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[Video] The Rhyme is a lie

[The communicator flickers on to focus on Rita, who looks tired and a bit spaced-out. All the excitement of coming to the City catching up with her, perhaps?]

Hey, did someone start growing a flower garden in here or something? All I can smell are roses, and they're giving me a headache.

[She sleepily rubs at her eyes then pauses, mildly confused. She inspects her hand, and one might see rose-red rings on her fingers.]

Huh? Is there something...I never had allergies to anything before--wait, is something burning?

[Of course, the device can't exactly transmit the smell, but smoke is starting to waft around the room. Rita frantically starts rummaging around and looking for the source.]

Where is this coming from? A-ow, that kind of...

[Suddenly, her hands burst into flames. She's momentarily stunned at her spontaneous combustion but recovers enough to do something about it, grabbing a blanket and smothering out the flames. She's pretty alert now, at least.]

What the hell just happened?! Is this one of those...w-wait!

[Another tendril of smoke starts to creep up. Rita wastes no time now, a blue magic circle appearing at her feet as she casts a spell.]

O caprice of innocent waters...Champagne!

[The spring of water forms beneath her feet, bubbling forth a small stream that halts the smoke. Rita sighs shakily, about to turn back to her device, when the smoke returns once again.]

C-come on! Stop it, already!

[OOC: Will be backtagging when I get in from work AGAIN sob. Anyway, her nursery rhyme is Ring Around the Rosy, which this handy site going around suggests refers to the bubonic plague. Too bad the City doesn't feel like waiting to cremate you...]

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Knowing only helps so far when it comes to the curses, but knowledge is always preferable to a lack thereof.

I hear that dead people can't leave this City at all, so I'm not sure I'd be too thrilled about being stuck here forever even if it meant living again. It's kind of hard to say for sure though, since I haven't exactly died before.

Someone put up a partial list of curses that happened over the past month the other day, and...well, I don't think you could prepare for these things no matter how hard you tried.

But...it's not just about the knowledge. It's good just to have people around, you know, for stuff like this.

[Doesn't exactly want to admit that without her friends here, she'd probably be scared as hell.]

I have known of dead who disappeared from this place, but it is difficult to say to where they went, considering.

The only use I can see for others would be to rely on their not being cursed and tempering whatever effects you might be experiencing.

[He wouldn't be scared as hell, but--suffice to say, the day he admits needing others, it will be a cursed one.]

You have? So whether or not they stay longer might just be random, like it is with everybody else. ...They probably just go back to being dead, I'd guess.

Yeah, that helps...like today. I can't imagine what it'd be like if everyone were cursed all the time, besides complete chaos, with everyone too caught up in their own craziness to do anything else.

I've been here over a year; there are more dead than even I realize.

The curses happen frequently enough that I expect part of their design is to do exactly that: promote enough regular chaos to make united efforts difficult.

Whether or not it was intentional, they sure work well at doing that. I think I'd have to agree that it might be just what they wanted. We can't exactly get back at them when we're too busy trying not to get killed or...other things.

[She's very concerned about a pheromone curse she heard of that caused certain attractions recently. Oh god is she ever concerned about that one.]

I doubt that it isn't intentional. Of course, any and all attacks on the deities have resulted in absolutely nothing, so curses may very well also feed the clock.

[Or, whatever. Yes, Rita... be very afraid.

It does seem to be one of the most likely reasons, but I wish we had more concrete information. I've heard mostly speculation from other people.

Feed the clock, huh...? You can only hear the ticking when you're alone even though it's underground, which I don't get. Do you know anything about it--or have any guesses?

Unfortunately, very little that is concrete exists.

I would not expect to get the clock, if I were you. The popular theory is that it is fueled by high emotions produced by curses, and that it counts down to the end of all worlds. However, it is a hypothesis that has never been tested.

... How's the water?

Really...? Well, it's kind of hard to test a theory like that. It'd be nicer if the deities were more upfront about it, but if they were that generous, we wouldn't even be in this mess in the first place.

...It's fine. Keeping the fire out.

To say the least.

Very well. I suppose you could use the device to find digital books, or videos online, if it becomes boring.

It can do stuff like that too? Hm...so it's not just a communicator, but more like a device that enables us to connect to a network of other devices, including information databases. Does that sound about right?

[Oh, she's going to have fun with this.]

Correct. There ought to be a help file of some kind explaining its network capabilities.

[Would explain further, but he suspects she can figure it out.]

[He'd be right, too!]

I think I found it. Wow, this is pretty advanced stuff...nothing compared to blastia, though, and those didn't exactly come with instructions. Still, it's pretty amazing that it lets you connect to such a large network--I can't believe how much information is here!

Keep in mind that it isn't all true.

... Blastia?

What? If it isn't, why would it be in a database?

Oh, right. It's an ancient technology from my world. The ancients developed it, but their civilization was lost. We'd been digging up blastia and using them, but it took a lot of experimentation since we knew nothing about them. We never did solve all their mysteries...and we probably never will, since we had to give up that technology. It was...well, to put it simply, it was destroying the world.

The internet is comprised of more than scholarly sources. Any person can put whatever he or she wants on it; fiction or fact, or one posing as the other.

It sounds a little more serious than high Carbon Dioxide emissions. What precisely is a blastia, then?

Huh. So it's not just a high-tech scholarly journal, then. Sifting through the junk must be a pain unless you know where to look.

Oh, is that an issue in your world? The basic principle is the same, that too much of something can be really harmful. I guess I should start with aer, which is fuel for blastia. Aer is a fundamental component of our world present in everything, just like the elements that form matter. Aer usually can't be seen though, and if it is visible it's not a good thing, since dense aer has detrimental effects on all living creatures. It can make people sick, drive monsters into a frenzy, and cause plants to grow wild.

Anyway, aer comes from...fountains of a sort, I guess, called aer krenes. But with blastia using aer as their power source, the aer krenes had to keep outputting more to the put that even they grew so unstable that they were dangerous. They could be brought under control by very powerful creatures, the Entelexeia, but since they didn't exactly feel like sharing their problems, humans fought with them and there weren't many left. They weren't enough to keep it under control...especially with us humans continually excavating more blastia. Basically, this led to the birth of the Adephagos, which--well...I guess you could imagine it as a giant monster, say, the size of the moon that was trying to eat the planet.

[She'll give him a moment to absorb all that.]

Far from it. The best approach is to not take anything at face value.

[He needs less than the moment, able to grasp it well enough. Accepting the unlikely was a part of life in the City, except-]

The size of the moon?

... Trying to eat the planet.

... Suffice to say, I am quite sure that global warming will not result in that.

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You mean everything ISN'T true on the net? :O

O-of course it is! Ishida is a LIAR.

There goes my LOLcat spelling lessons. ):

W-will you survive?! - 1/2

2/3 woops!

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