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[deadmanbusiness]

[Theo's wearing his sunglasses again and rubs the bridge of his nose briefly.]

You know those times when you get utterly smashed and somehow came up with an idea that seemed like the most brilliant idea in the world and then when you wake up the next morning with that massive hangover, and the horrible realization of what you did the night before comes crashing down upon you?

I'm starting to think that's what some of these curses are like. Except I wasn't drunk at the time and being cursed seems to be a horrible excuse.

Not having a hangover isn't much of a consolation.



[Private to Xhex.]

Hey. I'm really very sorry about that. I wasn't completely myself.

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[unflagging]

What did you do?

[As if he doesn't know. But he'll play dumb. Because it's more fun.]

[deadmanbusiness]

[Of course it's more fun.]

Decide that I should go into the deity business myself and try to take over the city.

[He pauses briefly. And then because he is his father's son continues with]

I mean, it may not be a bad idea in the first place, I was just going about it all wrong.

[unflagging]

I bet the Deities would disagree--I don't think they'd be too crazy about the competition.

[deadmanbusiness]

I know.

But it seemed like a good idea at the time.

[He laughs]

[unflagging]

Just like every drunken plan ever had before.

[deadmanbusiness]

I think, actually, my favorite was from last St. Patrick's day. Adrian, our ritual mage got completely smashed - man has no tolerance - and decided that doing a ritual to summon beer was the smartest thing to do to acquire more beer.

Using some toothpicks and those little straws that they have at bars he tried to do that - and basically he was doing chemistry while drunk - and ended up summoning a very pissed of tylwyth teg. We had sour milk for three months.

[unflagging]

Wait--you can summon beer?

[As though that's the only thing he got out of that whole story. Honestly.]

private

[nosympathy]

[She'd already figured out what was up not long after they'd talked, still it's a bit hard to take curse or not. She can't hold it against him though.]

Seems like most of the City wasn't. Don't sweat it.

Re: private

[deadmanbusiness]

I still feel bad.

I put the zombies back in their proper places.

[nosympathy]

Thanks.

I, I know a lot of that wasn't normal, not so sure I want to know what was though.

[deadmanbusiness]

Back... when my family actually had a kingdom to god over it was considered an honor to be raised as an undead and work for them after death. However they had to ask for it and only if they were deemed worthy would they be allowed to.

They weren't raised randomly just to be a workforce.

[nosympathy]

[That makes her feel a lot better than expected. Unless they were the enemy, the dead deserved what little honor they had.]

That sounds like a good deal.

[deadmanbusiness]

I guess. It was long before I was born.

[valentineluke]

Don't beat yourself up over it.

[deadmanbusiness]

It actually reminds me of last year's Saint Patrick's day.

[valentineluke]

Got treed by leprechauns?

[deadmanbusiness]

No. Our ritual mage got so drunk he thought summoning beer was a good idea. Chemistry while drunk.

It didn't end well.

[He's in better humor now.]

[valentineluke]

Got 'bear' instead, which treed him?

[deadmanbusiness]

Summoned a tylwyth teg instead. Had sour milk for three months.

Adrian doesn't end up in trees. I do.

[huichen]

[His smile is a little tight. You see, these curses are rather unpleasant. This goes without saying, but for Qwe personally it reminds him far to much of the magic that forced his lover to sever off his hand and nearly killed his brother.]

The day is not so very fine then, is it.

[deadmanbusiness]

[It reminds Theo a bit of what his brother did.]

No. It's not.

[huichen]

What has become of those things you bartered?

[Qwe's smile is muted, but ever-present.]

[deadmanbusiness]

Fortunately no one took me up on them so I put them back to rest.

[huichen]

No one was interested?

[What the hell. Doesn't everyone want undead minions?]

[deadmanbusiness]

No one was interested.

[I know, right?]

I guess they were concerned about health problems.