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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[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.

[adlantisag]

I know what stamping out the gods will do: it will prevent such an incident from happening again.

A thousand years from now, when she is bored with her subjects, nothing will stop her from razing them to the ground as well.

[grunehexe]

But you do not know that, Kida- that's the problem with all this! Making decisions this monumental without all the facts, and so hastily...

I am not saying that is definitively not the right choice. I am saying we cannot act so rashly, when emotions run high. Can you not understand that?

[adlantisag]

What more facts do you need, little one? Nalanni wiped out an entire people!

That such entities be allowed to exist is beyond my comprehension; why should they continue?

[grunehexe]

So something beyond your comprehension has no right to exist?

[adlantisag]

No. [ A sigh. She should express herself more clearly. ] That no one here thinks it is unequivocally unacceptable that Nalanni has wiped out an entire race--that some are clamoring to 'hear her side'; that is what ails me. That is what I do not, cannot understand.

[grunehexe]

To mortal morals, no- it's not right at all. But gods are not mortals, and their morals are not ours.

And besides- gods are not easily killed even by the strongest of mortals, without their powers limited like we are now.

You find it strange people aren't willing to rush off and attack a god without knowing fully what they are getting into?

[adlantisag]

[ She's left staring at the wordsWhy is this a logical debate? There's no reason, no logic to even be had here, as far as Kida's concerned. She's getting increasingly agitated. ]

I do not care what the gods think. I do not care how the gods think. The gods do operate outside mortal ken—that is precisely the problem, little one, do you not see?

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!

[adlantisag]

I want to help her understand. Don't you see? How can you all be so--??

[ She grits her teeth, forcing out a frustrated noise. ]

[wardance]

Helping her understand if she does not hate and desire revenge for what she has been shown without context that she is not compassionate?

Listen to yourself. Your actions will not right what the Dakal have suffered—nor will your own pain and loss be eased in this manner.

[adlantisag]

What 'context' do you want, Masamune? What context would make you care?!

A god destroyed thousands of lives and you want context?

[wardance]

The Nalawi are incapable of surviving without Nalanni. You would condemn them all to die?

[adlantisag]

Has your mind taken leave? They can be taught. We can teach them. So they might assert their own, independent lives.

[wardance]

We already have a bunch of them running to worship Ryba with Nalanni's absence versus trying to learn to take care of themselves. Many of them love her, this would be like killing their mother on them.

[grunehexe]

Masamune- it's fine. I can fight this "battle" by myself.

[She tries to smile- even though she hates that Kida is upset. That any of them are in this position.]

It's not personal for us like it is for some people.

[wardance]

. . .

[ he certainly doesn't like it, but... ]

All right...

[grunehexe]

[She doesn't like it either, but.]

- Thank you, though. I know I can count on you.

[wardance]

...I will leave her to you, then.

[ there isn't much more that can be said here, so he doesn't try. ]

[grunehexe]

I'll do my best.