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wooliefrand ([personal profile] wooliefrand) wrote in [community profile] sheep_game2024-06-09 12:26 am

PAPER RITUAL - END

[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.]
endsjustified: (tonight.)

[personal profile] endsjustified 2024-06-10 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Don’t apologize for dying, or inconveniencing others by your death. Regret the other deaths you caused, but not that.

The rituals are something of an exercise in futility, at this point. All we can do is our best.
featherduster: tired, sheepish (pic#17137790)

[personal profile] featherduster 2024-06-10 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[ What is one's best, in this situation? He doesn't know and right now he doesn't want to think about it, either ]

... How is Lethe doing? Really doing. He'd just lie if I asked him directly.
endsjustified: (firing the moment.)

[personal profile] endsjustified 2024-06-10 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I haven’t gotten details yet. We healed and revived at the same time. So I didn’t see what shape he was in.

But the Weeds killed him, and—the older ones always had a grudge against him, and Lily for being the first flock to have a transplant. I don’t know if that played into it or not.

I suspect he is not all right.
featherduster: neutral (pic#17097802)

[personal profile] featherduster 2024-06-10 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Frowns a little ]

What do you do for him, at times like this?
endsjustified: (tremolo.)

[personal profile] endsjustified 2024-06-10 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
…make him sit down and rest. Or help him with what he’s doing if he can’t.

Making him show you an animal can help. If he must keep busy it might as well be with something small, and simple, and harmless, that loves him.
featherduster: soft, :) (pic#17018562)

[personal profile] featherduster 2024-06-10 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Ha... alright. Maybe I'll ask about his animals back home.
endsjustified: (renege à trois.)

[personal profile] endsjustified 2024-06-10 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[…]

Ask him to help you feed the baby bird.
featherduster: ! (BiTyTQs)

[personal profile] featherduster 2024-06-10 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
There's a baby bird?
endsjustified: (agaric.)

[personal profile] endsjustified 2024-06-10 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
It’s in the enclosure outside the barn.

[frowns…just kinda having trouble focusing back on domestic stuff tbh]

It bites sometimes. Watch your fingers.
featherduster: neutral, soft (ask me about my severed hand)

[personal profile] featherduster 2024-06-10 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I will. Turns out none of 'em are expendable now.

[ Draws his fingers over the furrow in Charon's brow ]
endsjustified: (last call.)

[personal profile] endsjustified 2024-06-10 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[oh…sways in towards the warmth]

Mm.

You should wash up before anything, though. I did my best, but you were all over blood.

[Charon himself is not like. 100% gore free since he hit the arteries in his own throat and that’s A Lot. he took the scarf and coat that bore the brunt of it off though]
featherduster: sheepish, tired (ahhhhhh......)

[personal profile] featherduster 2024-06-10 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah...

[ Grimaces ]

Yeah. Probably.
endsjustified: (surmount.)

[personal profile] endsjustified 2024-06-10 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Mm.

Come back after…? I can change the sheets. I’d offer to join you, but.

[there are many disadvantages to the paper thing]
featherduster: ehe (my icons are getting dumber)

[personal profile] featherduster 2024-06-11 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
Ah... yeah.

[ That's even worse than a metal arm that can't go in water ]

I'll be back in a few minutes. I can wash your hair for you...
endsjustified: (garbage year.)

[personal profile] endsjustified 2024-06-11 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
Spoiling me.

[(affectionate)(derogatory) (you can’t hear either in his voice but probably they’d be there on a normal night)]
featherduster: -- ('cause anything's better than alone)

[personal profile] featherduster 2024-06-11 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
[ He leans over to wordlessly press a kiss to Charon's forehead, then slips off the bed. ]

I won't be long.
endsjustified: (priorities.)

[personal profile] endsjustified 2024-06-11 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
[by the time he is back the bed has CLEAN SHEETS and Charon is tucking the corners in on the top one neat as you please. not too shabby]
featherduster: blank (loud awkward silence)

[personal profile] featherduster 2024-06-11 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
[ He returns with wet hair and a towel draped over his head, as well as-- more clothes? In his arms?

Considers the blood (formerly) ]

.... I owe you a load of laundry.
endsjustified: (x to doubt.)

[personal profile] endsjustified 2024-06-11 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
I think it’s both our blood…

[more clothes though? what’s that about]
featherduster: sheepish (pic#16835998)

[personal profile] featherduster 2024-06-11 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
[ Follows his gaze to the clothes, looking suddenly embarrassed ]

I just figured, uh-- I mean, it'd be practical to have some extras here, maybe . . . ?
endsjustified: (the heart is hard to translate.)

[personal profile] endsjustified 2024-06-11 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
[oh

his expression had already softened a little at the sight of Minuet in the doorway (something about seeing his hair rumpled and ungelled tends to do it), but it does so more now]

You should. Whatever you want to.
featherduster: bullied (pic#17137785)

[personal profile] featherduster 2024-06-11 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
Right. Great. Okay.

[ JUST PUTS THEM DOWN...., SOMEWHERE.

he's very red ]
endsjustified: (interregnum.)

[personal profile] endsjustified 2024-06-11 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
[there is a side table and/or some kind of chest at the foot of the bed probably, herd mentality of a closet seems possible but he probably did not bother when his wardrobe is pretty spare

watching him with that soft look, still.]

Should I keep some of mine in your room?
featherduster: //, sheepish (pic#17091829)

[personal profile] featherduster 2024-06-11 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
[ oh NO ]

You should.

[ Wait he answered too fast ]

If-- you want.
endsjustified: (renege à trois.)

[personal profile] endsjustified 2024-06-11 03:06 am (UTC)(link)


Tomorrow.

[the weight of a promise]