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(Novel's decursing attempt)
[Sat Jan 25 2025]
In a Darkened Alley alongside the Elm Street Apartment Complex
It is night, about 18F(-7C) degrees, and there are a few dark grey stormclouds in the sky. There is a waning crescent moon.
Novel says "OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE."
Novel makes a 'bruh' noise.
Novel strides on down to join the rest of the crowd, "Yeah I know." He admits to Antoinette with a sigh. "I was driving home, I saw something shiny on the floor, and what did I do? I picked it up."
Nadia stares at Lilian now, just fascinated by her and taking notes even more. "Oh my gosh a real live vampire!" she exclaims, smiling as she notes something else down.
"Oh, or the lesson can come to us," Malcolm reckons, upnodding Novel casually. "Well, kids."
Siofra says "It's almost like people are afraid to go outside fer some reason."
Lark blinks in surprise.
"Alright, y'all, just brace yourselves and hold on to your asses, and listen to the people who're more experienced than you," Malcolm chimes out in a patronly tone.
"If you would kindly put the object there in the middle of the circle..." Lilian points to the spell circle already on the ground.
Toby blinks at Novel. "Shiny.", he murmurs as he tilts his head at... well, the lesson he's brought in.
Novel waggling the silver dagger around recklessly, "I don't know! I attract weird shit that happens to me ALL THE FUCKING TIME. The ghosts keep chasing me the fuck around, I even ended up in Ireland once and they STILL followed me from here."
Novel awkwardly holds out a palm. He shakes the dagger out trying to put it in the circle. It remains firmly glued to his hand. He looks at the dagger. THen he looks at Lilian.
Siofra cocks her head at someone, coming to a quick stand that involves touching her toes. "Really? What time o'the year?"
Novel says "No? "
Siofra cocks her head at Novel, coming to a quick stand that involves touching her toes. "Really? What time o'the year?"
Lilian points to the middle of the circle. "Just go sit in the middle there with the dagger."
Benjamin takes a few steps back from Novel and the circle with a wary look.
'Are you sure you don't come from the Other? Things like that happen to their people' William types on his phone before showing it to Novel 'Or if they have something against you'
"Oh-" Siofra crooks a finger at Novel and snorts a laugh. "I read that report! Feckin' DEADLY that!"
"Just my fuckin' luck," Malcolm grouses heatlessly, trying to maintain a fairly neutral disposition.
Antoinette eyes the dagger, "Is that the -same- dagger from that one time?" She asks Novel, taking a step back, definitely following Lily's lead here.
Lilian brings her thumb to her canines again, drawing another drop of blood which she wipes onto the spell circle already set on the ground. The blood making the circle suddenly becomes liquid from it's dried form, reforming the circle and starting to glow a dull sanguine red again.
"There's a pretty good chance I pissed a lot of them off, Bill, on the way past," Novel shrugs back at William as he moseys his way on to stand directly in the circle, pointy thing in hand. "Oh. No. -This- one is silver. The last one was made of wood. And the one before that was made out of iron."
Novel says "Always daggers, though."
Lilian glances over at Antoinette, "Given you can sense it, sounds like you have some form of prior knowledge?"
Toby blinks, tilting his head to William. "Still haven't gotten over your sore throat?", he wonders, then looking at the dagger Novel bears. "...That thing has bad vibes.", he supposes vaguely.
Nadia is about to try to weasel out of it, it looks like, but at Lilian's instruction she reluctantly heads to where the woman had pointed. "I'm really not loving all the blood."
William lets out a a little shrug with a bit of a smile, shaking his head at Toby, before typing once more in his phone, and tilting the screen towards Novel 'Try not to do it too much. Might feel good in the moment, but then these things happen'
Nadia gasps and takes a few steps back, raising her hands a little. "Um... sorry."
Lilian says "What about hitting volleyballs?"
"Who wants to hold the tungsten dagger?", Toby deadpans.
Growing air pressure makes your ear's pop uncomfortably and deadens all sound.
"Hard pass," Malcolm relays from where he remains.
Antoinette grimaces as things go a lot quieter
Malcolm works his jaw abruptly, squinting. "Mthrfckr."
Lark sticks her fingers in her ears, her face a little pink.
Siofra yawns easily.
Lilian tilts her head as everyone suddenly becomes rather deaf. She continues to kneel where she is at the head of the circle.
"Man, I barely remember most of what I did in the past, Bill. That's what drugs are for. If you want to forget: Take more drugs. I guarantee you the brain damage will leave you with holes in your memory- oh one of these." Novel has a surprisingly neutral response to that, just wincing a little and rubbing at his ear and then raising his voice to be heard better. "WELL I HAD SOME GIRLS WITH TITS LIKE THAT WHO LIKED HAVING THEM SLAPPED, DOES THAT COUNT LILY." what a wonderful thing to yell at the top of your lungs. Thank you novel.
William lets go off the phone, moving his hands towards his ears and wincing silently, bending slightly at the pain in his ears, at least now he wasn't the only one unable to communicate
Toby lets out a yelp, holding his hand to his forehead, then sliding his hands to his ears.
Lilian looks around the room and shrugs her shoulders before gesturing Novel to sit down. The arcane runes around the circle gleams as they get reformed into different shapes and runes. Gesturing towards Antoinette, she points at Antoinette then at the dagger.
Lark continues screwing her fingers in her ears, as if she can plunge out the issue. She can't. Obviously.
Benjamin reaches up and puts a finger in his ear wiggling it about trying to fix the pressure issue to no avail with a pained look on his expression. "SO DO CURSED ITEMS JUST ACT LIKE GHOSTS?!"
"DEPENDS," Malcolm rattles to Benjamin. No further elaboration. Excellent education.
Deaf as fuck for the last few minutes, Nadia collapses right on her back. Something about this ritual knocked her clean out for a minute and she just stays down even after she wakes back up.
Lilian isn't particularly good at lip reading, "YOU HAD GIRLS WITH BIG TITS THAT HAD THE CLAP?" She shouts back at Novel for a moment.
Antoinette snorts a laugh, which hurts ultimately, but worth it. She nods to Lilian, moving closer but not stepping inside the circle. She murmurs something inaudible and there's a faint glow to her necklace as she reaches out for the dagger.
Lark gives up and pulls up her cell phone, scrolling through her phone to yell at Malcolm. "IS THIS WHAT A -" There's a pause as she finds the note: "IS THIS WHAT A CAN OF SMASHED ASSES FEELS LIKE?"
Siofra takes a few steps back to sulk and eat a bagel with her vodka through the boring silence, looking out on the world dim and dilated.
Novel ignores Lilian's gesture while waggling the knife dangerously. Anyone nearby the circle is at risk of getting cut by a piece of silver. He's talking by gesticulating a lot with his hands. It's amazing for some reason. "YEAH ONE OR TWO I GOT OVER IT THOUGH."
"THIS IS SMASHED ASSES ONE-OH-ONE," Malcolm agrees with Lark, or thinks that he does. He got the gist.
"WHAAAAAAT?", Toby shouts out unhelpfully, evidently still not able to hear that question, then wrinkling his nose. "HOW CAN YOU SMASH ASHES? AREN'T THEY ALREADY DUST?"
"STAY STILL NOVEL." There's a flicker of distracting light near the opposite side of him, like Antoinette 's trying to avoid getting nicked.
Lark shouts at Toby, pointing to her butt. "ASSES! NOT ASHES! ASSES!"
"WHY ARE WE TALKING ABOUT SMASHING ASSES, THIS IS A DECURSING NOT A MUSICAL." Benjamin exclaims with a look at Malcolm like its his fault.
All metal objects in the room are suddenly tugged violently towards the artifact.
"WHY WOULD YOU PUT ASHES THERE?!?!", Toby exclaims incredulously after Lark's gesture, putting his hands behind his head astonishedly.
And than includes the pistol right out of Malcolm's holster, whoop.
Lilian winces as dagger flies towards Novel too. And Antoinette
Benjamin the light suddenly goes out as the brass rod in his hand along goes flying towards Novel
Siofra is yanked by a steel disk around her neck, but the object doesn't have to mass to tug her. Instead, neck craned, she sneers down at the metal trying to escape her.
Lilian's bag starts getting sucked towards Novel too but since she's got the strap on, she holds onto it.
JUST got up when suddenly her bronze circlet ensures that Nadia is thrown violently on her face right into the circle. Goddamn metal fashion accessory...
Lark yelps as the earrings fly out of her ears.
Nadia says "Ow... "
Novel helpfully shouts, "WHAT?!?" While turning around to go look at the tiny shiny thing he saw out of the corner of his eye and then SUDDENLY not only people's stuff, but also every chair and thing in the room flings it's way towards him. "OW FUCK YOU ASSHOLES WHY ARE YOU THROWING AT ME?!" The gun goes off when it runs into him, a BANG echoing across the room that once again leaves ears ringing with tinnitus as it punches a hole in the arcology. He flinches and ducks, covering his head.
Lark ducks at the sound of the BANG!
Benjamin drops into a low squat when the gun goes BANG and puts his hands above his head while shouting, "FUCK." or was it DUCK or was it CUCK.
Lilian looks up at the chairs from down from the second floor to smash into Novel as well. "THE DAGGER IS DRAWING THEM IN. WATCH OUT." She calls as another table comes tumbled down over the observation desk and into Novel.
Lilian doesn't even bother to duck at the gun going off.
That BANG has Malcolm hit the deck and reach for his gun. Which he doesn't find. Because it's what BANGed. "WE NEED TO HAVE A TALK ABOUT WHITE OAK'S WEAPON POLICY," Malcolm calls out to nobody in particular, at the accruing pile of accoutrements and accessories and weaponry.
"SHOULD WE BE CHANTING OR SOMETHING, IS THIS HAPPENING BECAUSE THE CIRCLE IS WORKING?" Benjamin says loudly from his squatting hands over head position looking towards someone and then Novel
"SHOULD WE BE CHANTING OR SOMETHING, IS THIS HAPPENING BECAUSE THE CIRCLE IS WORKING?" Benjamin says loudly from his squatting hands over head position looking towards Lilian and then Novel
Nadia grabs her damn circlet in one hand while trying to use the other to pull herself behind someone not wearing metal.
Antoinette does some yelping of her own as her own knife flies out and her necklace yanks her forward right into Novel due to her proximity. She's half covering one ear, half trying to grab that damn dagger while avoiding getting bludgeoned to death. There's going to be some brusies or nicks regardless.
Antoinette says "THINGS ARE HAPPENING"
"THE CURSE IS JUST RESISTING US THAT'S ALL." Lilian calls out to Benjamin as the runes on the ground continue to rescribe themselves.
The BANG has Toby jumping as well, drawing his arms close with some anxiety. "THINGS ARE DEFINITELY HAPPENING.", he agrees with Antoinette.
The ceremonial dagger that had maybe hit Novel's shin with it's hilt disappaers and reappears in Lilian's hand, which she tucks away into her skirts again.
Malcolm grabs his gat and, with a yank, hits the safety tucks it away, sure to secure the strap this time. The mutter probably can't be heard by anyone present, but that doesn't stop him, or any attempted lip readers. "fuckin' magic bullshit swear to god"
Lark sees Malcolm muttering, but can't hear and decides to shout at him: "IS IT METAMUCIL TIME AGAIN?!"
Growing air pressure makes your ear's pop uncomfortably and deadens all sound.
Novel has surprisingly few bruises, picking up the table as it flings over to him, grabbing it, and HURLING it back across the room with a crash. "FUCK YOU TABLE! YEAH!" He flexes, grunting, at least he's no longer swinging the blade again, and he grins practically ear to ear as there's another pop
"Curses don't like being decursed alot of the time." Lilian tells Benjamin as everyone's hearing starts coming back slightly maybe for the supernatural people. Aaaand nevermind, everyone is deaf again.
Thank god Malcolm doesn't hear Lark, with his hand already on the blicky.
Lilian reminds everyone to suffer if they're suffering.
Nadia is Freaked-out, Insecure, Numb, and Emotional about all of this, yep absolutely fine, except for all the hell exploding around her. "DEAR GOD WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED? IT'S LIKE I WOKE UP FOR THE FIRST TIME AND THE PLANET EXPLODED!" Then the second deadening pop puts her into a writhe and twitch. "AAAAAH!!"
Benjamin tries to finger wiggle his OTHER ear... nope no help. He calls out, "WE NEED LIKE A DECURSE CHAMBER THAT WE JUST LOCK THEM IN. LIKE DECONTAMINATION OR SOMETHING."
Lark shouts at Benjamin. "WHAT?!" Real helpful shit.
"WHAT????!?!?!", Toby shouts after Lark's identical exclamation - an invaluable contribution, surely.
Despite having her ears popped with everyone, Lilian still seems to be in a rather cherry mood, "DID YOU say DECOMMUNICATE NOVEL?" She shouts at Benjamin before looking over at the dagger and shaking her head. "STICK IT IN THE GROUND." She demonstrates with her own dagger at Novel, shoving her dagger into the ground with her hand still holding the hilt.
Antoinette flinches, dodging downward to grab her own knife back up and stash it and make sure the properly cursed dagger is the one that gets buried.
Lilian points at her dagger and points at Novel.
"YOU LOT WOULD BE SO MUCH BETTER OF IF YE' FECKED OFF BUT THANK YE' ALL FOR STAYIN' 'CAUSE YE' TASTE JUST LOOOOVELY!" Siofra swoons from the back while others can't hear her, holding a shoulder and wriggling as she relapses into a bite on her lip.
Lilian continues pointing back and forth between the two daggers as if hoping Novel would get a hint.
William reaches for his ears once more, covering both of them and silently complaining about the pain to his sensitive sense, at this point simply watching whatever is happening with the ritual and the dagger
"WHAT?" Novel shouts back at Lilian, staring at her for a long moment, trying to figure it out. Unhelpfully, he echoes back to her, wiggling his dagger back at the woman, "DICKCOMMUNICATE. ADVA KARVADA. HOCUS POCUS."
Nadia rolls her eyes and yells back to Siofra. "BUT WHY DID YOU CHUCK A MOTH AND HOW DOES THAT FEEL MOTHERLY?!"
Lilian isn't sure if she's really bad at charades or Novel is. She points at herself, then points at Novel and then pointedly stabs her dagger into the dirt again. "STAB IT INTO THE GROUND."
It's Novel. It's definitely Novel. He squats down promptly, shoving the blade downwards violently into the dirt.
Malcolm just stares for a long time, watching this absolute tomfoolery and shaboingery, but also doing approximately zero to help. He's just (un)happy to be here.
"IF IT WERE A BOGUS LOCUS WE WOULDN'T BE IN THIS MESS.", Toby offers unhelpfully to Novel, loudly.
An arc of lightning blasts out of the artifact to strike Lark, sending her flying.
Benjamin moves closer to the circle and tries to reach across the threshold to catch Novel's wrist! "STAB... GROUND!" and then tries to kneel towards the ground with him! Hopefully crossing the line doesn't cause anything like lightning to happen.
Benjamin says "OH FUCK!"
Siofra cackles uncontrollably as she points at Lark like her pants fell down as the woman is literally flung through an explosion of energy.
Lark gets hit by the lightning, thrown back by the force of it. "FUCK!" she yells, though the world remains oddly silent as it happens.
It did in fact cause lightning to happen. Benjamin. You fucked up. You fucked up Benjamin. Novel goes, with widening eyes, looking as if he's a kid who's just had the greatest birthday present party happening, "AWESOME."
As soon as Novel stabs the dagger into the ground it sends out that arc of lighting, hitting Lark even as the blood in the circle instantly starts writhing as trials of blood path their way to the dagger. They slowly start to wrap around the dagger. Lilian looks over at Novel, "KEEP IT IN THE GROUND."
Eyes widening, Malcolm's first reaction is to shrink back and blurt a "JESUS MURPHY," before he jaunts a step toward Lark and offers a hand. "BURNT?"
Nadia stares at the lightning and Lark and shrieks in fear, passing out briefly again.
Lilian glances over at Lark to make sure she's alright but she's too busy concentrating on the ritual. She trusts everyone else will look after the girl as the blood coats the dagger, getting to about half way now.
Lark manages to land on her feet like a cat. It's a miracle. She looks at Malcolm, bewildered, her red hair a frizzy mess, though when she looks at her soot-covered skin, she seems perfectly fine.
"I HAVE CONCERNS ABOUT THE EDUCATION OF THIS INSTITUTION, THIS IS NOT A SAFE ENVIRONMENT AND THIS DOESN'T SEEM TO BE GOING WELL." Benjamin hollers while keeping the dagger in the ground with his grip overlaying Novel's own.
Antoinette goes wide-eyed in horror as Lark is flung back, looking to see if Lark might need some actual medical attention, but seems relieved when she's okay.
Benjamin says "THE FACT THERE IS BLOOD IS EXHIBIT A IN WHY THIS IS NOT GOING WELL."
A nod of relief and satisfaction from Malcolm to Lark, but as he turns away, the mutter starts again. "fuckin divine metabolism bullshit"
Antoinette laughs in spite of herself, but recomposes relatively quicking, back to business
Lark cannot hear, but she certainly can see Malcolm muttering and hollers, a supremely uphelpful: "WHAT?!"
Novel looks at Benjamin, he looks down at his hand, then back up at Benjamin. His ears seem to have recovered, as he his shoulders shake with the laughter drawing from between his lips. He leaaans right over to Benjamin.
Toby's eyes are drawn to that lightning, eyes widening slightly as it flings Lark. "-oh, shit.", he mumbles to himself inaudibly, clicking his tongue to himself, then looking to Benjamin. "GOING WELL? I DON'T FUCKING THINK SO." He evidently missed the whole rest of that sentence, inadvertently agreeing.
"Relax Benji." Lilian calls out in a loudish but not shouting voice, finding herself able to hear again given she caught Malcolm's mutter. "It'll be done soon." The blood continues to coat the dagger, engulfing Novel's hand since it's in it's way on the hilt.
Benjamin hangs his head as Novel whispers something to him and says, "If I let go is it going to smite Lark again?" and then he lets go of Novel's hands...
Benjamin looks right... looks left...
Lark shouts. "WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?!"
With a final burst of power the curse on a silver dagger is broken.
Novels Decursing Attempt 250126
(Novel's decursing attempt)
[Sat Jan 25 2025]
In a Darkened Alley alongside the Elm Street Apartment Complex
It is night, about 18F(-7C) degrees, and there are a few dark grey stormclouds in the sky. There is a waning crescent moon.
Novel says "OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE."
Novel makes a 'bruh' noise.
Novel strides on down to join the rest of the crowd, "Yeah I know." He admits to Antoinette with a sigh. "I was driving home, I saw something shiny on the floor, and what did I do? I picked it up."
Nadia stares at Lilian now, just fascinated by her and taking notes even more. "Oh my gosh a real live vampire!" she exclaims, smiling as she notes something else down.
"Oh, or the lesson can come to us," Malcolm reckons, upnodding Novel casually. "Well, kids."
Siofra says "It's almost like people are afraid to go outside fer some reason."
Lark blinks in surprise.
"Alright, y'all, just brace yourselves and hold on to your asses, and listen to the people who're more experienced than you," Malcolm chimes out in a patronly tone.
"If you would kindly put the object there in the middle of the circle..." Lilian points to the spell circle already on the ground.
Toby blinks at Novel. "Shiny.", he murmurs as he tilts his head at... well, the lesson he's brought in.
Novel waggling the silver dagger around recklessly, "I don't know! I attract weird shit that happens to me ALL THE FUCKING TIME. The ghosts keep chasing me the fuck around, I even ended up in Ireland once and they STILL followed me from here."
Novel awkwardly holds out a palm. He shakes the dagger out trying to put it in the circle. It remains firmly glued to his hand. He looks at the dagger. THen he looks at Lilian.
Siofra cocks her head at someone, coming to a quick stand that involves touching her toes. "Really? What time o'the year?"
Novel says "No? "
Siofra cocks her head at Novel, coming to a quick stand that involves touching her toes. "Really? What time o'the year?"
Lilian points to the middle of the circle. "Just go sit in the middle there with the dagger."
Benjamin takes a few steps back from Novel and the circle with a wary look.
'Are you sure you don't come from the Other? Things like that happen to their people' William types on his phone before showing it to Novel 'Or if they have something against you'
"Oh-" Siofra crooks a finger at Novel and snorts a laugh. "I read that report! Feckin' DEADLY that!"
"Just my fuckin' luck," Malcolm grouses heatlessly, trying to maintain a fairly neutral disposition.
Antoinette eyes the dagger, "Is that the -same- dagger from that one time?" She asks Novel, taking a step back, definitely following Lily's lead here.
Lilian brings her thumb to her canines again, drawing another drop of blood which she wipes onto the spell circle already set on the ground. The blood making the circle suddenly becomes liquid from it's dried form, reforming the circle and starting to glow a dull sanguine red again.
"There's a pretty good chance I pissed a lot of them off, Bill, on the way past," Novel shrugs back at William as he moseys his way on to stand directly in the circle, pointy thing in hand. "Oh. No. -This- one is silver. The last one was made of wood. And the one before that was made out of iron."
Novel says "Always daggers, though."
Lilian glances over at Antoinette, "Given you can sense it, sounds like you have some form of prior knowledge?"
Toby blinks, tilting his head to William. "Still haven't gotten over your sore throat?", he wonders, then looking at the dagger Novel bears. "...That thing has bad vibes.", he supposes vaguely.
Nadia is about to try to weasel out of it, it looks like, but at Lilian's instruction she reluctantly heads to where the woman had pointed. "I'm really not loving all the blood."
William lets out a a little shrug with a bit of a smile, shaking his head at Toby, before typing once more in his phone, and tilting the screen towards Novel 'Try not to do it too much. Might feel good in the moment, but then these things happen'
Nadia gasps and takes a few steps back, raising her hands a little. "Um... sorry."
Lilian says "What about hitting volleyballs?"
"Who wants to hold the tungsten dagger?", Toby deadpans.
Growing air pressure makes your ear's pop uncomfortably and deadens all sound.
"Hard pass," Malcolm relays from where he remains.
Antoinette grimaces as things go a lot quieter
Malcolm works his jaw abruptly, squinting. "Mthrfckr."
Lark sticks her fingers in her ears, her face a little pink.
Siofra yawns easily.
Lilian tilts her head as everyone suddenly becomes rather deaf. She continues to kneel where she is at the head of the circle.
"Man, I barely remember most of what I did in the past, Bill. That's what drugs are for. If you want to forget: Take more drugs. I guarantee you the brain damage will leave you with holes in your memory- oh one of these." Novel has a surprisingly neutral response to that, just wincing a little and rubbing at his ear and then raising his voice to be heard better. "WELL I HAD SOME GIRLS WITH TITS LIKE THAT WHO LIKED HAVING THEM SLAPPED, DOES THAT COUNT LILY." what a wonderful thing to yell at the top of your lungs. Thank you novel.
William lets go off the phone, moving his hands towards his ears and wincing silently, bending slightly at the pain in his ears, at least now he wasn't the only one unable to communicate
Toby lets out a yelp, holding his hand to his forehead, then sliding his hands to his ears.
Lilian looks around the room and shrugs her shoulders before gesturing Novel to sit down. The arcane runes around the circle gleams as they get reformed into different shapes and runes. Gesturing towards Antoinette, she points at Antoinette then at the dagger.
Lark continues screwing her fingers in her ears, as if she can plunge out the issue. She can't. Obviously.
Benjamin reaches up and puts a finger in his ear wiggling it about trying to fix the pressure issue to no avail with a pained look on his expression. "SO DO CURSED ITEMS JUST ACT LIKE GHOSTS?!"
"DEPENDS," Malcolm rattles to Benjamin. No further elaboration. Excellent education.
Deaf as fuck for the last few minutes, Nadia collapses right on her back. Something about this ritual knocked her clean out for a minute and she just stays down even after she wakes back up.
Lilian isn't particularly good at lip reading, "YOU HAD GIRLS WITH BIG TITS THAT HAD THE CLAP?" She shouts back at Novel for a moment.
Antoinette snorts a laugh, which hurts ultimately, but worth it. She nods to Lilian, moving closer but not stepping inside the circle. She murmurs something inaudible and there's a faint glow to her necklace as she reaches out for the dagger.
Lark gives up and pulls up her cell phone, scrolling through her phone to yell at Malcolm. "IS THIS WHAT A -" There's a pause as she finds the note: "IS THIS WHAT A CAN OF SMASHED ASSES FEELS LIKE?"
Siofra takes a few steps back to sulk and eat a bagel with her vodka through the boring silence, looking out on the world dim and dilated.
Novel ignores Lilian's gesture while waggling the knife dangerously. Anyone nearby the circle is at risk of getting cut by a piece of silver. He's talking by gesticulating a lot with his hands. It's amazing for some reason. "YEAH ONE OR TWO I GOT OVER IT THOUGH."
"THIS IS SMASHED ASSES ONE-OH-ONE," Malcolm agrees with Lark, or thinks that he does. He got the gist.
"WHAAAAAAT?", Toby shouts out unhelpfully, evidently still not able to hear that question, then wrinkling his nose. "HOW CAN YOU SMASH ASHES? AREN'T THEY ALREADY DUST?"
"STAY STILL NOVEL." There's a flicker of distracting light near the opposite side of him, like Antoinette 's trying to avoid getting nicked.
Lark shouts at Toby, pointing to her butt. "ASSES! NOT ASHES! ASSES!"
"WHY ARE WE TALKING ABOUT SMASHING ASSES, THIS IS A DECURSING NOT A MUSICAL." Benjamin exclaims with a look at Malcolm like its his fault.
All metal objects in the room are suddenly tugged violently towards the artifact.
"WHY WOULD YOU PUT ASHES THERE?!?!", Toby exclaims incredulously after Lark's gesture, putting his hands behind his head astonishedly.
And than includes the pistol right out of Malcolm's holster, whoop.
Lilian winces as dagger flies towards Novel too. And Antoinette
Benjamin the light suddenly goes out as the brass rod in his hand along goes flying towards Novel
Siofra is yanked by a steel disk around her neck, but the object doesn't have to mass to tug her. Instead, neck craned, she sneers down at the metal trying to escape her.
Lilian's bag starts getting sucked towards Novel too but since she's got the strap on, she holds onto it.
JUST got up when suddenly her bronze circlet ensures that Nadia is thrown violently on her face right into the circle. Goddamn metal fashion accessory...
Lark yelps as the earrings fly out of her ears.
Nadia says "Ow... "
Novel helpfully shouts, "WHAT?!?" While turning around to go look at the tiny shiny thing he saw out of the corner of his eye and then SUDDENLY not only people's stuff, but also every chair and thing in the room flings it's way towards him. "OW FUCK YOU ASSHOLES WHY ARE YOU THROWING AT ME?!" The gun goes off when it runs into him, a BANG echoing across the room that once again leaves ears ringing with tinnitus as it punches a hole in the arcology. He flinches and ducks, covering his head.
Lark ducks at the sound of the BANG!
Benjamin drops into a low squat when the gun goes BANG and puts his hands above his head while shouting, "FUCK." or was it DUCK or was it CUCK.
Lilian looks up at the chairs from down from the second floor to smash into Novel as well. "THE DAGGER IS DRAWING THEM IN. WATCH OUT." She calls as another table comes tumbled down over the observation desk and into Novel.
Lilian doesn't even bother to duck at the gun going off.
That BANG has Malcolm hit the deck and reach for his gun. Which he doesn't find. Because it's what BANGed. "WE NEED TO HAVE A TALK ABOUT WHITE OAK'S WEAPON POLICY," Malcolm calls out to nobody in particular, at the accruing pile of accoutrements and accessories and weaponry.
"SHOULD WE BE CHANTING OR SOMETHING, IS THIS HAPPENING BECAUSE THE CIRCLE IS WORKING?" Benjamin says loudly from his squatting hands over head position looking towards someone and then Novel
"SHOULD WE BE CHANTING OR SOMETHING, IS THIS HAPPENING BECAUSE THE CIRCLE IS WORKING?" Benjamin says loudly from his squatting hands over head position looking towards Lilian and then Novel
Nadia grabs her damn circlet in one hand while trying to use the other to pull herself behind someone not wearing metal.
Antoinette does some yelping of her own as her own knife flies out and her necklace yanks her forward right into Novel due to her proximity. She's half covering one ear, half trying to grab that damn dagger while avoiding getting bludgeoned to death. There's going to be some brusies or nicks regardless.
Antoinette says "THINGS ARE HAPPENING"
"THE CURSE IS JUST RESISTING US THAT'S ALL." Lilian calls out to Benjamin as the runes on the ground continue to rescribe themselves.
The BANG has Toby jumping as well, drawing his arms close with some anxiety. "THINGS ARE DEFINITELY HAPPENING.", he agrees with Antoinette.
The ceremonial dagger that had maybe hit Novel's shin with it's hilt disappaers and reappears in Lilian's hand, which she tucks away into her skirts again.
Malcolm grabs his gat and, with a yank, hits the safety tucks it away, sure to secure the strap this time. The mutter probably can't be heard by anyone present, but that doesn't stop him, or any attempted lip readers. "fuckin' magic bullshit swear to god"
Lark sees Malcolm muttering, but can't hear and decides to shout at him: "IS IT METAMUCIL TIME AGAIN?!"
Growing air pressure makes your ear's pop uncomfortably and deadens all sound.
Novel has surprisingly few bruises, picking up the table as it flings over to him, grabbing it, and HURLING it back across the room with a crash. "FUCK YOU TABLE! YEAH!" He flexes, grunting, at least he's no longer swinging the blade again, and he grins practically ear to ear as there's another pop
"Curses don't like being decursed alot of the time." Lilian tells Benjamin as everyone's hearing starts coming back slightly maybe for the supernatural people. Aaaand nevermind, everyone is deaf again.
Thank god Malcolm doesn't hear Lark, with his hand already on the blicky.
Lilian reminds everyone to suffer if they're suffering.
Nadia is Freaked-out, Insecure, Numb, and Emotional about all of this, yep absolutely fine, except for all the hell exploding around her. "DEAR GOD WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED? IT'S LIKE I WOKE UP FOR THE FIRST TIME AND THE PLANET EXPLODED!" Then the second deadening pop puts her into a writhe and twitch. "AAAAAH!!"
Benjamin tries to finger wiggle his OTHER ear... nope no help. He calls out, "WE NEED LIKE A DECURSE CHAMBER THAT WE JUST LOCK THEM IN. LIKE DECONTAMINATION OR SOMETHING."
Lark shouts at Benjamin. "WHAT?!" Real helpful shit.
"WHAT????!?!?!", Toby shouts after Lark's identical exclamation - an invaluable contribution, surely.
Despite having her ears popped with everyone, Lilian still seems to be in a rather cherry mood, "DID YOU say DECOMMUNICATE NOVEL?" She shouts at Benjamin before looking over at the dagger and shaking her head. "STICK IT IN THE GROUND." She demonstrates with her own dagger at Novel, shoving her dagger into the ground with her hand still holding the hilt.
Antoinette flinches, dodging downward to grab her own knife back up and stash it and make sure the properly cursed dagger is the one that gets buried.
Lilian points at her dagger and points at Novel.
"YOU LOT WOULD BE SO MUCH BETTER OF IF YE' FECKED OFF BUT THANK YE' ALL FOR STAYIN' 'CAUSE YE' TASTE JUST LOOOOVELY!" Siofra swoons from the back while others can't hear her, holding a shoulder and wriggling as she relapses into a bite on her lip.
Lilian continues pointing back and forth between the two daggers as if hoping Novel would get a hint.
William reaches for his ears once more, covering both of them and silently complaining about the pain to his sensitive sense, at this point simply watching whatever is happening with the ritual and the dagger
"WHAT?" Novel shouts back at Lilian, staring at her for a long moment, trying to figure it out. Unhelpfully, he echoes back to her, wiggling his dagger back at the woman, "DICKCOMMUNICATE. ADVA KARVADA. HOCUS POCUS."
Nadia rolls her eyes and yells back to Siofra. "BUT WHY DID YOU CHUCK A MOTH AND HOW DOES THAT FEEL MOTHERLY?!"
Lilian isn't sure if she's really bad at charades or Novel is. She points at herself, then points at Novel and then pointedly stabs her dagger into the dirt again. "STAB IT INTO THE GROUND."
It's Novel. It's definitely Novel. He squats down promptly, shoving the blade downwards violently into the dirt.
Malcolm just stares for a long time, watching this absolute tomfoolery and shaboingery, but also doing approximately zero to help. He's just (un)happy to be here.
"IF IT WERE A BOGUS LOCUS WE WOULDN'T BE IN THIS MESS.", Toby offers unhelpfully to Novel, loudly.
An arc of lightning blasts out of the artifact to strike Lark, sending her flying.
Benjamin moves closer to the circle and tries to reach across the threshold to catch Novel's wrist! "STAB... GROUND!" and then tries to kneel towards the ground with him! Hopefully crossing the line doesn't cause anything like lightning to happen.
Benjamin says "OH FUCK!"
Siofra cackles uncontrollably as she points at Lark like her pants fell down as the woman is literally flung through an explosion of energy.
Lark gets hit by the lightning, thrown back by the force of it. "FUCK!" she yells, though the world remains oddly silent as it happens.
It did in fact cause lightning to happen. Benjamin. You fucked up. You fucked up Benjamin. Novel goes, with widening eyes, looking as if he's a kid who's just had the greatest birthday present party happening, "AWESOME."
As soon as Novel stabs the dagger into the ground it sends out that arc of lighting, hitting Lark even as the blood in the circle instantly starts writhing as trials of blood path their way to the dagger. They slowly start to wrap around the dagger. Lilian looks over at Novel, "KEEP IT IN THE GROUND."
Eyes widening, Malcolm's first reaction is to shrink back and blurt a "JESUS MURPHY," before he jaunts a step toward Lark and offers a hand. "BURNT?"
Nadia stares at the lightning and Lark and shrieks in fear, passing out briefly again.
Lilian glances over at Lark to make sure she's alright but she's too busy concentrating on the ritual. She trusts everyone else will look after the girl as the blood coats the dagger, getting to about half way now.
Lark manages to land on her feet like a cat. It's a miracle. She looks at Malcolm, bewildered, her red hair a frizzy mess, though when she looks at her soot-covered skin, she seems perfectly fine.
"I HAVE CONCERNS ABOUT THE EDUCATION OF THIS INSTITUTION, THIS IS NOT A SAFE ENVIRONMENT AND THIS DOESN'T SEEM TO BE GOING WELL." Benjamin hollers while keeping the dagger in the ground with his grip overlaying Novel's own.
Antoinette goes wide-eyed in horror as Lark is flung back, looking to see if Lark might need some actual medical attention, but seems relieved when she's okay.
Benjamin says "THE FACT THERE IS BLOOD IS EXHIBIT A IN WHY THIS IS NOT GOING WELL."
A nod of relief and satisfaction from Malcolm to Lark, but as he turns away, the mutter starts again. "fuckin divine metabolism bullshit"
Antoinette laughs in spite of herself, but recomposes relatively quicking, back to business
Lark cannot hear, but she certainly can see Malcolm muttering and hollers, a supremely uphelpful: "WHAT?!"
Novel looks at Benjamin, he looks down at his hand, then back up at Benjamin. His ears seem to have recovered, as he his shoulders shake with the laughter drawing from between his lips. He leaaans right over to Benjamin.
Toby's eyes are drawn to that lightning, eyes widening slightly as it flings Lark. "-oh, shit.", he mumbles to himself inaudibly, clicking his tongue to himself, then looking to Benjamin. "GOING WELL? I DON'T FUCKING THINK SO." He evidently missed the whole rest of that sentence, inadvertently agreeing.
"Relax Benji." Lilian calls out in a loudish but not shouting voice, finding herself able to hear again given she caught Malcolm's mutter. "It'll be done soon." The blood continues to coat the dagger, engulfing Novel's hand since it's in it's way on the hilt.
Benjamin hangs his head as Novel whispers something to him and says, "If I let go is it going to smite Lark again?" and then he lets go of Novel's hands...
Benjamin looks right... looks left...
Lark shouts. "WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?!"
With a final burst of power the curse on a silver dagger is broken.