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A TOUR OF EDEN'S BEASTS
2024-12-22 04:20:46
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[DANGANRONPA OST: -1-05- Beautiful Dead]

Another group gathers outside of the Abrahamic Corporation, but without well intentions. They look over their plans, and where they can go.

They spot the following methods of movement.

Going through the unlocked front door.

Going to the basement.

Going to the garden.

Going with the graveyard.

"Before we start.... you, funny robot. And not you chrome dome. Pacify that dog before it kills us all."
"Glad we have the courtesy for specification today."
"Sure thing. Thanks for giving me a go with these pets, I always wanted to see what kind of cool stuff you could do with the more special ones!"
"So, uh, do I just..." Tempest holds Schaudenfraude and gets it to use [Blank Slate] on Kinder, removing [Team Killer].

Kinder is no longer a [Team Killer].

Pidge puts a cautious hand on his dog, petting it behind the ear. "Aapp-appreciated."
"That should mean our chain reaction should start killing itself any day now."
"Such fascinating creatures, to be stripped of their birth rights! Not even putting up a fight!"
"Ah! And there it goes!"

Forget Me Not does not die because a turn has not really ended yet.

"...I think we need to do something first? Time-dependent stuff can be a bit variable sometimes."
"Eh, whatever. Clean up that other capsule for us, make sure it can actually watch our back."
"All we need to do is get it open, and we'll be able to get moving."
"Right, easy enough." Tempest sort of just, shakes the shrimp a bit, getting it to use [Blank Slate] on the Void Orb's [Lazy] trait.

The void orb is no longer [Lazy], though due to being in an orb currently, this does not change much.

"Mmh.. can recall.. Orbs are not th-the easiest to open, at-at times."
"Who would like the honors of opening this thing? I'm not getting my hands dirty yet."
"Watch this."
The AI bites into orb.
Happy birthday rolls a 20 sided die. A 20 is rolled.

THE ORB IS POPPED OPEN!

"Man I wish I had a mouth..."
"Congrats."
"Excellent, excellent.~"

The roximur claps his hands together.
"As for where this crime against the races is taking us, we're heading to the garden. If this "forbidden fruit" is to be anywhere, it is where the growth is."
"Ohh! I just can't wait!"
"As much as I'd love to pick up an extra hand, I'd rather hold onto the emergency measure, just in case."
"Mmh.. make this quick. Ee- effe-" Pidge stops to cough into his arm.. "..Efficient, shall we."
"Yes, let's."

King Ketonels makes his way towards the garden, the Alchemist following shortly behind.
"I really wonder what the fruit's going to be. Because like, I've uh, heard some rumours about it, but it would be really weird if they were actually true."
"The temptation of living things to go against the advised is so peculiar!"

The group heads towards the garden.

[4 Hours of Sacred Choir Music for Relaxing, Prayer, Meditation & Sleep]
Jesus perks up as the visitors come. "Greetings to you all. Welcome to the garden."
Judas on the other hand, does not sense any good will from the people visiting. "What do you people want?"
"Judas, do not be rude to them. For they have just arrived."
"They all look like criminals to me, my Lord."
"...um. Hello. Jesus."
"We only yearn to hear of your grace!"
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"They have done nothing to harm us. Let them come."
"Unlikely. We are.. mhm.. Vvv-visitors.."
"Most criminals are often visitors in the homes of others."
"Judas."
"I will be silent, my Lord."
"I don't know what books you've been reading, but not everyone who dresses in purples and cloaks is a villain, sir."
"Though I can understand the hesitance."
"I could never be a criminal. I'm allergic to crime!"
"Do not mind Judas. He is often crass and presumes of others."
"I only do the best to protect the Lord and his flock, who are prone to trust wolves with open mouths."
"Mmmmmmmmmm."
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2024-12-22 12:09:03
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"So quick to judge a bbb-book by itss cover.." Pidge gives his kindest looking smile. As much as a drattle can muster. "I am.. Mmhh, retired. Too m-much for a drattle mm. My age."
"I've uh, heard of you, Jesus, sir. And you, Judas, a bit. But there is a lot I'm curious about. Could I... ask you some questions?"
"Tell me, what is this place? We're currently visiting, and are in the middle of taking stock of our surroundings."
"This is the garden, here crops are grown and rare trees are saved. Some I have not seen in any books."
("Might be a reason for that....")
"You are free to wander the garden and the wonders within."
"But I ask one thing of you. Do not eat the fruits which you find deeper into the garden."
"I intend on planting more of them, and need as much fruit as I can get."
"Duly nnnoted..." Pidge follows behind Alchemist and Ketonels, wherever they may head towards.
"Would you mind giving us a tour, in that case? I'd love to hear of its wonders from its keepers."

The Alchemist is doing his best to cover for Ketonels, who clearly doesn't give two shits about what Jesus is asking.
"Oh, I would adore a tour! This place is simply magnificent, it would be a shame if we didn't know all about it!"
"There isn't like, an angel with a flaming sword we need to watch out for is there? Just curious."
"Jesus is not your tour guide." Judas states, as Jesus walks forth to the garden.
"Please do follow me."
"No harm in asking, is there?"
Judas turns around, and walks away from the group, and Jesus.
"There are many beasts who live within the garden. We currently have a large population of wandettle adults."
"Sadly, there are also platzels roaming who have been killing the young of these creatures."
"Over here is an exotic creature from a far off planet."
"...Isn't that what notails uh, use to make eggs?"
"That's just a tubuchick."
"Yes. It is a tubuchick."
"This sad creature.....I have been told it has been damned to crawl on its belly and eat dust for all the days of its life."
"I would be really happy if that happened to me."
"Sadly… I have to walk on twos and eat.. um…. nothing."
"Most tragic..."
"Do you not see the wonder of its life, and the tragedy?"
"There is plenty of tragedy in life, yes."
"Mmh. Lacks ex-expectations, could be. A curse just as-as much as a blessing."
"I understand it is not the most visually impressive creature, but this creature supports the life of many."
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"Thus we must look at the tubuchick to be praised for what it does. Not see it as "plain", it is as exotic as any parrot who can speak a 1000 words."
"But, if you cannot see the wonder of the tubuchick, may I recommend this creature here?"
"The noble bee." Jesus is not talking about the burrisk.
"...Dang you really are just, Jesus, huh. Got the wisdom and, stuff."
"Who else would he be? Is Jesus not his name?"
"No I mean-- I just, it's not, uh, important."
"The bee is a lovely creature, who spends all its days building a wonderful home of hexagons."
"A most humbling creature indeed..."
Pidge is doing his best to look and stay interested. But he's growing weary of Jesus' zoo collection. "And- and what of the grief that houses the bees?"
"The burrisk?"
Pidge nods. "C-cccertainly there's something to be said of the. Mh. Burrisk."
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2024-12-22 12:23:57
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"The burrisk is a reflection of how grief consumes us. Manifesting as a terrible creature. That is not to say, that the burrisk is evil. But it is formed from evil feelings, ones that, I must stress, are non-intentional."
"How adorable…" She pets the burrisk, getting honey all over her claws and bees meaninglessly stinging at her.
"You must ignore the burrisk, for it feeds on your grief, and only makes it worse. It is in the nature of the burrisk to do so, as it is in the nature of the cobra to bite when stepped on. The burrisk does not realize that it grows your grief, the cobra does not realize that you will die."
"Let the burrisk take its life, and leave it to roam free with the morsel you have given it."
"Can be done." The burrisk is promptly ignored. "I am curious about the wandettle adult that flew overhead as well not to long ago. Do they rest here often?"
"Yes, but I am told that if you wish to see more of them, you would head to the graveyard, where many wandettles have hatched forth from."
"But if you go. Please beware. Evil lurks in the graveyards. Poachers."
"I have asked that they not continue their poaching, but they do not listen. I dare not go into the graveyard myself."
"That will not be a problem. We can ward off those that seek to poach them. Shall we then?"

The Alchemist motions to the group, Ketonel's and Pidge's cue to quietly break off and look for fruit.
Pidge acknowledges this, and silently sticks around Ketonels.
"Ah, you are going to the graveyard?"
"Oh, yeah, sure."
"Poach the poachers!"
"We are, yes. It is a humbling place, but I do not mind it."
"As I said, I cannot go into the graveyard, for I have been forbidden. I will stay with the rest of your people. It seems they are interested in seeing more of the garden."
Jesus follows behind Pidge. "What have you enjoyed the most so far in the garden? I can show you more."
Pidge relents, taking a moment to yet again, roughly cough into his inner elbow. Smoking as much as he does has done him no good.

"Mhh.. Q-quite the- the ccolleccttioonn.." He sighs. "I'd.. Off-offer something of my own collection, but I'm aff-fraid I haven't a mushbird on me. Pity."
Tempest scuttles after Jesus. "Uh, hold on! Can I ask you something, Jesus?"
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Jesus laughs, not picking up, or at least, not reacting to the suspiciousness of the AI trying to get his attention. "I will answer all questions you have." Jesus leaves Pidge alone.
Pidge casts his gaze to the Ape, raising a brow at him as to ask for direction.
Ketonels subtly motions a claw towards himself and the dentine, attempting to sneak off from the group asking questions.
And the two wander off...

The two wander the garden, until they reach a clearing in the center of it all. A tall tree stands. A few red heart-like fruit hands from it. Only a few remain, with the rest eaten by animals or collected already.

At the foot of the tree is Judas with a bible. "And the LORD God commanded him, "You may eat freely from every tree of the garden, but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die." - Genesis 2:16-17."
Judas closes the bible. "I'm no good at memorizing the lines of this play, but I am good at seeing people with evil intentions."
"Though I will be shot down for it. I will be the rational, to Jesus' trust. I will be suspicious of those who come through our doors while he brings them forth with open arms."
"So do tell, do tell! Why do you come to where you are forbidden?"
"Simple. To taste the fruit. Surely you would be willing to look the other way for a price? I'm sure we can both agree we'd be willing to spare the hassles of conflict."
"Mh. Was ask-asked for the assistance of my Dog. I come with dog." Pidge reaches down to pet his dentine again.
"Did you fail to hear what I said?"
"-but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die."
"You hear this? And you still wish to consume the fruit?"

A heer chewing on a fruit seems totally fine.

"No, I heard loud and clear. I just don't care. I cannot have it, there for I shall. All that matters is if you're going to stand in the way of that."
"If I were Jesus. I would do all I could to stop you."
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"But I'm not. I'm a sinner who loves a good laugh. Please. Go on. Enjoy the....hehehehe....Fruits of your labor." Judas bows out of the way.
"Excellent news! I knew you'd make the right choice."
"Mmhh.." Pidge looks to the roximur. "Eas-easier than.. o-one would think, yes?"
"It's a fucking fruit, how bad can it be?"

Ketonels will take as many fruits as his greedy arms can carry.
"G-good luck then." He wheeze laughs, watching Ketonels go for it.

The heer hisses at Ketonels as he goes to grab fruits. It chases him up the tree, attempting to take a fruit from him. The heer is greedy, but soon Ketonels grabs one fruit.

Does he eat it?

Ketonels bites down on the fruit.

Ketonels eats the fruit from the tree. A few seconds after the first bite, he is filled with endless positive thoughts, happiness, joy. He feels as if he wants to...no...needs to compliment those around him, and of course, the tree itself for making such a lovely meaty tasting fruit.

"That was......absolutely divine. Thank you, Judas, for letting me partake in such divine splendors, thank you, Pidge, for joining me in this quest. And most of all, blessings be to the tree that grew this fruit. It rivals the taste of even the bananas in which I so dearly desire, but I would cast them asside for eternity to continue to feast upon your cursed bows."

Ketonels slowly climbs down from the tree, being sure to not damage it in any way, shape, or form.
"...Hh....What." Pidge watches him climb back down.. "..I was e-eexpecting you to.. Perish.."
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"It is nice to see you, angel."
"Not everything is so dire, silly! Sometimes you just have to live a little!"
"Over the next three days, you shall transform into new shapes, and your mind calmed into bliss. You will not think of worry, or hate."
"This isn't how it goes in the bible, but to be fair this is not the true garden."
"Enjoy your eternal life, angel."
"I most certainly will! Curses be to you, Judas!"
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"*Blessings. We don't go by the world of Limboism. For God is good. Or so I'm told."
"Ah, apologies. I am not used to the verbiage here. Blessings it will be then."
"Hey drattle, you want a bite? You want to turn into some holy clockwork too?"
"....Ahh.. I see..." Pidge leers at the tree, and its organ-shaped fruits... "M-most cc-certainly not. Rr-rather die than go through that once more."
"Enjoy your death then."
"Shall ww-we show Alchemist your findings, Ape? I'm sure he'll be elated to-to know your mind and ffform is being robbed from you. As we speak."
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"It is not a robbery! It is a blessing! But yes, let's!"
Over towards the graveyard...
Jesus waves off to those heading towards the graveyard. "Please, remember to not step on the graves! Those who have died are sleeping!"
"I shall do my best!"
"Come, let us find the wandettles."

The small group moves forth, minutes pass and the garden becomes a dot in the distance, the graveyard is farther than one would assume. When the graves start popping up, one person accidently steps on a grave.

[Complete Gregorian Chant Rosary]

The ground begins to...sing.

The group mistook Jesus saying that those in the graves were sleeping as a polite way to say they were dead. But now it was clear. The dead were still very much alive under their feet.

This is nothing new to the Alchemist. Though the singing is.
"…Ah!"
"My foot! My foot!"

The adult wandettle from before swoops above them, heading deeper into the graveyard. The group is forced to follow........

What they see...they cannot believe.

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"Urk!"
"W-What are you people doing here?!?!"
"Apologies, didn't mean to startle you."
"We were just meaning to look for the adult wandettle, is all. If you were doing something, feel free to continue."
"What is this??"
"Hey, sorry to be kind of exclusionary, but y'all clearly are not Christians. You shouldn't be here."
"You mind leaving?"
"We won't do you any harm, if that's what you're wondering."
"Jesus said we were fine to go into the graveyard."
"For....wandettles.......Dude......."
"Jesus doesn't want people poaching the wandettles, man. Come on. Leave them alone. They've been through enough."
"We are here to help with that problem!"
"Oh these poor wandettles have had such hardships…"
"You have my word we are not here to poach. Is there anything we might be able to assist with to deter others?"
"We shall save the day!"
"My companion may be a heartless soul, but animal or not, the young parted from their families is not a fate I wish to see continue."
Maggy looks at both of them. Neither person looks trustworthy to her, but she tries to keep by Jesus' words. To offer trust to those who have done her no harm. "Ok. Yeah, you can go on then. Just don't touch the bones."
"They're......"
"Dead."

The comment might seem strange. Of course they are dead. But the duo thinks back to the singing behind them.

Whatever these things were, they shouldn't have been dead.

"...duly noted."

The Alchemist attempts to survey the graveyard, searching for any traps that poachers might have left behind.
The Alchemist rolls a 20 sided die. An 8 is rolled.
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Finding traps is hard for the group. These poachers have seemed to ramp down their production, but only because there are no wandettles left.

In the cracks along the ground some platzels poke their heads out before, with a hiss, returning to their unreachable homes. A few forgotten traps are removed. It's not much, but it is an effort, and the adult wandettle watches from atop a skull, at peace with the duo.

The Alchemist gives a brief nod to the beast, wishing it no ill.

"It's not much, but I hope it helps at least a little."

The wandettle adult flutters down, and hands The Alchemist a small wandettle. The Christians have been so good at protecting her children, doing the best they can with the circumstances, and only the Christians come here without guns or platzels. She just assumes The Alchemist is "one of the good ones" and will take care of her child. She has handed off many before to the Christians.

"Oh. Well...thank you?" He is confused about the situation, but accepts them.

"I shall take care of them as best I can."
"How is it being a father now?"
The Alchemist declines to comment, choosing to ignore it instead.
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