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

[electricflock]

[his arm's healed enough now that he's reaching up to poke angie's new freckles]

Was drunk and Biscuit told me should bite you. Bite my man. Picked newest, cutest spot.

[finalbows]

Hmm...

It's a deal, if I get to get drunk with you.

[electricflock]

[switches from poking his his cheek to playing with a lock of his hair]

Want to drink? Or want to eat? Have both. Got tequila truffles from Coco. Have been saving them.

[finalbows]

I've never had alcoholic chocolate.

[electricflock]

Aren't bad. And they work.

[finalbows]

Candy is dandy, AND liquor is quick...

[electricflock]

Is a date?

[finalbows]

It's a date.

[electricflock]

[purrs, a real purr without injury or weariness to dampen it, and leans up for a kiss. so, so happy that quetzal is finally back safely.]

[finalbows]

[ his lips taste of blood. quetzal's motions are a little ginger, a little more unsteady than usual.


but like, they did just get out of a rough one.
once they've parted, ]

Now, hear me out. The beach, at night~? Still have our ocean rendezvous?

[electricflock]

[that’s almost becoming a familiar taste]

Night tonight?

[finalbows]

Mhm. It's a good night for it. I doubt we'll be bothered.

After I've made sure all my people are taken care of, and you've yours... Then, it's just the two of us.

[electricflock]

[brushes his hand across quetzal’s cheek, then drops it to lay his hand over the tail around his wrist]

Sounds nice.

1/2

[finalbows]

[ tries not to react when the hand drops because that COULD have gone to the Leg Gap ]

[ WHEW ]

[ THAT WAS CLOSE ]

2/2

[finalbows]

[ it doesn't stop his tail from bristling up, briefly. and angie knows it. breathes out.]

Mm. ...Promise me something~?

[electricflock]

[that's sure a question to go with sudden bristling. automatically petting his tail to soothe it.]

Sure, what?

[finalbows]

...Don't be too worried, because I'll have... this, handled in its due time?

[ gently guides one of muffin's hands in his to let him feel the cauterized stump where his leg ends. ]

1/2

[electricflock]

[thigh...~?]

2/3

[electricflock]

[no thigh]

3/3

[electricflock]

[snatches his hand away, blanching under his bloodstains, then puts both hands on the stump, checking the ends of the wound and the DETACHED LEG]

Wh‐ How worried is too worried? Do you need blood??

Re: 3/3

[finalbows]

No. I've already tried. It's a cursed wound, I think. Like with your hand?

[electricflock]

[peeps high in the back of his throat, help help help, before catching himself and stopping]

Will need —surgery?

[finalbows]

It's... there on the list, of things to try.

[ ...he leans in so his forehead is touching lightly against Muffin's. in a sweet, soothing melodic voice... ]

We're approaching too worried.

[electricflock]

[holds onto him gratefully, keeping him close and listening to him until muffin can think of something to say that isn't a question or worry.]


Will... help if I can? Anything you need from me.

[finalbows]

Get drunk with me on the beach in the moonlight.