Louie awakes one morning with the khopesh, and a driving mental compulsion: he must hand the weapon to the very next person he sees, no matter what. Struggle or fight against this urge as he may, it doubles and redoubles each moment, until at last he must succumb.
As soon as the khopesh is passed on, Louie and the recipient both magically understand the following:
The recipient may keep the khopesh, and nothing more will come of this.
The recipient may also choose to give the khopesh to person (who may not be Louie). If they do so, they are subjected to the following curse:
Curse: The Cut of a Blade
This curse triggers at the exact moment it would be a disaster for the victim to start bleeding all over, and causes exactly that to happen. The victim will lose a dramatic but not harmful amount of blood (or other vital fluid or equivalent) in the most spectacular way possible. Sudden wounds, nosebleeds, eye socket bleeds, arterial sprays from the wrist -- it's disgusting, terrifying, and gross.
The next person in line learns all this and has the same choice, and so on, and so on. If four people in total pass the khopesh on, the last one may give it back to Louie, allowing him to keep it for good.
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As soon as the khopesh is passed on, Louie and the recipient both magically understand the following:
The recipient may keep the khopesh, and nothing more will come of this.
The recipient may also choose to give the khopesh to person (who may not be Louie). If they do so, they are subjected to the following curse:
Curse: The Cut of a Blade
This curse triggers at the exact moment it would be a disaster for the victim to start bleeding all over, and causes exactly that to happen. The victim will lose a dramatic but not harmful amount of blood (or other vital fluid or equivalent) in the most spectacular way possible. Sudden wounds, nosebleeds, eye socket bleeds, arterial sprays from the wrist -- it's disgusting, terrifying, and gross.
The next person in line learns all this and has the same choice, and so on, and so on. If four people in total pass the khopesh on, the last one may give it back to Louie, allowing him to keep it for good.