poly_chromatic | 015

If you've lived here for a while, you probably understand what's going on as much as any of us can understand the things that happen in the City. If you're newly arrived, either today or within the past month or two, this is probably more confusing.

There is a high probability that this is a two-day curse. People who have arrived today will likely leave after Sunday night. There's a history of this kind of curse in network postings if you go back far enough.

What I'm saying is that if there are people you don't want to see who have just popped up, they'll probably be gone soon and you can breathe a sigh of relief. If there are people here you want to see, make the best of this time, because I'm sorry to say it's probably limited.

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This guy: [link] is a few fries short of a happy meal. Just walk the other way if you see him and contact the police force.

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This guy: [link] isn't my favorite person when he isn't turning into a screaming beast apparently intent on eating me. If you run into him, it might be him, and that's enough reason to avoid him, and it might be this (link to a screencap from this conversation) and you really want to avoid that.

[ooc: Bring it on.]

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You know what? Yeah. Let's go with that.

I'm not that dense. If you come back, let me take you out. We've already done lunch, maybe dinner and a show? I met a blues singer recently.

You might just be. I wasn't talking about dates. [SHOULD'VE HUNG UP WHEN YOU COULD HAVE]

Sorry, dinner and a show is about as far as I go on any date. I have a condition that stops it there.

You're a cute guy. I could do abstinent. [Is saving yourself for marriage a "condition" now?]

[By some measures, yes, but he's thinking more in terms of not causing physical injury or death at an inopportune moment. As though there are opportune moments....] I bet.

Hey, I made it six months while I was here. That has to count for something. [She briefly considers asking about it, just because she's nosy, but. Probably better not to. For now.]

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It counts as much as you want it to. It's just not on the menu for me. [Curses don't count, and he'd really like to just block out those occasions from existence.]

That must be very difficult. Frankly, I'm not sure I could deal with that.

It gets easier with time but I wouldn't wish it on anyone else.

...is this not a choice, then?

No, I haven't taken some vow of celibacy, joined a Catholic order, or contracted a contagious disease.

You are making it really difficult right now, you know.

Probably. What am I making difficult?

You know, if this is one of those "woe is me, I'm not really a human," things... well. I'm not human, either.

What happens when you lose your temper? Or when you get too excited when you're kissing someone you care about?

Once I put a python in my boyfriend's pants when he tried to take an appletini away from me. [A beat.] And there was this time I threw up an octopus on him, too. Well. Octopi.

Then I think my "woe is me" wins.

He later was burnt alive.

Because you lost your temper?

Because I exist.

Then we're both screwed. Or not as the case may be. I can't not exist and I can't make my condition unhappen, but I can avoid some of the triggers. That's not "woe is me" that's just trying to get things balanced. That's your thing, I thought. Balance.

There's no consequence in being frank, now. Magic has a price and the price is my personal life. I don't kill people. Not really. I'm just drawn to people that will have awful things happen to them. That is balance.

And you're very secretive about your whole deal.

I turn into a an enormous green manifestation of my rage. Good enough? Eight feet tall, over half a ton of pure muscle, and the vast majority of the intellect - the thing that makes me me - goes away.

That's my deal.

Not good, no.

But if that's the only weird thing about you, you can still take me out before I disappear.

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