just the first one where I died so far. that was my first loop as far as I can remember and this is the fifth.

okay, noted. by my counting we're on #58.

I think that implies that something you did resulted in my death

not holding it against you or anything, just noting that I shouldn't worry about murderers on that day in other loops where it's relevant

Yeah. I didn't do anything that would have spawned a new witch but I might have redirected one, or interfered with a girl who usually would kill it or something

we should probably keep an eye out for anyone else who accidentally gets butterfly-effected into the loop

Yeah, this was a surprise, I could not for the life of me figure out why the fluffs were coming after me when you'd tipped them off, I wasn't doing anything weird.

sorry 'bout that, I'd have tried something else if I'd realized they were evil

np I saw them coming

and they're designed to appeal to teenage girls

you'd think they'd be better at their evasions, then, even back when I figured they were cooperative xenosapients I was frustrated by how hard it was to get useful information out of them more than I was charmed by their cuteness

I think most highly emotional teenage girls are probably pretty dumb.

they try to calibrate their statements per person but take a while to figure out what you're like

they had more leeway with emily because they let her bring me back, she wouldn't have hesitated any longer to make the wish that resurrected me if she'd known about the witching thing

I'm sure it would have kept the lights on in a few extra alien houses if she'd witched and eaten you

if she'd known about the witching thing she'd have a policy of never being within a kilometer of me while her gem was above a certain threshold of dingy

doesn't really matter anyway, she didn't know and anyway that loop got discarded. what are the experimental wishes you've thought of?

the fluffs try to know what your wish is before they grant it, I want to know how much that matters

(had not occurred to me that time travel was even on the menu)

do you think she should frontload things with plausible longterm effects like improving our memory and other cognitive faculties

probably!

But I spontaneously heal from the car accident I had this morning

I'm guessing based on the wording of her wish that I can carry arbitrary mental features but not the state of being a magical girl. not planning to test that, though

Being a magical girl has some mental effects

Gem brightness is a ratchet on mood

definitely not going to become a magical girl unless I'm willing to risk staying one, then. also, ugh

I can cope unusually well dim, some people go into horrible despair spirals and full -> witch in seconds flat if they're set off wrong though

witching can be caused by despair and not just using charge?

yup.

also you can't not use charge. you use charge to operate your body.

fantastic.

if you're low enough on charge that it's critical and there's no feasible witches around you can reset and tell me to tell emily to wish to recharge your gem, the fluffs said that's a viable wish

not very efficient but yeah. I have some ways to get ahold of seeds on low charge from start but this might be less terrifying

there's a difference between what's efficient in a wish that's for keeps and a renewable one so yeah