[Video- Friday Morning] {Exaclan Warning Mini-Event}

[frozenmemories]

[At 8AM on Friday there is a very unhappy looking Cirno showing up on the video feed. She did not want to do this but she had no other choice. It looks like she mumbles something but it's hard to see before she straightens up and stares into the camera, Her voice as authoritative as she could make it.]

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


[The first victim is Jade Harley (AU). From there, once every hour a different person will be selected for a five-minute warning penalty until Jadesprite has zero or more raks. In order, the following victims include 9AM: Golbez, 10AM David Strider, 11AM Stellaluna, 12NOON: Dave Strider AU, 1PM Dirk Strider, 2PM Jane Crocker

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 she confesses to it herself.]

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9AM

[stoppedhiding]

[ Golbez has just started Astronomy class at Conquest, handing out some fact sheets about binary star systems, when he is hit suddenly. He goes down as he's walking the aisles and his handful of papers goes flying. ]

Latest ever but shush

[babysage]

[Oh no! Kotaro jumped out of his seat and tried to help Golbez but regretted it a moment when he was hit with a penalty for touching him, which meant Golbez had been as well, on top of the pain he was already feeling.]

Sorry I forgot! [He is stood near, what does he do? What does he do? Maybe he should get Sam.] Be brave!

[stoppedhiding]

[ He really doesn't notice the added penalty. It's all just so much pain that a bit more is practically nothing.

Kotaro's voice cuts through and Golbez nods in response to his words. He stays right there, hunched over, breathing heavily, refusing to cry out. ]

[babysage]

[Kotaro wanted to cry but he knew his brother would be disappointed with him if he did. Golbez wasn't crying, so Kotaro had no right to cry. He sat down opposite him, not touching him even though he wanted to hug him.]

8AM

[greenspaces]

[ YOU KNOW WHAT SHE'S REALLY QUITE TIRED OF PEOPLE FALLING OVER SCREAMING IN CLASS class has just started too, but with a whimper she falls out of her seat, onto the ground.

Fuck, fuck fuck-- ]

[knightime]

[It's happening again? Really? And why Jade of all people?

Dave has already gotten out of his seat to pull Jade into his arms. He can't say anything comforting to her, so he just sits there, rubbing small circles on her arm and keeping her close to him.]

[greenspaces]

[ She scrunches into a ball, long fingernails digging inadvertently into the palms of her hands. Anything to keep her mind of off the pounding pain in her head. Why does this happen so much? Why are these people so mean?

She hasn't even noticed Dave is there. ]

M-make it stop...

[knightime]

[He presses a small kiss into her hair, still cradling her. He glanced at the clock. It should be over soon. At least he really hoped so. He never really paid attention to how long these things lasted, but it couldn't be more than a few minutes.

His hands move to clasp both of Jade's hands. He didn't care if she tried digging her nails into his hands. He just wanted her to stop digging her nails into her palms.]

Noon

[knightime]

[There's a loud clatter as Dave's tray skids across the floor of the cafeteria. He's already down to his knees, his arms covering his head as he presses his forehead against the cool surface of the ground.

Shit, shit. Why, again? He flexes the fingers in his hands, balling them into fists before flexing them again. He was trying to do something to distract himself from the pain surging through his head, but it wasn't really working. A few minutes. It won't be long.

Just a few minutes.]

[greenspaces]

[ Oh god dammit. Jade is going to murder whoever's responsible for this. She's already running over to him, dropping to her knees and wrapping her arms around him. ]

It's okay.

[knightime]

[He buries his face against her. Warmth and comforting. He can do this. It won't be long. It's at least a little relieving, even if it wasn't enough to keep his mind off the immense pain. But it was something. And that's all he needed.]

[savedbyasong]

[No no no not again. Why was it always Dave? What had he done to deserve this? Nothing that was what.

He wrapped his arms round him again, because there was nothing else to do.] I'm so sorry Dave.

[knightime]

[Because Dave's life is suffering. Being a Strider is hard.

It takes him a bit before he can finally reply back to Shion.]

guess im popular

1PM

[fracturedsoul]

[ It's probably Dirk's fault for weighing the probability wrong.

Even if he was targeted again, what are the odds it would be at the exact same time of day he was hit last time?

Pretty high, it seems. He'll just be over there in the Fortitude gym's pool, thrashing and flailing underwater. ]

[knightime]

[The levels of stupid is basically off the charts. It's out of orbit.

Your hero is an idiot fourteen year old who just ran as quickly as he could and jumped into the pool, clothes and everything. Not only is this the most ridiculous image, it is pretty sad because Dave can't swim that well. He's mastered, maybe at best, the doggy paddle. But he's really good at sinking. Super good at it. He's not as scared to jump into the water though, even if he's all kinds of panicking right now.

But he grabs your arm and pulls you close. If there's one thing he's learned, you can still hit the surface if you push off hard enough from the bottom of the pool. So he does this.

He pushes off at an angel so when they resurface again, he can grab hold of the edge of the pool. He's not even sure which grip is tighter, the one on Dirk's arm or the one on the ledge.

Hello, my name is Dave, and I am a complete moron.]

[fracturedsoul]

[ Dirk is all sorts of panicking. He'd tried to gasp for breath underwater and the water rushing into his lungs had only made it worse. So he's pretty disoriented and close to passing out when Dave grabs him -- Did someone grab him? Is he hallucinating? -- and then his head is above the water and he's coughing up water and sputtering and scrambling to pull himself out.

Your name is DIRK STRIDER and you are EXTREMELY COOL ALL OF THE TIME WITHOUT EXCEPTION. ]

2PM

[overbiterestart]

[Jane was walking across a Fortitude kitchen, empty baking pan in her hand when the penalty hit. Holy moley, this certainly wasn't what Jane was expecting to happen today.

The pan hit the floor with a clatter, Jane going down right along with it. Oh, she's never had one of these- so that might be a scream.]

Someone make it stop, make it stop, please make it go away...

Re: 2PM

[goodboybestshot]

[BALLS TO THAT. The moment Jake saw the announcement, he'd been watching the network like a hawk for who was getting hit. Augh this was awful why was it happening again.

OH HELL NO THAT WAS JANE. Jake took off like a rocket. At least he wasn't all that far from where it looked like she was. When he finds her he doesn't even recollect her anti-hugging thing. He just pulls her into his arms.]

[overbiterestart]

[BALLS TO EVERYTHING TBH.]

. . .! [She was screaming, and as soon as Jake took her up into his arms. She went silent. Remember the thing about the no hugging or she blanks? Well she's spacing out pretty bad right now, like so bad.

Pretty soon she's going to black out Jake. Please let her go. This is the most terrible thing ever. Being paralyzed like this.]

10AM

[theillbeatknight]

[David is erasing part of the "lesson" from the board when he's hit. He crumples to the floor, knocking an eraser off the ledge below the board; the one in his hand hits the floor by his face. A cloud of chalk dust rises around him and he starts coughing, flinching as each cough makes the headache worsen.]

Re: 10AM

[greenspaces]

[ She is getting out of her seat and running to the front of the class, placing a hand on his back as the other one carefully picks the erasers up and sets them aside, bad part up so they won't cause any more dust. ]

Dave, are you okay?

[theillbeatknight]

[David vaguely hears her; he attempts to answer, but there's still dust in his throat. It sets off another round of coughing and he clutches his head in pain. By the time the coughing stops, he's forgotten she said anything and ends up whimpering into the floor.]

11AM

[vespertinity]

[Pip had been carried between classes and was now sitting on a desk. She didn't really understand what was going on, but it was still interesting! Except when it was really confusing, that was boring.

Suddenly pain happened, and she flopped over and screamed.]

[pennypincher]

Pip?

Oh, crap. [ Lemina is sitting next to her, and she reaches over to pick up the little bat. Accidentally went all week as a discard oops ]

[vespertinity]

[It hurts it hurtsithurtsithurts. Pip curls into a ball of bat and screams and screams until her throat hurts too much to scream any more, broken only when her tiny lungs run out of air. Wow gj Stella would have vowed with Lemina.]