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Time for some bonding!
Who: The crew of the Katabami
Where: At sea -> Port Chance
When: After leaving the fortress and covering the month of February
What: Catch-all log
Warnings: The usual grumpy, dumb, awkward and maybe some spooooooooky ghost stories
Style: Any
Status: Closed to crew and anyone that may be in the Port Chance area
Itinerary
- Welcoming our poor, formerly-possessed pals back on board
- Visiting Port Chance, finding all their booze, and drinking it
- The subsequent drunken crew bonding time
- Traumatizing Ragna forever
Where: At sea -> Port Chance
When: After leaving the fortress and covering the month of February
What: Catch-all log
Warnings: The usual grumpy, dumb, awkward and maybe some spooooooooky ghost stories
Style: Any
Status: Closed to crew and anyone that may be in the Port Chance area
Itinerary
- Welcoming our poor, formerly-possessed pals back on board
- Visiting Port Chance, finding all their booze, and drinking it
- The subsequent drunken crew bonding time
- Traumatizing Ragna forever
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He betrayed your lord?
[She does not know Ieyasu well, but from she has seen he's earnest and friendly, and Motochika assured her of his large heart. Something does not sound right. Yet she believes that Mitsunari is entirely serious.]
...I did not think that Ieyasu was capable of treachery. What exact crime do you hold him accountable for?
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[There is no faking the disgust in his tone.]
Ieyasu portrays himself as a just man, and time and time again, people fall for the pretense. But that is all it is.
He's nothing more than a wolf hidden amongst the sheep!
[Partly he's venting, but he sees these bold statements as offering a fair warning to Xun Yu.]
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It is your right to avenge your lord. [She concludes heavily.] I have no wish to intervene.
[Unfortunately she must. Her loyalty right now is to Motochika, as part of his crew, and she has an advantage in that Mitsunari has no way of knowing that she's a strategist.]
Please follow me.
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He does wonder if it isn't too good an opportunity to be true. After all the roadblocks and adversity he's faced in this endeavor, could it really end so easily, lead directly to Ieyasu's door?
He quickly concludes that yes, it is going to be this easy. Xun Yu clearly understands his position, and the importance of his task.]
Let there be no delay.
[Suddenly more impatient than ever, he'll follow closely wherever she takes him.]
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If she thought that it was remotely possible to trick him into the brig, she might have tried, but the way that Mitsunari moves makes it clear that his instincts are on alert. She cannot take any route so suspicious. Instead she aims to bring him directly to the Captain, where Motochika may decide what to do about this whole affair. If fortune should have it that they encounter Ieyasu first, despite her efforts, well... she will consider it the Will of Heaven that Mitsunari gets his opportunity.]
...How long have you pursued him?
[She asks, not entirely certain that Mitsunari will answer.]
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I cannot say for certain.
[Once Hideyoshi was killed, the days became less and less individually distinct, and they blurred together one after another. Mitsunari left minding the calendar to Yoshitsugu, no longer caring to keep track of the time himself. Whether it was Sunday or Monday was irrelevant. It didn't make his lord any less dead, or Ieyasu any less alive.]
It feels like it has been far too long.
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A consideration previously obscured by his level of conviction occurs to her.]
How did you determine that the Ieyasu aboard this ship is the very same man?
[The journals are no doubt the means by which he did so, but how much does he know? Has he spoken to any of the crew? What can she anticipate?]
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[Any concern that this Ieyasu might have been another name-double would have been nullified by that interaction, had Mitsunari considered the possibility to begin with.]
It was Motochika who said he could be found on the Katabami.
[While it did not please Mitsunari in the slightest to know that Motochika was palling around with Ieyasu, it presented him with a perfectly viable opportunity to confront his enemy.]
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The Captain invited you aboard?
[What Xun Yu doesn't say is knowing your claim on Ieyasu's life, but it's implied all the same.]
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[To Mitsunari's own great surprise.]
I have agreed to no manner of truce, and he knows it. His logic is beyond me.
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Perhaps he thought that the futility would dissuade you.
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He will see for himself just how "futile" my efforts have been once Ieyasu is lying dead at my feet.
[It's very telling that he has no qualms about talking like this in front of a person he's only just met, about her very own crewmates, no less.]
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That's not the futile aspect.
[How will he take the transience of death in this realm? Despite her alignment with the crew, part of her cannot help but pity him knowing what she does. To be so loyal and yet fail his lord in life and death because of circumstances beyond his control... it's tragic by her culture's standards.]
Once this is done, what is your plan?
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[Whatever will be will be.]
What about my goal do you find futile?
[If there was one thing he could say he knew well, it was the utter finality of death. All the strangeness he's seen this world offer still won't be enough to prepare him for way it works here.]
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Wouldn't you rather learn ill tidings from someone that you know?
[There is a warning in her words.
She wonders why neither Motochika or Ieyasu informed Mitsunari before things reached this point. The truth cannot be concealed for long; whether through direct or indirect means, it will come to light soon enough. Hearing it from a stranger is no one's first choice, surely.]
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[And it's because all the people here that he knows personally are people he isn't terribly fond of.
If Ieyasu were to be the one to tell him, he would flat-out refuse to believe him. Perhaps he'd accuse him of cowardice, of making up excuses for why Mitsunari shouldn't bother to kill him a pathetic bid to escape his fate.
Motochika and Magoichi would make for slightly more trustworthy sources, but the news would not be any more palatable coming from them than from Xun Yu.]
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This realm revokes our deaths. I know how foolish that sounds, but please hear me out. Those amongst us who die will be alive and perfectly well within days, as if they never took injury in the first place. It is as though by not belonging to this world we have no place in its afterlife. You might be able to take Ieyasu's life, but you simply won't achieve true vengeance here. I'm sorry.
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Even so, this is not easy to believe.]
That--that cannot be! How can that be? Have you witnessed such a phenomenon for yourself?!
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Not personally. Last month a powerful witch possessed quite a few of us. The possessed turned on their crews, resulting in a rush of deaths. There is plenty of testimony recorded in the journals by those who fell and later returned to life. Enough people experienced it firsthand that the knowledge became widespread.
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[The journals make it easy to verify her statements, and that changes things considerably. As he stands there, trying to figure out what this means for him, he decides to ask another question of her.]
How many times were they each killed and revived? If I kill Ieyasu repeatedly, it may yet stick!
[There an unspoken "don't you agree?" following that. His theory is as baseless as it gets, but he wants to believe in the possibility.]
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[Xun Yu's next answer is less certain than the first.]
I haven't read any accounts of multiple deaths for one person. But...
[She hesitates, her expression reluctant.]
Repeating the same action under the same set of circumstances should yield the same results.
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This is unacceptable! I owe my lord this revenge! If I cannot accomplish even that...
[He shakes his head.]
We must continue on to Ieyasu! I still must try! If I do not even make the effort, how can I claim to be loyal?
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[She turns back, thinking.]
There is further perspective you're missing. Time is inconsequential to the power that brought us here. There's a small chance that you might see your lord again. Perhaps there is also a way that you can save his life.
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His death could be undone? ...I could protect Lord Hideyoshi this time?
[If his lord were to show up in this world tomorrow, alive and well, it would be nothing short of a miracle.]
...Just how small a chance is this? [He feels foolish even as he asks the question.]
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[Empathising with Mitsunari's desire, she says more softly:]
Does the size matter, if it exists?
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