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[wooliefrand]

WHO: Some Sheep
WHERE: Pasture
WHEN: 105 Evening

[As the sun sets, you may be just going about your business, maybe looking for Blossom, maybe patrolling, maybe doing other shit simultaneously because time is fake!! OR maybe you notice a pigtailed weed, Queen, experimentally slicing her hand to see what happens and then. . .poof!

Ruh-roh!!

The two chat about SOMETHING for a couple minutes, before the little demon baps its hooves together. Before you can escape into the safety of your barns, all who were around are suddenly swept up, pulled in the middle of the pasture. . .with each of you at a podium.

You cannot move from the podium, but the podiums themselves can move around kinda like those. Moving scooter things in cities. beep beep. You can't leave the area tho.

The little demon speaks up:

Alright, maggots! Monomaton's here, and I've just got a simple question for ya!

What's the value of each of your mortal lives?

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YOU HAVE TIL 5PM EST OKAY GO

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[wooliefrand]

WINNERS
LILY for being the first to immediately sacrifice themselves
DAFFODIL for staying at the top
WEEDS for Queen correctly calling her bet.

Winners get the standard memory coins, though Weeds will find their club house has transformed into a proper barn with individual bigger rooms for everyone. Junko ALSO revives without going to turbo hell!

Daffodil gets these pajama shirts, along with some grooming utensils. By which i means brush sets and such. They all have orange and/or Florida decor on them.

Ananke also finds himself with a strange artifact when he's not being eaten by bugs. Wait where did that come from. Why is Jim Deer standing like, right there watching yall.

Everyone hears a thought in their head before it disappears:

At some point, sacrifice may be our only option.

Do not let that prevent you from helping this world bloom.

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[spinebuddyandme]

[ LESSON LEARNED: DO SACRIFICE SOMETIMES ]

[ now that he's been healed up enough to stop bleeding and managed to cover his lack of arm up with Scarab armor, he's cubecalling the rest of lily ]

Hey... Don't freak out, but I just lost a lot of blood. Can one of you come get me?

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[endsjustified]

[wat]

Where are you?

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[spinebuddyandme]

Um...

[ glancing around ]

Somewhere near the forest? I got caught in a ritual, and I'm not sure where the demon put us.

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[endsjustified]

…don’t move or aggravate any injuries.

[gps zoomin, if Lethe is also coming he presumably piggybacks on this]

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[spinebuddyandme]

I promise not to move 'til you get here.

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[endsjustified]

[what do things around Ananke,,,look like when they arrive. just beelining right for him sry everyone else]

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[spinebuddyandme]

[ There's a mix of dust and crushed beetles scattered around and covering him, and his clothes are tattered and heavily stained with blood. Ananke himself is sitting up, leaned against a convenient tree. He's pale and dotted with fresh pink scars where the least of his wounds have been wholly healed, and scabs over the worst bites. His right arm is covered in Scarab's armor, and he's holding it gingerly in his lap. ]

—Hey. Sorry, I didn't really know what to say over the phone. Cube.

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[endsjustified]

It’s all right. You’re not able to walk?

[kneels next to him, looking him over with a frown]

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[spinebuddyandme]

Not without getting dizzy.

[ his eyes flick down to his armored arm ]

Um. I covered this up to, uh, stabilize it.

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[endsjustified]

Unhealable, I take it.

[he is just gonna slide both arms under him and pick him up, gentle]

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[spinebuddyandme]

...It's gonna need limbus.

[ Carefully sets the armored arm in his lap so he can loop his good arm around Charon's shoulders. The armor arm is pretty limp now that he's not holding it in place ]

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[endsjustified]

[he hears Charon mutter something DEEPLY uncomplimentary about demons under his breath]

I can prepare that. We still have your blood.

What happened?

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[spinebuddyandme]

[ Guiltily avoiding eye contact ]



We, uh... We had to decide whether to rank ourselves and let 3 people die, or sacrifice 1 person to spare everyone else. So...me 'n Odin picked ourselves for a sacrifice.

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[mykidisthebest]

[the little cubecalls don't show missing arms so the severity of the situation is not IMMEDIATELY apparent. there is still a lot of concern in his voice]

If you say not to freak out and you lost a lot of blood, I think freaking out is the correct response. Where are you?

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[spinebuddyandme]

Okay, well I need you to not freak out or else I'm going to freak out.

[ There's a pleading undertone to that no matter how focused he is on reining it in ]

I'm near the forest. A demon dragged some of us here for a ritual.

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[mykidisthebest]

Shit.

[takes a deep breath, already heading out]

We'll be there soon. Focus on staying awake.

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[spinebuddyandme]

I'm focusing. And no one's gonna let me fall asleep.

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[mykidisthebest]

[with his shadow traveling they make it there RIGHT QUICK. Lethe does keep his word to hold it together, but he does noticeably freeze up for a heartbeat when he sees Ananke. HOW'S HE DOIN']

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[spinebuddyandme]

[ NOT GREAT. There's a lot of dust and crushed beetle remnants scattered around. Ananke's clothes are tattered and blood-stained—drenched on the right side. He's covered in recently healed bites, some covered in fresh scars and others in nearly healed scabs. It looks like his right arm covered in Scarab's armor and free of blood except where he's holding it gingerly in his lap ]

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[mykidisthebest]

[the pause lasts only a second; then he's moving to close the distance, kneels down next to him and takes stock of that all at once.]

...I'm probably going to have questions later. Your arm--?

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[spinebuddyandme]

...It's gone. Scarab covered what's left to keep it stable.

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[mykidisthebest]

[keeps his voice even, though he can't full control his expression]

He keeps calm under pressure. I'm glad.

Is it going to hurt if I carry you back?

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[spinebuddyandme]

[ Can't quite meet Lethe's eyes ]

It'll be okay. Scarab can keep it still.

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[mykidisthebest]

[it's hard to say if he pulls it together or just remembers he can use illusions to mask his expression a bit; regardless, he looks much calmer once he reaches to scoop Ananke up in his arms. his sheepdog super strength gives him the extra boost to make him seem almost weightless]

I'll--I'll be careful still. I think we've still got enough blood to make a limbus arm easily enough. Do you feel like you need a transfusion at all?