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Vergil's heart game (out of time)
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.
LIVING CAVE
That does freeze my bones around!
Selfish, vain,
Eternal bane,
That free love with bondage bound.
A cave with a giant, exposed, beating heart in the centre. There's several massive...roots? coming from the heart. The walls of the cave are a web of similar thin red vines and pulsing sacks like blisters. The ground and what remains of the walls and ceiling are slick and fleshy. Some gaps between walls have a thin membrane over them.
On one end of the room is a gate, from ground to ceiling, about 20 feet tall. Innumerable red vines cover its frame. There are two openings in the walls that appear to lead into tunnels, with pointed talons or perhaps ribs poised around them that move occasionally like fingers drumming. One heads east, the other south.
There is never anyone else in this cave with you. You are alone.
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[ ignoring the “exits” she chooses to, instead, focus on the heart and the tumors??? around it. ] ...what the fu-
[ she draws her heart weapon, a scythe, a decides to test its effectiveness on one of the blisters. the roots she’ll make an attempt at too, because fuck anything plant like, honestly. ]
[ but also why is the heart nestled in something like that anyway??? ]
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The roots seem to start from the heart, and most connect to the gate. One particularly large one breaks through the ground, then pops back up near a wall on the west side of the cave, twisting along the ceiling until another hole that it's broken through there.
It looks like a root, but considering it sprouts from the heart, maybe it's better to call it a vein or artery. When you get close, the blood rushing through it becomes apparent, not only to see but to hear. It's also plain to see an opening from its outer shell where it winds back up along the wall. If you don't mind a squeeze and being submerged in blood, you could ride the flow.
When you attach the blisters, they burst just like one, full of rank liquid and slime. So, now you're drenched and smell awful. Awesome.
But as for the veins, those along the wall simply bleed, while attempts on those attached to the gate are more difficult, much more tough, like hard leather armour. You could do it with some insistence, though.
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[ screeches as soon as it bursts, because what in the fucken fuck. ]
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Alright, let’s see where this takes me... [ and you, dramatic point at the heart. ] I’ll be back.
[ time to go whee! ]
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I can't imagine how anyone could stand this...
[Well, she's a bit of a special case. It's fine. She stares around her, deliberating before picking the East exit to start.]
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The heart is gone, leaving only the evidence it was here of stray veins hanging. The destruction is here too, but not so advanced as the rest. Still, the ceiling is beginning to crumble.
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[ the void is the obvious choice, but she's going to first head over to where the heart was and take a look at what's left, which doesn't look like much. ]
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