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[ex_adept136]

Like a few others here, I'm among those who met the goddess Nalanni. And like others there are things I learned from having a conversation with her. First and foremost, I'd like to request some help in conveying a message she intended for her people.

She wanted them to know that she loves them, and that she knows they can go on without her.

At the time, I was struck with the thought that she'd considered her own passing a possibility. And now that I've seen mentions of slaying gods here, it seems she wasn't wrong. Maybe some of you know more than me, but I'm not convinced it's the only way. Having said that, I'm not blind to the reality that those are our orders, and that there are those who will follow them.

I'm more interested in helping the Nalawi. I gave my word that I would do whatever I could, and so... To those who are already making efforts to ensure the Nalawi are able to sustain themselves, whatever may come, I'd like to volunteer any help I can provide.

If anyone wants further information on the conversation I had with Nalanni, please let me know. I'm unsure how much would be redundant, since admittedly, I've picked up on recent developments here and there.

Comments

[grunehexe]

[Let's get some +1'ing up in here]

What sort of work do you do, you and your associates?

[ex_adept136]

[+1 for more fun]

Investigation and enforcement, if I were to use the most succinct terms.

[grunehexe]

Like some kind of... peacekeeping force?

[She... hasn't had the most pleasant experience with those, not after the last mission in Chantes, but... people had told her that such things weren't supposed to be like that. Apparently police were supposed to help people.]

[ex_adept136]

In a manner of speaking. We're similar to law enforcement, but...

[He trails off, debating how to phrase this. Certain details are best not discussed over a public network, though he's yet unsure how much to tell people who seem to know nothing about ghouls.

Perhaps it's better not to make it number among their concerns]

We have influence only under particular circumstances.

[Only when it involves ghouls really]

[grunehexe]

What circumstances are those?

[Heedless, Sieglinde continues to ask- one, because she simply is the curious sort... and also, well. She never really liked vagueties either. Hypocritical as it was.]

[ex_adept136]

[Well...perhaps avoiding the term isn't much use.

Just keep it simple, Sasaki]

We only handle cases involving ghouls.

[grunehexe]

Ghouls as in... the undead who consume dead flesh?

[Which made him the same sort of company... as werewolf hunters, yes?]

[ex_adept136]

[Laedo had a similar description for them, when he thinks back on it...

Is that typical for most? He can only wonder]

Not exactly, at least not where I come from.

[grunehexe]

[Her own reference for these things is... the Arabian Nights, so. Her upbringing involved... a lot of books.]

What about where you are from?

[ex_adept136]

[Books are good, books are great, his life went to hell because he wanted a bookstore date.

True story]

They're a predatory species that feeds on humans or other ghouls. Aside this they can consume coffee but biologically speaking anything else will make them ill.

[grunehexe]

[Books are good, books are great, she tried to proposition two men she just met for a threesome because one of her books said men in the outside world were lusty monsters.

... Maybe they should lay off the books.]

A living species that feeds on the living, then? Exclusively?

[ex_adept136]

[Yeah they...they might want to go outside and touch grass for a little bit]

I'd...say most don't eat people alive...

[Unfortunately, some do which is pretty horrifying.

Awkward? Awkward]

[grunehexe]

[All that lush grass... so posh... so green... so unfamiliar...]

Then it is dead flesh...

[She puts a hand to her chin contemplatively, gaze going a bit unfocused as she mentally reviewed what she'd read in her library.]

Do they shapeshift? Animals... the forms of the dead they've consumed?

[ex_adept136]

Not like carrion animals, though. They hunt.

[Phrasing that delicately is a true challenge, but he's trying.

How to explain the thing when one is a case of What Has Science Wrought and is therefore half-the-thing...]

There are cases of mutation as a result of preying on other ghouls in great amounts, but otherwise, the result is an accumulation of RC cells. Those cells are used in a number of their functions.

[grunehexe]

So fresh kills only... and only humans? No dogs, or?

[But wait. Science ping.]

RC cells?

[ex_adept136]

Humans or other ghouls...or coffee. Consuming anything else makes them violently ill.

[And it's downright debilitating. 0/10 do not recommend]

Both humans and ghouls have RC cells but they're far more concentrated in ghouls, and so far as I know, only have a functional purpose for them.

[grunehexe]

.................. coffee?

[One of these things is not like the other. She may not know his world, but. In her knowledge... there was nothing to put coffee in the same category as human or ghoul flesh...]

[ex_adept136]

I couldn't say just why that is, but a ghoul's digestive enzymes don't reject it. By the same token it isn't repellent to their senses like anything else humans might consume.

[The mangaka just liked coffee lot, probably...]

[grunehexe]

... How odd.

[That would be worth looking into. If it were her world at all.

... probably just the mangaka tho]

A diet of flesh and coffee.

- and you pursue these creatures?

[ex_adept136]

Yes. Some ghouls are indiscriminate killers who hunt in excess for...any number of reasons not necessary to survival.

[Though this isn't always the case...the person he used to be wasn't linked with any series of murders, but he sure has a file.

One riddled with holes, but all the same]

Such cases fall to investigators like myself.

[grunehexe]

Like dogs gone rabid, then?

[She could say "like men gone rabid", because... men, humans, they were just as capable of such things. But she wishes she didn't know that, wishes it were only the thing of beasts.]

You must be a capable fighter, I imagine.

[ex_adept136]

You'd take them for human when they weren't hunting, but...

[Some just kill indiscriminately. Not that the CCG wasn't intent on stomping out ghouls in general, but priority was placed on those who posed the greatest threat]

I can always stand to improve, I'm only the lowest rank among Senior Investigators, but I can hold my own when I need to.

[grunehexe]

With what?

[In her own life, she had only been introduced to the ideas of modern weapons, guns, tanks, the day before ALASTAIR took her- far more used to the idea of knives, hands, bows...

But they came from worlds apart. It could be anything, and she'd need suspend belief and go along with it.]

[ex_adept136]

[His own kagune for one thing, but he'll just keep that one under his hat and roll with-]

I have a quinque - a specialized weapon for combating ghouls.

[grunehexe]

Quinque?

[She tries to wrack her brain for something, and only comes up with Quinque viae, but she's pretty sure that's. Not it.]

Is it some sort of firearm?