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the watchers ([personal profile] grigori) wrote in [community profile] chasma2021-11-13 11:10 pm
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WEEK SIX EXECUTION

week six: execution and the zest was history
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, in Star Circle.

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 heart of the city square. Your three Watchers are here with their daemons, and so are... Spike, 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 Star Circle from the week prior.

Standing close are the Watchers. Baraqiel is nearby, arms crossed, daemon skulking tiger-formed around the edge ring of the Star Circle. Shamsiel stands a bit to the side of Baraqiel with one of their hands grasping onto their wrist as their daemon rests on their shoulder in falconet form. Suriel stands on Shamsiel's other side, daemon nowhere to be seen as they rest their hand on the other's arm.

And then, another party will be compelled to join them. Diluc will find that his feet are carrying him to his destination, Canopus sticking close to him as they travel through the barrier. Once he passes into the innermost sunburst of the circle, opposite where Spike stands, he'll find that he can't go back, and neither can his daemon.

Likewise, no one can enter Star Circle further than where the Watchers are. 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: (109)

[personal profile] senjinrouha 2021-11-14 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[ nope.

barrier is getting the same damn treatment as it did last week, blow backs be damned. ]
yueshen: (193)

[personal profile] yueshen 2021-11-14 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[ xie lian is placing himself right next to yuri and kaeya, his expression stormy and angry; his qilin growls at the barrier and positions itself in front of the two of them like a guard. ]

Mr. Diluc will make it quick.
Edited (changes my wording ) 2021-11-14 21:11 (UTC)
callalilies: art by <user name="ventuspluma" site="twitter.com"> (❄️ turned away.)

[personal profile] callalilies 2021-11-14 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[ kaeya is here. right at the barrier, polaris snarling, hackles raised. his tail lashes even as kaeya remains still at the barrier's edge, his breath held tightly in his chest. ]
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[personal profile] escardos 2021-11-14 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[ hmm…

flat seems pretty composed this week, watching the scene unfold with a curious glint in his eyes. perched on his shoulder, jack watches silently. ]
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[personal profile] senjinrouha 2021-11-14 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[ in a change of pace, pravda is coming over to sit on kaeya's feet. she's full on lioness, and growling at the barrier, but she's there. ]
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[personal profile] veraltwin 2021-11-14 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[Truth be told, she had been expecting it to be her. As she's said to the others so many times, this place seems designed to be intentionally cruel, and it would only be fitting that the two of them would have to face off once more in a duel to the death. She'd been prepared for it. She'd...

Well. The same combination of dread and resolution had thrummed in her breast, the same as it had long ago with another friend, another fear. "I am prepared to do what must be done," she'd said then, and the same is true now. She is.

Was.

Because it's not her that's pulled into the circle, it's Diluc, and her face shifts from resigned to confused to horrified because this isn't how it's supposed to go.]


What--no!

[Alisaie lunges forward, but the barrier has already risen and, like that night so many weeks ago in the courtyard, the same way it was when they'd first begun to understand one another, her blade reflects off of it, throwing her backward.

Like that night, she won't relent, trying to force her way through regardless.

The cruelest outcome will be to have to stand here and watch.]
bloodyromance: (i hate you all)

[personal profile] bloodyromance 2021-11-14 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[Spike's balance is still shot, which alongside his busted leg means he's not the most stable on his feet as he's more or less metaphysically dragged to his trial by combat.

First he glances up at the crowd, smiling at those he cares to, and then he turns and faces his opponent. Of course.

It's better than someone he likes, at least. Were circumstances different, he could have killed Diluc and felt nothing, but they're not, and despite everything he's still lovesick enough to want to be something capable of inspiring more than revulsion.]


Well, this works out nicely, doesn't it? Was about time we had a chat.
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[personal profile] greatdeduction 2021-11-14 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[He's just...looking over worriedly at the Genshin OT3 + Xie Lian Anger Rage show, before letting out a sigh. Another day, another execution...]

He should...he should be able to do this. Come on, Mr. Diluc.
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[personal profile] malewife 2021-11-14 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Joonghyuk is here! To watch solemnly with his black jaguar curled around him. Niah watches the scene carefully. ]
perfectdistance: ([YT] I won't give in to murdering)

[personal profile] perfectdistance 2021-11-14 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[Nero is here, Disce at his heels and watching the scene unfold.]
callalilies: (❄️ disbelief.)

[personal profile] callalilies 2021-11-14 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ah.

just very softly rests a hand against her head, rubbing softly against one of her ears, even as she growls. ]


This is a nightmare.
voltadomar: (ESPRIT DE CORPS [Godly: Failure])

[personal profile] voltadomar 2021-11-14 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[The lieutenant arrives, still wearing the black jacket from yesterday. The left sleeve hangs limp at his side, while his right hand rests inside a pocket. It looks like his glasses have been repaired.

As always, he stands and watches quietly, his expression unchanging. Cecile perches nearby as a skua, watching alongside him.]
senjinrouha: (37)

[personal profile] senjinrouha 2021-11-14 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ... ]

I'm not letting last week repeat itself.
bloodread: (逆へ行くんだ)

[personal profile] bloodread 2021-11-14 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Today Akira is here without his silly skating shoes, though he's still rocking that thorn cloak. He looks unbothered by this, if a bit curious. Nagako is at his side as a wolf, her ears perked and alert. ]
callalilies: (❄️ snap.)

[personal profile] callalilies 2021-11-14 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[ daemon trade, they're close enough anyways. polaris is just in wolf form slowly pushing against yuri's side with a low grumble. he lifts his head and looks up at him, giving out a long huff. ]
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[personal profile] sponsoredby 2021-11-14 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Of course he walks over to Sholmes. One hand moves to take his hand, if he's okay with it in this situation. ]

We have to believe in him.

[ And yes, as per usual, they have their normal gay whispering. Ignore it. ]
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[personal profile] senjinrouha 2021-11-14 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[ pravda's ears flick and she stops growling long enough to headbutt his knee slightly. get it together. ]
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[personal profile] greatdeduction 2021-11-14 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[He's fine with it, just giving it a squeeze. He nods at the whisper, before whispering a reply, and turning his gaze to the scene in front of them.]

[He's not upset, but his eyes are fierce, determined.]
yueshen: (67)

[personal profile] yueshen 2021-11-14 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Absolutely not.

[ san lang growls at the idea, low and ominous, but stays still. ]
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[personal profile] senjinrouha 2021-11-14 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[ yuri stops whaling on the barrier long enough to settle and dig a hand into polaris' fur. fuck all this, actually. ]
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[personal profile] rerouter 2021-11-14 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[Hm.

Monika glances over in concern, watching him.]


Yuri...
callalilies: (❄️ attentive.)

[personal profile] callalilies 2021-11-14 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he knows... he knows. he just slowly rubs his fingers against her jaw, her neck, a slow and steady rub as he watches. he offers her silent thanks with a last rub to her cheek as he moves to fold his arms, to watch quietly. ]
evocationary: [ ᴋᴀʏʟᴀʙᴀʀᴀʀᴛ ] (77)

[personal profile] evocationary 2021-11-14 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[she's silent, and she looks very tired, but she's close, hand on his back. emotional support elf. it'll be okay.]

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