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

[endsjustified]

[this dude has a shepherd's staff. he gives it a narrow look before he picks it up and stands. he gives the sheep an even narrower look as they bicker, and he gives the surroundings the narrowest look of all. yes all the NPC sheep and PC people are included in that last one, but it's likely he's just judging the entire situation, not just You, Personally. hard to be sure, though! what a forbidding-looking guy.]

That was a very limited explanation.

[misfittoys]

Seems like things didn't turn out quite as they expected.

[endsjustified]

Mm. That might be forgivable if they would enlighten us as to the original problem, or why they are immediately leaping to blood magic as their interim solution.

These sheep are incompetent at best.

[misfittoys]

Haha. Can't ever say that I considered the competency level of a sheep before.

But then I've never met a sheep who could do blood magic either. What a concept!

[endsjustified]

Any race has its ways to surprise.

Your own thoughts on them, on initial consideration?

[misfittoys]

It looks like they're in a spot of trouble and need some help. Something I'm not opposed to depending on the task and if they keep good on their word to send us back.

[endsjustified]

A surprisingly lenient view of the situation.

[misfittoys]

Oh? Maybe I'm just a lenient kind of guy.

No need to get the feathers all ruffled up until we know what we're dealing with.

[endsjustified]

I prefer to err on the side of caution, but certainly making demands for less absurdity seems ineffective here.

[exhales out, slowly]

You were curious about the staves, yes? I had no say in one's assignment to me, that I recall.

[misfittoys]

Oh yeah. Yeah. About that. Stormy and Blossom said that the staff itself chooses it's owner so it must have found you pretty impressive.

[endsjustified]

That's not on me to judge myself, I'm sure.

[there's a little bit of bite in his tone, but the specific flavor of it is hard to tell]

[misfittoys]

Oh oh, didn't mean to offend. I can appreciate those that are both cautious and humble.

[endsjustified]

You did not offend. Our hosts are simply...

[makes a slight what can you do gesture with one gloved hand]

I do not trust their current judgement on anything.

[misfittoys]

[ A small chuckle in return. What can you do when you rolled out of bed this morning only to find yourself sheep-napped later in the day. ]

Yeah.

It's kinda like watching a comedy duo, honestly. Except what a punchline.

[endsjustified]

I'm sure those of us without more important things to do appreciated the show.

[aididitmyway]

[look, it's nyx's twin sister! she also has a staff, though, and seems absolutely puzzled over it and also everything else.]

I've said it a million times and I'll say it again! They're super sketchy!

[endsjustified]

[I'M GONNA TIMEYWIMEY SLIGHTLY SO NYX HAS AT LEAST TOLD HIM THEY'RE RELATED FOR THIS; straightens up a little more when she approaches him, which is wild because his posture is already razor-sharp]

You are not wrong; everything they have said thus far only reinforces that impression.

I had wished to speak to you.

[aididitmyway]

[When he straightens up, she—looks surprised? How uptight, no wonder her brother ended up with him if that's how they were sorted.]

About what?

[endsjustified]

[it does track if the death themed team attracts the sombre types huh]

You and your team's thoughts on our hosts' request, and what you are considering. Your brother has informed me of his connections.

[aididitmyway]

We haven't thought about it a lot yet.

[They decided to make a name chart and roll for their names.]

What's my brother told you specifically?

[endsjustified]

That you are his twin, and that you would wish to protect a family member on Daffodil as well.

[that's not all he got told but he's going to keep his hands out of the worst of this complex family drama if he can, ok]

[aididitmyway]

[She freezes for a moment, at the mention of Daffodil and protection, and she can't help but leap to that.]

No matter what kind of "sacrifice" it is, there's someone neither of us want to have to deal with it. She's really important to us.

[endsjustified]

[her reaction is filed away in a growing folder of 'stuff to put together in a useful shape later.' he doesn't so much as twitch at it outwardly, though]

No one on Lily is inclined to target a member's friends or relatives; it would be foolish. You need not worry from our direction.

[aididitmyway]

We're not going to on Clover, either.

Though I'm not sure I want to pick someone specific. Blossom and Stormy don't really inspire a lot of trust.

[endsjustified]

They have not made much effort to appear trustworthy.

[shrugs a little]

I'd like to see what result falling outside the given brief achieves. Either they will work with it, or force us back in line in some way; either will be instructive.