Imeeji Idol Productions ([personal profile] idolpro) wrote2019-09-16 07:39 am

LiliS

[ 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. ]
maleficafe: For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:38-39)

Re: Session 19 Discussion

[personal profile] maleficafe 2019-09-22 02:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, John.

This is... my fourth time. The second time, I was alone. The last time it was just me and Camellia. We both lived, but... Camellia lost a hand.
theyregooddogs: (not enough whiskey in the world)

Re: Session 19 Discussion

[personal profile] theyregooddogs 2019-09-22 02:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Did you run into trouble only in your last round?
maleficafe: But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed. (Isaiah 53:5)

Re: Session 19 Discussion

[personal profile] maleficafe 2019-09-22 02:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[shakes her head]

Before, I... almost got into trouble with some people from Wild City. They attacked me, but I managed to get away.
theyregooddogs: (g)

Re: Session 19 Discussion

[personal profile] theyregooddogs 2019-09-22 02:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Nothing's changed there, then. Alright . . . Alright, I've got it.
maleficafe: I have a message from God in my heart concerning the sinfulness of the wicked: There is no fear of God before their eyes. (Psalm 36:1)

Re: Session 19 Discussion

[personal profile] maleficafe 2019-09-22 02:17 pm (UTC)(link)
There's weird things that happen whenever you move around, but it's dangerous to stay in one place, too.

[stuffing her pockets with seeds and readying her kitchen knife, which doesn't have any blood on it, thankfully]
theyregooddogs: (and there、woman of love)

Re: Session 19 Discussion

[personal profile] theyregooddogs 2019-09-22 02:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you want to go with her? [amaranth]
maleficafe: Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” (Genesis 1:26)

Re: Session 19 Discussion

[personal profile] maleficafe 2019-09-22 02:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[glances back and forth between them]

Are we not all going together?
theyregooddogs: (t)

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[personal profile] theyregooddogs 2019-09-22 02:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I can't, I'm not— [just shakes his head]
maleficafe: Trust in the Lord with all your heart     and lean not on your own understanding; (Proverbs 3:5)

Re: Session 19 Discussion

[personal profile] maleficafe 2019-09-22 02:21 pm (UTC)(link)
--you can't go by yourself. It's too dangerous, they'll gang up on you...!
theyregooddogs: (how difficult and drunken)

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[personal profile] theyregooddogs 2019-09-22 02:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Lavender, you really don't want me to come go with you.
maleficafe: not by works, so that no one can boast. (Ephesians 2:9)

Re: Session 19 Discussion

[personal profile] maleficafe 2019-09-22 02:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Would you tell me why instead of assuming that's what I want?
theyregooddogs: (and in it my longing fell)

Re: Session 19 Discussion

[personal profile] theyregooddogs 2019-09-22 02:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[a gentle goddammit under his breath]

Fine. Just— Fine, let's go.
maleficafe: Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” (Genesis 1:26)

Re: Session 19 Discussion

[personal profile] maleficafe 2019-09-22 02:29 pm (UTC)(link)
... okay. If it would be better, we could split into two groups and try to meet up again later, so that we can avoid being caught by others.
theyregooddogs: (w)

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[personal profile] theyregooddogs 2019-09-22 02:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, try running that past her.
maleficafe: After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.” (Matthew 2:1-2)

Re: Session 19 Discussion

[personal profile] maleficafe 2019-09-22 02:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[looking back and forth between john and amaranth again














oh]
theyregooddogs: (k)

Re: Session 19 Discussion

[personal profile] theyregooddogs 2019-09-22 02:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Wrong idea, Lavender. And don't say anything.
maleficafe: Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, (James 1:2)

Re: Session 19 Discussion

[personal profile] maleficafe 2019-09-22 02:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[n, nods]

Okay. Then... let's go.
worthathousand: (inside each thimbled throat ❦)

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[personal profile] worthathousand 2019-09-22 02:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[ interjecting ]

She what?
Who did that to her?
maleficafe: Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. (Colossians 3:12)

Re: Session 19 Discussion

[personal profile] maleficafe 2019-09-22 02:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[shakes her head]

It was... the house, I think.

[she shudders]

We went to the menagerie and then all of a sudden her hand tried to strangle herself--she was carrying an axe in her other hand and so she just--

[lip trembles, trailing off]

I hope she's okay. There was a lot of blood.
worthathousand: (I remember you said ❦)

Re: Session 19 Discussion

[personal profile] worthathousand 2019-09-22 02:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[ her expression hardens a moment, then she sighs ]

It's hard to travel in this place when you don't know the house, and it doesn't know you. This place is still so cruel.

We'll do everything we can to protect her, Lavender. This house can never be safe with so many others here, but we can make it better, bit by bit.
maleficafe: But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed. (Isaiah 53:5)

Re: Session 19 Discussion

[personal profile] maleficafe 2019-09-22 02:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know how we can do that... it feels like this place has been desolate and overgrown by spirits for ages.

Are you okay...? You look... were you hurt?
worthathousand: (just close your eyes ❦)

Re: Session 19 Discussion

[personal profile] worthathousand 2019-09-22 02:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I've had to kill to protect myself and others. It was what was necessary and I do not regret it.

...Cardigan, too. They were lost to this place. There was no form of love they'd accept that wasn't a fight to the death.

[ a deep sigh, breath tight in her chest ]

I won.
maleficafe: For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— (Ephesians 2:8)

Re: Session 19 Discussion

[personal profile] maleficafe 2019-09-22 02:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[eyes widen, and then crinkle in sympathy. even if mom is crazy now, that sounds terrible. lav will wrap her arms around amaranth despite the blood]

I'm sorry.
worthathousand: (❦ that you could not change)

Re: Session 19 Discussion

[personal profile] worthathousand 2019-09-22 02:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[ she holds her close, protective; pets her hair softly ]

I know that death is not lasting here, but...
[ another breath, just a touch unsteady ]
That's why I know we have to be so on our guard. Even the ones we love are threats.
maleficafe: Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. (John 6:35)

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[personal profile] maleficafe 2019-09-22 02:42 pm (UTC)(link)
...

I'll be careful. I promise.