>>5430039>>5429984>>5429971>>5429946>art:vectomartAlt text: A pot of pongal boiling on a stove on a sunny day in a sugarcane field. It is on top of a kolam ringed with candles and flowers. Three stalks of sugarcane are tied together above it.
“Thanks to insight from the brilliant Kaori of the Nupruri, I have a proposal. The reparations must be paid, but they don't need to be paid by you. I’ll pay for the reparations in full, no questions asked.
The silence of the raiders carries on the wind until it’s broken by a huge laugh.
Amit: Finally! A Vadakan biscouthu with some dil.
“Kaori, could you translate?”
Uma: It means we’re good.
Uma walks to you and puts a hand on your shoulder.
Uma: You look out for us and we look out for you. Now come on.
Amit opens up a pouch filled with Chantou wine.
Uma: Have a drink with us, you paid for it after all.
After the impromptu celebration faded into the night, Kasi found you sitting alone. They pass you a drink.
Kasi: Hope being Ratu pays well, the Taya aren’t gonna be cheap with their demands.
You take a swig.
“Fine by me, Wiji’s paying anyway.”
You share a laugh.
Kasi: I get it you know. We live our whole lives with this Island as our world, then we leave it and see...that.
“Makes all this seem small, doesn’t it.”
Kasi: Small and chaotic. I understand why you did what you did. I don’t agree, but I understand.
“Kasi I... What’s coming is going to change humanity forever. The Ebbikele is just the first bit. Who knows what’s out there, and whenever we bring it here, who knows what it will do? If people need Ratus or Loas or raiders to feel in control while the world spins out from them, so be it.
Kasi: Well that settles it. I'm going with you, someone has to keep you honest.
“I thought you didn't follow crowns.”
Kasi: Kaori taught me there’s more ways to help than the government. Ironic given where she works now.
“She’s good people. The Island’s full of them, I just have to make sure they all see that.”
Kasi gets up.
Kasi: Then let’s get to bed, I don't want to oversleep and miss the pongal.
“Sure beats dry fish and rainwater.”
Kasi: That it does, captain, that it does.
Final Tribal Approval Ratings
>AhiLean Lono
>IllaLean Lono
>NupuriLean Lono
>PonniSlightly Lean Lono
>MuliTossup
>TayaLean Norodom
>ChantouSafely Norodom
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