idolpro | 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.

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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.

[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]

The gold amulet has "Vergil" carved in the back. The moment you see that, his face also comes back to you, and something in the distance rumbles. It isn't always visible, but this is something he tends to wear daily, so chances are you've seen it on him. The other is near identical in silver with Dante's name, and when you bring them near one another, they're pulled together as if magnetised.

They form a single amulet, and when you look at Dante again, you'll find he's gone, along with any evidence there was a murder here. No body, no blood.

The jukebox list is pretty much all buttrock...... Not to be mistaken for metal. Though there's that too. But mostly it's buttrock. Enjoy. What is buttrock? It's just an essence, okay.

[He pockets the amulet, and frowns the jukebox. He pulls the plug on the buttrock (if that even does anything), and looks around for anything else that could be important.

He heads toward the stack of books and the shelf.]

Congratulations on finding a secret way to ease Vergil's heart that wasn't intended, the buttrock stops, and he feels much better. It was awful. There's a sense of relief.

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.

[There's a time and place for buttrock, and clearly Vergil's heart isn't it.

He's unfamiliar with the book, but he takes it in hand before reaching for the photo album as well, and opening that first.]

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.

The book, well it's just a book he was reading lately. Though it is about a monster boy, so it could be mistaken for symbolism in his heart. The bookmark is a folded up piece of wrapping paper with a tag that reads, To:Vergil From: Shrike

[That's kinda cute? There's hope for you yet, sword friend. He isn't sure if these are pieces of his soul, per se, but they looks important so he's taking them with him.

And time to teleport again, this time willing himself somewhere with another piece of Vergil's soul]

Maybe...friends are good. Family is good. Just, love, is good.

It takes you to the biggest piece.

Vergil's heart game r4

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