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appearѕ ѕмoĸιng a cιgareттe ([personal profile] defenceless) wrote in [community profile] futurology2016-05-11 07:42 pm

text 💎 un: Tohsaka Rin

[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! ))
healplz: (talk | i didn't order this yellow potion)

video, @ashraf

[personal profile] healplz 2016-05-12 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
Ryba, too. Why? Ryba isn't the one who brought death to an entire city.
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[personal profile] respired 2016-05-13 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
She is a glutton for sacrifice. For death.
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[personal profile] healplz 2016-05-14 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Based on what? [ honest question, he hasn't heard of much from Ryba. ]
respired: and it sets you free (if you search your soul)

[personal profile] respired 2016-05-14 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Oh, word, he wasn't here. ]

A team went to her, in the depths. They learned of her nature. She dispenses gifts, like Nalanni, but at a gruesome price. I found a shard depicting her--an enormous beast, comprised mainly of tentacles--as a deity in the Nalawi graveyard -- suggesting the deer might be resorting to her 'worship' once more.
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[personal profile] healplz 2016-05-14 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
That hardly seems to be on the scale of what Nalanni did to the Dakals. [ a beat. ] But if what I've heard is true that this land must see both of them dead or neither, Nalanni's sins weigh heavily enough for the both of them.
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[personal profile] respired 2016-05-14 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Think you so? While we languish on this island, I am told that cultists dedicated to this Ryba kidnap and mutilate their own in service to her. I will not suffer any god who inspires such dark worship to live.
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[personal profile] healplz 2016-05-14 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[ a beat, then a nod ]

No, you're right. Nalanni's sins are still greater, but it could be that Ryba only hasn't had a chance to best them yet.