Consequences [round 4| day 4 midday, open]

[myblueskies]

Characters: Romeo, Dahlia, anyone else who feels like it
Format: Prose, action, whatever
This log is: Open
Location: Courtyard
Summary: OOC note first: I have the mods permission to start this thread, all the announcement bit in this thread was written by Elle, who sent it to me to put in this post. Also the "victim" of the penalty was randomly selected.
IC: Actions have consequences, on day 4 of round 4 as a result of not fighting Dahlia goes into negative tokens.
Warnings: Pain, descriptions of pain, probably angst (when is there ever no angst?)

" At exactly noon on the fourth day of the fourth round the screens across the campus flickered. The usual view of ongoing battles and posts asking for battles or weapons was taken over by the face of the woman all the students in the academy knew very well by now. Her ever-present smile was glued to her face as she began to speak.

"Hi! I hope everyone is enjoying the round and fighting hard! Unfortunately one of the players for this round has past the minimum token value, the penalty will now take place." At that she gave a cheery wave and disappeared off the screen. The camera then panned to the courtyard to one student in particular.

The student in question was Romeo and he was in the courtyard eating an apple when a pain began, it was like the pain he had felt when he had tried to vow with Sherlock except it just didn't stop. It was in his head, like someone was stabbing him inside his mind. Within half a minute he had dropped the apple and was clutching his head. The pain allowed no thoughts and tears of pain ran from his eyes. This was different than anything he had ever felt before, and he couldn't run from it or hide from it because it was inside him.

And it just didn't stop. He couldn't help but cry out loud clutching his head as he curled up on the step where he was sat. To Romeo the pain went on for a long time, so long that he thought his brain was going to explode. In reality it was five minutes, five whole minutes and by the end Romeo was sobbing.

When it was over he lay still curled up in a ball, tight and frightened not trusting that the pain had gone away.

Comments

[shishi_sonson]

"ROMEO!"

Zoro's deep, loud bellow could likely be heard all across campus. Seeing the boy there, writhing upon the ground and doubled over like some crumpled-up piece of paper, Zoro's usually unflapable nature broke apart instantly like so much fragile glass. Breaking through a small crowd of people, practically shoving them out of the way in the process, he broke into a run and zeroed in on Romeo as quickly as he could.

Upon reaching him, he slid to a halt on his knees, then reached down and nearly scooped him up. He stopped, though, with his fingers a hair's width away from Romeo's frame.

Can't touch him! Zoro mentally shouted to himself; the boy could be really hurt, so doing anything to move or disturb him might make matters worse.

"Nngh! Romeo-kun, just...hold on!" he shouted instead, suddenly flying back up to his feet. Instantly, he began a frenzied search of the area, his head swiveling around quickly in an attempt to spot someone - anyone - who might be able to help. Before he could find anyone, though, the pain seemed to subside, and Zoro grabbed the kid up in his arms.

"What happened!? Are you alright?" he exclaimed.

[choseanidiot]

Enki had been in the common room, reading, when the screen flickered to life, and while he wasn't interested at first (had even got up to leave, assuming it was a battle about to be broadcast), his head snapped up when the woman mentioned 'past minimum amount of tokens' and 'penalty'.

What he didn't understand was what that boy... Romeo, wasn't it, was doing on the screen. He was not one of the Players this round, so he shouldn't---

When the child doubled over from pain, Enki almost did the same, but he did drop the book, hands curling into fists.

No... No way did they just...

"That... the penalty..." It's simply a choked whisper, caught between rage and pained compassion, and he got no further, swaying on his feet despite the fact that there is nothing to technically affect him adversely.

The penalty for dropping beneath the 'minimum' (probably zero) amount of tokens is pain, and quite a lot of it, apparently, levied upon... a random Weapon? Or just a random 'student' in general?

Either way, it made something twist upon itself inside the kirin.

How could they do that?