sheep_game | spring is just around the corner

[She's gathered a respectable pile of firewood over the last couple of days and stacked it up against the barn. Unloading her last armload of wood onto the pile, she dusts off her hands.]

Could someone please generate some very long vines? Thornless, preferably. We can use it to mark out the shapes, sizes, and locations of the pools we want to build.

[Shadow Fiend has been a little scarce since the last ritual, as she struggles to deal with temporarily having a full suite of feelings. but one of the feelings she can now feel is ~guilt~ so here she is, helping out by making some long vines start sprouting out of the ground

she doesn't look great--slouchy and tired, and noticeably less chipper than usual. her knuckles are a little raw, as if she's punched a tree or two dozen.]

Pools? How many do we need?

[Shadow Fiend has been a little scarce since the last ritual, as she struggles to deal with temporarily having a full suite of feelings. but one of the feelings she can now feel is ~guilt~ so here she is to help out.

she doesn't look great--slouchy and tired, and noticeably less chipper than usual. her knuckles are a little raw, as if she's punched a tree or two dozen.

but she's trying to put on a cheerful face for Operation Hot Springs!]

like...this hole. Does it have to be a really deep one, or can we just make, like...a really wide but shallow one...? The hole's not gonna be one of the pools, is it?

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[Hmm...]

I was thinking of at least one large private soaking tub over there, for certain very tall members of our flock to engage in normal bathing activities, and then maybe a really big one that's big enough to accommodate everyone, so we don't have to worry about taking turns...?

Maybe something that is long enough that hot water comes in one side and cools as it gets to the other? Then we can have a range of water temperatures in the same pool. What do you think?

Wouldn't that take up a lot of space? I mean, we've got the pasture to ourselves, but still. Maybe we could just have a hot pool and a cold pool side by side?

I guess if we need a cold pool, we already have the pond...

Do you think there might be a way to adjust the temperature of the actual bathing pool? Admittedly I've never actually experienced a hot spring in real life, I've only read about them.

_{[ shows up late with a mug of chicory coffee and a yawn. he's been scarce since the coin ritual ended...

his ritual reward was being granted a fleeting wish to take a nap until he didn't have to worry about mind reading anymore. ]}

Aaahh~. Must confess, I've never went about breaking ground during a frost, before...

Edited 2023-12-29 04:44 (UTC)

[Ironically, hers was to not need sleep at all, so she has been awake for the last 48 hours and feels great.]

I think I can probably handle that part, if you'd be so kind as to levitate the dirt out of the hole...?

_{[ oh good. He absolutely wasn't ever planning on picking up a shovel in the first place, after all. He lounges back on thin air, and waves a hand indolently, plucking a few blades of grass to spin cycle in the air beside him. Look, he's in Wait Mode. ]}

Toil, minion.

Edited 2023-12-29 05:47 (UTC)

Where and how big do you want your tub, your highness? Mark it out, if you please.

_{[ frowns absently.

looks over what's already marked out. releases his cute little grass torment cyclone, and drifts off to a higher vantage point to make up his mind better.

any minute now, angie... ]}

[It's a big decision. He can think about it as she wanders off to talk to Shadow Fiend about the rest of the hot spring or whatever.]

_{[ eventually, he sets down the dimensions for something big enough to splash around a lil if he wanted, setting down vines that he marks with blooms, here and there, at regular points.

he actually lands when he's done, rubbing at his cheek because he can't actually directly rub his sleepy eyes without smudging his makeup. ...didn't he have coffee. He should drink that. ]}

[Once planning of the other pool(s?) is complete, Azdaja looks over everything, nods her head, ...and starts taking off her clothes, as you do.]

Alright, let's get this started.

[Stripping down BARE ASS NAKED right here in front of god and everybody. There's not much to see, anyway. She looks like some scrawny, nigh-genderless teenager with absolutely none muscle definition.]

_{[

angel devil is now very awake. His tail's out of sight, but it's going flick flick flick as he watches and anticipates her transformation. ]}

[It's swift. In the span of a moment, a tail of her own shoots out behind her and horns sprout from her hair. Black scales ripple up her extremities and down her back as rows of red spines sreak across her shoulders and flanks. An extra pair of limbs wrench free from her sides, and she grows bigger, and bigger, and bigger, until she grows so top heavy she falls forward onto four heavy legs.]

[...then she gives herself a good shake like a dog shaking water from its fur, and the bell on her red collar jingles violently about it.]

[Seems like the tip of one horn is missing.]

_{[ incorrect. he knows exactly where the tip of her horn is. it's in a keepsake box in his room, still covered in dried blood! ]}

_{[ definitely absolutely 100% didn't jump a little at the moment she hit the ground on all fours. Out in the open in what dwindling daylight's left, he can't help but regard the play of light on her dark scales, trace out her form in this rare chance to see her in truth and not be focusing _entirely on anticipating an upcoming lunge...

It was worth waking up for this.

Outwardly, he grimaces and cups a hand over one of his ears at the infernal jangling. Nothing to see here, get to work!!!! ]}

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[Has a fish on a stick over the fire, humming to himself.

This is what it's for, right?]

[What a great opportunity to start getting habituated to this sight in situations when he's not getting bitten for a change probably. Instead, he'll get to see what this body was built to do as she sets the tips of her horns to the ground and shoves. The muscles in her neck, shoulders, and thighs bulge under their spiny armor as she plows deep grooves in the earth, carving furrows through the frosty dirt like this was nothing more challenging than a sandbox.]

[They don't call it the labor caste for nothing!]

[Bringing over a basket of fresh shellfish, bite-sized crabs, and other tide pool picking, which she sets down next to him]

My, you're looking even cuter than usual today...! Did you do something with your hair?

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[He chuckles.]

Oh yes. I brought my comb through it two more times than I normally do.

Hm. I don't think that should be difficult.

[ Well, he was somewhat hoping he'd have his pen handled by now, but- it's not something that will drain him. Just needs to make use of the pasture itself, really, so, he can create marked vines for digging as directed. ]

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