Text || Curses

[catsgothistongue]

Type: Text
Sender ID: Anonymous (Ranma Saotome)
To: Public
Subject: Breaking Curses 101
Warnings: N/A so far, will be updated as necessary.

[So guess who finally figured out you can hide your User ID on the network? He's been here a few months now, and with this being anonymous, he finally felt comfortable to try taking suggestions publicly.]

Does anyone here have experiences with curses and or knowledge on how to break them? Asking for a friend.

[That friend is him, he's the friend.]

Comments

[yuezun]

[It would be more helpful in giving advice if the person he was conversing with would provide all these details all at once. Daqiang gave a small sigh and looked to one side before moving to set the device down on what was probably a table or desk, given the edges of paperwork that could be seen. Then sat down to lean back and think. Behind him was an open and unobstructed view of the ocean, likely from someplace on a ship given the lack of buildings or land in sight.]

Just because it did nothing at the source when you visited, that does not mean it doesn't effect the curse. The curse takes root when the water pools into springs, yes? So the running water that fills it could not place the curse on a being that enters it. But it does control the curse's trigger once it is placed on a being: hot and cold water. Therefore, it has an effect on the curse in some manner. The two are certainly related.

Do you know if the curse is suppressed in the same manner that other riftfarer's powers are suppressed prior to obtaining the tattoo that weakens the seal on them?

[catsgothistongue]

[Excuuuuuuuse him, supreme moon! It isn't like he wants to give an entire play-by-play of his life before being dropped here...]

I wish. When I got hit by that bottle, the water triggered the curse. I was in my cursed form when I arrived, and stopped at one of the local bathhouses to change back to normal.

[yuezun]

[So whatever it was coming through the rifts did to suppress a being's power, in fact, allow curses to pass through. That was the assumption Daqiang had had when he first came through and could feel emotions - though he knew now that at least some of those emotions were his own and not Orchid's. But having it confirmed was good.

He made a small hum of acknowledgement as he thought further, then offered:]

It is possible you may be able to find or have a magical treasure crafted to suppress the curse even if it cannot be cured. If you are of the Corsairs, you may be able to find some aid with their healers. Several months ago, when this venerable one first arrived, Captain Randell Red-Lord's lost treasure was found. The treasure was a chest of coins that could cure some curses simply by touching the coin. The healers of Nogard acquired them. These coins cannot cure stronger curses and as this venerable one said, it is unlikely they can cure the one you came from. However, the loose organization that are the healers of Nogard may be able to use whatever insights they've drawn from them to suggest ways of temporarily suppressing the curse. Perhaps specific circumstances that it will not activate even if you are doused with water.

[Daqiang himself had kept one of the coins to help cure any smaller curses he or his crew may encounter. But the rest were sold off since there was no correlation between quantity of coins and power of curse cured.]

[catsgothistongue]

[!!!

Finally, he might be getting somewhere! The coin not being able to cure a strong curse like his is a bit of a let down, but if he's able to suppress it? That's just as good as getting rid of it altogether!]

Mind pointin me in the direction of where the healers are?

[yuezun]

[When he'd said 'loose organization' he'd meant it. He didn't know for certain if there were any sort of actual formalized group. But there were more than a few that did business close to the ports.]

Check just outside the main port in Fang. You should be able to find a healer promoting their business and they can lead to to a centralized authority, if one exists among them.

[catsgothistongue]

Gotcha! Thanks Donny! I'll run by there in a minute!

[And by in a minute, he means right about now. Ditching the entire conversation altogether without saying goodbye...]

...he just slammed his shellphone onto his desk and nearly broke it - the desk, not the shellphone

[yuezun]

[Donny.

Donny.

Why that-]

rip the desk

[catsgothistongue]

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