WEEK THREE: EXECUTION

[saturations]

EXECUTION: TRIAL BY COMBAT

Sunday morning starts peacefully enough, until around noon, when alarms start going off on your phones. The dreadful noise is accompanied by a reminder of the execution taking place in the Central Node. You can snooze the alarms at first, but they begin to get a little more insistent. If you're being stubborn, you can probably hold out until exactly 1 PM, when an archway opens right in front of you and pulls you in.

Today the Central Node is eerily quiet and empty. There are a few blankets laid out on the grass for those of you who wish to sit instead of standing the whole time. No refreshments have been provided, but the Residents are already there waiting for you.

As the last person enters the node, an enormous archway suddenly opens. This archway once again leads to an area which is pitch black inside, with white and grey dust falling softly like snow. The chilly air feels even colder than before, and you instinctively know you must not approach it. If you try to push through anyway, something is blocking your way. Smaller tears to the same space open in the air, at the very least. You can see what's happening, even if you can't follow.

Because - once the archway is open, Percy and Vax'ildan alone will begin to walk through as though drawn. All you can do now is watch and wait.

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[decisions]

[ he will not let you get hit with these. even if they're just bandages. from where he's focused, staunching the blood. ]

Steel said something... refraction.

[ he looks up, frowning, and tries to gather something, anything else about the situation right now, but... they're frozen in place, they're bleeding, he goes back to bandaging as best he can from their weird frozen state where he's still holding him up. ]

[daggering]

[ distressed! he looks distressed, looking between percy and the malik fighting business and steel - looking at malik gets him to cough up a mix of blue and red grossness, and he barely has enough time to lift his hand and cover his mouth so he doesn't just barf it all over percy christ ]

What.. what the fuck.

[decisions]

[ percy's really trying to hold it in, but when he comes up from trying to get at what he can of vax's leg, he has to twist away just to allow the red and orange to spill forward with a brief choking sound. he clutches the bandages tightly in one hand, looking at vax and not really.

sure of anything anymore.

so much has fucking happened, you're lucky he doesn't just faint like a fainting goat (wait let's not talk about goats). ]

Easy... Easy Vax, just. Still. Be still...

[ and then britt went and rolled a five so he's looking on in horror, his voice suddenly yelling out: ] Jiuqing—!

[daggering]

-- Doc!

[ vax yells this at about the same time percy does, where he is really only holding still because he keeps choking up color and is being literally held in place by whatever froze them -

he then just starts swatting at percy when he tells him to be still what the fuck ] Be still - you be still, you're just as hurt as I am, fuck off, Percival - [ everything is happening so much now is not the time for bickering

actually im adding to this

between roxana's hug and what steel says, vax goes from trying to swat at him to grabbing onto his coat and holding on, tight. ]