crittersheep | Ritual 31

Ritual 31 - Rose

[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.]

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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.]

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]

Edited 2024-06-09 01:55 (UTC)

[ great(?) news everyone

angel devil is back! status: wearing a jaunty, somewhat worn pirate captain outfit, also face down on the floor giving a pained groan. he just went from speedily sailing along with Aero magic to Being In This Room with quite a bit of momentum preserved.

some of the weird papery floor got ruffled up, but it slowly pulls back into place, though with some visible crinkles. ]

[gasp!]

You're back!

[After frowning deeply at the thread coming out of her finger, she goes over to frown at the six candlesheep.]

Hello?

[ rolls over onto his back. notices there's a thread of blood from his pinkie leading to the wall, giving his hand an exploratory flex.

doesn't even need to look up at their current accommodations to know they're in the soup again. ]

With. A welcome party.
Whose fault is it this time.

[ look at him. he's got FRECKLES. ]

Edited 2024-06-08 23:34 (UTC)