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curserp · 4 years

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first of all, i just want to say i loved seeing all the thoughts and theories that were going on around all of this !!! honestly, i think some of you guys gave me too much credit, because most of this is a lot simpler than the intricate stuff you came up with--- i wish i had thought of some of the things you all did ! but for now, finally, here’s ( most of ) the clues i purposefully placed, as well as some general info, which i’ve tried to break up into sections for ease of reading.

SKELETONS / NUMBERS :

the skeletons are listed below with their id numbers ( the tags are linked as well ) :

andromeda : #0237632.

arachne : #0272463.

cassandra : #0276372.

daedalus : #0323357.

helen : #0043536.

heracles : #0472537.

jason : #0052766.

medea : #0063332.

midas : #0064327.

narcissus : #0672787.

orion : #0067466.

pandora : #0726372.

paris : #0072747.

perseus : #0777387.

each of the id numbers were decided by entering the skeleton names onto the dial pad of a phone--- abc = 2, def = e, ghi = 4, jkl = 5, mno = 6, pqrs = 7, tuv = 8, wyz = 9.

phones in general were hinted at a few times.

in asks, as i tried to use the word ‘call’ repeatedly when asked about it, ‘key’ once, as well as the word ‘phony’ at one point. get it ? phone-y ? that one was kind of a stretch, i know.

a phone prominently featured in a branch on the classification quiz.

the encoded text messages were, obviously, sent from a phone.

on an update before dropping stage 3, a strange voicemail was mentioned and you were encouraged to delete it from your phone.

the database speaks to you over the phone during curse finalization.

on the graphic for stage 3, a phone is the only object in the hallway.

some names did need to be shortened in order to fit all the same number of digits, so andromeda became adrmda, pandora became pandra, etc.

honestly, this code was weirder and more random than most of the other things, so i’d call it bonus points more than anything else. a lot of you puzzled out who was who without knowing what the numbers meant.

CURSE REGISTRATION / STAGE I ( here ) :

i asked you all to send in these results to the curse database, and used those totals to decide the order in which the skeletons would be released ; midas ended up with the most results so they’re posted first, cassandra got the least so they’re last, etc.

results from all three stages will also factor in to some future plot drops, though i’ll keep those quiet for now.

TEXT POSTS :

these are pretty straightforward ; i chose text that i thought suits each skeleton as i’ve written them, and tagged them with their respective curse ids to tease the fact that there were ids at all.

FOLDERS PAGE ( here ) :

this displays not only the skeletons’ classifications, but also their active danger levels ; one exclamation point for low, two for medium, three for high.

while the classifications were shown as only numbers 001-007 at that point, since the curse classification blog hadn’t dropped yet, in this ask a few posts previous i wrote the types as the first word of each corresponding number on the list.

CURSE CLASSIFICATION / STAGE II ( here ) :

when you reach a result on the curse classifications, the clock at the top of the screen stops and displays a single time. that number corresponds to the number on the files image. when you get an error it shows only zeroes.

the classifications are :

chaos ( pandora, paris )

death ( arachne )

hero ( heracles, jason, perseus )

infamy ( cassandra, midas )

loss ( daedalus, medea )

love ( helen, narcissus, orion )

monster ( andromeda )

yes, those are alphabetical. when i was making the folders page i just kinda said fuck it.

i took the hands off the clock on the image in the post, both because i wanted to draw attention to the clocks on the actual pages, and cause it looked sick.

if you get to page /c6, the clock stops and zeroes out. that’s because there’s no way to get anything but an error after that point.

i asked you all to send in these results to the curse database, too, and they were used as tiebreakers for the skeleton posting order. like, medea and pandora ended up with the same amount of results from registration, but there were more loss results than chaos from classification, so medea goes first.

TEXT MESSAGES ( here, here, here, here, here, here, and here ) :

the encryption on the text messages is caesar cipher, where you shift the alphabet a certain number of letters over and substitute those letters for each other. for example, an alphabet with a shift of 1 would have a become b, b become c, and so on. the shift changes for each text message, depending on what the character’s curse classification is. so the text from narcissus ( #0672787, classification of 6. love ) has a shift of 6.

the decoded texts are :

#0063332. ( medea, shift 5 ) : you made your choice. now i am making mine.

#0672787. ( narcissus, shift 6 ) : at least you’ll be hung in the stars. i’ll only be remembered like a cautionary tale.

#0072747. ( paris, shift 1 ) : don’t blame me, please. i am not the villain.

#0272463. ( arachne, shift 2 ) : did you make this for yourself, too ?

#0472537. ( heracles, shift 3 ) : wasn’t my strength meant to earn me a better reward than this ?

#0237632. ( andromeda, shift 7 ) : you cannot be a hero all the time. what if my monster wins ?

#0064327. ( midas, shift 4 ) : i could have known better, at least. nothing this gold could come without consequence.

i also wanted to use this to kind of further their feeling of being watched ---which i hope i started to get across just in some answers to anons ---with the messages between skeletons be ‘intercepted’ by the database.

CURSE FINALIZATION / STAGE III ( here ) :

before dropping this stage, a ‘data breach’ was mentioned twice in separate posts. this was to ( hopefully ) encourage people to look for hidden information--- aka, the data that was breached.

there are five total hidden pages on this stage, and one secret extra message.

first is another intercepted message from one of the skeletons. the link is here.

on page /b2, click the word ‘key’ to get here.

the text message is from #0276372, aka cassandra, who is prophetic. cassandra is the only skeleton with anything set about their curse, and their prophecies will be a part of gameplay.

the url for this page is 0677437, and if you use the same keypad method as the numbers for the skeletons, that translates to ‘mssges.’

second is a chart monitoring active danger levels. the link is here.

on page /b3, the clock has stopped at 00:00:14, for the 14 skeletons. if you wait those 14 seconds, you will automatically be redirected.

the url for this page is 0003282, or ‘data.’

the third is a contact log between the database and a god. the link is here.

on page /c2, a ‘source’ is mentioned. if you view the source code of the page, the first thing at the top is the url.

the clock on this page has stopped at 02:09:01, and the connection was lost at that same time ; if you substitute letters in for numbers, 291 spells ‘bia’, the goddess of violence, who the communication was with.

the url for this page is 0005647, or ‘logs.’

the fourth is an incident report from a monster attack. the link is here.

on page /c7, ‘time’ is mentioned repeatedly. click on the clock to get here.

the incident report is 8-1-18-16-25, which, with a substitution between numbers and letters, translates out to ‘harpy,’ the type of creature from the attack.

the url for this page is 0737678, or ‘report.’

the fifth is the list of id numbers and their skeletons. the link is here.

on this ask, i asked ( yes, i sent this one to myself ) about the numbers, and responded ‘why haven’t you searched.’ put /numbers directly after the url of curse finalization to get here.

if you highlight above the ‘submitting’ text on the /finalize page, you can find a message : ‘you’re not safe here.’

the codes you all reached are going to remain kind of a mystery for now. there is a solution for it, if you’re really interested in puzzling it out, but i’m not going to list the answer here. they’ve helped me decide the first plot drop of the group. this is somewhat of a teaser for how the gameplay will go here ; the curse database will remain an active player, and you’ll often be helping choose events. you just might not always when you’re doing it, or how.

easter eggs / fun facts, i guess !

when you get an error in curse registration or classification, if you hover your mouse over the word ‘error,’ it shakes like a glitch. this serves no purpose and means nothing, it just took me a while to figure out how to code, so i wanted to point it out. just let me have this

i actually had a very different stage three planned when i dropped stage two, one incorporating the results from registration and classification more, but the classification results i got were totally different than what i’d expected. while the registration results were pretty varied, over half of the 40-something answers i got from your classifications were for ‘love,’ and i actually got only one ‘monster’ and zero ‘death’ results from you guys. which i suppose is fitting, since there’s only one skeleton of each ! but still, it threw things off a bit, and i had to pretty thoroughly rework stage three. besides, i ended up with like 100+ results from both stages, and i got kind of overwhelmed with my original idea. you all kept me on my toes !!

i sent two asks to myself : the one i needed to set up so i could list out the curse classifications, the one to drop a hint about the /numbers page. the rest all came from you guys ! and for that i am hugely grateful--- i had sort of escape plans the entire time if there wasn’t enough interest, where i’d be able to drop the main after stage one or two and skirt around the extras, but i’m so glad i got to follow through on this thing to the end. i wouldn’t have been able to do it without your engagement. every single time i get a little inbox notification i get excited.

i noticed some of you were getting a lot of error results, but that’s not on you ! there were 32 possible results on curse registration with 16 of those being errors, and 15 results on curse classification with 8 of those being errors. so don’t worry, you were more likely on those stages to get an error than a result.

some of you wondered if the general urls ( /a1, /b2, etc. ) of the different pages on the registration, classification and finalization blogs meant something, and i’m sorry to say they don’t. originally i was going to customize them so they’d be harder to just sift through later, but there ended up being 130+ total pages between all three blogs--- and for my own sanity, and for the sake of easier organization when editing them, i just left them as they were with their letters and numbers.

someone asked me if this post was for cassandra since the quote involves cassandra in the source material agamemnon. whoops. it’s not, that post is actually just a nod to the fact that i don’t know how to read.

i think that’s just about everything ! there are all kinds of other small things as nods to skeletons, the plot, the database in general, future plot drops, all scattered throughout answers on the curse database--- and i’ll be here all day if i list them all. if you have any specific questions about anything i would love to answer them, so please feel free to shoot them my way ! i believe that’s the gist of it, though. thanks so much again for going along with me on all of this !!

#curseadmin #cursetalk #this is so long i'm sorry #but i think i covered everything !!!!

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goldentouched · 4 years

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TO : 0064327@DATABASE. ORG / FROM : ADMIN@DATABASE. ORG. Your case has been reopened for further investigation. We recently received information that the giver of your curse may not be exactly as we thought they were. While nothing is yet confirmed, we will do our best to pursue this as carefully and as thoroughly as we can. Please refrain from attempting contact with the god presently associated with your curse ; let us handle this. Further information will be relayed if it is uncovered.

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐌𝐄𝐑𝐂𝐘 had thad summon when they cleared him was a beach chair. but what she really should have asked for was a martini because she was really gonna need one to pull off this lie.

long, tanned legs hung over the side of the plastic arm rest as she pushed up her bikini ( which honestly, itched like hell, but maybe the girls would distract people from her ridiculous ruse ) , smiling radiantly for insta live in front of a giant wall poster of “beachside tropical paradise #6257” courtesy of wallfly.com with her gucci sunglasses cast over restless bloodshot eyes.

“aloha, my a-hoe-las! haha, hey mercenaries, it’s me, queen bee! speaking of bees, you’ve sure been busy swarming my comment section with questions about me! obsessed much? and for the last time, no i am not at a “curse facility”, talk about drab, i’m in the BAHAMAS, bitchamas!” mercy stuck out her tongue playfully and took a big sip of her “tequila sunrise” which was all sunrise and tasted fucking rancid.

god, she hated her life.

“ ⁠— and i’m having a baha blast! it’s, like, soooo relaxing here! and if you think it’s hot, you should see the boys, ¡muy caliente, me gente! i — what’s that, baevyjones17? you think i’m cursed? no way! the only thing i’m cursed with is these good looks and that ASS! you -- cursegatexo? you think it’s fake? well, you better get your eyes checked, gatexo, this is as real as this as this sunburn. ow! don’t you just hate tha — what do you mean the kid in the back with the surfboard hasn’t moved for two minutes? omg, pfft that’s just, you know, kyle! he’s just like that! he’s a little slow. hey, uh, hi ken! i mean kyle, i mean — ”

ping.

✉ one new message. ✉

mercy squinted. an email???? who the shit even sent emails anymore and

her face fell so hard it cracked.

“FUCK. i mean, wooooah look at the time! i gotta go, i totally forgot about my shiatsu with matsu son las two! ahahahagottagobye.”

mercy screamed into her hands.

she was panting now, palms sweating and index finger shaking as she clicked on the notification. she hovered over the unopened email for several minutes. any news from the database was usually bad news, everyone knew that. but maybe, this was was different. maybe they’d finally found a way to reverse the curse.

or maybe not.

the person who cursed her might not be who they said they were. she could feel her delicate features contorting in anger. what the HELL was that supposed to mean?! the longer they investigated, the more time was wasted and judging by the massive amount of ichor she’d coughed up this morning she didn’t have a whole lot of that left.

full of tangled and terrified emotions, the furious tap-tap-tap of mercy’s fingers pounding the keyboard boomed through her designated facility quarters.

rEOPENED!!!?!?!?!?!?!?!? what am i? a renovated CHINESE RESTAURANT?!?!?! you said you would CURE me, you stupid FUCKS!!!!! the giver of the curse may not be exactly as we thought they were’??? NOT EXACTLY AS WE THOUGHT THEY WERE???? so who do you THINK they are, huh? HUH??? god, i knew that bitch was FAKE! i know a fake bitch when i see one!!! ‘carefully and thoroughly’ i will carefully and thoroughly shove my foot up your ASS, BR-USELESS LEE! ‘refrain from contact’ NO, I DON’T THINK SO!!!! YOU TELL YOUR TWO FACED FRAUD GOD THAT I’M COMING FOR HER!!!!!!!! no one FUCKS with ME and gets away with it!!!!!! she RUINED my LIFE. so you tell ‘tyche’ or whatever her stupid name is that i’m putting her head on a PIKE.

mercy

JONES.

she hit send so hard it was a miracle her phone didn’t shatter. boiling with rage, mercy opened her messages and sent a mass text to everyone in the database.

[ text ]: anyone down for a little field trip to olympus? :)

#ask: database #hey thanks a lot daddybase!#also yes mercy hc mercy speaks spanish #it was her first language sister jones' name is xiomara #jones is her husbands last name #also mercy does treat the database like absolute shit #SHE SHOULDNT BUT WILL THAT STOP HER NO????#also who wants to join mercys pjo adventure to storm olympus and wreck havoc?#im taking like 4 people maybe #also yes she do b smart she gotta b stupid for the internet her puns are too good for her to b stupid #I FINALLY GOT TO SAY CURSED WITH THAT ASS LIFE IS SO GOOD

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databaseds · 4 years

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ANOTHER SPIKE OF ACTIVITY HAS BEEN RECORDED.

Alarms went off at approximately 0900 hours yesterday, the sudden escalation setting off automatic evacuation procedures in building D4. Most unessential facility employees were able to safely leave the premises immediately. We suspect this activity was the result of unauthorized divine contact. The smaller flare from a few days previous was likely due to an unsuccessful attempt at the same. At the present time, we are still uncertain if this contact was instigated by a god, or by a mortal on campus.

The point of activity was quickly located to a single room. At that moment the space was still occupied by #0072747, seemingly the target ( or inciter ) of this contact.

There was bright white light engulfing the interior of the room, hot enough to trigger the overhead sprinklers, yet at that time there was no fire to be put out. The light concentrated to a silhouette in the eastern corner, though we have still yet to identify the presence who chose to appear in this unfiltered way. #0072747 was seemingly unaware of the alarms or warnings of the staff members who attempted to contain the incident, or was otherwise unable to move or respond.

Recordings of the speech heard have been pulled from security cameras, though some of the files appear somewhat corrupted by the disturbance. The language of the voice has still yet to be identified. We suspect #0072747′s curse fed into the power of the divine contact, or the other way around, as he appeared incapable of breaking away at first.

Several higher-ranked staff members were called to the scene in an attempt to quell the disorder, and they were able to sever the contact after a few minutes. As soon as the ( suspected ) god’s appearance faded, a few electrical fires began at outlets along the hallway, though those were immediately extinguished. Said staff members removed #0072747 from the scene as soon as it was safe to do so. It took several hours before he would willingly keep his hands from covering his ears or eyes, and they were bloody when he finally allowed database physicians to touch him. Samples have been taken.

#0063332 and #0064327 were both reportedly seen in the area at the time of contact, and will be questioned further for possible involvement. Magic use will be additionally monitored for the immediate future.

#0072747 is currently in the infirmary for treatment and monitoring, and will remain there for the next few days. He has reported his vision as foggy, and his hearing as slightly muffled, though both should return to normal soon. When he was first located he was unable to verbally speak, and that ability has been slowly coming back as well. There are several patterns of incisions on his hands from where it appears physical contact was made, though they are shallow enough that with proper care they should not scar. Photos have been taken of the wounds for research into the possible significance of their arrangement.

Three database employees involved have also reported blurred vision and impaired senses, as well as minor burns where they first touched #0072747, and we will continue to observe them as well over the coming days.

All registrants, regardless if they were on campus at the time or not, will be interviewed about the incident.

THE PREVIOUS VISION FROM #0276372 HAS BEEN CONNECTED TO THIS OUTCOME. PROPHECY CERTAINTY HAS BEEN UPDATED FROM 33% TO 100%.

#incident report.

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curserp · 4 years

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below the cut you can find the accepted characters from this round of applications ! all of these were INCREDIBLY difficult decisions for me to make, and every single app i read clearly had so much love and care put into it, and even though the choices were hard, i feel lucky that i got to make them at all !

to those listed below, please complete everything on the checklist page--- you have 24 hours to contact the main, but if you need more time, please let me know !

congratulations, JAMES “JJ” PALMER ! your curse has been successfully registered as #0272463 / ARACHNE !

when you feed a person’s ego so constantly of course they’ll become engorged and drunk on their own greatness. she’s only parroting what she’s been told, how can she be wrong for it ?

jj is exactly everything i was looking for with arachne. her struggle between power and pride is so evident, and it’s that fatal flaw that drew me to her--- she’s brilliant, dangerously so, and it makes sense as to why the gods feared her as they did. jj is smart, and she’s strong, and i can’t wait to see how she weathers everything that’s coming for her.

congratulations, LOURDES CLEMONTE ! your curse has been successfully registered as #0276372 / CASSANDRA !

the problem is, she will never be full so long as she continues to slice herself straight down the middle and allow everyone else to feast.

cassandra was one of the hardest decisions i had to make, but i just kept coming back to lourdes. your app was straight up art, and i’m in awe of how you’ve created her. she’s exactly the right sort i wanted for cassandra ; part tragedy, part unjust fates, part inevitability, and i got so caught up on her backstory that i forgot i was only reading an application.

congratulations, FRANCES “FRANKIE” RAMONA MARTINEZ ! your curse has been successfully registered as #0323357 / DAEDALUS !

you didn’t need them anyways. you were fine on your own. you had your own puzzles to solve, your own discoveries to make. you didn’t need anything else.

frankie took daedalus in a direction i wasn’t expecting, and for that i am honestly thankful. her story of loss makes perfect sense for this skeleton, and i loved your incorporation of the database into her life ; even here, now, she’s being used for her abilities in the way she’s grown used to. she incapsulates her curse and its classification so well, the echoes of loss all through her app, and i’m interested to see how she handles it all as she is brought in with the others.

congratulations, ISABELLA “ELLA” ABRUZZO ! your curse has been successfully registered as #0043536 / HELEN !

it was as if you’d been born amidst a storm, and ever since then, you were housing an unparalleled hunger for something you couldn’t have.

helen was one of the skeletons i was worried about, because even i wasn’t sure how they could be properly adapted into the right character, but you showed me right up. ella’s app is perfect, and as i was reading it i suddenly found myself wondering how i could have thought of helen in any other way. she’s got a multifaceted way about her that just works, and i can understand each choice she made, even as she ran--- she got stuck in my head, and i’m so excited to see more from her.

congratulations, CASPIAN BARDOT ! your curse has been successfully registered as #0052766 / JASON !

those who call you a traitor, cold, ruthless, are left behind in the wake of your victories, returning triumphant with your golden fleece in hand every single time. this may be the story of your victories, but make no mistake: it is also the mourning song of those left in your wake.

jason was a tricky one, for me. there’s this balance of heroism and ruthlessness, valiance and brutality, and caspian stuck that divide well. he’s lost plenty, and will likely lose more--- as is often the fate of a hero ---but still he’s fighting, keeping his head above water despite it all. i was worried i would find myself unsympathetic towards the jason skeleton, but caspian showed me otherwise. now i’m just curious to see how he’ll carry it all going forward !

congratulations, JANUARY ST. JAMES ! your curse has been successfully registered as #0063332 / MEDEA !

he promised you so much, the sun, the moon and the stars, if you would be his willing knife, and once he had no more need of knives and spells and war, he turned his back on the lowly desolate thing that had held onto him.

january blew me away, honestly. medea could have so easily been one-note, and yet you brought out a dynamic to her that had me rereading her story more than once. she feels very real to me, especially in all the care and additions to her app that really made her stand out--- even your take on a few of her connections had me excited to see where she’d go. january could take her curse, her future, in so many different directions, and i’m so interested to watch her do so.

congratulations, MERCY JONES ! your curse has been successfully registered as #0064327 / MIDAS !

tears in your mouth, you’d come to realize that besides ugly, the doll that had followed you from the shoebox to each and every monster house, you hadn’t a thing in the world that was yours. except your ambition. and you kept your ambition in a stash behind the pillows.

i adore mercy, and isn’t that just exactly fitting. your golden girl jumped out at me, from her origin to her prayers for a curse to her current handling of it all. her curse came to her not out of sheer greed, but desperation and some thoughtlessness, and the gods played a trick on her for it. she’s not selfish, in the expected way of the word--- just hungry, and wanting more. she’s so different than any other character i saw, and that’s perfect for midas.

congratulations, ADELAIDE WU ! your curse has been successfully registered as #0067466 / ORION !

maybe one day you’ll feel like a nebula once more, but for now you are a meteor, aimlessly floating in space, with nothing to do but sit and watch the way the moon is forced to surrender to the sun.

as you mentioned in your app, people have always loved the story of orion and it’s earned something of a cult following, and i can understand why, now. adelaide’s love story is inherently tragic, as any involving the gods will be, yet i never found myself thinking of her as foolish--- her whole story leads into her eventual affection for artemis, and i couldn’t help but root for them even though i know they’re both doomed--- and i’m curious to see how she manages this eventuality with artemis.

congratulations, THADDEUS BAILEY ! your curse has been successfully registered as #0072747 / PARIS !

thaddeus couldn’t control himself at all ; it just kept pouring out of him, and all he could do was let it. he left the building alive, covered in soot, knowing that he was responsible for his family’s destruction. alone, again. a killer.

paris was a tough call to make. thaddeus was unexpected to me, and at first i was hesitant, but the further i got into his app the more i fell in love with him. him being something of a plaything to hera, her using both him and his father, fit paris perfectly, and it makes thaddeus understandable to me--- he’s not a bad person, just dangerous, and confused, and used. i can’t wait to see his story unfold even further into this new chapter !

congratulations, SAINT GRAVES ! your curse has been successfully registered as #0777387 / PERSEUS !

in legends, heroes are often killers, and you are not exempt. not many people understand the toll that so much blood on your hands takes on you, even if it is the blood of monsters. it takes a monster to kill a monster : it’s what you see in the mirror, and no matter how many beg to differ, your curse is fact.

aside from cassandra, perseus was my most difficult decision, but i just couldn’t shake saint. his app was clean, well thought out, and i felt like i was reading a myth of his own. he suits perseus perfectly, which is honestly bad news for him, but made for such a compelling read, tragic as it was--- and i’m excited to see how he carries his fate into his future.

#curseadmin #accepted.

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