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

[mind_blown]

[back to the library?

Anyway.

Hm. he's looking at the statues.]

Wanna try the hourglass?

What says it goes back in time?

Re: LIBRARY

[softlyfalling]

Oh, it's like—you trade in red orbs for items?

And by red orbs I guess I mean "monster blood."

Re: LIBRARY

[mind_blown]

Where'd you get monster blood?

Re: LIBRARY

[softlyfalling]

There were these flowers out in this field of really awful grass? It's definitely dangerous to sit down, but if you crush the flowers they're, uh, blood.

Re: LIBRARY

[mind_blown]

...

Ugh.

Those things tried to rip me apart.

Guess I shoulda destroyed 'em.

Re: LIBRARY

[auguryofinnocence]

Vergil speaks up from his place along the bookshelves. "You'll get a lot if you fight the Combat Adjudicator. But it's only going to respond to Yamato."

Re: LIBRARY

[mind_blown]

Yeah, we're on the case to find the Yamato, Vergil.

If you wanna point us in the direction, we'll get right on that.

Re: LIBRARY

[auguryofinnocence]

He rrrrooolls his eyes. "It should be where I lost it, so...if you get in the veins, somewhere around there."

Re: LIBRARY

[softlyfalling]

[ shrike...

thinks about what she bought before...

holds up the arm ]

Wasn't this, at one point...

Re: LIBRARY

[mind_blown]

... You guys really need new symbolism.

Re: LIBRARY

[auguryofinnocence]

Wow don't show the child his son's arm???? He isn't put off by the fact that she's waving a limb at him but, he knows what it is, and it makes him feel terrible. Because he did that.

"Yamato was just inside it, that's different."

Re: LIBRARY

[softlyfalling]

I just thought I'd... check.

[ she just. tucks the arm back in... wherever she keeps things. her pockets? shopping bag? whatever. ]

Oh, though—should I give the amulet to you?

Re: LIBRARY

[mind_blown]

Or is that another one for 'take it home'?

Re: LIBRARY

[auguryofinnocence]

"It's all supposed to go home." He looks at the amulet though - oh it's the perfect amulet, he actually smiles a little. "That was smart, they go together."

Re: LIBRARY

[softlyfalling]

Ah, I thought they should...

In that case, though, I suppose we should probably look for the sword, so... back to where we started?

Re: LIBRARY

[mind_blown]

Back where we started.

Re: LIBRARY

[softlyfalling]

away!

Re: LIBRARY

[auguryofinnocence]

"Back where you started."

But somehow...you lose one another. When you get there, you're alone.