rose colored glasses

[wooliefrand]

WHO: Sheep!!
WHERE: Pasture and Anywhere
WHEN: Post Game (Evening 98 thru 99)

[Good afternoon/evening/whatever time is fake!! Flocks that created HERALDRY will find those mounted on their barns!! They specifically repel demons and werewolves! Hope that doesn't apply to any sheep!!

Notably, from this point on Blossom will not enter any of your flower fields. You gotta go out to find her. Wack.

Also more notably!! Some thorny, shadow like flowers start rising from the grass, with petals that more so resemble feathers. Should you smell, touch, or step on one, you may experience the following:

-Nothing! You go about your day!
-Nothing! PSYCHE when you go to sleep, enjoy some vivid nightmares, some of which others may get sucked into.
-Transformation! You'll be turned into a mouse/rat--like, an actual fucking tiny rodent. Think the persona 4 status effect, or a small bird of the corvid variety. You'll remain as such until you smell your own flower, and you will poof back.

So yeah, watch your step and have good dreams tonight!! Or just go about your day--quests, personal shit, memories, whatevs I'm not your mom.



Though, Rose may have some other dealings. ]

Comments

TURN INS (around day 100)

[strateelgic]

[Leviathan has a basket made of woven vines, inside of which he's placed a buddha's hand, some blueberries and some raspberries.

As far as those he's bitten, the shepherd drank blood from Crescendo of Bluebell and Odin of Thistle.

He sits down by Vera's frozen body and waits.]

Re: TURN INS (around day 100)

[wants_the_phd]

[Az has drunk the blood of Ananke/Scarab and has brought peaches.]

Re: TURN INS (around day 100)

[finalbows]

[ Angie puts down a basket of figs with a flourish.

..then dabs a little blood from the corner of his mouth he'd missed. Ahem! ]

Muffin's sorted ♡. That is, he's been bit. Such a helpful, shining little soul.


...and I got Minuet, too, for a little insurance.

[debug_mode]

You actually bit them directly?

[finalbows]

Yes.

[ a beat ]

Don't tell me now we need it all in a flask or something.

[debug_mode]

I don't think it's a condition, exactly. But, sitting there with your lips on another person is kinda intimate...

[finalbows]

Oh, I'm sorry. Did I ever give the false impression I am a man who practices chastity and restraint? Please, forgive me.

Re: TURN INS (around day 100)

[poisonista]

[ Comes in with the blood of Clover Twins, some kiwis and breath mints (homemade). He'll sit next to Leviathan. ]

RESULTS

[wooliefrand]

OOC

[wooliefrand]

[ANSWER KEY

CRESCENDO
LYRA/CYGNUS
ODIN
MUFFIN
ANY LILY

Items: Buddha's Hand (get), Peach/stonefruit(get), Fig (get), Pomegranate, and wildcard--could be a literal Weed character or an avocado.

If they had gotten nothing right and just went wild Vera still would have been saved but the Snake would have just been like ',,,' and tossed them some scales to use lol

If they had gotten most right they were supposed to get either favor OR questions answered but I saw the comment about pomegranate not really being anything to interact with and u know what fair so I lumped in both.

If they'd gotten ALL of them right they would have gotten questions, favor, + some temp time powers because why not. Alas!!

THANKS FOR DEALING WITH MY RIDDLES]

IC - 1/2

[wooliefrand]

[Once all of Rose gathers, they'll feel something slithering around their necks. A translucent snake of sorts, and it bites them--or really, it's just a prick. Not painful in the least, and heals up almost instantly, but not before a string of their blood flows out and into the air.

It forms something of an abstract clock, the bloody hands of which tick along while suspended in mid-air before striking 'midnight.'

No matter what time it was when they all gathered, the sky suddenly falls to night. All the shadow flowers swell, and then burst in a brilliant light, becoming normal roses and other flowers again. The one ensnaring Vera also ruptures, and she falls to the grass with a whump.

That's not all though--if they look to the sky, it splits open briefly. Dozens of eyes peer at them, enraged, annoyed, upset, before they're wiped away. By what? A scaley tail, a hoof. Maybe it's a group effort. In any case, once that is clear, they see. . .yet another sky?? Light? The sun? Yep. Beyond the sky of the pasture, the sun sets and the moon rises rapidly, as if days, if not weeks are passing in the blink of an eye.

Then just as quickly, the sky seals back up, resetting to the standard night sky and two moons.

You may have questions! WELL.

THE GIANT SNAKE HEAD BEHIND YOU ALL MAY HAVE ANSWERS. Or it may not. Who knows!!]

2/2

[wooliefrand]

[the massive head of the Forever Snake lays upon the grass, staring at them--at others, their past, their future. It's hard to tell with all the scale eyes. Its body extends all over the pasture and through the meadow and mist and ocean, though it currently appears incorporeal, and doesn't disrupt the physical being of anything. At the moment anyway.

A single massive eye glows as it speaks.]

Your Priest will live, and she will grow, roses. Time will not stop.

Time will never stop, though a curse brought on by the demons weigh it down. A mere few months for mortals it appears to you, but in your lifetimes, you may equate your time here to have been a year or more. Your realms are safe, but not your bodies.

Sheep of the pasture, heal this land.

You will have my aid.

[Once finished, the Forever Snake somehow vanishes. And that night may have some strange dreams.]

[ooc:
1) Levi instinctively knows that Rose, when decided upon as group, may ask the Forever Snake for ONE favor at any time. Just one, so use it wisely. It does not have to be right now!

2) All Roses present may ALSO ask exactly one question, though answers may or may not be helpful.

3) for clarification basically it's saying it feels like 3 months but ICly it has in fact been over a year they've been here. Fucked up.

Snake will disappear once questions have been answered, its got time shit to do.]

[strateelgic]

[IMMEDIATELY SEEING TO VERA while he thinks of his question.

Does she need healing? Water? Food? Gentle words of encouragement?]

[wooliefrand]

[landed on her face and booped her snout!!]


owie,

[strateelgic]

[Nuuu poor snout!]

Are you feeling all right, Vera?

1/2 replying to myself

[wants_the_phd]

[aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa she hates all of this so muuuuuuuuuuucccccccccchhhhhhhh]

[wants_the_phd]

[Looks like Levi and Belle are taking care of Vera. Good.]

Thank you, Forever Snake, for saving our Vera.

If I may ask, what's the Wolf King's true name?

[wooliefrand]

[The snakes many eyes stare at Nothing]

If He Still Remains, Time will Tell.

Re: 2/2

[finalbows]

[ angie doesn't even hesitate. ]

Tell me how to reach the Wolf King's soul to cleanse it.

Re: 2/2

[wooliefrand]

Is It Only His Soul that Would Be Cleansed?

You will know in Time.

Re: 2/2

[finalbows]

If I can get MORE than that, of COURSE I will! What do you think I am, unambitious?! The fate of all that is, will, and was still once rested in my palm, Snake!

Re: 2/2

[poisonista]

[ He looks upset, but he's going to check on Vera. ]

... Are you alright?

Re: 2/2

[wooliefrand]

I am but have no idea what transpired!! I am sorry for worrying you all!

[debug_mode]

How many safe, peaceful pastures still survive out there in the mist?

[wooliefrand]

Only a Few in Time remained.

But now, only this land stands the Test of Time as a True Pasture.