I apologize for butchering the vote, CG.

[x] Go with them
- [x] Set up the grief shields. Make sure that there is at least one grief shield accompanying each person at all times, preferably more. Don't ease up on the grief, it's not like you have a shortage of it.
- [x] Ask Mami to elaborate on what she sensed.
- [x] Leave Rin at the rooftop with an umbrella. Contact Sakura via telepathy to pick her up
- [x] If combat starts, keep them outside of melee range. Overwhelm them with large masses of grief if they get too close.
-- [x] Don't bother holding back. Avoid attacking their soul gems, but everything else is fair game.
-- [x] Like before: keep Kirika's anti-magic ability as a trump card.

So a few questions before I vote:

1) What're we expecting in terms of close combat? @Cannongerbil has an info doc up somewhere, do we know for certain that our potential enemies primarily work close combat? Sabrina's a juggernaut of destruction, so if we can get in close safely, then it would be advantageous to do so. This would deny any enemies operational flexibility, allow us to more easily restrict their movement, and enable hammertime.

2) Are we realllllly sure we want to leave Rin there? We could take her with us. Personally I'd rather do that, since while yes she's Rin and therefore adorable, I cannot say that we've known her long enough to trust that she'll stay out of this. It seems infinitely reasonable for her to choose Akiko over us, purely out of loyalty or duty, or maybe even fear. If the first two, I would even admire her for making this decision. If Rin does join the fight against us, leaving her in the rear puts her and Sakura in a flanking position, and I'd prefer not to have the capacity for multiple fronts to open up.

3) What's the tipping point for Kirika's anti-magic? We can't go into this without an idea of what "necessary" means. I would, in fact, rather go into this with the intent to use anti-magic if combat occurs, choosing the opportune moment to blast it into people and use the time to take them out.

4) What do you mean by "don't bother holding back"? As people in this thread should know, I am 100% okay with violent dismemberment, aggressive destruction of the head, and generally causing horrific and painful damage. Do you intend to be "humane" about battle, or is this really a carte blanche to do everything and anything necessary to finish a battle quickly and in our favor?
 
While I'm no defenestrator...
2) Are we realllllly sure we want to leave Rin there?
Leaving Rin is more a choice for the future. We've done everything we could for her, and then we let her choose her own way. Even if she opposes us now, she might be a friend later.
3) What's the tipping point for Kirika's anti-magic?
A good chance? Many of our opponents close together at a moment where both Kirika and Sabrina are close enough to them to do the combo? It's kind of simple.
4) What do you mean by "don't bother holding back"?
Avoid attacking their soul gems, but everything else is fair game.
I think it means exactly what you think it means. It'd be nice to for others to confirm that's what the vote's going for, though.
 
They have a healer and we're cleansing everyone once this is over regardless of faction..so yeah, we stop holding back. Just stop them as fast as we can.
 
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While I'm no defenestrator...

Leaving Rin is more a choice for the future. We've done everything we could for her, and then we let her choose her own way. Even if she opposes us now, she might be a friend later.

A good chance? Many of our opponents close together at a moment where both Kirika and Sabrina are close enough to them to do the combo? It's kind of simple.

I think it means exactly what you think it means. It'd be nice to for others to confirm that's what the vote's going for, though.

Well this vote about to have us move out with the University Group to confront Akiko, I thought? If we're looking at a situation where we're about to go into battle, we should secure our flanks now rather than literally the moment before potential combat.

Well yes, you and me think so, perhaps, but I don't know what Defenestrator's intent here is. Still if we're going for "when useful, blast them", I am 100% ok with this plan.

And yeah, if we're going for violent dismemberment, I am okay with this.
 
The umbrella you hold out to Rin, who's soaking wet by now, hair and clothes alike plastered flat against her skin by the rain cascading down.
Rin, looking terrified and miserable. Not even transformed.
Rin's really pushing all the 'wounded, miserable puppy' buttons, isn't she?

Let's hope she makes it out OK.
We're going for "If they're attacking us, drop them with however much force we need to".
A sufficient amount of force, you might say.
 
[x] defenestrator


Since Rin blabbed that they were planning on busting her out, it seems they are putting that plan into action now instead of later.
I really hope the Fukushima girls are reasonable mercenaries. It would be nice, if they wouldn't be out for our blood when this is over.
Sendai hating us is bad enough.

About immediately dismembering the Sendai girls or rather this part of the vote:
-- [] Don't bother holding back. Avoid attacking their soul gems, but everything else is fair game.
We kind of just promised Rin that we won't do that...
I promise I won't hurt them anymore then I absolutely have to."
Might nedd to be made clearer, if that really stands for a sufficient amount of force.
Right now, it sounds more like maiming is fair game, right from the beginning.
 
You close your eyes again, plans crystallizing and cascading through your mind in spinning drifts of thought.

It feels like an age passes before you next open your eyes, gaze steely and steady even as your thoughts continue to churn uneasily.
Six days worth of migraines, suddenly over. If only I could do that...
About immediately dismembering the Sendai girls or rather this part of the vote:
-- [] Don't bother holding back. Avoid attacking their soul gems, but everything else is fair game.
We kind of just promised Rin that we won't do that...
Firnagzen said:
I promise I won't hurt them anymore then I absolutely have to."
Might nedd to be made clearer, if that really stands for a sufficient amount of force.
Right now, it sounds more like maiming is fair game, right from the beginning.
Meguca combat is kind of really bloody, so I do interpret 'don't go for the gems' as 'not hurting them anymore than we have to'. Rin might not like that, I guess.
 
@defenestrator
Consider adding the grief seed or gem yank trick as our opener before resorting to
-- [] Don't bother holding back. Avoid attacking their soul gems, but everything else is fair game ?
 
We could just yank everybody's Gems and put 'em in a Grief bubble. Then fly high enough for the connections to break and tie them all up before reconnecting them to their bodies. Probably won't be that easy, but it'd be funny to win the fight with a brief game of "keep away". :p
 
Meh. I personally feel like pounding them before going along with the 'lol you lost before you ever really started' thing.


edit: Actually, depending on how Fukushima's powers work, that may not even work this time around.
 
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Even so, if they have seeds or gems with a decent amount of corruption, that's handing us the advantage right there.

Yeah, but it's basically a trump card. One that's probably not necessary to reveal at this point and going to be planned for (and thus less effective) after the fact.

Barring any new circumstances and prompting another vote, Defenestrators vote as is, is fine.
 
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Pragmatically using available grief to immobilize an enemy is not supervillainy, any more than Mami using her ribbons to do it would be.

Meant "yank grief from gems" rather than yanking the gems themselves, though that is another option.
Doing it safely requires vastly more finesse than breaking bits until they stop moving - even disregarding the 'avoid intimate proximity with grief' thing that you keep raising.
 
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