- Location
- Florida
... I will come back to reread this when it's not 1 in the morning and not exhausted. But I definitely enjoyed seeing an update.
Somebody liked a post from this thread like a week ago, or less maybe idk. It reminded me that this existed and also that it's esteemed author was mia, spartan style. I was filled with great joy and great sorrow at once.
...this always seems to happen when I decide to reread the quest. I ought to reread it more often.
oh shit i was just re-reading this like
yesterday
clearly my awesome psychic energies have brought this back
Oh my god I just started rereading this two hours ago and I noticed your last activity was extremely recent, but I told myself not to get excited.
If you reread the update before this one, there's a lot of summarizing what's going on for the various members of our protagonist's side.... I'll be back tomorrow, once I reread and remember what the heck is going on.
The only thing explosions don't solve are interpersonal meguca drama (well, not all the time, anyway), and for that we are also an unstoppable engine of cute.Ok mostly I just want to boom things, explosions solve everything right?
This sort of already happened. Our first contact with this group was because some of the members guilted their most combat powerful but most Grief seed needing member into doing a run on our territory and we shut her down, then were a bit snippy with them when they showed up and tried to apologize and force the blame onto her, demonstrating we can manhandle their strongest member so hard that we don't even hold a grudge against her (and gave her our contact info) plus that we suspected it wasn't her idea to go after us.Ok I probably also need to reread a few chapters to remember names and specifically the personalities of group X we're trying to annex here. In the meantime however, I'm gonna try to justify my need for boom.
So it's like this: We present as an unknown hostile, we make a mess and scare them a bit with our raw firepower. This causes them stress.
Then we flip their expectations. We're not invaders, we're neighbors, we've got territory, we've got power, we've got room. They want in, they're free to come, but they follow our rules, because we're the ones who casually blow shit up.
This furthers the Rift in their group, some are distrustful, others like Konno want to take us up on our offer and join up as refugees. Konno works her literal magic, we get our new recruits while the more annoying elements remain behind.
Victory, legit and honest Yui style, but wait there's more.
Depending on the nature of the group's split, it might still be possible to maintain connections to the annoying ones. Refugees settle in our city but near the border of their old territory. In a pinch, they can go help their old friends. In the meantime, they are given room to breathe, hunt, less intra-group conflict.
....somethng about jealousy, need to refresh on what that is specifically to see if the rest of this is possible.
TL;DR version: Yui displays force, then backs off with open door. Group near fracturing uses the opportunity to fracture in a hopefully not too harmful way, fractured pieces still connect?
[] Offer to go blow up her territory a little bit
-[] No, seriously, like find an abandoned building and just woosh it away as a display of power and to provoke the situation
If you reread the update before this one, there's a lot of summarizing what's going on for the various members of our protagonist's side.
As long as you remember that the main point of this fic is that our protagonist is an adorable combat monster who's staked a claim to a wide area with the help of a mostly retired witch-themed girl who was friends with the person who had the position before her. That person was deliberately murdered by outside forces, along with most of her team, we still don't know who.
And then go read back a few updates to try to remember who all these people are
This sort of already happened. Our first contact with this group was because some of the members guilted their most combat powerful but most Grief seed needing member into doing a run on our territory and we shut her down
It seems like we all kept this story near and dear to our hearts, judging by all the people recently rereading it n'junk.
So it's like this: We present as an unknown hostile, we make a mess and scare them a bit with our raw firepower. This causes them stress.
Then we flip their expectations. We're not invaders, we're neighbors, we've got territory, we've got power, we've got room. They want in, they're free to come, but they follow our rules, because we're the ones who casually blow shit up.
Alright I'm sold. Mostly.Tamazaki respects force. Would a demonstration of power help convince her of the personal benefits to her?
You hold up your wand proudly as the crystal flower blooms, folding outward into the counter-rotating multi-beam configuration. With another mental push, the petals open further as the rotating crystals stop, unfold further, and interlock with each other into faceted concentric rings around a thick central spike.
Maiko stares in fascination. "It's not going to start screaming when you fire, is it?" she asks.
We are pink magical girl Ramiel. Or at least our wand is.Yep. I described it as such earlier. Obviously Maiko has watched the Evangelion Rebuild movies even if Yui hasn't (insert joke about her name here).
The tip of Yui's wand is the same pink as her Soul Gem and has consistent radial symmetry instead of the other platonic solids Ramiel flips through, but otherwise that should give you an idea of what it looks like when it switches modes!
Counterpoint would be that literally using Konno to scheme behind her team's back runs counter to our image or whatever it was that made us reject her own idea before.
some of the members guilted their most combat powerful but most Grief seed needing member into doing a run on our territory
We basically manhandled Chiro.. Cho... Magnet girl in private. Then we postures in front of a few snippy jerks who basically took nothing from the meeting but that whatsherface failed.
Though, "controls metal" might sound misleadingly harmless. If Konno's magic is Tattletale-ish, then Chizuka is Skitter. With scrap metal instead of bugs. Yes, that includes full proprioception and a degree of implicit multitasking. Her magic treats all reasonably pure metal as part of her body, and the 100m control range applies to both the metal and the meat puppet.
By the way, people coming back to this quest, the post with actual pictures of the cast is here.So, one of the things I've been working on as part of updating the data post is a way to take the character profile info and generate all the BBCode garbage to make tabs and tables the way I want, so that I can edit stuff as the quest goes along and just re-generate the post's coding without having to fight with copy and pasting data into a template by hand or whatever.
Anyway, point is, I did things and they kinda work. How does this look for the character profile stuff?
Obviously lots of actual data is missing. But it's easy to add in, now!
Characters
From left to right:
- Asami Amano (Main Chars/Other)
- Natsuki Katayama (Main Chars/Other)
- Yui Aikawa (Main Chars/Newbies)
- Minami Motome (Main Chars/Newbies)
- Shinobu Shidate (Main Chars/Newbies)
From left to right:
- Chou Minamori (Main Chars/Veterans)
- Kiyomi Watanabe (Main Chars/Veterans)
- Fuuka Date (Main Chars/Veterans)
- Rio Higashiyama (Main Chars/Veterans)
- Yumi Kaga (Main Chars/Veterans)
Yui Aikawa / 哀川 唯
Age: 13 Height: 147cm / 4' 10" Birthday: May 8, 1997 Size: Tiny! Appearance: Adorable! That's you!
You are currently a first year student at Nagamioka Middle School and are working hard to build yourself an awesome magical girlharemteam. Team. You definitely mean team, yes. Ahem.
Minami Motome / 求 美秘
Age: 14 Height: 159cm / 5' 3" Birthday: May 12, 1996 Charm Point: Telephoto Stalker Photography
Shinobu Shidate
Age: 13 Height: 153cm / 5' 0" Birthday: Febuary 26, 1997
Koharu Sendou
Age: 16 Height: 158cm / 5' 2" Birthday: September 18, 1994
Sayuki Yamamoto
Age: 16 Height: 157cm / 5' 2" Birthday: August 11, 1994
Tomo Takayagi (transformed)
Height: 180cm / 5' 11" Role: Tokusatsu Superhero
Maiko Sakue
Age: 20 Height: 173cm / 5' 8" Birthday: April 30, 1990 Love Life: Lonely nights with a stack of yaoi doujinshi
Yumi Kaga
Age: 17 Height: 156cm / 5' 1" Birthday: July 15, 1993
Chou Minamori
Age: 15 Height: 155cm / 5' 1" Birthday: May 4, 1995 BestOnly Friend:Kiyomi
Rio Higashiyama
Fuuka Date
Kiyomi Watanabe
Himari Tatsuoka
Yukie Saito
Kaede Ishikawa
Naoko Fujita
Aya Tachibana
Suzume Katou
Kyubey
Ami Toujou
Fumi Nishino
Rumi Tsukuyomi
Last updated as of: Chapter 3.34
Holy crap. If she hadn't charged straight in and instead just prepped a massive array of railguns to fire at us from range, that could have gone poorly.
I do feel a lot more positive about Kanno than I did at the start of this, though! She's doing a very good job of seeming reasonable and level-headed and is no more murderously backstabby than a bunch of other people we're working with already (which really says something about our choice of associates).
And if she deems anyone truly incompatible with our goals for a unified and powerful Nagamoikan magical girl group, and can convince them to go in some other direction without getting them killed, we'll trust her judgement on it.
I think that was me, actually. I practically did a double take when I saw this amazing quest that'd seemingly been cut down in its prime suddenly update again.I happened to look at SV for the first time in like, months and saw likes from what seemed to be a new reader on... Wednesday, I think? That's like 50% of what motivated me to take another crack at actually writing again.
She said that she considered that the ideal long-term outcome given a premise that had us agreeing to her initial proposal, meaning that she'd have to manipulate things into falling out in a preferable way in a deniable fashion and generally be engaging in skullduggery. That is not the same as what would necessarily be the ideal long-term outcome given a premise that has us offering open absorption of the group and insisting on not leaving corpses on the floor in the doing.She's... kinda already made that call on who's compatible? Her "ideal plan" didn't involve getting rid of three veteran meguca with very useful magic for no reason, after all.
Personally I'm hoping for someone who wished everyone would just get along.