endgames | 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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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?

I want a nap.

[But no one cares what the genie wants, no. 8|

...except for maybe her. He can't tell. It's weird.]

[Snort.]

Then I wish that you would get to enjoy a harmless nap, wherever you want, for however long you want, and that you would come find me when you're done - but no rush, and if I'm naked or otherwise compromised, you have to knock and wait for me to say "Come in."

[...that's really her wish? He doesn't grant it immediately because he's almost expecting a catch.]

[She gives him a look.]

I know I said "no rush," but sometime today would be great.

[/U N S U R E . . .

But he frowns and snaps his fingers.]

Wish granted.

[And he has NO IDEA what to make of that, but he'll be off now, he guesses. It probably looks magicy, but he's just walking away.]

[Fake genies, shifted shoes, oi. She wonders what kinds of tests she can run on these in the meantime...

So she'll just hang on to the lamp and head "home."]

[And he will go take his nap! \o/

It's not hard to find her when he's done, a few hours later. Until she wished him away, he's been unable to step more than fifteen feet away from that 'lamp' all day. There's a physical draw there.]

[She's in her apartment - bottom level of Community 1 - in a room separate from her bedroom and her living room. It's a strangely structured room, with strange herbs and a deeply engraved circle on the floor, with silver wire there to keep it opened.]