Entry 188; Day 446

[misterblackbird]

[Filtered from DELILAH || Unhackable]
I remember them all, though I've got the order wrong. It would be:

Suzette, her stepmother, the sexton, Miles, Leland Russell, Madeline--and Bibi, Cleo Dreyfus, Orlando Dreyfus, that stranger in the street, Eric, Inspector Burgess, Elsie Robbins, John, Linnet, Alex, the priest, Professor Lambert, the stranger at the party, Radcliff Merrill, Sabina the maid, Lord Andrew, Dirk Nolan Ashley, Justine, the townspeople near them, Keith Sutton, the Ripper's victims, the Ripper herself Meridiana's mother, Elizabeth Harland, Mrs Harland, Joey Nichols, Edith, Lorina, Victoria, Baron Mayfield, Madame Fleming, that girl Rebecca Crouge, Bertha the Wilton Poisoner, Kent Stein, Siobhan the maid, Lady Drew Benjamin, Violet Maria Taylor, the other four victims, the private investigator Uncle Neil hired, the Coffin Maker, his three victims, Ariadne Carter, Maria Stanford, the dog in the graveyard, the other sexton, Lady Cromwell, Emile Cromwell, Sir George--'Georgie-Porgie', Colin Rufus Palmer, Rose with the broken heart, Rose's Ester, the 'Belk Boys', Zoe with the keys, Cassandra Gladstone, a few cats, a rabbit, the baby bird, my grandfather, Guilford Lauderdale, Emeline Lauderdale, Lenora Hargreaves, Augusta Hargreaves, Meridiana, the gray people, Father.

'Let light perpetual shine upon them', I suppose.

That was a grim inventory. What possessed me to make it up, I don't know.

Or else, it might go, in no especial order:
Suzette, Lukia, Ariadne, Gladys, Bibi--Madeline, Eliza, Madame Fleming I suppose, Victoria, Alice, Justine, Lady Drew, Beth, Michaela if one has to be precise, Latisha--Leroy if we're still going to be precise, Rose, Emeline, Meridiana.

And that is a confusing list, I know. Why am I making so many lists in the first place? At least I'm not still talking about 'aetherically charged dragonflies'. I've no explanation for that day at all, and from here it seems like it was all a strange dream, like all curses do the day after. It wasn't such a bad one, though. It was rather an adventure, and strange, too, how I still thought I'd fallen into this strange place unexpectedly. Even cursed out of our minds, one doesn't really escape the City.

Favourite Colours (in no especial order):
Black, red, violet, green, blue

This is becoming ridiculous.

Persons in the City to Whom I Am Indebted
Top Five Reasons Why I Hate Being Cursed
5. Hindrance to continuing ordinary--or even necessary--tasks
4. Difficulty of communication
3. Physical discomfort
2. The embarrassment painful honesty
1. Enduring the day after

[Private || Difficult to hack]
Partial List of The Collection
Inventory as of 22^nd July

Emerald Forest
Purple Yin (wax sealed)
Black Dragon
Upas (sealed)
Prussic Acid (Cyanide)
Replicant
Seraphim
Clareh
Opium
Black Opium
Red Poppy's Twin
Morphine
Cantarella
Belladona (Atropine)
Wolfsbane (Aconite)
Foxglove (Digitalis)
Strychnine
Thallium
Arsenic
Hyoscine
Mandrake
Lactucarium
Misc. Barbituates
Hemlock
Laudanum
Oil of Mirbane
Mandrake
Colchicine
Extract of Hemlock
Hyposcine (Scopolamine; sealed)
Henbane
Tartar emetic
Death Cap (dried)
Destroying Angel (dried)
Secobarbital
Pethidine
Daturon
Liquor Potassii Arenitis
Iocane
Asp Venom
Brown Recluse Spider Venom
Remains of Mikaela's Spider
Ricin

Not nearly so many as I once had, nor so many of the rare ones as I wish I had. Anything can be got here, though if I were to try and find all the ancient ones in the Cornwall house, I may never finish my lists.

To Do
--Contact Megumi
--Contact Mr Crehador
--Seek definitive proof of Father's possession of Emerald Forest
--Determine Blitza's real involvment in the poisonings
--Continue seeking link between Father and Carlyle
--See about continuing Merry's lessons properly
--Pay Crehador

I could make a list of the seven worst pains, or the number of nightly rituals I endured. There's no point in talking today at all.

Top Five Reasons Why I Need Riff
5. I can't drink tea anyone else has made
4. His hands are the only hands that are allowed to tie my shoelaces
3. He belongs to me
2. He can always find me, no matter where I've gone
1. He will follow me even into Hell
[//end filter]

Top Five Places in Which to Take a Walk Alone When One Is Fed up With Being Cursed
5. Misery Square and streets surrounding
4. The Opera Abandoned's many corridors
3. The wooded paths near the pond in Xanadu
2. The rose garden in Xanadu
1. The space between my door and my window, away from my Network contraption

~C.

[ooc: These are the people who die in the course of Cain's canon of whom he is aware, and whose deaths actually take place during the canon (not anyone who was already dead when Cain appeared in their story)--at least, up to the point where I'm playing him. Followed by the list of his canon wimminz (some are technicalities and traps). I am not making this up. I have checked. I may have missed some, but I don't think I did. The poison list is half canon-named, half researched, and half made up for lulz (yes, 3 halves because I failed math). He's been collecting since he's been in the City. I'm going out for a while (yay!), so I may be late to reply, but I haaaaad to get in on this curse *_*]

Comments

[shanghai-lotis.livejournal.com]

It was a good dream.

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

It was a good dream.

[shanghai-lotis.livejournal.com]

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

At least we can remember it, more or less. Is that what you're suggesting with that grin?

[shanghai-lotis.livejournal.com]

You read it!

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

Bravo for me, then. But, truly, I am glad I can remember it too. That was one of the better curses, if one can call them better and worse.

[shanghai-lotis.livejournal.com]

I think we can do that.

[ourdenouement.livejournal.com]

That is a long, long list, Earl.

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

Yes, I know it is.

[ourdenouement.livejournal.com]

Are those all of your girlfriends?

1/2

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

...

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

You're clever, Kaoru. The second list is some of them, yes. There were others, here and there.

1/2

[ourdenouement.livejournal.com]

I was right? COULD HE BE A PLAYER?!

[ourdenouement.livejournal.com]

The Earl is popular ♥

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

You apparently don't notice that some of those names appear in both lists--

For good or ill, I am.

[mizrahigirl.livejournal.com]

Xanadu is nice whether or not people are cursed.

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

Yes, that is true, but I find the quiet there is sometimes very pleasant:
1. During a curse
2. After a curse
3. Before the next curse

[mizrahigirl.livejournal.com]

...That's...all the time, then?

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

Yes, it is. I just couldn't come out and say it like that.

[mizrahigirl.livejournal.com]

That must be inconvenient.

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

It's quite inconvenient, hence my wanting to go walk in Xanadu without having to talk to anyone.

[princess-crow.livejournal.com]

There's no reason why we should make lists. This is another nuisance they have imposed on us.

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

No, there isn't any reason for it. It's a useless curse, as curses go, but it's tedious, so that must be the reason for it.

[princess-crow.livejournal.com]

Annoy us? At least this one didn't affect me. I had enough public embarrassments for the whole year after last one.

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

Everyone was quite affected by that last one. I don't think anyone will remember what happened to you all that clearly, and, if they do, they ought to remember what happened to them at the same time.