WEEK ONE: EXECUTION

[gatonina]

EXECUTION

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POPULATION: 38 Good morning, Camp Gatonina. The weather continues to be... okay, actually? Sunny skies as far as the eye can see. Not a single stormcloud to be found. Hardly the right environment for this grimm sort of occasion. At 9AM, two hours after the bugle call for breakfast, you will be drawn to the bonfire. Your body will move of its own volition, giving you little to no time to pick up any sort of protection. As you approach the bonfire, you will find that you are not the only one. The Camp Directors and Ogata seem to be marching to the same rhythm as the rest of you, their movements stiff as they approach from the direction of the Isolation Cabin. Once everyone has gathered in the same location, you will hear a voice that is recognized by none. "Haha, that was a trainwreck. Ogata Hyakunosuke, get over here." Ogata will be forced to approach the fire, as everyone else takes several steps back to form something of an impromptu fighting ring around the bonfire. "As for your opponent... Beauregard Lionett, why don't you give us a show?" Similarly to Ogata, Beauregard will be forced to approach the fire. Those in the audience will find themselves rooted to the spot, and the participants of the execution will hit an invisible barrier three feet away from the rest of the group if they try to escape. In her dominant hand, Beauregard will find a 20-sided dice... though one of the sides is now blank. You're all old pros at this. It goes without saying that it's time for the execution to begin.

Comments

[vigilantics]

[ just

covers her face ]

[shixiong]

[ that's a +1 to vocabulary understanding ]

[voidbreaker]

Yeah, well. We caused them.

[ let's be frank here. ]

I'll be mad if Haymaker doesn't make it out of this, but I can't put the blame on his shoulders if that's how it goes.

[successives]

[Natalie doesn't say anything, but she's giving her a clearly concerned glance for a moment before she tears her eyes back to the execution.]

[wisterin]

Tomioka-san.

[ She hasn't looked away, but her voice gentles a degree. Or it perhaps it just becomes fainter, as if she's dying inside. ]

This entire weekend has been one wrong thing after another.

[extracrispy]

Nope. But they're both paddling the same boat, dude. They're both innocent. You can't expect people not to get pissed off when one of 'em agrees to fight fair and the other lies about it.

[survivaltricks]

[it's okay they can have dramatic NO DIALOGUE tags together, because Akira is as stiff as a board, a bit of terror appearing in his expression]

[survivaltricks]

[yeet]

[extracrispy]

[dicks have no rights]

[snyaiper]

[Ogata doesn't even look that surprised when she intercepts the blow. He almost seems to deflate a little as if to say "yeah, that's about right. That's about what I expected to happen.

And then she throws the mace at him. He didn't predict that. Even less so, did he predict her haphazard, desperate throw to case the mace to spin wildly through the air, ending up whacking Ogata in the face with the non-murdery, but still very heavy, handle end.

He goes down again, but he's not dead yet, hands flying up to the place where the mace handle hit him in his dumb terrible head. But he's not getting up.]

[unpredicktable]

[ r u d e ]

[voidbreaker]

[ ash just watches. there's maybe a wince here and there when the maces start swinging, but... y'know. this is their fault, so he'll keep watching. but he can, he knows he can.

after a moment, he taps the side of his hand against the back of lili's head. only once, with no real force. ]

You gonna keep watching?

[extracrispy]

[Aaaand then it keeps getting worse. Jesus.]

You don't have to watch if you don't... you know.

[fishingforcompliments]

...whatever the outcome of this, the blame will rest squarely on the shoulders of the killer who allowed an innocent person to take the fall.

[or, like, on whatever the underlying cause of All The Murder is.]

[wowcool]

...

[He stares away from the fight.]

All's fair in war and... [And a shake of the head.] Anyways, you have a point. But that still doesn't change that this is not a situation we should be cheering for one side versus another, I think. The whole situation is unfair.

[recrypt]

He was doomed from the moment he was put in this position. Regardless of who it was who was picked to be executioner...

[ because ogata was right, yesterday? if he killed the person meant to kill him, who'd be happy about it? ]

[voidbreaker]

It's a domino effect.

We're not the ones who started all this crap, but we sure as hell made it worse. Don't try and wash that one off our hands, or we'll forget and fuck it up again.

[coastal]

[she startles at the tap, and looks to him in surprise briefly before looking back]

... I don't like that man. And I don't like the way he does things. [she is not taking back a single insult]

[ . . . ]

But this was our mistake, and we still have too claim ownership of this much. And of the fact that we haven't found a way to stop this yet. [her voice starts to shake, somewhere between rage and something else] To look away...

I can't.

[disreguarded]

[ this time, she doesn't wait. she doesn't think. her heart pounds in her chest and for the first time in a while, she's frightened. it'd been close. it'd been so close, she had been seconds away. there's no pain, just adrenaline, as she throws herself forward after him.

no hesitation. it's almost animal-like, kill something before it kills you, and beau doesn't feel anything but that instinct as she slams her fists into ogata's face over and over and over. she doesn't stop. ]

[baori]

[ again he looks away from the brawl and back to shinobu.

her voice... how things have been for them this whole week.

...

....

he reaches out and oh-so carefully takes a hold of her hand—fingers tentatively and gently wrapping around her wrist more than anything. he isn't sure this will bring her comfort but if it at least provides any kind of reaction that differs from what is happening before her, then that would be just as fine. ]

[unanswering]

[slides over to other blues bc it makes more sense here probably...]

-she'll still end this.

[she has to, because he knows she's capable of it.

it's hard not to think briefly about how easy it is for good people to die to underhanded ones, like this, but-- it isn't the same. it's not done yet either.]

[fishingforcompliments]

...

[she presses her lips together into a thin line and looks back to the execution]

I suppose we must remember, but...

[concasse]

'Course. The only way this would've worked out is if the executioner let themselves be killed.

[And who would trade their life for Ogata? Practically no one. Because no one wants to die. And Ogata is still the least liked of them all.]

There was never gonna be any shitty justice, so I'm surprised that's what anyone expected.

[successives]

[Softly:]

I know.

[But she doesn't look away.]

[coastal]

[ . . . it takes a moment, but lili manages to mouth back -

'I'm fine.']