> Calm down.
You flip the fricking-fricky-frick back in. ... That's how it works, right?
You decide to save the blue mushroom for later.
> Chase after that thing! Surely it could have only gone right!
Yes, exactly! You have no idea how this course of action could possibly go wr
B'DUH.> Be the witch.
Okay, you are now the witch. Again.
You guess
she wasn't the first one here, either. Looks like she's out cold. You briefly wish you knew some sort of
HEALING-MAGIC, but with
FAIRIES it's easier to just vaporize 'em and let 'em resurrect, and either way you don't want to waste energy if whoever or whatever did this is still around.
> ==>
You cast your magical senses outward and immediately detect a magical aura. A
familiar one. Oh dear. It looks like you're about to meet, and you narrate this next part with the most Striderian levels of irony, your old pal ...
> ==>
MIMA is almost always bad news. When she isn't, she's only conditionally good. She isn't
GODZILLA levels of dangerous or threatening (but then, neither is anyone else in
GENSŌKYŌ), and it's true that she's the reason you're a full-fledged
MAGICIAN, but this isn't the time to lower your guard. Mima showing up could mean
anything.
You are about to engage in
STRIFE by way of
MODUS: CONVERSE, and that commands must be presented as instructions for what to say or talk about. You quickly realize that it is a highly experimental
STRIFE MODUS, and therefore might be a bit buggy. It seems to use the
RUNNING SCHEMA, which means that lines of dialogue will be added piecemeal, as opposed to the
SYNTHESIS SCHEMA, in which the entire conversation is synthesized at once from commands. You, Marisa, are of course the only one who can accept commands for this particular
STRIFE. Ready?