She immediately got into a fight she couldn't win, though. I mean, if Yui had been a perfectly ordinary magical girl and had been taken out, she still had two teammates there who were perfectly capable of taking her on. She may be a good fighter but that doesn't help if you're going into a territory filled with hostile magical girls...
In the end she succeeded in running away, and she did so with a trick play that would have worked on almost anyone else. Yes, Yui tried to be merciful, but an unmerciful Yui would be such an unlucky matchup for anyone that I don't think it quite counts in threat analysis. The only credit I'm trying to give is that Chizuka probably manages a very good mix of being able to run from whatever she can't fight. The point being that she will take this fact as validating her overestimation of the good intentions of her friends.
Very important. Also important - are they actually hostile, or was this just a really dumb move? I'm kind of leaning towards sending Minami to check things out, simply because we've got no real idea of what's going on. With someone on the border close-by, preferably, so they can bail her out just in case. I don't think the average meguca will be able to see through Minami's stealth, but it doesn't hurt to be cautious. I'm also kind of worried that if Yui actually steps into Nerima, these girls will find some way to spin her as the aggressor.
Minami doesn't have to be there in person to check them out. As to the point about provoking them, depending on motivation they might be ready to mess with us regardless of what provocation we offer. Especially in light of:
Given how Chizuka said they NEED this territory, I suspect they've been driven out of their current territory and are on the run at the moment, scouting for new places to take up residence
Very important possibility!

Also, they might be opportunistic and scouting for that reason. And with the level of force we've brought to bear thus far, I don't think they'll have been discouraged.
 
[x] Follow them from a reasonable distance—close enough to track and message them, but far enough away that they hopefully won't get uncomfortable.
-[x] Message them.
--[x] Hey! You can stay here—this city can support a ton of magical girls!
--[x] I just want to talk!
 
I think with the level of firepower she used to attack us, and refusal to talk to means we shouldn't try and recruit her. She doesn't really 'need' this territory if she's not willing to talk about it, they just want it so they can do whatever they want to the people in it.

If they're only willing to fight for territory, and not talk about it, that means we don't have alot in common. It's not like we attacked her first.
 
[x] Leave Minami to monitor Chizuka while you talk to calligraphy girl.
- [x] Keep watch as long as Minami can while staying in Nagamioka herself.

We should keep an eye on her and be open to communication, but there's no reason to go chasing her just yet. From calligraphy girl's demeanor, she should hopefully be a bit less prone to fight first and ask questions never.
 
We need to find out more about this group, say if they've been driven out of their own territory and are willing to fight hard for more. Remember the conversation we had earlier about power only meaning that, when people take shots at you, they skip straight to the big guns? This is precisely the situation where we need to worry about that. If her group tries again, they're going to do so with the best first strike they can muster, which may legitimately threaten us.

Unrelated: Yui may want to start keeping a guard force with her when she goes places.
 
Gah. I'm really annoyed by all of these meguca being edgelords. It's all 'nothing personel kid' with them. It really makes me want to vote to just blow one of them up, but there's no way Yui would actually do that because she's a good person.

On the plus side, Yui is getting better at nonlethal attacks. I think we should really pursue that first opportunity, so Yui can actually use her power against magical girls without worrying about killing them.
 
We need to find out more about this group, say if they've been driven out of their own territory and are willing to fight hard for more.
Agreed. That's first priority in my mind, knowing more about the situation. I'm thinking a combination of Minami spying on them, Yui talking at Chizuka, and Maiko looking them up in her grimoire whenever we get enough information to do that efficiently.
 
Going to do my first customer vote. I think the early bandwagon was pretty good, and the alternative seem like lesser options. But there is just one thing missing to get that right shade of threatening...

[X] Follow her. Pace her, in fact. Minami should tag along in case you get double ambushed by more Nerima girls or something.
-[X] if you were willing to swear allegiance to Yui as your adorable daimyo and obey some pretty common sense/basic decency rules (like 'not killing people' and 'dont wreck buildings people work really hard on them') then we could talk. But if you're going to continue being a butt then you can just get the heck out of my city.
-[X] Be sure to address her by name, just to make it clear you know who she is now.

Making sure that, on reflection, we figured out things we shouldn't know ought to make her more fearful of starting another fight with us. The main reason I support this vote isn't because it will recruit her, but because it makes it clear that we have public ideals, and hopefully we'll get the word spread about us. This should attract decent magical girls, and make anyone who moves in aware that there are lines we don't want MGs to cross. This is a bit of threatening diplomacy to take here.
 
Going to do my first customer vote. I think the early bandwagon was pretty good, and the alternative seem like lesser options. But there is just one thing missing to get that right shade of threatening...

[X] Follow her. Pace her, in fact. Minami should tag along in case you get double ambushed by more Nerima girls or something.
-[X] if you were willing to swear allegiance to Yui as your adorable daimyo and obey some pretty common sense/basic decency rules (like 'not killing people' and 'dont wreck buildings people work really hard on them') then we could talk. But if you're going to continue being a butt then you can just get the heck out of my city.
-[X] Be sure to address her by name, just to make it clear you know who she is now.

Making sure that, on reflection, we figured out things we shouldn't know ought to make her more fearful of starting another fight with us. The main reason I support this vote isn't because it will recruit her, but because it makes it clear that we have public ideals, and hopefully we'll get the word spread about us. This should attract decent magical girls, and make anyone who moves in aware that there are lines we don't want MGs to cross. This is a bit of threatening diplomacy to take here.

While I'm open to persuasion, I do like the idea of this vote. Especially the part about "continuing to be a butt", which implies that if she stops this right now, a dialogue can still be opened. It may not work, but it does give us more wiggle room to work with in gaining information for Maiko and Minami to exploit. More information is always good, whether we end up trying to diplomance them or drive them off.

[X] RubberBandMan
 
Gah. I'm really annoyed by all of these meguca being edgelords. It's all 'nothing personel kid' with them.

Kyubey has determined that edgelords are 12.6% more likely to witch out, trufax.

It really makes me want to vote to just blow one of them up, but there's no way Yui would actually do that because she's a good person.

Well, you did kinda blow Naoko half-up. (She got better.)

Maiko looking them up in her grimoire whenever we get enough information to do that efficiently.

Generally, a physical description of a girl's costume, her full name, a rough description of what kind of magic she has, and a few bits of trivia about her life is enough to guarantee that Maiko can look a meguca up quickly and easily. Less than that, and Maiko ends up needing more guesswork and it may or may not take longer. With only a couple of those pieces of information, it can easily take up to half an hour per person.

Also, searching her grimoire costs Maiko 5 points of corruption per minute, on average. Dunno if I've mentioned that before or not.
 
I really hate the line "Yui as your adorable daimyo". It sort of retroactively justifies trying to kill Yui. I mean, it's generally considered okay to kill someone who declares that they are now your master and you must obey.
 
Gah. I'm really annoyed by all of these meguca being edgelords. It's all 'nothing personel kid' with them. It really makes me want to vote to just blow one of them up, but there's no way Yui would actually do that because she's a good person.

On the plus side, Yui is getting better at nonlethal attacks. I think we should really pursue that first opportunity, so Yui can actually use her power against magical girls without worrying about killing them.
The cutthroat environment of Tokyo encourages edgelord-ism.
 
Alright, here's a vote which prioritizes intel-gathering and clearly laying out the terms under which the Nerima girls might be welcome.

[x] Ask Minami to help you tail Chizuka and to search for the other Nerima girls as you go.
- [x] If she finds them, she should feed info to Maiko so that Maiko can look them up.
[x] With Minami and Maiko, follow Chizuka and talk to her.
-[x] Her group is welcome to move in if they join your group. You're recruiting. She and they would have to agree to not be butts, however. If they can't agree to that, no dice.
[x] Brainmail Chou: you know it's a long shot, but does she know anything about the meguca of the Nerima ward? And has she caught anyone passing through the Naka or Kawaguchi wards that she'd like to tell you about?
[x] Ask Maiko and Yumi for their take on the current situation and the probable intentions of the Nerima group
 
Is this rounded, or is it really precisely 12.6%? :V

Calculated to three significant figures. The Incubators would prefer a more precise figure, but their inability to properly understand the edgelord mindset makes their identification of edgelord-ness somewhat unreliable.

I hope it's exact. What sort of inhuman monster rounds to a single decimal point?

Kyubey does not understand the human preference for arbitrarily rounding numbers for aesthetic reasons.

Chou hasn't agreed to monitor the wards yet.

She also hasn't called to complain about the land you arranged for her, so... the deal is probably on? Which doesn't mean she's going to start monitoring immediately without you asking, but still.
 
[x] Ask Minami to help you tail Chizuka and to search for the other Nerima girls as you go.
- [x] If she finds them, she should feed info to Maiko so that Maiko can look them up.
[x] With Minami and Maiko, follow Chizuka and talk to her.
-[x] Her group is welcome to move in if they join your group. You're recruiting. She and they would have to agree to not be butts, however. If they can't agree to that, no dice.
[x] Brainmail Chou: you know it's a long shot, but does she know anything about the meguca of the Nerima ward? And has she caught anyone passing through the Naka or Kawaguchi wards that she'd like to tell you about? If she's still deciding whether to take the deal, it's fine, but the information would be useful if she's willing to provide it.
[x] Ask Maiko and Yumi for their take on the current situation and the probable intentions of the Nerima group
 
I don't really want to offer the Nerima girls anything yet - we know nothing about them other than that they might be 'untrustworthy' and/or on the run after being pushed out of their previous territory. Chizuka we've actually managed to get a pretty decent understanding of, or at least a workable one, simply by a quick discussion and Maiko's analysis, so maybe her? Let's not suggest deals unless we're sure we want them in Nagamioka.

Also, Nerima neighbours Itabashi. Some of the Itabashi girls we've recruited may have a history... Oh.

Yeah, we should probably ask some of the Itabashi girls whether they know anything about Chizuka's team. Would probably help.
 
I think the current vote is building toward something good here. That said, some thoughts...

Assuming we're letting her leave if she wants to leave, the question becomes "what news is she carrying back to Nerima, and will that news result in something that we want"?

Overall, I don't think we actually want Chizuka's group to join us. Chizuka herself we might want (in spite of the fact that she appears to be willing to kill civilians as a side effect of using powers that give her slightly more tactical advantage), but based on currently available information her teammates aren't worthy of the loyalty she's giving them and the fact that she is loyal means that she won't join up without them. If we invite a group of girls who are explicitly untrustworthy to become our subordinates we start risking issues like "they are murdering people and not telling us", "they're passing information they have as members of the city to hostiles outside it", and "they'll turn on us in battle when they get a better offer". Those aren't things that we want to deal with.

At the same time, it's important to give a coherent party line because she's going to pass on whatever we say to others, and they might pass that on to others. Thus, the basic "you can work for me if you're not awful" message must remain intact even if we suspect that the specific people receiving it are, in fact, awful. If there are not-awful magical girls in Tokyo who hear rumors of us and what we're up to, we want them to know that they're welcome.

But Chizuka said "we need this territory", which means basically "I will be back again with reinforcements if you don't demonstrate to me why that's a worse idea to attack you than someone else before I leave". As a Tokyo magical girl it's likely that she will interpret our refusal to inflict significant injury as inability to do so, meaning that in spite of the fact that she lost this one she'll still have Nagamioka marked out as a relatively soft target- if she can just get enough support with her to take out this one troublesome girl. I don't know that we can afford to have her sharing both the messages "she said we can come live there if we follow her rules" and "she was better than me, but not way better and I was outnumbered", because that leads to the logical conclusion of "we'll tell her that we'll follow her rules, move in, and kill her if and when she causes trouble" for someone who is all of desperate, ruthless, and untrustworthy, which Chizuka's teammates apparently are.

To me, that means that the "pace her and give our standard set of immigration laws" vote is good, but it needs to be accompanied by a directive to give a show of power of some kind such that the message brought back to Tokyo is that we didn't kill her because we didn't want to rather than because we couldn't. How, exactly, we should accomplish that I'm not sure, but I do think that it's very necessary if we're not interested in needing to muster up a posse to throw back a full-blown invasion in this area within the next couple days.

The vote could also use minor refinements like "keep with her up until the Tokyo/Nagamioka border, but don't cross it" and "have Minami track her movements in Tokyo until she meets up with more girls, then see if she can pass descriptions/imagery of them to Maiko", as well as a set of general directions for the likely case that Chizuka just keeps moving and we're left wondering what to do after we hit the border (go back and talk to our native new contractee, probably).
 
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@DarkLight140: Maybe catch her and let her go, then? Indicate that Yui could have utterly demolished her, give her the terms, and then ask Minami to see where she goes and what her team is like. As you've indicated, pacing her really isn't good enough for a show of strength.

Yes, I have been reading papers on animal capture-recapture sampling recently, why do you ask?
 
To me, that means that the "pace her and give our standard set of immigration laws" vote is good, but it needs to be accompanied by a directive to give a show of power of some kind such that the message brought back to Tokyo is that we didn't kill her because we didn't want to rather than because we couldn't. How, exactly, we should accomplish that I'm not sure, but I do think that it's very necessary if we're not interested in needing to muster up a posse to throw back a full-blown invasion in this area within the next couple days.

While I agree in general, I share the thought there is no practical way to do an effective show of killing intent while letting her spread our message. But as for our powerlevel, don't forget we just passed the tracker-girl-who's-name-I-forget back into circulation, and can spread stories about us de-limbing people and putting her in cold storage, as well as the rest of her new team that saw how powerful we are. I think letting those rumors do their work will have to do for now, because so far we haven't reached the point where lethal force is needed, if she runs away.

If she attacks us again, then I'd advise using deadly force. It's possible she may not come back after all, even if the pessimist in me is sure she will.
 
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