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.
auguryofinnocence: (Default)

Re: LIBRARY

[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-29 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
Arm You've got an extra arm now. Can never be too prepared. You feel pretty terrible. maybe because you just bought an arm from a magic vending machine, hope you're happy with yourself.

Journal It's all hand written, and the writers the pieces are attributed to have some odd names. DMX? Tupac? Are these poems? Are we going to debate the validity of rap as poetry? No we're not, they're poems and you're going to appreciate them and the work put into getting this journal together. Well, maybe you won't that's your choice, but someone certainly would.
rollplayinghouse: (ga14)

Re: MIRROR WORLD: DEVIL MAY CRY

[personal profile] rollplayinghouse 2021-01-29 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
...Me too.

Or, more than hoping... We can make it this way.
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Re: ROOM OF FALLEN ONES

[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-29 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
"...That will do."

The ground shakes as the half drowned head lifts and is returned to its body along with each missing part, every crack restored into a living statue. It looks just like an angel, but that foreboding feeling of demonic power grows a thousand times over. This may not have been wise. But he points further down the way.

"We watched when a failure of a challenger was felled there, We watched him abandon his blade. Take it and leave this place."
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Re: MIRROR WORLD: DEVIL MAY CRY

[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-29 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
Sure, why not. You play some darts. How good at darts are you? Probably pretty damn good with all that superhero aim.



Nice. You got a sticker.
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Re: MIRROR WORLD: DEVIL MAY CRY

[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-29 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
As for Dante, though.... When you get close, it's immediately apparent that he isn't asleep. There's blood all around his chair, flowing down from the wound through his back. It's a thin and short mark, but based on how much blood there is, it clearly goes all the way through his heart and back out his chest. One of his hands is clutching something, while an amulet lays face up in the puddle of blood.

There's a flashing voicemail indicator by the telephone, and, you guessed it, more garbage strewn about. A pizza box that's still mostly full and not yet cold. There's uh, a lot of olives on this. There's also a framed photo of a blonde woman, smiling softly.
auguryofinnocence: (Restless turnd the immortal inchain'd)

Re: MIRROR WORLD: DEVIL MAY CRY

[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-29 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
"That's true, I'm definitely going to make sure it is. Yamato can definitely handle it."
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Re: LIBRARY

[personal profile] softlyfalling 2021-01-29 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
[ listen!!!! listen.

also i'm glad she just managed to pick the nero poetry. that's cute. these spardas are cute.

and then she's going to go through the dante portal I guess. ]
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Re: MIRROR WORLD: DEVIL MAY CRY

[personal profile] rollplayinghouse 2021-01-29 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
Then I'm sure you'll be able to do it.

[she keeps hold of the album, but straightens and turns back to look at Dante]
send_noods: (sword 3)

Re: ROOM OF FALLEN ONES

[personal profile] send_noods 2021-01-29 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
[We'll just add that ominous feeling to the rest of the ominous feelings going on in this heart. Also Gladio? Not known for his wisdom.

He takes the sword and nods at the statue, heading in the direction indicated]
softlyfalling: (my little sister can't be this cute.)

Re: MIRROR WORLD: DEVIL MAY CRY

[personal profile] softlyfalling 2021-01-29 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
[ oh

hm. can she steal a sword before she tries to wake dante up ]
softlyfalling: (my little sister can't be this cute.)

Re: MIRROR WORLD: DEVIL MAY CRY

[personal profile] softlyfalling 2021-01-29 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, hi Jason.
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Re: MIRROR WORLD: DEVIL MAY CRY

[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-29 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
Vergil stays with the books. Gee these sure are interesting and will definitely keep him from having to face anything else.

When you get close, it's immediately apparent that he isn't asleep. There's blood all around his chair, flowing down from the wound through his back. It's a thin and short mark, but based on how much blood there is, it clearly goes all the way through his heart and back out his chest. One of his hands is clutching something, while an amulet lays face up in the puddle of blood.

There's a flashing voicemail indicator by the telephone, and, you guessed it, more garbage strewn about. A pizza box that's still mostly full and not yet cold. There's uh, a lot of olives on this. There's also a framed photo of a blonde woman, smiling softly.
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Re: MIRROR WORLD: DEVIL MAY CRY

[personal profile] mind_blown 2021-01-29 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
Hi, Shrike.

[he's checking the voicemail, because he's that kind of nosy bastard.]
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Re: ROOM OF FALLEN ONES

[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-29 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
You wade through the blood, taking more effort the deeper it becomes. It's a lot of the same thing, rubble, creepy statues staring at you, and blood. Gain 1 Perseverance for your efforts!

Just when you start to feel too exhausted to keep trudging through, there's something sticking straight up from the lake. Just a glimmer of gold on the end of some sort of stick or rod, submerged but for a couple inches.

The moment you touch it everything around you changes. The blood and statues gone in an instant and in its place a void of bright blue light, almost blinding. There's nothing else here - except a tall, indistinct figure standing a little ways off, his back to you. He stares upward, quiet a moment before speaking loud enough to be heard.

What are you searching for?
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Re: MIRROR WORLD: DEVIL MAY CRY

[personal profile] softlyfalling 2021-01-29 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
...............is he dead.
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Re: MIRROR WORLD: DEVIL MAY CRY

[personal profile] rollplayinghouse 2021-01-29 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
[ah. hm.



surely he can survive being stabbed, though, so she's going to try to pull him upright]

Dante!
mind_blown: (But I'm making myself drown)

Re: MIRROR WORLD: DEVIL MAY CRY

[personal profile] mind_blown 2021-01-29 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
Probably not.
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Re: MIRROR WORLD: DEVIL MAY CRY

[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-29 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
There's swords, guns, daggers, gauntlets, a mace, some sort of extendable polearm... Most are highly ornamented with distinct motifs. You get a sword! Either from the case behind the desk or lodged in the demon decor. Either way.

When you get close to Dante, it's immediately apparent that he isn't asleep. There's blood all around his chair, flowing down from the wound through his back. It's a thin and short mark, but based on how much blood there is, it clearly goes all the way through his heart and back out his chest. One of his hands is clutching something, while an amulet lays face up in the puddle of blood.

There's a flashing voicemail indicator by the telephone, and, you guessed it, more garbage strewn about. A pizza box that's still mostly full and not yet cold. There's uh, a lot of olives on this. There's also a framed photo of a blonde woman, smiling softly.
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Re: MIRROR WORLD: DEVIL MAY CRY

[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-29 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
There's a pause, the line doesn't seem to be good, plenty of crackling, but after a moment a message starts to play. A familiar voice to those who know Nero, "Hey, you two killed each other yet? I don't wanna have to come pick up any bodies so keep it together, dumbasses. Anyway we got Glory and Raven here right now so I was thinking you guys should come by too. Dad's gotta meet the grandkids sometime. Quit trying to avoid it, old man. Neither of you got an excuse for not visiting with Yamato."
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Re: MIRROR WORLD: DEVIL MAY CRY

[personal profile] softlyfalling 2021-01-29 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
[ yeah uhhhhh that's. that's alarming. is that, perhaps, a yamato-sized wound,

that said, she's going to try and pry open his hand for whatever's in it. ]

...sorry, Mr. Dante, sir.
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Re: MIRROR WORLD: DEVIL MAY CRY

[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-29 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
He should be able to survive a simple stab, shouldn't he? And yet, he doesn't respond. He's cold and heavy, but when you move him, the thing in his hand clatters to the floor. A silver amulet with his name carved on the back.

Vergil, meanwhile, is clutching the book in his hands, about ready to cry, but fighting it off.
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Re: ROOM OF FALLEN ONES

[personal profile] send_noods 2021-01-29 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
[He's quiet for a moment, sifting through his thoughts. Sword-friend's name keeps eluding him, but he has a goal in mind, which is clear enough]

A way to destroy the corruption in this heart.
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Re: MIRROR WORLD: DEVIL MAY CRY

[personal profile] mind_blown 2021-01-29 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
[hm.]

Interesting fantasy.

[time to look at the other out of place thing-- going to that couch to examine what the state looks like, and why it'd be clean while the rest isn't]
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Re: MIRROR WORLD: DEVIL MAY CRY

[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-29 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
That wound would be the perfect size for a katana. You have one guess as to what happened.

It certainly takes some prying, but his hand opens, revealing a second pendant. This is nearly identical to the other, but in silver, with Dante's name carved on the back.

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