Flowers of Heaven: ☆ZRAEL

[idolpro]

There’s an odd sound, like stones grinding together.

Hopping around your legs and fluttering about your shoulders are what look like a number of gargoyles, each no more than a few feet high and in the traditional gothic cathedral style—and all animate, their flesh made of living rock. They hoot, yip, and howl at you to follow, leading you towards an arched doorway that has opened in the thick brambles and leads to a winding path beyond, chirping at you to follow.

Once you cross through, a gate closes behind you, and the voices of your fellow idols fade from your ears. It seems as if you’re on your own, now.

❀ ❀ ❀

Here, the brambles that surround your path are thick with shadow so dense it seems almost velvety, and the branches curl in strangely ornate shapes.

It seems that the gargoyles are carrying some things for you: a collection of sixteen different flowers, a small lantern of blue flame, and a wreath woven from blooming clematis, aconite, and wild roses.

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RESULTS

[idolpro]

Re: RESULTS

[idolpro]

[ Regardless of which flowers you placed in the lantern, the following flowers suddenly go up in vivid blue flame:

Vervain
Clematis
Chamomile
Wild Rose
Hollyhock
Mimulus
Water Lily

The fire has an unnatural feeling to it; when it leaps to the roses twining around the handles of the door, they aren't so much burned as unmade.
And the path carries on. ]

@DOODLES

[idolpro]

[ A searing pain wracks your body, spreading white-hot from the center of your chest—perhaps you clutch at your chest, or double over, and there, over your heart, is a gout of flame, the same unnatural bright blue as the lantern. The faint image of CLEMATIS can be seen within the flame, and the pain only intensifies as it curls in on itself, withers, and then catches alight, burning bright before charring and crumbling to ash.

And then it’s gone. ]

Re: @DOODLES

[avestan]

[FUCKIN OW

DOUBLING OVER

but then once he recovers a bit he's looking around, wide-eyed, and... smiling?]

Re: @DOODLES

[hissterics]

[ That CANNOT be good. ]

Uh . . . Doodles . . . ?

Re: @DOODLES

[avestan]

Yeah?

Re: @DOODLES

[hissterics]

Are you crazy now?

Like-- a different crazy from the usual.

@GLORY

[idolpro]

[ A searing pain wracks your body, spreading white-hot from the center of your chest—perhaps you clutch at your chest, or double over, and there, over your heart, is a gout of flame, the same unnatural bright blue as the lantern. The faint image of WILD ROSE can be seen within the flame, and the pain only intensifies as it curls in on itself, withers, and then catches alight, burning bright before charring and crumbling to ash.

And then it’s gone. ]

Re: @GLORY

[rollplayinghouse]

Ah—

[Glory clutches at her chest when it burns, blinking repeatedly, until it passes and she looks up again, her eyes not quite focused.]

Re: @GLORY

[selfpreservationist]

Glory?

[hovering nearby]

Re: @GLORY

[rollplayinghouse]

[blinks once more, and looks at him blankly]

Yes?

Re: @GLORY

[hissterics]

[ More useless hovering because what the fuck do you do really ]

. . . You crazy too now?

Re: @GLORY

[rollplayinghouse]

No, I'm not.

@MANNY

[idolpro]

[ A searing pain wracks your body, spreading white-hot from the center of your chest—perhaps you clutch at your chest, or double over, and there, over your heart, is a gout of flame, the same unnatural bright blue as the lantern. The faint image of VERVAIN can be seen within the flame, and the pain only intensifies as it curls in on itself, withers, and then catches alight, burning bright before charring and crumbling to ash.

And then it’s gone. ]

Re: @MANNY

[carnivorouscarnival]

[ that's certainly unpleasant. he does clutch at his chest—but he endures it, gritting his teeth, since at least he had an idea of what to expect. ]

Fuck!

Re: @MANNY

[selfpreservationist]

[why so many of you all at once!!]

Re: @MANNY

[carnivorouscarnival]

[ he takes a deep breath in and out to collect himself. then after a moment or two of that, he looks at the flowers that burned, then glances over at Raven. ]

... At least we made one right call.

Re: @MANNY

[hissterics]

[ The more people start doubling over the more pissed off she looks, until she's just pacing and lashing her tail. She pauses to stare at him once the burning wears off though. ]

. . .

How bad?

Re: @MANNY

[carnivorouscarnival]

[ he's staring at his own hands and laughing hysterically now.

so like, that kind of bad. ]

@REQ

[idolpro]

[ A searing pain wracks your body, spreading white-hot from the center of your chest—perhaps you clutch at your chest, or double over, and there, over your heart, is a gout of flame, the same unnatural bright blue as the lantern. The faint image of WILD ROSE can be seen within the flame, and the pain only intensifies as it curls in on itself, withers, and then catches alight, burning bright before charring and crumbling to ash.

And then it’s gone. ]

Re: @REQ

[stakesthesame]

[ doubles over, because, you know, the pain,

but also for a moment looks increasingly panicked and wild-eyed as it burns, frantically trying to pat it out with her hands and breathing harshly. ]

Re: @REQ

[selfpreservationist]

--Requiem...!

Re: @REQ

[stakesthesame]

[ abruptly freezes-- which is fine since the fire is actually gone by now-- and straightens up, folding her wings and turning to look at him with a slightly uneasy grin--

pauses, tongues over a fang--

and purses her lips a moment before smiling again, without showing any teeth. ]

Uh, it's. Fine. I'm good.

Re: @REQ

[hissterics]

[ NNNNNN SHE FUCKING HATES IT.

TAIL LASH TAIL LASH while she waits to it to just -- stop. ]

Well?

Re: @REQ

[stakesthesame]

[ since talking to twodles she's straightened up but kinda seems to be trying to like, not draw attention to herself, and keeping her mouth closed, and surreptitiously trying to cover her ears with her hair, ]

-- I'm fine. It's cool, don't worry.