Ritual 31 - Thistle

[crittersheep]

[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.]

Comments

GEN MINGLING

[crittersheep]

[shortforever]

[mmmmmMMMMM SURE DON'T LIKE THIS]

Re: GEN MINGLING

[leonheartedly]

[fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck]

[shortforever]

Didn't we kill the Gold demon twice at this point?

[survivaltricks]

[jerks back against the thread, visibly surprised]

[. . .]

[starts. . . laughing]

[reportinastorm]

[LOOKS AT HIM]

Re: GEN MINGLING

[reportinastorm]

[CONCERNED...

Tugging on her thread and following it to where it disappears in the wall, staring]

...I doubt that's a good sign.

[shortforever]

This is gonna be a bad one.

ROUND 1

[crittersheep]

ROUND ONE
[Suddenly the sheep speak--and warp, taking on humanoid, blank-slate forms. They still have candles on their heads.]

Please, choose one of us and do what needs to be done. Our bodies are merely vessels to be used.

[Each sheep/person vocalizes the method to be put to use on them:]

1) "Strangle me with your bare hands"
2) "Remove a limb with your own power."
3) "Carve a pound of my flesh out."
4) "Rip through my flesh with your teeth."
5) "Rip an emotion you deem essential from my being."
6) "Hold my head down in water until I still."

If you do not have any weapons/objects on you, one will be provided for the specified task. For the emotion option, whoever is doing the task, their hand will glow with a dark power, enabling them to reach in and extra the emotion.

Choose two tasks, and who will enact them. It can be the same person who wants to carry out both, or voice if you're abstaining.]

Decision

[crittersheep]

Re: Decision

[leonheartedly]

- Tyr is doing "Rip through my flesh with your teeth."
- Flora is doing "Rip an emotion you deem essential from my being."

Results

[crittersheep]

The Flesh - CW Cannibalism Adjacent

[wooliefrand]

[The humanoid sheep walks forward, presenting its shoulder and bared neck, though he can bite where ever he sees fit. However, due to Tyr's flat herbivore teeth, he'll also feel a sensation in him--one that urges him to bite as hard as possible, rend as much as possible.

Commence.]

The Emotion

[wooliefrand]

[The humanoid sheep walks forward, and Flora's hand crackles with a dark energy.

It bares its chest to her.]

Discussion

[crittersheep]

Re: Discussion

[reportinastorm]

[Looking increasingly distressed as the sheep-avatars recite their tasks,]

...The actions are distressing enough on their own, but I'm also a worried about what these sheep are representing...

ROUND 2

[crittersheep]

Your gifts imbue our sacrifices with amazing power.

Use those powers to inflict the harshest punishment within your mortal imaginations up the sacrifice.

[ooc: use your sheep powers to inflict a punishment of your choice/creation. Depending on the severity, additional punishments may be added if the demons don't feel you are putting effort into it.

You still don't know who specifically the sacrifice may be, but given your flock's last two victims, that can help narrow it down]

DECISION

[crittersheep]

Re: DECISION

[reportinastorm]

We'll use our power to silence them so they can't scream, then use our ability to control Thistle thorns to stab them with all of them at once, then use that pain to heal them so we can do it again, until every part of their skin has been pierced by thorns.

RESULT

[crittersheep]

Thistle's Call

[wooliefrand]

[The sheep appear, and are immediately replaced by two sacrifices. They cannot speak due to Thistle's power, and can only stare at them.

It's then they're assaulted with thistle's thorns all over their body, and healed from the pain.

And then the process repeats. Over and over again.

Thistle may decide how many rounds this goes on (they know it must be at least three).]

DISCUSS

[crittersheep]

ROUND 3

[crittersheep]

DISCUSSION

[survivaltricks]

[PER ASH OUR QUESTION IS CLOVER, LILY, ABSTAIN]






[also there's a horse here]

SUBMISSION

[survivaltricks]

[LILY]

[sure hope we don't fuck you guys over!]