sheep_game | LILY BARN

Who: Lily
Where: Lily Barn
When: Day 1, Post Awakening

[Making your way to your new barn, you'll find your personal meadow is peppered with white flowers, the occasional white brainless sheep, a small pond full of clear, fresh water, and curiously a big, blooming peach tree. Isn't life so peachy???

When you enter your barn, you'll find it's. . .quaint.

The first thing you see is your team's name painted in white on a wall, surrounded by a wreath of flowers. Above it is a wooden plaque with an inspirational message in the style of those Live, Laugh, Love fixtures, just. A bit hard to read.

Your eyes will be drawn to a tall crystalized lily sculpture below the plaque. You may feel the urge to touch it, and if not, some nearby framed instructions on the wall may give you a nudge. "Touch to regain your lost abilities!"

Unfortunately, while you may innately know how to activate them, what exactly do they do? You'll have to figure that out.

As for the rest of the barn itself, it's two stories and fairly basic. There is hay everywhere, and six extremely basic cots, three upstairs, three downstairs. If you examine them and remove the hay, each member of the team will find three outfits (+pajamas) for their use.

There is also a sign pointing the way to an attached portapotty--thankfully, it somehow opens up to a basic bathroom. There's one toilet, one very small bath, rickety shower, and sink. In the cabinet is enough soap, paper, and dental hygiene products for all.

Rustic is putting it lightly, but it seems that this is your home away from home!]

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It was one of the pages in the pink sheep's book. She would not let me see more.

[okay, one more look. though all the quods and quids and quoms or whatever is making his head hurt.]

"Descendit"... descent? Descendin'? Descendant?

[ugh.]

Anyway, the funny thing 'bout all this is, at least when it comes to that religion, preachers usually call themselves the shepherds to the Lord's flocks. "One lost lamb is worth more than" I forget the rest--but point is preachers preach the Word of God, and their followers are their "flock".

Probably not related, just... y'know.

[dead man finding himself in a "flock" with other people and one of them is a "shepherd" and...]

Not really likin' the picture much.

[distinctly appalled]

The thought of being called here to be clergy is nonsense. Scripture is no strength of mine; nor would I assign it to any of the others I saw take up a staff in the field.

Still: a prayer, or a ritual, or both. I suspect the sacrifice is meant to bind us more deeply to their ends, not to return us to whence we came. We truly should not offer our own blood to it, and especially not willingly.