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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[babbylon]

[Good thing Gilgamesh has no sense of social boundaries whatsoever, or that would've wound up awfully awkward!

He does throw on a filter to have a quick word with him in private, however.]

It is probably for the best we do not engage the others overmuch. At this stage, we cannot force them to agree, and it is a waste of time to do so.

[respired]

[ He makes an agitated 'tch' noise in his throat. ]

That has become clear. I find myself already distracted by these pale arguments. Perhaps these gods are linked to this world. But to my impression, they are simply tumors. Malignant growths which must be excised.

[ And even if not ... really, he doesn't care. Not in this moment. Not when his own heart burns with so much sorrow and rage. ]

[babbylon]

It is of no consequence, Koltira. They are defiant, but doubtful any would stand against us.

[Not in this crowd, at least. It sure says a lot about the situation when Gilgamesh might be the calmer individual in the situation.]

I can see that you thirst for justice. I will grant it to you, and we will put an end to this. Neither of us were forged by soft hands; so we both understand, sometimes the hard way is the only way. The right way. The way without any room for doubt or hesitation.

[respired]

As you say. As I hope.

[ He doesn't want to fight fellow recruits, but ... he's not going to stop this crusade, either. The train has left the station. ]

Yes. Some things are beyond diplomacy. Beyond mercy. Some things are solved only by the sword.

[ Most things, really. ]