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.

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Comments

[spinebuddyandme]

Mm... I don't really wanna take my eyes off it either.

[endsjustified]

This is the most demons I’ve ever seen involved in a single—whatever this is.

[spinebuddyandme]

...

[ Lowers his voice for just Charon to hear ]

I think the papercraft one's trying to make some big change. It's trying to "oppose the state of the world".

[endsjustified]

I heard details of the conversation from Tyr.

[sighs]

Just what we need, a coordinating demon with a taste for anarchy and revolution.

[spinebuddyandme]

Did he tell you about how it stabbed all of them too?

[endsjustified]

He did mention it. Thought they were sacrifices, harmed them even after the Weed clarified.

I think we are in for a bad day.

[spinebuddyandme]

I think it's a guarantee. Cres and I were just talking to that Weed about a "bad feeling" he had.

[endsjustified]

…

A bad feeling he can do nothing about?

[spinebuddyandme]

Basically. He said some stuff about how it's like when animals know an earthquake's coming before it hits, but he couldn't give us any, like, details.

[endsjustified]

[dryly]

Is he feeling regrets, do you think?

[spinebuddyandme]

It seemed like it, but I'm not feeling very sympathetic.

[endsjustified]

Who would.

I suppose it actually gives some valuable information to us, though.

[spinebuddyandme]

It doesn't feel like enough.

[endsjustified]

Not in this individual case, no. I’m just thinking about — well. It means that if one wants to summon a demon for anything but a ritual, a Weed as the summoner doesn’t exert any more real control over the results than a flock member.

[spinebuddyandme]

[ huffs out a weary laugh ]

Yeah, I guess this proves it. I could've done without the hands-on lesson though.

[endsjustified]

Mm. It’s a pity in every regard.

Not a lot to do but brace, though. I don’t think attempting to summon more demons into the mix will help.