Murder Mysterium - Night 2, Conservatory

[idolpro]

[ ALCHEME! and SEA.DI enter.

Outside the domed glass of the conservatory, night has fallen. The sky here is dark, clouded over with clouds so low as to feel claustrophobic-- the sort of weather and sort of place where a conservatory to retreat to would be welcome, to feel some sort of warmth that the sky stubbornly refuses to provide. Efforts have been made to make the place seem as bright and airy as possible, despite this: the sunburst pattern in the metal framework, the greening copper giving the place some brightness where wrought iron would make the place feel like a cage. Green and gold tiles circle an artificial pond, encircled themselves by shelves, lined with pots, overflowing with devil's ivy. Citrus perfumes the air. A small tea-table has been set up, with chairs for two or three to retreat to.

There isn't anything different beyond the usual decor of the room. However, the longer AlcheME! stays, the more keenly aware they become of the quiet but steady tick-tick-tick in the background. There isn't a clock that makes that noise in sight . . . what could it be?

Perhaps sea.Di knows. Regardless, everyone in the room knows this: before the dawn comes, AlcheME! will die. Even if it is not directly by sea.Di's hand, AlcheME! lost the moment they entered. ]

Comments

[inspiteful]

[ ... ]

Well, fuck.

[tothosewhobait]

...I know it is not worth anything...but I am truly sorry. I am...incredibly fond of Alcheme.

[inspiteful]

[ He can tell from the reactions that this was not what sea.Di was expecting or hoping for. There's no real point in him getting mad, and even if he wanted to be ...

... Well, after seeing the execution and knowing what it meant, he's too tired to be properly angry. ]

'Cause of Falcon and B, yeah? ... Well, this might have been for the better, kinda.

[tothosewhobait]

The one called Q seemed interesting as well. However, W and B are the ones I know best, yes...

I was looking forward to meeting the rest of you. Not like this though, obviously...

[unfamiliardawn]

...

I'm sorry.

[inspiteful]

Mmm, well ... I guess this might have been better than the alternative. Relatively speaking.

[unfamiliardawn]

...I think it's all just bad. Regardless.

[Taking a deep breath. He doesn't have a right to act all weepy in front of the person who's actually going to get hurt, get it together.]

[mercifulharvest]

Fuck indeed, tyrant. At least some blood shed this day will not be wasted.

1/2

[inspiteful]

[ Internal screaming intensifies. ]

[inspiteful]

... May I hazard the guess that you're Resounding Aria of Dawn?

[young_atlas]

[He is]

[Very Pointedly Standing Next To Lark.]

[And not looking away from Resounding Aria.]

[unfamiliardawn]

[A brave attempt at looking like he was Okay with all this was made up until sea.Di actually enters the conservatory, at which point Noah's breath noticeably catches in his throat.

This is the ONE color he was praying they wouldn't see. But of course, that just means it's the punishment he deserves, he supposes.]

[tothosewhobait]

...

[Off team friends were a bad idea]

[rolebreaker]

[ see this is why you don't make friends ]

[mercifulharvest]

You do not have to end their lives yourself - that is what this beast's purpose here is - but you should watch nonetheless.

If you truly care for them, anything else would be a great disrespect.

[unfamiliardawn]

I won't look away. ...I won't let you do anything alone.

[mercifulharvest]

...This beast will carry out our duty, if nobody else wishes to. The least it can do is spare your hands the blood of those who did nothing wrong.

[ except the solar

fuck that kid ]

[tothosewhobait]

We all made the decision... It hardly seems fair to make you do all the work...

[mercifulharvest]

[ she looks at him, and then points over at Eclipse. ]

His kind made this beast into what it is. It is a blade that has been reforged into a ploughshare, but its blade is no less dull - its old duty, not forgotten.

He will reap what his fellows have sewed, and his circle will suffer for the sins he has been party to. This is not "work" for this beast. It is simply a return to form.

[young_atlas]

.....looks like we die anyway.

[tothosewhobait]

I am truly sorry. Again, I know it means nothing, but... We just wanted to live.

[young_atlas]

That's why you make allies, not bring dynamite. [He is Unimpressed because this day! He just wandered in from the garden!!!]

[inspiteful]

Funny how things turn out like that, huh.

[young_atlas]

Gyess if she shows up, you get to be ghosts together.

JUST BEFORE DAWN

[idolpro]

[ At once, the ticking stops—



And then, the whole world flashes white.

AlcheME! will find themselves whisked away to another place just in time. However, to sea.Di's eyes, they'll see the members of AlcheME! be utterly shredded by the shrapnel that flies—each piece somehow narrowly missing every member of sea.Di—until the bodies are nothing but gore and pulp.

The door unlocks. sea.Di is free to head on to the next day. ]