PAPER RITUAL - END

[wooliefrand]

[Bodies litter the pasture now, as the demons cackle through the air.

The blood that flowed from everyone converges on the paper flower, turning it a bright, disgusting red.

And then--something bursts from it. Another shadowy demonic beast, emerging with unfurled black wings. For those still alive, it looks something like a crow.

Black feathers scatter all over the pasture, and the voices of the demons are overjoyed. "She's returned! She's truly returned! Oh glorious day, our time has come--!"

The beast flies into the sky, easily bypassing the pasture's barrier, and simply....disappears. And with it, the oddities of the ritual.

All the remaining paper withers. and those living can hear a faint voice.

Well done, mortals. Finally you show your worth.

For the most ruthless, Rose, Daffodil, Weeds, Lily, Peony, you have our thanks.

The rest of you. . .what pleasant sacrifices you all made, hahahaHAHAHA!

And it is gone.


[OOC:
WINNERS get revived painlessly, and any special effects incurred are instantly poof, gone! BONUSES WILL BE ANNOUNCED LATER/IN THE MORNING BUT YOU'LL GET SHIT FOR OUR SACRIFICES.

HOWEVER no limbs regrow if you're missing them. You gotta fix that shit yourself.

ETA WINNER BOONS
Each winning team gets the standard memory coins, along with their trees taking on the following changes/sprouting fruit:
Daffodil - Buddha's Hand.
Lily - Cherries
Rose - Pineapple (yes i know shh). But most curiously, their tree blooms into a giant rose. Not a tree with roses, a giant rose flower. It's stem is large enough to be climbed like a tree trunk, and its thorns act as branches. The fruit hands from stray leaves/petals.
Peony - Dragonfruit

WEEDS curiously, will have a strange plant growing on the grounds near their clubhouse. Uh oh are those Avocados?? Sure are.

MINI BONUSES
MOST READY KILL - Daffodil - They receive 50lbs of meat of whatever they desire. This can be a creature from home or just like. a lot of steaks. They will also find that for the next 3 ic days, they will auto-heal from any sort of injury whether they use their powers or not.

MOST 'can you lighten up a bit' - Weeds/Rose. They receive two sets of clothing; one any design in their standard fashion (ripped/suits), but the other can be in ANY STYLE so long as there is a flower of some sort incorporated into it somewhere, no matter how small.

MOST 'aren't you tired of being nice' - Peony - they'll find their Horse ability extended by 24 hours for the next 3 ic days. (tho it does not have to last that long)

MOST Survivor's Guilt - Lily - Ananke gets a knife made of pure silver, but it can be molded into any other kind of weapon.

DAFFODIL, ROSE, AND PEONY also instinctively know they can request a barn upgrade OR a community upgrade (one or the other, and it can't be something that's a deal in progress). Let Ash know what you want by Wednesday so I can incorporate in the next mingle!


Losers - Bluebell, Clover, Thistle. Oh buddies. Any dead MUST be manually put together/fixed by others, and also will incur a Paper Curse. This can either be:
-True words will appear on their body like ink/tattoos at inconvenient times
-They will become Light as Paper for two IC days and thus easily blown away/knocked down
-or have their soul trapped in an origami paper animal and just be that for a day.
SINCE THIS GAME WENT BUCK WILD this will only effect those present.]

Comments

[reportinastorm]

[she is definitely the smallest Thistle at least]

[misdeerection]

[ he'll move her aside and start piecing her back together. she gets the same treatment as the others, a thorough verbal tongue lashing to heal her, so he can stuff her soul back into her body and bring her to the fountain... which her unceremoniously dumps her into. sorry, flora, there's only so nice he can be. ]

[reportinastorm]

[Without her being conscious to hear the insults it probably doesn't heal her perfectly, so when she's dunked in the fountain and comes back to herself she is cold and wet and her bones hurt]

Ah... aaaah...

[misdeerection]

I'm afraid healing isn't my thing... but at least you're back in one piece.

[reportinastorm]

[Looks around and slowly comes to the realization of what must have happened]

...No... Thank you, anyway. We... died?

[misdeerection]

Unfortunately. You lost, and so you were brutally murdered in the rituals end.

[reportinastorm]

Ugh... I thought we were doing well...

[she staggers upright, standing in the water]

[misdeerection]

It was a bit hard to gauge. Thistle, Clover, and Bluebell all lost.

[reportinastorm]

Bluebell too?

[She's a little unstable on her feet as she steps out, and she just sits back down on the edge of the fountain]

[misdeerection]

mmmHm. The other Thistles are back on their feet if you'd like them to heal you up a bit better. Am I to assume you have a friend on Bluebell?

[reportinastorm]

...Something like that, yes.

[misdeerection]

I hope your friend wasn't in the ritual, but if they were, then I hope you find them swiftly.

[reportinastorm]

[She both does and does not want to find him swiftly. If his body is in the state she feels like hers was that might be upsetting]

...Thank you.

Ah, I'm Flora, by the way. I didn't really... have the opportunity to introduce myself.

[misdeerection]

Right. Where are my manners. And worry not, dear, you were not wholly together.

It's a pleasure, Flora, I'm Jazz.

[reportinastorm]

It's nice to meet you... under the circumstances.

[misdeerection]

Perhaps the next time we meet we won't be under such duress.

[reportinastorm]

I'd hope so.

[VERY dry]