[ video - thursday morning ] [ exaclan warning mini-event ]

[stoppedhiding]

[ He really doesn't want to do this. But if he doesn't, he knows it's not his head it will be on. There's really nothing he can do, and it will happen anyway -- all Golbez is doing is acting as a mouthpiece.

At 8AM on Thursday, the announcement happens. ]

Somebody in Rakuen has fallen below zero raks. The penalty will now commence.


[ The first victim is Sis Strider. From there, once every hour a different person will be selected for a five-minute warning penalty until America has zero or more raks. In order, the following victims include Dave Strider at 9AM, John Peixes at 10AM, Nunnally vi Britannia at 11AM, Jade Harley at noon, Dirk Strider at 1PM, Jake English at 2PM, and Bubblecup at 3PM.

As each victim is affected, they will appear on the Exaclan viewing screens and on computers connected to the network. Feel free to thread that out here, or in a new post if you would prefer.

There is no IC indication of who the culprit is unless he confesses to it himself. ]

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[knightime]

[You might have heard the sounds of shoes scuffing the ground.

Dave is kneeling near the other. He can't help Dirk up or touch him at all. He remembers the Player and Weapon rules fairly well.

But he waits there with Dirk until the other can get up again.]

[fracturedsoul]

[ Oh god, someone else is there watching. He knows it's being shown online, but having someone there in person is infinitely worse. He chances a glance upward and-- Oh. Oh, fuck. It's Dave. He's completely lost his cool in front of Dave Strider.

Wasn't it only supposed to last five minutes? It feels like it's been going on so much longer. Just when Dirk starts to think he can't take any more, it finally lets up and he's left with a dull after-throbbing in his head and in the edges of his vision around his glasses the light is too bright. He stays there for a moment, finally putting his hands on the ground and bringing himself up to his knees.

He breathes heavily and doesn't trust himself to say anything just yet. ]

[knightime]

[Dave still doesn't do anything. He shifts slightly, but that's about it.

His expression hasn't changed at all. He's just waiting for Dirk until the other feels like he can get up without accidentally hitting the ground again.

It's not like Dave thinks any differently. He got hit by the penalty during class. That was pretty embarrassing. It was also jarring, considering the fact that he and Jade both also got penalized.]

[fracturedsoul]

[ He's a bit dizzy when he finally stands, but Dirk does manage it after a moment. Admittedly, all that stops him from reaching out to grab onto Dave's shoulder to steady himself is that he remembers the rule about physical contact with a Player other than one's own, and he can't take another one of those. Fuck, he kind of wishes Jake were here right now.

Once he's up, he glances over to Dave, glad his eyes are covered at the moment. ]

Hey.

[knightime]

[Dave gets to his feet, the sound of his PDA as he types into it.]

join the club
its like a fucking penalty party all up in this shit
we can bitch and moan about how it feels like shit to be on the receiving end for no reason
sup

[Dirk probably saw Dave falter and almost reach out. But he automatically stopped. It was hard to rely so much on physicality and not be able to actually act on it because of penalties and the such.]

[fracturedsoul]

[ He'd never admit it, but after that awkward encounter at the pool last Saturday Dirk's been hoping he might be able to get over the fact that he has no idea what to do when it comes to physical contact with other human beings. Too bad, so sad.

He stares blankly down at his PDA and has to turn the brightness down a couple notches before he can read Dave's message. ]

You'd think this would be a pretty effective way of keeping people in line, but anyone who'd let it go on this long's clearly a sociopath who doesn't give a single fuck if anyone else suffers.

[ Or it's America. But he hasn't met America. ]

[knightime]

or theyre a fucking moron
im probably going with moron though because we got a lot of those there

[He kept a good distance from Dirk. He didn't want to accidentally bump the other, but he didn't want to be too far either. It was really annoying. These rules.]