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Darkest Dungeon belongs to Red Hook Studios and Zootopia belongs to Disney
The Curse's Herald
Ooh, shiny
Sorry, I should be focusing shouldn't I? I really like shinies. Anyways, I should probably introduce myself. Are you recording this right? Right.
I am Corvid the callous, cretinous, horrid, Shrieker. I am known mostly as Corvid the Shrieker, or just the shrieker. I like shinies, and heights, and BLOOD! Yes I know you know me, but the audience that hears or reads this may not. What? Focus? I am focused. At one time I was a raven, but the curse from under the estate changed that. I think. I still like to think I am a raven. Four, previously five eyes, and the growths on my back aren't normal, yes, but they are mine and me. I also tend to repeat most questions asked of me.
A little more about me. Let's see. I am very agile, making me notoriously hard to hit in battle. I can make a ravens caw that can stress my enemies out. I can make a different caw that calls my conspiracy. Yes a conspiracy is a group of ravens. I am a raven. A group of crows is called a murder. Anyway this call was known as "call the murder" by the humans, and it is a shriek that literally drives my enemies insane. My beak and talons are razor sharp and can cause severe bleeding. The only ability I have that I rarely use, is my ability to regurgitate my stomach and give my enemies diseases. It tastes disgusting to do that. One last thing, as the only bird in Zootopia, I can indeed fly. Now what else would you like to know.
You want to know about the curse? Well, it all started many years ago, back when the stupid humans ruled the world. It was really all the actions of one human. I never knew his name, only that he was referred to as the ancestor years after his death. Long story short, he found a door under his home, and it unleashed rather eldritch horrors upon the world. Oh, you want the long story? Ok then, I guess I should start with the first curse. The Crimson Curse.
You see, his mansion had a rather large and lavish courtyard, and in his early days he would host parties for the wealth and nobles of the land. It was on one of these moonlit nights that the ancestor grew bored of the parties that he hosted. Or so I assume. You see there was this woman, The Countess, as I heard her call. The ancestor lured the countess to a secluded balcony in his manor. There it looked like he was about to pull out a blade, when the moon shone on the Countess. It turns out that she was monstrous in appearance, even by my standards. The Ancestor panicked and killed her as fast as he could. In a rather odd move, he gathered her blood and served it to his patrons. They turned into the strange bug like monsters as well. The ancestor closed off the courtyard and the blood monsters went into hibernation.
He still lived extravagantly, yet the rotting courtyard and the manor itself still haunted him. In his later years, he found an otherworldly door under his manor. He opened it and went in. That was the last I saw of the old fool, before he wrote a letter to his heir, begging them to reclaim the house.
What? Have I been alive for thousands of years? Yes. Here's the deal. There was something released when that door opened. My problems began when that door opened. The eldritch evils behind it were released and started corrupting my forest, and soon me. I didn't mind. As you can see, it changed my body to a more beastly shape, and has given me long life. Whatever was released also made me quite smart, even for a raven, and made me immune to disease, poison, and high resistance to bleeding.
You see, when the heir returned, the eldritch curse under that manor had already reshaped the estate, and surrounding lands. I was content to leave well enough alone, but then he found an invitation. An invitation to that bloody courtyard. He opened it, and that is when the bloodsuckers first awoke. The nobles that had all changed carried in them that cursed blood. When that courtyard opened the Crimson Curse began to spread. Yes it is a curse. It was created by an other worldly being. It spreads like a disease. The so called heroes that ventured in contracted it. Two of them died and left behind their shinies.
Actually a lot of those humans died. The cursed ones almost always met the same two fates. They would waste away from the disease, or be hunted down by some fanatics of the church. Why they hunted them down, I had no idea. Especially considering that those fanatics always carried the crimson cure on them. Yes there is a cure and no I have no idea what it was. Now, back to the story.
The last I remember of the heir was him venturing into that dungeon one last time. He sealed it and the curse away. Now all the fallen heroes and abandoned estate held so many shinies. Naturally I had to go and collect them all. I did remember that there were many humans that died in the courtyard. I entered to gather their shinies, and saw her. The Countess. She was not dead. Upon seeing me, she tried to devour me. I escaped. But not without sustaining an injury. She got one of my eyes, and injected me with the crimson curse. I did find out that I am immune to the ravages of the curse due to the eldritch curse that I suffered when the door was opened. I am just a carrier of the disease.
Did I start or activate the plague? No. The plague was started and subsequently activated by a different source. A carrier cannot activate the plague, only spread it. The crimson curse can only be activated by the Countess. Think of the plague like an ant colony. The plague is the workers, and the Countess the queen. Without the queen, no colony. Without the Countess, no Crimson Curse. Quite simple. However, the city was destroyed by this curse, so that means there was The Countess.
Ooh Shiny! Ow! Focus, I know.
There are two more that you need to know about. The Baron and The Viscount. The Baron is basically The Countess' bodyguard...I think. I don't know about The Viscount. I think he is her personal servant. I do know he has a ravenous hunger that will never be satiated.
A herald? I was there when the Curse started, I saw it destroy the humans, and now the current situation. I guess I am a herald of the curse, but believe, I would rather be rid of it. I may care more for my shinies than for life, but the cursed threaten my shinies. Hence they threaten me.
The problems for this city all began some years ago. About seven, I believe. It also contains the reason I came to this city in particular. I remember it well. It was on that day that I had returned to my nest after stealing some shinies from the wandering collector. I will explain him later.
Anyway, it was on this day that I saw the first few new beings enter my forest, something that had only been inhabited by me and the rotting corpses of fungal zombies and rabid dogs. They came along the old road, which wound with a twisting serpent like suggestion. To my surprise, these beings were not humans but an assortment of other mammals. I mean I knew they couldn't be humans, but it still surprised me. There was a team of scientists, two wolves a badger and an antelope, if I remember correctly. They had some lovely shinies on them, so I followed them. It turns out that the old estate had become a treasure trove of an archeological dig. Things were going fine until they found the marsh.
In this marsh resided the courtyard, and of course, they had to open it. The curse was still in its hibernation at this time. They started wandering and gathering various old artifacts. Trouble started when they found the first corpse. Being scientists, and finding a still rotting specimen, they immediately started taking samples of tissue from the old bones. One of the wolves scratched its arm on one of the fangs. I saw it immediately, that longing for blood. Sure it was passive at first, but as their time at the estate grew longer, he craved blood more and more. Then he bit his fellows one night. They too contracted the curse. The longing for blood drove them to end the dig early and return to the city.
Normally I wouldn't have bothered, but it was getting to be quite useless taking the shinies from the collector, and they had plenty of shinies themselves, and the amount of shinies in the Mournweald was dwindling. I stole away to their camp after they left and found a satchel full of papers and binders and the like. I emptied its contents on the ground, took it to my nest and put as many of my shinies in as I could. After doing so, I followed the mammals from the sky, straight to a train station. In order to still follow them I hitched a ride on the train. Of course I held onto the roof rather than actually enter. These talons are for more than decoration, mind you. Upon arrival in the city, I realized that life was still flourishing, despite humanity being long extinct.
I took my satchel of shinies and flew off toward the tall skyscrapers. I wasn't spotted as it was late at night and no one ever looks up. I landed on top of the tallest skyscraper set my satchel down and immediately left to gather materials for a nest. While flying around, I noticed a distinct lack of birds, abundance of shinies, and remarkable amount of dead bodies. They were buried for some reason. So I took what I needed and built a nest atop the skyscrapers. I don't think there was any available roof access in that building as neither my nest nor I were ever disturbed. I did need to somewhat blend in, thus the robe that I commandeered. No I didn't steal the robe...or the bodies. I simply acquired them. I wanted them more than the people who were using them.
That is how I arrived at Zootopia. And despite how I look, I did acquire quite the trove. This all happened seven years ago. Yes I know the curse didn't start becoming a problem until two years ago. I am more confused as to why I am not being interviewed about it until now. And yes, I did arrive before and saw the whole night howler incident. That showed me that I wasn't as hidden as I thought I was to the criminal underbelly of the city.
What? Why wasn't I arrested multiple times for doing it? It was because the cops realized that no matter how often I was arrested for it, that was my nest and I was sticking to it. HAH! I win. Or maybe it was because the cops didn't find my nest.
But enough about my arrival. You wanted the story of what happened, right? Well. All the problems with the curse truly started just before the night howler incident. The biggest problem happened about a year later. Yes that was two years ago. Now will you shut up and let me speak?! Sorry, not used to interviews.
Now, where to begin?
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Data Log SH001 - Information- Interesting. An interview with an eldritch raven, is it not? I don't know when this happened, yet it did, and the program is recovering it alongside The Darkness Falls files. File name is Strange Happenings. A group of reports of single stand alone events. Further inquiry required. Input command - express_gratitude - Thank you to all who read this, your feedback is much appreciated as is your views. Input command-tip_hat...Command accepted. Input command-Close
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