How to Celebrate 4 Years of Carnival Catastrophes

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The Shepherdess Plot



My how the rain washes away cake, leaving fertile fields in its wake!

Walk around the woods, feel the damp green grass between your toes, and gaze upon the stalks that have appeared in the City's wild. These plants will be sprouting from the ground (seedling-->sprout-->lamb-->sheep stages) at 12:01am May 10, Monday. Most will be full grown sheep by sunrise and the animals can be cut down from their stalks at either stage without any pain to them or they can pull themselves off easily. What's left of the stalk can be plucked from the abyss of their wool but once the sheep has "blossomed" the plant won't be able to bear sheep again. Only one sheep per plant!

Now aren't they cute, baa'ing around like a cottony flock of flocking cottoniness? What a shame this is how the sheep are by day and this is how the sheep are by night. Repeat, the sheep appear docile but their are inherently vicious killers. These are not the lambs the Citizens sacrificed; those sheep are ~dead~ These sheep are smarter, more savage, and they will appear darling until you turn your back. But really, once the City catches on that the sheep are behind wanton violence and senseless slaughter, well they'll have nothing to hide will they? An all out attack on the City begins at nightfall May 11, Tuesday!

What can Citizens do to defend themselves? Learn how to use a gun, axe, spear, gosh there are so many ways to take down sheep. Rabid sheep are another story maybe, considering they're as strong as bulls and they will bite, so Citizens will have to get creative. But as smart sheep are, they can and will recognize those who chose not to sacrifice their lamb brothers and lamb sisters, returning the favor by not attacking such Citizens. Most of the time anyway. As for the Deities' response? The City'll just have to wait and see for that.

TIMELINE SUMMARY
May 10 (daytime): lamb plants sprout from the ground, sheep roam the City
May 10 (nighttime): the sheep covertly show their true vicious colors
May 11 (nighttime): the sheep attack the City en masse
May 14 (nighttime): sheep are thrown into a sinkhole, the mountain explodes

SHEEP SUMMARY
They are strong.
They are fast.
They are mean.
They want to eat your character
They will spare your character if your character refused to sacrifice a lamb from the Plague Plot. They don't have to spare your character if you don't want them to of course.

DAMAGE SUMMARY
- untreated sheep bites will result in characters acting as rabid as the sheep within 12 hours, infected characters will be extremely aggressive and want the flesh of other characters, sheep do not attack infected characters, characters cannot infect other characters
- a rabies treatment administered within 12 hours after bite exposure will completely prevent infection, treatment given after 12 hours from bite exposure will not work and the character will become infected
- this plot has a Death Exemption, characters whose death results from sheep shenanigans come back to life anytime on May 15, infected characters also return to normal anytime on May 15

That concludes the rundown on the Shepherdess plot for now. Look on the bright side, at least the sheep can't open doors...or can they?

UPDATE: A log for anyone who wants to play out herding sheep into The Square!

Comments

[contaminations.livejournal.com]

First!

Thiiissss is awesome.

[anti-buttons.livejournal.com]

Also. ... That picture of the violent sheep.

alsknmflsdgds

[pirate-mod.livejournal.com]

Gore warning! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bkG3QEEnDM)

[soulofocean.livejournal.com]

THIS IS AMAZING OKAY

I take it the sacrificial lambs wishy-washy people couldn't kill and kept as pets remain normal?

[pirate-mod.livejournal.com]

That's right and the rabid sheep would not attack them or their wishy-washy owners |D The plot is flexible so you are more than welcome to work out another way for your character to be attacked even though she or he did not sacrifice a lamb, for example the rabid sheep will attack an innocent character if that character attacks the sheep first.

[soulofocean.livejournal.com]

Got it. Oh dear, Fluffy is safe. This will make the apartment happy.

[playstheblues.livejournal.com]

I hope you know this is why Blue hates sheep.

[pirate-mod.livejournal.com]

These sheep are equally discriminating!

[child-radical.livejournal.com]

So will the sheep go after everybody in the apartment that sacrificed the lamb or the one that actually did the killing?

[pirate-mod.livejournal.com]

You may play it out so that the sheep will attack all of those who condoned the killing whether or not they physically did it or you may have the sheep attack only the one who physically killed a lamb. The plot is open to interpretation especially where moral questions such as "Did Character A condone the sacrifice by doing nothing to stop it?" are concerned. It's really up to you and the players of those in the home!

[gforgreat.livejournal.com]

LOL BLACK SHEEP

lord that movie was crazy.

[pirate-mod.livejournal.com]

"Get the flock out!"

[riderjacked.livejournal.com]

THIS IS REALLY AWESOME.

Now I need to discuss with Chiqui the best way to handle Ryoutarou's bad luck with this. 8)

[pirate-mod.livejournal.com]

The plot is open to interpretation but if you have any questions on whether or not some ideas are plausible feel free to ask!

[riderjacked.livejournal.com]

Alright! I'll do that if there's anything like that that comes up. :3

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

Sheep attacks on my birthday... NOT SURE IF WAAAAAAANT |D

Actually, no, do want. A lot. Oh yes.

[pirate-mod.livejournal.com]

Blood baths for birthdays ♥

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

Gee, and after all that worrying about sacrificing a lamb to ward off the Angel of Death. Sure pulled the wool over our eyes!



...I'll just be going now.

[pirate-mod.livejournal.com]

Okay then, after ewe 83

[decade-of-rot.livejournal.com]

Yesss it starts after my last final! \o/ This is great.

Question! If a character wasn't in the game during the sacrificial lamb plot, would the sheep attack them?

[pirate-mod.livejournal.com]

That's up to you! The rabid sheep can ignore the character or the sheep can attack the character because the rabid sheep believes that character would have supported the sacrifices. There are other ways to have your character involved in sheep shenanigans even though he or she wasn't in the game during the plague plot, for example getting between a rabid sheep and someone who did sacrifice a lamb or if your character happens to be cooking a lamb shank with the kitchen window open you are more than welcome to have a rabid sheep use that as a reason for attack.

[decade-of-rot.livejournal.com]

Awesome~ so looking forward to this one. ♥

[manofgnee.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is awesome. This is twelve kinds of awesome. I'm SO GLAD I didn't kill any of the sheep during the plague plot now.

And those sheep, the ones that were kept by people as pets, they're not affected by this, and the other sheep won't go after them, right?

[robot-mod.livejournal.com]

That's right, and the rabid sheep would not attack the pet sheep or their kind-hearted owners :3 But the plot is flexible so you are more than welcome to work out another way for your character to be attacked even though she or he did not sacrifice a lamb, for example the rabid sheep will attack an innocent character if that character attacks the sheep first.

[manofgnee.livejournal.com]

:3 Oooh, this is gonna be fuuuun! I'm really looking forward to this one!

[holymadonna.livejournal.com]

AWESOME *_*

[robot-mod.livejournal.com]

We certainly hope so!

[stargathering]

So infected characters go cannibalistic? *wants to makes sure she read right;;*

[shark-mod.livejournal.com]

Think of it as a 28 Days Later sort of scenario: infected characters become hyper-aggressive and do crave the flesh of other characters. Fortunately this time characters cannot infect other characters if they manage to get a bite in.

[parashot.livejournal.com]

[samurai-mod.livejournal.com]

[adamantined]

brb calling Ackbar

[hidesinrestroom.livejournal.com]

I saw that evil sheep pic and was reminded of

[samurai-mod.livejournal.com]

... O MY GOODNESS.

[adamantined]

HAHAHAslkdfj

[shahni.livejournal.com]

GOD DAMN I WISH I HAD A CHARACTER WHO WOULD HAVE KILLED WILLINGLY

...mm, lamb chops.

[viking-mod.livejournal.com]

Don't invite the lamb chops to the play along. It would not end well.

[fullmetal-tora.livejournal.com]

sdfjd wow. I knew I joined this place for a reason.

Man-eating sheep? WIN. <333

[viking-mod.livejournal.com]

Ewe know it'll be a good time. :)

[sitaronthewater.livejournal.com]

Watch this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRY7wBuCcBY&feature=related), and please go all the way to the end, it's dry at first, but- worth it.

Rated PG for politics, poorly done costuming and graphics, and for your brain when it realizes how sad it is that someone is actually getting paid for this.

[pirate-mod.livejournal.com]

Creep sheep mask!

[sitaronthewater.livejournal.com]

Our friend downstairs was sick, so we made a quarantine sign, with a warning against demon creep sheep.

[dr_conscience]

Quick question, if I may~?

If a character is bitten, can they have a much faster onset of infection? If, perhaps, one wanted to get a couple hours in of infected madness before said character dies due to blood loss from sheep bites?

[pirate-mod.livejournal.com]

Yes you may do this for your character.

[raecee.livejournal.com]

Awesome~ thank you <3333333

[calculusdragon.livejournal.com]

Would anything happen to a character that happened to eat one or two (or ten) of the sheep?

[pirate-mod.livejournal.com]

Sorry about the delay! You may either have the character become infected as per the 12 hour description or you may have the character remain unaffected. This is dependent on how you want to interpret your character's anatomy, for example: highly potent stomach acid may protect your character from infection, however a bite to the face while consuming a sheep may result in infection.