To properly invest myself into quest-participation, I've begun re-reading the story-only thead on my tablet (
there are far worse ways to spend time during lockdown), and during the first extended timestop (while hunting for Oriko and Kirika) I experienced a double-brainwave that jumped me out of bed to make this post.
Both relate to the issue of communications that are independant of Kyubey, which will be VITAL to our objectives of subverting/overthrowing the Incubators' systems of control.
The
first brainwave occured at Mami's apartment, when Sabrina noticed that electrical devices still functioned within timestop, even though there should be no flow of electrons through the mains power to operate them.
I've jokingly mentioned enchanting cellphones to infuse them with magic, and if past experience proves that magic can indeed power electrical devices, the current proposal to go purchase a smartphone after seeing Nagisa off sounds like an ideal oppurtunity to put this established phenomenon under the experimental microscope.* At the very least, enchanting a phone might give us infinite battery life - and depending on the constraints of magic, potentially give us a access to magical or magic-enhanced comms that do not rely upon phone networks or Kyubey as an intermediary. An enchanted cellphone that communicates at a magical level, and which thus has unlimited signal strength at all times and places, would be an invaluable tool.
The
second brainwave came from just observing Sabrina, Homura and Mami communicating at close range during timestop. Now, apologies if this has been suggested/disproved before, but I think this is an ABSOLUTELY vital experiment that should be carried out ASAP:
In short:
DOES TELEPATHY WORK DURING TIMESTOP?
If it does, then this might support the theory that telepathy is not inherantly dependant on Kyubey/the Incubators, and is instead an inherant Meguca ability that they've hijacked or piggybacked on in order to control/suppress the spread of information. And if we can establish whether or not Telepathy works without Kyubey's participation, then it infers there could be a way to take BACK control or encrypt our messages so that the little white bunnyrat can't censor or listen-in on us!
* If we're worried about possibly damaging our brand-new smartphone through magical experimentation, just purchase a second cheap model and explain it to the store staff as being a 'backup/emergency' phone in case we misplace our first one - it can be our experimental testbed.
Wait, so the incubator abolished all prisons on his own? AMAZING
What a Sensation of Recreation from this Invocation of Brain-damagification.
Damn, that was a typo that feels all too-IRL right now!
"We'll have a Dalmatian Plantation, a Dalmatian Plantation I say!"
