Ritual 31 / Mingle

[wooliefrand]

Who: Sheep
Where: The Pasture
When: Day 84 Morning

[Come morning, the sun doesn't rise. Instead, a red blanket coats the sky, and the morning dew drops have been replaced with blood. The paper flowers and paper cut outs are disappearing, but that itself isn't comforting. Seeping from them as they crumple are streams of blood, leaking into ponds and the...encircling wave pool.

More alarmingly, they all seem to lurch toward the center of the pasture and merge, forming a large paper flower. At first, that's it alone, before a large black arm bursts for it, spewing black paper petals--no, feathers??--everywhere.

Even MORE alarmingly, the shadow of some past demons appear. Specifically demon from the very first ritual, the Doctor demon, and the Vengeance demon. You also may have sworn you saw the ghostly image of the Gold demon, but he's dead, right. . .? Well anywho, the point is, some Very Bad demons have gathered. And they all merge with the black paper plant.

Oh hey is that Blossom and Stormy investigating? And Stormy getting ready to zap it--oh wait never mind they've been consumed by a paper venus fly trap. They're probably not dead, just stuck.

Anyway! The main plant is just. . .sitting there in the pasture for now.

Until. . .]


OOC
[Feel free to use this post as a general mingle until game starts tonight! Even if you're not playing you can just go about your day if you wish. It's just a giant flower, hanging out rn. You can laser it, cast fire, freeze it, whatever, it seems invulnerable to damage At the Moment. Same thing that goes for the plant that nommed Blossom and Stormy, if you have life sensing bs or whatever you can tell They're fine, just panicking and indignant respectively. Or go about your day, sure the sky is red and blood is creeping through the grass but like, that's cults for u baby.

Game starts at 8PM EST.

Rooms | Rules | Endgame ]

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ENCLOSURES

[wooliefrand]

DAFFODIL
BLUEBELL
LILY
THISTLE
ROSE
CLOVER
PEONY
WEEDS

RULES (IC AND OOC)

[wooliefrand]

RULES IC/OOC

IC
[in some way or another, you've been captured. Maybe via a slither of paper sliding through a window sill, or a paper root latching on to your leg as you walk by--either way, you're caught now, and a voice echos out to your flock. It's not just the paper demon, the voice resonates as several demons, all united for a common goal.]

Welcome, foolish lambs. For all your pathetic sacrifices, for your inane requests, now letting you all call upon us will finally have some worth. You're a part of blessed occasion!

You will "help" us choose and prepare the final sacrifices to complete our ritual. To have perfect, alluring sacrifices. . .that would be exquisite. But should you fall short, the sacrifices available will do just fine.

Ah, but we have been watching you all for a while now, sheep. A stubborn lot, aren't you all? Should you refuse to cooperate, dig in your heels. . .you forfeit your own choice. Will you be harmed for your cowardly indecision? Of course not. But a flock tethered to you will be. Their blood will seep through the fingers of your moral superiority.

A new era will commence once preparations have been made. Now, begin.


OOC

1) CANON powers have been drained and are completely off (aside from stuff you need to like, exist/function), SHEEP and WEED powers are active but severely muted. For example any powers that would allow you to escape won't work properly, or will only half work (such as Peony portals, they'd just loop you within your enclosures). Likewise, healing technically work, but will take much longer, and may hurt depending on the injury you're trying to manage.

Likewise you can't talk directly to any other flock, via psychic link, codes, or such.


2) Every team is linked to at least two other flocks; which flock are unknown until Things happen. Should a Flock refuse to engage in the ritual for that round, someone from the linked flock will be Sacrificed without question. (Sacrificed being completely mcmurdered in some way)


3) If a task comes up that's a squick just poke me and I will adjust accordingly.

4) IC (aka demon reasoning) reasoning for the game mechanics is basically 'do this task to help us to have some control over these sacrifices or we'll just do it the old fashioned way if you're gonna be stubborn."

5) THERE ARE THREE ROUNDS. Rounds will last anywhere from an hour to hour and half-ish not including results/consequences, so this may be a long one. Goal is to finish up by midnight/1am EST though. I might have to sheep dog yall to keep you on track so at the very least try to make sure everyone is own board with the decisions ooc.

6) Winners will be the teams who sacrificed others the Best, with the losing teams being burdened with an after game consequence as the final Sacrifice.

7) Revivals will be highly dependent on what yall do but the eye is closed so at least no one is going to super hell for now. Though that might be the kinder option.

ENDGAME RESULTS

[wooliefrand]

[The demonic voices cackle through the air as the walls of their enclosures crumple away .You can see each other now.]

Excellent, oh excellent! Such marvelous, blessed, utterly confusing choices!

You came this far, and yet Bluebell and Peony chose to abstain. A pity, but it moves the process along!

Their bonds will not suffer for long.

But ah, the hatred some of you harbor is delicious. Rose and Lily will make excellent sacrifices as well. . .!

Ahahaha!

[Peony and Bluebell feel their threads snap.

Peony's 'hostages' - Bluebell and Thistle, feel their bones snapping and folding under the weight of themselves, as if something is crushing them from the inside, or folding them like paper. Their bodies will collapse in a heap. They can be revived, but someone will need to right their bodies proper first, or they're in for a painful awakening.

Bluebell's 'hostages' - Daffodil and Peony, feel their life draining from them all of sudden, drying out like brittle paper, or their essence spilling from them, blood seeping from several pores before they mercifully pass out. Pudding is unaffected, but Pudding will not be visible until the others are revived. Ortho is also technically unaffected, but instead will slowly rust as he watches the others mcfucking die.


Lily (Ananke) hears a final thought in his head - "What is a suitable punishment for revenge?" Whatever he speaks will be enacted on the survivors of Rose.

Similarly Rose hears a final thought in their heads - "What is a suitable punishment for revenge?" Whatever the first person speaks (but yall decide on oocly) will be inflicted on Ananke.

NOW GO HERE FOR END GAME

Re: ENDGAME RESULTS

[spinebuddyandme]

[ Unfortunately ananke is not here right now, but it's cool! There's a warbug stand-in ]

Suitable Punishment: The same attack they made against Lily in the second round.

ROSE'S Punishment FOR LILY

[finalbows]

[ in a rather shrill voice]

C...
CONFETTI AND A HIGH FIVE!

Re: ENDGAME RESULTS

[rugpull]

YOU FUCKE--

[oh im leaking and dying bye]

[electricflock]

[NOPE NO THANK YOU NO SIRREE

if you need muffin he’s in his barn and not coming out. he’s staying on the INDOORS side of the window.]

…my rice paddy has blood in it…

[rugpull]

...the blood is real?

[rugpull]

[im tired i got very drunk yesterday what is happening]

Am I seein' shit am I still fucked up.

[psynchroneyes]

[ oh okay cool ]

… It’s not too late to go back inside and pretend I never saw this, right?

[eonsadrift]

You do remember that never works, right?

[dadinside]

[he sure picked a day to finally step outside.

... does he know this person?]

Doesn't work. But ignoring it might.

[rugpull]

[cube call]

Did Clover do this. Are the demons comin' for ya? Do we gotta come over?

[survivaltricks]

[less hungover than yesterday afternoon but still feelin' it tbqh]

How many times does a guy have to blow up a demon. . .

[rugpull]

[cube call]

Did ya do this.

[bloominto]

... This is...

( BIG YIKES, FAM. she's not liking this and is putting berry medley in her room for safety. )

[leonheartedly]

[oh. Well.

After some staring at the flower, muttering out loud]

Wonder if Red will give me a flamethrower.

[dadinside]

[another day ending in y.]

Wouldn't hurt to ask.

[... he looks like he just woke up from a 100 year nap. like when did everything become paper?

maybe he should go back to sleep.]

[endsjustified]

[he’s just glaring at the plant that ate Blossom and Stormy after trying to get them out of it, like, come on.

also his left arm is paper. rip but hopefully not literally]

[spinebuddyandme]

How's your arm feeling?

[hardpity]

[ doing a cost-benefit analysis of just teleporting directly to the underworld right now to save time ]

[spinebuddyandme]

[ watching the horrorterror plant from a very wary distance ]

Anyone got some industrial grade weed killer?

[bloominto]

I may be able to devise some. There's a laboratory, isn't there?

[strateelgic]

...

Do you think simply lighting the whole thing on fire would work?

[debug_mode]

If we set it on fire... It could set the entire pasture on fire.

[debug_mode]

[New Rose-themed Your Name looks on with fear and existential thread]

Oh... oh.

So, this is what it's like...

[misdeerection]

[ this sure is vibes. ]

[eonsadrift]

[ IT SURE IS ]

[heavyliesthecrown]

[SHOOT SHOOT SHOOT SHOOT SHOOT SHOOT SHOOT SHOOT. He recognizes the flower and this is bad.]

[spinebuddyandme]

[ quietly puts a hand on his shoulder ]

[reportinastorm]

[Why must bad things always happen with flowers.

After the immediately alarming events taper off, Flora approaches the black flower and circles around it, carefully stepping over streams of blood and observing from every angle.]

[villainrole]

[watching the lil sheeps get eaten by that giant flower, arms crossed but not as perturbed as he should be perhaps.]

...huh. That's unfortunate. I feel like their nutrients wouldn't be as valuable to plant life though...