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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[aitou]

[sorry he's no longer watching he's taking refuge in his peanut now]

[brotograph]

[ Nothing like feeling like you've been hit by a Super Powered Malboro. He covers his mouth as he coughs up blood. ]

Wow... is this what she was feeling at trial? [ When a queen upgrades to mega ]

[experimint]

Why would I eat someone? None of these people are candy!!

[ she reaches over to wipe some blood off of marceline's face ]

[theampirequeen]

I don't know, but you don't even have any blood! How are you coughing it up?

[ this is distressing. she lets bonnie wipe her face ]

[nightchild]

[yeah look away yams so you don't see clarte get mcmurdered by ara's 19 roll]

[countermeasures]

[well.

she was keeping her eyes forward, but when she feels itsuki tuck his handkerchief into the hand that's not at her mouth, she looks over and sees him with his face into the crook of his elbow.

she frowns behind her hand and tries to press his handkerchief back into his hand. hello? take care of yourself, twink!!]

[dms]

The prism takes it too far.

...Is this really how she felt? It's awful.

[daggering]

[ comes back to percy for this one when the effect hits

you ever just have a con score of 11? vax ends up wavering a little when that inside eating feeling starts, and grabs onto percy and emet both half out of habit.

muttering: ] Those fucking butterflies. [ he's been eaten from the outside but not in the inside out??? terrible! 0/10 ]

[fleshedout]

[She closes her eyes, pained.]

Yes, it was. And she didn't want to be seen as weak for it.

[gogoghostpowers]

[ you know what, let's bring this in icly, actually, ]

Wait, you eat people, but only if they're candy?

[fleshedout]

Yes. That's the price of her butterflies, after all.

[allomantic]

Yes. I...

[she says, before this effect hits and she winces, bringing a hand up to her mouth.]

What...?

[chevaliered]

[ haha. ara sure ara'd. ]

[gogoghostpowers]

[ looks over at poor kumon, who despite his best efforts to ignore all of this, still has to deal with the weird effects. ]

...yeah.

[pura]

[The TB is here... She covers her mouth with her hand when she begins to cough, some of the blood seeping through her fingers.]

... Is this how she felt?

[pura]

[Nogiku coughs, blood seeping through her fingers as her breathing becomes labored.]

It's because of her... To think this is how she felt yesterday...

[aitou]

[He looks supremely unhappy, which is probably enough of an answer on its own.]

[decisions]

[ hey this is pretty terrible too, but he's here even with not a fully grown leg trying to help vax stand while he uh.

yeah these are bad feels!, percy's just trying to keep him steady with leverage from his gun-crutch, though the pain is twisting like a viper, and he can taste the blood in the back of his throat. ]

Not a good sign...

[disingenuous]

[ How many times has she avoided spikes from below in her time here?

ara 🦋 roxana Roll: [19] Result: 19

I guess fucking enough to avoid all these stalagmites. It means she has enough to momentum, too used to poison, too used to having her insides being eaten away by all the poison she's had to drink to keep these butterflies. Even as the butterflies die to fire, there are more.

Among the red butterfies are also violet ones, and Clarte will begin to hear a voice they know very well, of a girl they love and care for so, so dearly. It'd be hard to believe she's suddenly here in this dangerous and poisoned environment, but hallucinogenic butterflies are very good at making things seem so real.

This eats more at her insides than the poison does, but she has already done enough to kill her heart.

... as long as you know it's because there's nothing you could show me that I wouldn't accept.

Whatever you've been through, whatever you've done, I accept that. I accept you.

Every part of you that I got to know here is something precious, no matter what it was.

Yeah. That's another thing that I like about you.

Will that still be true after she shows that she's not above using weaknesses she's been shown in memories? In the week she hated so, so much? In the week that led to her vote?

It doesn't matter. She's already made her choice. She's made it long ago.

If they want to make this a close combat battle, she can do that, too, and paints herself some weapons. ]

[brotograph]

[ These metallics.

He reaches over to touch her back.]

There is something amazing but also a little lonely about that...

[nightchild]

[he shoots her a guilty look with his EYES only since he's coughing into a very serviceable elbow, and he'd probably refuse it with his twink strength,

except he's distracted by STALAGMITES and probably with whatever's gonna happen to Clarte with JAN'S ROLL OF 1 so he lets Jiuqing put his hankie back in his twink hand]

[experimint]

No clue--

[ she will look back towards the fight. ]

Is this what it feels like for her...?

[dms]

[ also glances at kumon worriedly. bro your 7 con. ]

At least it only stays until this ends.

[experimint]

Yeah, sure, that's a summary of it.

[theampirequeen]

... If that's true, she'd really hate all of us knowing like this.

[ poor roxana...exposed ]