This also would bind the girls who are loaned closer to us, because we'd have someone constantly interacting with them and drawing them in with how much better it is here. I can't emphasize enough that we shouldn't make this into a territory problem, because the entire point of why Chizuka was induced to go over in the first place was to see if she could steal territory in a deniable fashion. Koharu is absolutely right, but at the same time, we should attack from an axis other than straight contradiction to Konno.
Drawing attention to this, because it's an excellent point that needs to be taken into account. We need to keep making pushing Nagamioka away from feudal structures. Bureaucracies effortlessly out-compete feudal organizations; there's a reason that literally every government and major corporation on the planet is a bureaucracy. If we want to keep scaling we need to be cheating as hard as we can, and this is a very good way to do it.
More importantly, we need to get the bureaucracy in place
now, because we need it to be as solidly entrenched as possible when Kyubey turns on us. Organizational stability is survivability.
I don't think that it affects this vote
that much, but we do probably want to make a point that, even if Konno does end up with a new team in Nagamioka, territory isn't really going to be a thing.
and a significantly too positive impression of Akina Tamazaki.
I guess there was a reason for Konno's "ideal" plan to start with "get Ikue to murder Tamazaki". Ugh.
Crawling back through old posts...
She's also leader because her magic is critical to the security of the territory, so anyone who wants to take over can't just chase her out or kill her, because there won't be a group to take over if they do.
Honoka doesn't actually want to lead and has kind of fallen into the position by default.
Oshigiri also does a fair amount to keep Furuhata's position secure. Oshigiri's loyalty to her friend verges on what could be described as "platonic yandere", so...
I would guess that Ikue doesn't actually care about who's in charge and is propping up Honoka because HALPING.
FelOnyx is correct; she has a track record of undermining authority by virtue of flagrantly ignoring it and she has on-going contact with other non-allied meguca, but she's only considering a coup/split right now because she feels the situation is not sustainable anyway.
She can be trusted to have enough enlightened self-interest to not shoot herself in the foot for a short-term gain and to recognize that powerful allies are worth holding on to.
Konno is the most dangerous, actually - ambitious, wanting to "win", and has chronic backstabbing disorder. She can apparently handle enlightened self-interest, so we
should be able to have her to look at the advisability of undermining Empress Yui's Magical Empire of Love and Justice, with a particular eye toward the relative sizes of various slices of variously-sized pies.
Tamazaki is pretty close to living by the "survival of the fittest" bullshit Kyouko spouted when antagonizing Sayaka. She doesn't do familiar farming because she considers it beneath her; she'd rather go find somewhere that has more witches and remove whoever is already there. She has temporarily teamed up with girls that do farm familiars in the past and didn't really give a shit.
On the other hand, Tamazaki respects power and competence and could probably be forced into compliance.
Tamazaki is relentlessly amoral. I can see why she has so many enemies. I'm guessing that her interest in power is limited: She'd be willing to call Honoka a terrible leader, which sets off Ikue's yandere tendencies.
Tsurumi, Chizuka, Miyu: No interest.
I'm going to update my reads above. None of these girls seem to want power. Ikue and Tamazaki are assholes and will need to be placed on teams that can teach them to play nice. Konno is the greatest danger but I think that she's already realized that undermining us is a terrible idea. We should be able to drive it the rest of the way home with only a bit more work. So really we just need to find teams to place Ikue and Tamazaki with.
[x] You know what? You can work with this. Your usual technique involves brainstorming until people run out of holes to poke in your ideas. With Konno's power explaining why your ideas are terrible you'll be unstoppable! This plan has no flaws.
Extra enfunnyenated.
[x] Spend a bit of effort getting Konno on board with Empress Yui-chan's magical empire of love and justice, take advantage of that ambitious self-interest.
-[x] Briefly explain your rules which you should really write down at some point.
-[x] Point out that a normal-size slice of a bigger happy teamwork pie is easier and better than a big slice of a tiny self-defeating sadness pie.
-[x] Briefly explain how feudalism is dumb and how your crack team of bureaucrats and analysts will let you (speaking of pie...) eat the status quo for lunch.
-[x] Point out how useful Konno's power would be on said crack team of analysts.
Show Konno how much of a bad idea it'd be to undermine you. Give Konno ammunition that she can use to help convince Honoka (or Ikue) that Nagamioka actually is better for everyone.
[x] Basic proposal:
-[x] You're actually looking for more magical girls right now, not less. Absent compelling contraindications you'd prefer to recruit Honoka's entire team.
-[x] Break the team down to remove internal stresses and distribute them through different parts of Nagamioka. Set them up with groups that'll either teach them to play nice or help them with their problems.
-[x] Your guesses: Ikue is unpleasant but will do whatever Honoka does. Honoka just wants everyone to be happy. Tamazaki can be convinced that you're the winning team. Konno has chronic backstabbing disorder but can be bribed with responsibility and recognition. Everyone else will just be happy to have survived Tokyo.
Transparency, go with that blunt calculation, hope we have Konno's number, point out that it's in everyone's best interests.
[x] Specific issues:
-[x] If people do move to Nagamioka, will anyone have real trouble following the rules?
-[x] Would Konno be able to convince Honoka of this idea herself?
-[x] If convincing Honoka directly is problematic, would it be easier to convince Ikue and let her convince Honoka?
-[x] How problematic are Tamazaki's enemies?
-[x] Just how obnoxious are Tamazaki and Ikue? How hard would it be to place them with teams that'd change them instead of being changed?
Identify specific problems or tactics, such as talking to Ikue and getting her to convince Honoka to go along with this plan.
Pay some more attention to Tamazaki, since we're hearing that she's worse than she sounds.
Specifically address the problem of placing problematic girls with teams.
Delegating will certainly help, but on the other hand I'm not actually expecting you to always be on top of everything going on, so Yui being slightly overwhelmed doesn't mean you're doing anything wrong, either.
