portal 2 co-op hell.

[soulsurvivore]

WHO: everyone!
WHERE: everywhere! (within reason)
WHEN: Day 42, late afternoon through evening

[ At some point after the super tasteful Celebration of Life party, small black portals appear in random places in the pasture. Maybe they're next to you. Maybe they appear right underneath you as you're walking along minding your own business.

Regardless, if you step into one, fall into one, or even touch one, you will be sent to another random spot* inside the pasture. Fortunately, all portals seem to connect somewhere within the fence, so at least there's no fear of being dumped into the forest or the mist.

The culprit doesn't appear to be immediately obvious but if one were to follow the scent of magic, they'd find themselves near that big tower. Huh!


* you cannot go inside barns and dwellings and places like that, okay. ]

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[finalbows]

Alright, Diligence, Torment, Fury, Temperance, Temerity, it's time to--


...

_{[ Angel Devil's sheep foraging team each, individually, vanish into different portals right when he's about to lead them back to base. ]}

Of... of course. Why not. It's the pasture, after all, nothing can ever go, TOO, smoothly, for too long.

[pleasantmisery]

[just raising a hand to wave on her way out to the pasture when she sees the foraging team vanish]

Oh no! Where'd they go?

[finalbows]

To the ends of my patience. ...sigh. Shepherd mine, here's a question. I know you can sense the locations of our flock, but... is there, perhaps, the dullest inkling to the whereabouts of our sheep...? I suppose otherwise I ought just take to the sky...

[pleasantmisery]

I don't think sheep count as part of the flock, so, probably not? But I'll give it a try!

[clutching her staff in both hands and attempting to sense the location of the wayward sheep]

[wants_the_phd]

[Watches them suddenly blink out of existence]

--uh.


Hm. That's new.

[finalbows]

_{[ plaintively, ]} We'd even found ginger this time . . .

[wants_the_phd]

Well shucks. Now they're gone forever.

[electricflock]

AAAAA!????

[CATCH, IT’S A FALLING CATBIRDDAFFODIL]

[pleasantmisery]

[catches him in both arms, like he's a beautiful catbirddaffodil princess]

Muffin! Where'd you come from??

[electricflock]

[my knight in shining shadows]

The— lemon tree??

[pleasantmisery]

[looks at the lemon tree

looks at Muffin

looks at the lemon tree

looks at Muffin]

But that's all the way over there!

[wants_the_phd]

[Watches him splash down into the Rose pond]

--!?

[electricflock]

[shrills and squawks and splashes]

Cold!!?

[wants_the_phd]

What the--

Muffin?

[Watching to see if he can swim]

[pleasantmisery]

[perhaps you are merely minding your own business, in which case you might have a Shadow Fiend getting tossed at you from a portal.

or perhaps you are the one getting tossed out of the portal, in which case Shadow Fiend might be the one to catch you.

either way, her reaction is the same:]

Look out!!

[catposting]

[ too late. she falls directly on top of a giant stuffed cat. from underneath said stuffed cat, obscured from view for now: ]

Geez...

[ Akrinak would not usually go down this easily but it's been A Day ]

[pleasantmisery]

[well, at least the landing's soft. but she doesn't see who spoke??]

Huh? Who said that? Was that you, Mr. Cat? Sorry!

[catposting]

Yes, it was me. Mr. Cat.

[ shakes the toy. it's "purring" ]

Meow.

[wants_the_phd]

[Azdaja comes tumbling out, balance lost, looking like she's about to faceplant into the dirt]

Whoa--!

[pleasantmisery]

[catching Azdaja in a perfect princess carry uwu]

Gotcha! Are you okay?

[wants_the_phd]

[TENSE AS A VIOLIN STRING at the sudden full-body physical contact, but doesn't lash out or bite or anything. that's... something? probably?]


Th—thanks.

[WHEEZE]

[beathollow]

( ...


she wants to poke the portal that opened up next to her so bad )

[wants_the_phd]

[A small person is flying out of it, think fast!]

--Wahh!!

[beathollow]

( AH

sonata... catches her! but doesn't quite not stumble a little- )

Goodness! Are you okay?

[wants_the_phd]

[With Sonata's help, she catches her balance and manages to NOT send them both toppling over. But the sudden, unexpected physical contact causes her to reflexively tense up and jerk away.]

[Her brain catches up a moment later and she awkwardly forces herself to relax.]

Ah— y-yeah, er... thanks.


...Sorry.