UbeOne
Daydreaming CPU
- Location
- Philippines
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Scrap metal? For one reason or another, I'm reminded of the silver witch, Gisela.
Puella Magi Imperatrix Mundi, or: Wherein Half Of Japan Tries To Kill You
Whether you go for my vote or not, I think it would be a bad idea to pass up a chance to try something crazy with Yui's wish magic. Remember we've been told she doesn't have the temperament to SCIENCE her magic. The best way for her to learn new tricks is to try crazy shit in the middle of a tough situation when she really needs it to work.
Well, it's a tough situation. Try some crazy shit!
Well, it's a tough situation. Try some crazy shit!
Nervos Belli
Don't think this means you've won!
- Location
- Murica
I understand the sentiment, but I think forcibly making giant piles of metal and rock go out of control is a recipe for collateral damage.
Echo
Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before
- Location
- "echolocation" dur hur hur
I hadn't heard the term "warm reading" before and after looking it up on Wikipedia I'm still not sure how that differs from cold reading... in any case, Maiko did mean cold reading, i.e. starting from no information and probing with leading statements to get reactions, &c.
Maiko herself has no particular use for "hot reading" because if she has enough prior information to matter, she has enough to find someone in her grimoire and get a very literal reading on someone.
Nah, this girl is mostly using steel.
In case it wasn't clear, she saw you coming and timed things so she could grab a bunch of material from the construction site as she approached.
Metaflare
Funfact: I like funfacts.
jus standin there tryin to talk to a girl with magicky calligraphy powers
then metalguka
what a jerk
[x] Fight...
- [x] Pump random surges of POWER into her magic so that she can't properly control her metal anymore. No need to try and take control yourself; just make it so she can't properly control it.
[x] While you fight, try talking to your opponent via brainmail.
- [x] Try to talk her down peacefully. Point out that she didn't overwhelm you in the initial assault if that was her plan, so she has nothing to lose by stopping a moment to talk now.
[x] Tell Minami to...
- [x] ...fall back and assist however she can from long range. ...you probably should have asked what kind of weapon she uses.
then metalguka
what a jerk
[x] Fight...
- [x] Pump random surges of POWER into her magic so that she can't properly control her metal anymore. No need to try and take control yourself; just make it so she can't properly control it.
[x] While you fight, try talking to your opponent via brainmail.
- [x] Try to talk her down peacefully. Point out that she didn't overwhelm you in the initial assault if that was her plan, so she has nothing to lose by stopping a moment to talk now.
[x] Tell Minami to...
- [x] ...fall back and assist however she can from long range. ...you probably should have asked what kind of weapon she uses.
ziizo
Lazily Lurking
[x] Fight...
- [x] For interference, preventing her from attacking
-- [x] Focus on the small projectiles
These things would be the harder to dodge.
[x] While you fight, try talking to your opponent via brainmail.
-[X] ask why is she attacking you.
- [JK] Make at least one pun about magnets.
[x] Tell Minami to...
- [x] ...use her own judgment
- [x] For interference, preventing her from attacking
-- [x] Focus on the small projectiles
These things would be the harder to dodge.
[x] While you fight, try talking to your opponent via brainmail.
-[X] ask why is she attacking you.
- [JK] Make at least one pun about magnets.
[x] Tell Minami to...
- [x] ...use her own judgment
Muramasa
Best Girl
I'd like to try out some stronger and more directed shock waves.
- Location
- The Beach
Well it seems obvious the Kimono wearing girl is likely the partner of the Steel girl: be all obvious and attract attention, when someone comes to investigate Steel girl ambushes with a massive alpha strike. Whether this is them staking a claim on territory, a preemptive strike against perceived invaders, or a deliberate assassination attempt on Yui is unclear. The fact she seemed surprised that her strike didn't work suggests that she was expecting that to kill or seriously hinder us, and was unaware of the level of power of her opponent.
Kimono girl is either unrelated (unlikely IMO), going to bolt now that her job is finished, or going to back up her partner when the alpha strike failed.
So yeah, I think a massive show of power and/or skill or otherwise nullify her attacks is necessary, get her to back off and then open a dialog. Depending on what Kimono girl does, we may want to have Minami run off to overwatch. Depending on how experienced these two are, Kimono may be there to prevent retreat, in which case sending Minami off would probably get her killed.
Thinking of having her keep out of sight and feed us tactical info, for both Steel and Kimono, taking potshots of opportunity at Steel to distract her.
edit: Steel will either try and finish what she started, or look for an opportunity to bolt now that her plan is FUBAR.
Oh, and since this is a prepared ambush point, Yui needs to keep an eye out for those talismans and avoid getting caught in their effects. Kimono was leaving them all over the Ward, with some weird reality bending effects, that's some serious potential battlefield control to keep in mind.
Kimono girl is either unrelated (unlikely IMO), going to bolt now that her job is finished, or going to back up her partner when the alpha strike failed.
So yeah, I think a massive show of power and/or skill or otherwise nullify her attacks is necessary, get her to back off and then open a dialog. Depending on what Kimono girl does, we may want to have Minami run off to overwatch. Depending on how experienced these two are, Kimono may be there to prevent retreat, in which case sending Minami off would probably get her killed.
Thinking of having her keep out of sight and feed us tactical info, for both Steel and Kimono, taking potshots of opportunity at Steel to distract her.
edit: Steel will either try and finish what she started, or look for an opportunity to bolt now that her plan is FUBAR.
Oh, and since this is a prepared ambush point, Yui needs to keep an eye out for those talismans and avoid getting caught in their effects. Kimono was leaving them all over the Ward, with some weird reality bending effects, that's some serious potential battlefield control to keep in mind.
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Echo
Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before
- Location
- "echolocation" dur hur hur
Calligraphy girl is still like a kilometer away and seems completely oblivious to the explosions and shit going on (She's very focused on her calligraphy).
No rock, just metal. She ripped all the metal supports out of the half-complete building, letting all the concrete and such collapse messily. The damage, in other words, is already very thoroughly collateral'd.
I'll actually tell you up front that disrupting metalguca's control will work. Anything being actively controlled like that (e.g., Fuuka's knives) has a magic connection that Yui can hijack or sever, like she did with the Witch's kiss. The downside is that hijacking is likely to be very costly and severing the connection doesn't prevent her from grabbing all the metal again a moment later.
Situationally, this would be a good time to try and reach for some defensive skills; metalguca is attacking aggressively and Minami is a squishy and not-yet-reacting target standing right there.
DarkLight140
Credit to Team
- Location
- Lost in my thoughts
The terrible part is that I still feel that I have to back consistently going out openly, because if you don't show the flag you can't claim to have control of a place. Operating discreetly might be better for purposes of avoiding conflict, but if other magical girls have moved in and we provoke them to attack us, that's good from a perspective of territorial control, because it means that we can effectively confront and deal with them instead of having lurking enemies in areas that are rightfully ours.
It's going to be inconvenient as all hell until we get a proper detection network up, though... and dangerous to boot.
[x] Fight...
- [x] For interference, preventing her from attacking
-- [x] Focus on the dense columns, whatever they are.
-- [x] Until we've completed our surrender demand and gotten a response.
- [x] For offense, hoping to injure her enough that she'll surrender.
-- [x] If she fails to engage in diplomacy or surrender in response to words alone.
[x] Tell Minami to...
- [x] ...do her stealth thing and do what she can assist--just be careful of getting in the crossfire.
- [x] Keep an eye to see if kimono girl is moving in response to the fight.
[x] While you fight, try talking to your opponent via brainmail.
- [x] Play hardball.
-- [x] Inform her that we are Yui Aikawa and Nagamioka is ours in its entirety. As she declined to introduce herself, attempt to lay claim to this area, or even warn us off prior to attacking us, we're going to give her one opportunity to surrender and gain our forgiveness for this foolishness; if she keeps fighting we will be far less lenient to the tune of her needing to regrow limbs.
Fighting for defense or interference might be more in line with making this a recruitment attempt, but this girl used a very Yui-like strategy of hitting fast and hard for shock and awe- and she did it when she knew she was outnumbered. That means she's confident in her own power and will be pushing to angle for a quick win, and we can't count on words working. Fight at minimum probably-effective strength while issuing surrender demands, but if those don't work out or result in a shift to a social encounter this girl needs to be shut down hard. Yui's experience with de-limbing Kaede and having her be fine shortly thereafter and safely handed off to live with another team should minimize the grief loss from injuring others.
Lacking information on Minami's combat abilities, I mostly figure that Yui wants her invisible and therefore safe by default.
Echo
Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before
- Location
- "echolocation" dur hur hur
Definitely a valid point. Maiko's advice is not infallible, so don't take her "I'd rather be discreet" bit as necessarily being a hint or whatever. She's a chronic exposition device, but not a QM mouthpiece.
Muramasa
Best Girl
@DarkLight140
In light of Echo's statement, do you think your vote could suggest creating or making improvements to our defensive moveset? I'd really like to refine our shockwaves now that we have the chance.
- Location
- The Beach
Alright well that just threw a spanner in my analysis
OK, so this seems like an attack of opportunity; someone who just moved in town perhaps? Sees a weird girl doing magical things and looks to take out any girl that investigates to stake a claim on territory. Or maybe Steel girl is an underling of Kimono, and will take out anyone who dares interrupt her calligraphy
- Location
- Here
@DarkLight140 I agree with the reasoning, but added a line for a deflection technique, since I think this is a good time to develop one.
Edit: removed line about calligraphy girl, since she's apparently still far away.
Edit edit: Hey, wait a minute, railguca saw us before we saw her, if she set this ambush. Either she was untransformed when she spotted Yui and then she went around to set the ambush, or she has sensory powers.
[x] Fight...
- [x] For interference, preventing her from attacking
-- [x] Focus on the dense columns, whatever they are.
-- [x] Until we've completed our surrender demand and gotten a response.
- [x] You could really use a way to deflect attacks if you're going to keep Minami safe. Push attacks aside like you steer your beams.
- [x] For offense, hoping to injure her enough that she'll surrender.
-- [x] If she fails to engage in diplomacy or surrender in response to words alone.
[x] Tell Minami to...
- [x] ...do her stealth thing and do what she can assist--just be careful of getting in the crossfire.
[x] While you fight, try talking to your opponent via brainmail.
- [x] Play hardball.
-- [x] Inform her that we are Yui Aikawa and Nagamioka is ours in its entirety. As she declined to introduce herself, attempt to lay claim to this area, or even warn us off prior to attacking us, we're going to give her one opportunity to surrender and gain our forgiveness for this foolishness; if she keeps fighting we will be far less lenient to the tune of her needing to regrow limbs.
It's not shockwaves, but how about below?
Edit: removed line about calligraphy girl, since she's apparently still far away.
Edit edit: Hey, wait a minute, railguca saw us before we saw her, if she set this ambush. Either she was untransformed when she spotted Yui and then she went around to set the ambush, or she has sensory powers.
[x] Fight...
- [x] For interference, preventing her from attacking
-- [x] Focus on the dense columns, whatever they are.
-- [x] Until we've completed our surrender demand and gotten a response.
- [x] You could really use a way to deflect attacks if you're going to keep Minami safe. Push attacks aside like you steer your beams.
- [x] For offense, hoping to injure her enough that she'll surrender.
-- [x] If she fails to engage in diplomacy or surrender in response to words alone.
[x] Tell Minami to...
- [x] ...do her stealth thing and do what she can assist--just be careful of getting in the crossfire.
[x] While you fight, try talking to your opponent via brainmail.
- [x] Play hardball.
-- [x] Inform her that we are Yui Aikawa and Nagamioka is ours in its entirety. As she declined to introduce herself, attempt to lay claim to this area, or even warn us off prior to attacking us, we're going to give her one opportunity to surrender and gain our forgiveness for this foolishness; if she keeps fighting we will be far less lenient to the tune of her needing to regrow limbs.
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Nervos Belli
Don't think this means you've won!
- Location
- Murica
Please don't make us go maximum edgelord. We've entered into her territory, and have been tracking down another magical girl without regard to stealth. Sure attacking us outright is excessive, but her actions are understandable given usual Magical girl conduct.
Plus, what are you talking about, claiming all of Nagamioka and demanding she bow down to us? That's basically Momoko's schtick, and it was very much a double edged sword for her. We're fine coexisting with Chou even if she doesn't work for us, so I don't see why this is any different. We should be focused on defusing the tension and trying to offer a good first impression, not acting like some authoritarian dictator.
redzonejoe
Vaguely Pastafarian
- Location
- Canada
Ideas:
[] Use our power over 'power' to control electromagnetism (one of the four fundamental forces) and battle her control over metal that way rather than hijacking her own powers
-[] Basically be magneto
--[] throw off her aim, slow down her attacks, or outright deny any use of metal by applying an equal and opposite amount of force, depending on the strength and cost of our control vs hers: go for cost efficiency.
[] See about creating a shield or barrier to protect minami (and ourselves I guess). Could be a conjured item like an actual shield, or a pink energy barrier, or... just whatever comes naturally
-[] be the immovable object to her less-than-unstoppable force.
--[] Physically block her attacks with our own body if necessary. We gained this power to help people, and we refuse to let our dear friend get hurt right in front of us.
[] Counter her power with some offensive application of power other than pink destruction beams.
-[] like @Muramasa's shockwave thing. Basically I'm out of ideas, passing this one on to you
Still agree with telling Minami to back off whatever power we end up pulling out, she's untrained and not Yui.
I also like brief's brainmail approach. Sorry darklight, I still love you though.
[] Use our power over 'power' to control electromagnetism (one of the four fundamental forces) and battle her control over metal that way rather than hijacking her own powers
-[] Basically be magneto
--[] throw off her aim, slow down her attacks, or outright deny any use of metal by applying an equal and opposite amount of force, depending on the strength and cost of our control vs hers: go for cost efficiency.
[] See about creating a shield or barrier to protect minami (and ourselves I guess). Could be a conjured item like an actual shield, or a pink energy barrier, or... just whatever comes naturally
-[] be the immovable object to her less-than-unstoppable force.
--[] Physically block her attacks with our own body if necessary. We gained this power to help people, and we refuse to let our dear friend get hurt right in front of us.
[] Counter her power with some offensive application of power other than pink destruction beams.
-[] like @Muramasa's shockwave thing. Basically I'm out of ideas, passing this one on to you
Still agree with telling Minami to back off whatever power we end up pulling out, she's untrained and not Yui.
I also like brief's brainmail approach. Sorry darklight, I still love you though.
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Aoinfinity
Unlimited Blue Works
- Location
- a blue Infinity
[X] Briefvoice
Echo
Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before
- Location
- "echolocation" dur hur hur
So, a couple things:
First, my usual rule about "well-reasoned votes and creative write-ins get more favorable treatment" is, if anything, in stronger effect when it comes to battle tactics. Explaining why you want to go for interference vs. defense, why you're more concerned with the small projectiles or the dense columns, etc. is good because if I like your reasoning I'll probably go easier on you if you're wrong.
Second, remember that if you're trying something new with Yui's magic you're likely to get better results if you describe what you want to accomplish and why rather than focusing on the mechanics of how to accomplish it.
For the record, the shockwave is actually the same effect as the pink beams; it's a very diffuse release of the destruction-y pinkness creating a pressure wave in the air the same way the regular beams make solid things a splode.
It's been previously suggested that other non-beam area effects and/or large diffuse beams might be possible, but Yui's never tried it.
First, my usual rule about "well-reasoned votes and creative write-ins get more favorable treatment" is, if anything, in stronger effect when it comes to battle tactics. Explaining why you want to go for interference vs. defense, why you're more concerned with the small projectiles or the dense columns, etc. is good because if I like your reasoning I'll probably go easier on you if you're wrong.
Second, remember that if you're trying something new with Yui's magic you're likely to get better results if you describe what you want to accomplish and why rather than focusing on the mechanics of how to accomplish it.
For the record, the shockwave is actually the same effect as the pink beams; it's a very diffuse release of the destruction-y pinkness creating a pressure wave in the air the same way the regular beams make solid things a splode.
It's been previously suggested that other non-beam area effects and/or large diffuse beams might be possible, but Yui's never tried it.
Muramasa
Best Girl
I agree with about half of this. I don't believe we should be respecting alleged territory rights of someone who just lethally attacked us outright. Especially if we claimed the whole city. Chou claimed territory but she was smart enough not to attack us straight out.
- Location
- Canada
Personally, I think calligraphy-girl is just a new contractee using her wish magic for fun; mysterious, enchanted objects could be lures for a trap, sure, but they could also be modern* art.
* What would you even call this? Post-modern art? Post-mundane art?
* What would you even call this? Post-modern art? Post-mundane art?
Guile
Having a really great time right now
[x] Fight...
- [x] For interference, preventing her from attacking
-- [x] Focus on the dense columns, whatever they are.
[X] "You are being very uncool right now. Do I go to your house and blow up your construction sites? No!"
[x] Tell Minami to...
- [x] ...do her stealth thing and do what she can assist--just be careful of getting in the crossfire.
- [x] Keep an eye to see if kimono girl is moving in response to the fight.
To my way of thinking, we are basically built to be able to outlast an opponent. Well, we are also built to destroy everything that moves and eat concrete, but at the moment the attrition thing seems more relevant.
Speaking of our ability to chew concrete, Yui is tough enough that I'm not really worried about metal shrapnel, so the dense columns seem more dangerous.
- [x] For interference, preventing her from attacking
-- [x] Focus on the dense columns, whatever they are.
[X] "You are being very uncool right now. Do I go to your house and blow up your construction sites? No!"
[x] Tell Minami to...
- [x] ...do her stealth thing and do what she can assist--just be careful of getting in the crossfire.
- [x] Keep an eye to see if kimono girl is moving in response to the fight.
To my way of thinking, we are basically built to be able to outlast an opponent. Well, we are also built to destroy everything that moves and eat concrete, but at the moment the attrition thing seems more relevant.
Speaking of our ability to chew concrete, Yui is tough enough that I'm not really worried about metal shrapnel, so the dense columns seem more dangerous.
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redzonejoe
Vaguely Pastafarian
- Location
- Canada
hint hint? Alright, editing my ideas a bit.
Alright thanks
- Location
- Down Under
[X] DarkLight140
Vebyast
Nascent Transhuman
[x] Tell Minami to...
-[x] Do her stealth thing.
-[x] Maintain overwatch in case there are others.
-[x] Coordinate with Maiko to deliver a KO.
[x] Focus on defense. Act as a distraction for Maiko and Minami's entry to the fight.
-[x] Dodge big stuff.
-[x] Configure Ramiel-chan for point defense. You can dodge or consciously blast big stuff, like with her sneak attack, but smaller stuff will give you trouble. Even better, shooting down macross missile massacres is basically the first thing lasers do.
[x] Trash talk.
-[x] Do her stealth thing.
-[x] Maintain overwatch in case there are others.
-[x] Coordinate with Maiko to deliver a KO.
[x] Focus on defense. Act as a distraction for Maiko and Minami's entry to the fight.
-[x] Dodge big stuff.
-[x] Configure Ramiel-chan for point defense. You can dodge or consciously blast big stuff, like with her sneak attack, but smaller stuff will give you trouble. Even better, shooting down macross missile massacres is basically the first thing lasers do.
[x] Trash talk.
Metaflare
Funfact: I like funfacts.
Personally, I think calligraphy-girl is just a new contractee using her wish magic for fun; mysterious, enchanted objects could be lures for a trap, sure, but they could also be modern* art.
* What would you even call this? Post-modern art? Post-mundane art?
Honestly?
She's prolly just prankin people