Vergil's heart game r4

[idolpro]

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.

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MIRROR WORLD: DEVIL MAY CRY

[idolpro]

I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. And I watered it in fears Night and morning with my tears, And I sunnèd it with smiles And with soft deceitful wiles. And it grew both day and night, Till it bore an apple bright, And my foe beheld it shine, And he knew that it was mine,— And into my garden stole When the night had veiled the pole; In the morning, glad, I see My foe outstretched beneath the tree.

It's...well it's a building. Hard to tell what the purpose of the place is exactly. This one huge room has it all. A bar, jukebox, stadium size speakers alongside some other musical equipment, boxes and piles of documents crammed on a shelving unit in the corner, a dart board, clippings from nudie mags pinned up, weapons on display in a framed velvet case on the wall, a few plants, a neon "Devil May Cry" sign, a fridge but no kitchen or even a sink. A lot of trash. Pizza boxes, crumpled notes, and empty bottles of booze all over. A mantis-like demon pinned to the wall above the bar with swords.

There is some evidence someone has put in minimal effort to clean up. At least around the leather couch against the wall on the right. No garbage strewn about immediately beside or in front of it. Though there is a stack of books on it, and a shelf beside.

There's a man in a red coat who you probably know slumped over the desk in the middle, head down. The mirror seems to have replaced a front door.

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[rollplayinghouse]

[Rather than go right for Dante if he doesn't seem conscious, Glory will take things slow and check out the books in the tidied area, still gripping Vergil's hand.]

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[auguryofinnocence]

There's a pillow and blanket folded up to one side together, like someone sleeps here. The shelf is full of books, and pretty well all of them are poetry, though the one currently sitting on top of the blanket with a bookmark in it is Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse by Anne Carson.

There's also a small photo album, pocket size, set on top of the shelf.

Vergil tries to keep from looking at Dante.

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[rollplayinghouse]

[She had some suspicions about this and she suspects they are being confirmed.

She picks up the photo album to look at it.]

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[auguryofinnocence]

What could you possibly think is going on here? There's nothing suspicious!

It's full, a little too full, some of the photos don't have a sleeve to go in so they're just loose in the centre. It's Nero and his family, both Kyrie and the kids as well as Shrike (no Jason, all my friends hate Jason), and then there's Glory and Raven, there's a few candid shots of the twins both fighting like petulant children and just casually sitting around in the motor home laying on each other. All combination of Spardas together, even Pistol makes a few appearances with everyone.

But that's just half the album, the other half is Five, Alexander and Cosmo, with guest appearances from other Baritones, Hargreeves, and Levity. Some look like they were taken in another world entirely, everything is very different, and the people there all wear masks like Cosmo's, and robes.

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[rollplayinghouse]

[with a glance at Vergil, neutrally]

...This is nice.

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[mind_blown]

... huh.

[honestly, he would like to play some darts.

before he messes with dante.]

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[auguryofinnocence]

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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[auguryofinnocence]

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.

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[softlyfalling]

Oh, hi Jason.

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[mind_blown]

Hi, Shrike.

[he's checking the voicemail, because he's that kind of nosy bastard.]

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[softlyfalling]

...............is he dead.

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[mind_blown]

Probably not.

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[auguryofinnocence]

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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[mind_blown]

[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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[softlyfalling]

[ oh

hm. can she steal a sword before she tries to wake dante up ]

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[auguryofinnocence]

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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[softlyfalling]

[ 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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[auguryofinnocence]

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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[softlyfalling]

[ hm.

does the other amulet say "Vergil"? ]

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[send_noods]

[Braced for more bloodlakes or flesh caves, he's pleasantly surprised by... the office. And there's one brother. He approaches the desk and Dante]

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[auguryofinnocence]

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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[send_noods]

[well shit. He moves toward the body automatically. It seems futile, but he jostles him, and checks for vitals]

Hey! Dante!

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[auguryofinnocence]

He doesn't respond, unsurprisingly. The sound of buttrock from the jukebox is not an appropriate background track. When you move him though, another amulet falls from his hand and into the blood at his feet.

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[send_noods]

[he lets go of Dante, leaving him seated in the chair. Bending down, he grabs both amulets from the floor, looking them over as he walks to the jukebox]