Flowers of Heaven 2: BAD END=DEAD END + Taisho Roman Revolution + BARiTONES

[idolpro]

There’s a quiet fluttering overhead; a papery rustle from around you; a nudge at your ankles.

Gathering around you all are strange creatures. Materializing around BARiTONES are shifting geometric patterns of red and black, which become owls with deep red eyes and a black-and-white zigzag pattern on their feathers. Another flock—of living origami animals of all kinds, each made from a unique square of colorful paper—gather around Taisho Roman Revolution. Then, clustering around BAD END=DEAD END are… bombs??? covered in spikes, with spiky little legs, vibrating and glowing as if on the verge of explosion.
None of the creatures speak, exactly, 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.

❀ ❀ ❀

Here, the vines that surround your path have wine red leaves, sometimes wound through with barbed wire; it looks like someone's hung prayer strips along them, written in an indecipherable language.

The little creatures are carrying some things for you—the owls carry a wreath of Star of Bethlehem, wild rose, and alyssum flowers, the origami animals a wreath of vervain, aconite, and water lily, and the bombs a wreath of aconite, gorse, and hollyhock. 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.

---

Quick Links: Flowers | Status Effects | OOC Rules

Comments

DISCUSSION

[idolpro]

Re: DISCUSSION

[carrionmywaywardsun]

Shit, I thought Acacia was gonna be a sure thing.

Re: DISCUSSION

[branchedout]

It still worked, mostly, so I reckon that counts as working.

Re: DISCUSSION

[carrionmywaywardsun]

Yeah, at least we managed to narrow the fucking field.

Re: DISCUSSION

[586]

... [ he's mad that one of scara's flowers got burned, but not all that surprised that gorse was targeted. ] What should we do for this round?

[ also don't mind him attempting to mother hen scara, sorry not sorry scara... ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[abovefate]

[ guess who's staying very close to him now ]

One that those bastards will have?

Re: DISCUSSION

[586]

[ pentium loops his tail around scaramouche to keep him as close as possible. ] We don't have many options left, so we have to choose carefully... and at some point that crown is going on your head. I... don't know which round would be better though. I think the last round, when there's next to no flowers left, but I don't know if you'd make it there... And if we do it now and then we do save you... then what of the last round...

Re: DISCUSSION

[abovefate]

Don't we have any other repeat? I'll let you in on a secret.

My other flower is shared with someone else. Put the crown on Valor.

Re: DISCUSSION

[temperedinpride]

[Seeing Scaramouche like this is strange. He'll just stand close to him and Pentium.]

Re: DISCUSSION

[abovefate]

[ it's going to be even more strange because as soon as Bread is within reasonable distance he'll also grab him and pull him closer ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[carrionmywaywardsun]

What we did last round seemed to work out alright. So...do it again, I guess?

Re: DISCUSSION

[586]

We should. We should choose the other two flowers carefully... and attempt to hit as many of those other bastards as possible...

And I selfishly want the crown on Scaramouche at some point... in either this round or the next...

Re: DISCUSSION

[carrionmywaywardsun]

Sure, Shorty can have the crown in the last round. But this round, let's use it to burn as many motherfuckers as possible.

Re: DISCUSSION

[auguryofinnocence]

I assume you have already decided to go all in?

Re: DISCUSSION

[586]

Absolutely. I want to destroy everybody else, so we come out on top. I don't want to lose this game, because the consequences for doing so seem... well, I'm sure you can already tell. [ he gently bumps his head into him. ] How are you, Vergil.

Re: DISCUSSION

[temperedinpride]

[He takes the crown off.]

The should go to one who can defend two if we wish to play strategically. Hollyhock I believe?

Re: DISCUSSION

[carrionmywaywardsun]

Or Vervain.

Though with Hollyhock, we could also get Honeysuckle or Wild Rose, depending on which fucker we put it on.

Re: DISCUSSION

[temperedinpride]

Either way, I do not believe I can wear it again.

The other option is to give it to one of those who has already lost some of themself, but that lessens our overall chances of success. I would protect Hollyhock or as you say, Vervain.

Re: DISCUSSION

[gravitydefier]

Agreed. [soft. flat.]

Re: DISCUSSION

[temperedinpride]

How do you feel?

Re: DISCUSSION

[carrionmywaywardsun]

You feeling alright?

[since Water Lily was one of the ones that burned...]

Re: DISCUSSION

[586]

...it should sit on the head of whoever can protect the most of our own. [ looking aside. ] Whoever has the most overlap.

Re: DISCUSSION

[temperedinpride]

That is my thought as well.

Re: DISCUSSION

[branchedout]

's been a while. [ Since taisho dinner ]

Big fella [ pentium ] and me have that one; I'm fine if y'wanna pick your unitmate, unless y'reckon more folks'd have Wild Rose.

Re: DISCUSSION

[temperedinpride]

[He bows a little.]

I simply wish to see all of us win, in whatever way is most efficient. Then these effects will be of little moment.

So let us not grow flustered, and consider which of you two would best be suited to wear it.