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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[defenceless]

You didn't answer my question.

[as are hers.

he owes her nothing, but don't think she's going to take that. if she was that weak, she would have been killed by archer long ago.]

I don't need to hear some little mantra you're going to repeat verbatim to anyone who opposes you. Back up your choices. You're not daft.

[respired]

I don't need to justify myself to you. Nor to anyone here.

[ No one knooows the trouble I've seen ... no one knoooows my sorrows .... ]

[defenceless]

And why is that? You're a part of our team, and unless you've forgotten, your actions can kill us. Why wouldn't we want you to explain your reasons?

[harsh, but this woman is harsh.]

[respired]

[ he ain't bovvered. ]

The rest of you need face no danger.

[defenceless]

That isn't correct at all. If you end a goddess here, it could potentially backfire and destroy some of the recruits. No one knows what consequences will arise later on down the line.

I'm not going to let myself and my Archer die because of you, Koltira.

[respired]

[ Koltira doesn't mind disagreement. He expects it. Perhaps invites it, even. But the constant disrespect--particularly from Rin--has grown wearisome. ]

My position is based on what we know. On readily available, documented events. Genocide. Sacrifice. Murder. Your anxieties, meanwhile, are based on speculation.

You are a capable mage, Rin, but I am not a fool. I have dealt with gods; I have dealt with destruction; I have dealt with magic for far longer than you or many others here have been alive.

[ He shakes his head, his expression dark with agitation. ]

I tire of this. Bring me proof of your concerns, or leave me be.

[defenceless]

[is it disrespect? she's loud. she's outspoken. she speaks her mind.

it's been her way to survive.

it's how she shows she cares.]

—I won't let you die a second death.