audio | un: captainkenway

[jackdawvision]

WHO: Edward Kenway and the network
WHERE: Fire escape!
WHEN: Just after this absolutely spectacular failure.
WHAT: Whoopsie.
WARNINGS: none in the post itself, but canon-typical mentions of violence and murder possible in the threads.

[A throat-clearing cough. Then:] So hypothetically. Let’s say someone may have, ah, been cursed in the course of trying to finish a job. How would one go about getting rid of that curse?

Also, in an unrelated matter, I’ve come into possession of a chameleon. Does anyone here want one? I’ve no room in this apartment for one, and I’m willing to give it away.

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voice; un: shadeshift

[sunforging]

Judgin' by how things seem to go 'round here: might be proper fucked if it don't wear off. How bad is it?

video; private

[jackdawvision]

[Edward takes a minute to toggle on private, less because of any ineptitude with technology—he’d figured out how to a while ago—and more because he is very high up, he’s cursed to have things slip through his grasp at the most inconvenient moments, and he would like to keep his phone, thanks.

When he does flip the video on and carefully positioned the phone on the fire escape, he pushes his hood back to expose a very cute and adorable set of cat ears.]

This bad.

video; private

[sunforging]

[Scintilla flicked one of her own catlike ears in response after stumbling her way through similarly turning the video on.]

...Ain't seein' the crisis, mate.

[...she was mostly joking, but.]

[jackdawvision]

[A groan, as he scrubs his hand over his face.]

That’s just bloody fantastic. [This he mutters to himself. To Scintilla, though:] I got these because I well and truly buggered up a job. [Arno was the voice of reason for a lot of it, and Edward is not about to throw him under the bus for the terrible decisions made in the course of things.] I’d like to move on past it as soon as possible.

[sunforging]

Eh, we all bugger shite up once in a while. Makes ya feel better, I was born with mine so I ain't well speakin' from experience. For all I know, they might well vanish sooner or later.

...'til then, maybe hats might not be a bad idea?

[jackdawvision]

You pull them off better than I am. [Tugging his hood up over his head now to hide them.] I’m hoping they vanish sooner rather than later.

I’ve a friend who’s quite keen on fashion, I’ll ask him for a spare hat.

video; un: blade

[unreachableside]

[Dryly, with his fluffy triangular dog ears and sharp fangs in full view of the camera:]

You don't.

[sunforging]

I wouldn't worry too much. Most folk don't even notice shite like that.

[you know, for now]

UN: Shroud | voice

[whiteshroud]

[Hey remember that holy knight? He sure is speaking in a modulated voice]

Most likely you're stuck with it.

voice: un: ♡☮STAMPEDE

[doubledollar]

As someone who's been cursed a dozen times...

You either wait for it to wear off--some do wear off!!!

...Or you're stuck with it until the forseeable future...

Which, if you got a curse, I uh.
Hope it's a liveable one, buddy.

[jackdawvision]

[He got two curses.]

It had better wear off. I’m not climbing anywhere if I can’t hold on to anything. [This is the less embarrassing curse to admit to.] Is there really no way to break it early?

[jackdawvision]

What, no way to break it? You’d think with all this magic flying about there would be something that could break a curse.

video, private

[jackdawvision]

[With his hood down and the cute adorable cat tail agitatedly flicking about behind him as he just groans into his hand:] There has to be something. I cocked up a job and this steaming pile of shite landed on me and someone else I know, “you don’t” isn’t an answer I can stomach.

[jackdawvision]

I would, and it would be like getting salt rubbed into my already wounded pride.

private forever;

[unreachableside]

[Blade takes in this sight with a blank expression. And then he just. Laughs. It's a bit of a deranged laugh, all things considered.]

But they look so precious.

[Karma's a bitch, Ed!]

[jackdawvision]

[Judging from the wince, he knows karma's a bitch.]

Fine, they are. [In a few months he'll look back on this and laugh. Right now, with his ego bruised, he's not seeing the funny side.] How long has yours lasted now?

un: fullbloom | voice

[joies]

Either it wears off eventually, say about a week, or you're stuck with it. So unfortunately it is just a case of "wait and see."

[ She is at least... trying to word it gently. ]

And a... chameleon? Where did you get that?

voice | un: empyrean

[lightofkshahrewar]

What sort of curse have you run afoul of?

[ From what he's come to understand, there's all sorts of curses and plenty of ways one might end up cursed. The specifics might be important. ]

[whiteshroud]

There's ways to break some curses, but it depends on what cursed you. Do you remember anything about the one who cursed you? Were they human or something else?

[unreachableside]

Three weeks. It started as a curse, but I think it became something else entirely. I woke up with fangs and a tail a few days ago.

[hmmm]

You could try petitioning one of our resident gods for help.

voice

[jackdawvision]

Can’t seem to hold on to anything for long, which makes climbing much trickier than it really ought to be.

[The cat ears he has already gotten razzed about, so he’s not going to expose his already wounded pride to even more blows.]

[jackdawvision]

And if it doesn’t wear off after a week, is there some way to break it?

[A beat.]

Best not to ask questions you might not like the answers to, lass. [He Stole A Chameleon.] D’you want one?

[jackdawvision]

Not really, no. Last night was a torrent of chaos, and by the time I’d made my way back home it was already in effect.

[A pause.]

I’m certain it must’ve been that costumed idiot, though. Little shite started a fight with us.

[jackdawvision]

Might be it’s your passenger twisting the curse around.

[Is it possible? Who knows! Edward’s no expert in curses or demons, he’s just spitballing here.]

…we have gods here? [He squints at the video, clearly not quite ready to believe that just yet. Come on. Gods? Really?] I know we’ve spirits, I saw one myself, but how did we somehow end up with gods?

[whiteshroud]

That's unfortunate. Usually the easiest way to break a curse is to get the one who cast it to undo it.

Costumed idiot?