01/12. not used to revelations.
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[In large writing:]
We can be affected by mind-altering curses.
[More normal writing:]
Whatever mechanism controls them is stronger than the rationality of a contractor's mind.
[ text ]
Is everyone done reminiscing on school yet? It must have been pleasant for some. But for most people there comes a time when one must grow up and realise that the world is not composed of meaningless test scores and games of popularity, and one is not in fact the centre of it--
Or so I've been told, in any case. I think it would be a humbling experience...
Let's assume it's my business to share information--an accurate assumption, I might add. Right now I'd like to share something Ryuuzaki Umi and I found in the lair of the spider when we defeated it. It might be of interest to those of you seeking the history of the City.
[ATTACHED: a scan of this document, followed by a transcription of its text.]
'...exceeded the duration of a banal curse incident by 36 hours on the Clock, and by 41 hours since Mrs. Dafferty of the Curse Watch expressed with great diligence and consideration a most warranted concern about the fountain platform, which upon recent count forfeited two of its support pillars, when the City submerged. In keeping with the Mayor's counsel, I too have taken shelter in the locked Cathedral, and though we give praise and thanks to the Lord for His mercy, I fear it cannot extend much longer, unless the City should once more rise within the day. We are provided for with supplies of matter, but the greatest import now is the case of our lungs, which, Dr. Justinian has warned with no sound recommendation of treatment, will find fault in this penury of air. I do not believe we have given reason for this great punishment, and so I trust that the City shall rise in time with saving alacrity, so...'
I wonder what conclusions we ought to draw from this? Of course, I haven't been here long enough to know.
[In large writing:]
We can be affected by mind-altering curses.
[More normal writing:]
Whatever mechanism controls them is stronger than the rationality of a contractor's mind.
[ text ]
Is everyone done reminiscing on school yet? It must have been pleasant for some. But for most people there comes a time when one must grow up and realise that the world is not composed of meaningless test scores and games of popularity, and one is not in fact the centre of it--
Or so I've been told, in any case. I think it would be a humbling experience...
Let's assume it's my business to share information--an accurate assumption, I might add. Right now I'd like to share something Ryuuzaki Umi and I found in the lair of the spider when we defeated it. It might be of interest to those of you seeking the history of the City.
[ATTACHED: a scan of this document, followed by a transcription of its text.]
'...exceeded the duration of a banal curse incident by 36 hours on the Clock, and by 41 hours since Mrs. Dafferty of the Curse Watch expressed with great diligence and consideration a most warranted concern about the fountain platform, which upon recent count forfeited two of its support pillars, when the City submerged. In keeping with the Mayor's counsel, I too have taken shelter in the locked Cathedral, and though we give praise and thanks to the Lord for His mercy, I fear it cannot extend much longer, unless the City should once more rise within the day. We are provided for with supplies of matter, but the greatest import now is the case of our lungs, which, Dr. Justinian has warned with no sound recommendation of treatment, will find fault in this penury of air. I do not believe we have given reason for this great punishment, and so I trust that the City shall rise in time with saving alacrity, so...'
I wonder what conclusions we ought to draw from this? Of course, I haven't been here long enough to know.