week 8 - execution & aftermath

[vicedirector]

seven vices execution & aftermath ♫ sunday After everyone has voted, the paper and photos will disappear. Miata will usher everyone outside, only allowing them to grab their coats and weather-appropriate gear, and lead them to the bonfire. Floating in the middle of the flames, a list appears, clear as day. >Gather? victim   culprit cast setting rulebook

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VOTING RESULTS....?

[vicedirector]

[ Miata, this time, faces the fire, her back to the crowd. ]

...pick the hostage first.

[vicedirector]

[ Katerina's voice answers back from the flames. ]

Excuse me?

[vicedirector]

You heard me, Katy.

[ Her hands tighten around the hem of her jacket. ]

Pick the hostage first. Before...taking Satori.

Hostage Roulette 2k16

[vicedirector]

[ After Katerina finishes speaking, there's a blinding flash of white light. Suddenly, the wrath symbol fades into view on the ground, and the Screaming Woman/Morrigan's Executioner/the Hostage Caretaker of Too Many Titles appears within it.

Kneeling on the floor in front of her is a woman, bound and gagged. And probably struggling like mad lbr. ]

This one, then? Hmm, that's a shame, she's awfully feisty.

[ Anyone attempting to touch either woman will be met with an electric barrier. ]

[sobowtor]

[Uh oh.]

Um.

Are you sure you don't want Belarus?

[vicedirector]

Can you rewind time? This girl is the one that was picked, sorry to say.

[detanimetion]

[An electric barrier's never stopped her before. Undyne has no idea who this woman who she feels a strange but immediate connection to because lbr they're basically the same person is, but she's clearly a hostage being kept here by these assholes, and that's good enough for her.

Also, it's just been a really shitty week and she's had Enough of innocent people dying in front of her.

She slams her spear into the barrier over and over again, eventually resorting to her fists when it does no good even though it hurts more.]

Let her go, damn you! Let her go!

[vicedirector]

[ ....

a big grin splits the woman's face ]

Cute. You should have been mine.

[herbgrace]

[Lithuania doesn't leave Miata's side, but she does watch this. It's only fair, if a nation is the one on the chopping block--even if it's someone she hates.]

[dhaosu]

[ His eyes follow along easily enough. ]

...This is barbaric.

[ He then easily diverts his eyes from whatever kind of bloody execution will be done for the hostage. ]

[vicedirector]

What can I say? Such things are my specialty.

[friendboned]

[HE'S ATTEMPTING]

[With his fists, and his bones]

STOP!! YOU DON'T HAVE TO... THAT HUMAN DID NOTHING WRONG!

[unpleasantries]

[At least it's not Koishi. At least it's not Koishi. Someone is being killed, but at least it's not Koishi.

As the person responsible for this week's trial, the least she can do is watch.]

[dereban]

Do you like doing this?

[ She sounds angry and bitter but she doesn't move. ]

[lastgirl]

[Buddy doesn't care so much about the hostage. This is the woman who killed Morrigan.

She pulls out a sabre she was keeping sheathed behind her back, the item she receive a couple weeks ago, and charges at the woman. Not at Prussia, but at the monster behind her.]

[friendboned]

[WELP, this happened.]

[The floor is lava. Or it's gonna be!! But there's one skeleton with immunity, and also bones. He'll be summoning and throwing up bones to block off and/or slow the lava, plus physically grabbing anyone who needs it to get them out of the line of fire, if you will]

[GOOD THING HE HAS IMMUNITY OR THAT WOULD BE ONE MELTED SKELETON]

[dhaosu]

[ General obligatory comment that Dhaos is likely assisting, somewhere in this. However briefly that will be. ]

[thebonezone]

[sans was fucking on the ground watching when this shit happened and just climbed papyrus to safety because if papyrus stays, he stays!!!

he's just sitting on his shoulders like papyrus is undyne and sans is clover]

what the fuck.

[LANGUAGE??? but also oh my god undyne is fUCKING MELTING]

[muties]

[ STARTS TO JUST PHYSICALLY JUST. PICK UP PEOPLE, FLYING THEM UP TO THE ROOF/OUT OF THE WAY (starting with the bagel, because bagel does not need to be Actually toasted) as u do

also wow undyne sure is melting over there ok ok ok ]

EXECUTION: Closed My Heart

[vicedirector]

[ There's a long, long stretch of silence after Lucifer and Satan finally disappear. Then, Katerina's voice sounds out from the fire. She's audibly shaken, uncharacteristically stumbling over her words. ]

N-Now that...that's been taken care of...

[ She clears her throat. There's a blinding flash of white light, and when everyone is able to see again, the town has been fully repaired, as though a lava ocean didn't destroy it a few moments ago. Everyone is also back at the bonfire no matter how far away they were before. ]

Congratulations, you've voted correctly. Satori Komeiji has been found guilty for the murder of Clover Field. Get on with it..

[ So, uh. After all of that, the fire roars once more, so loudly and brightly that everyone will be temporarily blinded. When everyone's vision returns, Satori will be gone--but she will be visible within the fire just like the list before.

The view is a stage, polished wood floor, spotlights, fancy red curtains, and all. There's but a single person sitting in the audience, the front row, a vacant smile on her face. Satori lies slumped on the floor, the cords of her third eye more lengthy and numerous than before. Suddenly, she is jerked upwards, hoisted onto her feet. The cause is initially unclear, but a panning shot reveals someone standing on the catwalk above the stage, the loops of the eye cords in her hands and pulling on them like marionette strings. Parts of the cords are looped around all four of Satori's limbs, her waist, and her neck.

The "puppetmaster" begins tugging on the strings erratically, causing Satori to move in a bizarre, jerky sort of dance. Her arms fly up, wave around, and she skips in place. Every so often, the cord around her neck tugs a little too tight, leaving Satori gasping for breath. This goes on for a few minutes, and by the end of it, Satori looks physically exhausted. Once a shut-in, always a shut-in. The cords are tugged in such a motion that makes it seem like she's bowing at the end of her performance, and the lone audience member enthusiastically claps. The stage goes dark, spotlights flickering into a much lower setting.

But the show isn't over with, yet. The "puppetmaster" braces herself against the catwalk railing, preparing to hoist her "puppet" up. It takes a few tries, but quickly, Satori is lifted off the ground--primarily by the cord around her neck. Koishi's smile fades into something more curious--she's not sure what's going on, but it doesn't look good. Satori struggles, kicking uselessly at the air and clawing at the binding around her neck. But it proves futile, as after a few minutes of struggling, Satori goes limp, unmoving. As she hangs, the dimmed light reflects in Koishi's eyes...as she slowly, slowly fades from view. The seat where she once sat is now empty.

The lights shut off, plunging the theater into darkness. ]

((Characters are free to disperse at this point.))

[hopefragment]

W-Wait. Wait!! What... what about the other hostages?!

[Hinata's still reeling because Undyne sure did happen, but getting put right in front of Satori and her sister brings that sharply back into focus.]

What are you going to do with the other hostages?!

[dhaosu]

[ Dhaos watches closely, his hands gripping tightly. His lips pressed into a thin line as the woman is hefted up and essentially strangled, in the very same, ironic way she had done to Clover once. He doesn't say anything, for sure. Because what else is there to say.

He thinks, that it's still brutal and barbaric. Even considering what she did to Clover.

He rises to his feet once it's over, and then lingers, turning to listen into that human boy's shouting. He doesn't think anything will come of it in too much in importance, but maybe... ]

[dereban]

[ Today sure was a day, huh. After Undyne happened and the mere fact that she revealed too many things that she wishes weren't revealed, Inaba knows she can't stay her. Especially not when Hinata asks about the other hostages. In a panicked fervor, she knows that she has to take a chance right now; she's done with pretty much all of this so she's going to take her chances and run the fuck straight into the hotel.

She doesn't want to hear it. Not about the hostages, not about anything. Of course, it's clear that when she is on her way out, she's crying, she's frustrated, she's even stumbling a bit on her two feet, but she wants out. ]

Deathshocks

[vicedirector]

[ Members of Wrath and Sloth both will have a hard time breathing, with a heaviness in their chest. Members of Pride will simultaneously have a fever and a backache.

These will not fade until they go to sleep for the night. ]

[okuri]

[ To say Yoite is mentally exhausted is an understatement. After the strip search he kept as far away from anyone else as possible, only bothering to move to vote. Thankfully the trial wasn't as physically strenuous as the last time he was a suspect, but how he was feeling now was certainly worse.

He knew the deathshocks were coming, and every single one so far he had just steeled himself (pain and discomfort were things he was accustomed to after all). But this time, he just couldn't bring himself to do so-- it was taking all his mental strength to keep himself together.

So when his chest starts to get tight and it gets increasingly harder to breathe, he doesn't fight the blackness that invades his vision, and passes out right there on the spot.]