Lesson of the Day : Long Status Updates Are Long...
EDIT : It seems the cursed invaders who know too much are back again.
Hey Invaders! If you know so much, how do we get out of this place?
Whoever that giant caterpillar was during Halloween you seemed familiar I'm sorry for trying to eat you. You were something like 6x my size at the time, but that didn't seem to stop me.
October is over. Thank... thank... I have no idea who to thank, certainly not the deities. Anyway, this past month I have learned...
I. Curses most commonly last one day, but can stretch out to two or three days, at the most. Except when they go for five days straight.
Curses don't kill you directly. Except sometimes they will. A person will come completely back to life after this type of death, not merely the half-life of normal city deaths. Usually. Except some people will remain dead for good, curse or no curse. No, we don't know why. Until a different version of them reappears in the city. Sometimes. My head hurts.
Curses will take effect at midnight. Except when they don't. Like when they start at sunset or one hour before midnight.
Curses end at midnight. Except when they don't. Like when they suddenly end at dawn instead.
Right. So I'll just toss out everything I painstakingly learned over the past half year. The much beloved 'hiding out until midnight' plan has taken quite a hit it seems. 'Expect the Unexpected' still seems to be going strong, however.
II. The physical geography of the city seems to have stabilized a bit. We have maps now that actually seem to work (which certainly beats those clock diagrams which were sold to me as maps when I first arrived here!), and directions & building locations that remain stable(confirmed by Luke as well), and even location magic and technology have been working properly more often than not. Conversely the "think of where you want to go and you'll end up there" bit doesn't seem to be working quite as well anymore. Or maybe it's just me.
III. That 'lose interest in the city/have the city lose interest in you/be as boring as possible/stay inactive/don't feed the city emotions' theory still can't be discounted.
During September, where I tried to stay off the network as much as possible and kept to myself being boring and generally driving myself stir crazy I remained unaffected by the curses, almost as if the city were losing its grip on me. Or am I just imagining it? October, when I was decidely more active, I was whacked with nearly every curse that passed through. But I couldn't just ignore... people were being hurt! If things have settled down after last month, perhaps I can try this experiment again. But even if this does let me find a way out, I can't just leave her here...
I'm tired. I want to go home. But 'defeated' is not the attitude I should bring back there. And I'm not even sure what 'home' is anymore.
IV.
Tablets Gone Through : 25
Times Fallen into Fountain : 7
Fountain Recently Showing Me : North Window Castle exactly as I left it. (The fountain seemed oddly... serene... during that last Halloween curse.)
Attempts to Contact the Deities : Failed Blessing in disguise?
Books Recently Found at the Library : faerie tales*, Dummies Guide to Building Fires(?!), a bunch of astrology books, a thesis on carpet weaving, Porn
Am I At Such a Loss That I'm Now Keeping Track of Random Crap? : Yes
*Finally! Something about those stories that from that one long curse! Apparently there was supposed to be some prince chasing after me in mine. I guess I must've outflown him when I was stuck as a swan.
Hey Invaders! If you know so much, how do we get out of this place?
Whoever that giant caterpillar was during Halloween you seemed familiar I'm sorry for trying to eat you. You were something like 6x my size at the time, but that didn't seem to stop me.
October is over. Thank... thank... I have no idea who to thank, certainly not the deities. Anyway, this past month I have learned...
I. Curses most commonly last one day, but can stretch out to two or three days, at the most. Except when they go for five days straight.
Curses don't kill you directly. Except sometimes they will. A person will come completely back to life after this type of death, not merely the half-life of normal city deaths. Usually. Except some people will remain dead for good, curse or no curse. No, we don't know why. Until a different version of them reappears in the city. Sometimes. My head hurts.
Curses will take effect at midnight. Except when they don't. Like when they start at sunset or one hour before midnight.
Curses end at midnight. Except when they don't. Like when they suddenly end at dawn instead.
Right. So I'll just toss out everything I painstakingly learned over the past half year. The much beloved 'hiding out until midnight' plan has taken quite a hit it seems. 'Expect the Unexpected' still seems to be going strong, however.
II. The physical geography of the city seems to have stabilized a bit. We have maps now that actually seem to work (which certainly beats those clock diagrams which were sold to me as maps when I first arrived here!), and directions & building locations that remain stable(confirmed by Luke as well), and even location magic and technology have been working properly more often than not. Conversely the "think of where you want to go and you'll end up there" bit doesn't seem to be working quite as well anymore. Or maybe it's just me.
III. That 'lose interest in the city/have the city lose interest in you/be as boring as possible/stay inactive/don't feed the city emotions' theory still can't be discounted.
During September, where I tried to stay off the network as much as possible and kept to myself being boring and generally driving myself stir crazy I remained unaffected by the curses, almost as if the city were losing its grip on me. Or am I just imagining it? October, when I was decidely more active, I was whacked with nearly every curse that passed through. But I couldn't just ignore... people were being hurt! If things have settled down after last month, perhaps I can try this experiment again. But even if this does let me find a way out, I can't just leave her here...
I'm tired. I want to go home. But 'defeated' is not the attitude I should bring back there. And I'm not even sure what 'home' is anymore.
IV.
Tablets Gone Through : 25
Times Fallen into Fountain : 7
Fountain Recently Showing Me : North Window Castle exactly as I left it. (The fountain seemed oddly... serene... during that last Halloween curse.)
Attempts to Contact the Deities : Failed Blessing in disguise?
Books Recently Found at the Library : faerie tales*, Dummies Guide to Building Fires(?!), a bunch of astrology books, a thesis on carpet weaving, Porn
Am I At Such a Loss That I'm Now Keeping Track of Random Crap? : Yes
*Finally! Something about those stories that from that one long curse! Apparently there was supposed to be some prince chasing after me in mine. I guess I must've outflown him when I was stuck as a swan.