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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[naturallywavy]

_{[ Ah. This makes his gut twist. ]}

.. Everyone is going to have a different opinion on this.
_{[ As Rin just demonstrated, he already disagrees with her. ]}

As a team, and workers together, we will not get the job done sufficiently unless we agree on something.
It looks like this is impossible at this rate.

_{[ He does odd jobs. He has a team of his own back home. They all have to work together in agreement to get their pay.
A beat. His next words sound a bit bitter: ]}

Pick your words better next time.
There is always somebody— something— worth protecting.
_{[ Even if you have to do wrong to accomplish it. ]}

[defenceless]

[he gives her pause, but it's a little different from how he's ever done it before. her first impulse is to blow up at him, and so she does.

perhaps it'll be in her favor.]

—Damn it! Don't give me that crap and assume you know everything about me from just one sentence! Of course I think there is so much worth protecting on this planet. Do you have that little faith in me? I'm not a criminal just because I don't support marching out right now and slaughtering that genocidal god without preparing for it!

[she covers for her emotions, you see.

you have to be hard or the world will break you.]

[naturallywavy]

You just said it may be next to nothing, what else am I to assume? We were brought here because a kink in the "timeline," right? Maybe that "kink" was the resurrection of this cat thing.

Let's put it to rest. Dead things should stay dead.

[defenceless]

I was being realistic, you moron. In the worst possible case scenario, the remaining Nalawi are doomed to a slow and painful death. The world is destroyed from the goddesses' interference, or their outright elimination.

[naturallywavy]

—Are you absolutely certain about that?
_{[ surely with all of us there, we can figure out an alternative, right?
And Gintoki is usually the pessimistic one, but not when somebody else's life is on the line. ]}

[defenceless]

That it's going to be a disaster if we act without thinking carefully? Yes.