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Who: Kimblee and you!
When: July 1st
Where: In the plaza
Status: Open
Style: either one, I'll follow!

<sub>[Yeah.

Coming to in an underwater city soaked to the bone after a little slip down in the mines was definitely something Kimblee wasn't expecting. Especially after he just recently stopped the bleeding from the cut clear across his right palm--he'd have to get that bandaged now that it started up again. Instead of doing the logical thing and use the SFC in his pocket to attempt to contact someone, he just stood up to and removed his scarf and coat to hang it over one of the branches of the massive glowing coral that sat a few feet away before he turned his attention to the city around him.

It was definitely something he never expected, let alone imagined.]</sub>

Well, looks like I'm taking another detour on this job.

Comments

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[He gave the other man a small nod.] You're welcome. Hawkeye's also living with me currently as well.

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Our Hawkeye, correct? I had no idea she was here too. Is there anyone else I should be aware of, Roy?

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It's just us three currently. Except.. [He looked down at the ground, hands twisting the towel they held between them.]

She's from 1908.

1/3

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What? But that was seven years ago! That's impossible, unless--

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<sub>[...Unless this city can do the impossible. It was already proven it could do that much by removing him from the Baschool mines and apparently trap people here against their wills for an undetermined amount of time, then there's a chance it could even disrupt the flow of time.

It shouldn't be possible, but it apparently is.]</sub>

3/3

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You'll have to tell me what else this city is capable of.

_{[He reaches for the towel to lightly tug it out of Roy's grip with a sigh.]}

And for goodness sake give me this before you hurt yourself.

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[Roy surrendered the towel, he'd gotten it for the other man after all.]

It's apparently capable of cursing people. Turning people into things not human and giving them abilities they do not normally possess...for example. It seems to be a common thing to happen to judge from what I've heard about them. Fortunately neither I, nor Riza were affected by the one which has happened since we've been here.

Also it seems some people can and do randomly fall into a sleep so deep they can not be roused from it and you are forced to wait for them to awake from it themselves. Riza fell into one of those shortly after we arrived here and was sleeping for around two weeks straight before she woke up.

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_{[Riza, hm? That's something he's never heard him say before save for when introducing her.]}

Don't leave me hanging here. Tell me more about these curses first.

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[He got tired of the woman continuing to look for someone else every time he used the rank he was habitually used to using for her. Thus he's been working on breaking himself of using it while he's here, if only to make it easier on her.]

All I know is second hand, but they seemingly happen at random these days, the effects seem to last around a week and then reverse themselves or fade away, leaving everything back to the way it was before the curse hit.

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What happens?

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I don't know exactly what happens, it's varied it seems. It can be simple or complex, that's about as much as I've managed to actually gather about it. It's apparently treated as something which happens that can't be stopped or prevented, a fact of life of living here.

There is one other thing I've heard mentioned though... that those brought here act as a power source for this city...

[That bit still unnerves him really, even if he's not really showed it to anyone. It reminds him too much of that damned red stone really.]

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A power source...

_{[Okay, that's one thing he doesn't really like the sound of.]}

That might be the reason why clothing and other things are free.

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Yes. Also, I don't know if you noticed it yet or not, but every person who's brought is marked by the city.

[Have a look at his right palm, Kimblee. You'll see something which is rather obviously not a transmutation circle gracing it.]

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<sub>[And he'll hold his left hand out a bit to look at his own mark.

then to Roy's.

then his.]</sub>

...Well.

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[Ironic locations, aren't they Kimblee? Obviously the city must have a perverse sense of humor.]

I can show you the cleaners, a good bakery and a tailor on the way to my house if you want.

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_{[Jeeze Vatheon. Next it'll be a body swap curse.]}

That would be appreciated.