HEARTFORGE - avante en garde (Session 4)

[idolpro]

You are in the heart of a massive forge. In front of you are tools, and your objective is clear - to use them to channel the strength of your heart and create.

What are you creating? Who can say. Only you - and only you'll know if - and when, it's good enough. The stories before you are not yours right now, but you'll make them yours soon enough.

And you will survive.

Comments

Re: DISCUSSION

[snowbirds]

A thrilling victory of honest folk fighting off very ferocious beasts, perhaps?

Very ferociously cute beasts.

Re: DISCUSSION

[worthathousand]

[ NOPE, that concept sure got a sudden emotional recoil ]

Ah... perhaps not beasts? [ gentler ] Even cute ones.
I'd rather avoid slaying anything innocent.

Re: DISCUSSION

[snowbirds]

I suppose I had not interpreted the story to involve any sort of slaying at all but that is fine. I do not have anything else to fulfill that aspect, do you?

Re: DISCUSSION

[worthathousand]

Well.

For better or worse, my own history is a bloody one. [ a mix of pride and something more like simple acceptance. it is what it is. ]

In my life before this place, I was the chosen of a war god, and I used that power to win a war for my province. So I have no shortage of memories of battle.

...Triumphant ones, mostly. [ mostly. ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[snowbirds]

I only have a limited amount of memories myself, but it seems my battlefield was often ones of appearance. I do know the art of the sword and practiced often, but as the face of my clan, my main goal seems to be maintaining an image of perfection. A single sign of weakness and the other clans would utilize that as a means to tarnish the clan's name an weaken our political standing.

Enemies exist no matter what world we come from. How interesting to think about that.

Re: DISCUSSION

[worthathousand]

Nobility, then. [ a sense of recognition ]

I knew the type in my world as well, though in all of my memories so far I refused to play along with the charade.

I am no longer as sure as I once was if it was the right thing to do.

[ her tone is understated, but there's real regret there ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[snowbirds]

[There is a soft kindness, one of sympathy but understanding.]

I am sure you will find the answer to that. You seem to be a very determined person, Amaranth-san, so once you chase the answer down, you will be able to accept the regret and move forward.

Re: DISCUSSION

[worthathousand]

Ah, well.

[ a touch strained ] I already know how it ended.

[ hahahaha WOW she is SO SAD she could fall to the ground and tear open her own chest and scream and—
anyway it's fine. ]

Or at least I have been told.
I do not think I ever betrayed my principles, in life. But there can be a cost to that.