sheep_game | THISTLE BARN

Who: Thistle
Where: Thistle Barn
When: Day 1, Post Awakening

[Making your way to your new barn, you'll find your personal meadow is peppered with purple flowers, the occasional purple brainless sheep, a small pond full of clear, fresh water, and curiously a big, blooming fig tree. It figures it'd be figs!

When you enter your barn, you'll find it's. . .quaint.

The first thing you see is your team's name painted in purple on a wall, surrounded by a wreath of flowers. Above it is a wooden plaque with an inspirational message in the style of those Live, Laugh, Love fixtures, just. A bit hard to read.

Your eyes will be drawn to a tall crystalized thistle sculpture below the plaque. You may feel the urge to touch it, and if not, some nearby framed instructions on the wall may give you a nudge. "Touch to regain your lost abilities!"

Unfortunately, while you may innately know how to activate them, what exactly do they do? You'll have to figure that out.

As for the rest of the barn itself, it's two stories and fairly basic. There is hay everywhere, and six extremely basic cots, three upstairs, three downstairs. If you examine them and remove the hay, each member of the team will find three outfits (+pajamas) for their use.

There is also a sign pointing the way to an attached portapotty--thankfully, it somehow opens up to a basic bathroom. There's one toilet, one very small bath, rickety shower, and sink. In the cabinet is enough soap, paper, and dental hygiene products for all.

Rustic is putting it lightly, but it seems that this is your home away from home!]

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[ he is sort of wobbly and cool, like a thick gas. Bats his hands away. ]

Oi! Well I’m the cooler adult.

[weird]

Congratulations. I still won't be following orders.

Whatever. I need more stupid brats like I need an exorcism.

I'm sure an exorcism could be arranged.

By the way, do you have a name? I'm going by Loki for now.

Of course I- . . . I’m— . . . Well, I probably had one at some point.

None of us have them at the moment. Lupin over there has been giving everyone names based on... mythology and classic literature, we'll say.

Let's see, what do you remind me of... a Mitama?

Try again.

Slime?

I'm going to call you Guy! Skin! Lad!

Edited 2023-05-01 22:07 (UTC)

Call me whatever you like. I'm not here to make friends.

Have the others filled you in our situation?

Yeah, yeah. Idiot sheep wizards, pocket dimension, need a blood sacrifice, blah blah.

That's the gist of it. What would you say is your general philosophy when it comes to self-preservation?

Strongly Favor. Is that in question?

Edited 2023-05-02 00:31 (UTC)

Merely checking. Fortunately, the group seems to be in alignment on that point.

Guess that's one silver lining. So what, we're just going to hope some goody two-shoes team wants to get stuck?

Edited 2023-05-02 02:54 (UTC)

...It's not impossible to assume that scenario will happen of its own accord. There are some astonishingly naive people around.

Ain't there always just? Well, I can't say I love it, but it's not like I'm going to go out of my way to discourage anyone either.

It'll be interesting to see what actually happens to them. The sheep have been playing "good cop, bad cop" with us, which doesn't lend them a great deal of credibility.