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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[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.

[sekimorinashi]

Do they at least have the result they're supposed to? Does ALASTAIR seem to speak the truth?

[grunehexe]

In our first mission... we were told to save the young children of the last dragon in the world, which had just been slain by humans.

- We did. But upon our return, we found out that the "proper end" to that world was by dragon fire, and so we were successful...

[Her expression darkens slightly, looking away.]

They do not speak falsehoods so plainly, but.

[sekimorinashi]

But they might keep some details to themselves.

I see.

[grunehexe]

Yes.

It seems their priority is "fixing" a timeline to a predetermined end... but that end isn't guaranteed to be one we find morally acceptable, or happy.

[sekimorinashi]

[ She scoffs. ]

I wonder what business they have gettin' involved in timelines. If somethin' ain't meant to be, how come people without insight into the timeline can effect it at all?

Seems t'me a bit like they're playin' god where they ain't supposed to.

[grunehexe]

I could not tell you- but I would like to know just as well. "Fate' is something I have always tried to accept, but this...

If they are merely playing at it, they certainly have the power and resources to back it up.

[sekimorinashi]

Seems fishy. I don't like it.

[grunehexe]

I do not favor this situation either. But we are, unfortunately... Stuck.

[sekimorinashi]

Yeah, 'pparently we are. Guess we just gotta do what we can.

[ She sounds a little bitter about it but, really, she thought ... She thought she was done with situations like that.

Perhaps it's stupid to think people will never not try to restrict you. ]

[grunehexe]

Until we can return to our own worlds, at least. I am sorry for your fate.

[She seems new.]

[sekimorinashi]

[ She shakes her head, about to completely wave it off, but pauses for a moment before, instead, she says: ]

Same to you.

[grunehexe]

What are you called?

[She's learned not everyone put their full name in their usernames like she did...]

[sekimorinashi]

Just Tsukuyo.

[grunehexe]

Tsukuyo, then.

- Sieglinde Sullivan.

[sekimorinashi]

[ Say what now??? ]

... Pleasure.

[ She'll deal with actually saying any of that when she has to. ]

[grunehexe]

Dubious as the timing is, yes.

[sekimorinashi]

[ A slow nod.

Well. ]

See ya 'round.