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

[aididitmyway]

Is this one of those reality shows? The ones with the pranks where they move you and then you wake up in a totally new place!?

[She is clutching her shepherd's staff with a green bell, btw.]

[heavyliesthecrown]

It feels as though there are perhaps too many of us for them to have accomplished such a feat.

[ Well-- more realistically--]

At least, when so many of our memories seem to be fuzzy.

[aididitmyway]

My memories aren't very fuzzy... but I don't remember my name, either. It's annoying!

... I bet they could still pull it off with this many people, though.

[heavyliesthecrown]

I cannot recall anything at all. I wonder what the difference is between us, then.

[aididitmyway]

It can't be this, can it?

[she shakes the staff she woke up with]

[heavyliesthecrown]

Actually, why did some people wake up with such items?

[He pulls at the collar, fiddling hard to try and unhook it from around his throat, the bell jingling.]

You do not even seem to have one of these wretched collars.

[lapdogged]

More likely we're trapped in some sort of hypno illusion cast by some creepy esper with nefarious intentions. Might wake up and find out we're just brains in jars or something.

[aididitmyway]

[...]

I'm pretty sure all of that is impossible.

[lapdogged]

Not really. It happens back home all the time...

[Oh Black Phantom, you incredibly fucked up part of Zettai Karen Children canon.]

[aididitmyway]

No, because that sounds like something you'd read in a manga or something! Not actually experiencing!

[lapdogged]

Uh, well, I haven't personally experienced it for obvious reasons since I'm, uh, alive and cognizant, but it does happen. Espers get kidnapped all the time and brainwashed into weapons or get their brains stuck in jars. It's a real issue!

[misfittoys]

How heavy of a sleeper do you have to be for that to happen?

[aididitmyway]

I don't know, it hasn't happened to me! But I've seen it definitely happen to groups like Morning Musume. They took them to some kind of outdoor arena in the morning and dropped the walls and they had to perform like right away!

[shortforever]

If it were, then were's all the cameras?

[aididitmyway]

Haven't you heard of hidden cameras?

[shortforever]

I have, but where are they going to hide hidden cameras in grass?

[aididitmyway]

The sheep?

[they look pretty brainless]

What if they're robots!

[featherduster]

[ Holding his own shepherd's hook ]

Who the heck would wanna watch a show like that . . .

[aididitmyway]

You'd be surprised! It's popular on variety shows. I've gotten scary movie pranks, but they haven't done anything like that to my group yet...

[featherduster]

'Group'?

[aididitmyway]

Idol group! B-Komachi. We've been getting really popular lately!

[finalbows]

You wish. If you ask me? Say hello to the new normal for the foreseeable future.

_{[ says the ludicrously tall guy with a long fluffy tail and a.. crest of feathers on his head? Pick an animal, dude. ]}

[aididitmyway]

Who are you supposed to be cosplaying?

[finalbows]

Cos... <sub>[ gears turning.

he doesn't know what that word means, so he's just going to proceed as if that sentence ended at the word 'be.'

Hell with it, he might as well make it fun. ]</sub>

I... _{[ Oh boy now he's doing Full theatrical singsong voice ]} ...Am merely an angel from another world, far afield your own! Be not afraid, maiden, for the day you will be judged is not yet nigh.

_{[ a beat. He drops the voice. ]}

And who are you? It's hard to make a guess from the look of you.

[aididitmyway]

Lyra, up and coming idol!

[...]

You're definitely cosplaying, though. I like your commitment to the character!