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Vergil's heart game r2
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.
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.
LIVING CAVE
That does freeze my bones around!
Selfish, vain,
Eternal bane,
That free love with bondage bound.
A cave with a giant, exposed, beating heart in the centre. There's several massive...roots? coming from the heart. The walls of the cave are a web of similar thin red vines and pulsing sacks like blisters. The ground and what remains of the walls and ceiling are slick and fleshy. Some gaps between walls have a thin membrane over them.
On one end of the room is a gate, from ground to ceiling, about 20 feet tall. Innumerable red vines cover its frame. There are two openings in the walls that appear to lead into tunnels, with pointed talons or perhaps ribs poised around them that move occasionally like fingers drumming. One heads east, the other south.
There is never anyone else in this cave with you. You are alone.
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He takes a moment to admire the souls if they are any, as macabre as they are, because he can't help himself. Does Hell have a lifestream? Well, even if it did, if he can't remember Vergil's face, he will hardly remember the color of his soul.
He gives the beating heart a small pat being careful with the clawed gloves and heads south.
(P.S. He is ignoring that failure trauma from the fall as you do. Good and healthy.)]
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Anyway, south
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Jesus, this is even more disgusting in person.
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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. As you look at it, 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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Spending 1 perseverance to escape and blink away east instead ]
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While he sits up and regains the strength to do anything let's look closer as that heart.]
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You have a sense of where some things are. Vergil, or a part of him, is in the room to the south, along with several small pieces. There are more in that direction too, in two diverging directions from there. There's something east of here, and it's...odd, is it Vergil? Somewhere above you is definitely Yamato, but it's hard to tell where.
The south most parts have a horrible, anguished call unlike the rest though. All the others beckon with indistinct whispers, but these are more like a warning.
You can also feel Urizen somewhere, indistinct.
As for the heart...
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. When you get close, the blood rushing through it becomes apparent, not only to see but to hear. 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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He will head south then, towards the closest strong sense of Vergil. He'll keep the blood slide option in mind for later. ]
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But, right... A grotesque, giant beating heart seems like the obvious metaphorical choice to look for pieces of a soul, yes? Besides, it's by far the most appealing feature in this place. Going up to touch it?]
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It looks like a root, but considering it sprouts from the heart, maybe it's better to call it a vein or artery. When you get close, the blood rushing through it becomes apparent, not only to see but to hear. 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.
It's definitely an actual organ, but it feels tough, almost like leather. Not so fragile as a regular heart.
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[But well, sure. He's committed to this "through the heart" idea now and he's no quitter, so squeezing inside it is. Or rather, he probably shoves his way inside rather ungently with one arm.]
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Give him a moment to... actually realise what happened. Once he does he's shoving those arms away as he's standing up, and instantly heads south. Gathering soul pieces can wait, let's find a weapon first and get even (or not, but that's his first instinct).]
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And it takes you to the true heart. Not the fake true heart, because you did good.