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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THE THIRD OBSTACLE

[idolpro]

After journeying a while longer—it’s unclear how long, and the way time passes here is… strange—you come upon another wall. Here, the garden seems like it’s starting to wither, like it's dying back for the winter. The leaves are brown and fading, shriveling up.

The doors set into the wall were golden, once, like the trellises you passed earlier on your path, but the doors here stand grimy and unpolished, dripping with that same sort of tarry grime you might recall from the fountain.

Can flame really take care of this…? But it seems at least the creatures accompanying you think so.

DISCUSSION

[idolpro]

Re: DISCUSSION

[deifiedwhitedragon]

[Seto is just sitting on the floor now, but he at least appears focused on what they're doing again.]

D.Va wears the crown. And we vote Wild Oats, Honeysuckle, and Oak.

Re: DISCUSSION

[deifiedwhitedragon]

[jk then he caught on fire. he has no idea what they're doing.]

Re: DISCUSSION

[420blazeit]

[ no d.va
only monster. ]

[ and she's attempting to scramble up the grime covered door, because the path leading back to the other room is blocked, so clearly the only way to go is forward. ]

[ she howls in frustration as her tentacles all pound the door furiously. ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[ferociousfuckingnerd]

[OH MY GOD SCREAMING]

What is that?!?!

Re: DISCUSSION

[420blazeit]

{ HOLY CRAP IT'S SCREAMING SO SHE'S GOING TO TURN TO HIM AND SCREAM RIGHT BACK... except that it's more of a high pitched scrEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEch. ]

[ enjoy. ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[ferociousfuckingnerd]

[STILL ALARMING, BACKS THE FUCK UP INTO THE WALL]

Aaaaaah I'm sorry!!!

Re: DISCUSSION

[dragonheartedgirl]

[ Also screaming now and backinto a corner. ]

H-help! Somebody--

Re: DISCUSSION

[puzzlekeeper]

[ oh

oh no

HOW DOES HE PROTECT/PLACATE THE BABIES WHILE CHASING AND CROWNING A MONSTER AND DISASSOCIATING OH MY GOD ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[ferociousfuckingnerd]

[Sorry we're totally about to be eaten AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH]

Re: DISCUSSION

[puzzlekeeper]

[ King was in hot pursuit when the transformation happened, and he does indeed falter, the crown still clutched in his hand--

Because they're running and there's monsters, and some of them are monsters, and he has to turn and leave before any of them catch him, because HSS is done for if they do-- ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[420blazeit]

[ she screams at the door, as if that's going to be enough to... oh. and then the burning of the gorse causes the gate burst into half blue flames. she stumbles back and stares, because GREAT SUCCESS. spinning around she turns to king. stay. away. he better NOT follow her. she bristles, tentacles all raising threateningly. ]

SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

1/?!?!

[puzzlekeeper]

[ He should run.

He's the heart.

He should run he should run he should run he should run he should ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[puzzlekeeper]

[ Why is he holding a flower crown . . . ? ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[idolpro]

[ Hey, you didn't even vote yet, but—
The Gorse flower bursts into vivid blue flame, and is gone.

The magic creatures go into something of a panic at first, but then they notice: the gates are now partially aflame with that same blue fire.

They indicate to you, somehow speaking directly to your minds, that just one flower will be enough, at this point, to make it the rest of the way. ]

DECISION

[idolpro]

The scroll unfurls further, and this time there are once more twelve drawings. As before, they're partially filled in with bright blue ink to the following degrees:

LiliS: 25%
sensitIV: 43.75%
pep!pep!: 33.33%
BAD END=DEAD END: 25%
Taisho Roman Revolution: 25%
☆ZRAEL: 41.67%
future is now: 41.67%
WILD CITY: 37.5%
Heart Soldier Senshi: 70%
AlcheME!: 25%
avante en garde: 57.14%
BARiTONES: 25%

@SETO

[idolpro]

[ Suddenly: You feel an explosive pain in your chest; a searing hot, shooting pain. It leaves you feeling raw and wounded though there isn't a single physical injury on your person to be seen; instinctively you knows that one of your flowers was lost, but was it meant to be this painful?

You find that G͙͢Ò͉̙͖̤R̵̝̤̹͕̗̜S̫͙E̵͖͎̜̙͈͙ has been burned. ]

Re: @SETO

[deifiedwhitedragon]

[What the fuck.

Despite the intense pain, Seto's scream when this one hits him is more one of surprise and anger than pain. This isn't how the game was supposed to go.

How the game was supposed to go...?

What game?

Why is he sitting on the floor...?]

Re: DECISION

[idolpro]

Gorse burns, and the scroll updates:

LiliS: 50%
sensitIV: 56.25%
pep!pep!: 33.33%
BAD END=DEAD END: 50%
Taisho Roman Revolution: 25%
☆ZRAEL: 50%
future is now: 50%
WILD CITY: 37.5%
Heart Soldier Senshi: 80%
AlcheME!: 37.5%
avante en garde: 64.29%
BARiTONES: 25%

Re: DECISION

[puzzlekeeper]

None of them manage to submit anything because [ look at all this ]

D.Va is wearing the crown.

RESULTS

[idolpro]

Re: RESULTS

[idolpro]

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

Lotus
Wild Oats

As always, the fire has that same unnatural feeling, but there's a relief to it, now, as it flares up and joins the flames already on the golden doors; there's enough fuel, now, and the grime is seared away—unmade.

The doors open. You're almost Free... ]

@KING

[idolpro]

[ A searing pain wracks your body [again], spreading white-hot from the center of your chest—perhaps you clutch at your chest, or double over, and there, once more, is that gout of unnatural blue flame. The faint image of LOTUS 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 spreads over your skin and your entire body. It consumes nothing, but the pain blots out all thought, all memory, all the world around you.

It takes what feels like forever to burn through you, then it’s gone, along with the pain and your memories—but the tinge blue flame lingers, wreathing you like a halo. ]

Re: @KING

[puzzlekeeper]

[ Ah





Welp. ]