smallfries ([personal profile] smallfries) wrote in [community profile] sheep_game2024-03-28 05:10 pm

Ritual Emotionletting

WHO: Emotional people
WHERE: Woolietown
WHEN: Day 69 (nice) afternoon - night

[The afternoon is a warm one. There's a small break in the clouds and down comes a brief, bright sun-shower that seems to make the world glow for a moment. And then it's gone, leaving only dew and the smell of petrichor in its wake.]

[You feel yourself drawn to the center of town, where a massive bare-limbed tree has erupted through the cobbles of the city streets, its naked twigs forming a skeletal canopy across the sky. At the foot of the tree is a little ramshackle market stall and two red sheep dressed in aprons.]

[They speak in unison:]

“Did you know; did you know?

[One sheep has a look that’s bright and sly.]

"There was a werewolf outbreak recently. It was really going around!"

[The other seems a little shamefaced.]

"And then there was a big commotion in the mist, with a light show, and a truck. And a body..."

"Then a ritual, with shooting, and stabbing, and dying! And boats?!"

"A bunch of people left the pasture, and even more arrived. And some got rearranged between the flocks. It’s been a lot to deal with, Tater."

"And it’s hard to know how to feel about it all, Tot. But that’s exactly why--!"

[They gesture to the tree in unison.]

"--We brought in help!"

"...But now that it’s here, we can’t get it to leaf. ...Leave."

"Did you know? It’s not until we’ve felt each and every emotion that the demon will be satisfied!"

"Each and every one? Then we may be like this forever, Tater."

"Maybe that’s for the best, Tot. After all,"

[They join hooves again]

"Making connections is the meaning of life! Eeeheeheehee!"

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