Flowers of Heaven: Heart Soldier Senshi

[idolpro]

There’s a peeping and chattering overhead.

Fluttering down to greet you are a number of small and colorful creatures—almost like fanciful stuffed animals, except definitely fully alive and somehow capable of flight despite most of them not being winged. Cooing in a way that is unarguably adorable, they circle around your heads curiously before heading towards an arched doorway that has opened in the thick brambles, leading to a winding path beyond. They then chirrup at you insistently, waving their tiny stubby arms for 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 seem to hide the distant glitter of stars in their shadows, and some of the thorns have been replaced with colorful plastic.

It seems that the magic creatures are carrying some things for you: a collection of sixteen different flowers, a small lantern of blue flame, and a wreath woven from lotus flowers, blooming Star of Bethlehem, and stems of wild oats.

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Comments

THE FIRST OBSTACLE

[idolpro]

As you walk the path through the brambles, you come to a place where the ground becomes rough, rocky, and broken. The brambles that surround you now block your way, growing in a thick mass of branches and thorns as long as your hand; it’s so dense you can’t see through to the other side, much less progress further.

The colorful plush creatures go into a flurry of distressed activity at the sight... and then they pass you the collection of flowers, the lantern of blue flame, and the wreath.

Make your choices.

DISCUSSION

[idolpro]

Re: DISCUSSION

[puzzlekeeper]

[ He hates it so fucking much. ]

. . . What a sickening premise.

Re: DISCUSSION

[deifiedwhitedragon]

Destruction of the soul...

Re: DISCUSSION

[puzzlekeeper]

[ Ancient Egyptian Horror Huddle ]

Unthinkable, isn't it?

But here we are.

[dragonheartedgirl]

Trust the game runners to find multiple occasions to ruin something as nice as flowers.

[ sigh ]

Which flowers represent us all? Mine are --

[ a moment of pause ]

-- Hollyhock and Chamomile.

[puzzlekeeper]

[ THEY WERE ALREADY RUINED HIRYUU but yes, anyway --

Give him a second. ]

... Lotus and Star of Bethlehem.

[deifiedwhitedragon]

...Vervain and Gorse.

[420blazeit]

Wild Oats and Mimulus.

[ferociousfuckingnerd]

Hollyhock and vervain.

Re: DISCUSSION

[420blazeit]

[ she is having a hard time keeping her shit together at this point. ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[dragonheartedgirl]

Dva?

[ u okay there? ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[puzzlekeeper]

[ He's just going to wordlessly hold her hand in a vice grip while working this out. ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[ferociousfuckingnerd]

Of course it would be something so hideous...

Re: DISCUSSION

[puzzlekeeper]

They have to keep surprising us somehow.

Re: DISCUSSION

[deifiedwhitedragon]

[DEEP FROWN]

...I suppose we should begin by determining which flowers we don't have represented.

Re: DISCUSSION

[ferociousfuckingnerd]

Which would you have?

Re: DISCUSSION

[deifiedwhitedragon]

[staring at the flowers for a moment]

...Vervain and Gorse.

DECISION

[idolpro]

[ A new section appears on the scroll, unfurling into view—a series of ink drawings of twelve vials, each labeled with a unit's name. All of them are currently empty. ]

Re: DECISION

[deifiedwhitedragon]

Voting for Vervain Wild Rose and Hollyhock.

Mori will be wearing the crown.

RESULTS

[idolpro]

@KING

[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 STAR OF BETHLEHEM 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: @KING

[puzzlekeeper]

[ . . . Oh.

Just crumples then. ]

Re: @KING

[dragonheartedgirl]

King!?

Re: RESULTS

[idolpro]

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

Acacia

and then

Aconite
Star of Bethlehem
Alyssum

The fire has an unnatural feeling to it; when it leaps to the brambles blocking your path, they aren't so much burned as unmade.
And the path carries on. ]