Imeeji Idol Productions ([personal profile] idolpro) wrote2021-01-23 12:12 am
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Vergil's heart game r4

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.

Unless you're Glory, in which case the rest is the same, but you wake in a library.
softlyfalling: (surely you will be saved one day)

Re: LIBRARY

[personal profile] softlyfalling 2021-01-29 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
Oh...

...hm.

[ although—to the boy: ]

Er, excuse me?
rollplayinghouse: (ca2-017-1)

Re: LIBRARY

[personal profile] rollplayinghouse 2021-01-29 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
Well, yeah. That's why something's obviously wrong.
auguryofinnocence: (Around his solid bones.)

Re: LIBRARY

[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-29 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
This child looks to be about 10, and doesn't actually seem out of place, he certainly looks like he's been living in this world for a while. Though he's covered in dried blood and there are tears in his clothes, he doesn't appear to have a single mark on his own flesh. There's a certain wild sort of look to him, and yet, his posture is perfect, his hair smoothed back without a strand out of place... It's an odd juxtaposition.

The boy glances at you as you approach, his expression utterly cold, ready to go right back to the book. But his eyes widen with recognition, and suddenly he looks almost frightened.

"Shrike--" No, he pushes that down and turns away, back to the book.
send_noods: (WUT look up)

Re: LIBRARY

[personal profile] send_noods 2021-01-29 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
Ah.

[takes a pointed look around at the demon plants and rubble]

... kinda messy in here, huh?

softlyfalling: (my little sister can't be this cute.)

Re: LIBRARY

[personal profile] softlyfalling 2021-01-29 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, um—sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you.

...it's not a problem that I'm here, is it?
auguryofinnocence: (Eddies of wrath ceaseless round & round)

Re: LIBRARY

[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-29 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
"I mean this room specifically, that you didn't walk in. But that too, being here in general I guess." He shrugs.
mind_blown: sharkly @ plurk (pic#13989121)

Re: PETRIFIED FIELD

[personal profile] mind_blown 2021-01-29 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
Well, that's familiar.

Hello, Vergil.

[he's gonna pull the painting up for now, just to see what it's blocking]
auguryofinnocence: (Numb'ring with links. hours days & years)

Re: LIBRARY

[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-29 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
He shakes his head. "It's fine, anyone can use a library, that's what they're for."
rollplayinghouse: (ca141-3)

Re: LIBRARY

[personal profile] rollplayinghouse 2021-01-29 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
I came from...

[trails off and frowns again]

...somewhere. I guess that doesn't say much. Something's going on with my head.
auguryofinnocence: (Default)

Re: PETRIFIED FIELD

[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-29 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
It's blocking...some more grass. Just a painting laying in the centre of a field in Hell, you know.

But you start to feel too drowsy to go on, eyes heavy, relaxed. This really is a peaceful spot, whether you're conscious of the choice or not, you're soon laying down.

The grass tickles your skin, itches slightly. Should it be able to touch your bare shoulder?
softlyfalling: (pic#13706281)

Re: LIBRARY

[personal profile] softlyfalling 2021-01-29 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
...You're Vergil, right?

[ a sort of... dim recollection of both of them being much smaller still remains, anyway. ]
rollplayinghouse: (sa005)

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[personal profile] rollplayinghouse 2021-01-29 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah.

...Well, I assume it's kind of like that generally, but something's also... wrong.
send_noods: (TAT beach)

Re: LIBRARY

[personal profile] send_noods 2021-01-29 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
[he traverses the rubble with relative ease, a pang in his chest at all the destroyed books.

He catches sight of the kid, but hesitates to approach.

He walks toward the door South instead, footsteps purposely loud.]
auguryofinnocence: (In chains of the mind locked up)

Re: LIBRARY

[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-29 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
"Hell can do that, don't worry about it. You already know what you're doing though right? So go ahead if you feel like doing it."
rollplayinghouse: (ca061)

Re: LIBRARY

[personal profile] rollplayinghouse 2021-01-29 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
...More or less.

What are you doing in here?
mind_blown: (Money don't grow on trees.)

Re: PETRIFIED FIELD

[personal profile] mind_blown 2021-01-29 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
[he hates


forced sleep. but it absolutely should not-- because Jason wears a full jacket, and this ain't his summer wear.]
send_noods: (chat n0)

Re: LIBRARY

[personal profile] send_noods 2021-01-29 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I kinda got that idea. It was a hell of a way to wake up...

[scrubs a hand through his hair]

You gonna talk to the kid?

[inclines his head toward the little boy]
rollplayinghouse: (BaseSprite_6)

Re: LIBRARY

[personal profile] rollplayinghouse 2021-01-29 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
...Yeah. Maybe I'll get a little better idea of the lay of things.
auguryofinnocence: (And a second Age passed over)

Re: LIBRARY

[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-29 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
When you try to say that name, it doesn't come out no matter how hard you try to think of it, or let muscle memory take over. Still, he knows what you mean, and nods, though it makes him hand his head.

"Mm. That's right."
auguryofinnocence: (In chains of the mind locked up)

Re: LIBRARY

[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-29 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
This child looks to be about 10, and doesn't actually seem out of place, he certainly looks like he's been living in this world for a while. Though he's covered in dried blood and there are tears in his clothes, he doesn't appear to have a single mark on his own flesh. There's a certain wild sort of look to him, and yet, his posture is perfect, his hair smoothed back without a strand out of place... It's an odd juxtaposition.

He seems to watch you from the corner of his eye, but when it's clear where you're going, he calls out. "I wouldn't do that. Not yet anyway."
softlyfalling: (pic#13854083)

Re: LIBRARY

[personal profile] softlyfalling 2021-01-29 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
[ she frowns. ]

Why can't I...
auguryofinnocence: (In an orb his fountain of thought.)

Re: LIBRARY

[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-29 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm reading." Duh. What else do you do in a library, don't you see the book in his hands??
send_noods: (TAT beach)

Re: LIBRARY

[personal profile] send_noods 2021-01-29 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
Okay. I'll keep going, and see what I can find.

Be careful.
auguryofinnocence: (Default)

Re: PETRIFIED FIELD

[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-29 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
It shouldn't! And the grass has already woven itself around your arms and legs to strap them down. Some of it pierces your flesh, as the bit creeping up your shoulder has done, working its way deep within. The ground around you is soaked with blood, and the flowers - they are much larger than they were before.

You have 1 Perseverance. You'll have to spend 1 perseverance to fight it off...
mind_blown: (Rappers hope he gets shot.)

Re: PETRIFIED FIELD

[personal profile] mind_blown 2021-01-29 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
[... yeah, he'll spend that]

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