shellphones | Curse Research and Aid in Removing the Effects of a Curse

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Subject: Curse Research and Aid in Removing the Effects of a Curse
Warnings: Daqiang will be asking about people's curses, but also requesting some help in killing his emotions tree so Orchid doesn't realize it's him asking. also, Daqiang doing his level best not to use 'this venerable one' and give himself away.

Curse Research.

More than a few of the riftfarers have arrived in this world with a curse from their own affecting them. If you are one of them, it is requested that you respond with the effects of the curse and how 'detrimental' it is to your daily routine. Your name for further questions and research is also requested. Reply with a 'private filter' if desired.

Aid in Removing the Effects of a Curse

Those among you whom are skilled at destruction are asked to respond to this privately to determine if your skills and power is likely to be effective in destroying a specific manifestation of a curse that effects a riftfarer and was brought with them into this world.

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Then how about an act of true love? They're in danger, you risk your life for them - boom, curse broken.

That is not the case for this curse.

And acts of true love come in many forms, not just risking one's life. It is simply the most overt form of proving ones love without resorting to a kiss.

[He's read those books too.]

Edited 2024-06-05 23:25 (UTC)

So you make a list and work through them. Put the "risk your life" on a side list, just in case it ever happens.

I mean, kissing doesn't always mean true love. Well, maybe where you're from, but not everywhere.

Kissing was never assumed to mean true love. You are the one that suggested 'true love's kiss'.

Regardless, kissing will not work on this curse. Nor will an act of true love. If it does require true love to break, it cannot be broken.

That's rough, anon.

True love comes in a lot of forms, though. Even if they don't have romantic love for you, doesn't mean they don't have some kind of pure love.

[Love was the problem. Love was the curse. He needed to kill it to stop the spiral he'd been in. But he couldn't say that. Nimona was among the few who might realize who was conducting the 'research' and what 'curse' was attempting to be destroyed.]

It doesn't matter. A means of ending the curse effects is uncertain beyond destroying it. So attempts to destroy it is what will be tested.

[ She is possibly someone who could figure out what Dongfang is trying to do if she knew who it was. There are other people here who are "cursed" as it were. Particularly the Eikons from Cid's world. ]

Well, I'm good at destruction if you want me to give it a try.

Edited 2024-06-08 01:19 (UTC)

[Unfortunately with the person also being anonymous, he didn't know if they were someone whose power he had seen before and could judge the abilities of. Frustrating.]

If you are to be considered, you will have to make yourself known. This can be done via a private conversation if you would like to retain your public anonymity.

[ There's a moment where she considers it. ]

Are we going to be destroying public property or something personal to you?

[ If she's going to destroy public property, then she'll go private. She doesn't mind doing it, but the longer she can hide it, the better. ]

No. A testing ground for those who are cursed and those who have powers to be evaluated is being prepared. A place where there will be no interference or possibility of harm to others. The curse effect itself is currently isolated in an object. Only that will be attempted to be destroyed.

[ With that answer, she's just flicking on the video to show herself standing at a counter of a bar. It's Tifa's bar, technically. ]

Hey, I'm Nimona.

[It's a good thing he's not on video so she can't see the screen go blank as he just slaps the thing face down on his desk and groans into his hand.

He has to take a moment. Pinch his nose as he takes a deep breath. Then another.]

Your power has been witnessed. It is not appropriate for the current endeavor. However, it is something that could be useful in future tests.

[ She is twiddling her thumbs while she waits for an answer. ]

What? Really? I can do more than just shapeshift, you know.

Yes. That has been observed. It is not appropriate.

[He was there to see her part in the fight with the eight-headed goose. But it was not appropriate because he had spoken to her about his emotion tree and taking her to a tree that he needs destroyed might just be enough for her to put two and two together. And he did not want to experience her attempt at understanding him in the strange way their conversations had a history of going. It was one thing over the shellphones. It would be another entirely if she attempted that inside his Sea of Heart.]

Are you sure? Because I can make things go ka-boom.

[ Nimona would be able to put two and two together, she taught herself math! But when she did, she would still help Dongfang try to destroy it. They had talked in length about it, and while she didn't understand not having emotions - she still would have done it if that's what he truly wanted.

Because if there's one thing she knows, it's being different and no one supporting it. ]

[A shame he didn't know or trust her well enough.]

Certain. If you are open to being called at a later time for another test that your power is appropriate for, then you will be kept in mind.

[ Maybe someday he will. Nimona just shrugs. ]

Okay then. It's your curse and your property.

Curse Research and Aid in Removing the Effects of a Curse - Anonymous

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