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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Re: LIBRARY

[auguryofinnocence]

"Nnnno. What did I just say? It goes where it's supposed to, at home, through the gate. Getting stuff like that's what gets rid of the veins, so hurry up and find them if you're going to. Use your eyes, Jason."

Re: LIBRARY

[mind_blown]

[he shrugs.]

Can you blame me?

Everything's concepts and symbolism here.

Good to know you're more literal, then.

Re: LIBRARY

[auguryofinnocence]

"Not really, this is pretty much just Hell, it's not that complicated. Maybe you're thinking too hard about it. Go get my sword and break the statue or fight the Angelos, that'll work out better for you."

Re: LIBRARY

[mind_blown]

[he eyerolls.]

Oh, sure. I'll get right on that. I'm gonna take a look around, since you're not exactly the helpful sorta kid.

Re: LIBRARY

[auguryofinnocence]

"Maybe if you asked nicer." Ehh, probably even if it wasn't Jason and he asked nicer. Demons aren't about helping. "But you do that. Like I said, use your eyes. I'll at least tell you not to go in the other room without being prepared though. Don't say I never did anything for you."

Re: LIBRARY

[mind_blown]

That's right.

You did just above the bare minimum.

Thank you.

[time to investigate the mirror.]

Re: LIBRARY

[auguryofinnocence]

It's an oval shape, the frame highly ornamented, and while it only floats about two feet off the ground, it's a good five feet tall. Which makes the image reflected in it quite clear. You won't see yourself or the library in it, but rather another room entirely. Trying to touch it at all will make it quickly apparent this is a sort of portal to the world it shows.

Re: LIBRARY

[mind_blown]

[hm.

that sounds interesting. let's go.]

Re: LIBRARY

[auguryofinnocence]

Get outta here. You're not escaping the kid though, he's there with Glory now, sorry.

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