Flowers of Heaven 2: future is now + ☆ZRAEL

[idolpro]

There’s a whirr and a series of quiet bleep-boops; an odd sound like stones grinding together.

Gathering around you all are strange creatures. Wheeling up to future is now are what seem to be friendly robots, almost like roombas, that have been given attachments of long, jointed arms with simple pincers at the ends, and hopping up to ☆ZRAEL are what look like a number of gargoyles, each no more than a few feet high and in the traditional gothic cathedral style—and all animate, their flesh made of living rock.
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 thick, velvety leaves, and the stems of the vines are traced with shifting, fiber-optic lines that cycle through the rainbow.

The little creatures are carrying some things for you—the roombas carry a wreath of vervain, honeysuckle, and oak flowers and leaves, and the gargoyles a wreath of lotus, clematis, and wild rose. 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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Comments

DISCUSSION

[idolpro]

Re: DISCUSSION

[numberedays]

Ah... so a sacrifice will need to be made.

Re: DISCUSSION

[sangreine]

[ Who doesn't see where this thought is headed? ]

I don't like where you're going with that. [ She gets that there might not be another choice, but even so. ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[numberedays]

It does seem like we have the option to protect ourselves when we do it, at least. But it depends on what combination of flowers we have in our group.

Re: DISCUSSION

[trainphreaking]

Well, we can start with the ones we don't have to sacrifice, technically speaking.

Re: DISCUSSION

[numberedays]

I wouldn't recommend Wild Rose, since both Aliza and I share it. We can only protect one person at a time, so even if one of us wore the crown, the other's sure to be burned.

Re: DISCUSSION

[onemoreknight]

[ wow! she hates this ]

Um, so what are everyone's flowers...? Mine are Chamomile and Clematis.

Re: DISCUSSION

[glidinglight]

The "Star of Bethlehem" and "Mimulus."

Re: DISCUSSION

[trainphreaking]

Vervain and alyssum, apparently. Don't know what that's supposed to mean.

Re: DISCUSSION

[constellationprize]

Ah - that's a good idea... sharing them will help us understand what we might be able to do, won't it? Good work, Luminosity - ...

[ a pause, ]

I think - for me, they were Lotus and Clematis.

Re: DISCUSSION

[sangreine]

Wild rose and Hollyhock.

They're all pretty different.

Re: DISCUSSION

[numberedays]

Lotus and Wild Rose.

Re: DISCUSSION

[trainphreaking]

Well, doesn't this seem like someone's idea of character development or something.

Re: DISCUSSION

[numberedays]

Does it?

Re: DISCUSSION

[trainphreaking]

Trust me. I've had to deal with so many of those scenarios.

Re: DISCUSSION

[sangreine]

That's how it always goes. Messing with our heads is amusing and entertaining, I guess.

Re: DISCUSSION

[trainphreaking]

[ she fiddles with her sleeve, making it possible to see the long line of green glowing numbers that wind up her arm. ]

Or someone thinks they know best. There's that kind, too.

Re: DISCUSSION

[glidinglight]

So this was what she meant by "sacrifices."

Re: DISCUSSION

[sangreine]

[ Keeping quite close to Lumine ]

It's cruel, but what about this place isn't?

Re: DISCUSSION

[glidinglight]

[ deep breath, and release. ]

I don't know what else I expected. What should we do?

Re: DISCUSSION

[trainphreaking]

...who? What, d'you know something about this?

Re: DISCUSSION

[constellationprize]

[ picking up one of the gargoyles to pat it a bit, soothing ]

There there - ... good girl, good girl -

But this sort of game is definitely a little bit - ... um, it's a little bit worrying, isn't it...?

Re: DISCUSSION

[glidinglight]

It's definitely not good. With as many different flowers as there are, it's going to be difficult to make predictions as to what's going to get targeted.

Re: DISCUSSION

[sangreine]

[ Also reaching out to pet the gargoyle ]

It is worrying. It seems like we have to destroy pieces of ourselves, or something like that.

Re: DISCUSSION

[trainphreaking]

[ man aradia would love the infinity train huh ]

Eh. I mean, what isn't.