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! ))

Comments

[figureitout]

Okay, tell me these other choices. Pomarr isn't gonna stop trying to get Ryba to resurrect her people if we ask nicely. And out of the goddesses, one already made a race extinct, and the other is willing to kill another. So far, I'm not seeing a whole lot of options here that end in everyone being happy.

i'm sorry she's so mean...

[defenceless]

Naturally. We're beyond a "happily ever after" fairy tale ending at this point.

We could kill Pomarr and let the goddesses be, without her intervention. We could support Pomarr and make bets on who survives the upcoming deer/zombie-cat massacre. We could even attempt to speak with Nalanni to hear her side of all of this.

it's fine it's not like he's the epitome of Nice and Considerate either

[figureitout]

Wait, so, you're opposed to us killing the goddesses but you're for killing Pomarr?

[ how. how does that make any sense. ]

And seriously, supporting Pomarr and causing a massacre? Yeah, that's so worse than killing Ryba and Nalanni. I'm totally here for talking to Nalanni, except it's not really like anyone knows how to do that. So back to square one.

v good they should be friends

[defenceless]

Pomarr is much less of a drastic risk, can't you understand that?

I'm saying the massacre isn't a good idea in the slightest, but it will happen if we don't come together as a team and prevent it.

I don't give up until I've tried everything within reason.

the greatest of friends, the start of something beautiful

[figureitout]

Which is why we should be less concerned about her! And yeah, see, we actually agree on something, I think we have to team up to prevent the massacre, too. I just don't see any option for preventing it from happening when the gods are still hanging around.

Killing the goddesses isn't giving up. It's choosing the option that makes most sense. Do you think I want to endorse god-slaying? Because I don't. The only thing I want is for this goddamn planet to survive. And I'm not convinced it can, as long as there's two gods that seem to oppose one another. If we get rid of Pomarr, what's to stop Ryba from reviving another one like her and making the same thing happen all over again?

exactly!

[defenceless]

That's where I think you're wrong, though. What grounds, aside from suspicion, do we have to say the goddesses oppose each other? For all we know, they're still playing by the rules of this world. Ryba would only revive another individual if they were willing to give up their soul—and seeing as Pomarr was one Dakal out of her entire race, it's not a popular choice.

[figureitout]

Well, if Ryba is willing to suck Nalanni dry because Pomarr just asked for it, I'm not exactly seeing Friendship Of The Universe here.

But, hey, if you're right, great.