火 『 Nineteen Flames 』

[oodzuchi]

[ Filtered from the Deities; ]

Though it's not much, I was wonderin' if I could ask anyone that's been here a while 'ta look over a record of th' curses I've been keeping, and lemme know if ya find anything that's happened before. I'm lookin' for patterns! Any help would be appreciated.

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[bright_shield]

That magic school curse happened before, or so I've heard. It was before my time here. However, that naming curse has come by quite a few times now.

[oodzuchi]

Somethin' even before your time, huh? Hard 'ta believe!

How many times would ya say? Three, four? More?

[bright_shield]

Hey, I may be here forever at the rate I'm going, but there were people who'd been here for years when I first arrived. Way back when the sky was still falling and everyone walked uphill both ways.

I'd say around three times that I know of, but it also pops up a lot during those days when people seem afflicted by random curses.

[oodzuchi]

Glass is always half-full, yanno! The longer you're here, the sooner ya must be able 'ta go home, right? ...The sky was falling once?

What, like a curse lottery?

[bright_shield]

Or the more good I'm supposed to do here, I suppose. That's kind of a phrase from my world. Our world was supposedly created when the Sword and Shield broke into pieces while fighting each other and then fell down to make the earth and sky.

You haven't been around for one of those? They tend to last two to three days and everyone gets hit with something different. Even something different on each day.

[oodzuchi]

That actually sounds pretty nice, in a weird way. A world created from the end of a war, hm?

Ohh.. I think I have, though I didn't realize it at th' time. I was a kid for two days, but the day I wasn't, Yuu-chan was. That musta been it then-- that was a while ago. I don't remember a lotta other people bein' kids. How weird.

[bright_shield]

Sometimes I wonder if that's not the reason why we're always fighting so much over there. But I'm sure we'll eventually have our peace too.

Yeah, those days tend to be really chaotic. And someone's always hit by the kid curse. There seem to be more people affected than normal as well.

[oodzuchi]

All countries, towns, tribes, anything with humans-- they fight. One side wins, one loses, an' things're peaceful for a while in between. That's just how it works. I don't think that ever changes, no matter what world you're from.

Haha, there must be somethin' behind that-- th' Deities must have more fun watching a buncha kids runnin' around.

[bright_shield]

Hopefully a long time in-between. Although it's not something that humans have exclusively.

Maybe they like watching the leftover adults running around after them like a bunch of chickens with their heads cut off...?

[oodzuchi]

Nah, but there's a difference between battle over territory, and battle over stupid stuff like politics. Not even animals have wars without real reasons. But maybe I've just seen too many.

Hahaha! It could be that too. Sometimes it's fun just 'ta watch. Like today-- have you seen some'a the noses on people walkin' around?

[bright_shield]

The different races battled over many things back home, politics included, but I think at the heart of matters we're really all the same.

It's hard to not notice some of them, although I'm trying. I think more people are affected this time than last.

[oodzuchi]

It really depends. But I don't think anything's worth killing so many over.

I wonder what determines who gets affected or not-- personality, coin flipping? Makes ya wonder.

[bright_shield]

It does depend.

It really does. I know some of the strange people who periodically come flooding into the city claimed that they determine who gets affected, but they claimed a lot of things, including a bunch of crap.

[oodzuchi]

Hahaha, what? Who would do that?

[bright_shield]

I don't know who they are. They might be nothing at all but a figment of the curse. That one has come around many times. They come flooding into the city out of no where, chirping, and grabbing, and spouting people's secrets and acting very cryptic. If you've ever been through that curse, you wouldn't mistake it.

[oodzuchi]

Never seen anythin' like it, but I don't think I've read anything about it on th' archives either-- but those only go back so far. Sounds really creepy.