[X] Tsubaki: -[X] Goal: Give Tsubaki a good impression; get her interested in talking again at least, working together being the final goal.
-[X] Introduce yourselves, with Nadia's help.
-[X] Show curiosity about Tsubaki, her life as an adult meguca; show interest in her skills and achievements.
-[X] Once appropriate, talk about Magical Girl problems, your powers, goals and achievements so far.
--[X] Standard Grief cleansing offer.
--[X] Talk about the specific problems that could be better helped by an adult that Magical Girls could relate to, and your hopes Tsubaki could help. [X] If no more input is needed about Tsubaki, continue SCIENCE! vote in abeyance.
[X] Ask Nadia to stay in the conversation, so we look more legit.
[X] Tsubaki:
-[X] Introduce yourselves, with Nadia's help.
-[X] Explain powers and desire to help. Nadia can verify that we're legit.
-[x] Ask if there would be a good time to meet in the near future. We can travel there on short notice if need be.
-[x] Offer of cleansing, refreshing used Grief Seeds, etc., no strings attached.
-[x] If she's curious why we're interested in her, explain that we're trying to establish good relations with all the magical girls that we can.
--[x] Why her specifically: we don't know of many magical girls who've survived to adulthood. And there aren't really many adults that magical girls can turn to. We value her wisdom and experience.
[X] Vote break if Tsubaki conversation calls for it.
[X] Telepathy Niko.
-[X] Bring up worries of Hijiri grief spiraling or even deliberately darkening her soul gem under the impression that it would make her stop being a magical girl.
--[X] Does she think these concerns are well-founded? -[X] Ask when/if she thinks we should contact Hijiri. --[X] Does she have any other advice on how to handle Hijiri? [X] Make witchy thing(doesn't really matter what), place it at the edge of our range. -[X] Ask Mami how it feels at this distance. --[X] Would it interfere with her sleep? We're curious as to whether witchy constructs can stay active while we're asleep, but it's not a particularly big deal, so it's fine if she refuses.
[X] After the call to Tsubaki, go to sleep with prime Sabrina while trying to go through the SCIENCE! vote in abeyance with chibi Sabrina.
-[X] Are we properly rested the next day?
[x] Tsubaki Mikoto.
-[x] Goals:
--[x] Establish a relationship; you can solve her canonical issues, she's probably a responsible adult and you need as many of those as you can find.
--[x] Investigate to find out how close the situation is to your metaknowledge.
-[x] Possibly useful particulars:
--[x] Introduce yourself and Mami.
--[x] Standard speech: You want to help meguca, you have powers that do it, you understand larger ramifications and are building a network, Nadia mentioned her as being reasonable.
--[x] Offer to fly over for face-to-face and cleansing.
---[x] Use this to feel out their grief seed situation?
[X] Try willing the enchanted soft rock to
-[X] Become something else
-[X] Attract Grief
[X] Call Tsubaki. Use formal courtesy. Introduce Mami too. References, with Nadia's help.
-[X] Avoid infohazards.
-[X] Display admiration, ask about her lifestyle
-[X] Outline interest in trading "consultancy" for cleansing. Emptying her Grief Seed. Dead drop possible.
-[X] Motives
--[X] We are a strong group, building safer city, need her experience
---[X] Her planning considered invaluable.
--[X] Upcoming Walpurgisnacht, gathering allies. Describe threat.
---[X] Support role - enchant our weapons?
[x] Tsubaki Mikoto.
-[x] Introduce self and Mami with Nadia's help.
-[x] Explain powers and desire to help. Tell her that Nadia can verify that we're legit.
-[x] Ask if there would be a good time to meet in the near future. We can travel there on short notice if need be.
-[x] Offer of cleansing, refreshing used Grief Seeds, etc., no strings attached.
-[x] If she's curious why we're interested in her, explain that we're trying to build a network and establish good relations with all the magical girls that we can.
--[x] We don't know of many magical girls who've survived to adulthood. And there aren't really many adults that magical girls can turn to. We value her wisdom and experience.
[X] Telepathy Niko.
-[X] Bring up worries of Hijiri grief spiraling or even deliberately darkening her soul gem under the impression that it would make her stop being a magical girl.
--[X] Does she think these concerns are well-founded? -[X] Ask when/if she thinks we should contact Hijiri. [X] Make witchy thing(doesn't really matter what), place it at the edge of our range. -[X] Ask Mami how it feels at this distance. --[X] Would it interfere with her sleep? We're curious as to whether witchy constructs can stay active while we're asleep, but it's not a particularly big deal, so it's fine if she refuses.
[X] Niko: Ask if there's any news on Hijiri
-[X] if no:
--[X] Hijiri: ask if she is safe.
[X] Tsubaki:
-[X] Introduce yourselves, with Nadia's help.
-[X] Explain powers and desire to help. Nadia can verify that we're legit. Describe and offer clear seed, no strings attached.
--[X] Note our ability to travel places quickly.
-[X] Standard offer of assistance in the event of any emergency.
-[X] She's the only adult magical girl we're aware of at this time, and she may be the only one in Japan. We'd love to pick her brain on every topic imaginable, but we've had another idea: could we interest her in writing a book?
--[X] Obviously we'd compensate her for it -- we're not short on money. But this could end up saving -- or salvaging -- a lot of lives.
[X] Tsubaki: -[X] Goal: Give Tsubaki a good impression; get her interested in talking again at least, working together being the final goal.
-[X] Introduce yourselves, with Nadia's help.
-[X] Show curiosity about Tsubaki, her life as an adult meguca; show interest in her skills and achievements.
-[X] Once appropriate, talk about Magical Girl problems, your powers, goals and achievements so far.
--[X] Standard Grief cleansing offer.
--[X] Talk about the specific problems that could be better helped by an adult that Magical Girls could relate to, and your hopes Tsubaki could help.
[X] Break to voting if input needed.
[X] Call Hijiri.
-[X] Per vote in abeyance.
-[X]Addendum: You failed Hijiri pretty hard. You owe her to make that up. If she needs something, you're more than willing to drop it off in a secure location.