Burning for You: Love Curses and Erotic Magic in the Greco-Roman World
A man in 4th Century BCE Macedon wants to separate a woman he desires from a rival. In 2nd Century CE Egypt, a woman wants the woman she desires to return her feelings. The Pompeian man seeks the help of Cupid, and the Egyptian woman is seeking help from a ghost. More than 500 years and 1,000 miles separated them, but the solution to their dilemma was the same. They each went to a magical…
In twilight's eerie grasp, the past and present blend, as whispers of the future echo through time. A secret lies concealed, an ancient curse unleashed, in the very walls that stand. The clock, frozen still, ticks backwards, and the ghostly figure speaks, "I am the boundless now."
Once upon a time, in the realm of Aeloria, where dragons soared and giants roamed, a family long thought lost reappeared. The siblings, a fairy and a giant, reunited with their human kin, forging bonds that transcended myth and reality. Magic bloomed, and hearts were united, as the family's love shattered ancient curses.
Dr. Edgar Harrington, a respected historian fascinated with the tales of ancient tyrants, makes a chilling discovery. A dusty parchment leads him to a relic – the preserved heart of Vlad Tepes III, the 15th-century tyrant, shrouded in legends of terror.
Chapter 1: “Whispers of the Past”
The mid-morning sun streamed in through the high windows of the centuries-old library, casting long shadows on the haphazard assemblage of books, manuscripts, and documents. The library, tucked away in a forgotten corner of Europe, was home to countless relics of the past. Among them was Dr. Edgar Harrington, a historian with a penchant for unearthing stories of…
Danny grumbles, going limp as the Spirit plucked him up, holding him out like some sort of stray cat. Their golden eyes stared across him, white hair shimmering and bloodied feathers rustling as they tilted their head.
“You sure he’s not somehow ours?” Bludhaven asks again, setting him down once more to circle. Amity laughs, wild hair the color of wheat fluttering in a non-existent breeze and portal pulsing like a heart as she rests a hand on his head.
“Well darlin’, I am asking if you would be open to adopting,” the Spirit laughs, the sound as familiar as the birds outside his window in the mornings. “Well, I suppose I could always ask your dear sister Arkham-”
“No no, I would be honored,” Bludhaven smiled a literally sharp grin, something mischievous and violent about it in a way Danny was slowly growing used to. “I’m just- look at the little ghostling! He looks like he could be from ours! My hair, your eyes… he’s just missing markings…”
“Markings he’ll get once you give me an answer darlin’...”
“OH- Yes, of course! Sorry, I got whelmed there.”
“You have been stalking your vigilante a bit too much there Blud.”
Marrying Carter in Harvest Moon DS Cute! (North American version)
oh… sorry no not the archaeologist, i mean Pastor Carter from Mineral Town!
(or is it Pastor Curdy….?)
teeechnically his descendant, and it causes a game over… but this is the only time we’ve been able to marry him right?
so in the girl version of HMDS, there’s two “secret” Mineral Town bachelors that you can marry by talking to them enough times on the phone. one is Mason, the guy who runs May’s Tailoring… but the second, Pastor Carter, is a bit more obscure…
i couldn’t find them uploaded anywhere so here are his 2nd* thru 10th conversations+his proposal+proposal rejection in english! if you want to see it on youtube instead here you go
*i failed to record the first conversation when it happened, and there’s no way in hell i’m resetting my whole game again (…yet), so…just know the first one was like “oh you want to talk? what should we talk about…….. …… ….. …. i can’t think of anything. well see ya………” extremely riveting stuff
he’s so obscure that i didn’t even realize that he was a bachelor until i found out about the mechanic from this japanese wiki!! (here’s an archive link to the page on him in case the page doesn’t work) all i did was test whether it worked in english since i couldn’t find any english info at all mentioning it. i’m sure others have found him… right……..
in case the links above don’t work, a small guide to holy matrimony below the cut since i can’t find one in english
it works essentially the same as the Mason marriage (so it’s just a game over, sadly…), and the steps are pretty tedious and counterintuitive, so you’re unlikely to just stumble across it… but you too can get a priest to break his vow of celibacy for you or whatever!
you will need:
at least 2,050,000 G
20 cursed tools/accessories
if you really don’t want to dig up 20 cursed things you can substitute 100x “remove a cursed tool/accessory” for blessing a cursed tool…
but, including all the cursed tools and accessories, there’s only 16… which means you will need to go dig up 4 duplicate cursed accessories using this method! yay!!! extremely pointless since you can’t sell blessed accessories until after marriage in DS for girl (at which point you can’t trigger pastor carter’s proposal)
you unlock a conversation with cardi when you spend at least 205,000 G. which means the quickest thing to do is to order removal of a cursed item five times, then bless 2 cursed items.
**be careful when blessing accessories to only equip one at a time!!! if you equip a stack of duplicate accessories, blessing that stack destroys the duplicates!!!! :( so just take 1 out of the stack and equip it!!!**
you also can’t unlock more conversations until you’ve seen the one you unlocked, so like even if you spend a million G you’ll just unlock one conversation, and you’ll need to finish that conversation and then spend 205,000 G to unlock the next one…yeah….
on the tenth conversation he abruptly reveals that he’s fallen in love with you and asks you to marry him! it ends your game, but….! on the bright side, it ends your game!!! you’re finally free from Hell Simulator!!!!
If I were a God I wouldn't even mind people using my name in vain, like who give a shit. Using my name in vain is like a prayer to me which is good because you never visit my temple anymore or leave an offering at my shrine, at least this way you won't forget me
Many Egyptians commissioned “magic wands” fashioned from hippopotamus tusks. These kept the dead safe on their journey to the afterlife and protected children from harm. The wands often showed gods relevant to the person’s stage of life — the gods of birth and childhood, for example — holding big, scary knives that would apparently intimidate any evil spirits.
*adhd vampire, wearing a makeshift aluminum foil bodysuit & standing on their tippy toes using an extra-long broom handle to try to shove together the dusty old blackout curtains they once again forgot to close before dawnlight crept in* fuckety-fuckety-fuckety-shit-mcfuck-fucketyfucketyfuckety
There is stuff happening in our She Is The Ancient campaign with his hexblood transformation that i am exploring some visual ideas for - currently roots growing under his skin and over his skeleton (more on that some time later :))