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the watchers ([personal profile] grigori) wrote in [community profile] chasma2021-11-06 11:28 pm
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WEEK FIVE EXECUTION

week five: execution i am the manager
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, out in the tundra.

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 out in the snow. Your three Watchers are here with their daemons, and so are... Rochalizo, 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 hotel from the week prior.

Standing close are the Watchers. Satariel is carefully putting a coat around Rochalizo's shoulders, frowning, their daemon bear-formed and pressed close to them to keep them steady. Yomiel stands close by, offering what warmth they can before the barriers rise. Rameel seems to be expressionless as they were yesterday as they watch over what happens next.

And then, another party will be compelled to join them. Kaeya will find that his feet are carrying him to his destination, Polaris sticking close to him as they travel through the barrier. Once he passes through an arbitrarily decided threshold, opposite where Rochalizo stands, he'll find that he can't go back, and neither can his daemon.

Likewise, no one can enter the tundra further than where the Watchers are pushed back to, Satariel having to brace against the bear once more so as not to fall. 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.

yueshen: (102)

[personal profile] yueshen 2021-11-07 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[ haha

well! xie lian is here. san lang is a qilin at his side, and - as kaeya walks past him, he takes in a sharp, short breath, eyes going horribly wide, and manages a single word - ]


No.
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[personal profile] senjinrouha 2021-11-07 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[



shit.

yuri gets to the barrier just after kaeya passes through it and-- smashes his fist on it without a damn care that it sends him staggering back when he does so. pravda shifts into her biggest form and starts pacing agitatedly around the edge of the barrier, snarling if anyone gets too close to her. ]
evocationary: [ ᴏᴏʟᴏɴɢᴛᴇᴀᴍɪx ] (20)

[personal profile] evocationary 2021-11-07 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[well, here is a very disheveled lup very tiredly coming up to holding his sleeve? if he lets her she'll take his hand, so at least he has that...]
perfectdistance: ([YT] I won't give in to murdering)

[personal profile] perfectdistance 2021-11-07 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[Nero is here, watching Kaeya walk forward.

...

What a week it's been.]
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[personal profile] beeingnice 2021-11-07 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
What's the big deal? So they're going to have a snowball fight. Boo hoo. Just get them some hot chocolate and sit them down by a fire when they're done.

[why is she here.]
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[personal profile] sponsoredby 2021-11-07 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[ this is beyond hateful. for the moemnt, he doesn't say a thing to xie lian at first, just placing a hand on his shoulder. he can't do much in a situation like this.

finley paces in her tiger form nearby. ]
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[personal profile] rerouter 2021-11-07 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ah.

She's immediately by his side, gripping his other sleeve.]
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[personal profile] lefthandpath 2021-11-07 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[the only relief there is, really, is the cold comfort that at least Sholmes wasn't made to go up there. that would have been too much on top of everything else this week.]

Yet more cruelty.
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[personal profile] yueshen 2021-11-07 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[ haha!!!! well!!! he hasn't really moved aside from that gasp, just sort of stunned into holding still. last night, against all hopes, xie lian had hoped it would have been him, even if he'd already been through this once. to not have to watch as someone else important to him was put in danger, to be able to be the one to close the chapter on this terrible book. he'd thought if it's me.

he hadn't even begun to consider if it's kaeya.

lup surprises him - he lets her take his hand without any resistance, and distractedly glances to his side - then does a double take as it pulls him out of a immediate spiral of fury and misery and keeps san lang from ramming into the barrier. this is the perfect person to be here, in all honesty, if only because some of the horror turns to surprise and then a tiny, tiny bit of relief. ]


...Miss Lup. [ a little breathlessly, but - he's glad she's here, that she's okay (at least... physically.) ]
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[personal profile] rerouter 2021-11-07 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[...]

Hey, you should get out of here before someone plays a prank on you. Your clothes are, like, totally too cute to ruin like that?
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[personal profile] sponsoredby 2021-11-07 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[ kotetsu approaches, but he and finley don't try to set pravda off, making sure it's okay to approach the man. ]
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[personal profile] lefthandpath 2021-11-07 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[other people are gabbing hold, but Allen's standing nearby and Rowan's in her canine form pacing next to San Lang.]
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[personal profile] yueshen 2021-11-07 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ....

he's just silent, watching the proceedings, breath held. san lang makes a low, rattling, angry noise and crouches closer to the ground as if he could leap at the barrier and break it in two.

monika, this close, may notice that his hands are shaking. ]
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[personal profile] callalilies 2021-11-07 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[ how funny to have your feet moving before your head even gets the chance to give say so. the moment kaeya’s feet begin to draw him out of the hotel, out towards the tundra, his heart does a free fall into the pit of his stomach. to try and fight it at this point, well, that’s just not possible, isn’t that right? he sees it, polaris sees it, and at once they stand together for but a beat, tethered in place, before the final step is taken, the point of no return across the barrier, feeling it wash over him, a wave of bitter medicine, no sugar. there is rochalízo, his arm gone and so... he's... so small in this moment. kaeya hates it.

he shakes his head as he draws forward, towards the three options before him, a snowglobe, a broomstick, and a sword. it's almost automatic, how he takes the sword and moves towards rochalízo with long strides, lifting the blade with one smooth, easy motion— ]
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[personal profile] sponsoredby 2021-11-07 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Absolute hell, isn't it?

He looks over at Nero with a dark expression. ]
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[personal profile] callalilies 2021-11-07 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[ —and throwing it away, into the snow. ]

The name of the game is keep away, [ he says ] I will not let you have this sword, and I will not use this sword against you of my own free will. If you want me to use that sword to take your life, you’ll have to make me.

[ he looks around himself, at the people outside of the barrier, at the watchers, and when he turns his head upwards finally, at some unknowable, unseeable god. polaris sits beside the sword silently, still as stone. with his gaze turned upwards, he shouts: ]

You hear me!?

[ before he turns down to look at rochalízo with his lips tugging into a smile. ]

I cannot do this, you understand. So. Play my game.
Edited 2021-11-07 18:18 (UTC)
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[personal profile] yueshen 2021-11-07 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ... ]

...He will make sure it is not too drawn out. Kaeya is honorable.

[ that, he knows, at least. he has faith.

(even if this is the worst type of faith to have to have.)

OR NOT, APPARENTLY. well, maybe. he watches kaeya shout to the sky, and xie lian's free hand tightens into a fist. ]
Edited 2021-11-07 18:13 (UTC)
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[personal profile] aono 2021-11-07 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey.

[Just. Speaking up. There's a bunch of people near XL so Rin will use his words here instead of trying to grab him.]

It'll be okay, got it?
perfectdistance: ([YT] So I don't act arrogantly)

[personal profile] perfectdistance 2021-11-07 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[He always looks so deeply exhausted by these, and today is no different.]
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[personal profile] sponsoredby 2021-11-07 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[ same hat, Allen. but this still is like a knife to the gut. ]

And no one's surprised.
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[personal profile] escardos 2021-11-07 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[ flat looks… tired. genuinely, truly, tired, but he watches the scene regardless.

jack, as a wolf, is resting on his lap, bright yellow eyes staring at anyone that comes towards him. come too close, and it might just growl. ]
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[personal profile] evocationary 2021-11-07 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey.

[she looks like she's been like, crying? like a lot, the way people look after they've witnessed some real awful shit and had to take a day to figure it out. but she doesn't say much, just very tightly holds his hand.

this is - very bad, and obviously she has a soft spot for both of them, but.]


This is the little good I can do, okay? Don't freak out, just stay next to me.
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[personal profile] senjinrouha 2021-11-07 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[ she snarls anyway. yuri has isn't pacing like she is, but he's glaring at the arena with an deeply intense stare.

he doesn't say anything, but his knuckles are going white at his sides from where he's clenching his hands. ]

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