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There was a line in the update with Mami smiling even though it was still raining.
"Mami," you say, catching her attention. Golden eyes flick to you, a warm smile rising to her face despite the rain still pelting down. You return the smile.
It says it's still raining, not that the rain is pelting down on all of us. I was under the impression that we are in the middle of the radio tower, which should be covered.
 
Once again, trust in the Mumi. If a grief awning/cover/tarp/umbrella/whatevs has too many problems, then we can simply ask her to make one made out of ribbons instead.
 
Grief awning might hurt more than it helps with the aura of suffering and despair.
Is it an aura of "suffering and despair" or does it just feel like a Barrier? Are those the same thing?

Also, we could just use a basic construct to minimize the spooky factor...

...or ask our oujo if she can do something about the rain. That'd work too.
 
Is it an aura of "suffering and despair" or does it just feel like a Barrier? Are those the same thing?

Also, we could just use a basic construct to minimize the spooky factor...

...or ask our oujo if she can do something about the rain. That'd work too.
Either way it isn't helpful for calm negotiations and Mumi a best would do it better.
 
So, yeah, turns out keeping an extensive, up to date summary of each group is proving unsustainable. From now on, I'll be focusing on just keeping the characters up to date, to make it easier for me to update and also allow easier referencing.

5 members.
  • Hamasaki Akiko: Water powers, no apparent weapon. Decent leader and has some experience, but is basically defenseless against us in direct combat. Leader of the Sendai crew. Batshit insane?
  • Tachibana Sakura: Teleporter. Uses a katana. Can make short range teleports almost instantly, longer ranged teleports require a longer charge up time. At full power she can make the trip between Sendai and Tokyo in less than 15 minutes.
  • Mori Rin: Dedicated Healer. Wields a jagged dagger. Can completely regrow flesh in less than an hour with manageable grief generation.
  • Tanaka Tamiko: Forcefield creation, no apparent weapon. Fights using her forefields forcefields as kinetic weapons. Dresses like unit 00.
  • Minami Yumi: Gravity Manipulator, no apparent weapon. Grey costume and grey hair. Capable of limited flight and extremely powerful AOE attacks.
    Former members:
  • Kato Setsuko: Unknown. Claimed by Akiko to have been killed by Ishinomaki, which the IG denies. Uncontactable through telepathy.
More than three members, and each of their known members are extremely powerful. The three we know of are:
  • Akiyama Atsuko AKA Kuvira: Metal controller. Dresses in red and black. Is capable of creating a massive Katamari out of scrap metal and control it from a distance, along with throwing large pieces of metal around at immense speeds.
  • Koizumi Sasami AKA Ramiel: Fights with flashbangs and Laser beams. Capable of maintaining multiple lasers at once if she feels like it. Very dangerous, especially in conjunction with Moe.
  • Nishimura Moe: Shadow jumper. Her powers are kinda nebulous, but she can either possess the ability to jump from shadow to shadow, gains super speed while in shadow, or some combination of the two. Extremely dangerous in combat.

7 members.
  • Koizumi Aki. Yellow outfit. Fights with Halberds and short swords. Can make copies of herself and dismiss them at will. Attacking the clones directly is pretty much worthless except as a gambit to fill her gem with corruption.
  • Inoue Yuuna: Concrete Body, silver and blue outfit. She fights by covering herself with a thick armour made out of concrete, which provides a very potent defence against physical attacks without hampering her mobility. She also presumably has access to general earth powers.
  • Inoue Yuuki: Lady pixels, Silver and Green outfit. This girl's powerset is interesting. We didn't get to see much of it in the scuffle due to her getting Mami'd, but it looks like she can create pixelated versions of items and control them at will. More information is required to determine her exact powers, but if so her powers are essentially grief bending lite, only with magic instead of grief.
  • Sato Kimiko: Lightning, Pink and white outfit. Can make lightning attacks from extreme range with very little advanced warning. This makes her very good at alpha striking and artillery support, but she is significantly less effective in a chaotic melee.
  • Tsukada Hoshiko: Repulsor aura, purple armour. Can create kinetic blasts on contact that sends anything touching her flying. Has a severe phobia of being touched/restrained.
  • Ueda Miyako: Unknown. Orange outfit.
  • Kagome Ayaka: Unknown, white and black outfit. Seems to know Mami from before, probably one of her former students.

4 present members, formerly 6
  • Tsubaki Chouko: Met up with the Ishinomaki group and got them to join in the war. Fights with Prismatic wings and a scepter. Is maneuverable enough in the air to dodge lasers. Can extend flight powers to allies close by?
  • Umeko Yuko: Met with Mami along with Ayano Chika. Possesses Invisibility powers. Weapons, if any, is are unknown.
  • Suzuki Rei: Paper controller, green hair.
  • Suzuki Haru: Plant controller, white hair. Fights best when given fertile soil for her plants to take root on.
  • ??? Fukui: Left due to the inability to deal with the Sendai's tax. Currently with Tome city
  • Ayano Chika: Dead, killed by a witch

??? members, was helped out by Sendai in a previous conflict.
  • Ueda Noa: Samurai armour outfit, green twintails, slate grey eyes, fights with a Katana. Powers unknown, but possibly emotions based.
A few typos.
 
Thinking we wake Sendai one at a time and deal with them before Fukushima. Yumi seems like a likely candidate for a voice of reason there.
 
What? Why not Fukushima first? They're the mercs, at least we need to deal with them and send them away before waking up Akiko.
Yeah, by Sendai I meant "Everyone except Akiko". Fukushima's a bit of a headache, sure, but getting Sendai to stand down takes priority since once that's settled, we can take our time with the rest rather than a tense standoff that only works because we have their gems.

The last thing we need is to keep an eye out for Fukushima while we're trying to talk down Sendai, after all.
 
Yeah, by Sendai I meant "Everyone except Akiko". Fukushima's a bit of a headache, sure, but getting Sendai to stand down takes priority since once that's settled, we can take our time with the rest rather than a tense standoff that only works because we have their gems.

The last thing we need is to keep an eye out for Fukushima while we're trying to talk down Sendai, after all.
By 'getting Sendai to stand down' you mean Sakura. Rin's complacent enough, and the others can't stand any lower.
 
By 'getting Sendai to stand down' you mean Sakura. Rin's complacent enough, and the others can't stand any lower.
Stand down in the long term rather than because we have their gems on hand.

@Krecart
They haven't gotten paid yet, and we only know of three of their members. Because they're mercs, as pointed out, we don't get anything out of prioritizing them over the group that's at the root of the conflict and that we need to somehow persuade.
 
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[x]Tell Rin that she shouldn't worry. We're going to make sure everyone comes out of this okay. Including the Sendai group. We promise.
[x] Hey Rin, are you okay? You didn't sound too good. Is there anything you want to do now? We're going to try and help anyone who's injured. If you're okay, could you please help us
- [x] Don't push the issue if she seems reluctant.
[x]Can Mami set up a ribbon awning?
[x] Cleanse gems. Everyone's. Give a warning.
[x] Talk to Sakura while this is happening.
-[x] "So, feel like talking now?"
-[x] Ask for more information about the Kato issue, and anything else that may shed light on how she's been acting. Restate commitment to a mutually beneficial arrangement if she seems reluctant.
[x] Once Rin arrives/ Sakura's talk is concluded if Rin isn't coming:
- [x] Consult with everyone: We want to retrieve the bodies of the fallen, and we want to help stabilize the wounded.
- [x] If the issue is brought up, point out dealing with Akiko and the others can wait until after we're certain people aren't dying.
- [x] Point: Chouko's and your powers can be used to cover ground quickly, Mami's, Haru's and Rei's powers will be useful for extracting wounded.
- [x] Point: Split up to cover more ground.
- [x] Focus mainly on the highway. Don't bother trying to rescue everyone, just make sure EMS can get to them and stabilize the critical cases.
- [x] Go ahead an execute once we've got a proper plan

I think we should focus on damage control before dealing with Sendai. The Sendai girls aren't going anywhere, while people may be dying right now and creating new contract bait.
 
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[x] Ask Rin to come to us, if she can, to heal the wounded (if not, ask her where she is and go get her).
- [x] Don't push the issue if she seems reluctant
[x]Can Mami set up a ribbon awning?
[x] Cleanse gems. Everyone's. Give a warning.
[x] Talk to Sakura while this is happening.
-[x] "So, feel like talking now?"
-[x] Ask for more information about the Kato issue, and anything else that may shed light on how she's been acting. Restate commitment to a mutually beneficial arrangement if she seems reluctant.
[x] Once Rin arrives:
- [x] Consult with everyone: We want to retrieve the bodies of the fallen, and we want to help stabilize the wounded.
- [x] If the issue is brought up, point out dealing with Akiko and the other can wait until after we're certain people aren't dying.
- [x] Point: Chouko's and your powers can be used to cover ground quickly, Mami's, Haru's and Rei's powers will be useful for extracting wounded.
- [x] Focus mainly on the highway. Don't bother trying to rescue everyone, just make sure EMS can get to them and stabilize the critical cases.
- [x] Go ahead an execute once we've got a proper plan

I think we should focus on damage control before dealing with Sendai. The Sendai girls aren't going anywhere, while people may be dying right now and creating new contract bait.
The sooner we get a ceasefire, the sooner we can wholeheartedly deal with damage control- and I'm wary of trying to keep an eye on everyone and doing search and rescue at the same time. It's extremely important to rescue people, yes, and I'd suggest one of Mitakihara working on that if lolMamitrauma wasn't a serious issue and if we didn't want Kirika nearby as a trump card.

That vote also pushes Rin around like a pawn without so much as a "are you alright", doesn't press Sakura at all on anything of importance in favor of gloating/dictating terms, and doesn't consider re-gemming any of the more reasonable Sendai girls.
 
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Having our cake and eating it too won't work. We'd be better off asking University, or having one of the Mitakihara group do it. We'd do it...but dragging everyone's bodies everywhere wasn't extremely less than ideal.
 
Changes have been made, though I still prefer Katamari to Kuvira for Atsuko's nickname, but oh well. Thanks for the head's up.

Having our cake and eating it too won't work. We'd be better off asking University, or having one of the Mitakihara group do it. We'd do it...but dragging everyone's bodies everywhere wasn't extremely less than ideal.
...What does it matter? We can create a grief ship large enough to house all the bodies comfortably, and, with Sakura aside, most of them are knocked out anyway. We can totally bring them along if we want to.
 
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We'd do it...but dragging everyone's bodies everywhere wasn't extremely less than ideal.
Why would we do this? We could just put them all on the same rooftop and come back whenever we're reconnecting them. It's not like they're going anywhere.

We just don't want somebody to discover an apparently dead girl and cart the body off to the morgue or something.
 
What do we do with Ueda btw? Do we shanghai het into helping, let her stay as observer (for some reason), or could we just let her catch the next train to Tokyo?
 
Indeed. We don't need to look after anyone. They're disconnected and not going anywhere. I would like a bit more reassurance to Rin, and Sakura is probably going to have to be disconnected to start at actual rescue effort. But I see no major issues with gerbils vote.

[x] Cannongerbil
 
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Why would we do this? We could just put them all on the same rooftop and come back whenever we're reconnecting them. It's not like they're going anywhere.
We don't even need to, we can just put them on a grief platform and cart them around with us. It's not like it'll hinder what we are doing.
 
Why would we do this? We could just put them all on the same rooftop and come back whenever we're reconnecting them. It's not like they're going anywhere.

We just don't want somebody to discover an apparently dead girl and cart the body off to the morgue or something.
Because we can trust Sakura not to pull something stupid unsupervised...Or Tokyo not to scarper...Or Fukushima's offscreen members to stay offscreen...

Our best bet is to patch things up then get ALL the megucas on clean-up duty. Not to blindly flail around while we put off the root of the problem.

Even asking UG and 1 mitakihara girl to do S&R makes more sense than the Sabrina's Happyfuntime Portable Grief Carnival vote.
 
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