Twenty Nine Transformations

[badhairlifetime]

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Let me get this straight. In a City where there are known curses, and tricks, and generally ill happenings, people actually pick up tiny little hearts, engraved with words like death, and murder, and liar, and the like, and then proceed to eat them? Not to mention, they rather smell like chalk to begin with.

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[OoC: She ate Tommy's Family, because she figured that one was sure to be safe; she found interesting results. Also, hers are here, so if you want to ret-con your character into having eaten one, go for it.]

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[othersdie]

This isn't the first time this has happened.

Curiosity can be powerful.

[ooc: Back with the police as of... last week sometime, I think? So hey there.]

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[lovelydragoon]

It's interesting learning things about people, though, isn't it?

[aperfectthird]

To be fair, not all of us ingested them purposefully.

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[badhairlifetime]

Yes, from what I've heard this is one of those curses that repeats. It didn't last year, however.

[OoC: ! Why, hello. Go check your e-mail. Also, she's only voicing because she isn't really good with typing. u.u]

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[badhairlifetime]

Learning things from the person and prying about them through little tiny hearts are two quite different things.

[badhairlifetime]

I see. How exactly would you accidentally eat one? Or, were you looking up at the sky at some point during the rain down?

[signatures]

That's assuming anyone in the City has a scrap of intelligence to begin with.

[aperfectthird]

It fell into my coffee and I didn't notice until it was too late.

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[othersdie]

There isn't any logic to their curses.

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[badhairlifetime]

Usually not, aside from some form of entertainment for them.

[badhairlifetime]

I see. [She's totally not stifling her laughter, not at all.] That must have been so unfortunate for you. I do hope the heart you ate wasn't too traumatic, then.

[badhairlifetime]

You have such confidence in its residents.

[signatures]

Or excellent observational skills.

[badhairlifetime]

[All you get is a light snort in return.]

[signatures]

You don't agree?

[badhairlifetime]

I think that you'd come to the same conclusion regardless of the information presented to you, based on what you wanted to conclude.

[signatures]

I don't know.

Eating strange candy with words like murder et cetera in a City known for its so-called curses seems rather blatantly silly to me.

[badhairlifetime]

For this particular curse, yes. But it's a far cry from calling several people 'silly' to stating that everyone living here lacks basic knowledge and survival skills.

[signatures]

Well.

Silly until proven not-silly.

[aperfectthird]

Not at all, thank you. I seem to have been one of the lucky ones. I saw Wales.

[badhairlifetime]

What do you think that you've proven?

[badhairlifetime]

Oh. Well that's fortunate, I suppose. You like sea-life, then? [Because she is from a world where a flat land stands on the backs of elephants who are, in turn, on a giant turtle. She is not familiar with Earth geography.]

[aperfectthird]

Sea-life? Wh -

Oh! No, not whales. Wales. It's in the UK?

[badhairlifetime]

Oh. Is that also- somewhere on Earth?

[signatures]

A man can't just have a conversation with a pretty lady?

[aperfectthird]

It is.

You're not from Earth?

[badhairlifetime]

[She's usually be more subtle, but forget that. He's rubbing her the wrong way.] Not after said pretty lady has interrogated him.

[badhairlifetime]

No. I'm not. Many people here seem to be, however.

[aperfectthird]

Yes, that - had been the impression I was under.

May I ask where you're from?

[badhairlifetime]

[Automatically,] Ankh-Morpork. [She clears her throat.] That is, I'm from the Disc.

[aperfectthird]

The Disc is ...

[Slowly, as though he's trying out a new concept.]

...another ... world.

[badhairlifetime]

[Slightly amused,] Yes, that's right. The City could also be considered another world in and of itself. You needn't sound so tentative about it.

[aperfectthird]

This is the first - second, I suppose - time I've ever come across the concept. It's still a bit new to me.

[badhairlifetime]

I'm sorry to say that it gets rather old rather quickly.

May I ask what the first time was?

[aperfectthird]

When I arrived here. Before this, I had no idea anything like this even existed.

[badhairlifetime]

I see. You'll probably be hearing of it more and more as you get to know people.

[aperfectthird]

So it would seem. I've already met a young man from over a hundred years in my past.

[badhairlifetime]

Wait until you meet a young man from over a hundred years in your general future.

[aperfectthird]

I suppose it's as likely to happen as anything else.

[badhairlifetime]

And then switch bodies with them.

[aperfectthird]

[wat.]

I beg your pardon?

[badhairlifetime]

One of my first curses involved that very thing.

It's not exactly something that I'd like to have repeated.

[aperfectthird]

I ... will sincerely hope I manage to avoid a repeat of that curse. It sounds immensely unpleasant.

[badhairlifetime]

To say the least.