Imeeji Idol Productions ([personal profile] idolpro) wrote2020-02-17 09:33 am
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Shrike's Heart (#1)

The woman before you is beautiful—fair of features, with lovely golden skin and luxurious long black hair, petite. You have the immediate and distinct impression that she's just let go of your hand, and she steps back, and smiles.

It's not quite a happy smile.

"I'm sorry," she says. "There's just nothing I can do, as things are. But the way is there; it just needs to be lit."

You open your mouth—maybe to say something, or to express confusion—but you have to cough, and taste something metallic, spattering black blood onto the ground in front of you. Then you realize—blood seeps from opening wounds in your arms, your chest, your stomach, your face. It rims your eyes and trails from your nose and you feel like you're dissolving—

—and you fall through the ground like it's the surface of a lake, and go down, down, down.

> Wake Up
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[personal profile] jokesaboutrighthands 2020-02-18 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
[following Kestrel inside, and pauses when he sees what's going on, he stops to examine the shrine (s)?]

[personal profile] handpuppets 2020-02-18 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
[ there is one that immediately catches your attention:

The drawing is of avante en garde's Cardigan; laid out in front of it are a golden spear, a bottle of sake, and a bouquet of amaranth flowers tied with a white string. ]
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[personal profile] jokesaboutrighthands 2020-02-18 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
[WELL

that's telling, looks around sharply, is there anyone else from avante here?]

[personal profile] handpuppets 2020-02-18 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
[ no one else from avante; the other two shrines that bear potentially familiar images are one of BARiTONES's Kohime, which seems to have received an offering that's just a stack of knives, and one of BARiTONES's Alexander, who has received a paper lantern that glows from being lit by a candle.

there's also a shrine for the man that Jay just killed; it has an offering of a child's toy doll. ]
Edited (oh. i forgot.) 2020-02-18 04:00 (UTC)
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[personal profile] jokesaboutrighthands 2020-02-18 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
[he was reaching for the sake on cardigan's shrine (look, card would understand) but when he sees kestrel start to just SAVE EVERYTHING he

figures he should help. lest she run out time and get caught on fire

so gathering it all up to pull it out of the building]
claestrophe: (you can tell me the truth)

[personal profile] claestrophe 2020-02-18 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
GRANDPA! We need to find a better shelter for these things!

[ this is GRANNY'S. we can't let anything happen to her stuff. ]
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[personal profile] jokesaboutrighthands 2020-02-18 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
Do not call me grandpa.

[grunting, he's helping though, look he's helping!!]
claestrophe: (questionable happiness)

[personal profile] claestrophe 2020-02-18 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
That's the spirit, Peepaw!

[ there. not grandpa. let's just carry these items down the path ]
Edited 2020-02-18 04:16 (UTC)

[personal profile] handpuppets 2020-02-18 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
[ good job, granddad!

you successfully help her grab the Cardigan shrine; anything else you want to get? The building is not immediately going to catch on fire, though it's mostly trinkets. ]

[personal profile] jokesaboutrighthands 2020-02-18 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
[he will make sure they manage to get all of the shrines, they seem to be the most important

DON'T CALL HIM GRANDADD!!!]

[personal profile] handpuppets 2020-02-18 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
[ the fifth shrine is to a stranger, clad in piecemeal armor; the offering here is a broken sword, with white string tying the pieces together. you acquire all the items and abscond. ]
claestrophe: (do not want)

[personal profile] claestrophe 2020-02-18 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
[ Oh wow.

Even Kestrel can tell--these are IMPORTANT THINGS. ]

... We can't let these get destroyed.

[ SCOOPING THEM UP!!! like the whole fucking shrine. MUST PROTECC ]

[personal profile] handpuppets 2020-02-18 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
[ YOU DO THAT THING

protecc grandma ]
claestrophe: (fired up)

[personal profile] claestrophe 2020-02-18 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
[ #PTOTECCGRANNIE ]

We need to find a safer place for these things! Someplace without fires and war!