crittersheep | Ritual 31

Ritual 31 - Weeds

[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 a weed 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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[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 01:52 (UTC)

What an interesting ritual.

You say "interesting" like I would say car wreck.

Is that all you have to say about it?!

I live in Hell. Things like this happen all the time.

Yes, actually. As I told our furry little friend I live in hell and things of this nature are commonplace there.

I live in Japan currently, car wrecks happen all the time there too.

We don't have any rules to go by yet, so there's not much else to say. Except I think our immunity to those paper things has run out.

Then you know why I'm unphased.

Oh, wonderful. You're one of those types of Weeds.

Me too, but it can still mess up commute times and be a big hassle.

[ reaches out with a paw to touch the bloody thread that now pierced the wall ]

In your experience, it's a bad thing to blow out an ominous candle in these rituals, right?