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Vergil's heart game r5
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.
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.
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There are other things that she should be doing, but that -
If she makes it brief, it should be fine, she thinks. Heading south to go back to the library, looking for the kid. ]
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[ it's said softly, a tremble in her voice that she doesn't think to suppress ]
Why did you -
[ no, hold on ]
. . . Why did that happen...?
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He looks up, definitely a bit concerned about the way you sound.
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[ h
hhh ]
. . . Mn, no - it isn't your fault ... I'm sorry.
[ it's not, so she needs to cut this shit out already, she thinks. instead, she smiles - brittle, but genuine ]
What are you reading...?
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But he's pretty excited to show you the book! "You like magic, right?"
There's all sorts of spells here, most seem to make use of arcane runes and magic circles. Diagrams depict ritual sacrifice, or simply collecting vast amounts of blood, or extracting human souls. Most of it is written in a dead language, or maybe just one that doesn't exist where you come from.
There is one section you can understand the words of, though. It's on methods of turning a human into a demon. One passage describes the process of gibbeting as a form of execution, and how such tortures can allow human souls to transcend themselves through overwhelming desire for revenge. Such as the Finis caste of demons which all come into existence this way.
Another suggests binding human souls to demon forged weapons.
Another is simply a spell. It seems pretty simple, some runes and such to write in blood on the subject, they already provide the soul to power the magic, so in theory even the human in question could do it to themself. Which means you could do this, if that's what you're into.
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[ approaching, but a little more carefully despite herself ]
More than liking or disliking it, it's something that I do - I'm a witch ...
[ and, scanning the page, ]
Is that the sort of thing that you're interested in...?
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really, that's the important part. listening to him, she actually seems to relax a bit. ]
Is that so...? Then what have you learned so far...?
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[ not the gibbeting. ]
That forgery method, there... It still seems easy, but in comparison to the others it would be a little more difficult, wouldn't it...?
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