הניאל (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
rosetograce) wrote in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
imeeji_frontstage2022-08-07 12:02 pm
rosetograce) wrote in imeeji_frontstage2022-08-07 12:02 pm
Flowers of Heaven II: Star of Bethlehem
Who: lost(?) idols
Where: ???? a mysterious courtyard
When: day 490
[ You awaken to the feeling of cool stone at your back, and a night sky overhead.
All around is a courtyard—a wide circle of marble tile, alternating black and white, interspersed with stone benches and flowerbeds and ornamental trees, all lit by the lambent gleam of strangely vivid starlight.
It is beautiful. And it is decaying. The stone is cracked; the flowers wild and overflowing between the cracked stone; the trees bent and twisted with age, the ground around them littered with fallen fruit. There is a fountain in the center of this space, but it too is broken-down: the water sits stagnant, and nothing remains of the design except a basin and the shattered base of a once-golden sculpture.
—And surrounding it all are not walls, but dense mounds of kudzu, climbing over itself until it towers as high as any watchtower.
How did you get here?
The last thing you vaguely recall is a sudden fit of drowsiness. There’s no sign of any guide or host around, and your powers don’t currently work either. In fact, if you have any corruptions, whether mental or physical, they too are … gone? No, perhaps that's not quite it; you can still feel them—faint, like a phantom limb. Invisible, and unable to affect you.
But there is one notable exception to the rule: all wings, corruption-induced or not, remain in place, as natural as the starlight.
There are other idols around you, all waking up the same way. Is this meant to be some kind of game…? ]
Where: ???? a mysterious courtyard
When: day 490
[ You awaken to the feeling of cool stone at your back, and a night sky overhead.
All around is a courtyard—a wide circle of marble tile, alternating black and white, interspersed with stone benches and flowerbeds and ornamental trees, all lit by the lambent gleam of strangely vivid starlight.
It is beautiful. And it is decaying. The stone is cracked; the flowers wild and overflowing between the cracked stone; the trees bent and twisted with age, the ground around them littered with fallen fruit. There is a fountain in the center of this space, but it too is broken-down: the water sits stagnant, and nothing remains of the design except a basin and the shattered base of a once-golden sculpture.
—And surrounding it all are not walls, but dense mounds of kudzu, climbing over itself until it towers as high as any watchtower.
How did you get here?
The last thing you vaguely recall is a sudden fit of drowsiness. There’s no sign of any guide or host around, and your powers don’t currently work either. In fact, if you have any corruptions, whether mental or physical, they too are … gone? No, perhaps that's not quite it; you can still feel them—faint, like a phantom limb. Invisible, and unable to affect you.
But there is one notable exception to the rule: all wings, corruption-induced or not, remain in place, as natural as the starlight.
There are other idols around you, all waking up the same way. Is this meant to be some kind of game…? ]
Re: EXPLORE THE COURTYARD?
Re: EXPLORE THE COURTYARD?
[ His eyes flit up to her hair and her eyes. Totally normal for once. ]
Re: EXPLORE THE COURTYARD?
-- One of these days they won't leave us totally defenseless. Not today, apparently.
Re: EXPLORE THE COURTYARD?
Weird what you can get used to.
Re: EXPLORE THE COURTYARD?
You mean like being yanked into a creepy courtyard for no immediately apparent reason?
Re: EXPLORE THE COURTYARD?
[ Beat. ]
Because getting pulled into games like this didn't even make my mental list.
Re: EXPLORE THE COURTYARD?
Re: EXPLORE THE COURTYARD?
I think it's a puzzle game. One of those ones where we have to poke around, looking for clues.
[ Words he will eat later maybe: ]
I mean, if we're supposed to be fighting each other to the death, they're taking their sweet time telling us so.
Re: EXPLORE THE COURTYARD?
Usually they leave us a bit more direction, don't they?
Re: EXPLORE THE COURTYARD?
[ And there's tension in his voice, aggravation. He doesn't like the lack of it. ]
No rules on our phones, no nothing. Just a creepy courtyard full of dead and rotting [ his voice hitches a tiny bit, but how else to describe tar???-covered vines ] plants.
Re: EXPLORE THE COURTYARD?
[ She's getting closer to Lumine but overall unit-only games -- not her fave ]
Re: EXPLORE THE COURTYARD?
Maybe.
[ ...Honestly apart from the lack of any visible hosts— ]
...feels almost like the start of a game, where we're all in the game tower lobby milling around.
Re: EXPLORE THE COURTYARD?
I doubt this game is going to be a fun one, given this place's whole everything. If we do get separated, I hope you all come out okay.
Re: EXPLORE THE COURTYARD?
Same to you.
[ And yeah, he agrees. This game does not say 'cute round of cards with beer' to him. ]
Re: EXPLORE THE COURTYARD?
Re: EXPLORE THE COURTYARD?