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[vesperian]

You know, I used to think I was a pretty unlucky guy. Cursed back before I came here. Think the lack of curses now means the deities like me?

Though, Rita, you never gave me that autograph you promised me. Maybe I'm not so lucky after all.

[He laughs and then a giant Great Dane hops up on the couch with him and paces over his lap. He's one of those giant dogs who thinks he's a lap dog. He is not a lap dog, but Yuri laughs anyway, scritching him behind the ears.]

All right, all right. I'll take you out for a walk.

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[errandry]

...




If it was anything like that, there's no way you wouldn't be getting hit with three a week.

[vesperian]

[He chuckles.]

Kazu, I'm hurt. After all the time we've spent together, too.

[errandry]

Hey, charm's supposed to draw things to you anyway, not throw 'em off!

[vesperian]

How about we compare, then. How often are you getting cursed?

[errandry]

... not that much compared to a lot of people? Last time was a week ago, but that wasn't too bad.

[vesperian]

Hmm. The cats?

[Yuri liked the cats.]

[errandry]

And lions and tigers, yeah.

[vesperian]

Didn't like them, I assume.

[errandry]

Nah, I got lucky. Pretty sure some guy tried to jump the enclosure at the zoo, though.

[vesperian]

Pretty sure? You didn't stick around to find out?

[errandry]

It was on the network! Looked like he was responding to stuff, but I dunno if that was before or after.

[vesperian]

The curses get weirder and weirder around here.

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[errandry]

Least you don't have to worry about 'em.

[errandry]

... seriously, are the people around you getting cursed more or anything?

[vesperian]

Dunno. Are you?

[errandry]

I'm not the one with a two-month record!

[vesperian]

I think Flynn's just about as curse-free as I am. I wonder if it's because we've been here for so long.

[errandry]

How long have you guys been around again—three years?

[vesperian]

A little less for him, a little more for me, yeah.

[errandry]

I dunno how they figure anybody'd stay sane for that long.

[vesperian]

Used to know a girl who was here for four years before she left. Seemed pretty sane - weird, but sane.

[She let me borrow her bras.]

[errandry]

But nobody who grew up here, huh. Guess it could be worse.

[vesperian]

How would you define 'worse'?

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[errandry]

Getting curses every day? Trading for our lives back every time we die from a curse? Finding out none of our worlds were real and we're just brains floating in vats for a robot harvest?

[errandry]

—touch wood.