Flowers of Heaven II: Star of Bethlehem

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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…? ]

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LiliS + Heart Soldier + WILD CITY
sensitIV
pep!pep!
BAD END=DEAD END + Taisho Roman Revolution + BARiTONES
future is now + ☆ZRAEL
AlcheME!
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EXPLORE THE COURTYARD?

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[ Though there’s no host to talk to, you can look around the immediate area of the courtyard if you want.

There's a strange and pervasive sadness throughout this place, despite its ancient beauty—as well as a signs that, perhaps in better days, this place might have seen beloved use. And, towering kudzu aside, there are a few lower stone walls, with open archways leading deeper within the courtyard itself. ]