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

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.

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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.

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This's prolly the best way to go 'bout that.

I got Wild Rose an' Hollyhock.

At least there's one...

If your unitmate isn't gonna spill the beans, maybe it'd be easier t'let him have the wreath.

What? No, fuck that guy.

Then who should get it? 's kinda waste t'not use it.

Don't mind him for now. Let's use that thing strategically.

Based on the descriptions, y'reckon one of these flowers'd be more commonly held than the rest?

I'm... not sure. That's the part I don't think I'd be so good at picking...

It looks like among ourselves a few of us doubled up. So we could use that knowledge later on...

A lot o'these'd be hard to figure out jus' at first glance...

I don't care, but at least use it on someone who's not being a little shit because he's wildly overestimating the degree to which anyone gives a fuck about his producer-assigned flowers.

I don't want the stupid crown, so shut the fuck up, loser.

Looks like he doesn't want it anyway. I'm with that guy. [ Pentium ]

After we figure out most of our list, we can use the info on the flowers t'identify which'd be the most common flowers other folks have.

Looks like we're all over the place, so I don't think that's gonna be as big a help as you were hoping.

Jus' cause we're all over the place doesn't mean other folks might not be.

Well, that just makes it a crapshoot, doesn't it? Might as well pick at random, narrow the field a little.

I dunno, pick one flower that's got some overlap, so at least one person's protected by the wreath, and then pick two others that nobody here's got??

A sacrifice play.

[ Like this is baseball. He shrugs, indifferent. ]

Works for me.

If we're using the wreath we should pick two flowers to burn that belong to us.

For example let me wear it, and burn Vervain and Star of Bethlehem. Should that not defend the three of us that overlap?

...I guess? At least, it'll defend the people who aren't you for those two flowers. If their other flowers get hit, they'll be shit out of luck.

I'd rather try to hit flowers we don't have, so we can narrow the field for later rounds... There's too many fucking options and none of us seem to know shit about the other teams playing, at least enough to pick for certain.

So Star of Bethlehem, Acacia, and... I dunno, Gorse or Oak? And stick the crown on you, so we also protect Vervain.

I think that sounds perfect so far, but, mm, putting the crown on Cosmo does seem like the best strategy. That way we can protect two of our flowers at the same time on a beautiful technicality. As for the suggestions... I'm fine with either. Flip a coin for all I care.

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One of the last two is mine.

You wanna share or should I just flip a fucking coin?

That's as much as I'm saying. Whatever you pick I don't care.

Change Gorse.

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[He shrugs!]

However everyone wishes to play, as long as it is generally agreed on.