Time for some bonding!

[seadevil]

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

Comments

[curseking]

[His utter shock leaves him struggling to find words.]

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.]

[harbouredheart]

I can't say with any accuracy. Tiny, but I believe real.

[Empathising with Mitsunari's desire, she says more softly:]

Does the size matter, if it exists?

[curseking]

[Does it? Looking down, he wonders.]

...

I do not want to endure hoping for a future that may never be realized. If it never came to be, I could not bear it.

[Despite what he says, the idea has taken root in his head and it won't be easily dismissed.]

[harbouredheart]

Is it worse than living for vengeance that may never be realised?

[Xun Yu turns round to fully face Mitsunari.]

The Captain must have invited you aboard for a reason. He wants you here.

We are searching for shards of a gem that is meant to grant wishes, in order to find a way home. Please consider assisting us, Mitsunari. If we decide when we are returned to, then you can save your lord's life. If not you will still return to a place where if you kill Ieyasu, he will stay dead. In the meantime you can learn Ieyasu's fatal weaknesses and never lose sight of him while also watching for sign of your lord in this realm. You won't even have to waste your time on basic survival with food and drink and shelter provided for you.

[curseking]

[No, it isn't that much worse. He doesn't state it outright, but he thinks it.

There is nothing about Xun Yu's argument that he can properly refute. With both presented scenarios in mind, it seems clear that going along with them and acquiring the gem would work out overwhelmingly in his favor.]

All this requires...is tolerating Ieyasu's continued existence.

[Living in the same vicinity as him, no less. Would it be antithetical to everything he's stood for? A compromise of his principles? Never mind that such an arrangement would drive him up the wall.]

...If it would ultimately benefit my lord...

[It would unquestionably be worth it if it meant avenging--or saving--Hideyoshi. He could never forgive himself if he passed up an opportunity to do either. That, if anything, would make him disloyal.]

[harbouredheart]

You have time to decide whether to commit. It won't be official until you and the Captain discuss it.

[She raises her arms to chest height, bending them at the elbow; one hand she curls into a fist, upon which she places her other hand, covering it. The gesture is both a salute and a greeting back in her homeland.]

My name is Xun Yu. If you stay... should you find that you need help settling in, please seek me out.

[curseking]

[He doesn't catch on at first what the gesture is meant to mean, but after a moment he gets the gist of it. He doesn't reciprocate with anything equivalent, but he doesn't ignore her either.]

...I don't need any more time for deliberation. I will undergo this trial for Lord Hideyoshi's sake. He would ask it of me.

[Infuriating and irritating though it may turn out to be, his decision is to stay.]

Xun Yu.

We will speak again.

[Though Ieyasu's crewmate, she's aided him in his revenge and offered him assistance, and for that he can't regard her as an enemy to the Toyotomi. He's had worse people as allies, that's for sure.]