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RITUAL 35 - GAME MASTER

WHO: a priest, a demon and you
WHERE: the pasture
WHEN: Day 93

[You may have seen this particular Weed stand in the middle of the pasture and summon a demon to run a ritual before, but today both the Weed and the demon seem distinctly . . . less nice and cozy.

Argent doesn’t, physically, look much different – he hasn’t grown fangs or horns or anything, ha ha! But there’s something about his expression and the way he holds himself right now that makes you think – wow! This sure might be a dangerous individual, actually.]

Let’s have another game, shall we, flocks? This one’s a little more…involved.

Don’t take it as personal, of course, but! Well, in the end, we Weeds are supposed to be making trouble for you all ☆

[and before you can respond, you find yourself snatched away with your flock, to somewhere else.]

rooms (r1 + r2) | punishment (r3) | r3 turn-in | winners/prizes

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DAFFODIL + AMI
BLUEBELL + WARDEN
LILY
ROSE + EDGELORD
THISTLE
CLOVER
PEONY + FLARE

Yes, everyone can see what punishments each team played on who. Use this game post to mingle and play them out! The ‘enthusiasm, commitment and creativity in punishments’ criteria are still the win condition for three of the four winners.
You can use the team ‘punishments given’ headers to organize if you like – i.e. if Daffodil has a listed punishment aimed at one Clover, a Clover can respond to Daffodil’s header claiming it and a Daffodil who wants to punish them can comment to them to confirm! I’ll leave it to y’all if you want to then thread it out under there or do a thread in the main post mingle.
Weeds still count as flock members for this round! They are wearing neck scarves or ribbons or something in their assigned flock’s colour for easy ID.
Single target = 1 punisher hitting 1 target, 2 targets = 1-2 punishers hitting 2 targets. Full team cards are, well, full punisher teams hitting up full target teams. I won’t majorly police the last one due to people’s varying OOC availability, but these are meant to be bigger group things, so play them out in that spirit.
If you don’t have something you need to perform a punishment, you can pull it from inside the demon’s closet, WITHIN REASON. Do not use this game to circumvent Sheep’s resource scarcity.
If y’all try to beat each other up and it’s not to fulfill a card task, the instigator(s) will be dunked into the lazy river, away from whoever they tried to attack, until they cool it. You’re all allowed to beat up Argent though.
This final round runs from Saturday 3 PM PST/6 PM EST to Sunday 6 PM PST/9 PM EST Please submit punishments you’ve threaded out under your team’s header in the R3 turn in, so I’m not crying trying to find them all once the game ends.

Edited 2024-07-20 21:30 (UTC)

[if you want!]

Mad at you.

[holding out the balloon octopus for argent to ACKNOWLEDGE]

I thought our punishment ideas were really good.

[As you all return, you’ll find Argent slow clapping, while perched on the grinning demon’s bright coils.]

You all have quite interesting attitudes about this sort of thing after having to go through so much of it, don’t you? Well, I’m afraid that we’re going to have to keep collectively choosing violence today, despite all your squeamishness and protests.

Rend, slaughter, devour your fellows if you wish to survive, or be healed, or get revenge. That’s the way of it in this world, isn’t it? So long as there’s Weeds and flocks, so long as there’s wolves and sheep, so long as the demons want blood and death. Forever and ever, amen. Ite, missa est.

Edited 2024-07-21 01:45 (UTC)

[and at the end of that spiel, Argent and the demon speak in unison:]

. . . juuuuuuuuust kidding ☆

[and with that, there’s an explosion of bright multicolored smoke, which obscures everyone’s vision for a moment. When it clears, you’ll notice four things:

1. The demon lies crumpled on the ground in slowly flattening, empty folds, the long, long zipper running up the length of its back fallen open. A much littler guy is perched on Argent’s shoulder instead.
2. Argent himself has relaxed, and seems back to his usual slightly goofy self. Kinda nervous? He looks like he expects to get punched, but he’s grinning anyway.
3. A freestanding, highly ornate . . . closet . . .? has appeared next to them. The double doors are partially open, but more of those heavy black curtains obscure the inside.
4. Floating banners have shown up and hover up above the pasture, showing all the punishment cards played – and the actual punishments, at last.]

Sorry for the subterfuge, folks! The Disguise Demon doesn’t play by halves.

[ walks up to him and punches him in the fucking face ]

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RITUAL 35 - GAME MASTER

[ROOMS - R1 + R2]

[PUNISHMENT - R3]

[PUNISHMENT ROUND MINGLE RULES - ICLY KNOWN]

(frozen comment) [R3 TURN IN]

(frozen comment) daffodil

(frozen comment) bluebell

(frozen comment) lily

(frozen comment) rose

(frozen comment) thistle

(frozen comment) clover

(frozen comment) peony

[TALK TO ARGENT]

Re: [TALK TO ARGENT]

Re: [TALK TO ARGENT]

(frozen comment) no subject

(frozen comment) no subject

[PUNISHMENTS GIVEN]

[DAFFODIL + AMI]

[BLUEBELL + WARDEN]

[LILY]

[ROSE + EDGELORD]

[THISTLE]

[CLOVER]

[PEONY + FLARE]

Re: [TALK TO ARGENT]