Baa-trayal

[wooliefrand]

WHO: Sheep
WHERE: The Pasture
WHEN: 109 afternoon thru evening

[It happened so suddenly--no matter where you were, even if you didn't get caught up in, you suddenly saw the massive, ghostly body of Death standing over the pasture. Whether you were in your barn, the cafeteria, exploring the meadow or forest, it didn't matter. You suddenly found yourself sucked into seemingly another realm, experiencing memories and feelings and urges that certainly did not belong to you. A ritual is being performed, but it was not caused by Weed or Sheep or Blossom. Not, Death herself called this one, in an effort to call attention to. . .something, who knows.

As you eventually wake up from the ritual--possibly with injuries or horrific memories, you will find yourself at the fountain.

Blossom, Stormy, and Lady are also there, soundly asleep. And also tied up. Death is tired of their shit okay.]

[ooc:
SESSIONS | WINNERS/RESULTS | SPIRITS | ROOM NOTES | POST BAA-TRAYAL MINGLE

Note: I'm setting this as 109 since the last game was 107, so there's two full days to back thread stuff yall might need if need be!!]

Comments

Re: POST RITUAL MINGLE

[endsjustified]

I’m not being ridiculous. We ourselves have been bound into death-related effects before.

[…some of that anger, that frustration, starts to bleed away. not all of it, not even a quarter of it, but certainly enough of it to register.]

So it is that he cannot speak of it, again. I see.

Re: POST RITUAL MINGLE

[featherduster]

It's ridiculous to think I wouldn't've mentioned a demon-summoning to you beforehand.

[ But he sighs, a little relieved. He'll take what he can get. ]

I'm sure he didn't tell you 'cause his whole world will spontaneously explode if he does.

Re: POST RITUAL MINGLE

[endsjustified]

[roughly, some of his emotion actually leaking into his voice — he curves his neck over to angrily scrub his face against his own wing’s edge]

Fool. This isn’t even the first time. Why doesn’t he just say he can’t discuss it?

Re: POST RITUAL MINGLE

[featherduster]

He either hasn't noticed or doesn't care that it's way more suspicious to go "I'm not talking about that" while making a funny face.

Re: POST RITUAL MINGLE

[endsjustified]

I wasn’t sure. He doesn’t—

[shakes his head, sharp]

He doesn’t make it easy. He tried to go wait to die at the fountain by himself, once.

Re: POST RITUAL MINGLE

[featherduster]

Sorry?

Re: POST RITUAL MINGLE

[endsjustified]

I don’t know anything else about it. He would explain nothing of why he expected to die that day. He wanted to hide it.

Re: POST RITUAL MINGLE

[featherduster]

And did he? Die?

Re: POST RITUAL MINGLE

[endsjustified]

He didn’t. But I don’t know if it’s because the problem has truly disappeared, or if it’s just on a time delay while we are here.

Re: POST RITUAL MINGLE

[featherduster]

[ DEEPLY DISTURBED ]

I'm gonna kick his ass.

Re: POST RITUAL MINGLE

[endsjustified]

Wouldn’t that just make him double down?

Re: POST RITUAL MINGLE

[featherduster]

I have never once succeeded at talking to Lethe with my mouth.

Re: POST RITUAL MINGLE

[endsjustified]

I do not think my sharing emotions with him helped any once we were not focusing solely on letting him get control of the Plant changes.

Re: POST RITUAL MINGLE

[featherduster]

Oh. So that's why it was just laying on the table?

Re: POST RITUAL MINGLE

[endsjustified]

I suppose so. I forgot about it in the…everything.

Re: POST RITUAL MINGLE

[featherduster]

[ Scoots a little closer ]

Do you feel any better?

Re: POST RITUAL MINGLE

[endsjustified]

…

[he does feel a little better. if nothing else he’s not swallowing all of that back anymore, unheard]

Does your prosthetic work?

Re: POST RITUAL MINGLE

[featherduster]

[ Stares at him blankly for a beat or two before ]

Oh!

[ Eyeing the port they installed ]

I dunno. I'll have to try it.

Re: POST RITUAL MINGLE

[endsjustified]

[nods at it]

That at least doesn’t feel…off in any way right now?

Re: POST RITUAL MINGLE

[featherduster]

Nah. I won't be able to tell until hooking something into it.

Sorry, but... thanks for taking care of it.

Re: POST RITUAL MINGLE

[endsjustified]

[there’s a visible curl of disappointment for a moment, before it’s shoved ruthlessly away. he’s been ruthlessly shoving away feelings since the game ended]

Come here.

Re: POST RITUAL MINGLE

[featherduster]

[ ?????

Scoots into his personal space now ]

Re: POST RITUAL MINGLE

[endsjustified]

[reaches out and hauls him in like a human will haul a cat in under the bedsheets for cuddling

and coils up around him very tight, a wing tucked over his head like a sunshade, more of the sick intensity of his feelings finally relaxing as he feels him alive and moving, breathing]

Re: POST RITUAL MINGLE

[featherduster]

[ Ah....

Leans against his flank, flesh fingers burying in feathers ]

It's okay.

Re: POST RITUAL MINGLE

[endsjustified]

[they’re strange to touch still, soft-hard with their cores of solid scale, but not unpleasant. Charon’s sides heave a bit before he gets himself back under control; he makes no noise, crying, and his head is somewhere out of sight in the tangle

finally:]

Is it?