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When Twiggles and her friends complain to Sphinxy that they got cursed for dicking around in someone’s tomb :P

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@Background Pony #91B9
There’s a difference too, between what will actually break the curse and what Sphinxy wants in exchange for breaking the curse. The idea with those curses is there is a specific way to break them, and it’s usually pretty arbitrary like for Twilight’s all she has to do is actually catch her shadow in the act of doing something and the curse is broken. The Sphinx is just powerful enough to just break them, but of course if she doesn’t want to she won’t XD
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@Scp-3125
@Badumsquish
Well, if you took something during your first visit (under the not unreasonable assumption that residents would have been long gone), then returning what you took would be a good step, and may even be sufficient to be forgiven and have the curse lifted.
But if you were cursed simply for entering the tomb, then maybe you could apologize for trespassing?
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@Background Pony #91B9
If you just asked for a specific artifact and you had a satisfying enough reason for why you wanted or needed it, she might allow it. She might just give it, she might want a different artifact in exchange, or a pact for it, or she might settle for a kinky riddle game if it’s been a while since she had some fun. Just be careful, since sphinxes can tell when you’re lying and deals with them are actually magically binding in a Rumpelstiltskin kind of way: don’t agree to give anything vague or think you can weasel out of it :P
@Scp-3125
You could always just not steal her stuff. She’s not unreasonable in that if you put it down and excused yourself she’d probably let it slide with a warning or maybe demand something small as reparation like you polish her jewelry or something :P
@Background Pony #91B9
Generally speaking, a run-of-the-mill curse for stealing something from them can be broken by returning the item and paying back the time it was gone. So bring it back and spend a day or two being her servant and the curse would be broken pretty quick :D
@Scp-3125
Keep in mind too, she’s being particularly dismissive of the Mane Six and their curses because they just came by and were like “hey we got cursed screwing around in a tomb can you break it for us?” They’re not trying to make it right, or trying to atone for what they did wrong, and don’t even seem to particularly think anything is wrong with trespassing in a forbidden tomb. To quote one of my favorite copypastas of all time, as far as she’s concerned if she just snaps her paw and breaks the curse then they cheated not only the curse but themselves. They didn’t grow. They didn’t improve. They took a shortcut and gained nothing. They experienced a hollow victory. Nothing was risked and nothing was gained. It’s sad that they don’t know the difference XD
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@Scp-3125
The curse ain’t permanent; it can be broken by doing something specific (which varies by effect which varies by target), or it can be brute-forced by someone with sufficiently powerful magic. Or if you returned what you took and apologized for the theft, the one who cursed you might just be nice enough to lift it for you. But being vindictive certainly won’t get any curses lifted from you.
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Then I’d have no choice but to dedicate my life to eradicating their entire society and it’s arbitrary legal system. I’d probably fail miserably, but it’s better than living a life or guilt and self-loathing for not doing what I felt was right
@Background Pony #91B9
How is putting a permanent curse on someone that will make every second of their lives a living hell self-defense? If anything it would just give them a good reason to try their best to either kill you or make you feel their pain.
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@Scp-3125
@Badumsquish
I mean, yeah. Whether you’ve lived in a place for months or millennia, if someone breaks into your place and steals your stuff, they’re in the wrong both ethically and legally, and you have every right to try and fight them off.
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@Scp-3125
You could try and sue them, but it wouldn’t go far in Monster Court. It’d be an open-and-shut “self-defense against a trespasser” ruling in favor of the monster XD
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@Badumsquish
Either way if some creature were to put a curse on me, regardless of who’s in the
“wrong”(such things are meaningless) I will do whatever I can make them suffer, as is my moral obligation, and because I couldn’t live with the guilt of not doing so
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@Scp-3125
Say what you want about Ahuizotl’s really abrupt “he’s a good guy now” thing, but I actually really dig how they kind of explored how adventurers in a fantasy / RPG-type setting are, well, kind of bastards who break into the territories of these creatures and wreck up the place. I’m a fan of the concept since it humanizes the creatures in a fun way XD
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@Badumsquish
Knowledge is priceless, yes, that’s why ancient artifacts shouldn’t be left to rot in some tomb, but discovered, studied, and protected in some high-tech vault. What good is knowledge that’s never released to the world?
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@Scp-3125
Not to sphinxes. To them, knowledge is more valuable than anything else. It’s why they’ll even gamble massive life-or-death events on challenges. Thus, they despise people who view artifacts and ancient tombs and the like as nothing more than financially valuable because of their knowledge and history XD