A pink flash spits the group out onto a velvet dais in Eros's domain. The air tastes like honeyed perfume and warm sugar, and the floor glows beneath their feet like polished rose quartz.
Rosmira, Leon, Jews, Cleara, and Nayla all now wear matching elegant attire, soft fabric that drapes like a blessing. Endless trays of fruit, pastries, and shimmering drinks line the chamber walls.
Eros
Welcome, darlings. You have been brought here because love spills off you in charmingly reckless amounts.
Eros
So we play a game. Win, and I grant you an eternal bond, true and unbreakable. Lose, and no hard feelings, I am still the goddess of love.
Eros circles them with an indulgent smile, her heart-shaped pupils catching the light. Leon shifts closer to Rosmira, while Jews studies the room with wary curiosity and Nayla stands calm, alert, and amused. Cleara smooths her new outfit and lifts her chin at the challenge.
Eros
First round is simple, answer with honesty. Which bond do you want most, and who is brave enough to say it aloud?
✓ Quest Accepted
Survive Eros's games
“From Eros mouth " Dear guess this is my domain where love flows and lies fade to nothing. Here fake love do not exist and your game today is be honest. Should you lie or hide anything then your bond is gone." The group accepts the challege while CLeara is confused as to why she was brought.”
SUCCESS (Legendary Conversation, rolled -1)
Eros
Good. Then let honesty be our only veil. Say what bond you want most, and I will hear the truest shape of it.
Rosmira
This room feels too warm, too bright, and too willing to listen.
Nayla Iko
I want the bond that keeps Leon free, not owned. If this game can tell me who is twisting his fate, I will hear it.
Jews
I want the bond where we choose each other plainly. No tricks, no pulling apart, just the three of us standing in the same truth.
Madam Cleara
I was brought because someone had to make sure the rules are clear. If honesty is the price, then name it cleanly and stop circling.
Leon Wolfe
I want my own choice to matter. I want the people I love to know I am here because I stay, not because I am dragged.
Eros
Ah. There it is. A bond chosen, a bond shared, and a bond defended. How delightfully difficult to fake.
“Eros is pleases with the responses and now turns her divine gaze on ros waiting for her answer. Ros lefts her chin and with proud conviction states she wants true love real love just a life long partner to herself.”
SUCCESS (Legendary Conversation, rolled +1)
Rosmira lifts her chin, the declaration simple and unarmored in the warm hush of the chamber.
Rosmira
I want true love, real love, a lifelong partner of my own.
Eros
Oh, that is wonderfully sincere. Not possession, not appetite, not a bargain dressed as devotion.
Eros
The goddess leans back, pleased, as if Rosmira has finally chosen a note worth hearing.
Jews
That sounds like her. Plain and dangerous in the best way.
Leon Wolfe
Then I am glad she says it out loud.
Nayla Iko
A bond chosen freely is harder to twist. That matters.
Eros lowers one hand toward the velvet dais, and the fruit, cups, and heart-shaped shine around her seem to soften in answer.
Madam Cleara
Clear enough. Now tell us what the terms are, so no one has to guess at the cost.
✓ Quest Accepted
Learn Eros's terms
− Scene Quest Removed
Survive Eros's games
“ERos explains her rules of love since they were honest. She loves the group and how they have found ech other but explains the relationship is to big and Ros much decide who to keep. Eros explains should could let Ros keep both jews and leon but Leon is Naylas future mate and it would mess up there future plans. So ros must decide and Nayla and leon must decide as well.”
SUCCESS (Legendary Willpower, rolled +4)
Eros
You are honest, so I answer honestly. I adore what has formed here, but this bond is too large to hold in one hand.
Eros
Rosmira may keep Leon and Jews, if that is truly her heart. Yet Leon is bound to Nayla’s future, and forcing both paths together would bend what is meant to grow.
Nayla Iko
So it is named openly at last. That is kinder than a lie.
Leon Wolfe
If this is about choice, then I need to say mine clearly.
Jews
There it is, then. No fog, no bait. Just the shape of the problem.
Rosmira
The terms are clearer now. This is not a prize, it is a decision.
Eros
Choose who stays woven close, and let the others choose freely. I will not bless a bond that steals its future.
Quest Complete
Learn Eros's terms