@Crimson Doom Thanks for putting together your vote; it seems quite serviceable.
I'd like to reassure Maiko. This was pretty hair-raising from her point of view, and even though she knows Yui isn't generally reckless, I think an acknowledgement of how we might have handled the situation differently, and an apology for scaring her, would help her feel better.
To expand, Maiko doesn't want to be in charge, doesn't think she can be in charge, doesn't think she can even be responsible. And as far as she's concerned, she's got plenty of evidence of that. Now, Yui is rather charismatic, and it even affects Maiko, and so she's happy about Yui leading the group, even though she knows Yui is an inexperienced kid, however talented. Thus, I expect mistakes (from her point of view, I'm not sniping anyone; I voted for it too after all) like this one to foment guilt, at leaving important decisions in the hands of her junior, that she can't be as capable as she ought to be (she ought to be a grown-ass woman, she tells herself).
Maybe it's worth going a step further and explicitly inviting her to critique the performance? I'll leave my vote as an apology and constructive self-criticism.
Following the line of thought of other ways we might have handled the situation, I think this might have been a good occasion to sprout a new ability. Like the thing with Chizuka when we learned to nullify magic and use non-lethal magic attacks. My recollection of the thematic "best conditions" for new abilities is that Yui has to be trying to protect someone (Kyoufu, if not the general public), see something that she thinks of as a useful power, and be able to magically throw her weight around to get it. Actually, I think we might have been able to just shut down the anger-aura, which could have given us less-risky options for social.
The sure bet, which wouldn't have risked a less friendly Muhou, would have been to use similar anger-technique but social without getting into a fistfight.
I'd like to do
- [] Research the current situation with her grimoire
-- [] Brainstorm some ideas for where Kyoufu and Muhou came from first
since Maiko gets a boost if we guess accurately. But don't think
--- [] A meguca did it!
is enough to go on, even though I rather strongly suspect it to be the case, on some level.
[X] Take Kyoufu somewhere else
- [X] Try to leave her with her 'friends'--get Minami to look for unfamiliars that, uh, look fear-ish? Or at least not angry-ish?
-- [X] Leave a note for when she wakes up
[X] If Kyoufu wakes up while you're around...
- [X] Think of scary things and try to talk with her (pls stop mind-raping people, don't fear aura us, tell us if you know anything about where you came from, here's our contact information if you need help)
[X] Spend as long as necessary working on it to make sure you don't look injured tomorrow.
- [x] If it gets too late, brainmail Asami and get her to help you pretend you're staying the night at her place
[X] Get a quick report from Minami and Yumi about the newbies they found.
[X] Ask Maiko if she noticed damage and noise of fight attracting observers to worry about, like other magical girls
[X] Hug Maiko and apologize for scaring her
- [X] Impress upon her that you're serious about learning from your mistakes, talk through what happened and what you might've done differently a bit
[X] Assign Maiko some stuff to do overnight
- [x] Ways to block emotion auras--even if makes them less cooperative, Kyoufu's aura is too debilitating and there might be others that are as bad.
-- [x] With two examples now, see if she can search for others like those two
But people wanted to keep going with Kyoufu and then stuff kept happening, so... anyway, meeting up with the two newbies will definitely be a priority tomorrow. Especially since Yui suspects it's going to be a busy week.
