This thread....

Man, there was some really amusing arguing. On the other hand, shame I missed, but it was fun to read.

Sabrina: "I am the best magical girl. Ever."
Akiko: "You are not a grief seed."
Sabrinah: "I am better, even."
Yumi: "Why did you come here?"
Sabrineh: "I heard that magical girls were in danger."
Madoka: "So you decided to save them? You're my hero."
Sabraneh: "Naturally. I will not permit harm to any magical girl in this word, for they are all my dependents."
Chouko: "Thanks for help, but we can hunt without your help."
Salraneh: "Accept me as your king and you don't have to."
Ishinomaki: "Didn't you promise free cleanses?"
Silraneh: "I now furhter promize to police Magial Girls. Your soul gems are my jevelry collection"
Yumi: "Are you a raven? Don't steal my stoul gem just it looks pretty."
Gilraneh: "I stole your soul gem because you dared to oppose me. Bow and surrender before me."
Moe: "I'm sorry for that, but we don't have even territory here. What do you want us to surrender to?"
Gilranesh: "To me. As your king, I'll provide magic for you, and you'll follow my orders. No more killing."
Mami: "You are amazing, Sabrina! How come you always know what to do?"
Gilganesh: "Because I know best like I know how to breathe."
Sakura: "Fuck, get off your high horse! My damn phone has more memory than you!"
Gilgamesh: "And you're only good for assassination."
*Grief blades appear out of thin air to turn Sakura into frappeé.*
Rin: "...Can we please negotiate?"
 
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Wut. Sakura is just as complicit in this shit as Akiko is. She doesn't even have the excuse of being crazy.
If she's not helping Akiko, water girl becomes a million times easier to pin down. I don't care about complicit. I care about depriving Akiko of her teleporter. Also, somebody surrendering to us or at least agreeing to back out of the fight is a good thing, no?
 
If she's not helping Akiko, water girl becomes a million times easier to pin down. I don't care about complicit. I care about depriving Akiko of her teleporter. Also, somebody surrendering to us or at least agreeing to back out of the fight is a good thing, no?

kay. I actually do care about complicit. The time for Sakura to back down was about 5 updates ago. That didn't happen. That's a damn shame. I'd much rather take her down now.
 
If she's not helping Akiko, water girl becomes a million times easier to pin down. I don't care about complicit. I care about depriving Akiko of her teleporter. Also, somebody surrendering to us or at least agreeing to back out of the fight is a good thing, no?
Sakura isn't going to surrender to us. She's shown that she will, for whatever reason, follow Akiko to hell and back. Not gonna happen.
 
So what's faster?
Us trying to skewer/crush someone with grief constructs or trying to pierce them by firing high velocity pellets of grief?

Also could we also create subtle grief dust/haze/gas and try to feed it into our enemies before circulating it at flesh rending speeds?

Of course most these tactics aren't as good as simply ripping their gem from their bodies...
 
"We've Got Hostiles" pt. 36
"They're doing OK, Mami?" you ask.

Mami nods.

"We'll drop by and give them a quick cleanse," you say. "Hang on!" You swerve sharply towards where you'd last seen the University girls. Even over the distance and the sound of the rain now hammering down, you can hear the sounds of battle, metal crashing and tearing.

Mami shuffles across the platform, and smiles at you, holding her hand out tentatively. Still anxious, still worried after she disagreed with you earlier.

You blink, and Mami's smile immediately falters, slipping fractionally.

Still worried after she disagreed with you earlier.

The bottom drops out of your stomach, a yawning pit opening. Your stomach begins churning uncomfortably, disquieting worry and self doubt settling in like a leaden weight to gnaw at you.

You force yourself to smile naturally, and reach out to take her hand. The Grief rolls back from your hand, letting your fingers rest against Mami's, and after a moment, she hesitantly intertwines her fingers with yours.

If you look carefully, you can see what might be worry in Mami's eyes, carefully hidden in the set of her eyes, and in the anxious smile she beams up at you.

You never intended to.

But you did.

Kirika giving you a thumbs up in the corner of your eye doesn't help much.

Mami cuddles into your side, leaning against you.

You swallow your trepidation for now. Now's not the time.

"Chouko." Your mental voice is stable, thankfully. "Ramiel's down."

"Fighting-" A pause. "-Kuvira."

"Do you need cleanses?" you ask.

"Later," Chouko snaps.

... well.

OK then.

You bring the platform -really, you could call it a fortress- to a slow drift, and Mami glances at you curiously.

"They don't need it yet," you say.

Mami nods, accepting that and smiling at you.

Instead, you draw the minuscule amounts of accumulated Grief away from the Soul Gems in your pocket -the Grief between you snatching away their Gems and full separation, you imagine-, and then turn your attention to Mami and Kirika.

Mami relaxes as you cleanse the golden Gem set in her hair, giving you a smile and leaning her head against your shoulder. Kirika flops over, flat on the platform, and grins aimlessly at you. "Thanks!" she chirps.

"Thank you, Sabrina," Mami says.

You turn your attention to your own Gem, wiping it clean... and there's perhaps rather more Grief than you'd hope there would be in there. You take a shuddering breath, trying to push aside your worries, and focus on the here and now.

Akiko, then. Akiko and Sakura, because they haven't shown their faces, and that's... worrying. To say the least.

"Oriko, are you awake?" you ask, reaching out telepathically. You're not going to go haring across the city, randomly searching for Akiko. Especially not with Sakura helping her.

A long moment. "No," the seer replies, tone annoyed. "What do you want?"

"Sorry. Is Akiko calling for more reinforcements?" you ask.

Another pause.

"Yes. She will be talking to... Miss Ueda." Oriko stops talking for a moment, but just when you're about to probe further, she continues. "One of the Tokyo groups. Sakura brings her in."

"They're still in Sendai?" you ask urgently.

"Yes," Oriko says. "They will be... near the big radio tower."

You look around. You can see two, silhouetted against the night sky. "Which one?"

"It has a bulge near the top?" Oriko offers, after pausing to think.

"Got it," you say, your eyes finding the correct one. It's not terribly far.

[] Go in loud. Now.
[] Go quietly.
[] Help the University girls
[] Write-in


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Shorter than usual, but meh.
 
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God damn it Akiko.

Ugh, okay fuck it. We need to take Sakura out immediately. She is way to big of an issue right now.

"Stop sending for reinforcements! The pockets on my coat are still full of the last batch!"
 
[x] Go quietly.

No reason to spook the Wild Abra Sakura. If we go in loud, with maximum grief, we are going to be lit up on their senses.

Sakura will teleport Akiko to another location and we'll have to bother Oriko again.
 
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Damn you prophetic paranoia!
In other news, I think the UG can handle Kuriva, we got shit to do. So, since taking it slow while Akiko talked to mercs ended in us getting ambushed last time, shall we go loud?

Edit: on second thought, I don't see how that could end well.
[] Go quietly.
No need for longvot; we've got every contingency we could be expected to prep at this point; it'll just clutter the thread, now.
 
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[x] Go in loud. Now.
[x] Telepathy Akiko
- [x] (Bluff) Her unconditional surrender and she gets to live. If not well, we were planning on making a jewelry collection anyway.
- [x] You have five seconds to comply


They'll sense our grief fortress from a mile away. Burn some rubber or air or whatever it takes and get there yesterday.
 
[X] Go quietly.
-[X] Ready to gem yank Sakura the moment she's in range.
 
Important note: if we grab Sakura's Gem we have to cover it completely.

Otherwise she might be able to port to it and short hop out of our range.
 
[x] Go in loud. Now.
[x] Telepathy Akiko
- [x] (Bluff) Her unconditional surrender and she gets to live. If not well, she ded.
- [x] You have ONE second to comply


I still mad.
 
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