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Puella Magica Somniabunt Sanguinis [PMMM/Bloodborne]

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[X] "Helping you is not a hardship, nor is it a burden. So when I tell you that I'm happy to help you, I want you to know that I am not giving you trite platitudes. I am truly and sincerely happy to help you, and I will be happier still to see you happy."
[X] "And on that note....Rika, you have magic now. In my humble and unbiased opinion, you have the best kind of magic. I'm sure we can think of something we can use it for!"
-[X] Make a note to ask Homura if there's any work she knows of that Rika's talents would be useful for. If nothing else, a puella magi who knows the vermin's true nature and hates it is valuable in and of itself.
 
[X] HymnOfRagnarok
Adhoc vote count started by King Tharassian on Nov 18, 2017 at 9:02 PM, finished with 49 posts and 12 votes.
  • [x] Maximum coffee
    -[x] Also maximum sugar
    [X] Angel food cake
    [X] Continue plant talk about gardening
    [X] Ask where she goes to school
    [X] She mentioned something about the alleyway reminding her of home. Is her home life bad? Can we help?
    [X] "Helping you is not a hardship, nor is it a burden. So when I tell you that I'm happy to help you, I want you to know that I am not giving you trite platitudes. I am truly and sincerely happy to help you, and I will be happier still to see you happy."
    [X] "And on that note....Rika, you have magic now. In my humble and unbiased opinion, you have the best kind of magic. I'm sure we can think of something we can use it for!"
    -[X] Don't break the masquerade on magic, but appropriately quiet or subtle
    -[X] Make a note to ask Homura if there's any work she knows of that Rika's talents would be useful for. If nothing else, a puella magi who knows the vermin's true nature and hates it is valuable in and of itself.
    [X] "Helping you is not a hardship, nor is it a burden. So when I tell you that I'm happy to help you, I want you to know that I am not giving you trite platitudes. I am truly and sincerely happy to help you, and I will be happier still to see you happy."
    [X] "And on that note....Rika, you have magic now. In my humble and unbiased opinion, you have the best kind of magic. I'm sure we can think of something we can use it for!"
    -[X] Make a note to ask Homura if there's any work she knows of that Rika's talents would be useful for. If nothing else, a puella magi who knows the vermin's true nature and hates it is valuable in and of itself.
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    [X] Rich chocolate souffle... Light, crisp strawberry shortcakes... Mouthwatering vanilla ice cream... Lemon tarts... Screw it, Rika was right. You have to try everything here. Good thing you've got so many paper bits!
    [X] Angel food cake
    [X] Continue plant talk about gardening
    [X] Ask where she goes to school
    [x] Hymn
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ok, writing things down now, got one bit of dialogue down already that I'm particularly proud of. If anyone realises what it is a reference to, there will be a special prize. It's nothing too obscure, just a little old.
 
Sorry for the wait, just been feeling a bit burnt out I suppose. After this update's done, I think I'll give this week over to doing a fun omake or two, just so I can rebalance the ratio of fun : obligation in my motivation for writing this. Consider suggestions for that to be opening now while I try to keep myself from procrastinating long enough to finish this update.
 
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Transcend the Hunt - pt. 9 [Smol edition]
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    • You could see the thoughts circling in her eyes, prowling round and round within her head just waiting for a moment of weakness to leap in and begin spilling blood.

    That was one thing that you were not going to let happen. You were not going to let that rodent win, after all it had done to her.

    Therefore, you did something to remind her that she should be focusing on you, and not the demons of self-loathing that had had been bled forth by some infected wound within her psyche.

    You leaned across the table and gave her a firm but gentle poke between the eyes.

    You had bought yourself an opening, a half-second of shock that your well-meaning violation of her personal space had wrought, chasing away her toxic introspection for just a moment.

    "I still look like a person, right?"

    "Er-"

    "I mean sometimes I forget, and I only notice after like half an hour that I've been a shrub or a tree the whole time. It's a bit embarrassing really."

    What? Yes, yes, of course you're a person. Wh-"

    "Because if I look like a person, then I presume I've still got expressions, right?"

    You give an experimental gurn, giving yourself the look of someone who had been looking questioning and supercilious just before suffering a massive stroke.

    Rika can't help herself, and though she seems more than a little bewildered by the path this conversation has just taken, she smirks and shakes her head in the manner of one watching a friend utterly embarrass themselves.

    "Why? Just why?"

    Returning your face to a slightly more comfortable configuration, you continue.

    "Because then you should be able to tell that I'm here because I want to be here, and trust that I'm not about to lie to you about that sort of thing."

    "I…thank you…it's just…."

    She trails off again, the words that she could have spoken too fragile and thin to exist outside of the confines of her mind. What could you really say, when the problem did not even exist in words, but in the lurking, nameless nagging doubts that bubble up from the most dismal corners of your mind.

    I Know and its derivatives were probably the easiest way, a platitude to slide past this awkward conversational cul-de-sac, but you weren't terribly confidant that avoiding this particular topic would make things any better.

    Then again, were there really any words at all that could fix this? Right now, that was just a big fat no, but you had a preference for sooner rather than later if you were being honest with yourself, and there was always the worry that trying to push her too quickly might end up backfiring into both your faces.

    Really, there was only one choice. You were just going to have to be yourself, and hope that it would be enough. Well, there was that and attempting to dive into her mind to strike at the root of this problem, but you doubt that would turn out particularly well.

    "…Rika, let's say for the sake of argument that this cake here represents your problems. I'm not here just because of the cake, and I certainly wasn't expecting it to be here when I rolled out of bed this morning, but you know what?"
    "What?"

    Her face was caught between appreciation of the point you were trying to make and the particular set of tics that were becoming increasingly familiar as the sign that someone was humouring you, usually just to see where you were going with something.

    "Watch."

    And you proceed to systematically demolish the delicate angel cake set before you until only crumbs and a faint smear of strawberry fluids remain. You interlace your fingers over your stomach and lean back in your chair.

    "I have eaten the cake. Why? Because I'm the girl that makes the cake go away. I enjoyed eating the cake, and I am enjoying having eaten the cake. See?"

    She shakes her head at you, an eyebrow of scepticism raised at you, though the corners of her mouth were raised when she did it, so you think that you can call that at least a draw.
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    We're all just doing what we can, SV.
    TtH pt. 9.5 will continue on this with the magic/job aspect of the vote.
    For this week, though, all I need is a few fun suggestions for an omake or two to keep my hand in while my batteries recharge.    ​
     
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    • Huh, good timing on my part, showed up just when it posted.

    Origami Clock said:
    Sorry for the wait, just been feeling a bit burnt out I suppose. After this update's done, I think I'll give this week over to doing a fun omake or two, just so I can rebalance the ratio of fun : obligation in my motivation for writing this. Consider suggestions for that to be opening now while I try to keep myself from procrastinating long enough to finish this update.
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    Well, can you tell us what you've been enjoying? Most of the updates seem to be preceded by a comment that you think it's going to be fun, so it's hard to tell what you enjoy writing and what's a hassle for you.

    Should we stick to more general directions for Ruby, since you tend to go off the beaten path? To good effect, but it'd still be good to know what does and doesn't work.

    For fun omakes...Homura goes on a supply run. Ruby follows. Homura feels like the chaperone to a field trip. She has to explain everything, and keep an eye on Ruby lest she wander off and do something Ruby-ish. Which could be anything from getting caught doing her space cadet act on live TV, to from wandering into traffic and breaking some poor driver's car.

    Ruby and Kyoko bond over mutual gluttony.

    Kyubey takes inventory and finds that Ruby is actually making an appreciable dent in his spare bodies.
     
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    QM Pysch 101
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    • For what I enjoy...generally, if there was a bit of writing that made you laugh out loud, or at least chuckle and shake your head, then I probably enjoyed writing it. For references, see the cake monologue above, some of Ruby's more space-cadety moments, and the more diabetes-inducing of the cute girls cute things scenes. Generally the most draining part of any update is assembling all the set-up so that I can write those things and they make sense in the context of the characters and their relationships between each other.

    In summary:
    Fun things: things that are fun
    Unfun things: anything that requires a flowchart or references to a wiki to explain.
     
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    • ......

    I did not truly understand the meaning of heartwarming until I found this quest.

    Badassery, I understood. I watched Gurren Lagann. Horror? Of course. I watched Death Note.

    This taught me the true worth of a happy heart.

    And Hymn's idea about Kyuubey is perfect. That should be a thing.

    Sinks further into TARDIS blanket....
     
    The idea cauldron is already warming up.

    Kyubey's homeship/pocket dimension has a giant projection of the universe post heat death right in the middle of it, to ensure that Incubators maintain a strong mental connection between their task and the reason for it. Mostly because they tried out a few Incubator lines without neural plasticity as a test-run and...well you wouldn't want to see what is left of those planets.
     
    Origami Clock said:
    The idea cauldron is already warming up.

    Kyubey's homeship/pocket dimension has a giant projection of the universe post heat death right in the middle of it, to ensure that Incubators maintain a strong mental connection between their task and the reason for it. Mostly because they tried out a few Incubator lines without neural plasticity as a test-run and...well you wouldn't want to see what is left of those planets.
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    That sounds, definitionally, like the most boring possible thing to look at. :V
     
    Instant Chaos, Just Add Alcohol, i.e. the adventures of drunk Ruby, and Homura's quest to figure which sadistic degenerate gave Ruby booze.

    "But Hymn, you handsome bastard," I hear you ask, "Why does alcohol have any effect on an eldritch abomination made of flowers and shaped like a person?"

    It doesn't; it's a placebo effect. And Homura is going to be so freaking nettled.


    It's Halloween. Trick or treating abounds, puella magi an excuse to walk around in their costumes. Kyoko is scamming people for free candy. Ruby cheats outrageously, because she has endless costumes. And mostly find a reason to have the resident eldrich abomination be the least scary thing about the day.

    Well, up until she is. If you wanna play it that way.


    And for probably my favorite idea...

    Ruby pops into Homura room, but as a fully grown and matured Great One.

    Congratulations Homura. You now have a Mom.
     
    Origami Clock said:
    The idea cauldron is already warming up.

    Kyubey's homeship/pocket dimension has a giant projection of the universe post heat death right in the middle of it, to ensure that Incubators maintain a strong mental connection between their task and the reason for it. Mostly because they tried out a few Incubator lines without neural plasticity as a test-run and...well you wouldn't want to see what is left of those planets.
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    what? neural plasticity?
     
    Origami Clock said:
    I'd be writing from the perspective of an utterly emotionless being, be happy I don't just end up with a page of mathematical formuli with an appendix at the end to note what the variables were.
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    If we're doing incubator perspective, I have a very important question:

    Are Incubators cute because they designed their forms to match what humans think of as 'Cute'
    Or because they designed humans such that they would find incubators to be 'Cute'

    ???
     
    Vindictus said:
    If we're doing incubator perspective, I have a very important question:

    Are Incubators cute because they designed their forms to match what humans think of as 'Cute'
    Or because they designed humans such that they would find incubators to be 'Cute'

    ???
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    Former. Noting that cute goes for the monkey brain element that encourages people to take care of babies despite being otherwise annoying.

    Its a survival trait
     
    veekie said:
    Former. Noting that cute goes for the monkey brain element that encourages people to take care of babies despite being otherwise annoying.

    Its a survival trait
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    Point of fact, not all incubators take the same form as Cubey, there are other styles in other areas to take advantage of different cultural phenomenon.
     
    Origami Clock said:
    "…Rika, let's say for the sake of argument that this cake here represents your problems. I'm not here just because of the cake, and I certainly wasn't expecting it to be here when I rolled out of bed this morning, but you know what?"
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    "I have eaten the cake. Why? Because I'm the girl that makes the cake go away. I enjoyed eating the cake, and I am enjoying having eaten the cake. See?"
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    ... I just realized how very literal this metaphor is. XD
     
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