As Written by Czoklet:
[Megas Droungarios Javier Espinosa:
Espinosa smiles.
- Slow down, friends, I know you have a lot of questions but please allow me to respond to them one by one. As for the... as for the...
Espinosa suddenly stops.
- Excuse me, the hour is late and I'm no longer as young as I used to be. Now, as for your question regarding the... regarding...
Suddenly eunuchs standing closest to Megas Droungarios start screaming - you see streams of blood coming from his nose down his beard. Shocked and pale on face, Espinosa suddenly gets up and immediately almost trips and falls down, visibly out of balance. He grabs the throne with his right hand and looks at the Senators with wide-opened eyes.
- Khr... agrh...
Espinosa pushes away the eunuchs and tries to speak but only intelligible coughs can be heard. Blood from his ears and eyes makes deep blue stains on his paludamentum cloak as he tries to stay on his feet. He looks at the Blues and extends his left arm, as if asking for help.
- Kfrhh... kfrhlagh!
He loses balance and falls down the marble dais, tumbling down with loud noise. When his body stops on the floor of the Senate, his red eyes are bulging from now purple and swollen face. As you look at him laying before you in a pool of blood you realize that the silence fills the Magnaura with heavy shroud, silence like you've never witnessed it before.
President of the Senate Nikephoros Dalassenos:
Nikephoros abruptly tossess his still full chalice on the floor spilling the red wine on the marble and starts shouting.
- Assassins! Guardsmen, protect the Senators!
Men of the Imperial Senate Guard, until this moment paralyzed by what the witnessed, draw their weapons and run towards the Senators to shield them with their own bodies from the unknown assailants.
- Barricade the doors! Let nobody leave or enter Magnaura! You! he turns toward one of the eunuchs - Take two guardsmen and call the Varangians! They have to arrive immediately, the Senate is under attack!
The eunuch bows and runs toward the door to the corridor connecting the Great Hall with the rest of the Sacred Palace. Nikephoros turns toward one of the few guardsmen who wear a golden cloak on their armor.
- Captain! I order you to-
To your surprise, the captain quickly approaches President of the Senate and whispers something into his ear, then turns toward the Blues. Members of the Blue Demes suddenly realize – this is the same man who was assigned to protect them during Faction Meeting.
Nikephoros, red on face and shaking from anger, points at the Blues with Fasces.
- Seize them! Seize the murderers!
Before you have a chance to react, the guardsmen surround and grab the Blues, pushing them away from rest of the Senators.
By the authority vested in me by His Imperial Majesty Basileios III Angelos you are arrested under charges of treason and conspiracy against Megas Droungarios Javier Espinosa! Captain! When the reinforcements arrive you will escort them to the Anemas Prison and handle them over to the Athanatoi. They know best how to deal with traitors.
Nikephoros spits on the ground.
- Your Houses will be turn into ashes for what you did. Get them out of my sight!]
And thus the blues became Enemy No. 1