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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.

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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.

[bythreadalone]

And unusual.

So, be honest: what's so great about getting the one-up on people all the time?

[doeswhathewants]

If you do not, then they will. But it isn't always about that, you have to know where you stand, what a person is truly like. Knowledge that might come in handy if they do not turn out to be who they present themselves as.

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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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[worldofourown]

Deadpool and what?

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

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[bythreadalone]

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

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[worldofourown]

Friends of yours?

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[bythreadalone]

You've been here that long?

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[bythreadalone]

Define...friend.

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[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.

[bythreadalone]

And how hard is it to be that pessimistic, exactly? [ He lets out a little chuckle. ] I'm kidding, I'm kidding. It's just weird to hear a kid talk like that.

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[candothat]

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

[doeswhathewants]

It is a matter of survival, you know. When the only person looking out for your well being is you, one must be on their guard constantly. I was lax for a moment here and had my throat fairly ripped out by a vampire.

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[worldofourown]

...You clearly have interesting 'friends'.

[synanthrope]

You're not embarrassed?

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.

[bythreadalone]

Woah, hold up. You what?

Are you staying by yourself, Serrue?

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[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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[bythreadalone]

Don't tell me you've never had a besty try and kidnap you before! That's friendship 101 back where I come from.

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[worldofourown]

I've had family members trying to kill me.

Good enough.

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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.