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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[dms]

[ sending yams a worried look from over here but he also nods. ]

Every time. As if it's not bad enough to have to watch this at all.

[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.

[dms]

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

At least it only stays until this ends.

[gogoghostpowers]

[ anyway it's been a while and now roxana is kissing clarte and they're coughing up blood ]

Cl--Clarte?! What happened? Did she poison them?!

[dms]

I- I don't know?! Maybe! That's a really fast moving poison, though?!

[gogoghostpowers]

She ate a man's body down to the bones in a single night, of course it moves fast!!!

[dms]

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

Come on, Clarten...

[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. ]

[dms]

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