the horror
Now I'm regretting agreeing to have anything to do with Asunaro. If Firn had declared it non-canon I would have been more than happy. But that science... outweighs the huge risks. Ye gods, if the Saints are still a going concern we're going to have our work cut for us
even trying to talk to them. *facepalm* Why did they kidnap MG's passing through again? I feel dumber from just having read this. That would be the high risk high reward scenario since we get the talk directly to science girl. If the Saints have wiped themselves out then things become much safer but correspondingly less rewarding, we talk to the surivors, they won't come to Mitakihara unannounced as some people were saying and we might find something useful, like dead science girl's journal.
Wait, Mami knew Kazusa didn't she? That could lead to some interesting conversations with Kazumi. You think it might be a social link for Mami, getting to know Kazumi again without whatever led to their seperation hanging over the relationship? Only Mami would remember and could view it as a second chance at friendship. Could be good for her mental health. It could be a test run for fixing the Kyouko issue, making Kazumi friendly to Mami would be much easier than Kyouko. I have a feeling Mami will need as much support for resolving that pickle as possible.
Mami: What is it with people I know and amnesia? *sobs*
Oh shit, found a serious problem with NSMS' revised vote.
-[x] Tell her that we're willing to cleanse anyone's soul gems (demonstrate/explain cleansing if necessary), but only if they aren't going to use that magic to assault other Magical Girls or other nefarious purposes.
We are just cleansing soul gems with this line. What are the effects of only cleansing soul gems to outside powers? Its not a natural jump from cleansing gems to cleansing seeds. Sabrina is reduced from a national level player to a regional one. I was originally thinking this would be good but upon further thought it could cause some big problems. If Ueda and Fukushima spreads word of us then this will not create demand for grief seeds like I originally posted, but
demand for Sabrina herself.
If you were a random MG in one of the big city groups and heard there was someone who could cleanse gems in her general proximity, then you'd want her in your city. People have been saying many lone wolfs would come to Mitakihara for cleansing, but they haven't considered the effects it would have on the bigger groups. We could be a great unifer of meguca...
against us. For example, say word from Ueda passes to the other Tokyo groups, that could get them to unite into a coalition and decide to pay a visit to Mitakihara. They'd politely ask Sabrina to move to Tokyo, offer to pay for transportation and housing out of their own pocket, offer protection from outside threats etc. And if we don't come, well there's fifty meguca here who wouldn't like that. Even we couldn't fight our way out of that, we'd need a Homura massacre but even thats not certain, the more MG's come, the more likely theres a hard counter to her time powers.
I don't see this as a short term threat, but it could easily be a medium term one. We need to defuse this before Oriko sees this in the horizon, prevention is the best cure. If foreign MG's were assured there was some range to Sabrina's abilities aka cleansing grief seeds then we would avoid this. Its a really messy situation, increased demand for seeds or more threat to Mitakihara.
So either vote for NSMS' original vote before the revision or vote for Cannongerbil's vote. In CG's one, the favours we accrue among the many MG groups could be used as a stick to keep people from trying to take Sabrina for themselves. E.G. If the Tokyo girls unite and try to take us, the Osaka and Kyoto girls tell them to back down. If many people are indebted to us, then it will be a deterrent for any coalition (internal or outsiders) to try and take us.
