- Location
- Rockford, USA
- Pronouns
- They/Them
*helpless snickering*
My corner of the globe is pretty bad about those, eh?
Puella Magi Imperatrix Mundi, or: Wherein Half Of Japan Tries To Kill You
*helpless snickering*
My corner of the globe is pretty bad about those, eh?
- Location
- Rockford, USA
- Pronouns
- They/Them
[x] Let it go for now, finish dealing with this stuff and go talk to Minami and Yumi.
- [x] Talk to Yumi about stuff, now that she's officially joined.
-- [x] Grill her for up-to-date intel on the local area, since Maiko's been a hermit for the last couple years
-- [x] Talk about her role in your rapidly-growing super cool magical girl team.
- [x] Talk to Maiko about stuff.
-- [x] Momoko's house and anything else Momoko left. Does Maiko need help taking care of it?
-- [x] See if she wants to talk about her old team.
- [x] Talk to Minami about stuff, since she seemed worried about you. (write-in topic)
--[x] Why is she worried?
- [x] Talk to Yumi about stuff, now that she's officially joined.
-- [x] Grill her for up-to-date intel on the local area, since Maiko's been a hermit for the last couple years
-- [x] Talk about her role in your rapidly-growing super cool magical girl team.
- [x] Talk to Maiko about stuff.
-- [x] Momoko's house and anything else Momoko left. Does Maiko need help taking care of it?
-- [x] See if she wants to talk about her old team.
- [x] Talk to Minami about stuff, since she seemed worried about you. (write-in topic)
--[x] Why is she worried?
Nolrai
weak to fangs
- Location
- Porltand
They invented it during the French Revolution, right?I'm fairly sure that the French use the metric system now.
Echo
Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before
- Location
- "echolocation" dur hur hur
Okay, votes closed.
Vote tally:
##### 3.21
[x] Let it go for now, finish dealing with this stuff and go talk to Minami and Yumi.
-[x] Talk to Yumi about stuff, now that she's officially joined.
--[x] Grill her for up-to-date intel on the local area, since Maiko's been a hermit for the last couple years
--[x] Talk about her role in your rapidly-growing super cool magical girl team.
-[x] Talk to Maiko about stuff.
--[x] Momoko's house and anything else Momoko left. Does Maiko need help taking care of it?
--[x] See if she wants to talk about her old team.
-[x] Talk to Minami about stuff, since she seemed worried about you. (write-in topic)
--[x] Why is she worried?
No. of votes: 6
UbeOne, veekie, Always Late, Unitveras, Balduran, PoptartProdigy
[x] Push a bit harder to get Maiko to talk to you.
-[X] You're always looking out for me, even when I'm making things harder for you. But you don't seem to have anyone looking out for you, and you're always acting like the cool senpai who isn't bothered by anything even when you are.
-[X] You don't have to talk to me. But please, will you talk to someone? I'm worried about you.
No. of votes: 1
Nervos Belli
Vote tally:
##### 3.21
[x] Let it go for now, finish dealing with this stuff and go talk to Minami and Yumi.
-[x] Talk to Yumi about stuff, now that she's officially joined.
--[x] Grill her for up-to-date intel on the local area, since Maiko's been a hermit for the last couple years
--[x] Talk about her role in your rapidly-growing super cool magical girl team.
-[x] Talk to Maiko about stuff.
--[x] Momoko's house and anything else Momoko left. Does Maiko need help taking care of it?
--[x] See if she wants to talk about her old team.
-[x] Talk to Minami about stuff, since she seemed worried about you. (write-in topic)
--[x] Why is she worried?
No. of votes: 6
UbeOne, veekie, Always Late, Unitveras, Balduran, PoptartProdigy
[x] Push a bit harder to get Maiko to talk to you.
-[X] You're always looking out for me, even when I'm making things harder for you. But you don't seem to have anyone looking out for you, and you're always acting like the cool senpai who isn't bothered by anything even when you are.
-[X] You don't have to talk to me. But please, will you talk to someone? I'm worried about you.
No. of votes: 1
Nervos Belli
Making my way through, some thoughts I've had so far... (Chp 1, part 4)
At the Video-Game Tournament Thingy we noticed a bunch of different types of magic, and I can't recall if we I.D'ed everyone from then or not.
Magical Power - Everyone Male/Female apparently has some small ember of magical power in them?
Who's the School President for Yui's school? She was mentioned off hand and having strong feelings about Asami (Fear / Crush?) might be important.
Asami's got 'Official School Council Lock picks'...?
Yui Power Usage Questions / Experiments that I don't recall us talking about or bringing up that re-reading made me think about.
FRIENDSHIP POWER - Can Yui 'Borrow' energy from her friends for even more powerful attacks / to blend in their 'attacks' with her own or something? Can Yui 'Give' energy to her friends for it to work the other way around? Based off her Axiom it seems... not implausible.
Power Of People - Can Yui 'Borrow' energy from large crowds to do something with? If we could've snagged some energy from all those people at the concert could that've made up enough to do something cool?
Magical Girl Prep - Can (if Yui can take energy / give energy to non magical girls) Yui boost potential to make more powerful magical girls? Can Yui boost her non-magical friends to make them temporarily(?) stronger / faster / magical attacks?
Edit: No one's posted so here's a few more things I'm wondering about magically speaking...
Witch's Kiss -> We grabbed control and had a... Psudo-Skitter like control of them, and during the struggle it seemed like either us or the Witch could've done something to the other perhaps...? More to explore here... and I'm wondering if Yui can do the same to people?
At the Video-Game Tournament Thingy we noticed a bunch of different types of magic, and I can't recall if we I.D'ed everyone from then or not.
Magical Power - Everyone Male/Female apparently has some small ember of magical power in them?
Who's the School President for Yui's school? She was mentioned off hand and having strong feelings about Asami (Fear / Crush?) might be important.
Asami's got 'Official School Council Lock picks'...?
Yui Power Usage Questions / Experiments that I don't recall us talking about or bringing up that re-reading made me think about.
FRIENDSHIP POWER - Can Yui 'Borrow' energy from her friends for even more powerful attacks / to blend in their 'attacks' with her own or something? Can Yui 'Give' energy to her friends for it to work the other way around? Based off her Axiom it seems... not implausible.
Power Of People - Can Yui 'Borrow' energy from large crowds to do something with? If we could've snagged some energy from all those people at the concert could that've made up enough to do something cool?
Magical Girl Prep - Can (if Yui can take energy / give energy to non magical girls) Yui boost potential to make more powerful magical girls? Can Yui boost her non-magical friends to make them temporarily(?) stronger / faster / magical attacks?
Edit: No one's posted so here's a few more things I'm wondering about magically speaking...
Witch's Kiss -> We grabbed control and had a... Psudo-Skitter like control of them, and during the struggle it seemed like either us or the Witch could've done something to the other perhaps...? More to explore here... and I'm wondering if Yui can do the same to people?
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Note from canon PMMM: Kyubey never said anything about boys being unable to contract, only that teenage girls have the most potential.
There was an explicit answer on that one in one chapter or another. Yui's thing is power, not control. She was overpowering the witch to use control channels it already established, but she can't create control out of nothing.
Yeah that was later on in her first meeting with SENPAI. Apparently it might also include the Lich Bond Puella have but Yui's not gonna do it because that's really wrong/bad.
I think we can(?) maybe power up other people via 'charging' them or something with magical power because that seems to fit under POWER, so that's a maybe.
Uh, Yui was gonna try and see if she could learn how to recognize everyone via magic-vision only by turning her eyesight off... might be useful skill to learn for any invis-puella or monsters.
Echo
Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before
- Location
- "echolocation" dur hur hur
Aside from Harriet and anything related to her, I think there were only two obvious sources of magical power. One was Maiko, intervening to block Harriet's emotional influence on the crowd. I don't recall if the other one (described as resembling an angry sunburst or such) was ever confirmed explicitly or not, but that was Asami. Why she's radiating as much magic as a magical girl without contracting is unknown.
Absolutely everything has some amount of "magic", actually. Regular humans generally produce small amounts, but enough that Yui can recognize them as such with her magic sense (she could, for example, count how many people are in a closed room). Other living things, as well as some inanimate objects, also produce tiny amounts of magic. The ambient haze that prevents Yui from seeing into the distance with her magic sense is largely due to the sheer mass of bugs and plant life everywhere adding up to a fair amount of background magic.
The Student Council President is a he, and is nobody in particular right now. His character will be fleshed out as needed. If you'd spent more time doing non-meguca stuff at school he might have come up somehow?
She's on the student council, she has lock picks, she uses them at school while "on duty", therefore they're Official Student Council Lockpicks, QED.
Asami has a very flexible view of what constitutes legitimate authority.
What Yui did to the Witch there was actually kind of horribly invasive. Like, think Evangelion and the metaphysical implications of tearing holes in someone else's AT Field, that sort of thing. In both attempts, the one who lost the battle of wills broke off the connection before anything could happen. Suffice it to say that keeping the connection open after one side dominates the will of the other would result in Bad Things happening to the loser.
Nope, or at least not without some other factor involved.
Correct.
Hijacking a meguca's body is possible, yes, but far more difficult than hijacking the Witch's Kiss. Hijacking a Witch's entire barrier is roughly equivalent to hijacking a meguca's body.
Yui can easily recognize meguca by their magic if she pays attention, though she hasn't really thought about it enough for that to be an automatic thing.
Non-meguca (aside from Asami...) all look pretty much the same to her magic sense.
She can also recognize Kyubey with her magic sense, but he's extremely difficult to see due to absorbing ambient magic and producing essentially no magic at all.
Ch. 3: Light the Path Whenever It's Dark (14)
Echo
Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before
- Location
- "echolocation" dur hur hur
Early Afternoon - Saturday, January 15th, 2011
"Okay then," you say, nodding decisively. "We should probably, uh, finish dealing with the dead bodies outside sooner rather than later anyway."
Maiko looks guilty and/or relieved in some combination, then nods and follows as you march back to the stairs, carefully ignoring the three ominous dolls which are totally in the same pose they were a few minutes ago and also definitely not watching you or anything like that, ha ha.
"There's a kennel out back where we can keep Kaede's dog," Maiko says, as she likewise refuses to acknowledge the three dolls, even the one in the back styled to resemble a priest. You can tell that one's a schemer... in any case, you have less creepy things to deal with. Like dead bodies. Well, dead-ish. You're not quite sure how that really works with magical girls.
Minami and Yumi look up as you enter and greet you in the distinct manner of those who have abruptly stopped discussing someone who just entered the room. You squint suspiciously at them as you pass.
Outside, you quickly discover that Kaede's dog has little interest in going anywhere her body isn't. After several minutes of attempting to coax it into cooperating, Maiko sighs and starts flipping through her grimoire. She quickly finds whatever she's looking for, then transforms in a swirl of shadow. She begins muttering under her breath in a language you don't recognize and tracing paths in the air with complicated hand gestures, creating geometric figures and complex diagrams, drawn in green light and floating in midair. The whole process takes several seconds of, judging by her body language, intense focus. Upon completion, the diagrams vanish with a pulse of magic.
You stare at Maiko in confusion. "Uh... what was that about?"
"Observe," Maiko says, then speaks to Kaede's dog in a low voice. After a series of commands, it obediently follows her to the kennel.
"Huh," you say. "You have a magic spell to... mind control dogs?"
Maiko cocks her head and you're pretty sure she just rolled her eyes ...it's hard to tell under all the spookiness. "More like some manner of mild hypnosis that causes the target to perceive me as equivalent to any relevant authority figures," she says. "In this case, the dog obeyed me as if I were Kaede."
"Sounds handy and only slightly creepy," you say. "Uh, have you used that before? It seemed familiar."
"Not as much as you'd think, and no, I haven't." Maiko sounds oddly pleased with herself for some reason, but she doesn't elaborate further.
You scoop up Kaede's body into a bridal carry and head inside, Maiko doing likewise with Naoko's and following behind you. Yumi seems to stiffen slightly upon seeing Maiko transformed, while Minami just goes wide-eyed and stares at Naoko's body as Maiko walks by. You're not sure why it grabbed her attention so much right now, since she already saw the two bodies on her way in, nor why seeing Naoko's body specifically got such a reaction, nor why she seems to be looking at a point well below the body and continuing to stare even as Maiko walks past... ah. Right.
Ahem. Okay, yeah, you can't really argue with that.
Anyway.
After placing the two bodies into the room with the odd magical effect you remind Maiko as diplomatically as possible that some people find her costume slightly distracting. She detransforms without comment and the two of you return to the main floor and join the others at the table.
You note a distinct lack of tasty junk food or, uh, interesting costumes to occupy your attention sooo you suppose it's time to get down to business. Yumi still looks slightly uncomfortable for some reason, so you decide to start with Minami. "Thanks for coming over here, Minami," you begin. "Seemed like you were kinda worried when you got here. Anything going on? Uh, besides the obvious I guess?"
"The obvious being what, basically everything going on?" Minami replies. "Just... worried in general. The last few days have been amazing but I just... keep seeing how everything might fall apart." She shrinks down a bit. "I never realized just how lonely and unhappy I was before you dragged me into all this, see? ...I don't want to go back to that."
You hop out of your chair and give Minami a quick hug. Out of the corner of your eye you notice Yumi actually scowling, but by the time you return to your seat she's schooled her expression back in line with her usual aloof, relaxed attitude. What was that about?
"Let's see if we can put Minami's mind at ease a bit," you say. "Yumi, I hereby officially welcome you to my super cool magical girl team! Now that you're on board, what's your role gonna be? Kinda got the impression you don't like fighting."
"Correction: I don't like risking my life," Yumi says. "Speaking both objectively and according to my own biases, I can function better offering non-combat support. We're hardly lacking in offensive power, I note."
You beam happily. "Right! So, how 'bout we start with your thoughts on the big picture? Most of Maiko's intel is a bit out of date."
Yumi hums thoughtfully, giving Maiko an appraising look, then shaking her head slightly and turning back to you. "Out of date by roughly two years, I assume," she says. "Tokyo remains a hellhole. The people change, the situation doesn't. Outlying areas have gotten a bit less stable over time, perhaps. We're likely to see other groups trying to take over territory, but I don't expect many; they're likely to be too busy backstabbing each other." Yumi drums her fingers on the table, thinking. "Our first, indirect, problem is the Kanagawa situation. The area around Kawasaki has been getting steadily more lethal in recent years ever since someone laid claim to a huge chunk of territory and blocked off any gradual territory shifts to the southwest."
"Someone being greedy?" Maiko asks.
Yumi shakes her head. "Worse: Someone being idealistic."
You pout. "What's wrong with that?"
"Supposedly she's difficult to work with, but rumor has it she was on good terms with Kisaragi, so it's hard to say." Maiko frowns at that, but Yumi continues speaking. "Point is, nobody wants to deal with her and everything between her and Tokyo is overcrowded. Means we can expect more refugees like Minamori. A lot more."
Maiko grumbles. "Until we're just as overcrowded, you mean."
"Yes."
"Our second major threat are Kisaragi's more, ah, fervent enemies. She did not cease acquiring such in the previous two years, in case that wasn't obvious. I don't know much beyond that."
Maiko frowns again and seems to bite down on a reply.
Yumi shrugs and continues. "Our third major threat are the groups in northeast Tokyo and Chiba Prefecture," she says. "Several are large, stable, well-organized, and looking to expand." She looks thoughtful for a moment. "The refugees and Kisaragi's reputation may work in our favor, since the other groups won't want to deal with the mess." Yumi drums her fingers on the table again. "Lots of rumors about that area, few consistent and credible. One group has a reputation for being all but invincible, but I don't know who or why. One group, probably a different one, is supposedly going the Kansai Syndicate route and taking over the criminal underworld and may or may not have Yakuza connections."
Minami's eyes light up at that, which is slightly worrying but on the other hand the idea is basically something out of an anime and therefore you can't really argue. "I can't decide if that sounds awesome or terrifying," you say. "Leaning toward 'both'."
"Rumor also has it that one or more groups out in Chiba were started by girls who left Nagamioka for one reason or another," Yumi says. "Given how... polarizing Kisaragi was, it's possible that some might be happy to return, though Sakue's presence may complicate matters."
Maiko gets a distant look in her eyes at that, looking more thoughtful than unhappy. Progress?
"That reminds me," you say, before Maiko can start brooding again. "Maiko, what's the situation with this house? Or anything else of Momoko's, I guess... like, do you need help taking care of it?"
Maiko stares blankly at you for a moment, then shrugs. "I... I don't know," she says. "Honestly I've been... going through the motions, mostly. Coming by here to check on things." Maiko sighs, slumping down and suddenly looking very tired. "We might as well use it for meeting up," she says, "rather than imposing on Minami."
"I don't mind," Minami says. "My secret base can't fit more than five or six people, though."
Yumi raises an eyebrow at 'secret base', but apparently decides not to ask.
Your eyes drift to the wall of portraits and you want to ask Maiko about her old team, but she notices where your attention has gone and looks even more morose, so you decide this is probably not the time to bring it up. Besides, you still have the impression that something else is bothering her as well.
An uncomfortable silence settles over the room. Everyone else seems to be lost in their own thoughts, so you clear your throat. "Well, uh. Yumi, anything else?"
"Big picture stuff? Nothing, really," she says. "I don't know your immediate plans and goals, so I can't advise in further detail."
"Um. Acquire friends and beat up Witches?" you say.
...you wilt slightly under the look Yumi gives you.
"I've been busy," you say defensively. "Getting the hang of magic and making contact with other local magical girls seemed like the most important thing."
"Ah, right. Fair enough," Yumi says. "It's easy to forget just how new you are."
"For your information, I am going to take that as a compliment," you declare. "And, uh, yeah. I should probably figure out some plans and stuff." There probably isn't much else to accomplish in this meeting, though. Your team has suddenly gotten a lot bigger and keeping everyone on the same page is going to get tricky with, uh... five, eight, nine... maybe ten or eleven people in total? Ugh, you're not even sure how many people count as 'on your team' at this point... being a protagonist continues to be complicated, it seems.
[x] Talk about more stuff with Maiko, Minami, and Yumi. (write-in topic)
[x] Hang out with Maiko, Minami, and/or Yumi doing non-magical-girl things if they're interested. You're pretty sure none of them have much of a social life, so... (write-in activity to distract your unhappy friends with)
[x] You've... probably missed watching Asami do her thing. Natsuki is not gonna be happy so maybe you should forget about magical girl stuff for a while and go hang out with her?
[x] Checking on Koharu might be a good idea at some point. If you stop by her house, maybe her parents would let you visit her for a bit out of gratitude for your heroic deeds.
[x] You're kind of worried about the situation with Shinobu's, uh, everything. Pester her for a bit maybe? (write-in what to talk about)
[x] Brainmail Chou and make as many stupid plant puns as you can think of. ...what's the worst that could happen?
[x] Go home and spend some quiet time decompressing and trying to deal with everything that happened today.
[x] (write-in?)
All the rigmarole with waving her hands around and speaking an incantation is the "normal" way for Maiko to use her magic, by the way. The shortcuts that allow her to use spells quickly and without transforming are also something she developed on her own, and come from the pendant she wears. She has some basic shortcuts that can be used for any spell but require up to an hour of studying and memorization to use with spells she doesn't cast often. A small handful of spells are entirely automated and encoded into the pendant in full, and while those can be changed it takes several days of careful work to do so. The spells themselves are something vaguely between a computer program and a persuasive essay; a meticulously constructed argument proving in great detail exactly why the universe should shut up and do what she tells it to.
Oh, and as an aside--it is possible for Yumi to regain her wish magic, if you handle things right. Not easily, though.
[x] Hang out with Maiko, Minami, and/or Yumi doing non-magical-girl things if they're interested. You're pretty sure none of them have much of a social life, so convince them all to go to a photo booth and take some group and individual photos. Time to get some pictures of living people to decorate the walls! Everybody gets copies.
[x] Brainmail Chou and make as many stupid plant puns as you can think of. ...what's the worst that could happen?
[x] After the photos pick up some dog food at a pet store, so you can get advice on how to take care of Kaede's dog's breed. And so you can look at the pets for sale, of course.
Remind me, what do we know about Yumi's wish magic and how she lost it. Anything?
[x] Brainmail Chou and make as many stupid plant puns as you can think of. ...what's the worst that could happen?
[x] After the photos pick up some dog food at a pet store, so you can get advice on how to take care of Kaede's dog's breed. And so you can look at the pets for sale, of course.
Remind me, what do we know about Yumi's wish magic and how she lost it. Anything?
Echo
Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before
- Location
- "echolocation" dur hur hur
Before it was mentioned it in the previous update, I don't think Yui even knew that it was possible to lose wish magic.
Maiko knows the full story, obviously, but generally she's not going to tell you anything that directly involves someone else's wish. Maiko is very good at keeping secrets.
I wonder if we can drain it from objects, and if that does anything to the objects drained.
Or for the matter, pump grief into them.
What's the smallest possible unit of suffering measured in?
Hmm, injecting Yui into the loser? Would a witch suddenly turn pink if it kept pushing?
[x] You've... probably missed watching Asami do her thing. Natsuki is not gonna be happy so maybe you should forget about magical girl stuff for a while and go hang out with her?
Don't forget them!
- Location
- Hearst Castle
Well, we know that Maiko can do that...
Glad to see one of my favorite quests making a return, Echo. Seems like a great week for quest revivals, huh?
Echo
Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before
- Location
- "echolocation" dur hur hur
Removing internal intrinsic magic from things that have any is inherently a destructive process (well, unless you have Incubator-level magitek available). Absorbing the extra magic that leaks out (which is most of what Yui sees with her magic sense) is possible but too difficult to be worthwhile in most cases.
Maiko's stuff can make use of it (the three surveillance drones were an experiment at powering larger devices; small gadgets like the stuff built into her glasses also absorbs ambient magic), and thanks to her wish Yui can probably do something with ambient magic if she figures out how. Which is why letting Yui watch Nanoha could be very dangerous.
The SI unit of suffering is the milliSayaka, isn't it?
That said, keep in mind that "grief" is a sort of substance made of magic, but entirely distinct from pure magic. Having intrinsic internal magic is a necessary but not sufficient condition for being able to contain the corruption extracted from a Soul Gem.
Maiko can forcibly transfer corruption between suitable containers. Thus far the only such containers she knows of are souls, but she doesn't have any working theoretical basis to explain why those are suitable and other things aren't.
More like absorbing the loser into Yui. It'd be a good way to accidentally a Walpurgisnacht.
...
But alternatively, could we do a Puellaisnacht?
I.E like in X-Com and other shows with Psi-powers can we get like a network going where all our allies are 'one' and share vision / work as a hive-mind and all that for a huge boost in combat potential?
Exactly what some of my thoughts have been about~
... hey can we use Pure Magic to contain Grief and cleanse Soul Gems via flushing them with ambient pure magic?
Hmm, so we find something renewable and then drain it to dust.
*Channels Sailor Moon Villain*
So instead of drawing in motes of light and disintegrating magical constructs in the suction area, Yui rips apart magical constructs AND physical objects to fuel even bigger, more fuck-offy beams?
Or actually, wouldn't that allow Yui to get more bang for less grief?
Probably that grief itself is made of souls.The SI unit of suffering is the milliSayaka, isn't it?
That said, keep in mind that "grief" is a sort of substance made of magic, but entirely distinct from pure magic. Having intrinsic internal magic is a necessary but not sufficient condition for being able to contain the corruption extracted from a Soul Gem.
Maiko can forcibly transfer corruption between suitable containers. Thus far the only such containers she knows of are souls, but she doesn't have any working theoretical basis to explain why those are suitable and other things aren't.
Maybe if we were less Yui and more Punisher, we could use Grief for executions.
Wait. She can do this while still a magical girl right? And it works on magical girls. It is indeed a good version of Walpurgisnacht!
We could combine to form a single super meguca with the sum of their magic and capacity!
Yui, get ready to gattai with everything. We're going EXEC_SUBLIMATION/Third Impact!
Always Late
Lacking in coffee, sleep, and brains
- Location
- Ohio
[x] You've... probably missed watching Asami do her thing. Natsuki is not gonna be happy so maybe you should forget about magical girl stuff for a while and go hang out with her?
Echo
Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before
- Location
- "echolocation" dur hur hur
...because more bang is exactly what Yui is currently lacking, right?
That said, yes. It won't work in a Witch's barrier, though; the Witch will absorb any ambient pure magic herself faster than Yui could.
Yes. It would be irreversible and the original separate personalities would no longer exist, but yes.
Maiko is pretty sure that's exactly what would happen. It's one of the things on her "experiments that would be too unethical to perform but DAMN it would be so cool" list. This is also related to why she's fascinated by the legends surrounding Big W and why she wants to do science to Lorelei's seed.
No. It would be a total and absolute merger to the point that maintaining multiple separate bodies wouldn't even work properly.
Of course, you have met a meguca whose wish magic created basically that sort of shared senses/awareness effect! Unfortunately she was a jerk and is dead and also you just beat up her teammates. So oh well.
No. That sort of thing is firmly in the category of "if anything remotely like that was possible, Maiko would have figured it out several years ago".
Fun fact: Dumping corruption into a person's soul and then killing them is currently the only way Maiko knows of to permanently erase grief!
- Location
- Hearst Castle
Unitveras
"Return to nothingness!"
- Location
- Tatsumiyajima
Man, Maiko is fucking smart! Also, I can't help but wonder why the hell would anyone try to invade this territory when Yui exists. I mean, with someone like her, your not gonna have much of a window of time before she becomes too powerful to be dealt with.
- Location
- Hearst Castle
Underestimating her, bringing enough individual puella to make up for the difference in force, or just plain having a bunch of people close enough to her level to win via experience gap.
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Unitveras
"Return to nothingness!"
- Location
- Tatsumiyajima
Okay now that's definitely a good way to do it. Though I have a feeling that there's gonna be some new geological holes in Japan when this invasion starts.
So I'd like to brainstorm a bit about what to do with our two "dead" enemies.
PROBLEM: They are unwilling to do what we say, and we are unwilling to kill them permanently. The question is, how to find some sufficiently unpleasant punishment that will make them obey (at least as far as staying out of Yui's territory) but that Yui will be able to consider moral.
This is going to be an ongoing problem, so ideally it would be best to have a solution that can be applied to other recalcitrant girls.
Ideas:
1. Rip an arm off. Make it clear that each time you have to beat them up, they lose another limb. Even though this can be healed, it requires a lot of magic/grief to do so for most magical girls, making it quite a threatening toll.
Issues: While this ought to work for many magical girls, Naoko is a dedicated healer and she's the actual biggest problem at the moment. Also, it might be too brutal for Yui's sensibilities.
2. Prison time. Wake them up and let them know that you're going to make them "dead" again and put them on ice for a week. If they give you problems again, it'll be a month. Then three months... and so on. They sure better hope you don't get killed during their sentence, because no one would know to put them back afterwards. Just saying! The key here to make the penalty clear before putting them out, as well as the escalating penalties. Make them fear it and give them a chance to back off. Losing time is a real threat, because it means whatever personal business they have goes unattended to quite apart from issues of losing their territory.
Issues: Storing "dead" bodies for long periods of time. Also even inactive soul gems might accumulate some level of grief, making it a drain on the grief seed supply to keep them intact.
3. Personalized threats. Take time to investigate each of them and find out what they truly value, then threaten that. Maiko should be able to help a lot with that.
Issues: In many cases, Yui's morality won't let her carry through on those threats either. She's not going to kill Kaede's dog.
4. Just go ahead and kill her. You know it's going to come to that eventually. Naoko is a crazy bitch and she isn't backing down. Yui should stop fooling herself. Don't have Yumi do it either. Yui should do it herself. It probably won't be necessary for Kaede, once you've demonstrated your resolve on Naoko.
Issues: Obvious.
Those are the options as I see them. Anyone see any others, now and for the future?
PROBLEM: They are unwilling to do what we say, and we are unwilling to kill them permanently. The question is, how to find some sufficiently unpleasant punishment that will make them obey (at least as far as staying out of Yui's territory) but that Yui will be able to consider moral.
This is going to be an ongoing problem, so ideally it would be best to have a solution that can be applied to other recalcitrant girls.
Ideas:
1. Rip an arm off. Make it clear that each time you have to beat them up, they lose another limb. Even though this can be healed, it requires a lot of magic/grief to do so for most magical girls, making it quite a threatening toll.
Issues: While this ought to work for many magical girls, Naoko is a dedicated healer and she's the actual biggest problem at the moment. Also, it might be too brutal for Yui's sensibilities.
2. Prison time. Wake them up and let them know that you're going to make them "dead" again and put them on ice for a week. If they give you problems again, it'll be a month. Then three months... and so on. They sure better hope you don't get killed during their sentence, because no one would know to put them back afterwards. Just saying! The key here to make the penalty clear before putting them out, as well as the escalating penalties. Make them fear it and give them a chance to back off. Losing time is a real threat, because it means whatever personal business they have goes unattended to quite apart from issues of losing their territory.
Issues: Storing "dead" bodies for long periods of time. Also even inactive soul gems might accumulate some level of grief, making it a drain on the grief seed supply to keep them intact.
3. Personalized threats. Take time to investigate each of them and find out what they truly value, then threaten that. Maiko should be able to help a lot with that.
Issues: In many cases, Yui's morality won't let her carry through on those threats either. She's not going to kill Kaede's dog.
4. Just go ahead and kill her. You know it's going to come to that eventually. Naoko is a crazy bitch and she isn't backing down. Yui should stop fooling herself. Don't have Yumi do it either. Yui should do it herself. It probably won't be necessary for Kaede, once you've demonstrated your resolve on Naoko.
Issues: Obvious.
Those are the options as I see them. Anyone see any others, now and for the future?
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