[Filtered from Known DELILAH Members || Unhackable]I've been giving it due consideration, and yet I'm not certain if this October is as bad, worse, or better than past Octobers. I've certainly seen my fair share of them--perhaps more than my fair share, since I'm quickly coming up on five and a half years spent here.
Still, the first part of the month did not bode well for the rest of it. I daresay the 'best' of the curses was the two days of pandemonium we seem to have monthly.
Well, there was something of a curse the day before yesterday. Perhaps that was the mildest of all the curses that we've endured so far this month. I would like to have it known that I was
not cursed on Monday, though I do have it on good authority that a great many people were. As some saw fit to inform me of such. Perhaps that was the best of what we'll endure this month.
I'll not think too hard on the previous curses. They were befitting October.
Perhaps I ought to say something, since I know there are any number of people now in the City who have never seen an October and a Hallowe'en in the City:
October is perhaps the cruelest month in the City, as the month carries forward towards Hallowe'en as its end and pinnacle. The whole of the month seems to rush headlong towards all the superstitions, ghosts, monsters, and nightmares with which Hallowe'en is so readily associated. Perhaps some haven't even heard of Hallowe'en before now. Think of it as a feast of the dead, if you like; a last vestige of old superstition that still lingers in several worlds--my own included. And it seems that the 'deities' of this City celebrate this holiday for the whole of the month and with great enthusiasm, drawing on all the stories of horrors and beasts to inspire their curses.
And so we have been tormented and tortured, locked in prisons, thrown into traps, chased by angry mobs, made to bleed, made to suffer, driven mad--yes, the curses are wretched any month, but they seem to take on a new kind of bloodied menace for the month of October. October has a reputation, if I may put it so.
This month, perhaps more than any other, we live in between the curses. And I, for one, am glad of any mild curse we might encounter from now until Hallowe'en.
So, if I may say so, is there a curse today? I'm of the opinion that there must be. I've noticed no small number of people acting rather coy. Or, if not coy, then outright suspicious. It's difficult to explain unless one sees it. It's as though they're trying to attract notice while pretending to be invisible.
Believe me, it isn't working so well. I'd not think it a curse except that I've seen it more than a few times. Anything so mad and maddening seen more than a few times seems likely to be a curse.
Now, if you will excuse me, there seems to be a young lady standing outside the cafe window very pointedly looking away and blushing whenever I turn to face her. I do hope she sees this: she really is rather charming.
~C.
[ooc: Abuh. I have been suffering from some good ol' fashioned RP burnout lately. Tag me. Restore me. If you want to try and get Cain to notice you, please feel free. He's good at that~] 