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[morphic]

I can't help but think about the date - in exactly one week will be the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. With everyone talking about curses... Well, I believe the Titanic sunk because it was cursed.

[She says this with a completely straight face.]

There was an Egyptian mummy on board the Titanic, and everyone who was involved with this mummy died a mysterious death. And that's why the Titanic sunk.

[Really, still a straight face here - totally straight. She really believes what she's talking about as she continues her little lecture on this mummy.]

This mummy was really pretty, because her body never shriveled up - and it wasn't saponification either - she was frozen! The story says that from the time of its discovery, all the way through to when it got put on the Titanic - and even though it was carried through the desert - her body never melted! The water in her body stayed frozen!

They called this water in her body Ice-Nine!

Comments

[child_radical]

...wasn't that from a novel?

[morphic]

Yes, there was a novel written called 'Cat's Cradle' that talks about Ice-Nine!

[child_radical]

And yet you're speaking of a imaginary form of ice as if it actually exists.

[morphic]

But it does exist! There's been studies about it, about ice that doesn't melt until it reaches 96 degrees. Her body was likely frozen by a technique called the Cells Alive System. This technique allows the cells to freeze without the formation of ice crystals, so the cells won't expand and damage the cell membrane. This system works in a way that the cells cool so quickly, there's no type for these ice crystals to form!

She could have possibly been frozen alive!

[child_radical]

Not in my world it does.

[morphic]

It doesn't? Does that mean there's alternate versions of Earth? [A pause.] You're from Earth, right? I guess it's hard to tell when so many people here look human...

[child_radical]

Yeah, I'm from Earth in my universe of origin.

[morphic]

That's kind of exciting! I wonder what conspiracy theorists would think of a place like this?

[eagleofautozam]

That is a very interesting story Ms. I had never heard of a mummy being involved... wasn't it just negligence and the misfortune of happening to be in the same location as an iceberg that caused that ship to sink?

[morphic]

No, they were cursed by this mummy! Because the Titanic was transporting her across the ocean, everyone on the ship was cursed and suffered this misfortune!

[eagleofautozam]

Where did you hear about that? I must have missed it when I was reading through the Earth history books.

[morphic]

[Akane spies troll bait!]

It's in my history books as well. In my time, it occurred well over 100 years ago, but it's still an incident taught in history classes in school. Most books only cover the basics, but yes, they were cursed! I think it's because schools would rather leave things like magic and curses out of books and try to make it sound like human error or an 'act of God'.

[eagleofautozam]

[Oh dear... He has been studying Earth history but there is just so much of it! And hey, magic totally exists so maybe it happened like this? ^^"" ]

I was told there wasn't very much magic on Earth though? It is a little surprising that anyone would want to cover that up if indeed that is what happened.
Wouldn't you want to warn other ships about the potential of magical curses?

[morphic]

Oh, but there's lots of magic, just people don't believe in it. You've probably heard and read about a lot of religions, right? It's kind of like that, and a taboo to really speak about.

But the person who boarded All-Ice, as they called her, on this ship must have known, or at least the person who employed the Titanic to take her with them. Maybe they thought that curse was nothing more than a silly story. I bet that's why there's been no more known major ships that sunk in our world.

[She's just gonna see where this takes her as she continues to pull this out of her ass.]

[eagleofautozam]

So what was the curse exactly? Surely it wasn't 'if you take this mummy on a boat you will hit ice and sink'?
That would be a bit specific!

[morphic]

No, just whoever came in contact with the mummy died. And because the mummy was on the Titanic, well, maybe there was some second hand effect where if someone saw the mummy and then interacted with someone else, they became cursed. And then whoever those people came in contact with became cursed - so on and so forth!

[eagleofautozam]

A curse spreading like an illness? Would that ever really happen?

[morphic]

It's a curse, so yes! Anything is possible with them.

[eagleofautozam]

[You do realize he is going to have to ask his magic using b/f about this? Troublemaker. ^^]

It is an interesting theory. Thank you for sharing it.

[morphic]

[She's a troll, it's what she does best!]

You're very welcome!

[valentineluke]

Wrong. The ship struck a dozing kraken.

[morphic]

Do you really think it did? Maybe that was a part of the curse of the mummy as well!

[valentineluke]

Maybe.

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No, of course not. Can't say the same for the others - what a gullible bunch.

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[morphic]

[She laughs at that.]

Okay, so maybe the mummy didn't curse the ship!

[Her acts up, someone found her out and instead she sticks her tongue out playfully, laughing so more.]

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[valentineluke]

This way to the Egress.

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[morphic]

It's too bad that even though many people were rescued, they still died of hypothermia. It really was a disaster.

[sealegs]

This Titanic was so nice it has an anniversary for when it sank, does it?

[morphic]

They say the ship was unsinkable, and boasted that. It's irony that it sunk after her creator kept saying she'd never sink. Maybe that's why they put the mummy on there, because they thought it wouldn't sink.

But it's also one of my world's biggest catastrophes. Over 1500 people died.

[sealegs]

Tsk. You trust the girl - the ship. That's where they went wrong. If the creator starts tooting his own horn, he's just going to screw it all up. It just doesn't work that way.

[morphic]

Yes, and because of that, so many people wanted to be on this unsinkable ship. It's kind of sad that so many people believed what was said, only to bring them to their doom.

[She's also kind of talking about the own lies she's spouting here.]

[sealegs]

I want to be on this unsinkable ship- but I also know how to swim.

[morphic]

But you wouldn't survive in the middle of a freezing ocean. Many people died of hypothermia.

[sealegs]

Well, there are worse ways to die.

[morphic]

Like burning in an incinerator!

[She'd like you to know that it SUCKS being burned alive.]

[sealegs]

That's certainly one of them, sweetness.

[morphic]

I wonder what other terrible ways there'd be to die?

[Akane, your sadistic side is showing...]

[sealegs]

Oooh- how about a magical fist ripping your heart out? Literally.

[morphic]

That sounds like it'd hurt, especially if the heart was still beating when it left the body.

[She looks uncomfortable, like that's a painful though, but in reality, she's enjoying that mental image of someone writhing in pain, waiting for their heart to finally stop beating so they can be put out of their misery.]

[sealegs]

I don't know- they never usually scream. It does look painful.

[morphic]

They don't? How do you know that?

[sealegs]

I had a friend who could actually do that. Well- as much of a friend as that bastard could be.

[morphic]

You do? So you've... seen him do that before?

[She looks horrified by this. Yet she enjoys the sight of bodies blown up from in the inside by bombs she forced them to eat while unconscious.]

[sealegs]

Isn't it bizarre? Magical fisting tricks! What will they think of next.

[morphic]

Well, maybe someone really will make people eat small bombs and detonate them from the inside.

[That can never happen, right? Right? .]

[sealegs]

Maybe! I don't envy them, though.

[She gives a hearty laugh. What an imagination this girl has!]

[morphic]

Neither do I. But it'd be a quick and painless way to die. Unless... they knew there was a bomb going to detonate inside them, then that'd probably be psychologically tormenting.

[Hearing their screams, knocking against the door, knowing they were going to die in a matter of seconds. Ah, it was such a lovely sound!]

[sealegs]

Not that it'd matter much. Sounds like a pretty fast way to go.

[morphic]

It does, doesn't it?