Flower Status Effects

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Whenever a flower is burned on the blue flame pyre, everyone with that flower as a key has an essential part of themselves broken/destroyed. They temporarily catch fire along with the flower, then experience one of the two status effects listed. (The choice is OOC, not IC.)

Idols who lose both flowers experience death of the self: they experience (temporary) full amnesia, and are wreathed in blue flame. This status overrides other flower statuses.

(All “deaths” will be healed at the end of the game; however, the losers will continue to experience status effects for all lost keys, which will mean two effects for those who “died.”)



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I. Lotus
- Curse of irrelevance: become a solipsism—people literally struggle to remember you if not reminded; at worst, you might not feel real without them
- Unchained power: your unit abilities respond to your emotions, whether you want them to or not

II. Vervain
- Plague of self-doubt—you’ve lost trust in your own skill
- Intense physical weakness

III. Acacia
- Honesty causes physical pain
- Lose desire to lie or equivocate

IV. Clematis
- Become cynical/pessimistic and unable to perceive beauty
- Strong belief that everything is perfect and beautiful, including altered perceptions where necessary to sustain this belief

V. Aconite
- Lose ability to feel anger
- Develop rage issues

VI. Wild Oats
- Lose ability to find relief/pleasure
- Unrestrained pleasure-seeking

VII. Star of Bethlehem
- Memory loss of that event, changing you to who you would be if it hadn’t happened
- Plagued by flashbacks that interfere with reality

VIII. Gorse
- Lose all sense of personal restraint
- Become heavily (physically and/or emotionally) dependent on someone

IX. Honeysuckle
- Exhaustion, yet unable to sleep
- Opening of scars, and phantom pain accompanying all past wounds

X. Chamomile
- Lose ability to feel love (OOC discretion as to whether this means only romantic love, or any love at all)
- "Larger than life"? Now you believe you're the only person living—everyone else is dead, whether they realize it or not.

XI. Wild Rose
- You’re hyper-aware of your otherness, and desperately try to conform to rid yourself of it.
- Utter disconnect from humanity

XII. Hollyhock
- You’re lost—your sense of purpose and/or conviction is gone. (You may be much more susceptible to persuasion as a result.)
- You’re lost—where ARE you? Also you literally can’t navigate.
- Special option for characters with wings: wings wither painfully, and may fall off entirely

XIII. Mimulus
- Insatiable wanderlust, to the point of risking sofaform
- Agoraphobia (the fear is manageable if accompanied by a unitmate)

XIV. Water Lily
- Faith and/or spirituality feels hollow, pointless
- Instinctive revulsion for the physical body

XV. Oak
- “Mid-life crisis”: you’ve gotta change your life! (Can be a classic mid-life crisis—dye your hair! buy a car!—or more existential, depending on what “change” means to the character.)
- Morality swap

XVI. Alyssum
- Forget greatest achievement. What was it that once made your journey worthwhile, again?
- Feeling of ambition that cannot be satisfied; all you accomplish or have accomplished feels hollow.