Oversleep Posted October 18, 2016 Report Share Posted October 18, 2016 So, let's think up some possible curses Nightwatcher might give. We're operating under assumption that the curser are indeed neurological. We already had a man who saw the world upside down and a man who lost sensation in his arms. Some I invented: doing things manually. THE LIST Your curse is: to breathe manually to blink manually to swallow manually Any ideas for curses? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patar he/him Posted October 18, 2016 Report Share Posted October 18, 2016 Always aware of your tongue resting in your mouth Can always hear your own heartbeat Finger/toenails grow at an alarming rate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WayneSpren he/him Posted October 18, 2016 Report Share Posted October 18, 2016 (edited) You can't taste, you can't pronounce certain letters, you always have a headache. Edited October 18, 2016 by WayneSpren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eki Posted October 18, 2016 Report Share Posted October 18, 2016 2 hours ago, WayneSpren said: you always have a headache. For some reason, I read this as "you always have a mustache". That confused me a bit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkness Ascendant he/him Posted October 18, 2016 Report Share Posted October 18, 2016 You are cursed to forever walk the earth, unseen by everyone besides your enemies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jondesu he/him Posted October 18, 2016 Report Share Posted October 18, 2016 4 hours ago, WayneSpren said: you always have a headache I can attest that this would be a curse of near-fatal magnitude. I've had a constant headache for almost 3 years, and I've been suicidal several times in that period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yata he/him Posted October 18, 2016 Report Share Posted October 18, 2016 You lost the touch sense. On of your limbs is no more controllable A Limb move of his own You are uncapable of mantain more than X days of your memories Your relatives are invisible to you You can't hear nothing relate to you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manukos he/him Posted October 18, 2016 Report Share Posted October 18, 2016 you can't sleep longer than 3 hours a day you always feel hungry you always feel like you are about to be sick your pain tolerance goes way down (sorta like a tin savant , without the benefits) you can not obtain any new memories you contantly feel too worm/cold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oversleep Posted October 19, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2016 I think I'll split the list into 'probable', 'medium' and 'bad curses'. 'Bad curses' would be the ones on the edge, 'probable' and 'medium' would be the possible ones split based on how punishing they are. What do you think? (I'll update the list later) On 18.10.2016 at 3:35 AM, Patar said: Always aware of your tongue resting in your mouth Can always hear your own heartbeat Finger/toenails grow at an alarming rate The last one is not neurological in nature. 23 hours ago, WayneSpren said: You can't taste, you can't pronounce certain letters, you always have a headache. The second one is too diffcult for the cursed, I feel. The last one is somewhat probable but it's still pretty hard. 20 hours ago, Dankness Ascendant said: You are cursed to forever walk the earth, unseen by everyone besides your enemies. Outside of the power of the Nightwatcher (Lift does age after all) and not neurological. 18 hours ago, Yata said: You lost the touch sense. On of your limbs is no more controllable A Limb move of his own You are uncapable of mantain more than X days of your memories Your relatives are invisible to you You can't hear nothing relate to you The two about the limbs are pretty bad; also memory one. Invisible relatives are also pretty punishing. The last one is pretty difficult to pull off - how would that work? You can't hear anybody talking about you nor talking to you? Selective deafness? 16 hours ago, harambe said: you can't sleep longer than 3 hours a day you always feel hungry you always feel like you are about to be sick your pain tolerance goes way down (sorta like a tin savant , without the benefits) you can not obtain any new memories you contantly feel too worm/cold The first one would be lethal in the long run. The memory one would basically kill 'you' - there would be no 'you' anymore. The rest is good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yata he/him Posted October 19, 2016 Report Share Posted October 19, 2016 4 hours ago, Oversleep said: The last one is pretty difficult to pull off - how would that work? You can't hear anybody talking about you nor talking to you? Selective deafness? I considerate it like a variation of Dalinar's condition with you instead of an another person as target. Of course you don't lose old memories about yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tariniel he/him Posted October 19, 2016 Report Share Posted October 19, 2016 You forget your own name, one of your limbs becomes a separate entity with its own mind (hey, actually that sounds like a cool story to write, brb ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScarletSabre he/him Posted October 19, 2016 Report Share Posted October 19, 2016 (edited) You wish to be the best thief in the world, undetectable to all. Your curse is that nobody can remember you once they take their eyes off of you. After only a few seconds you slip from their memory, along with anything you may have said to them. A bartender would take your order for a drink, turn and pour it, and then forget why they did so. You would constantly be scaring people around you when they turn to you again, accusing you of sneaking up on them. I know this one might be outside the power of the Nightwatcher, unless she can rejigger how you interact with the cognition of others somehow, but I think it's an interesting curse to ponder. Edited October 19, 2016 by Rawrbert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dvoraen Posted October 21, 2016 Report Share Posted October 21, 2016 Your <insert body part> always feels like it's asleep, with the prickling sensation that drives you mad. You become cognitively insignificant; no one really pays you attention, listens to what you say, and effectively you no longer exist in the eyes of others. You are literally unable to interact with others because they dismiss you so thoroughly. (Great for being a hermit or a thief; bad for needing anything from anyone.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jondesu he/him Posted October 21, 2016 Report Share Posted October 21, 2016 46 minutes ago, dvoraen said: You become cognitively insignificant; no one really pays you attention, listens to what you say, and effectively you no longer exist in the eyes of others. You are literally unable to interact with others because they dismiss you so thoroughly. (Great for being a hermit or a thief; bad for needing anything from anyone.) Sounds like the curse from the Sword of Truth series where people forgot Kahlan as soon as they saw her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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