sheep_game | the mad scramble

- Charon is just gonna flat out tell Lily like. Do not use Lily powers on things that come from the mist, like mist wolves and ghost whatever. Whatever animates them will try to pull YOUR soul out of your body and is stronger than an individual Lily. If asked how he knows, he'll admit he tried it when Dabi broke the fence and a bunch of mist wolves attacked. He will not mention he got cursed though.

- He will mention he got some other people's info on what's in the mist and it's just bad. Everything in there is animal ghosts that shapeshift and combine and can smell you and want to eat you. Getting bit also turns you into werewolves, and there is a VERY small stock of the wolfsbane cure on hand. You can also still attack with your canon powers if you are a werewolf so that's extra bad.

- Sunflowers are useful to take in there with you if you MUST go. The light from them hurts the mist beasts badly, but no one's found a way to distill it from the flowers or store it in anything else. Take multiple whole flowers if you go. There is a bundle of fresh ones stacked against the barn wall; Lethe and he will be taking some for the Rose adventure on night 27 but the rest are for Lily use if needed. Probably someone should plant those.

- Angel Devil got lost in the mist and turned into a werewolf on a mist trip the other day btw. Rose is due to try to rescue him, hopefully by luring him near the fence rather than actually plunging into the mist. It's hard to say how it will turn out.

- Lethe and Charon will be assisting Rose! Not by accompanying them or helping them fight Angel Devil down, but by buffing and support spelling Rose before they go. They will not be entering the mist unless some shit gets truly dire.

- ICly they will say the scheduling is for Day 28, but they'll actually be called to come help Rose very late night 27 when Angel Devil wanders near the fence early.

Edited 2023-08-23 21:29 (UTC)

- Some of the sunflowers will be going into the kitchen to help with [being underground near wolves skeletons].

- Sunflowers should probably also be planted near/around the security stones. Could make flower beds around the trees that'll go over the stones.

So. The mist encroaching is related to the explosion this morning.

Thistle made a deal with the bomb demon for revival, and confirmed an attack from one demon's powers can hurt another. There is a ram demon in the mist -- it presides over a cave of golden statues, previous instances where shepherds sacrificed members of their flocks for protection. That protection, it turns out, is the power holding the mist at bay in the pasture.

Thistle used their detonation to hurt or kill the demon and destroy its collection, but retrieved one statue, which began to melt when it was removed from the cave. The coating melted completely off it in the pasture, and a living young man with ram horns emerged from within, but he only had time to be briefly disoriented before he turned into one of the mindless sheep we see here every day. There doesn't seem to be a way to reverse this effect, but Blossom has said we are here to inspire the sheep back to themselves, and we can see they have been slowly regaining sentience and awareness the longer we stay here.

Also of relevance: it seems all of this mess has to do with some conflict between two kings, King Stormia who was ruler over the sheep and shepherds, and the Wolf King who rules the fanged beasts. The Wolf King is the animating hostile force in the mist -- a giant, physical, ghostly creature.

Stormy also showed up in the aftermath, and confirmed that he is King Stormia's son, and King Stormia is dead. For those who missed it, he assumed a more humanoid shape briefly during the festival, so the line between divides a 'sheep' from a 'shepherd' in this realm is...blurry right now, at best.

I think that is everything, at least in the past couple of days, but if you require further clarification I will offer as best as I can.

In the wake of that last deathly ritual, it has come up that we should actually formalize alliance arrangements with Bluebell, if all are amenable. I've floated it to Minuet and he agrees.

I don't think this really needs to govern our everyday interactions much, if everyone is happy with current arrangements -- we get along and work together well enough. But having something concrete arranged for rituals is something we do need to have on the table. What to do with regards to the other flock in dangerous games. Signals for when we need assistance, or if we are trying something outside the bounds and require the other flock to trust us and let us proceed forward on our own.

It's something we need to talk through together with Bluebell, but...is everyone all right with having that talk?

If we blow ourselves up for Bluebell unprompted during a ritual ever again I'm going to throw the biggest tantrum I've ever thrown.

So yeah we should talk about expectations and stuff.

[ raises his hand ]

Why did Thistle do those things.

Oh. Also, Tart said we're helping build Crois a clinic and I think we kinda owe them anyway so I said I'd ask.

Some other practical matters of note --

Everyone should be aware that Crois has offered to help with the issues concerning Chronos's dangerous blood and the magical relic attached to his heart. He has some expertise dealing with such things, apparently. This will take time, and Chronos needs to obtain information from his home through Red or perhaps Blossom and then glean through it. But this is an ongoing effort.

Aides, Lethe and I have also been going through the library with regards to your memories, to try to pinpoint more information about the issue. This is also slow going, but it at least does not need to be interrupted by quests.

And all of you -- are you amenable to having enough of your blood collected and frozen to grow a spare body from the limbus plant, should it be needed? Stormy said it required about a pint. There has been some talk of growing the bodies in advance, but they also need to be cold-preserved if not used. Fantasia and I also discussed another shared facility expressly for that type of storage, but Blossom is not present to consult, so the blood should suffice for now.

Edited 2023-08-23 21:21 (UTC)

[Chronos is actually showing an emotion right now. The emotion is: why.]

I assumed we were already in a formalised alliance with Bluebell, considering how integrated they've become with our day-to-day.

But I agree with this. In my world, when we allied with other mercenary companies, it was standard to negotiate simple means of communicating across the battlefield. Usually with whistles or handsigns. I think it'd be a good idea to do this in preparation for the next ordeal we'll be forced to face.

[nodding]

I said I'd help since we do owe them. So you can count me in.

[ thumbs up ]

I-it's also part of my finding positive solutions to problems quest so...

[Styx is Sir Hella Biased and therefore just letting others have their say on this one.]

I've no objections to this. Crois is a good man and deserves a clinic.

We owe Crois for sure, so yeah, I'm good with that.

... Jesus fuckin' Christ.

If we're doin' the blood thing, should make it a rotation for donatin' so we're not all wiped out from bloodloss or whatever.

Well, we're all losing a pint regardless if we want to have the option of a spare, but it certainly does not have to be all on the same day.

We have to actually gather more of the limbus liquid to store as well, though. Right now we only have one bottle.

[ regarding my what. oh right. i guess ]

It's a worthwhile effort all around; I'd be pleased to contribute to that even if we didn't owe him greatly.

Edited 2023-08-23 21:43 (UTC)

I believe the sentiment was that if they were going to be blowing themselves up, they wished to make something worthwhile of the effort.

[sorry buddy]

It's a lot, I know.

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