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wooliefrand ([personal profile] wooliefrand) wrote in [community profile] sheep_game2023-04-29 12:47 pm

ARISE

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]
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[personal profile] literal_trainwreck 2023-04-29 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)
With a blood sacrifice as icing on the cake.

[pauses to look him up and down]

How well can you fight without that knife?
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[personal profile] literal_trainwreck 2023-04-29 06:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I see. Ideally it won't come to that. Our fearless leader is the charismatic type.

[personal profile] antichthonia 2023-04-29 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Uh-huh.

You seen anyone with with a purple bell who's older than twenty?
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[personal profile] literal_trainwreck 2023-04-29 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Only you so far. I certainly hope you don't get the mistaken notion that it gives you any sort of authority over us.
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[personal profile] antichthonia 2023-04-29 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
No. I don't want any authority over you.
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[personal profile] literal_trainwreck 2023-04-29 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Then I'm sure we'll get along.

[nods to our yet-unnamed shepherd]

For what it's worth, I know him. He's more competent than he looks.

[personal profile] antichthonia 2023-04-29 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah? He doesn't really seem to know himself.
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[personal profile] antichthonia 2023-04-29 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
He's forgotten his name. Just like me.
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[personal profile] literal_trainwreck 2023-04-29 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Is that so? There are circumstances in which it's best to avoid sharing one's...

[wait a minute what is his name]

...true name...

[WAIT A MINUTE WHAT'S MY NAME?]
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[personal profile] antichthonia 2023-04-29 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
. . . So it's basically everyone, then.
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[personal profile] literal_trainwreck 2023-04-29 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[with pure grumpiness:]

Apparently.
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[personal profile] antichthonia 2023-04-29 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Hope that's not permanent.
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[personal profile] literal_trainwreck 2023-04-29 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't especially care on a personal basis, but the power of names is prevalent in mythology. Recovering our names may be the key to undoing the power held over us.

[taps his bell]
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[personal profile] antichthonia 2023-04-30 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
You really think so? I kind of thought true name stuff was all . . . superstition.
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[personal profile] literal_trainwreck 2023-04-30 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
I don't believe we're in the type of reality where the distinction between truth and superstition matters.

[personal profile] antichthonia 2023-04-30 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
I hate that you're probably right.
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[personal profile] literal_trainwreck 2023-04-30 02:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I am. Believe it or not, I have experience with this sort of thing.