WEEK FIVE: 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, Roxana and Clarte alone will begin to walk through as though drawn. All you can do now is watch and wait.

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[daggering]

[ this is so stupid ITS FINE he just spits blood on the ground and manages to push himself up from it, gripping onto these two injured idiots so they don't fall over and die or injure themselves worse.

he's wincing a little at the kiss, at clarte falling over. ] Shit. Shit, come on.

[ we hit 20 kisses but why like this ]

[experimint]

[ no but since this is in bracket text, marceline will just now forever have this misconception about hot pants then ]

[daggering]

Definitely.

[ raishaun flashbacks ]

[experimint]

[theampirequeen]

[ marceline is wondering why pb knows hot pants has poison spit ... how did this come up... :/ ]

[fleshedout]

[i'm going to break everyone's hearts but no they didn't kiss, else hot pants wouldn't be here alive like this probably]

[decisions]

[ no fucking clue, excellent question, but percy's eyes are locked on the scene at hand as he whispers out ]

You have to be joking...

[ because wow that??? this??? hello??? ]

Clarte, please... not like this.

[pura]

[She knows what he means but she is

still giving him this look because Clarte is fucking dying.]

Did you see her swallow any gumballs...?! [Sir.] At the beginning, she aimed her gun at herself and fired twice.

[georeject]

[the poison courses through their veins, a pain that wracks their whole body as they begin to choke on their own blood. darkness blots at their vision; they can hardly even see roxana, staring at them.

it doesn't take a genius to know that this poison is fatal. everything is on fire inside of them, contrasting against the ice left behind by the way their life slips away. the latter, at least, is a feeling they're used to. how many times have they died by this point, after all?

what is another death to them?

i'm sorry.

to meteion, to garou. to those watching this now, and whom clarte has hurt.

to roxana, because they could not save her.]

[gogoghostpowers]

[ it started out with a kiss, how did it end up like this...

it was only a kiss, it was only a kiss... ]

[countermeasures]

[no, no...

jiuqing tries to surge forward, but of course she can't move, and she growls lowly, clearly frustrated.]

Clarte! Get up!

[dms]

[ the details don't matter. their angel is dying, and the paint on his arms runs a deep midnight blue. ]

Come on, Clarten...

[petalbursts]

[ no. ruby tries to step forward and of course cannot. ]

Clarte!!! No!!!

[ get up get up get up. she refuses to believe this is over...please. ]

[nightchild]

[he deserves this look...

and now Clarte is on the ground coughing out blood, and Itsuki barely has time to look at Nogiku, his expression desperate. a gumball would be easier to understand, but this? what's apparently happening before their eyes? jan is really doing this to us?]

[ktiseos]

Damn it all-- Clarte!

[he manages to grit that out, against the pain, as he finally gives up on the effort of standing. it's fine. dropping to his good knee just puts him closer to normal person height.]

You cannot let yourself--

[experimint]

[ these things come up in convo yea

anyway, things are happening. ]

Clarte!

[ GET IT UP IT'S JUST A LITTLE POISON DON'T BE LIKE ROCHA ]

[georeject]

[—after all, she wants to live, but that isn't something they can grant her.

sometimes, it's not always so easy to kill them.

summoning the last burst of the strength they have, they lunge forward, a blade of energy forming in their hand—and then they plunge it into roxana's heart.]

Rest.

["i don't want to die, clarte. i never have."

they cannot save roxana, but they can at least give her peace.]

[nightchild]

[OH WELL NOW THAT'S HAPPENING, itsuki can't help it -- the word on his lips was Clarte's name, but now]

-- Roxana!

[theampirequeen]

[ whomp stab ]

DO THAT BEFORE SHE POISONS YOU NEXT TIME!!!

[ clarte cannot hear her ]

[aitou]

[The butterflies sure were mean AND SO IS JAN!!!!!!! Yasusada's got enough focus within him to fight against the effects of the poison--he looks so incredibly tense, even as Clarte claws their way back from the brink of death.]

[gogoghostpowers]

[ miraculously, Clarte holds on and instead manages to stab Roxana.

Danny can't help but breathe a sigh of relief and release some of the tension in his shoulders. Good, they're not dead after all. ]

[daggering]

[ vax'ildan was holding his breath with the others - emet hits the ground next to him, his wing curls out like it could be a support at the same time he tries to lunge forward, and then, just like that, the blade comes out. vax's shoulders drop, as all the breath comes out in a whoosh.

...

some people really do just walk the line between life and death, don't they? ]

Fuck. [ holy shit. ]

[countermeasures]

[


and they're up? they're up, and they've got a sword, aimed at roxana's heart...

but it's not over yet, it won't be until one of them is dead, and one of them steps out of that archway.

jiuqing's heart is pounding as she watches.]

[experimint]

To be fair, the initial poisoning happened very quickly.

[dms]

[ yet. they're not dead yet. i don't trust jan. ]