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misterblackbird November 21 2009, 03:43:45 UTC
It's close enough to a curse, I think.

I've a box myself, actually.

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primrosella November 21 2009, 03:53:13 UTC
They really are getting more and more subtle these days, aren't they? Now they're letting us decide whether or not a curse will occur--for someone, anyway.

Do you suppose everyone got one?

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misterblackbird November 21 2009, 03:58:04 UTC
They are. And it's all the worse, because now we have to think about it, which makes us still more miserable, even if we're not cursed.

I'm not sure. I haven't heard.

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primrosella November 21 2009, 04:06:45 UTC
That's why the reward is so generous, of course. It wouldn't be nearly so difficult to decide if it weren't offering something we all wanted, in one way or another.

It seems as though quite a few people have, anyway. I wonder if there might be a pattern to who got them and who didn't. If there is, it's likely that they went to the people that would be most tempted to press it.

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misterblackbird November 21 2009, 04:32:49 UTC
Yes, of course.

I don't know, but I wonder if half of us have them and half of us don't. I'll watch the Network and see if there is a pattern.

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primrosella November 21 2009, 04:38:30 UTC
...I want to press it, you know. I keep looking over at the box, and every time I walk away from it, I keep finding myself coming back to it, just the same. But I think I only want to so much because I know full well that I shouldn't.

If that's how it is, then we'll have to puzzle out what made people get boxes and what didn't, yes. I'll try to keep track, too.

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misterblackbird November 21 2009, 05:09:21 UTC
You know what will happen if you do press it, so there should be no real urge to do so for the sake of seeing what will happen. I have mine beside me right now. It's rather fascinating. There's something dangerous about it.

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primrosella November 21 2009, 05:15:46 UTC
Dangerous is a very good word for it, I think. It's having the power of the deities at your fingertips, isn't it?

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