VIDEO -> TEXT. UN: DAGNY.

[dagnyology]

[ Dagny's face appears on the network. Behind her are snowy plains, where small gnomes are jumping and playing. Her face is flushed from the cold, but she smiles. ]

Hello! I hope you're all doing well! The Timeline has finally computed your mission objective — sorry it took so long! Sometimes he gets a little slow. Now, I know he may seem— different, but he's always been correct! Just... ah, be careful when talking to him? He's a learning machine, and all he really knows is about missions, so sometimes he says some strange things when he goes off topic. But don't worry! He tries his best. I'll connect you to him now.

TIMELINE.EXE IS PROGRAMMED TO RELEASE MISSION PARAMETERS. MISSION OBSERVATION IS COMPLETE AND RESULTS FOR MISSION: Nalawi ARE AS FOLLOWS:

Hello World ( ﾟ▽ﾟ)/ Take the hassle and confusion out of the
Mission,
Try this One Weird Trick!

To help NALAWI, you will need to DEFEAT the GODDESS NALANNI so the energy can return to the world.* In doing so, the people of NALAWI will LOSE THEIR POWERS but the world will continue on. If this objective is not reached, NALAWI will BURN OUT PREMATURELY.

*NOTE FROM TIMELINE.EXE: Giant squid of the Sea, too
2 or 0 Not 1! Thank you

[OOC NOTE: This will serve as an IC discussion post. The OOC discussion post is here!]

Comments

[agrizzlysin]

You're the only one who cares whether it's boring or not! [HUFF.] I'm more worried about how we're going to manage destroying two so-called gods without any powers of our own.

[He did just get kidnapped by a bunch of homicidal deer people. He's not exactly god killing material right now.]

[perma_banned]

Be worried all your want~. If there isn't a way to do it then we'll probably be sacrificed or something.

[In such a cavalier tone--]

Doesn't matter. They're better orders than what we started wiiiith!

[agrizzlysin]

[King does pause at that, remembering Ban's expression as he played a mysterious music box near the shore. Ban may be the one person in ALASTAIR who is happier for being more likely to die.]

If a couple of self-proclaimed gods are willing to destroy their world over what amounts to a turf war... They need to be dropped out of the picture, at least.

[perma_banned]

Yup. Reminds me of that shady old vampire king~. Escanor offed that guy, right? Despots gotta go down.

Course, there wasn't much left of Edinburgh's castle in the end. [Ban added, curtly--]

Probably won't be much left around this time either.

[agrizzlysin]

[Ban says, to the failed fairy king who let his forest burn to the ground.]

So long as we manage to leave something here intact, they can rebuild. These goddesses aren't giving them that option. If the Nalawi drive us out afterward for destroying their islands, I don't mind.

[perma_banned]

They didn't have to kill their enemies near to extinction~.

[Ban offered King a shrug.]

Let them deal with their sins like the rest of us.

--he says it as the guy who watched it burn to the ground.]

[agrizzlysin]

[Touche.

It's here and now that something happens which does not happen very often. King nods in complete agreement with the Fox's Sin of Greed.]

They brought this on themselves. We're just the messengers.

So at least try to do something useful before they send your ashes out to sea.

[perma_banned]

Who knows~? We might actually pull it off--crazy as it souuuunds.

[Ban offered King a wide, lazy sneer.

To anyone who knew him long enough, it would be clear his heart wasn't in it.]

Course, if we lose, there probably won't be much left of us to be sent out after all.

[agrizzlysin]

It's not like we have much choice.

[Ban's sneer is met only with a deepening frown, a semi-amused grimace turned contemplative gloom. Their odds really don't sound great, but it's not as if that's ever stopped them before. It's because of how uncertain their immediate future is that King makes a promise despite himself.]

In that case... I'll have to make sure you don't die.

[perma_banned]

[Usually, Ban would blow King off with a jeer or a taunt. This time, he simply stared at him as if trying to understand something fundamental about him.

He already knew what the problem was. It was unavoidable.]

You still wanna try to babysit me?

[agrizzlysin]

Are you trying to say you don't need it?

[perma_banned]

Of course. Your annoying crying would just distract me from my mission, King Baby~.

[agrizzlysin]

You know I'm not-! [LKJASKLDFJKJHA] Just don't get beaten to a pulp, and I won't have to distract you from anything!