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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[grunehexe]

Thank you for this information, Rin.

- I never thought we would need to consider measures to prevent members of our own group from potentially bringing cataclysm down upon our heads, but. Even if we had all the facts- Genocide cannot be made right with another genocide! Or by letting emotions run wild and trying to go off and kill gods whose connection to this world we don't fully understand!

There is no "justice" here, and I am tired of hearing it slung about to justify foolishness.

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[defenceless]

[she hears that, sieglinde.]

They won't be successful alone. They're far too weak to do anything with the energy draining going on.

[grunehexe]

Then I worry they risk their own lives as well as all of ours.

[defenceless]

This is why we take matters into our own hands and force them to stand down if they won't. It's not something I'm asking you to do, of course, Sieglinde, but Archer is a formidable match.

[she crosses her arms, tilts her head. is she honestly saying they should consider attacking their own teammates? yes.]

As far as their own lives are concerned, they belong to them. If they throw them away, and we can't do anything to stop it, it was their own choice.

[grunehexe]

[Though she wishes to have that kind of strength... To act in times like this when it might be needed... She does not have it. And maybe, even if she did... She didn't want to hurt anyone. Archer...]

I simply worry that their own choice is being unfairly influenced by such an emotional topic...

[defenceless]

... It's their own loss. [rin sort of waves her hands out.] It's an unfortunate truth of the world, but emotions are almost worthless in situations like these.

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[dairekka]

Outsiders do not have the right to make such decisions. Certainly not without careful consideration and many, many facts beforehand.

[Her words about justice ring true. Using justice as a shield to defend actions without fully understanding or believing them? That is not justice at all.]

I am concerned they will not listen or care, however. With our own abilities running weak, people will be injured in their attempts. [At best.]

[grunehexe]

That is my concern as well, Yukimura. I do not wish to put ally against ally... But I fear what might occur if we allow an assault upon gods so hastily...

[dairekka]

The simple fact of the matter is that we are not equipped to take on gods, even if it turns out to be the correct decision. We do not know if or when our powers will return, even with Pomarr promising to right that error.

Those blinded by anger and self-righteous justice will be the very first to fall, because they will not listen to reason. [And while he doesn't know many people here, not as many as Sieglinde does, he also doesn't have to worry as much because his comrades seem to be treating this with care and caution.

There's a pause, before he adds:]

Are you holding up all right, Lady Sullivan? [He's... not blind to the comments and arguments going on.] You have far more people to personally worry for here than I do right now.

[grunehexe]

A point that concerns me muchly. There are several amongst our number I trust with the capabilities to stand against the divine... but that is when they are not hampered as we are now.

Now... I fear they would simply rush to their own slaughter.

[She tries to smile, to be reassuring- she's the senior here, technically, but.]

... I will weather this just fine. Thank you.

u wanna go m8?? let's go

[adlantisag]

[ Sieglinde... 'Another genocide', really? ]

Have you no shred of compassion, little one?

Come at me!!!

[grunehexe]

No-

[hdu???]

Kidagakash, do you honestly believe that more killing will make this right? Of course I have sympathy for those innocents who may have perished- but that does not mean the ones who survived in turn deserve to potentially die!

[adlantisag]

Who may have perished? Hundreds of thousands are dead, Sieglinde.

[ She's not yelling, because she's hardly crazy enough to scream at an eleven-year-old. But that Sieglinde fails to grasp this hurts her. She wants the girl not only to understand--but to care. ]

The Nalawi can learn to survive without their Gifts. The Dakal will never have any such chance, not ever again.

[grunehexe]

Hundreds of thousands? You don't even know that- we saw a few brief images, a few horrible moments... and I know the numbers don't matter, and maybe you want to just believe that what we found was definitively true, but don't you see?

You, and the Deathweaver- you're letting all of that go straight to your head! You don't know that killing the gods will end with just wiping the Nalawi's powers out- it could mean the end of the Nalawi's lives, or even the end of this whole world! They're gods.

the hell is this

[wardance]

—Don't you fucking dare.

rizu's wish come true

[adlantisag]

Do not even think of chastising me, Masamune Date. You saw what I saw.

rizu needs a new bucket list

[wardance]

I will chastise you all I wish, Kidagakash Nedakh, so long as you suggest in your emotion that a child lacks a virtue for not having the same vice as an adult!

I did see what you saw. I also am aware there is more to it than what has been selected for our eyes. This was not unprovoked!

AUDIO.

[selfimage]

There'd hardly be justice either way. Well, depending on whose justice we're demanding.

[ but he just sounds exasperated at that. you know, as a god. ]

I suppose we're in a pickle.

[ unsurprisingly he doesn't sound too put out by it. ]

[grunehexe]

[Why are there all these justice shonens...]

Of course we are-

[Face --> Hands]

Especially when "justice" is just emotional retaliation...

[selfimage]

Those rules are different, and I'm at a lack for giving us insight into this world's divine nature about now.

[grunehexe]

That's exactly the problem, isn't it-

You can't just go around trying to kill gods without understanding how they relate to the world- to the people!

Is this a Demeter situation, or- or a Ragnarök one, or-

[Will it have any affect at all, or will it mean the end of the Nalawi, or the world?]

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[sekimorinashi]

Seems t'me like the natural order of things have been thrown into chaos all over the place. The dead are walkin', a goddess is out of her rightful place, and a mortal has been given the powers of a god.

Or somethin' along those lines.

Ain't that what we're here to right, then? Are we really the ones to judge Nalanni for her actions? Or Ryba? We're not of this world. Is that our business?

[grunehexe]

It is not our business at all.

[And it makes her more than uneasy, that they're having to do this at all- that ALASTAIR exists at all.]

... but if we want to be returned to our worlds eventually, we have to cooperate with ALASTAIR to a certain extent.

My concern is that ALASTAIR has not given the orders to act at all, but people are preparing to act on emotion despite.

[sekimorinashi]

So we've been waitin' on them, then?

Have their orders been correct before?

[ Because she's unsure about following them, if they were to be given any. But she hasn't been here since the beginning, so she'll listen to what her seniors, so to speak, have to say. ]

[grunehexe]

We ought to be, at least.

[She pinches the bridge of her nose, shaking her head.]

"Correct" according to them and their designs for the world- yes. But there have been moral obligations to their outcomes in the past.