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Well this is our cue to actually do our own dirty work here, it seems like we've got some very specific progress we can make here, but we have to ask the questions.

That said, asking questions is boring.

[J] Kick the captain. Dealer's choice where.
 
[Q] Speak to the Captain Guca
-[Q] Look. Look at me. I'm the captain now.
-[Q] You wanna know how I got these scars?
"What scars?"
"Emotional scars, okay."
-[Q] I'm going to meme at you until you spill. I don't need to sleep, I don't need to eat, I have the whole fucking Internet between my ears, I can do this months at a time. Months.
 
[X] Just stick with what's been gathered so far.
I think the Iowa girls need time to actually process that yes, they lost and are in lockup. I don't see any of them being willing to talk just yet.
-[X] Vote in abeyance.
 
Raiseth said:
[Q] Speak to the Captain Guca
-[Q] Look. Look at me. I'm the captain now.
-[Q] You wanna know how I got these scars?
"What scars?"
"Emotional scars, okay."
-[Q] I'm going to meme at you until you spill. I don't need to sleep, I don't need to eat, I have the whole fucking Internet between my ears, I can do this months at a time. Months.
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-[JK] Telepathically sing the song that never ends at her for the next nine hours to prove your point.
 
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... and Sayaka, who is very busily wrecking her room with lightning and writhing overgrowth and the crimson sheen of Nadia's power and goodness knows what else, a veritable storm of power surging around her and setting her hair and cape both adrift.
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This had me go 'dafuq' for a moment. Okay so I'm guessing the room is thoroughly soundproofed otherwise all those fireworks would've made conversation difficult. Now the important questions are: Can Sabrina see Sayaka's expression, and was the latter madly cackling and yelling UNLIMITED POWER
 
Alright... this is the last window for a while if we want to try to crack Iowa on anything. So what do we actually want/need to know about them at this point?

Names, histories and past movements are all unnecessary in the immediate sense.

Yes, actually, there is something I want to know. What is the point of the hostage taking? Now we've beat them down and talked to the Mandalay girls, we know there's nobody else left in the city who Iowa could be using them to manipulate, which was actually my working theory on what they were doing. Especially given they had three of them hostage and they were clearly planning on moving on. Were they just going to kill them and have done with it, if so why hadn't they done that already? If they were planning on witching them out for seeds, why keep them on the ship, where it could happen while they're asleep? I want to know why. Bridge crew won't talk to us yet, so we need to take our pick of the rest of them, see who looks most uncomfortable. Something about this does not add up.
 
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Honestly, the interaction with Kyouko was... interesting. I'm absolutely trash at trying to understand the motives of people in doing and saying what they say, so I'm not going to attempt it.

I would like to try and understand more things about the group, so I am willing to try and get more info out of them. However, I won't be surprised if nothing truly substantial comes of it. We can barely get things out of the people who don't wish we were a smear on the pavement.
EDIT: Idea:
[X] Interrogate the antimagic girl
Unlike the others, we had no direct involvement with her capture, so she may be more willing to talk to us. Plus, If I recall, she was arguing with captain dipshit before we began the assault, so there may be enough conflict between them for us to get at her.
 
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Time to ask the usual questions of name, statistical data, and does anyone here know how to do a proper interrogation
 
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"One of them said 'I have the right to remain silent'," she notes, indicating one of the cells, and you squint. The one you've been calling knock-off Power Girl. "Her."

"OK, so I've got comments on that,
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"So you're trying to plead the fifth."
"..."
"You realize you was apprehended in Myanmar airspace, aiding and abetting in kidnapping and extoriton - which since it involved a ship could probably technically be called Piracy in most courts for the lack of a better precedent - by a band of roving Japanese magical girls, and am being held in an undisclosed location which may be considered extraterritorial to Japan or any other country on account of its nature."
"..."
"I mean, I'm perfectly fine in letting you be silent - people tell me I like hearing myself talk - but it's not your 'right', and it's not like it'd be doing you any favors, what with being caught redhanded, the meguca DA has a fairly solid case to bring to meguca court, so you're looking at a fairly long time in the meguca slammer, unless you're willing to cut a deal..."
 
[] Shipguca
-[] Name, rank, and serial number?
[] Power Girl
-[] If she's gonna do the whole Miranda routine, does she know where you can find a magical girl lawyer to appoint her?
-[] How about her one phone call?
-[] Does she want her prison outfit modern monochrome jumpsuit or classic black and white stripes?
 
Firnagzen said:
"Do you want to speak to any of the prisoners?" Yuki asks, turning to you once more. "I've... spoken to them, but they weren't very talkative. They might respond better to you."

[] Speak to one of them
- [] Write-in who and how
[] Just stick with what's been gathered so far
[x] Vote in abeyance
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Okay, this is a problem, because deciding who to talk to and even if we need to talk to them more is dependent on what information we already have.

This is just the wrong place to put a decision tree. What we need is this:

[X] What information do we already have? That information will let us decide if and who we need to question further.

I mean, right now I'd lean towards talking to Power Girl, but that's only because we know she's claiming the right to remain silent and so that gives us a starting place on how to question her. Either we could mock her, or we could threaten her (I mean, piracy is technically still legally punishable by summary execution. Sure it hasn't been used in almost a century, but there is a reason it used to be done like that all the time). Procedural demands do not actually do her any favor, by the book we can just kill her.

But I don't know if that's the best way to spend our time, I'm only thinking about it because it's the only girl we got any information on the previous interrogation. We need more information before we can answer the question in the vote.
 
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Angrygenius said:
Honestly, the interaction with Kyouko was... interesting. I'm absolutely trash at trying to understand the motives of people in doing and saying what they say, so I'm not going to attempt it.

I would like to try and understand more things about the group, so I am willing to try and get more info out of them. However, I won't be surprised if nothing truly substantial comes of it. We can barely get things out of the people who don't wish we were a smear on the pavement.
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[X] Interrogate the antimagic girl
Unlike the others, we had no direct involvement with her capture, so she may be more willing to talk to us. Plus, If I recall, she was arguing with captain dipshit before we began the assault, so there may be enough conflict between them for us to get at her.
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Considering how Kyouko acts with Sayaka in canon, Kyouko saying what she does strongly implies that she's liking us more than she cares to admit, and is trying to make herself 'useful' by being our voice of cynical reason so we don't self-destruct like her fucking dad.
 
Recurrence said:
Alright... this is the last window for a while if we want to try to crack Iowa on anything. So what do we actually want/need to know about them at this point?

Names, histories and past movements are all unnecessary in the immediate sense.

Yes, actually, there is something I want to know. What is the point of the hostage taking? Now we've beat them down and talked to the Mandalay girls, we know there's nobody else left in the city who Iowa could be using them to manipulate, which was actually my working theory on what they were doing. Especially given they had three of them hostage and they were clearly planning on moving on. Were they just going to kill them and have done with it, if so why hadn't they done that already? If they were planning on witching them out for seeds, why keep them on the ship, where it could happen while they're asleep? I want to know why. Bridge crew won't talk to us yet, so we need to take our pick of the rest of them, see who looks most uncomfortable. Something about this does not add up.
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My impression was that they were there as hostages against each other? Two are sent out to hunt witches and bring back grief seeds for Iowa, the third stays as collateral?
Their immediate past movements are relevant insofar as they may have left survivors behind who are in need of aid. Last we heard of them before this they had been in Mandalay, for example.
 
We need to run with the Piracy angle.

Because that renders them hostis humani generis and therefore not subject to the rights, laws, or conventions of any nation on Earth save for those of their captors.

Yes we'll try to rehabilitate them, but they don't need to know that.
 
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AuraTwilight said:
Considering how Kyouko acts with Sayaka in canon, Kyouko saying what she does strongly implies that she's liking us more than she cares to admit, and is trying to make herself 'useful' by being our voice of cynical reason so we don't self-destruct like her fucking dad.
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I was kinda thinking that direction as well, but i thought it might have been because the conversation with Mika left her feeling some form of gratitude towards us and was trying to express it but failed because she's a high-tier tsundere.
 
Kyouko is totally tsundere for us, that's not even a question.

N-not like that, bakas.

What I mean is, she's ( very rudely ) trying to support us and suggest taking feelings of other people in consideration to ensure our martyr complex doesn't ruin our chances of helping people.

And I gotta say, if Kyouko wasn't, well, Kyouko, calling out Sabrina on this would qualify her to be out go-to Therapyguca

As it is, pat Kyouko on the head, watch for the teeth, and move on.
 
Golden Lark said:
We need to run with the Piracy angle.

Because that renders them hostis humani generis and therefore not subject to the rights, laws, or conventions of any nation on Earth save for those of their captors.

Yes we'll try to rehabilitate them, but they don't need to know that.
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Either that or prisoner of war or terrorist - since what we did can also be construed as an example of preemptive defense or a direct action strike against a hostile nonstate actor.
 
In terms of interrogations tactics, I propose we make use of Megane Ono. Five minutes with her and they'll be begging us to listen to them.
 
Golden Lark said:
We need to run with the Piracy angle.

Because that renders them hostis humani generis and therefore not subject to the rights, laws, or conventions of any nation on Earth save for those of their captors.

Yes we'll try to rehabilitate them, but they don't need to know that.
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Who would we be running that angle with? We're not an agent of any law on Earth.
 
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