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! ))

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[muddlesome]

We defeated the Bull of Heaven and threw the most vulgar parts of it at the Goddess Ishtar!

[Not "he", but "we." Bros before hos!]

[digophelia]

[ This is one of the more bizarre thing she's heard yet. She's almost tempted to ask what the heck vulgar parts are, before her mind catches up.

Never mind. ]

Then what happened?

[muddlesome]

I was cursed with illness and died a slow death.

[digophelia]

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to bring back bad memories.

[muddlesome]

You have not returned to me something that was lost, it is with me always. What is it that is said in situations such as this during modern times? 'We're cool homie'! ʕ •́؈•̀ ₎

[digophelia]

I have no idea what that phrase means.

[muddlesome]

Neither do I but it seems like a good thing. ʢٛ•ꇵٛ•ʡ

[digophelia]

[ You are too weird. ]

Then why use it if you don't know what it means? It's not something I've heard before.

[muddlesome]

Because I wanted to try it! ʢ•ꇵ͡•ʡ✩⃛

[digophelia]

[ To think she should have learned by now not to question weird words after talking to so many entities in Wonderland. Oh, well. ]

Well, it sounds silly to me and I like words that have meaning.

[muddlesome]

How do you determine which words have meaning? ʕ•̮͡•ʔ

[digophelia]

[ Hasn't she had a similar conversation like this before? Unlike she was as a child, Alice doesn't get huffy enough to lose her temper.

Child Alice would have gone on a lecture, adult Alice is more composed. ]

By knowing what they are, of course. "Homie" just sounds bizarre, like it's supposed to be another name for an urchan.

[muddlesome]

What is an urchan? ʕ•͡•ʔ

[Poor thing. She's walked right into it, not even suspecting that this is all an elaborate game of mischief.]

[digophelia]

Someone displaced on the streets, usually a child.

[ As long as he doesn't turn into the Mad Hatter or March Hare, she's content. ]

[muddlesome]

I thought the word for that was "lost." ʕ • ₒ • ʔ

[digophelia]

They are not always lost, they are discarded, as well.

[muddlesome]

Then can they not find other families who would want them? Children are wealth to men, are they not?

[digophelia]

[ She pauses, feeling a slight crawl of revulsion in her body. It's not seen how she takes a breath, holding her head before she replies.

It's her fault, it's still her fault. It takes a few minutes to respond. He doesn't know that's a sore spot for her. ]

Some do not have noble intentions when they want children. Children shouldn't be wealth to men.