Imeeji Idol Productions ([personal profile] idolpro) wrote2021-01-22 11:38 pm
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Vergil's heart game r1

You feel weak, your body won't move no matter how you try, and you are falling, away from everything you know and love. Away from everything you need to accomplish. If you could just reach out, maybe you could hold on to it, claw your way back. But it's a useless endeavour, you fall unconscious, and your mind goes blank except for poetry and a familiar voice.


O mother Enitharmon, wilt thou bring forth other sons?
To cause my name to vanish, that my place may not be found,
For I am faint with travail,
Like the dark cloud disburden'd in the day of dismal thunder.

My roots are brandish'd in the heavens, my fruits in earth beneath
Surge, foam and labour into life, first born and first consum'd!
Consumed and consuming!
Then why shouldst thou, accursed mother, bring me into life?


You wake on the ground in a cave, cold, wet, and sticky. It smells of rotting flesh. Your objective is clear, but you can't recall a name or face. Nothing else about your memory of him is changed, but for some reason the name "Vergil" just won't come to you, and you couldn't describe how he looks if your life depended on it. But at least your body starts to respond to your will, slowly regaining enough strength to carry on.

Re: LIVING CAVE

[personal profile] debatemebro 2021-01-24 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[ I wonder what I would turn into if I ate that heart.

but no he's going to go over and knock on it. is it hollow, does it go squish squish, time to FIND OUT. ]
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Re: LIVING CAVE

[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-24 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
When you get close, the blood rushing through the heart becomes apparent, not only to see but to hear. And knocking on it...well that's a choice. It's squishy in so far as it's definitely an actual organ, but it doesn't have any give. Like there's a tough hide.

The roots seem to start from the heart, and most connect to the gate. One particularly large one breaks through the ground, then pops back up near a wall on the west side of the cave, twisting along the ceiling until another hole that it's broken through there.

It looks like a root, but considering it sprouts from the heart, maybe it's better to call it a vein or artery. It's also plain to see an opening from its outer shell where it winds back up along the wall. If you don't mind a squeeze and being submerged in blood, you could ride the flow.

Re: LIVING CAVE

[personal profile] debatemebro 2021-01-24 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
It seems like it would be a little wet, but...

[ time to exhaust the options first though. first, CAN the rootveins be yanked off the gate. like he doesn't expect success but how embarrassing would it be if that was possible from the get go and he didn't even try. ]
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Re: LIVING CAVE

[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-24 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that would be embarrassing!



A glowing red barrier appears over the gate and blocks the way. The wailing faces of the damned seem to twist and move within it. When you start to pull, a massive hand forms from the barrier, reaching out toward you.

You have 1 Perseverance. Spend 1 Perseverance to escape its grasp?
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Re: LIVING CAVE

[personal profile] debatemebro 2021-01-24 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[ can that take the form of punching the hand. if so yes. if no, then he just punches the hand instead, because he's stupid. ]
composeur: (from the roofs of buildings)

Re: LIVING CAVE

[personal profile] composeur 2021-01-24 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[ cold wet and sticky. ... ew. ]

Your heart is gross Tsubapapa. [ gonna just get up and look around then. what about the big red door, are the vines fleshy or plant-ey? can he touch them? do they lead anywhere? ]
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Re: LIVING CAVE

[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-24 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Sorry man, it's spectral, your fist passes right through it.

The hand grabs you, or seems to at least, instead it passes through your body and squeezes your very soul, dragging it along as if it might tear it right from you. The feeling is excruciating, but it's over soon, you only have to suffer for a few moments before you take your last strangled breath and everything goes black.

You wake up in the cave again, cradled in the spindly, steel arms of half a dozen hooded, faceless, wraith-like creatures. Or so they appear. There's no life in them, no more than a statue holding you upon its lap not unlike the Pietà.

It sloughs away into nothing the moment you stand.

Re: LIVING CAVE

[personal profile] debatemebro 2021-01-24 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[ RUDE. HUFFS.

FINE. takes off the like top 14 layers of his cool taisho outfit, folds them up neatly, ... looks around for somewhere clean to put them... ... ...

sighs. just puts them on the ground and goes INTO THAT BLOOD WATERSLIDE. ]
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Re: LIVING CAVE

[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-24 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it is, hope you like flesh caves. The vines are actually definitely not vines, when you touch them you can feel a pulse. They're veins, and seem to start from the heart, and besides the ones just crawling up the walls, most connect to the gate.

One particularly large one breaks through the ground, then pops back up near a wall on the west side of the cave, twisting along the ceiling until another hole that it's broken through there. It's also plain to see an opening from its outer shell where it winds back up along the wall. If you don't mind a squeeze and being submerged in blood, you could ride the flow.
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Re: LIVING CAVE

[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-24 10:44 pm (UTC)(link)
It's fun! Probably!

Gain +1 Perseverance for hopping in the vein.
Edited (SCREAM I FORGOT you were supposed to be rewarded for this) 2021-01-24 23:00 (UTC)

Re: ROOM OF FALLEN ONES

[personal profile] debatemebro 2021-01-24 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[ SHAKES BLOOD OFF LIKE A DOG. wrings it out of his tail. yuck. ]

Some kind of blood chamber. All right, I suppose.

[ ... kicks a statue. don't judge me, you're a glorified rock. ]
composeur: (my bones were shattered)

Re: LIVING CAVE

[personal profile] composeur 2021-01-24 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he's already covered in sticky and has like no real sense of self preservation so!

but first he does want to poke the heart a little. prod prod. ]

Tsubapapaaa~ Are you in there? It's morning, wake up! You're gonna be late for school!
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Re: ROOM OF FALLEN ONES

[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-24 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Is it, though? Its eyes form slit pupils, as if they're carved in real time, fangs growing over its bottom lip, and you're met with a booming voice that could practically blow you away with its force.

"You dare defile Us, mortal? Leave this place."

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