WEEK ONE: REMOVAL

[retellers]

WEEK ONE: REMOVAL (38 remain) Time to wake up, participants of the Realm. At 8am, everyone will receive a message on their PHS. Docking bay in space. 9AM. Even if the participants ignore the message (or are sleeping in, shame on them), as 9am approaches they will fall victim to a compulsion to head to the specified location. Three Leaders, Tiger, Swan, and Goat, are already present, Kano with them. Tiger speaks. "Let's... just get this over with." Once they finish speaking, an alert goes off from a PHS in the crowd—specifically, Jeanne's. Her PHS displays a simple message. You have been selected to remove Shuuya Kano. Regardless of her will, she will feel compelled to walk towards the scene. No other participant will be able to interfere; should they try, a barrier blocks their way, though it won't harm them.

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EXECUTION

[retellers]

[ Once Jeanne is selected, Kano will move against his own will towards the airlock, and Jeanne towards the emergency switch to open said airlock.

After a moment, Goat disappears from their position, reappearing next to the barrier, which they seem taken aback by as if they hadn't expected to hit it. They then slam their fists against it repeatedly, uncaring of how it electrocutes them each time--what with them being a Leader--before eventually, they seem to be in too much pain to move. Tiger walks over and kneels down to poke them, probably to check to see if they're like, alive. For their part, Swan teleports a second after Goat, but once they see what they're doing, they stop and attempt to teleport towards ... space instead? That or they ram into the wall facing it for fun a few times.

Anyway. Please continue, Kano and Jeanne. ]

[discernments]

[ Jeanne's expression shutters the moment she receives the message.

If this her responsibility to bear, if this is her sin to commit, so be it. The rules are clear, and if someone must take an innocent life, she supposes she's suitable for it.

Jeanne stands by the emergency switch but doesn't lift a hand just yet. ]

Kano. Do you have any requests?

PEANUT GALLERY

[retellers]

[ IC reactions from the audience may go here! ]

[chanteuser]

[ alex is stood as close to the barrier as she can get, her arms folded tightly over her chest

she looks miserable, but her eyes are stuck on what’s going on on the other side of the barrier. like she won’t let herself look away. ]

[dawnblushed]

[bad. very bad.

yona stands close to the barrier and watches, her hands clenched into fists.]

[moondumplings]

[ USAGI has FAINTED ]

[heartablaze]

[bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad

she's just standing perfectly still, even though she looks about ready to scream]

[stillnot]

[ she's here and she's not, like, happy about this. but she's not unused to watching people get killed right in front of her, so it just is what it is.

cold. ]

[infreefall]

[ she's standing close to the barrier, hands clasped before her as she watches. ]

[evocationary]

The airlock was specifically not my memory being lifted. Just putting that out there.

[ she's standing here, arms folded, expression flat. ]

[recrowns]

[soo-won is here, close to the barrier.

and if it's a barely there moment where once jeanne steps forward, his eyes widen and he looks to her, concerned -

before it settles away and then he watches the scene in front of him, sighing quietly even as his fingertips press against the barrier as though again waiting for the moment it will drop]

... So this is how the Realm has chosen to respond this week.

[reconnective]

[well this is fine. sora seems to be looking toward the leaders, watching their attempts at fixing this. but when the focus shifts to kano and jeanne he settles for folding his arms across his chest and watching silently.]

[exercisms]

[Goat. . .

Just like last week, he will also pound his fists on the barrier. His expression serious, his lips tight - there's not urgency to it, like he thinks he's breaking through.

But after a minute or so, he stops, and instead reaches into his pocket, leaving his hand in there, still banging with one fist against it.]

[supremity]

[ This would be poetic if they had caught the right person.

Now, it leaves a bad taste, even in Hua Cheng's mouth. But he watches regardless, arms crossed and end of his braid twisting between his fingers. ]

[dianxias]

[ like the others, xie lian won't look away, hands clenched into fists at his side, as close to the barrier as possible.

he starts to move like he can break it and stops himself, biting his lip at the sight of goat and swan's reactions, too. ]

[siblingless]

[Haha, yeah.

She's just going to watch this go down, keeping her eyes fixed on the pair even as she bites her lower lip and grips her own arms in a cheap imitation of a hug. They fucked up.]

[sacredchants]

[ schrodinger's closeness to the barrier, but here's izumo looking positively wrecked and caught between continued misery or boiling rage. she likely looks as though she has been crying all night and barely gotten any sleep.

whether she keeps her eyes on what's happening or not goes back and forth. she wants to see but she can't see. ]

[robopriest]

[He's just folding his arms, looking sternly out at the airlock - his frown deepens when he sees Jeanne, but he doesn't look away.]

I guess we're all put into positions we don't like, huh...terrible.

[assistance]

[ honestly

she's more interested in what's going on with the leaders than the execution so she's wandering over to them............ sorry kano ]

Um... are you guys good?

[horologia]

[ who would she be, if she looked away from this?

she'll stand at the barrier's edge like a solemn, pale ghost. ]

[soulus]

[Like last week, Rufus watches the proceedings with an impassive expression. At the very least, he doesn't look away.]

[misstrust]

[ Dorothy once again doesn't look away, though-- her lips are moving soundlessly, as though she's working something out in her head. And then she turns a little pale, reaching out for the barrier before she catches herself and pulls her hand back. ]

Why would anyone--

[ She's not really talking to anyone in particular. ]

[papasha]

[He stands near the barrier pretty much like a statue. The look on his face is disappointed, not at one in particular.

But he doesn't look away.]

[frostythehitman]

[ Well. He's here. And he's watching. Which is about all he can really say for this mess.

He's not sure if watching the kid die is the least he can do, or if it's just self-flagellation. ]

[lecarre]

[Ange is silent as well as she watches, eyes downcast and head lowered.

But she won't look away either.

They all made this happen.]