sheep_game | RUH ROH

WHO: Everyone
WHERE: The Pasture
WHEN: Day 51, Morning

[GOOOOOD MORNING. It's still a bit chilly out, despite it being sunny, and there's still flurries here and there. All fairly normal and pleasant. Maybe you're out stretching, or collecting the morning milk delivery, or tending to your gardens and sheep. All is peaceful and quiet in the serene pasture.

Until, from the mist, something zips out. An arrow of sorts. It shoots through the air at lightning speed, its target suddenly obvious as it strikes a large landmark in the center of town--the eye of the fountain.

If you weren't awake already, the sudden painful howl from death might do the trick.

Its wail doesn't last, but the eye IS open now. . .by force? The eye seems to be being held open by strange, smokey claws. They are semi tangible, but probably you don't want to touch them.

But wait, that's not all! The ground rumbles a bit before settling? A minor quake? Who knows. But more importantly, in both the pasture within the fence and the meadow, strange mushrooms begin to pop up. Occasionally they shoot out pollen and spores, and drift through the air. They can be picked, but after a few hours, two seem to grow back in their place, so be careful with that.

DANG WONDER WHAT ALL IS GOING ON--oh hey there's Blossom? She's carrying a small basket of biscuits in her mouth along with. . .Bluebell's Shepherd Staff? wuh oh.]

Every~thing is gonna be okay~

. . .

[stares at the mushroom and the eye and]

WHAT IS HAPPENING???

[NOTES:
MUSHROOMS
If you get hit by by the spores, one of three effects are available:
-Level 1, minor effect - No outward effects but plagued with horrible, realistic nightmares to the point of preferring to try to stay awake
-Level 2, Fear Hallucinations; you suddenly see hallucinations of things you fear
-Level 3, Intense feelings of hatred for any particular person suddenly come to the surface/take over, making you prone to violence

Additionally If anyone eats, licks, or otherwise deliberately excessively inhales mushroom spores, let me know *immediately* as it will trigger something unskippable for you. ETA N/M THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS LMAO

Note that these can be avoided by just saying whoops ur character didn't get close to one golly. These effects can lessen over time at your convenience but won't disappear completely until you cure them--how? That's up to yall! MAKE UP A FEAR ANTIDOTE. Ping me if your character tries something and I will yay or nay it.

There is ALSO a source of the mushrooms, but to find it, Stuff will need to happen.

THE EYE
If you try to touch the creepy mist hands, you will instantly pass out unconscious, feel zapped, or feel your heart skip a beat. Don't push your luck for now, but they CAN be removed. How again? Characters will have to make up a way ICly; though in this case a solution won't be approved til oocly after the 15th.

SOME IC INFO ABOUT MUSHROOMS

STORMY ON THE EYE

BLOSSOM AND BLUEBELL

ping me with any questions!!]

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Nah. I was sleeping in a bit, until I heard that awful noise... Even Zenith didn't catch who, and he's always hanging out on the roof.

I do have a suspicion, considering what Ananke and Caesura found recently, but there's no confirmation as of yet.

You think it's wolves?

It's something sentient, and wolves are the highest likelihood. Nightmare mushrooms and a nightmare factory are an obvious connection, also.

Extremely difficult to confirm, though.

Not like there's much else out there that's always out to kill us. They even went after the eye...

I ddn't even know that was possible.

[shakes his head]

I tried Lily's abilities on it, but there's no souls involved, and ghosts can't pry the claws off. Did anyone else attempt anything, do you know?

Ummm... I don't think so, but...

[ ... ]

If the claws are wolf stuff, do you think it'd have the same weaknesses as them?

[hm]

A good thought. The stock of wolfsbane really is too low, but we do have sunflowers.

... Oh, yeah! The last time I used my pipe to fight off wolves, it melted their faces right off!

[... ... ... trying to picture this]

Did you tie a sunflower to it--?

Nope. I didn't even know about the sunflowers back then.

That's odd. My staff affected them too, but normal weapons less so.

What's your pipe made of?

I dunno, I thought it was just normal metal this whole time. I haven't fought any since, but... it definitely worked on them before.

Should we go try both in conjunction? Might as well hit twice as hard if the opportunity is there, and I can get some sunflowers from the barn.

Yeah!

[ She lifts said pipe in hand ]

Let's break it down.

All right.

[he's gonna go wander off for a minute to collect like four sunflowers; Lily puts them in the kitchen regularly for fear of more underground skeleton wolves. comes back with them hefted over his shoulder in a bundle]

Shall we?

[ she is so ready to climb on this fountain. as if it were a show of her eagerness, she's got her pipe wielded like a baseball bat. ]

Say the word and this thing's going down.

Just don't hit the Eye itself. I think Death is already having a bad day.

[he's gonna plant the sunflowers in the ground around the fountain, angle them so they hit the shadows without necessarily FULL ON BLINDING DEATH, activate them, and then raise his staff to hit the claws from the other side]

On three.

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Got it. No hitting the eye.

[ READY ]

One, two--three.

[SMACK! THOSE! CLAWS!]

[ gonna heckin SWING at them claws with what is probably a little too much force ]

[thank you for not blinding death she's going through it.

The shadowy claws do sizzle and bubble from the light and the hitting! In fact, they can hear a distant pained growl--and it's not Death's.

Still, they remain grasped stubbornly. It's not enough.]

[probably they hit them at least a couple more times but that does become obvious, yeah. frowns]

We're onto something, but we may need a more concerted effort.

Come on...!

[ she relents, but dammit. ]

Starting to look like it... But that just proves it is the wolves, right?

Indeed. Not that there are many other suspects.

This is certainly a problem.

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