week 1 - 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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RESULTS

[vicedirector]

[ Miata looks straight into the crowd, her back to the flames. Her face is hard set and stony, hard to read, but a little sad if you look closely. ]

...congratulations. By a majority vote, Kaguya Houraisan has been found guilty for the murder of Kazunari Takao.

Kaguya, a few moments for your last words.

[aeterna_filia]

[Kaguya looks just...unbothered by this.]

First, to whoever spilt my tea, I pray you meet an end far more painful than my victim's.

...and Mokou, if this really happens...I win.

[herbgrace]

You win? [Elaborate...?]

[lastgirl]

[ROLL HER EYES INTO THE SUN.]

So then what? Did you do it to see if you would actually die or something?

[muties]

... You are one weird bitch.

[disapproved]

She's said her piece. May we be on with it, then? 'Tis a bit nippy.

[ she's feeling a little dejected, anyway, she totally wants to now how she did it down to the detail. ]

[okuri]

Why him?

[smileleftbehind]

You probably deserved it.

[unpleasantries]

A tea-spiller deserves nothing less. Goodbye, Houraisan. It was a pleasure to make your acquaintance.

[Bit of a bummer the only other person from Gensokyo is a freaking murderer, but you know how it is.]

[minogame]

You're not sorry at all?!

( Urashima is actually a little mad?! )

[keepshispride]

[Doesn't look particularly bothered herself.]

"Uncivilized".

[detanimetion]

So are you gonna explain what you actually did or not?! [listen she just wants the solution to the fucking puzzle already she doesn't care about the motives when it's clear that OBVIOUSLY IT'S BECAUSE KAGUYA'S EVIL]

[dhaosu]

...

[ At the least it was figured out. And they will likely have to do this so many times -- and he just watches silently, yep. ]

[jackhole]

[ towards the back of the little cluster of people --

... there are the sounds of a hurf and liquid hitting the ground. ah, sorry. ]

[smileleftbehind]

Is she guilty?

EXECUTION: Eternity and the Instantaneous (cw mild gore)

[vicedirector]

[ After Kaguya finishes speaking with everyone, the fire roars, so loudly and brightly that everyone will be temporarily blinded. When everyone's vision returns, Kaguya will be gone--but she will be visible within the fire just like the list before.

The image is clear enough, but a bit distorted thanks to the moving flames. Still, it's easy enough to gather what's going on. Kaguya sits in a chair in a plain, blank room with nothing in it but a large sundial. She folds her hands primly on her lap, eyeing it with a little curiosity before slipping back into a bored expression.

The sundial begins to move at a rapid pace, although it isn't clear where the sunlight is actually coming from. It's dizzying, how quickly the "days" turn by, and at first, nothing happens. But slowly, slowly, Kaguya starts changing. She looks older. From her late teens to her thirties, her fifties, her seventies, and then she's nearly 100, frail and hands shaking from the ravages of age.

Her skin begins sinking into her bones as the sundial rotates on, disappearing, rotting away, as she begins swaying on her chair. For a second, her muscles are exposed, but those too vanish as she falls over. A pile of bones and a head full of black hair lay among Kaguya's clothes, but even they begin to fade away into little more than dust, holes of decay even eating away at the fabric.

The sundial stops. What remains are only fragments of bone, scraps of cloth, and a few strands of hair. The view pans away to the sundial one last time, before the image fades.

The fire burns on. ]

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

[createdamonster]

[ How gruesome...and absolutely ironic, all things considered. It's almost the opposite of what happened with SERN's time machine, but still similar; what she's staring at is clearly decomposed at a molecular level, but not quite one of those horrific Jellymen, but almost worse, a natural deterioration, her body putrefying and degrading before her until nothing remains.

She can't imagine what that sensation must be like. She definitely doesn't want to. She's her father's daughter, though, and the theoretical physicist in her can't stop thinking about it, nor can the neuroscientist.

It isn't too long before she starts to feel guilty about thinking about this so scientifically, but if she let her emotions take over, she doesn't know what sort of maelstrom will erupt. So maybe it's better this way, better to be cold, even with this blazing fire before her. ]

A Thing

[vicedirector]

For the rest of the night, Hinata, Gilbert, Zelos, and Cheshire will have splitting headaches; Hanyuu, Yoite, Lucy, Satori, Sans, and Sadie will have full body aches. These will not subside until they sleep for the night.

Ow

[smileleftbehind]

[After the execution Cheshire doubles over, his hands going to hold his head. First headache since being a Chain, and it has to be this bad?]

[hopefragment]

[Hinata had watched the execution with his jaw tightly clenched, hands shaking at his side in clenched fists. But he doesn't comment, doesn't even try to speak with the culprit before the execution; after everything he'd said about trying to reach an understanding, knowing that this was a murder committed out of spite to someone else?

He's angry at her. And maybe it's thanks to that anger, and all the bruises that are covering his body thanks to some TERRIBLE BULLIES, but he suddenly lets out a quiet grunt of pain, one hand moving to cover his eyes and press his fingers into his temples. What...? A delayed concussion from Vegeta bonking his head into the wall, maybe?]

[americanbeauty]

[WHY THIS? Is there any dubious painkillers left over because ow. After the grisly display she heads straight back to the hotel, but unfortunately the full body aches creep up on Lucy rather than wreck her right after the execution and they hit her bad as she enters the lobby. She freezes up, face screwed up in confused pain.

There's no way she is going back out to the clinic tonight though.

Instead, she shifts over to lean against a wall. Maybe her knees and her everything will calm the hell down after a moment. She just needs to make it to her room.]

[aumygoddess]

[ Hanyuu takes a step forward. Kaguya is gone. She's still alive. But the adrenaline is catching up to her. She was so, so close to dying for Kaguya's crime.

She drops to her knees in the snow, hunched over and trembling. Her whole body hurts, but she's passing it off as stress. ]

[detanimetion]

[So after ALL THAT HAPPENED, Undyne will stalk through the crowd, looking furious. Yeah, she saw that voting list, she noticed something off.]

SANS! PAPYRUS! Get your dumb bony asses over here right now! [SOMEONE'S GETTING A DEATH NOOGIE TONIGHT.]

[friendboned]

[UNDYNE SOUNDS MAD....]

[is this different from usual]

UNDYNE... I AM STARTING TO THINK BEING KIDNAPPED TO THE SURFACE WAS NOT AS GREAT AS I THOUGHT IT'D BE.....

[ANOTHER HUMAN DIED???]

[thebonezone]

[uh oh.]

'sup.