Ignore the smoke
From Create Your Own Story
“I don’t fear you.”
“You will,” predicts the Spirit. “But only once it is too late to avoid what you should be afraid of!”
“I have no interest in you and your false prophecy.” You turn away from the smoke and try to leave the room, but you find yourself rooted to the spot by the Spirit’s gaze.
“Weak one. You cannot escape the Spirit of Mananka!” The face is now weeping smoke-tears of laughter. “I tell you your mission is cursed!”
You stare in horror as the smoke contracts and disappears inside the box. You wonder at the curse, but there is nothing you can do, and you feel it already. A fragility – as if the slightest touch could bruise you, and the gentlest blow could cut you deep. It is as if your skin has been turned from leather into water, and your bones from iron into pulp. Worst of all, you feel as though you have lost your sex drive altogether!
You will have to continue carefully until you can find a way to lift the curse. Do you:
