idolpro | Flowers of Heaven 2: LiliS + Heart Soldier Senshi + WILD CITY

There’s a chirruping and giggling from around you; a peeping and chattering overhead; a clattering of hooves on the flagstones.

Gathering around you all are strange creatures. Materializing around LiliS are tiny people that have the look of being grown from plants and flowers: petal-colored faces, with leaf dresses and tunics that look as if they grew onto them, and blossom or dandelion-fluff hair. Another flock—a number of small and colorful creatures—almost like fanciful stuffed animals, except definitely fully alive and somehow capable of flight despite most of them not being winged, not unlike Aibous—gather around Heart Soldier Senshi. Then, approaching WILD CITY is… one extremely tired-looking definitely-human man who is definitely riding a horse and who is absolutely not actually a disguised centaur. The Definitely Human Man curtly introduces himself as Sheriff Pferd, and gives a stiff "welcome back," but any further questions just make him shake his head and give a long-suffering sigh.
Apart from him, none of the creatures speak, but they chitter and nudge at you like they're greeting old friends, and usher you towards a gap that's opened in the thick curtain of kudzu vines and onto a winding path beyond.

Once you cross through, the vines grow rapidly to cover the open space behind you, and the voices of your fellow idols fade from your ears. It seems as if you’re on your own, now.

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Here, the vines that surround your path are dotted with bright-blooming flowers, and some of the leaves seem to be brightly-colored plastic instead; the air echoes with occasional birdsong and the growls and yips of animals, though no other living creatures are anywhere to be seen.

The little creatures are carrying some things for you—the flower fairies carry a wreath of wild oats, chamomile, and hollyhock flowers, the colorful cute creatures a wreath of clematis, chamomile, and oak, and the man who is definitely not a centaur a wreath of clematis, wild oats, and mimulus. As they approach you, the air shifts in a strange way, and suddenly they have one wreath between them—all those flowers woven together into one, which they offer to you. They also have for you a collection of sixteen different flowers, and a small lantern of blue flame.

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For those comfortable sharing what flowers they are connected, too, please feel free to add to the growing list.

Currently we have two lotus and acacia, chamomile, mimulus, oak, vervain, and wild oat.

I got honeysuckle and hollyhock.

Oh dear. So lotus is really the only duplicate.

Lucky us, huh?

Well, that makes the shield choice easy.

Oh, two acacia as well. That at least narrows down our options.

Yeah... doubling up on two ain't bad.

What would your strategy be in such a situation?

I guess -- cover as many people as we can.

Do as little damage as possible.

Edited 2022-08-07 20:56 (UTC)

So one of the doubles should be protected this round and another the next.

If the first round goes well.

Yeah. If the first round goes well.

[ Slightly tentative at first. ]

I have Acacia and Star of Bethlehem.

Thank you. I know that cannot be an easy thing to share with strangers.

Losing a part of one's soul is even less so.

[ That gets a small smile out of him ]

Quite.

I cannot imagine it to be a pleasant experience.

Just like them to do so, huh. . .

We are all so very jaded, aren't we?

Quite honestly, I've only been in a small handful of games, however even by testament from others I can agree with that.

The list of flowers not attributed to anyone should be: clematis, aconite, gorse, wild rose, water lily, and alyssum.

Please let me know if I have mistaken anyone's flowers.

So, we burn three flowers we don't have, or we burn the ones we've got two of and use the shield to keep one of 'em safe.

[ Ugh. ]

Guess my vote's the former.

[ EVERY PART OF THIS IS THE WORST, FOR THE RECORD, and while he's cool enough in tone and expression, he's also clenching his hands into quiet fists. ]

Edited 2022-08-07 20:19 (UTC)

If we do choose to use the wreath, I prefer to burn those two flowers plus another since we know that individual will be protected. It allows us to burn those flowers in later rounds as well as for my own selfish reasons, has less chance of hitting Caeli.

[ Mulling over the rules more. His lips twitch a tiny bit at the mention of 'less chance of hitting Caeli'. Zhongli, you can't say it's his own choice and then... eh. Zhongli's just putting in a vote. ]

Misread something anyway. Flower crowns on the doubles protect both people, not just the one wearing it. So — acacia, you said? That was the other double?

[ We're both fine with risking Lotus, right. ]

Yes, that was the other double.

So it between you, I, Pretzel, and---

I'm terribly sorry. I did not get the name of your unitmates. I will have to introduce myself in the next round properly.

Wei Wuxian and Gentiana.

[ Smallest lipqurik. ]

Wei Wuxian's the one with the shared flower.

[ and if only we'd known caeli's flower, BUT OH WELL 8(((( ]

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