation seems like something people would really, really like to have applied to their personal obstacles. Asunaro possesses some extremely strong analytic powers. These are all things that could be exchanged for, shared freely, experimented with cooperatively, or even just there in case they're needed, instead of being beyond reach. And with infinite magic backing it all -- which, to be clear, you would back all of it, even beyond clear seeds, because it would no longer require you to spend lots of time flying intercity -- the potential is absurd. Things could be better.
-----[X] Listen to & interact with responses to this.
------[X] If naming comes up: Mahou Shoujo Kyoukai (see Redshirt's proposal earlier) is your proposal.
------[X] Don't break up with everyone before you end things -- we want to invite Mika to Tokyo with us, but not this vote.
 
*pops head in, while holding a sign that says "Please do not eat the fresh meat"*

So as a thread-lurker, I've been rereading PMAS for the nth time, and when I got to this arc, I noticed something... weird.
"Hey, Sabrina," Sayaka says, glancing at her clone. "Got any thoughts on the powers I should bring or leave behind?"

"Leave antimagic, definitely," you say. "And... one good defensive power, mmmmaybe one good offensive power?"

"Won't we need antimagic?" Sayaka asks.

"We're bringing Oriko and Kirika, so..." you shrug.

"Ugh, are we really?" Sayaka asks, grimacing and turning to Homura in wordless appeal.

"It's a tactically sound decision," Homura says tonelessly.

"Ugh," Sayaka grumbles, sorting through her power gems. "Right. Leaving antimagic behind, and uh... hrm. Plants? I think plants. Not more than that, I think... hope my clone holds up."
Sayaka left behind her antimagic power gem behind in Mitakihara, and yet...
"I gotta work with them?" Sayaka says, glaring at Kirika. "I mean, I've got Kure's antimagic, just send one of us."
Mirai's bears storm forward with growls rattling low in their throats, but too little, too late, as the nauseating grease of antimagic floods from Sayaka, smothering the battlefield.
Here Sayaka suddenly has antimagic.

So barring some discussion on this that my eyes glazed right over, I've come to three possible explanations for this anomaly.
  1. Sayaka can remotely access whatever powers her clones have, or at least remote swap powers with her clones.
  2. Sayaka grabbed a second antimagic power gem from Kirika while Sabrina wasn't looking.
  3. Firn made a mistake.
I'm going to keep wondering about this until I get an answer. :p

And before I forget,
[X] Nerevar
 
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