You're at the reintro. You're at the heartgame. You're at the combination reintro/heartgame.

[idolpro]

Oh let me remember you as you were before you existed.
- Pablo Neruda

✦

bought a bubblegum scented sword so the last thing
my enemies realise is how fun and cute i am
- wolfpupy

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[idolpro]

Second verse, same as the first.

First: Sign in below to receive your character’s miraculous scars.
These are a set of three custom one-use “easy buttons” for navigating the Heart. You can use a Scar at any time to either bypass an obstacle or receive an ~instinct~ (furi: hint) about what to do next. Think of them as handy extras rather than a crucial resource, and feel free to use them however you like.

If your character has already been to this heart, they'll have the same set of scars as before, but you'll start fresh/without any spent.

Second: Powers are off, but you can assume your character has any items with them that they commonly carry (whether or not they were literally holding the item at the time of falling asleep/entering the heart). Hellfire thinks your weapons are cool and wants you to have them.


Third: This is a Corruption Heart.
Assume your character instinctively knows the following:

• They are, somehow, journeying through the mind/spirit of one of their unitmates.
• The unitmate's spirit is out of balance, and their task is to restore that balance lest the spirit become critically warped.
• Furthermore, they are aware of the three miraculous scars on their body, and how they can be used.

OOC Notes:
Major content warnings for this heart are unreality/dissociation and plant-based body horror, with minor content warnings for suffocation and drowning, as well as casual bloodshed.

I also wish to clarify that, though flowers will be important indicators of what’s going on in the Heart, their presence is not itself inherently bad or corrupt.

SIGN IN and START: New Characters

[idolpro]

If your character is new to BAD END=DEAD END and/or has not met Kiri, sign in and start here.

Re: SIGN IN and START: New Characters

[gravitydefier]

Here.

[carrionmywaywardsun]

o/

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[irregular]

+ 1 Ex-Wizard

SIGN IN and START: Returning Characters

[idolpro]

If your character has been to this heart before, sign in and start here!

Re: SIGN IN and START: Returning Characters

[widenessofthesea]

SLAMS LEG DOWN

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[overworker]

HERE WE GO!!!!

Re: SIGN IN and START: Returning Characters

[bad_crowmance]

[ HELLO! ]

CHANCEL BAD END=DEAD END

[idolpro]

Welcome to BAD END=DEAD END! Wow!!!

It is exactly as you remember it: industrial, with graffitied and paint-splattered walls, but earnestly lived in, with its modern-vintage sofas and high latticed windows. There’s the faint smell of something cooking wafting on the air, and an assortment of random plush tsum tsums (of unit members past and present) scattered over the couch.

(Wait... do you remember this? The cooking... have you ever actually had that recipe?)

........Oh, and twining around the legs of furniture, twisting over exposed industrial pipes, climbing up the windows—there are the briars of wild roses. The dorm’s main living room also now features a tiny stream, winding across the floor and around the couch, which occasionally widens into small pools of water, from which grow tall stems of lotus.

CHARACTER ROOMS

[idolpro]

If you head towards the bedrooms, it seems the hallway is distinctly longer than it ought to be—and upon closer examination, it’s easy to see why: there are not only doors for a number of both current and past BAD END members (each with a name carved on it in katakana, though you can read it easily regardless of your own native language), but also doors for some people who were never members at all.

The full list of names on bedroom doors is as follows:

Silk
Lumen
Ordine
Sashay Silfda Eistria Dagger AAA Absolute Zero Slaughtervodka
Jack
Serenity
ATTACK AND DETHRONE GOD Hope
Hardcore
Jason
Scythe
Pink
Sabre
Kohime
Nero
Harpy

…and a final door at the end of the hallway, which has some kind of floral crest in addition to the name “Hellfire.”

[carrionmywaywardsun]

[taking a moment to get his bearings and get over the disappointment that yet again, nothing here knows how to die properly, end the way they should

ok, moment done.

running a hand over one of the lotus flowers, curious.]

Re: CHANCEL BAD END=DEAD END

[gravitydefier]

[somewhat...confused. this is...not quite right, though he's only a recent arrival to bad end.

but going to examine that stream, then.]

/2

[irregular]

Fuck--!!

[Yeah, sorry, that was a lot all of a sudden and he's not - he's okay? what the Hell - K is a bit surprised to be anywhere right now, never mind back at the dorms he still can't quite think of as his and also they're flooding?]

CHANCEL LELI

[idolpro]

You do not drown.



You open your eyes to find yourself in a clearing; above the trees' canopies the stars glisten gently, and do not fall. They shine back at you in the ripples of water around you, except where the reflections are blocked by the broad shadows of lotus leaves. The creams and pinks of the swaying flowers have an almost lavender hue in the moonlight.

The pond you've found yourself is somewhat small, and most certainly not as deep as the one you sunk down into as your way of making the journey. It will take some care to pull yourself out, though: wild roses grow in tangles at the water's edge. The meadow beyond has no roses; instead, you can see tall stems of purple aconite jutting out amidst the grasses.

Two figures stand a short ways away from the pond, silhouetted by moonlight: a tall woman, and an even taller man, broad-shouldered and hooded. Some of you may even recognize them.

Re: CHANCEL LELI

[widenessofthesea]

...all right. I think I understand.

What was it... aconite for anger, wild rose for "something different," lotus for "the descending angel" and star of bethlehem for "something changed forever"...

[ well.

she waves to the people? hey guys fancy seeing you again. ]

Re: CHANCEL LELI

[overworker]

[It is still quite the experience to come back from, the sensation of letting yourself drown. But after she's given herself a moment to recover, she can properly look at the clearing around her. She dries her clothes and pulls herself from the water, slowly approaching the figures, while being careful not to trample the roses at the water's edge.]

Re: CHANCEL LELI

[gravitydefier]

[he pulls himself out of the pond and notes the flowers that are found, here. roses at the water's edge, but beyond none.

...and he certainly doesn't recognize those people.]

[carrionmywaywardsun]

[this is not the welcoming void he was promised!1

somewhat grumpily pulling himself out of the pond, avoiding the roses as best he can since he doesn't want to add getting cut by thorns to also being soaking wet]

HEAVEN

[idolpro]

Here, there is a garden that stretches as far as the eye can see, under bright—but not sunny?—skies. The flowers are of every color and every variety—some large showy blooms, some delicate clusters. Approaching them, there's an instinctive feeling like you're looking at both flowers and something more than flowers—that these are representative of fundamental parts of reality, laid out for you here like a precious tapestry. And somehow, nothing in the world could be more natural.

...Indeed, the strangest part of the garden is actually the flowers that seem to be the same species as one another—odd clumps of consistency in a sea of the otherwise unique. Clusters of delicate Star of Bethlehem snowdrops push through the carpet of flowers, white petals turned toward the sky.

Re: HEAVEN

[widenessofthesea]

[ well

obviously she's going to stop and look at the flowers. they're lovely, although the star of bethlehem being here seems... not right? ]

DIAGRAM OF AN AVATAR

[idolpro]

You are in a garden. You are on a battlefield. You are in a starlit clearing. You are on a broken bridge. You are no-where at all. None of this is contradictory.


The air around you shimmers and shifts.


Spreading out beneath your feet is a carpet of tangled green: Lotus. Aconite. Wild Rose. Star of Bethlehem. They twist around one another—a botanical cage.

...And in that mass of flowers is a ^{sword who is a girl}_{girl who is a sword}, sleeping.

1/2

[widenessofthesea]

[ firstly:

ah. she freezes halfway to an instinctive yell at all that preceded. ]

2/3 actually

[widenessofthesea]

[ secondly— ]

Re: DIAGRAM OF AN AVATAR

[widenessofthesea]

...Kiri Hellfire. Good morning.

[ can she reach her? or does she perhaps need to cut through this? ]