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

[survivaltricks]

[well. this guy is over here clutching a staff with a purple bell while he stares blankly at Stormy and Blossom, like]

[what the fuck]







[whispers, but with feeling]

What the fuck?

[rugpull]

Can we eat them.

[survivaltricks]

[looks at Ruggie's ears, then at the sheep]

[thoughtfully, but it's difficult to tell if he's being serious or not]

I did learn how to make a mean jingisukan over summer break.

[rugpull]

Sounds good.

[misfittoys]

I think you said aloud what everyone is thinking.

[ Or well... ]

Most everyone.

[survivaltricks]

[blinks a bit, before letting out an amused huff]

Thanks. I was doing my best to convey the sheer, collective frustration of a group of confused and probably angry strangers.

[misfittoys]

Best to let it out all in one go. No use holding it in.

[restage]

"What the fuck" seems to be what the fuck. An ouroborus loop.

[survivaltricks]

[. . .]

[his expression twists a little bit]

Hn. Don't like that.

[restage]

It's not my favorite thing either. How's your memory?

[vivace_ultimate]

Hey, um... other "team's" staff person?

We're not going to go through with this, right...? We can all band together to fight this!

[survivaltricks]

[blinks a bit, startled out of his confused stupor]

-- fight this?

[he definitely wasn't thinking about it in those terms. that Blossom's request for a blood sacrifice was an injustice that needed to be pushed again]

[vivace_ultimate]

Of course! Are we supposed to give blood sacrifices just because they tell us to? Even if it was just a finger prick... that's one finger too many.

[shortforever]

[He looks at the purple bell on this guy's staff. The purple bell that matches the one around his own neck.

Then he makes a face.]

No.

[survivaltricks]

[blinks]

[looks at the purple collar]

[then at his own bell]

I'm-- I'm not going to hit you with it?

[shortforever]

Of course you're not, that's not the problem! You've got the leader stick and that's not gonna work here.

[aididitmyway]

[she also has a staff, but it's green instead of purple]

What the heck!

[survivaltricks]

-- ah, no. Not what the heck.

What the fuck.

[THE WORD USAGE IS IMPORTANT]

[aididitmyway]

I'm an idol. Wouldn't it be scandalous if I said that?

[flat_sharp]

You can say that again. Are they familiars, do you think?

[survivaltricks]

Ah-- familiars? Like for witches?

[flat_sharp]

For magic users, yes.

[featherduster]

[ Holding a staff himself ]

They're cute.



[ JUST OFFERING THAT UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE ]

[survivaltricks]

[i mean]

[he isn't wrong]

Does cute make up for the what the fuck factor?

[featherduster]

[ Equipping a sheep and looking SO HAPPY about it ]

At least for the next few hours, definitely!