Imeeji Idol Productions ([personal profile] idolpro) wrote2022-08-07 11:59 am

Flowers of Heaven 2: future is now + ☆ZRAEL

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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numberedays: ([3 Think] only to destroy them all)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] numberedays 2022-08-07 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah... so a sacrifice will need to be made.
sangreine: huh :: surprised (tell me)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] sangreine 2022-08-07 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[ 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. ]
numberedays: ([3 Think] so that I won't hear anything)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] numberedays 2022-08-07 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
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.
onemoreknight: (12)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] onemoreknight 2022-08-07 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[ wow! she hates this ]

Um, so what are everyone's flowers...? Mine are Chamomile and Clematis.
trainphreaking: (00010011; since you were here)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] trainphreaking 2022-08-07 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, doesn't this seem like someone's idea of character development or something.
glidinglight: (somber thoughts)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] glidinglight 2022-08-07 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
The "Star of Bethlehem" and "Mimulus."
glidinglight: (deep in thought)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] glidinglight 2022-08-07 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
So this was what she meant by "sacrifices."
constellationprize: (20)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] constellationprize 2022-08-07 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[ 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...?
sangreine: innocent :: neutral :: long hair ([rose] petalswept)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] sangreine 2022-08-07 07:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Protect some of us, or some pieces of us, and destroy others.

I seem to have the names of Wild Rose [ she makes a face ] and Hollyhock in my head. You?
trainphreaking: (00010010; it's changed)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] trainphreaking 2022-08-07 07:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Vervain and alyssum, apparently. Don't know what that's supposed to mean.
constellationprize: (59)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] constellationprize 2022-08-07 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
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.
sangreine: neutral (chin up)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] sangreine 2022-08-07 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Keeping quite close to Lumine ]

It's cruel, but what about this place isn't?
glidinglight: (somber thoughts)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] glidinglight 2022-08-07 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
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.
sangreine: happy (but of course)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] sangreine 2022-08-07 07:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Also reaching out to pet the gargoyle ]

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

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