chroma | WEEK FIVE: EXECUTION

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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[ Everyone, your feet are frozen for the time being. You can talk and hold hands or whatnot. This includes your Residents, who seem to be present this time. ]

[ as you watch this, you feel your insides start to twist in pain ... not that it's anything you're unused to. that feeling of being eaten alive, corroded away from the inside out. you feel weaker, faint. breathing is a concentrated effort you have to make, and sometimes it sticks in your throat, and bubbles up with blood in your mouth. ]

Edited 2022-03-27 16:54 (UTC)

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ISN'T CLARTE BLIND? anyway, jiuqing looks tense, her hands clenched into fists.]

[ percy just looks worried as clarte enters the arch, his arms folded tightly. ]

Damn it, Clarte... [ clearly unhappy ]

...

Are they still blind?

[Her stress levels just went through the roof, thank you.]

No-!

[Yeah, someone is not happy about all of this. She has a strange raised wooden pattern on her arms and neck today, sparing her face, but it seems to be spreading as she stares at this, eyes wide.]

Clarte-! Ugh! It should have been-!

[It should have been me.]

Edited 2022-03-27 17:04 (UTC)

[ OUR CLARTE. OUR BLIND BIRD.

ruby looks so worried...her hair turning all black. hand clenched into a fist. ]

[ well. kazu will be vibing with kumon as usual even though mira isn't here, paint dripping in shades of green. ]

They said they'd get healed first, at least...

[ color vax not surprised, standing next to percy with his arms folded, expression stoic. his wings come out a little out behind him, one framing percy, but otherwise he settles there. ]

... Figures.

[ 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. ]