LiliS

[idolpro]

[ You spill out of the elevator into the Solarium— the elevator is gone when you look back.

The solarium should be bright and airy in a room like this, but the atmosphere is oppressively humid, and some of the plants have overgrown across the windows, creating a sort of canopy. There's an odd, sickly-sweet odor wafting from somewhere, and some of the ground-level plants are more on the order of things like venus flytraps and pitcher plants. A container with a small hole dug invites you to plant something yourself.

The fear of decay lingers in the back of your mind as the smell of rot consumes your nostrils. You can’t exactly tell where that stench is coming from when the light has been blocked out, but you don’t really mind. After all, the image appearing in your mind of light coming through the windows only brings an unpleasant numbness around your eyes. You can feel your heart pounding in your chest when you think about it . . . well, that IS your heart, isn’t it? If you focus on the beats vibrating in your ears, fury swells up inside of you. You can almost remember that promise that was broken, but you feel that if you remember it, you won’t ever be able to go back. If you lose your sanity, or are damaged too far, the sensation will overwhelm you.

A bag of seeds sits in the small hole.

A readout on your phone tells you the rules and displays the sanity goal (explore rooms) and your traitor goal (epipen some fucking seeds into some hearts) as well as the item that you've been given (bag of seeds). It looks like nothing is stopping you from committing the traitor goal even while you're sane, if you wish to.

There is one exit: East. ]

Comments

Item

[idolpro]

[ A bag of seeds all with one thorned, needle-like end and with an ominous red bioluminescence that heats them from within. They feel nearly alive—a little more nourishment, and they will be.

Your cellphone tells you how to use it, and your traitor goal (epipen some fucking seeds into some hearts). Once per room that is described to have dirt in it, such as the graveyard, garden, or solarium, a member of LiliS can plant a seed and gain one of any stat, provided that stat is currently below their starter levels. ]

Traitor Goal:

[ Your traitor goal is take one of the seeds from the bag you started with, and jab it into someone's chest, and drain their life-force. Mechanically, the seeds give you no combat/weapon advantage, but you are wielding a weapon you can assume the seeds do the same amount of damage as you would with the weapon, so you don't have the awkward experience of axing someone ALMOST to death and then trying to do the last blow with a very sharp stabby seed.

You have no desire to and receive no points for committing this act on a unitmate. ]

Session 1 Discusion

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Re: Session 1 Discusion

[oddeyesphantomdragon]

[Cleyera finally made it in time for a game and it's an awful one. Great! Also man you'd think being Well Versed in the experience of having ghosts in his head would make this less bad but. No. He's already regretting telling the others to stay out of this.

He's currently kneeling down on the ground by some flytraps and scrolling through the rules on his phone.]

Session 2 Discussion

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Session 3 Discussion

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Re: Session 3 Discussion

[theyregooddogs]

[aw, fuck]

. . . Alright, keep it together, John.

Session 4 Discussion

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Session 5 Discussion

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Session 6 Discussion

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Session 7 Discussion

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Session 8 Discussion

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Session 9 Discussion

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Session 10 Discussion

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Re: Session 10 Discussion

[worthathousand]

...What.....

[ She's alone.
This place is halfway between gorgeous and oppressive; she clutches the bag of seeds tightly in one hand as she reads the rules.

There's nothing for it, is there?

She heads EAST. ]

Session 11 Discussion

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Session 12 Discussion

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[oddeyesphantomdragon]

[Cleyera's in this round again... except, he's not kneeling down by the flaptraps anymore. There's something different about the way he's carrying himself, and he seems more resigned than jittery this time.

He plucks a bag of seeds up off the ground and pockets it, after giving it a disdainful kind of look down his nose.]

Session 13 Discussion

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Re: Session 13 Discussion

[maleficafe]

Oh... I'm back.

[looking around for the others immediately, and once she realizes she's alone, she has a moment where she just

crouches down on the floor and tries to calm her breathing.

places some seeds into her pockets.

and heads east.]

Session 14 Discussion

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Session 15 Discussion

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Session 16 Discussion

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Re: Session 16 Discussion

[worthathousand]

[ ...And she's alone again.
She plants a seed to regain 1 speed.

Time to head EAST. ]

Session 17 Discussion

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Re: Session 17 Discussion

[maleficafe]

[has a knife '-'

looking kind of harried, but not injured, thankfully]

Demeter's Sanity Break

[idolpro]

[ With that last blow of damage, everything snaps sharply into focus.

That corner of your mind that you weren't touching before, because it wasn't yours, not something of you is no longer held back. You can't be you right now-- you're in too much pain, too much agony. And this thing is clear. Vengeance is sharp and sure, and it tells you the story and what you need to do next:

You(them), staggering down the halls of the house that isn't yours(theirs), are a fool. Each thump of the axe in your distant wooden heart cleaves the truth into you, more true than anything you were fool enough to believe.

He promised you(them) so many things, but kept none of them. He promised to protect you(them), your(their) heart, and the forest you(they) called home. But in the end, the only thing he kept wasn't any promise but the cash, that he sank right into the little house that had started to sprawl, bulging with new money and old growth wood, chopped from boughs that once made up your body and now made up your prison. The tremor in your hands, the weakness that won't abate, came from the tremors of machinery in the dirt, the poison in the soil.

The solarium's bright light taunts you now— the sun gives you enough strength to stand but not enough to break glass. You're dying surrounded by pathetic potted plants, which is more or less what you are— you and your golden rings, like the golden sap splattering your front from your heaving; you and your expensive furs that he got you, that you no longer have the strength to hunt yourself. But you, full of hatred, full of loathing, plunge your hand into the dirt and drain just enough nutrients to wait, hoping it'll be just long enough. You'll last until he gets back. That's all you need to last for.

You cannot save your body, or your home. Your life is forfeit to axe, but that isn't what matters now: if he took your heart, that's fine. You'll grow yourself a new one, potted right between his ribs, in the space his heart should be. ]

Sanity break effects: you may continue to play your character as mostly their normal self, but in pursuit of this goal, through whatever justification you prefer.

You may also play it with the vengeful spirit's personality overlaid on your character to some degree: if you choose to play with this, your character may become more territorial and defensive about whatever place they feel is close to their heart. If another person approaches a room they feel a connection to, they'll be more likely to be hostile and aggressive. This can also manifest as becoming over-protective over whatever they consider to be theirs. Better that than falling for someone's ruse again. Characters may lack trust in other people's words, and demand proof via action or physical proof over any verbal claims other people might make, and might seek to prove things themselves in an extreme manner. If someone claims they're not going to hurt them, they may aggress and attempt to murder them to see it proven under duress, for instance. All of these aspects are optional, and may be individually played up or toned down to whatever degree would be fun for you, so long as they ultimately motivate your character to pursue the traitor goal.

Traitors are aware of the full layout of the house, which can be found here. ]

Session 18 Discussion

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Session 19 Discussion

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Re: Session 19 Discussion

[wastoldto]

[kind of walks around the room a bit, trying to get his bearings.]

Session 20 Discussion

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Session 21 Discussion

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Re: Session 21 Discussion

[letgrow]

[Looking around]

Lavender....? Anyone....?

Session 22 Discussion

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