WEEK ONE: EXECUTION

[hellscapes]

Hello, deadlings.

Ha. Ha ha.

Yesterday was a wild chain of events, wasn't it? Nine hours is a long time to work, but you solved the case and voted for the correct culprit. Lucky you. But the weekend "fun" isn't over just yet.

On Sunday morning, you'll soon hear a sound coming from the dock. There's a large ferry waiting for you, and even if you resist you'll eventually find yourself compelled to climb aboard and set off on a short voyage. The islands around you look fairly blurry, but you don't go very far before you stop at a slab of land with two large buildings stationed. You won't be able to look at the one on the right now, the one you've come to know as the trial bar. Instead, your feet navigate you to the building on the left as the door creaks open. On your way in, you notice some posters hung beside the door, advertising today's event.

Inside is a bar. It's pretty swanky in comparison to the others you've seen, tables and chairs arranged comfortably for everyone to have a seat and spread out however they'd like. The bar is fully stocked with all kinds of alcohol along with an arrangement of bar food for anyone who's feeling a bit peckish. At the head of the room, there appears to be a stage washed in red lights with a wide area for performances.

At a table in the corner all six demons are gathered around.

-Bloody Mary and Midori are seated together, staring intensely at the stage.
-Blue Hawaiian and Malibu Sunset are draped over each other, phones in hand and slightly covered by Cosmopolitan.
-Rosé is seated nearby, looking impatient.

As you find your seats and get yourself something to drink, darkness begins to fill the bar and a banner unfurls over the stage.

TODAY'S PERFORMER:
FOUR
10AM
Enjoy the show

No matter where you look, you will find that Four is not amongst you. But there isn't time to look further before the lights dim and the curtains draw.

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[cavaliered]

[immediately, when four's finished talking, shouting as loud as she can - and listen, she's got lungs, she's fucking loud:]

FIGHT BACK, YOU DICK! LU BIXING!

[eleusinia]

Asshole.

[ is she talking about four or lbx... yes ]

[cavaliered]

[hello persephone gideon is lost in the anger sauce

she can hear people shouting all around her but it's just buzzing. it's bees buzzing in her ears. maybe she can get on stage. she didn't try last week, but this time --

she's already moving forward.]

[eleusinia]

[ mood but persephone knows her fists are tiny and useless so she hangs back and watches gideon go at the barrier. she just watches for a few moments before she walks over. ]

Save your energy for him later.

[cavaliered]

[she stops.

she stops, only because there's no point, because her fists hurt, and because things are always, always out of her control. she looks down to persephone, expression wounded. she'd say something, but her words are all tripped up and trapped like her tongue is pasted to the top of her mouth.]

[eleusinia]

[ persephone looks up at gideon, craning her neck to meet the other girl's eyes. she just looks into them for an extended moment, then lifts her hand. she extends it, slowly, stopping just short of resting it on gideon's forearm. ]

Can I?

[cavaliered]

... Yeah.

[she says, quietly. she appreciates being asked. she has to close her eyes for a second, though, because the sound of what feels like a thousand children crying and begging for help makes her want to throw up.]

[eleusinia]

[ yeah, that's a mood. she always feels bad about mortals dying, even though she knows it's the natural order of life, but for these to be children, who haven't even gotten the chance to live a full and fulfilling life before succumbing to the cold embrace of death—

...ultimately, though, she knows she can't do anything about it can't do anything about the fact that lu bixing and four are both experiencing very real suffering at the hands of these illusions.

she touches gideon's arm and steels her voice. ]

Want to know what I like to do when it feels like everything is going to shit?

[cavaliered]

[she just - her eyes are still closed, and her expression is screwed up, and she thuds her head against the barrier and listens to the screaming, to four wailing, to a thousand kids rotting and the sound of swords slicing through flesh. it weighs as it should.]

What. [she manages, strangled.]

[refate]

[ after fussing in jingheng's proximity, yelling with gideon: ]

DON'T LET HER GET AT YOU, FIGHT! LIN JINGHENG IS WAITING FOR YOU, DAMNIT!

[cavaliered]

[she's moving towards the stage! haha!

it's just that like, obviously there's a wall. there's the impact of her hitting it, but there's nothing there, and she lets out a feral sort of sound and beats at it with her fist.]

[refate]

[ in theory, kon could be the responsible one here. he's surrounded by people with worse tempers than him, so it makes sense, really, that he could account for that and balance it out.

except it's emotion fuckery week, and he sees that blade coming down for both of them. so instead of trying to pull gideon back he slams his left fist into the barrier. ] Move!

[cavaliered]

[we'll say this is before persephone gets her to stop

now it's both of them, shouting.]

GET OUT OF THE WAY OF THE SWORD, JACKASS, RUN —

[refate]

[ persephone gets her to stop but how long's that gonna work after

that. i'm going to shake sisi in my TEETH.

it's just his fist against the barrier, still for a moment, and then he sucks in a breath when he sees red, literal red, subclavian artery, axillary artery, thoracoacromial artery, brachial artery and nerves - ]

[cavaliered]

[well, she's still now - she has her hands pressed up against the barrier. she's muttering something under her breath but it might be hard to hear unless he's listening hard.]

[refate]

[ he catches it, after a few moments of not-quite listening, realizing that there's a shape to the sound. and then he's quiet, fist firm against the barrier as he practically radiates out of his skin. a virus that consumes.

and, then, he reaches his right hand up to grab her bicep, having to force the grip to come, voice low. ]

[cavaliered]

[she listens - she listens, and she breathes.

the lights hurt. the flashing lights and the bells make her head ache.]

He can't fucking help himself. [she says finally, but she doesn't pull away.]

[refate]

[ the discordant note goes straight to the pit of his stomach with something akin to dread.the bell and four's mania don't help. he's still holding onto gideon for the moment as he turns his head, just slightly, against the flashes of light, but not looking away. ]

No. He can't. To do otherwise would be against his nature, no matter who was up there.

[cavaliered]

[ok well sisi is fucking with us but gideon doesn't know that so the splat happens and gideon just

bellows. not painfully, not in fear or upset. not that, she's not afraid.

no, no, it's anger.]

[refate]

[ he doesn't startle, at least, as he holds his breath. instead, his jaw tightens, teeth grinding, as he hisses: ] Only in the darkness can you see the stars.

[ where are you where are you where are you - ]

[greatvalue]

[also shouting because what the fuck four]

DON'T LET HER MANIPULATE YOU, LU BIXING!

[except the shadows are here now and this is worse, actually? welcome to hell! welcome to hell!]

[cavaliered]

[welcome to hell! welcome to hell! she's just beating the shit out of this barrier.]

[greatvalue]

[She is incredibly valid even though beating the barrier will do absolutely nothing.]