endgames | 024 -- [Action]

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024 -- [Action]

[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 ]]

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[She's dragging this out, he can tell, reminiscent of the woman in her story.

But still delaying. Unlike Tony, she's hiding it with niceties too. Grateful as he is for the kindness, it bothers him.]

[Yeah, well, suck it up. Ultimate power spiritual slaves bother her.

So, out of the store they go, and really, there was no place in this town to go for sufficient privacy so she just... takes a detour to the side of the shop.]

So here's the thing - everyone knows that deals with supernatural forces never work out well. But you're not really a supernatural force, you're a guy in an experiment, and I'm just not sure how much power they would actually give you to do... really big things. So logic dictates that I just throw your lamp in my closet and wait for you to get back to normal, but I'm not really keen on this whole 'leaving you as a slave in my closet' thing either. Got any information you could use to shed some light on this?

[Yeah, he would find that troublesome. But he listens with a rather blank expression before reaching a finger out to lightly touch the lamp, hopefully tilting it just enough so she can see part of the inscription on the bottom unless she doesn't let him.

Either way:]

There's restrictions spelled out on the bottom.

Let me guess: You can't bring people back from the dead.

[She said as she turned the lamp around to look at the restrictions.]

Number four.

[The rules as listed:

1. The genie cannot take anyone outside of Luceti
2. The genie cannot change affairs of the heart
3. The genie cannot kill
4. The genie cannot raise from the dead

Naturally, there are other restrictions. But those come with loop holes he can exploit to trick people out of their wishes.]

It doesn't say anything in here about wardrobe changes.

I know. Somehow, clothes shopping isn't a crime.

[Whoever placed these rules clearly doesn't know women.]

[She takes a breath, arranging her thoughts.]

In that case I wish for a comfortable, fashionable pair of shoes that were formed and delivered without hurting anyone, can be taken off and put on at will, and will last for the life of any ordinary pair of shoes.

...very specific that.

[He snaps his fingers. They are the most comfortable shoes ever, and they also have purple polka-dots.]

[Unfortunately for you, Shikamaru, she thinks those polka dots are awesome.

And she laughs.]

Cute.

[And then she turns around, giving him her back, as if she's just checking them out.]

[WHATEVER. He got to tamper with things sorta. He leans against this wall here.]

To your satisfaction?

I'll need to try them out first.

[And, good as Molly is at this game, she tenses. What she's about to do is something she's been warned against, but right now she figures it's worth the risk in... so many ways.

She stares down at her newly enchanted shoes and opens her Sight.

What she sees when she opens her eyes are... the shoes that she was wearing when she left the house, and swirling around them, a maelstrom of strange, sickly, purple light. A shift? It felt strange, like oil in her mind. But not true, transformative magic, nothing permanent - it barely had anything other than the consistency of an illusion.

She released her sight after no more than a few seconds. There was no need to look for long. She'd never forget what she saw.]

[She shifted her weight back and forth like she was testing the shoes.

A fascinating illusion, that altered even the senses. She wanted to study it more.

She glanced over her shoulder and grinned at Shikamaru now, relieved.]

They're shoes to make Fry weep in shame.

[That happy over a pair of shoes? He's not sure whether he doesn't buy it or... should just chalk it up to girls.]

They don't make shoes for french fries.

No, but they do make them for potatoes.

[Mr. Potato Head.

Grin.]

[He spreads his hands. Somewhere in the nether there is a badum-tsh.

He doesn't get it. >>]

Anyway, Frye is a brand of shoes back home.

[She starts to lead them back out of the alley.]

Very expensive.

Great. [He follows.] If you pass my lamp off to some girl when you're done, try not to tell them that part, okay?

Is that what's been happening to you?

[Please.] I'm not lucky enough to catch a break.

[Uh-huh.]

'cause see, I found your lamp abandoned by the fountain.

The point is people drop it off in easy-to-reach places, sticking me with multiple masters. It's troublesome granting so many wishes in a day.

[Interesting.]

Does it drain you?

[This is a shift, not really his power. He understand at the base element he's just borrowing things.]

Being dragged everywhere without a break is the tiring part.

[She raises an eyebrow.]

You want a break?

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