text 💎 un: Tohsaka Rin

[defenceless]

[shortly after the storm clears on may 11th and the network connection between both sides of the group is reestablished, the following post appears:]

We're fine, as far as I know. I don't think anyone's dead, at least.

The storm that separated us was brought about by a Dakal named Pomarr. Some of you may remember her as our feline friend who sold her soul to Ryba—or whatever it is she did—to continue to live on after death.

She swept us to an island that looked like it was raised from the seafloor. It wasn't a vacation, but there were definitely remnants of what those big cats must have called home.

Her plan is to revive her entire race, in the same way Ryba "revived" her. As if life-or-death deals with shady goddesses aren't concerning enough, she wants to grant Ryba the power to carry out this mass revival by having her suck Nalanni dry. Pomarr understandably doesn't care much for Nalanni after she drowned everyone she loved; in fact, she showed us this in morbid detail. She's taken Nalanni. Hence, all the Nalawi losing their Gifts and all of this inconvenience we have to deal with.

Pomarr knows where Nalanni is, but she's asking us not to interfere, and she wouldn't give us the opportunity to speak with Nalanni when I requested it. For some reason, she didn't expect that we would be suffering like the Nalawi are. She's promised to try to fix that.

What do we do now, ALASTAIR? I can share anything else you want to know about our meeting with Pomarr, or Yukimura Sanada-san or Mr. Keats can, but this is most of it. We have a situation where the balance of this whole world might be upended if we sit and twiddle our thumbs.

I don't think I need to remind anyone of the potential consequences of messing with either goddess. Or a litter of zombie cats roaming free.

(( ooc: infodump for rin, yukimura, and keats' conversation with a dakal npc, for one of the plot slots! feel free to handwave your character (in either the marooned group or the left behind group) learned this info by reading the post or talking with rin/yukimura/keats/another recruit. yukimura and keats may also be replying to tags! ))

Comments

[aspearation]

You're gonna go fight something and you don't even know what it is?

[ Like she's one to talk. ]

Don't you think you should at least know that first?!

[respired]

I know what she is. But I cannot know the extent of her power beforehand.

[aspearation]

If you don't know what her powers are, then do you really know what she is?

[ In the broadest sense. She's trying very hard not to delve into the already-verboten dissuasion, but it's hard. She's picked a lot of fights herself, particularly with humans of unknown skill, but she got lucky.

Somehow, she doesn't think Ryba or Nalanni are going to hug him when he tries to murder them. ]

Take it from someone who rushes into things without thinking.

[respired]

She is a goddess of fire. I assume her powers are 'fire'. It is simply an issue of danger, Undyne. I have magic enough to withstand a little while.

Others may not.

[aspearation]

You don't know if those are her only powers, though.

[ But Undyne doesn't really have a good rebuttal beyond that. ]

"A little while" doesn't really help after a little while is up, you know. You're still not going alone.

[respired]

[ A fair point -- but not a deterrent. He shrugs. ]

As I said, you may do as you like.

I guess we let this thread go...

[aspearation]

I will.

[ Yep. That's all there is to say about that, isn't there? ]