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- LEO
I mean, coding the whole modern version from scratch is an option, Sabrina mundane skills haven't been explored.
Same for "buying" pc parts. Moar science is required.
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Puella Magi Adfligo Systema
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- puella magi adfligo systema puella magi madoka magica be gay do crimes (gay) female protagonist bad decisions dating mami tomoe (tomoe mami) diabolical laughter friendship is the best ship handholding identity crises microwaving tea gets you put in the bad place names are important the body is the fursona of the soul this is not the baked goods thread we don't talk about rionna what could possibly go wrong? who in the world is azure sanfrancisco?
Same for "buying" pc parts. Moar science is required.
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That's been my question for a while, too, as being able to make portals would let us scale up to a larger organization far easier than our current approach, which requires a direct effort of Yuki's will. In the little time we have before Wall-E, though, that isn't a real concern.
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I feel like I should point out that actually we can and have. To quote myself
To put it more intelligently Kazumi's magic copies the effect of any magic it targets (i.e Mami's muskets or Sabrina's chibi's) rather than the actual magic itself the way Sayaka's magic does. Sayaka has in fact copied Kazumi's magic allowing her to do the same and both have copied the effect of creating the Iowa Battleship
Torgamous
Aspiring Gynoid
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To quote Kazumi, via Firnagzen, we can't and haven't.
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So someone reminded me that the link to the original encouraging Sabrina art piece my friend made had fallen to link rot. It reminded me that there were a few more she made that I hadn't shown y'all. Credit to Orgetzu.
she's microwaving tea
she's microwaving tea
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Huh well my mistake. It seems I had misread it. oh well
Thought that Sayaka had said the weapon thingy
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These are cool too
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- Georgia
Good luck. The regular updates, even when they're just to say there won't be an update, are very welcome, as it can be hard to tell when an author has simply left the story, or has lost their muse on the matter. I only participate in one quest at a time so I have a chance of keeping things straight for votes and such, with my previous one (Magical Girl Escalation Taylor) sadly dying to Covid.*
*The author is a medical practitioner(exact details unknown), and had very little time and/or energy to write anything as a result for months. Even now, they don't update anywhere near as much as they used to, and that thread has been dead for years.
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Well I'd say these delays certainly will stop them.
Hazard Course Pt. 47
"I..." You dither for a moment. You could go into all the update stuff you had on your mind, to keep her up to speed on what's happening in Asunaro and to ask her if she's managed anything with the original Yuuri's Clear Seed.
You toss all that out. For the moment, at least, that isn't important.
"I want to know how you're doing," you say, smile unwavering. You look at her, really look, and... she looks listless, if you had to describe her in a word. One hand still resting on the mouse, the other curled on the desk, her shoulders slack and expression bored.
Pile of clothes in the corner, and now that you're looking, fresh clothes hanging over the headboard of her bed, half-unfolded from what must have been a careless toss. No plates, empty, filled, or in-between, nor anything outright dirty in the room, either, which you can probably chalk up to Yuki being fastidious about that.
Listless.
"I heard you weren't eating well," you say before she can snark at you again. "What kind of foods do you prefer?"
Anri gives you a disbelieving look.
"It's a small thing," you say. "If it would make you feel better, then I'm more than willing to see what I can do."
Anger flickers across her face as she swells up, as if preparing for a rant... and then abruptly deflates, her gaze skittering off and down to the floor as the energy drains out of her.
"I've had a lot of time to think," she mutters sullenly.
... you suppose she would, yeah. Your gaze flickers to the computer - that's not a difficult connection to make either. Something to get out of her head, to distract herself from her thoughts. As vices go, it's... not too bad, you think, and it's certainly not as self-destructive as things could be.
Then again.
You carefully don't look at her left hand, curled loosely around the Clear Seed you'd left with her. Yuuri's Clear Seed, the soul of the girl she loves. And you don't know whether that's a romantic love or not, but you're comfortable saying that Wishing to become someone else after learning of their death is something in the same ballpark - and any additional details aren't yours to dig up. Not like this.
But with that Clear Seed held close...
Well.
You'd... thought that leaving it with her like that would be a good thing, especially since she would have the time to channel magic and hopefully make tangible progress, but now you find a kernel of worry working its way into your mind. And it's not like you can expect to just ask to take it away from her, either.
"... yeah, I guess so," you say. "I... maybe it rings hollow, considering I'm the one who put you here, but... I'm sorry. I wish things could have gone differently. I really do."
"Don't we all," Airi says, her eyes lowered to the Clear Seed cradled in her hand. She sighs. "Seriously, what do you want?"
"I mean, I'm here to check in on you and see how you're doing," you say. "And again, I know it might ring hollow coming from me, but I really want to know how you're doing."
"And I'm sure you can guess," Airi says, waving grandly at the confines of the room with her free hand. "It's a lovely cage."
"That's more than reasonable," you say, grimacing.
Ultimately, though... she stole a Clear Seed. And yes, maybe she thought it was Yuuri's Grief Seed, but you were clear to yourself, and to everyone else: Clear Seeds are dangerous, in the wrong hands. Unlimited magic is something you have to be careful of handing out, and knowing what Airi planned and could have done with that Clear Seed, you couldn't just let her go.
More than that, you feel like you can't just let it go. You can't just let her go. You believe in rehabilitative justice, yes, and you're still shaping out what you want that to look like. You want to get people counselling, to help people. But at the same time, you can't let people take Clear Seeds, not when you'd simply give them out if asked, not when you'd fully expect to kick off wars over them if taking them by force were on the table.
"I... is there anything I can do?" you say instead.
Her gaze snaps back to yours again, locking eyes with you as she thrusts the Seed at you.
"You tell me," she hisses. "Is there anything you can do?"
"Let's find out," you say.
You reach out to touch a finger against the Clear Seed - you don't think you can take it away from her, not with the desperate hunger on her face. You don't need to touch the Seed, either, but a gesture to show you're actually doing something, and to help you focus as you finally all your attention to fall from Airi and down to the Clear Seed of Asuka Yuuri.
Of Arzt Kochen.
You exhale.
It's not like you weren't aware of its presence, but your initial impression hadn't been promising. It looked and felt much like any other Clear Seed, that same glassy crystal in its cage of intricately detailed metal. But now you turn your attention fully towards it, examining it with your senses, both physical and magical.
There's Grief, of course, that ever-present trickle constantly seeping into every Clear Seed, but there isn't even enough to cloud the crystal yet. And at the same time, it mingles with the soft radiance of hope, of magic that hums of better days, of joy, of love. Of overwhelming delight of wobbly first steps in another's arms, of shared meals, of a spoon, traded as a good luck charm.
You turn your mind's eye away from that. It's voyeuristic, in a way, despite the fact that you know your friends' stories in equally intimate detail. Even Airi's and Yuuri's stories, once-upon-a-nevers you're not quite sure apply exactly: sourceless knowledge you've never been able to place your finger on, bubbling up from deep within you... but experiencing it like this is different, and uncomfortable.
You turn your attention to the abyssal speck of darkness at the core of the Clear Seed. To what you think of as Arzt Kochen itself, herself, the never-ending despair of a Witch mired in its own grief.
Arzt Kochen pulses beneath your gaze.
It's nothing physical, not at all. But there's something impinging faintly against what you vaguely think of as your soul-sense, a sense of attention turned your way, weak and hazy and distant, maddened and mourning and thrashing, scattered and shattered and splintered, a dizzying series of impressions ripping through your mind... and gone again. It's not the simmering despair of Hildegarde, that time you'd tried to reach out to it.
But you're not sure what this is, either.
[] What do you tell Airi?
[] Attempt to use telepathy on Arzt Kochen
[] Ask Airi to attempt telepathy on Arzt Kochen
[] Some specific experiment to try?
[] Write-in (word count limit: 150 words)
Alright. I'm sorry this update took so long - the week before, I had a nasty bout of stomach flu across the entire weekend and part of the week, and then that left me playing catchup last week on everything I didn't manage to. Life is life, I suppose.
But still, we're back! I'll try and keep the momentum going (he says, having said that a dozen times before >_>).
You toss all that out. For the moment, at least, that isn't important.
"I want to know how you're doing," you say, smile unwavering. You look at her, really look, and... she looks listless, if you had to describe her in a word. One hand still resting on the mouse, the other curled on the desk, her shoulders slack and expression bored.
Pile of clothes in the corner, and now that you're looking, fresh clothes hanging over the headboard of her bed, half-unfolded from what must have been a careless toss. No plates, empty, filled, or in-between, nor anything outright dirty in the room, either, which you can probably chalk up to Yuki being fastidious about that.
Listless.
"I heard you weren't eating well," you say before she can snark at you again. "What kind of foods do you prefer?"
Anri gives you a disbelieving look.
"It's a small thing," you say. "If it would make you feel better, then I'm more than willing to see what I can do."
Anger flickers across her face as she swells up, as if preparing for a rant... and then abruptly deflates, her gaze skittering off and down to the floor as the energy drains out of her.
"I've had a lot of time to think," she mutters sullenly.
... you suppose she would, yeah. Your gaze flickers to the computer - that's not a difficult connection to make either. Something to get out of her head, to distract herself from her thoughts. As vices go, it's... not too bad, you think, and it's certainly not as self-destructive as things could be.
Then again.
You carefully don't look at her left hand, curled loosely around the Clear Seed you'd left with her. Yuuri's Clear Seed, the soul of the girl she loves. And you don't know whether that's a romantic love or not, but you're comfortable saying that Wishing to become someone else after learning of their death is something in the same ballpark - and any additional details aren't yours to dig up. Not like this.
But with that Clear Seed held close...
Well.
You'd... thought that leaving it with her like that would be a good thing, especially since she would have the time to channel magic and hopefully make tangible progress, but now you find a kernel of worry working its way into your mind. And it's not like you can expect to just ask to take it away from her, either.
"... yeah, I guess so," you say. "I... maybe it rings hollow, considering I'm the one who put you here, but... I'm sorry. I wish things could have gone differently. I really do."
"Don't we all," Airi says, her eyes lowered to the Clear Seed cradled in her hand. She sighs. "Seriously, what do you want?"
"I mean, I'm here to check in on you and see how you're doing," you say. "And again, I know it might ring hollow coming from me, but I really want to know how you're doing."
"And I'm sure you can guess," Airi says, waving grandly at the confines of the room with her free hand. "It's a lovely cage."
"That's more than reasonable," you say, grimacing.
Ultimately, though... she stole a Clear Seed. And yes, maybe she thought it was Yuuri's Grief Seed, but you were clear to yourself, and to everyone else: Clear Seeds are dangerous, in the wrong hands. Unlimited magic is something you have to be careful of handing out, and knowing what Airi planned and could have done with that Clear Seed, you couldn't just let her go.
More than that, you feel like you can't just let it go. You can't just let her go. You believe in rehabilitative justice, yes, and you're still shaping out what you want that to look like. You want to get people counselling, to help people. But at the same time, you can't let people take Clear Seeds, not when you'd simply give them out if asked, not when you'd fully expect to kick off wars over them if taking them by force were on the table.
"I... is there anything I can do?" you say instead.
Her gaze snaps back to yours again, locking eyes with you as she thrusts the Seed at you.
"You tell me," she hisses. "Is there anything you can do?"
"Let's find out," you say.
You reach out to touch a finger against the Clear Seed - you don't think you can take it away from her, not with the desperate hunger on her face. You don't need to touch the Seed, either, but a gesture to show you're actually doing something, and to help you focus as you finally all your attention to fall from Airi and down to the Clear Seed of Asuka Yuuri.
Of Arzt Kochen.
You exhale.
It's not like you weren't aware of its presence, but your initial impression hadn't been promising. It looked and felt much like any other Clear Seed, that same glassy crystal in its cage of intricately detailed metal. But now you turn your attention fully towards it, examining it with your senses, both physical and magical.
There's Grief, of course, that ever-present trickle constantly seeping into every Clear Seed, but there isn't even enough to cloud the crystal yet. And at the same time, it mingles with the soft radiance of hope, of magic that hums of better days, of joy, of love. Of overwhelming delight of wobbly first steps in another's arms, of shared meals, of a spoon, traded as a good luck charm.
You turn your mind's eye away from that. It's voyeuristic, in a way, despite the fact that you know your friends' stories in equally intimate detail. Even Airi's and Yuuri's stories, once-upon-a-nevers you're not quite sure apply exactly: sourceless knowledge you've never been able to place your finger on, bubbling up from deep within you... but experiencing it like this is different, and uncomfortable.
You turn your attention to the abyssal speck of darkness at the core of the Clear Seed. To what you think of as Arzt Kochen itself, herself, the never-ending despair of a Witch mired in its own grief.
Arzt Kochen pulses beneath your gaze.
It's nothing physical, not at all. But there's something impinging faintly against what you vaguely think of as your soul-sense, a sense of attention turned your way, weak and hazy and distant, maddened and mourning and thrashing, scattered and shattered and splintered, a dizzying series of impressions ripping through your mind... and gone again. It's not the simmering despair of Hildegarde, that time you'd tried to reach out to it.
But you're not sure what this is, either.
[] What do you tell Airi?
[] Attempt to use telepathy on Arzt Kochen
[] Ask Airi to attempt telepathy on Arzt Kochen
[] Some specific experiment to try?
[] Write-in (word count limit: 150 words)
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Alright. I'm sorry this update took so long - the week before, I had a nasty bout of stomach flu across the entire weekend and part of the week, and then that left me playing catchup last week on everything I didn't manage to. Life is life, I suppose.
But still, we're back! I'll try and keep the momentum going (he says, having said that a dozen times before >_>).
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Lopezelpesado
Space worm best worm.
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Oh man this looks important... What should we do?
i am gonna go with having airi mentally trained with an epic training montage (of studying all of psychology/therapy) before having her attempt telepathy with Arzt Kochen.
Architect Iront.
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If we're going to try telepathy on the clear seed, we need contingencies. A clear seed to keep us from going under, people to watch and interrupt if things go wrong, to reclean the seed to make sure there's no grief at all to get in the way, stuff like that. I want to try, but I know it's risky.
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Before poking the Witch, we should run the idea past our friends and arrange for someone who already knows about the Witchbomb to spot us. Thinking about it, that could actually be something for Sabrina and Sayaka to do tomorrow while Mami and Kyōko are getting reacquainted.
Lopezelpesado
Space worm best worm.
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Hmmm Telepathy should be fine to try, its not the same thing as trying to take a familiar which seems to have accidently connected us to its witch.
Another thing I wanna do is take whatever grief it has accumulated to see if it calms the seed more.
Another thing I wanna do is take whatever grief it has accumulated to see if it calms the seed more.
[X] Attempt to use telepathy on Arzt Kochen
While this is definitely progress we simply don't know if it's a milestone or on the way to one. We shouldn't rush into this without getting second opinions and establishing safeguards. I worry that letting Airi establish telepathic contact might lead to gestalting considering how common that seems to be as a result of dewitching experiments. Which means we probably want Airi to engage in some self care. Maybe talking to Nodoka tomorrow might help as well? There are probably few people who can give a second opinion on the Clear Seed itself and another grief controller could be one of them. Also maybe try and pull out the Witch Cards to try and stack the deck? Having a helpful little blurb explaining a witch's nature and deepest despair might be useful for reference when trying to reverse it?
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I realize this isn't quite on topic but something I just realized is that since we discovered that we are in fact post-rebellion, then that means there is a good chance that wraiths can form if there aren't any withes to eat them. (This is because wraiths are stated to be the universe's immune response to being overwritten by Madoka's anti-witch wish) Meaning that's one way of sustaining the meguca population without seeds.
Furthermore if they are indeed formed from sufficiently large concentrations of grief as has been previously speculated then they could be potentially formed at will by groups of magical girls who use the Twins method of cleansing to saturate a given environment with grief.
Furthermore if they are indeed formed from sufficiently large concentrations of grief as has been previously speculated then they could be potentially formed at will by groups of magical girls who use the Twins method of cleansing to saturate a given environment with grief.
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Well that is… concerning. Okay.
So we know something is still in there. I'm hesitating to say someONE, but… honestly? I just don't know. I want to believe she's still in there, but how much of her is left, really
Regardless, this is a delicate scenario. We cannot just rush in headlong. We need backup, reinforcements, someone who can stop us of things are about to go wrong… at minimum we need Homura, Sayaka AND Kirika at the ready, Mami as an anchor, and… honestly?
I want the non-Meguca from Tokyo. We need a wild card here. Something outside context of the whole Witch:Meguca duality. Yes, she's apparently wishborn, but… she's still a wild card that could disrupt any particular fuckery that might be about to happen.
So we know something is still in there. I'm hesitating to say someONE, but… honestly? I just don't know. I want to believe she's still in there, but how much of her is left, really
Regardless, this is a delicate scenario. We cannot just rush in headlong. We need backup, reinforcements, someone who can stop us of things are about to go wrong… at minimum we need Homura, Sayaka AND Kirika at the ready, Mami as an anchor, and… honestly?
I want the non-Meguca from Tokyo. We need a wild card here. Something outside context of the whole Witch:Meguca duality. Yes, she's apparently wishborn, but… she's still a wild card that could disrupt any particular fuckery that might be about to happen.
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There's pretty much no way for anyone to get involved in this without learning where Witches come from, and I don't want to drop that particular bomb on Mami until her relationship with Kyōko is on more solid ground. That's why I think the best time for it is while those two are hanging out tomorrow.