1st Hop [orb]

[entirelybonkers]

[ Initially, there is nothing. You’re just going about your normal day, orb nice and silent, until-- ]

Good heavens!

[ There is a bright blue eyeball peering into it from the other end, expression, what can be seen of it, delighted. ]

How perfectly marvelous – how on earth does it truly work? Hello? Can you hear me in there?

[ She taps it and pulls back, her entire face coming into view. ]

Terribly curious indeed – how whimsically magical…

[ She straightens, and folds her arms, armor clanking. ]

For anyone that may or may not be inside of this magical device, I bid thee a fond greeting – I am Alice Kingsleigh, the White Queen’s Champion, at your service.

Now…please tell me there are no jabberwocks to be slain? The last one was quite rude.

Comments

[entirelybonkers]

There. See? Things can always get worse.

Now, enough negativity! What, precisely, is your name, my good sir...?

[goldeneyeball]

_{[She's got you there, Jimbo.]}

Yeah, well...hmf. James. The Great and Terrible!

[entirelybonkers]

[ aha! Alice: 1, JW: 0 ]

Great and terrible? Can you be both great and terrible? [ PONDER. ]

Wouldn't it be...greatly terrible, or terribly great?

[goldeneyeball]

My power is great. _{[Sure it is.]} And I'm most likely taller than you. So there's that.

[entirelybonkers]

What sort of power?

[ HMPH. ]

How tall are you?

[goldeneyeball]

The forces that brought us here appointed me a wizard.

_{[For God knows what reason.]}

Six foot nine. Without the antlers. How tall are you?

[entirelybonkers]

Gracious, have you had to much Upelkuchen?

[goldeneyeball]

...Is that a drug where you're from?

[entirelybonkers]

Don't be silly, it's cake.

[goldeneyeball]

I've never heard of anybody getting taller from eating cake.

[entirelybonkers]

Oh, there's little enough worry - enough pishsalver and you'll shrink right back down.

...

Best you don't have too much though - you won't be quite right if you do.

[goldeneyeball]

_{[James tilts his head and squints as he processes this information.]}

No, I'm pretty sure that sounds like some kind of drug.

[entirelybonkers]

No, no -- these are hardly opiates. It simply alters body mass, that's all!!

[ REALLY ITS OKAY 8D It's totally normal. ]

[goldeneyeball]

So it's magic?

_{[Jim, some people call those the same thing.]}

[entirelybonkers]

Mmm, I suppose it could be considered as such...

It's more a cake and stew though. It's just -- best not to watch the ingredients be added.

[goldeneyeball]

What goes into this cake and stew?

_{[What...what no he's not grabbing a pad and pencil. What are you talking about?]}

[entirelybonkers]

Pishsalver? It's terribly revolting, are you certain you want to know?

[goldeneyeball]

_{[Char-pencil at the ready!]}

Absolutely.

this can only go horribly wrong

[entirelybonkers]

If you're certain - Pishsalver it is.

[ she clears her throat, and recites as precisely as the White Queen did. ]

A pinch of worm fat, the urine of a horsefly...

[ a shudder-- ]

buttered fingers, three coins from a dead man's pocket... Let's see - ah! Of course-- two teaspoons of wishful thinking...

And a glob of spit from the White Queen herself.

I think you mean horribly fantastic

[goldeneyeball]

_{[James eagerly scribbles down every...interesting...ingrediant. He's trying not to make a face.]}

Buttered fingers of what?

_{[Sure they didn't have a white queen but...they had some princesses. That was almost as good, right?]}

...something like that sure |D

[entirelybonkers]

[ she told him it was revolting. ]

I'm not honestly sure - they looked rather like they'd been dead for quite some time, but the Queen didn't explain.

[goldeneyeball]

_{[He's quiet for a moment, scribbling things down out of view of the orb.]}

So...any idea how to get wishful thinking into a measurable state?

[entirelybonkers]

[ Alice is seriously pondering this question. ]

Mirana did not say. I suspect that in order to achieve tangibility, perhaps...you could write down what it is that you wish for, then whip it up a bit, and simply use that?

[goldeneyeball]

_{[He has to give it to her. Alice is far more creative than JW ever was.]}

Makes sense to me. Is there anything else?

[entirelybonkers]

If you're going to make Pishsalver, you really ought to make the Upelkuchen to counter it.