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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.
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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She leads you over to the front doors. They're shut tight, but there's a more or less round indent in the middle of the door, it's pretty large, enough that your fist could fit in it.
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[For some reason this seems a little familiar...
She places the combined amulet into the indentation.]
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It opens into a foyer with a luxurious seating area, tea and appropriate snacks set out like company was fully anticipated. The sofas are a Victorian sort of style, but either quite new or extremely well taken care of.
There's all variety of artifacts on display from around the world and collected over the past 2000 years, demonic or otherwise magical things too. Every room is practically a museum, but most of it is treated like any other artwork. Even the demonic items that are grotesque or clearly dangerous. A sword hung up beside a gold painted vase from ancient Greece, beside a crystallised demon skull, interspersed with family photos and book cases.
Marble pillars flock the entrance, and a grand fireplace is the centrepiece at the far end of the room. There's a hook on the wall high above it, and a few more that sit empty on the walls. An empty vase, a single spot empty on a bookshelf...
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How's that...?
[And then considers the tail bow.]
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There's an open violin case leaning against the fireplace, and the large empty space above it. But otherwise that all looks right, and makes this place feel...cozy.
"I think you basically have it covered, you did a lot." Her voice is soft, and she sounds very pleased. Maybe even proud of you.
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Vergil helped a lot. And I still missed a couple of things. Is that going to be enough...?
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[she's still tense at the touch, but she relaxes a little after a moment]
I'm glad... for whatever amount I can help.
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He probably thinks he doesn't do much, still. But that's important to me.
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...If I have, then... I'm really happy about that.
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A-Am I?
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But—if you want it to be like that... then...
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N-No, I think that would be weird. Daughter is fine.
I just... haven't been a daughter before. And I... wouldn't want to assume.
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Were you ready for another hug? Either way of course you need another one now.
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[it still takes Glory a moment to return the hug, but when she does it's more firm, and some of the tension in her body drains]
Thank you.