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[endgames]

[It is on the fourth day of the experiment that Shikamaru leaves his apartment. Free of those stupid thought bubbles, this should've been a good thing. But as he walked, it felt like he was being drawn to something. A weird breeze picked up. The sky literally became overcast. Ominous shit, man. 8|

It's only when he walked past a tree that he saw it. His old foe thought long gone when he defenestrated it months ago.]

Oh, not this again-

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May 27 - June 1

[For these four days of the experiment, around the village there is a toaster ~magic lamp~ waiting to be found. In that tree! On that bench! On top of that fountain! How did it get in all these weird places? NO IDEA. But pick it up, and BAM. SMOKE PELLETS, and you suddenly have your very own genie (barefoot, with an outfit something like this). Careful what you wish for.]

Can we make this quick?



[[ ooc: So Shikamaru's fairy-taled into a genie again! You get three (3) wishes, and he will be 'granting' them as literally as possible.

As per the guidelines of the old fairy-tale event: nothing wished for is actually real. It will look like it is! But your character is either interacting with something imaginary or a mundane object: like thinking they picked up a magic lamp when it's really a toaster. Wish to be a sorcerer? While effected it's like COOL YOU HAVE MAGIC POWERS. Only not really, you were just pointing at things.

TL;DR: it's one giant game of pretend. Have fun. 8|b ]]

Comments

Day 4

[talentsgirl]

So what's the deal?

Day 4

[endgames]

I'm a genie. You get three wishes, granted by yours unfortunately. Pretty textbook.

Day 4

[talentsgirl]

Oh, I know this story. What happens if I wish for your freedom?

Day 4

[endgames]

[He doesn't... know. No one's tried that. 8|a]

For all I know, I burst into flames.

Day 4

[talentsgirl]

...it would figure the Disney adaptation would leave that out.

Day 4

[endgames]

More references I don't get...

[And yet something compels him to make a few of his own lately. Drives him nuts.]

All I know is we're stuck with each other until you're done with me.

Day 4

[talentsgirl]

[...]

You know, you're really not helping your non-harem case.

[SHE'S JUST SAYING.]

Day 4

[endgames]

[asdfghjkl]

I'm not the one with my mind in the gutter!

Day 4

[talentsgirl]

[She's just going to laugh now - it's a good laugh, carefree and open.]

Sure, sure.

Day 4

[endgames]

[Not sulking over here. NOT. SULKING.]

Day 4

[talentsgirl]

[She sobers, smiling kindly.]

Hey, it's all right - Shikamaru, right?

[As if she'd forgotten.]

I'm just trying to figure out the way this doesn't end in doom - messing with phenomenal cosmic powers is usually has a strict 'this can only end in tears' result.

Day 4

[endgames]

[He nods. She got it.]

So far, it's mostly been reduced to irritation, so I think you're good there.

Day 4

[talentsgirl]

[She wasn't just talking about her.]

And I get three wishes?

Day 4

[endgames]

[Neither was he.]

No more, no less.

Day 4

[talentsgirl]

[As throughout the rest of the conversation, Molly resists the urge to look him in the eye. It would be so much easier, but... she wasn't completely defenseless. She had his Name, after all.]


And what happens if I just... put down the magic lamp and walk away?

Day 4

[endgames]

[He scratches his chin.]

If someone else comes along, your wishes are void. Unless you get the lamp back from them.

[Don't ask him how he knows this, it's just coming to him.]

Day 4

[talentsgirl]

And you go back in the lamp?

Day 4

[endgames]

[I wait around the corner until someone finds the lamp.]

Yeah.

Day 4

[talentsgirl]

[Abrupt change of tact.]

Do genies eat?

Day 4

[endgames]

When offered.

[And staring.]

Day 4

[talentsgirl]

Come on then, genie. Let's go to the supermarket.

[She figures he's not getting much food if he's stuck in a lamp all day, and as far as she can tell there have been no changes to his physical form.]

Day 4

[endgames]

[Blinking, a little dumbfounded. To fit in with genies in certain fairy tales, he's embittered to his role.

Since he has to stay within x amount of feet from his lamp, he really doesn't have much choice. Not that this isn't unwelcome. So he just follows along.]

Day 4

[talentsgirl]

[Walk, walk, walk...]

So since you don't know Disney, I'm guessing you're not from Earth.

[Or she might have picked it up in her backwards journal stalkage. What, doesn't everyone do that?]

Do you even know what story you're acting out?

Day 4

[endgames]

[Yes, everyone does that. If he is everyone.]

I know what a genie is. If it's a 'story' I'm supposed to be living, there isn't much of one to go off of this time.

[That is sort of an answer to her first question. Thanks to his journal stalkage, he would be disappointed if she needed more than that.]

Day 4

[talentsgirl]

That is where you'd be mistaken. Though originally the genie wasn't limited to three wishes.

[She glances over at him, giving him a brief once-over and a light smirk.]

You've stepped right out of A Thousand and One Arabian Nights.

[Because establishing that intimate knowledge of how tricky and evil and all-powerful spiritual beings can be is commonplace couldn't possibly have to do with downplaying her own knowledge of such things, should it come to that. And of course it's common place. >>]