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Unbelievable. I am not staying here with all these idiots and this--this dog!

I don't care what this useless thing says--there's no way this is happening. Any idiot knows there's no such thing as curses.

[ooc: Cursed with Feels Like the First Time. Not only is Rita missing her City memories, but she's also from very early canon for the curse (first visit to Aspio/Shaikos Ruins early).]

I'm not cursed today.

[Rita's hideously smug over this fact. Both because she gets to sit out while other people do ridiculous things, and...because of what day it is.]

You better remember to prove how good you are, Tyr!

[Not that she's excited to see his ice-cream-cake-making skills. Not at all! Okay, she totally is.]

I knew something like this would be simple to figure out. There!

[Rita indicates...what might be an attempt at making a torte. Or a pudding cake. The only sure thing is that it's messy and looks about ready to collapse, two cake layers haphazardly stacked with too-soft and melting ice cream sandwiched between. She's still pretty smug about it, though, like it's the highest-class dessert ever made.]

Genius. Who needs instructions for this?

[And here is standing Rita...who doesn't look or even sound particularly different than usual. However, the genius mage is very much male today. And as far as he's concerned, he always has been.]

I hate you and your curses, City.

[He scowls at a blown-up wall in the house. Some of the debris is still lying around.]

[ooc: Male Rita has very few physical changes she never did have a chest. Replies will come from y_variable! Destroyed wall (and other things...) thanks to St. Patrick's Day and Flynn.]

[The first thing seen is stomping feet--mismatched boots and tights, obviously Rita's--pacing furiously in the study. Pacing isn't something she normally does, but with this much nervous energy and frustration to work off-]

I can't believe he left like that...That jerk. [She mutters angrily, and finally raises the device to speak into it like she originally intended.] The old man's gone! He's left the City, and he didn't even say a single goodbye, complaint, or even a perverted comment!

[And with that, she chucks a book onto the floor, fumes for a moment, and kicks a bookshelf for good measure.]

[ooc: As stated, backdated to yesterday! Raven's gone, and Rita's cursed...So advance apologies for anyone she rages at.]

...Those random curse weekends moved closer to the beginning of the month the past few times. Meaning it's most likely coming up-

So is it normal for certain ones to repeat all the time? It seems to me like some people get stuck with the same ones over and over again. Not that it's impossible if they actually are random, but...It's just the lamer ones, anyway.

[ooc: She's expecting a Grab Bag to pounce soon. Except obviously that won't happen this month.]

--orgot about these...When did they arrive?

[With an open box in front of her, Rita is holding...a human skull. One of her hands pokes around the contents of the box for a moment.]

Three, huh? I guess that's supposed to be generous.

[Obviously, she's muttering to herself with no clue about the video. She's too interested in the skull; when the video ends, she's giving it a very thoughtful inspection. They look awfully real...]

[ooc: real fake Skulls courtesy of Kanone! She forgot about them until now.]

[JUNK. It's everywhere and getting shoved and pushed aside as Rita digs through it, muttering.]

Those...cursed coins from a week ago reminded me...Can't believe I forgot...Argh, where the hell is it?

[The camera moves around, coming into focus on not only the study but a pile of books and papers that get tossed on the floor. Whatever, they're not hers.]

Ugh! This is what happens when you put stuff away instead of leaving it out somewhere in plain sight! ...Oh yeah, so anyway...Did anyone ever find out if those lame curse tokens actually worked? I had one somewhere...Oh, whatever. This is a waste of time on something that's useless, anyway!

[It's not like it would do any good if she didn't realize she was cursed, after all. After one final sigh, Rita decides she's had enough and starts to leave when a pile of research catches her eye. It's Leon's, left untouched for a while. After eyeing it thoughtfully for a second...Rita kicks it all onto the floor.]

Whoops. Not here, either.

[The sincerity in her voice is lacking, to put it mildly. And with that, the video ends.]

[ooc: Yep, she did that on purpose. Although she knows it's pretty likely Leon's left again, she figured if anything would make him pop out from hiding somewhere, that'd be it.]

[It's midnight and the end of the curse has finally arrived. The video feed begins with a loud clatter as the device hits the floor and faces, at an angle, the edge of a desk and the person hunched over it.

Rita's awoken with a violent start from the nightmares and is gasping in air as if she hasn't been breathing. Nervously, she runs her hands over various areas to make sure they're intact--her neck, her chest, her limbs--everything checks out okay. Distractedly, she mumbles to herself.]

W-was...that all...I-I was a-asleep this wh-whole time?

[Her voice trembles uncontrollably, no thanks to the very vivid memories of all those horrifying nightmares. Drawing her knees up and huddling in a ball in her chair, she tries to banish the lingering fear.]

C-come on, Rita...s-snap out of it...

[Eventually her breathing returns to a normal rate, if still shaky. Rita stays huddled up in her chair though, too exhausted to do much but thinking there's no way in hell she's going back to sleep for a while.

The video turns off on its own, never noticed by her.]