Wait, don't Megucas know that witches have names? She could have just been calling the Grief Seed by the witch that dropped it.

We can just say that we can read crazy witch runes and it wouldn't be too far off.
Oh yeah, there was talk about revealing the cipher early on in the thread.
 
I wonder if we get to write our own creepy shit inside of the barrier or it's an emergent property.
 
Wait, don't Megucas know that witches have names? She could have just been calling the Grief Seed by the witch that dropped it.
Maybe, but no one in universe can read the witch runes, so unless we explain to them how we know this information they are just going to think we are naming our grief seeds or something.
 
Maybe, but no one in universe can read the witch runes, so unless we explain to them how we know this information they are just going to think we are naming our grief seeds or something.

I wonder if we can teach someone how to Runes.

We can just say it's the language of MAGIC, and with us knowing about the puella magi system from the start, we also know how to read it.
 
Yes, I know. I mean, I'm trying to come up with an excuse that won't sound insane IC as to why we can read runes. I don't think telling Mami "We can read witch language because it's on Wikipedia" is gonna fly.

Post it on Wikipedia first?

Seriously, though, I don't think we need any reason other than "I don't know, I just can. I swear I'm probably not a witch."
 
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Also, honestly, we're not getting the names from the runes, we're getting them from telegriefpathic contact with the grief seeds. Why exactly don't we want to be honest about that? "Magic is weird. You make guns from ribbons. I don't have to explain shit."

That works.

Also, there was talk earlier of acting witchier around Kyouko when nobody else is around? Or were they talking about a different Sakura?

Not Kyouko. Sendai Teleporter Sakura. Sakura is her given name, I forget her surname.

We are annoyed with her and she thinks we are a witch, so it's a logical way to mess with her.
 
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Sendai Sakura.

Not bestgirl.

Well, yeah. It's obviously not Homura.

Also, honestly, we're not getting the names from the runes, we're getting them from telegriefpathic contact with the grief seeds. Why exactly don't we want to be honest about that? "Magic is weird. You make guns from ribbons. I don't have to explain shit."

Well, yeah, but we have a VERIFIABLE excuse if pushed for any reason and we don't want to reveal the griefpathic contact thing. The witch name shows up on the final door in their witch barriers.
 
Well, yeah. It's obviously not Homura.



Well, yeah, but we have a VERIFIABLE excuse if pushed for any reason and we don't want to reveal the griefpathic contact thing. The witch name shows up on the final door in their witch barriers.
Consensus last this came up is that we can simply claim that we spent some time looking at witch runes and noticed it was a cipher. Sabrina doesn't go to school, so she's got the free time to spend on weird stuf like that.
 
[q]I am the light of my soul. Unneeded is my body, and unbroken is my spirit.
[q]Blatantly rip off [Unlimited Blade Works]
[q]Pelt Sakura with a rain of weapon shaped Grief Constructs.
I am the light of my soul.
Unneeded is my body, and unbroken is my spirit.
I have created over a thousand marbles
Unknown to Witch, nor known to Fate.
Have ignored pain to save many meguca
Yet this brain will never hold anything.
So as I pray, Unlimited Grief Works.
 
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Frankly, I don't see the upside of telling anyone else about the witchrunes. It's not like being able to read it actually provides any usable information, if anything all it does is make it easier to figure out the witchbomb. I suppose we can use it to write secret messages to each other or something, but we can do that with just about any other cipher.
 
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I shall not grieve.
Grief is the mind killer.
Grief is the little death that brings total obliteration.
I shall face my grief. I shall allow it to pass through and over me.
When the grief is gone I shall turn my inner eye to see its path.
Where the grief has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
I shall not grieve.


And

It is by Will alone I set my Soul in motion.
By the Magic of a Wish,
Power is created,
the Gem acquires Stains,
the Stains become a Warning.
It is by Hope alone I set my Soul in motion.
 
I shall not grieve.
Grief is the mind killer.
Grief is the little death that brings total obliteration.
I shall face my grief. I shall allow it to pass through and over me.
When the grief is gone I shall turn my inner eye to see its path.
Where the grief has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
I shall not grieve.


And

It is by Will alone I set my Soul in motion.
By the Magic of a Wish,
Power is created,
the Gem acquires Stains,
the Stains become a Warning.
It is by Hope alone I set my Soul in motion.

Kirika: "Man aren't you overdramatic."
 
People die when they are killed.

Sabrina manifests her Barrier, checks her Witch runes notepad, eyes-widen, then goes "Homura stop! Killing people is bad!"
 
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