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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[chevaliered]

[ do you ever think about how you accuse a friend(??) of murder while you're being suspected of murder and then you're right and lots of people vote for her and now she's gonna 1 v 1 your blind friend behind the prism costco?

crow does.


anyway he's just here, vibing. the vibes are rancid, and there's purple spiking in angry lines up his arms and under his bandages and creeping over the sides of his face like vines. ]

[petalbursts]

[ when 2/4 of your cyoa buddies continue to suffer. hi.

ruby reaches out to touch his arm. frowns. ]

[chevaliered]

[ MMMMM. they sure are having a week.

he leans in slightly. thanks ruby. but he's mostly focused on what the heckity is happening. ]

[petalbursts]

[ valid. carry on.

she's here to support in anyway she can, even if just by standing next to him. ]

[chevaliered]

[ standing next to him is good vibes, thank you ruby. ]

[petalbursts]

[ they're all coughing up blood, which is fun and fresh. but clarte's reaction makes her jerk forward.

yells about their bird. yells about jan!!!]

[slashay]

[What a wild time in this chili's huh... If Kashuu is close enough to reach, he will do just that, gently tapping his fingers against one of those purple lines as it goes and looking concerned but otherwise saying nothing, eyes flicking back to the thunderdome.]

[chevaliered]

[ it.. it sure is. he blinks slightly when kashuu taps him. ]

...?

[slashay]

[Don't worry about it, he just looks back and offers a very thin and brief smile that almost immediately gets kicked off his face as soon as Clarte starts talking. Hopefully this won't be horrible but it absolutely will be!]

[chevaliered]

[ oh it's gonna be terrible peanut. crow just bumps their shoulders together briefly -- haha imagine if it was his semi-injured one and roxana and clarte had to murder each other to the sound of crow going "OH FUCK SHIT OW" in the audience. anyway.

-- before looking back at the (admittedly very beautiful and stylish) execution going on in front of them. ]

[slashay]

[STOP HELP IM IN TEARS imagine someone getting killed because they get distracted by panic! in the peanut gallery, that would be so funny.

But yeah at least they will get to go out glam even if this is going to be THE WORST.]

[chevaliered]

[ “at least our emotional suffering will be beautiful” - crow and the peanut; chroma, 2k22 ]