crittersheep | CLOVER

CLOVER

[You're in your barn! That doesn't seem so bad--oh, oh wait, you're in the air.

Your barn, and honestly some of your stuff, is just floating on clouds. You can walk on the clouds too if you want, no one's stopping you. You will not, however, be able to return to the ground, far, far below you, no matter what you do.

At least not til the Ritual is complete.

Floating among everything else is your priest, who seems to have fallen into a deep sleep, and the barn's crystal flower.

After a moment, you hear voices resonating from the crystal flower--the holy beasts, their voices and minds melded as one, call out to you.

It asks your Flock 3 simple questions.]

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Look at you, being optimistic~.

I guess. I'm expecting everyone to revolt if he really tries to carry out any of these threats, so I'm 'hoping' he won't turn all the flocks into a lynch mob.

Hah... don't get me wrong, I'm pleased to see you being optimistic for once...

But rituals like this tend to be fueled by magic. The last time we participated in a similar one, we got impaled with spears for answering "wrong".

So? What does that mean? Like I said, we already have magic on our side.

Perhaps you're right. What do you suggest we do, then?

Throw out all the qualifiers for the first and third questions. You can list out all the ways we earned to have what we want, and you can include what could happen if we don't get what we deserve. Certainly none of this would have happened without all of you.

The second question is his chance to do something, to acknowledge everyone, before the end.

Stormy sacrificed his soul for this nonsense. Making demands won't do anything.

Though you may be right about the "qualifiers", in a way... these aren't literal questions. They're clearly meant to test our hearts.

It doesn't hurt to remind all of them what all of this involved, though.

Yeah, it's asking for a summary. What did we learn at the end of all of this?