By entering the emote /hand, the pirate will find out if the curse has taken hold of them... or not. Currently, there hasn't been a single report of this "curse" taking over pirates, and the chat notice on the emote merely states: "It doesn't look like your hand contains an Evil Curse of Doom". To others it appears in the chatbox as: "(pirate's name) looks almost completely Evil Curse of Doom free". Pirates are constantly checking their hands to see if this mark has taken a grip on them.