ARISE

[wooliefrand]

Who: Everyone
Where: The Pasture
When: Day 1, WAKE UP

[WAKEY WAKEY PEOPLE!! Wow, no matter who you are, you feel like you're starting to wake up from a really bad trip! At least the ambience is really peaceful and the grass you're laying in is dewey and sweet smelling? Really, this doesn't seem all that bad.

...at least it wouldn't, if you weren't also probably surrounded by strangers. Characters will find themselves sitting with 5-6 other people; and all but one of you have color coded collars with bells on them. Try as you might, you can't remove them. One member of your group however, will wake up clutching a tall shepherd's staff, with a team colored bell attached to it. There's an innate feeling they should hold on to it.

Maybe you will immediately try to introduce yourself! But, you might find that difficult, as you can't remember your name. Some may have forgotten even more than that. Whoops! Also curiously, if you had any powers prior to coming here? You can't seem to use them at the moment. All your belongings aside from whatever you were last wearing also seem to be missing.

Well. This is a mess. But hey, maybe.............all the dozens and dozens of miniature sheep just STARING at you might be able to help. In particular, a small pink sheep and black ram waddle up, looking a bit alarmed.

And they start talking.]

THIS, THIS IS SO MANY PEOPLE. THIS IS TOO MANY??? I HECKED UP, I HECKED UP--!

Baahaha! It's fiiiine, we just have toss one, right? Shouldn't be too hard.

[And suddenly, you're all struck with a brief bout of silence as they continue to chatter. Well! Maybe listen very carefully to what they have to say.]

[OOC: All supernatural/magic/special abilities (including sheep powers) are sealed until characters go to their respective barns and activate them! If you try to enter a barn that isn't yours right now, your character will be immediately crippled by a massive migraine. Go to your own barn!

DECISIONS will be due no later than Friday May 5th at 9PM EST. Blossom and Stormy will take the answer from each team's Shepherd HERE. Whatever happens will depend on what team ends up chosen!

Otherwise characters are now loose to do whatever! Ping me in discord or on plurk if characters wander into the mist or if you want an npc encounter in the forest! GO FORTH YOU'RE ALL FREE NOW. You can also use this post as a mingle.

Decisions| Introduction | Talk to Sheep | BARNS: DAFFODIL, BLUEBELL, LILY, ROSE, THISTLE, CLOVER]

Comments

[antichthonia]

And you're the only one I see with that staff, so I guess that makes you the boss.

[survivaltricks]

[. . .]

[SWEATS. IS THAT WHAT THIS MEANS??]

. . . I think my first action as "boss"- [the air quotes are audible] -- should be to ask you how you feel about possibly being a blood sacrifice??

[antichthonia]

They said it's just a pricked finger, right? What's the big deal?

[survivaltricks]

Normally, I'd agree with you, but I think there's plenty of room to doubt the pink one's claim.

[antichthonia]

If we're working from the position that we can't trust what they say, we can't make any decisions at all. The only information we have is what they tell us.

[survivaltricks]

Hn. I don't think that's necessarily true.

[resting his staff across his shoulder, arm hooked around the end]

We're free to make whatever decisions we want, based on how trustworthy-- or not-- we find their information. It's natural to want to believe someone else when they're offering what seems to be the only solution to a stupid problem, but. . .

[. . .]

[he trails off, gaze flicking away and back again]

Well. We don't have to decide right now, anyway.

[he is filing away the input he received for later, though]

[antichthonia]

It also doesn't cost much to vote for a different group. I don't care that much.

[subtitle: i'm not a leader type]

[survivaltricks]

[akira is and he hates it!!]

We'll figure it out later, after we've had some time to. . . ah. Adjust.

[and also they've met every member of their-- group. saying "flock" just seems weird?]

[antichthonia]

Really hope to God I'm not here long enough to fucking adjust to this.

[survivaltricks]

Temporary adjustment.

[antichthonia]

[sighs

bows slightly and opens his mouth to introduce himself



what the hell]

. . . I can't remember my name.

[survivaltricks]

[. . . ?]

Is that. . . abnormal?

[OF COURSE IT IS, AKIRA]

[antichthonia]

Yeah. I think it is.

[visible . . . repressed panic starting . . .]

[survivaltricks]

[oh boy. he can see that panic starting to bubble to the surface, and his instinct is to immediately try to quell it]

Okay-- okay. It's okay. Take a few deep breaths, all right? I'm sure it'll come back to you.

[antichthonia]

[carefully locking it down, obviously practiced at this]

Huh. Yeah. It'll come back.

1/3

[survivaltricks]

[. . . whew. . .]

[TIME FOR A DISTRACTION]

In the meantime, I'm--

[survivaltricks]

[. . .]

[survivaltricks]

. . . hm.

[it seems. . . he does not know who he is!]

[antichthonia]

Great. Good. Perfect.

[survivaltricks]

[makes a frustrated noise and runs his hand through his messy hair]

Noooot the best of times to have very specific amnesia, is it?

[antichthonia]

What do you know? If anything?

[survivaltricks]

Uh-- [that's a very broad question]

Well, my name is the only gap I seem to have in my memory, but I don't know anything about--

[gestures to the sheep]

[and his staff]

[and the purple collar]

[antichthonia]

Workable. I thought maybe you'd lost more.

[survivaltricks]

No, fortunately.

[but now he's looking around, wondering if anyone else here has lost more than a name]

A side effect of being brought here?

[antichthonia]

I have to say, none of this seems very . . .

Possible.