crittersheep ([personal profile] crittersheep) wrote2024-06-07 08:26 pm

Ritual 31 - Lily

[You're pulled into an enclosure--it simultaneously feels alive and inorganic. You're free to move around, though you can't escape. The walls are both papery and velvet, and the only light emitted is that from six grey sheep that sit silently against one of the walls. They each don a greyed out version of your flock's flower sprouting from one eye, and a grey, dripping candle upon their heads.

As for you, you feel a sting--a papercut. You bleed a tiny drop of blood that stretches thin, like a thread. It somehow penetrates the wall, and if you tug on it, you can tell it's connected to something. What though, you're not sure.]
endsjustified: (red keep.)

Re: GEN MINGLING

[personal profile] endsjustified 2024-06-08 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[looks at this whole setup as the rules sink in, and draws in air through his teeth]

Six of them.

Somehow I don’t think this is as simple as sacrificing placeholders in the areas of flock members. A flock per effigy, one should think?
spinebuddyandme: (BIG CONCERN)

Re: GEN MINGLING

[personal profile] spinebuddyandme 2024-06-08 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[ eyeing the creepy blood threads ]

Maybe...but they've all got lilies. Are they effigies for other flocks, or for us?
endsjustified: (altair.)

Re: GEN MINGLING

[personal profile] endsjustified 2024-06-08 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[in the PLACE OF*]

It could also very well be that we take whatever we dole out, that’s true. Either way it doesn’t serve to enact a punishment that can’t be survived.
spinebuddyandme: (85)

Re: GEN MINGLING

[personal profile] spinebuddyandme 2024-06-08 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[ nods grimly ]

So we avoid anything fatal.
endsjustified: (dust-eater.)

Re: GEN MINGLING

[personal profile] endsjustified 2024-06-08 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
If we can.

If they’re looking for sacrifices, we might not be able to dodge it for long.
mykidisthebest: (Yeah well payback is a mother fucker)

Re: GEN MINGLING

[personal profile] mykidisthebest 2024-06-08 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[sighs as he peers at the sheep]

They could represent health points too. If you don't mind the video game analogy.
endsjustified: (surmount.)

Re: GEN MINGLING

[personal profile] endsjustified 2024-06-08 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Perhaps. I suppose we can’t tell until the first round concludes, if then.
mykidisthebest: (sing you a song)

Re: GEN MINGLING

[personal profile] mykidisthebest 2024-06-08 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Then the first order of business is...determining how we want to play.
spinebuddyandme: (pic#16731420)

Re: GEN MINGLING

[personal profile] spinebuddyandme 2024-06-08 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[ a slower, reluctant nod ]

If we can.
spinebuddyandme: (:/)

Re: GEN MINGLING

[personal profile] spinebuddyandme 2024-06-08 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Both options sound like they suck.
mykidisthebest: (As we pass the setting sun?)

Re: GEN MINGLING

[personal profile] mykidisthebest 2024-06-08 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
We're dealing with demons, so I'm not expecting it to be pleasant. We just have to get through, same as usual.
endsjustified: (surmount.)

Re: GEN MINGLING

[personal profile] endsjustified 2024-06-08 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I don’t think we have an alternative to ‘as nonfatally as possible.’
spinebuddyandme: (Listening)

Re: GEN MINGLING

[personal profile] spinebuddyandme 2024-06-08 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I know. I was saying something like that to Cres just before...

[ Trails off and gestures at the ritual surroundings ]
endsjustified: (surmount.)

Re: GEN MINGLING

[personal profile] endsjustified 2024-06-09 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
Whatever we choose to do will be done together.
mykidisthebest: (is sick of silence)

Re: GEN MINGLING

[personal profile] mykidisthebest 2024-06-09 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
Technically "as quickly and fatally as possible" is an option too. I didn't think we'd pick it, exactly, but you know how this goes. If we pick the lesser options we'll probably pay the price later.
endsjustified: (duty borne.)

Re: Discussion

[personal profile] endsjustified 2024-06-09 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
Not one or six…three and four are risky if the location is not specified, too.
mykidisthebest: (What if we could take a taste of maybe)

Re: GEN MINGLING

[personal profile] mykidisthebest 2024-06-09 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
Were you? What timing.

[...hesitates for a second before giving him a pat on the shoulder]

It sucks, but it always sucks. We just have to stick with what we won't regret, as much as possible.
mykidisthebest: (Don't look back)

Re: Discussion

[personal profile] mykidisthebest 2024-06-09 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not a fan of five. Even if it seems like the least painful option, if it's permanent...I don't want to go with it.

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