WOOF TIME

[wooliefrand]

WHO: Altruistic Sheep and/or Shit Stirrers
WHERE: Pasture and Elsewhere
WHEN: TBD

[It's time for some NEGOTIATIONS.

-Inventory!
-Gen Mingle!
-Fountain!
-The Gates!
-The City!
-The Office!
-????


Ooc: NEGOTIATIONS/DONATIONS POST!! idk when this is happening we'll figure it out. Comment to a header and we'll FIGURE SHIT OUT AS WE GO though note--no one can comment to the City/Office until you get past the gates!

Please note there's no super rush i'll be taking my time since work is a lil busy but goal is to have all this wrapped up by the 25th!]

Comments

Re: THE OFFICE

[finalbows]

Here you told us back then you'd normally be honored to recieve House Rose... Did that one little scuffle make SUCH an impression? I'm honored! But...

We aren't Clover. I would have to first turn the blade upon myself, if I were to cry for the blood of the cruel! But I do not do so, because more than anything, I, am a survivalist. Each and every time, I will choose my quality of life, over silly pretensions over honor or revenge.

And in this case...
My quality of life goes up quite a bit, if I am no longer in enmity with a neighboring state such as yours... and indeed better, if we pool certain efforts.

Re: THE OFFICE

[wooliefrand]

The original House. Don't hold yourselves too highly.

[a cock of his head]

So you admit that you're here for purely selfish reasons? You helping the people outside is merely a means to an end?

Re: THE OFFICE

[finalbows]

I never do anything that isn't in my own self-interest. I don't summon demons, I don't give pointlessly, and I don't burn bridges that I might actually have a real need of.

But that doesn't preclude me from saving useful or beautiful things from an oblivion, here and there. All I am... is honest, specifically about... the realest roots, of motivation... and desire.

[ that headtilt has him feeling encouraged. He'll keep pushing. ]

Additionally, I'm very clever and resourceful~. You'll recall encountering one of my more... efficacious, inventions, before...? It's lost now, alas, but it certainly had some obvious impact.

[ he's lying, he didn't make that rock lmfao ]

But this time, I've prepared a much, much different little gadget... something that can harness the light to a potency I previously couldn't even have considered....

Something your people could make, easily... if we were to collaborate.

Re: THE OFFICE

[wooliefrand]

Bold of you to assume I remember every trick and trinket you sheep have inflicted on us.

[IT'S ALL JUST BLURRED TOGETHER FOR HIM. He leans his head on his palm.]

Let's hear it. Though do understand we're far more advanced than that farm.

[we have guns!1]

1/2

[finalbows]

[ brief disappointed frown over the lack of recognition ]

2/2

[finalbows]

[ with a little sleight of hand for flourish, he produces one of the sunflower lanterns. the make of it is every steampunk oil lantern you've ever seen in your life. ]

Ta-da. Presenting... shelf-stable, refined, protection, whilst within the depths of darkness, nightmares, and dreams.

[wooliefrand]

--!

[pins his ears backwards and adjusts his glasses/shades. That's heckin concentrated sunlight???]

That. . .is a sunflower. How did it take such a form?

[finalbows]

Aht-aht-aht! That, is a secret reserved for my, officialized allies. But I can tell you, anyone can do it if I but teach them how and where.

[wooliefrand]

[ear flick,]

And what exactly are you asking for?

1/2

[finalbows]

Information to make that "impossible suicide mission" I'm going to will into reality an eensy bit easier.

Tactical information, specifically. One-- while you say your people win by brute force, I'm betting you have someone who's been in the thick of combat with the Nightmares with specific observations that could be useful to us. Everything with identifiable traits also comes with weaknesses.

[ ... ] [ that probably could have been ayo ] [ would it be too much to suggest a seance with the dead right now so that ceo can say they're cool ] [ hm ] [ moving on ]

2/3

[finalbows]

Two, it's not just fighting that would be useful to us. What we're trying to do - to undo - will require playing on... sentiment, to get anywhere. It will be difficult to navigate if we don't understand much about the terrain.

You, specifically, could help save the world by telling us emotional, personal trivia about your life and experiences with your father! That's not an opportunity that comes knocking every day, now is it?

3/3

[finalbows]

And... lastly, I would request one singular mask, to make the nights a little easier on my specific, incurable case.

That's all!

[wooliefrand]

[STARES AT HIM.............]

That's three demands for one exchange, you realize. [he pushes up his glasses again]

Though, that explains your scent. It was familiar but still distinctly yours.

You're afflicted with a variation of the curse.

As for those particularly adept at handling nightmares, well. You all killed them. Both.

[AYO AND BEA!!!!]

. . .And I don't quite understand how my personal business could possibly aid you.

[finalbows]

Your personal business can aid me because it's YOUR very own patriarch that went and turned into an apocalyptic event. These things happen, dearie, my own sibling drama became a matter of the fate of the universe, once.

Anyway...

I venture we could fish out a pair of departed souls and plop them in some new bodies to even the math. But I'd have to ask my spiritual consultant about it.

[wooliefrand]

[threads his hands together, shaking his head]

If it were that simple, we'd have revived several of those driven to madness by the Wolf King. The masks they wore kept their souls in tact.

Now, they are lost to the abyss, among countless others.

. . .

And don't call me dearie.

[finalbows]

[ angie_doing_math ]

So if someone happens to yank it off before they kill you, you're out of luck?

[wooliefrand]

Basically, for those who are cursed.

In your situation, I don't know how it would react.

[finalbows]

Haven't had the privilege to test THAT out just yet. Not in much a hurry to! That's why I'd love to be closing this deal with you.

So it's a wash for the tactical advice, oh well, too bad so sad. That leaves us with a revolutionary technological innovation dangling tantalizingly in reach... for both of us.

[wooliefrand]

. . .

[he closes his eyes, and then opens a drawer on his desk, revealing a fully constructed holy mask.]

This one, I keep on my person usually, in case I were to succumb. But at this point, if it happens, I suppose it's deserved.

That said. While you aren't a "true" wolf. Perhaps those adjacent of your kind will have an upperhand against the nightmares.