Freedom!

No offence to my roommates or anything, but am I glad to be out of there! Talk about confined spaces!

[Maki will now be running around the place like crazy for a bit, she's worked up a bit much excess energy over the last few days]

Well, this doesn't seem too bad.

...I can see it getting very old in a couple of days, though. This place is tiny. This is going to feel like getting sent to your bedroom. For a week.

Those birds are messed up in the head department, seriously.

On a weirdness scale of one to ten, one being normal and ten being brain-shattering, I'd rate this...

Maybe a 7.5?

[ooc: So. Maki as a boy doesn't look - or even sound - that much different to Maki as a girl. Someone who didn't know her might not even notice the change, but she sure has]

[Maki is sitting on the beach - well, there's not all that much left of the beach, since it's high tide and higher than usual...shall we say 'seashore'? - a few yards from the water, next to a small pile of pebbles she's picking up mechanically one by one and attempting to skim across the water, with varying degrees of success, staring moodily out to sea all the while.]

Dammit.

[There's a fairly long silence, broken only by the noise of the waves and the splashes of the pebbles she's throwing]

I was almost...

I almost managed to forget to miss them.

Like this was all a dream, maybe, and I was just going to wake up or...maybe like things before were.

[She chucks a few more stones into the water, with a little more violence and a little less aim, not really noticing how close the water's getting to her feet.]

Dammit, Ushiro, why'd you have to show up and rem- [the next wave splashes against her feet, and with a little squeak of surprise, she quickly scoops herself and the computer up and scurries back from the waterline] -ind me?

...

Whoa, the tide really is coming in way higher than usual.

...Weird.

Right. That guy I told I'd test these for, I don't know your name, but I made you a list.

Red ones:
- ants
- pepper bomb
- bunch of ribbons

Blue ones:
- chocolate
- that one that didn't break whatever I did, I think might be a rock
- a little blue frog (he's cute, I think I'll keep him)
- explosion

Green:
- explosion
- stinky explosion
- just water
- silver-y charm bracelet (anyone want it? It's pretty, but I don't wear that stuff)

Yellow:
- fruit gums

White:
- mini firework display
- woodlice
- really stinky explosion
- set fire to the grass.

Gold:
- little wooden cat
- string of flags
- rubber duck
- rubber snake

Pink:
- bright purple dust explosion and my hair is full of it from five metres away.

I...don't think it goes by colour.

Okay, I'm fairly sure I've been walking around in circles in this stupid wood forever...I was sure the place wasn't big enough to get that lost, I swear some of those trees move around.

And as soon as I get out I tread on this egg, and there's bits of red shell everywhere and ants crawling up my jeans. Great.

So yeah, since my last post to this journal was in January, I think if I want to pick up again, the easiest way is just to reset and start over.

So. Clean slate?

ETA: Okay, lost in the woods it is. Expect a "hey, what did I miss for the last three months?" post once this curse is done.

[The video feed is, naturally, black and white. Maki is standing in front of it, in her apartment room, which looks more like a normal bedroom that usual - albeit a rather old-fashioned one. She's wearing a pretty, pale-coloured dress, and she does not look pleased]

This is a dress. Why am I wearing a dress? Where are my clothes? Give them back! I'm not wearing this thing for a week, it's hideous.

[She glances at the screen, noticing the colour change.]

Hey, is this not working? [taps camera] Ugh...is this the owls? For the record, I hate you.

There seem to be a lot more people around today than there were before, what gives? Is this about this 'curse' people keeps talking about?
I really don't get this place...

Okay, where the hell is this?  ...hell, I guess. Doesn't look like any hell I've heard of, though, is this another one of his weird tricks?

Goddammit, Dung Beetle, how much more do you want to do to me? This isn't funny!