THE SHEEP GATES ARE OPEN

[wooliefrand]

Who: Anyone
Where: Everywhere
When: Day 1, Afternoon

[THE SHEEP HAVE BEEN SET LOOSE. EXPLORE THE SETTING. GET TO KNOW EACH OTHER. MAKE POOR DECISIONS. DO WHATEVER.

Feel free to use this as a catch all for exploration, but everyone is now free to make their own posts as well!!]

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[plied_magic]

[has walked far enough out to find the mist, and is staring at it]

That has to be magical.

[so... how about she just sits nearby and tries to see what she can learn before jumping in? Let's be smart]

[finalbows]

Of course it's magical. _{[ a beat. ]} Though it's not Mist, at least, so we don't have that to worry about.

_{[ the capital M there is audible ]}

[plied_magic]

Mist?

[finalbows]

Basically a melange of decaying souls. Does all kinds of fun things. I figured it was worth checking if it was. This, though... I can't quite tell what all it is...

[plied_magic]

Do you have any ability to sense what sort of spell it is?

[finalbows]

We'll see.

<sub>[ He holds up a hand, and from a little whorl of darkness rising from his palm appears.. a strange little eyeball, looking like a cross between an ancient relic and a living thing. It floats off toward the fog, zipping around to a few different spots to peer at it...

Then returns to his hand, and melts away back into darkness. Angel Devil flexes his fingers, staring down at them thoughtfully as I run off to read the info pages / ask ]</sub>

[wooliefrand]

[When the scanner relic returns to him, he'll feel a jolt of fear. There's a flash, and suddenly it feels like everything has gone dark, with nothing but two massive, glowing yellow eyes staring into his soul. It's a feeling of prey being cornered, life flashing before your eyes--

and then everything returns to normal. Wow what a nice day it is!]

[finalbows]

<sub>[ --and then the results of the spell hit, and from the outside, he freezes like the cornered animal he becomes in that moment, two lamplight eyes staring him down--

when he's let back loose, he takes a step back, the sound of birdsong and warmth of the sun slowly filling back in around him. It feels a little less nice than it did before. He kinda wants to go back to his barn, tbh. ]</sub>

Sst--That's... that was a little more bite back than I expected.

[plied_magic]

[Thankfully, she was only at the edge of that, but it was enough to wipe the smile off her face.]

That... I think we better warn our flocks not to try that experiment again.

[finalbows]

Quite. Message received, loud and clear.

...it might be worth asking our woolly little hosts if what seems to be in ever comes out.

[plied_magic]

Or if that's a something or... [think of an analogy] a scarecrow? Easier to make a barrier none of us can get near or focus on than one that is too strong to break.

If it gets in here, that would mean it's not a scarecrow.

[finalbows]

Oh, that's a clever thought! _{[ you get a momentary ^ v ^. ]} Keep the little lamblings from going past the point of no return, with a big leering sign anyone can understand.

Well, personally, I've no reason to try to defy it for now. For a cage, this is fairly roomy, and everything to do with why we're here is back there.

_{[ a loose gesture back to the pastures and woolietown... ]}

[plied_magic]

I can't say I like being in a cage at all, but I'd prefer my escape attempts work the first time, so I'm waiting.

[finalbows]

Haha... Rare is the soul who willfully does!

I'll wager it remains just the same all the way around, but I think I'm going to look a little bit more, just in case. Maybe there's a bottleneck were it thins out, who knows.

[plied_magic]

Good luck.

I'm going by Chord, by the way.

[finalbows]

A pleasure, Chord. I... have been titled the Angel Devil by our team lead. ...She's a very spirited sort.

[plied_magic]

Are you all going by some sort of theme for nicknames?

[finalbows]

Good guess. Here's a hint. Our fearless leader sports a pair of pointy red horns.

[plied_magic]

Was she the one yelling earlier?

[finalbows]

That's the one.

[plied_magic]

So she picked the theme?

[finalbows]

She picked the theme. It was either that or she was going to start calling me-- _{[ let's not spread around that he was getting compared to a monkey actually, chord might start wondering why and he's like the brief glimpse everyone got of his tail before he got his magic back to fade gracefully from memory ]} Well, something rather more undignified. I can work with what I'm given.

[plied_magic]

That's very rude of her. Or very clueless.

[finalbows]

I've met devils with worse personalities, honestly. She seems... mostly harmless. If exuberant.

[plied_magic]

I don't know what a devil is, to be honest.