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Puella Magi Adfligo Systema

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Firnagzen said:
It glitters in the light, the gold frame affixed on 'your' lapel as it should be, and the silvery-white of 'your' Soul Gem built of layers of carefully nanostructured Grief. It looks like a perfectly ordinary gem, albeit of a colour no mundane gem is. But that's all it is: a perfectly ordinary gem. There's just something missing from it, some vital lustre that you have no idea how replicate.
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Thinking about it, I'm curious if Sabrina's real Soul Gem actually looks different or if it just feels different to our magical senses and we're interpreting that as a visual thing. Maybe we could show Hitomi both the real Soul Gem and the replica at some point and see if she can tell the difference.
 
DataSnake said:
Thinking about it, I'm curious if Sabrina's real Soul Gem actually looks different or if it just feels different to our magical senses and we're interpreting that as a visual thing. Maybe we could show Hitomi both the real Soul Gem and the replica at some point and see if she can tell the difference.
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Or take high-quality photos of both, using nanofog to arrange identical light and surroundings, then check for differences by superimposure.
 
Wyrd said:
I like this, but should we add:

[} We also want to see how you're coming with X's* gem/Seed
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I consider any science discussion, be it about ongoing experiments or proposing including her in future ones, to be counterproductive at this point unless the conversation about how she's feeling veers towards them (i.e. "I feel like I'm not making any progress and I want Yuuri back now.")
 
Torgamous said:
I consider any science discussion, be it about ongoing experiments or proposing including her in future ones, to be counterproductive at this point unless the conversation about how she's feeling veers towards them (i.e. "I feel like I'm not making any progress and I want Yuuri back now.")
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I was thinking of it more along the line of asking after her friend, who is currently just a Clear Seed, in the same way you'd ask about a relative you know is in the hospital. We want her involved with this line of research because she has a personal stake in it, but the very fact that it is a personal stake should be acknowledged.
 
On the one hand, I can generally understand not wanting to jump straight to business. On the other hand, Anri has an awfully familiar backstory: she spent a lot of her childhood in the hospital with a chronic illness, her only friend was a meguca, and she made her Wish in response to said friend "dying." If it was Homura in that cell trying to dewitch the Grief Seed she got from Kriemhild Gretchen, I doubt she'd react well if we tried to talk to her about anything not Madoka-related, especially something as "unimportant" as her own well-being. And as unlikely as it may sound, I'm pretty sure Homura has better self-esteem than Anri. I mean, one Wished to become a better version of herself, and the other Wished to stop being herself altogether.
 
DataSnake said:
If it was Homura in that cell trying to dewitch the Grief Seed she got from Kriemhild Gretchen, I doubt she'd react well if we tried to talk to her about anything not Madoka-related, especially something as "unimportant" as her own well-being.
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And if it was Homura in that cell, we'd ask about her well-being anyway and get in a fight with her if she said that wasn't important.
 
Torgamous said:
And if it was Homura in that cell, we'd ask about her well-being anyway and get in a fight with her if she said that wasn't important.
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"Allowing - for the sake of argument - that Yuuri's recovery is the most important thing in the world... how soon she recovers is dependent on how long it takes for her clear seed to be refilled with hope-aligned magic. I'd like to help. There are two plausible approaches, as I see it: other magical girls directly contributing with their own magic (which I'm guessing you wouldn't be comfortable with?) or taking better care of yourself, thereby improving your own ability to feel hope. Your personal ability to channel hope-aligned magic would presumably increase proportionately, thus directly accelerating Yuuri's recovery. She would not want you to suffer, and doing it anyway isn't helping her.
"In happier news, though, we've got the body-replacement problem mostly figured out. Should have one ready and waiting by the time she needs it, unless... well, if you're on pace to finish the hope-recharging less than two weeks from now, that'd be a whole different sort of good news, but she might have to wait a few extra days in that case."
 
strange_person said:
or taking better care of yourself, thereby improving your own ability to feel hope.
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It must be noted that this isn't entirely on her. We could do more to make her stay in our prison comfortable, especially now that traveling to Fukushima isn't a whole thing. More frequent check-ins, homemade meals, being available to chat on her terms, playing video games with her or whatever she does on that laptop.

Side note, turns out Portal 2 comes out tomorrow afternoon, and we know Mami's a fan.
 
DataSnake said:
I was actually thinking that might be a good activity for her and Kyōko's "hang out without Sabrina being the third wheel" time. We know Mami likes Portal specifically, we know Kyōko likes games in general, and we know Portal 2 has a two-player coop mode.
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Two player coop that requires communication and cooperation.

Mami and Kyoko will crush it completely until they get stuck.
 
I just double-checked the release date for Portal 2, and it's April 18 (which is today in quest, not tomorrow) for digital downloads of the PC version and either April 20 or April 22 for consoles in Japan, depending on whether or not some past gamer meguca Wished away region locking. Fortunately, the PC version can handle split-screen with a bit of tinkering that should be well within Sabrina's skill set. Assuming Mami's laptop is up to spec, we should be able to set it up whenever. If not, PC building is also within our skill set, and buying decent parts shouldn't exactly strain our finances.
 
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