Seventh Disaster

[cursed_as_hell]

[Aldrick is standing in the store where everyone is getting their favors back. He is clenching his letter in one hand, and has been staring at the shelf for several minutes, where a longsword lies in it's sheath, waiting. Finally, in disgust, he grabs it off the shelf and stalks out of the store, grumbling things like:...]

I knew you would come

Comments

[immortal_smoke]

You're a swordsman, then?

[cursed_as_hell]

Never had any proper training, but yeah, I've picked up a thing or two about how to wave this thing around over the years.

[immortal_smoke]

Nevertheless, you don't seem terribly happy to see it.

[cursed_as_hell]

Damn thing is cursed, or jinxed, or something. I've never managed to get a straight answer from someone who could tell.

[immortal_smoke]

And yet you took it home.

[cursed_as_hell]

Well, It doesn't matter what I have to say about it. I end up with this damn thing one way or another. Must've tried to get rid of it a hundred times. I guarantee it if I had left it there it would have found a way to get back to me anyway. You might have picked it up without even thinking about it, or someone could have robbed the store and then ended up having to stash his loot in our house.

It fucking finds a way.

[immortal_smoke]

Sounds like you've led quite the difficult life.

[cursed_as_hell]

Okay I'm done with this charade. We've been dancing around the subject for weeks now.

I am cursed. I have been for the past twelve years and the whole thing has been one non-stop ordeal of tragedies, disasters, wars, and general misfortune.

1/2

[immortal_smoke]

2/2

[immortal_smoke]

One could almost say we have something in common, then.

[cursed_as_hell]

Is that so?

[immortal_smoke]

I have a curse of my own. Immortality.

I have spent the last thousand years endlessly killing and being killed by my eternal rival.

[cursed_as_hell]

That's rough. What did this rival do that made you so angry at each other?

[immortal_smoke]

She sullied the honor of my father, and therefore the honor of my family and myself.

[cursed_as_hell]

Honor must be serious business where you come from.

[immortal_smoke]

Well, yes.

Also, I suppose it doesn't take as much to provoke a battle to the death when both people involved are immortal.