commander's log 002 | closed action; | open voice;

[chakotay]

[ he's decided to spend the day at the beach. the cross-gates have been quite useful and despite not knowing how they function and being very curious as to that exact question, he utilizes one to get to the northern beach. once there, he settles into a more secluded place where he, hopefully, won't be found very easily and takes out his lovely little city-phone. ]

For all of the City veterans still here... I was wondering how often these curses hit, if there's any way to stop them, and if there's a way to determine the probability of one affecting someone.

[ not counting harry. chakotay's expecting harry to get hit by curses more often than not because that's just the way harry's luck runs. poor ensign. ]

Whatever the case may be, I think it's time for me to start keeping track of how many curses I notice. I wonder if there's a running list of them somewhere?

[ once that's all taken care of, he settles back for another attempt at contacting his animal guide. he's been having a difficult time of it, since his medicine bundle is back on voyager, but he's slowly been trying to gather up things that might help him with it here. it's difficult and strange, but it just might work. so he begins quietly, murmuring the ancestral prayer and taking deep steadying breaths as his eyes slide closed and he focuses on the items in front of him. they're covered by pieces of cloth, wrapped up on the sand in front of him, as he'd rather not have some of them be seen, and some are simply tucked into his pockets. this is mostly an experiment and he has no idea that soon enough a friend will drop by for a visit. ]

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[hischair]

Just check my wounded ego, there's a whole tally chart getting updated daily.

[ Nice meditating, bro. ]

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[chakotay]

[ he's trying. it's a work in progress, honestly. ]

That doesn't sound like a very fun way to spend your time.

[ does someone need to run interference? ]

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[hischair]

[ Probably not going to get very far with Jim nattering in his ear. ]

Oh, trust me, it's a riot.

[indecent_butterfly]

Often, no, and no but the odds are quite high.

There is no rhyme nor reason to the City's antics other than once a month there is at least one long weekend that always has random curses.

[chakotay]

Then it's a good thing to hope that they pass quickly and don't cause too much mayhem.

[ wishful thinking, he knows. ]

[indecent_butterfly]

You have obviously not been here long to think so.

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[candothat]

No one has tracked the curses, to my knowledge. Some of them are regular; most of them are not. There have been ways to be excluded from curses in the past. Not recently.

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[chakotay]

What kind of ways? I'm starting to think keeping some sort of track will help in dealing with them.

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[candothat]

Most recently--not since I arrived here--the deities offered tokens in exchange for essays written on specific topics. These tokens could be kept and used to cancel the effects of a curse.

I only know of this from the network's archives. Those who have been here longer may have more information.

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[affectioning]

[ Behind him, the clinic can be seen, midway through remodeling. He's addressing from the front desk. ]

My best friend keeps a list of them. [ Curses, that is. ] And it seems like twice a week? Weekend curses last a few more days. Others, 24 hours. But, you think there's a way of telling why some of us get cursed one time and then not another?

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[chakotay]

That's probably a good idea. They seem very arbitrary in length and variety. [ also frequency. ] I don't know yet, but I'm hoping to find out. It can't hurt to try.

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[affectioning]

If we all change, like when we all became pirates, I think it lasts longer. Maybe because whatever's causing it is working harder, keeping more of us cursed, maybe that's why it lasts longer. [ Yep. No rhyme or reason, sigh. ] How would you do it?

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[excelsiors]

There's a lot of data on them over this network, but that's incidental at best. I don't know if anyone's kept a database.

_{( he's been compiling one, though. he also wants to introduce himself, but calling chakotay "sir" over the network would be bad for subtlety. so he leaves it at that. )}

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[chakotay]

[ no, that wouldn't be a particularly good idea, would it? for any of them, but especially the voyager crew. they're trying so hard to fly under the radar now, with khan around. ]

It might be worth looking into. At the very least, it's something we can look into, keep track of, and maybe use it to find a pattern.

[ he knows kirk's crew keeps growing here, but he doesn't know them by voice or else he would switch this to their starfleet comm frequency and save them both the trouble. ]

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[excelsiors]

Or at least start classifying what's dangerous and what's only inconvenient.

<sub>( he wouldn't have immediately thought "love" was dangerous, but experience now tells him otherwise.

after a moment he privates the feed. )</sub>

I also thought I'd introduce myself, Commander. I've heard a bit about you from both of our Captains.

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[hexuality]

[And drop by for a visit she does, however unexpected it might be. She's flying, as she always does, because some days are harder than others and she needs to breathe and she needs the fresh air—and the beach is where she wants to go today because maybe she can go for a swim, too, just drop off her broom and straight into the water.

But then she comes across a familiar figure as she's heading out to the water and she'd sneak by (he looks like wants to be alone), but she's already gone and burst through the trees, so that isn't exactly subtle.]

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[chakotay]

[ having someone burst through the trees nearby isn't exactly on chakotay's list of things to do today. in a flash, he's on his feet, his hand going to his pocket and clenching around his phaser out of pure habit before he realizes who it is. his hand relaxes and the phaser remains tucked away. ]

I wasn't aware this was a race track. [ his comment is light-hearted, joking, but he's still a little on edge and doesn't sit down right away. ] If I'd known, I wouldn't be blocking your path.

[ not that he's exactly blocking her, but he's somewhat in the way and may as well move to somewhere quieter if she's going to be blasting around out here. ]

[eiremagic]

No way to do any of that, boyo. You might get lucky and get a curse token, but without the deities, who knows when the next time those'll go up on the market.

[chakotay]

A curse token? What are those?

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[logistical]

Data on the network shows effects, not causes. Currently, there appears to be no regular pattern in who is affected.

[Hi Chakotay did you miss him.]

I am considering an alarm system on our communicators should one of us notice a new incident.

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[chakotay]

[ sob. vulcans. at least they're predictable. ]

That might be a good idea. In the meantime, I'm going to gather as much data as I can about these as long as I'm here. It might eventually lead us to some answers.

[ or it might just be to give him something to do. who knows? ]

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[medicos]

Should probably check with my captain. With the amount of curses that hit him just the last month, I'm surprised none of them were permanent.

[ surprised, but ultimately relieved. he's completely thinking that he doesn't necessarily want jim stuck as a dog forever. ]

If the curses has an effect on a person's physical health - during or after it hits - there'd be records of it in the hospital. That one week were half the people got sick to their bones and needed someone to perform "essence rites" for them was a hell of an adventure. We've kept tabs on the people that was confined in the hospital during that period, and the symptoms that went with it just in case it strikes again. I can check the logs for the older curses and see if I can make copies for us.

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[chakotay]

I'll see what he has to say. It does seem this month has been heavily layered with them. [ at least from his perspective. granted, he hasn't been here nearly long enough to know. ]

That would be very helpful to my research. If you don't mind, I'd like to see what you can dig up. Even a pattern in something like that could help in the long run and it would certainly tell us what to look out for.

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[nooniensingh]

If you do manage to get a comprehensive list of these events, and their effects, I would be very appreciative if you were to share it.

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[chakotay]

[ he's almost positive he's never spoken to this person before, but that voice sounds vaguely familiar, like a flash from his starfleet past. ]

I don't have much to begin with, but I'll see what I can do. It might take some time to accumulate as much data as we'll need. This City has been running for a long time, from what I've been told so far.