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the watchers ([personal profile] grigori) wrote in [community profile] chasma2021-10-14 01:31 am
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WEEK TWO EXECUTION

week two: execution no melodies no memories
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, the everyday background music you've all gotten used to reduced to mere echoes on the wind.

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... Suigetsu, 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 stand clustered together. Suriel is silent where they lean on their crutch, wings drooping under their cloak as their caracal paces restlessly. Shamsiel is also silent as they stand there to the other side of Suriel, their cloak covering them completely with the exception of their one good arm which clenches at their chest. Keeping an eye on Suigetsu is Baraqiel, tiger-formed daemon tracking Naito closely, pacing where the Watchers have estimated the boundary will be.

And then, another party will be compelled to join them. Rochalizo will find that his feet are carrying him to his destination, Philia sticking close to him as they travel across banks and canals to the heart of the markets. Once he passes through the centermost area of the plaza, opposite where Suigetsu stands, 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, having gotten a good gauge of what will happen now. 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.

senjinrouha: (81)

[personal profile] senjinrouha 2021-10-17 05:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he does not perceive, he looks like he's about to pull dein nomos on the damn barrier. ]
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[personal profile] winebar 2021-10-17 05:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[Putting a hand on the shoulder of his sword drawing arm.]

Mr. Lowell.
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[personal profile] winebar 2021-10-17 05:12 pm (UTC)(link)
I will not let you further injure yourself on something you know will accomplish nothing.
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[personal profile] senjinrouha 2021-10-17 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he looks mighty pissed off. ]

A barrier can't last forever. If it exists there's a way to break it.
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[personal profile] yueshen 2021-10-17 05:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[ this is such a fucking mood

but, xie lian, equally distressed, san lang smacking into the barrier as a qilin nearby, is right there with him. a little urgently - ]


Yuri, we know - he can handle himself. Even if we can't get to him, he... we just have to put our faith in that.
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[personal profile] senjinrouha 2021-10-17 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[ interestingly, pravda is going to lion up and start trying to push san lang back. only one person can get recklessly injured here, thank you. ]

I know, but he shouldn't have to be up there at all, dammit!
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[personal profile] yueshen 2021-10-17 05:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[ san lang does not seem pleased with this and growls, pushing back, too, before pushing their combined weight towards the barrier. teamwork! teamwork!!!! ]

I know. [ the words are heavy with emotion, and maybe through their emotional connection, yuri can feel how serious it is. concern, worry, anger, all swirling all at once. ] This place seems to always choose the injured, each week that passes. And for Rochalizo -

[ xie lian stops there, though, and shakes his head. ] ...come. We must have faith.
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[personal profile] senjinrouha 2021-10-17 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[ pravda puts up a token "no, we yeeted the braincell today, you don't get to too??" resistance, but does eventually join in on the attack on barrier. ]

The injured, the connected, the people this can cause the most hurt with. [ fuck he is mad. ]

He'd better come out there alive and in one piece.
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[personal profile] yueshen 2021-10-17 05:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[ we've already established that not a single person in that goddamn cyoa had a braincell

xie lian looks back towards kaeya for a moment, and then shakes his head, clear and steady and focused on what's in front of them.

he sighs a little breath of relief when it appears that his burns heal a little more - talk about having faith. ]


...He will. I know it. We'll look after him and Kaeya when it's over - Alphinaud, too.
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[personal profile] senjinrouha 2021-10-17 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
... [ he nods at the mention of alphinaud. ]

Yeah. He's got a lot going on too.