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the watchers ([personal profile] grigori) wrote in [community profile] chasma2021-10-03 05:12 pm
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WEEK ONE EXECUTION

week one: execution dead men tell no tales
Hopefully you got a long night of sleep? Barring that, you got whatever answers, or closure, you might have needed. Because it's strangely quiet, the following Sunday morning. Moreso than Krankaz typically is. There's something almost oppressive hanging over the city, contained within the confines of the Bubble.

Breaking the silence, somewhere, much like the song of Friday, there is the echoing, cruel laughter of voices you should faintly recognize throughout the city. It's followed by humming of that newly familiar song. It's strongest, interestingly, close to the plaza.

As time turns to 1 PM, though, there is a change as the voices fade. While there's no compulsion to investigate it, there's a small gathering in the plaza. Your three Watchers are here with their daemons, and so are... Bertolt, and his daemon, front and center. All damages and evidence, anything amiss from the weekend, is all gone, and replaced with the state of the plaza from the week prior.

Nearby, the Watchers oversee everything. Satariel is standing close to Bertolt and Idi, keeping their head up, but the visible portion of their face is lined in misery and tension. Their daemon is in its raven form, barely seen from within their hood and pressed as close to their neck and head as it can be. Rameel stands next to Satariel, with their daemon in the form of a puma, also close to them. There's barely a smile that crosses Rameel's face as their gaze is between Satariel and the sight before them. On Satariel's other side is the last Watcher, pressed close enough to nudge with an elbow. Their daemon paces before them as an ocelot, ears pulled back in displeasure as both it and Yomiel await the executioner.

And then, another party will be compelled to join them. Kotetsu will find that his feet are carrying him to his destination, Finley keeping pace with him as they make their way down the ruined paths that make up the city of Krankaz. Once he passes through the centermost area of the plaza, opposite where Bertolt stand, he'll find that he can't go back, and neither can his daemon.

Likewise, no one can enter the plaza further than where the three Watchers stand are forced to step back, though luckily not expelled like last week. There will be no interfering from outside parties, no matter what it is that's about to happen. Any attempts to do so will result in them meeting an invisible barrier, one that rebuffs them with the same amount of force used against it—so take care.

booksleeves: (Bleak House)

[personal profile] booksleeves 2021-10-10 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes.

[She's clutching the front of her kimono, still furious, but her eyes are bright as well.]

It is bad enough to ask some of us to become killers, but to force those who wanted to least. . . !
allyship: (36.)

[personal profile] allyship 2021-10-10 05:29 pm (UTC)(link)
... They want to break our spirits.
booksleeves: (The Time Machine)

[personal profile] booksleeves 2021-10-10 05:31 pm (UTC)(link)
They are punishing us for wanting a different outcome, I'm sure of it.
allyship: (56.)

[personal profile] allyship 2021-10-10 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
... Still, we have to hold onto that desire. We won't give into their games.
booksleeves: (Treatise on Forensic Medicine)

[personal profile] booksleeves 2021-10-10 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[She blinks back a few tears, glancing away as they begin fighting in earnest, though still listening to the sound of Kotetsu's voice as he tries to talk Bertolt out of it.]

Yes, of course. We must be strong and have heart.
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[personal profile] allyship 2021-10-10 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[he continues to watch, grim, before he glances at susato.]

... If things go poorly, he must be looked at once this is finished, of course—but if there is anything you need after...
booksleeves: (Yongle Dadian)

[personal profile] booksleeves 2021-10-10 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[That's very kind and it surprises her a little - a small smile.]

No, I'm alright. You needn't worry.