WEEK FOUR: 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, Atsushi and Vin alone will begin to walk through as though drawn. All you can do now is watch and wait.

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[pura]

I'm not... really doing anything.

[But she squeezes her hand, gentle.]

[fleshedout]

...

[A squeeze of her hand. Ugh. She's blinking away tears, sorrow mixed with a sort of determined fury. She can't see this all happen again.]

If only I could tear this place down...

[pura]

[...

So. They really are witnessing a doomed teen romance come to its conclusion, huh? Nogiku closes her eyes, briefly, rage bubbling through.]

The Prism is truly disgusting, isn't it?

[fleshedout]

[Tears are coming down her cheeks. This isn't a surprise to her. But anger seems to answer Nogiku's through her emotions, as sudden as her sorrow.]

It gives, and then it takes. I've had enough.

[pura]

[Someone save Hot Pants from her own feelings.

The longer this goes on, the more Nogiku's outrage grows. But with it— remorse that they didn't catch onto him earlier.]

... It really has a hold on him.

[fleshedout]

[She's moving to Feelingsville after this.]

[She's shaking her head at the sight, hopeful for Vin, devastated to see Atsushi acting like this. She squeezes the other's hand.]

...In my first adventure, I experienced something like that. Like...you feel nothing else can be done. [...] Vin...please....

[pura]

[There's a spike of fear and anxiety as that foreign feeling settles under her skin. Her other hand reaches up to clutch at her at her chest. And though she forces herself to inhale and exhale at a steady rhythm, she can't shake off that sense of wrongness.]

Vin... [She can do it, can't she? She will be changed for it.] Those "adventures," are they truly foreshadowing for what's to come? The death, the betrayal, and those transformations. They're all happening.

[daggering]

[ oh vax immediately looks over at nogiku






...bad. hey! that's bad. two executions in a row! don't fucking like that. ]

[pura]

[sometimes A THING is bad stop perceiving her.]