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[bythreadalone]

 So. Today's one of those days where the deities have their fun with us, huh? A little embarrassment for breakfast, with some awkward looks and quick switch overs to audio-mode before noon -- I get it, I get it. I've fallen into a world where Deadpool and Arcade run things; no sweat.  

[ A beat. He sounds calm, but slightly embarassed at the same time. ]

Just...Let me finish making a PG13 filter for this thing.

[ And then, off-handedly: ]

Then again, I do some of my best work in the buff.

[...]

Anyone know if there's some kind of equivalent exchange going on with these curses? Maybe one day they're just silly, then the next they're terrible -- that kind of thing?

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[doeswhathewants]

Embarrassment? Tch. Just a little flesh.

As for the curses, their interpretation seems to be in the eyes of the individual. I've personally not yet seen a curse that wasn't fun.

[bythreadalone]

You're probably the first teenage I've ever heard say that.

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Not a single one?

[doeswhathewants]

I think I was a nudist in a former life. [Eh, close enough.]

There are advantages to things like body swapping, and magic pencils and even those that seem to carve the flesh off of people so we can all see their private, innermost thoughts. Those are the best.

[bythreadalone]

You're not going to start pulling the wings off flies anytime soon, are you?

[doeswhathewants]

That would be cruel.

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[candothat]

Although I have not been keeping record of the curses as diligently as I was when I first came here, I think that there is no pattern in a single month. Over a given period of time--a year, say--silly and terrible would be nearly equal, maybe.

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[bythreadalone]

You've been here that long?

[audio]

[candothat]

Only one-hundred thirty-one days. I have met people who have been here for years. Two, three. Four at most.

[audio]

[bythreadalone]

Four years...That's insane. This place is either really interesting, or infuriatingly hard to get out of. Assuming most people want to get out in the first place, hm.

There a huge population of people here, or is the island just around for show?

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[candothat]

No one has been able to get out, but yes, there are some who would rather not leave.

The island? This is all that we are allowed to see of this dimension. If more land exists or if there is extraterrestrial life, we won't know.

Private

[worldofourown]

Deadpool and what?

[ What are these names you're dropping like they're common knowledge, Stranger? ]

Private

[bythreadalone]

Two people you really, really don't want to know.

Private

[worldofourown]

Friends of yours?

Private 1/2

[bythreadalone]

Define...friend.

Private

[bythreadalone]

I know them in passing. The first guy's a nutball, the second's a nutball with a lot of money and an intense love for the circus.

[synanthrope]

You're not embarrassed?

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[bythreadalone]

I'm more mildly horrified than anything. If they can take our clothes, what else's next, you know?

And I'm staunchly not looking at this thing anytime a video call pops up. That helps.

[ Audio; ]

[synanthrope]

This isn't so terrible.

[ Audio; ]

[bythreadalone]

I always hear a silent 'not yet' when people say things like that.

Least we're not inside out or anything.

video;

[dignity_misery]

[She wouldn't really be embarrassed about lacking clothes on a normal day... it hadn't taken much rationalizing to go along with the example set by today's curse.]

I showed you mine.

1/3

[bythreadalone]

[ aspdoucwpouf. ]

Video; chrome stop being stupid

[bythreadalone]

Well, I--ohsweetmaryandjosephthatvideothingsonandimsorryletmejust--

[ Peter SCRAMBLES to flip off his device's video function. He was just a little bit off camera, so all that shows is a bare bit of toned arm, shoulder, and back before he picks the thing up and starts shaking it. ]

audio;

[bythreadalone]

[ There's a SMACK, like he's just put his network device down on a table really hard. ]

--There. Good as new. Hello there.

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[dignity_misery]

[She's laughing herself sick. She's a troll at heart, what can she say.]

I meant I wanted to know what you were working on.

[Maybe it's for the best he can't see the killer wolfbitch smile.]

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[bythreadalone]

Oh! Oh, that makes...sense. Yeah. Right.

[ Awkward pause. ]

Well, er. I tinker on things in my free time, and with all the nudity getting thrown my way today I was trying to come up with a way to block it .