Imeeji Idol Productions ([personal profile] idolpro) wrote2021-01-29 12:11 pm

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.
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Re: LIVING CAVE

[personal profile] 420blazeit 2021-01-29 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[ so this sure is a thing... and to no one’s surprise she fucken hates it. at least she’s got her hell given abilities. she’ll take what little solace there’s to be had in that. ]

[ 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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Re: LIVING CAVE

[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-29 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Well you see, DMC Hell is disgusting and that's just the way it is. But also The heart is a tumour of weakness.

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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1/?

[personal profile] 420blazeit 2021-01-29 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
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Re: LIVING CAVE

[personal profile] 420blazeit 2021-01-29 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
-!

[ screeches as soon as it bursts, because what in the fucken fuck. ]
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Re: LIVING CAVE

[personal profile] 420blazeit 2021-01-29 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[ now she’s covered in god only knows what and smells like hnnngaaaaa-! ]
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Re: LIVING CAVE

[personal profile] 420blazeit 2021-01-29 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[ she’s kicking the heart, because if it’s a tumor of weakness, then clearly it’s the hearts fault 8/ ]
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Re: LIVING CAVE

[personal profile] 420blazeit 2021-01-29 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[ but also she’s got no qualms about squeezing into the blood log flume, because she’d rather be covered in blood than whatever the hell this is, so that’s exactly what she’s going to do. ]

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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Done

[personal profile] 420blazeit 2021-01-29 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[ whee? ]
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Re: LIVING CAVE

[personal profile] romanticlove 2021-01-29 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well. She's here now. Demon!papa you need a new decorator, though. Don't mind her if she takes a moment to just check out those nasty blisters things. The smell is just as overwhelming as it is to take in and it takes her a moment to adjust, trying to ignore how it makes her thirst kick in just a bit - only the smallest bit uncomfortable. She keeps herself well fed on a good day, so it's probably fine.]

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.]
Edited 2021-01-29 21:54 (UTC)
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Re: Done

[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-29 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
You're instantly swept away by the rushing blood flow, hope you took a deep breath first. whee!
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Re: LIVING CAVE

[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-29 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)
The smell is nicer over there, especially the flowers, they're extremely appetising.
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Re: PETRIFIED FIELD

[personal profile] romanticlove 2021-01-29 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
What...?

[Oh. This place is different than where she was. She hadn't expected to suddenly be outside, surrounded by flowers. She blinks, feeling tired all of a sudden. Part of her doesn't think that would be exactly smart, but she can't help it. She feels it, like her entire body is begging for rest.]

I shouldn't...

[She still finds herself dropping down to her knees to look at the flowers up close. Would it hurt to pluck one? They don't seem dangerous at first glance.]

Maybe just... for a few minutes?

[The field of flowers looked soft, after all. She decides to touch the flowers, curious, before committing to actually taking a nap. While she examines the flowers and the grass, she looks around - is there another way out of here or perhaps something she can take with her? Can she take any flowers with her?]
Edited 2021-01-29 22:34 (UTC)
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Re: PETRIFIED FIELD

[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-29 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Once you get up close to the flowers, it becomes very apparent they're odd. They look like they're made of coloured glass. But you could pluck them, sure!

The grass might be a strange colour but it's light and fluffy, tall enough just to brush your knees. It makes the patch toward the centre that is either missing or flattened quite distinct... The way the path leads seems to be far too overgrown with the rocks to get past, but from one of the spikes there's a book hanging by its cover.
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Re: ROOM OF FALLEN ONES

[personal profile] 420blazeit 2021-01-29 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ker-splash. ]

[ in retrospect a deep breath would have been a good idea, so she just chokes on a bunch of blood. she's doing great. as soon as she lands in the shallow pool, face first, BECAUSE OFC, she sits up and grumbles a single stream of color korean curses, climbing to her feet and looking around to find... mostly nothing. ]

A picture is worth a thousand words, assholes. [ to the statues as she draws her heart weapon. ]

[ with no real demons to fight she gets the feeling that breaking the statues might be the key... and perhaps she's a bit ticked that every single decision made has been bad, so taking a bit of her anger out on some "inanimate" objects will "help". ]

[ time to slice&dice. ]
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Re: ROOM OF FALLEN ONES

[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-29 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
They don't actually have eyes, no more than blank carvings anyway, and yet it's as if they follow you like the Mona Lisa. With the unmistakable feeling that they're judging you. They stare right into your soul. Are you worthy? Likely not. But you gain 1 Perseverance for enduring the scrutiny.

When you start trying to trash them, those eyes form slit pupils, as if they're carved in real time, fangs growing over its bottom lip. Its voice booms loud enough it could practically blow you away.

"You dare defile Us, mortal? Leave this place."

Any attempt to smash them doesn't seem to do a single thing.
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Re: ROOM OF FALLEN ONES

[personal profile] 420blazeit 2021-01-29 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[ she stabs her scythe into the ground to keep from moving. ] Ha! Hahahahahahaha. [ as soon as it's done talking shit she slides down the length of her weapon and continues laughing, though it's become more MOCKING than anything. ]

I'm no mortal, you blockhead. But, uh, yeah, sure, I'm defiling you... or certainly trying. [ she winks. ] How about you come out of your stone prison or whatever and let me kick your ass, because I don't fancy staying in this blood ridden hell forever.

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