Rebirth Height 7 - Orb 2

[ex_apaintingdarkly917]

I... need some help.

[ Dark's face is bruised and grumpy. Clearly he isn't happy about needing to ask for help. ]

This isn't like anything I've seen before, and my powers aren't what they usually are.

[ That actually bothers him about as much as random women throwing things at him. ]

Do any of you guys have experience with curses?

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[give_kitty_cake]

[Koma has actually seen several curses in her time so this is something she finds rather interesting. ]

What kind of curse?

[When she notices the bruises on Dark's face... ]

Did you hurt yourself?

[goldeneyeball]

Curses? Having them cast on you or having them removed? Because I'm only experienced in one of those.

[ex_apaintingdarkly917]

I'm not sure. Like I said, it's not something I've seen before.

[ He bristles. ]

Not exactly.

[ex_apaintingdarkly917]

Having them removed. Normally I wouldn't have any problem with it, but this one's being stubborn.

[give_kitty_cake]

Then what happened?

[ex_apaintingdarkly917]

I was in town, and all these women started throwing things at me for no reason!

[goldeneyeball]

Hnnn.

_{[He scratches the base of one of his antlers. Curses were messy, always.]}

That's not the one I'm too experienced in. What'cha got? Bad luck? Spontaneous shape-shifting? Hemeroids?

Or d'you just mean your magic bein' wonky? Because if that's it, I don't think there's a thing you can do about it. This whole place is fucked up.

[give_kitty_cake]

No reason?

[Forgive the smirk here but... ]

Did you say something to them?

[Koma thinks it a high possibility that they might just have been offended. ]

[ex_apaintingdarkly917]

I know what's wrong with my magic. [ Or at least he's got theories. Shut up. ]

It's this stupid rock I got stuck with. It's like it's making me a target, or something.

[ex_apaintingdarkly917]

All I had time for was "hello"!

[ What an outrageous accusation. ]

[give_kitty_cake]

Maybe that was enough.

[His reputation might be spreading. ]

What makes you think that was a curse?

[goldeneyeball]

Rock? What kinda rock?

_{[JW wonders if he means the Orb but isn't sure.]}

Tried breaking it?

[ex_apaintingdarkly917]

It kept happening, no matter where I went!

[ His poor reputation... ]

[give_kitty_cake]

Stay in the castle until people forget about it?

It doesn't sound like any curse I have heard of before.

[ex_apaintingdarkly917]

Last time a gem like this was broken, something worse came out. [ The witch who gave him this curse. >:| ]

I'm not doing anything to it until I know what exactly is going on.

[ex_apaintingdarkly917]

Until they forget about what? Nothing like this happened before I got the stupid rock.

[goldeneyeball]

_{[James scratches his chin.]}

Try to bury it? Tie it to a bigger rock and throw it in a lake? Try to give it to somebody else?

What'd you say it drew to you?

[give_kitty_cake]

What rock?
If it is a curse then an object you came into contact with recently might have caused it to attach to you.

[ex_apaintingdarkly917]

Angry women.

[ex_apaintingdarkly917]

This gemstone the crazy chaos lady gave me in New Haven.

[goldeneyeball]

Angry women?

[That...was one HELL of a curse. James does not envy the man at all.]

Wow, ah, man, I can't think of anything to ward off angry ladies...compliments, maybe? What are they angry about?

[give_kitty_cake]

[Maybe it was a curse after all... ]

You shouldn't carry the gemstone around with you. I can't tell what kind of curse it is over the Orb like this, but its too dangerous to be in contact with a cursed object.

[ex_apaintingdarkly917]

Nothing! I just passed one of the serving girls in the hall, I didn't even look at her and she threw her tray at me!

[ex_apaintingdarkly917]

I left it in my room. Like I said, normally curses are easy for me, but there's something strange about this one.

[goldeneyeball]

...this may not be a curse, pal, that just might be women being women.

_{[James is single. 8I THERE ARE REASONS.]}

What's your name anyhow? How long you been stuck here?