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

[beathollow]

( girl what

what? what.

...

she's just. looking around quietly. occasionally she'll touch the bell on her collar like '???' as one does. )

Is this... normal?

( nope but you don't have to worry your amnesiac little head about that. )

[aididitmyway]

[green bells!!! except hers is on a staff]

I don't think so! It's... it's gotta be one of those prank shows, right?

[beathollow]

... I'm... not sure what you mean. I'm sorry.

( head? empty. only music, medical knowledge, archery and like... the vague sense of be perfect or die. it's probably fine. )

You're green too...

[aididitmyway]

[She shakes her head.]

Ehhh, it's just like those shows where people surprise other people with things! But—I guess we're together, aren't we? The same color.

[beathollow]

I think so. It's the easiest way to differentiate teams, right...? That or clothes.

( but since no one else is dressed like a really gothic school girl, she doubts that is the case. )

... I think we introduce ourselves, but I don't remember my name. Or anything.

[heavyliesthecrown]

I cannot imagine.

. . . At least I do not believe so?

[ He might not recall much right now, but surely talking sheep is not a normal occurrence.]

It feels too strange.

[beathollow]

( she taps the bell again, lets it ring.

...

yeah no despite the almost blank look on her face, it's rapidly apparent that she's super overwhelmed. )

I'm not sure what to do now.

[heavyliesthecrown]

I am afraid I feel a little at a loss myself. Our first move ought to be seeking the authorities, but-

[ He glances around. ]

I am unsure that they are anywhere near. Everything here appears very-

[What is a polite term for it?]

Rustic?

[beathollow]

It's different than the bit of home I do remember. I've never seen so much grass.

[finalbows]

No.

This is.... actually rather gentle for a summoning into another world.

But also terrifically mismanaged.

[beathollow]

Oh. You have experience with this sort of thing? The boy with blue fire said that... normally the way back is to... level up, gain powers, and fight the final boss.

( please confirm )

[finalbows]

'Beat the enemy, you get to go home' sounds about right. _{[ for the other team. who had never once won. ]} I can't imagine how epic of a foe a bunch of sheep might have us facing, frankly... perhaps a very large wolf.

[beathollow]

Wolf packs can be very dangerous, even to groups.

[restage]

Not at all.

[ Helpfully. ]

[beathollow]

Oh, okay.

( just rolling with it... )

... You look like the girl with red eyes- I didn't get her name.

( they can't give their names. )

[restage]

She's my twin sister.

[ He immediately knows who she means because, well.

Yeah, he's talked to Ruby and knows she's there. ]

[beathollow]

Mm. ( makes sense. ) She had a green bell like me. Though, you likely already knew that.

[adorabrawler]

There's no way this is normal to anyone.

[beathollow]

( a child... says the 17 year old. )

That's what I'm gathering. I just... can't remember anything, so I'm not sure.

[adorabrawler]

—Huh? Did you hit your head on something?

[beathollow]

I don't know. It doesn't hurt... but almost everything is gone.

( ... )

I'll have to ask the sheep. But until then, don't worry, alright...? All I ask is for a little patience if I don't know something.

[shortforever]

What are you, some sheltered kid? Not a damn thing about this is normal.

[beathollow]

No, just amnesiac.

( she says it so simply... though at this point, it really is her simple reality. )

Though I do appreciate the confirmation that my instincts were working correctly!

[shortforever]

[Well. That sure is something.

He actually pauses there and thinks about what she's saying and how she's saying it before he responds.]

You're just...fine with that? With not knowing anything?

[beathollow]

No. ... But right now, there's nothing I can truly do. And if I just... let the fear consume me, I won't be able to do anything. So... for now, I'll carry on.