RE: Twenty Quest
04-05-2013, 05:32 AM
Questions and Answers
It suddenly occurs to you as strange that you couldn't interact with the pink guy; after all, you've been able to manipulate physical objects just fine with ghost magic. Sure, psychic ghost powers would be slightly more useful, since they'd let you interact with other intangible objects, but what are you going to do, shake hands with other ghosts?
Wait a minute. That must be why you couldn't touch the pink guy; he must be a ghost too. And ghost magic doesn't work on ghosts. Well, that explains a lot.
In any case, you yell at the pink ghost and demand that he tell you who he is, but he doesn't take notice. Instead he starts talking to himself.
"Oh, woe is me," he sighs. "I wish I had a name. I could be Alsora Rotinoto, king of Westubori! But no, my name vanished with my death. Now I have no name, nothing, only this octopus head I found on the beach."
He pulls an octopus head out and... Wait a minute, that's your octopus head! Did they just throw it away?
Well, it would simplify everything if you could just grab it from him and put it back on. You might still have this compulsion to narrate everything to yourself in the second person, and you'd probably still get caught up in very silly things, but at least you'd have your powers back.
As you try to think of how to get the head from him, he suddenly rushes forward with ghost-speed and talks to your horse.
"Oh marvelous horsedonkey," he says, "I have never seen a creature as wondrous as you. Perhaps if I had a name, we could be together, and I could give you this octopus head as a gift."
This is incredibly disturbing and he doesn't even seem to notice you're there... Wait, wait, is your horse smiling?
Oh god, he is. Your stupid horsedonkey is actually interested in this freak. While you could try to manipulate this turn of events to get your octopus head back, the truth is you're so disturbed by the whole thing that you do not want it to come to that.
But you do still want to get your octopus head back. So what are you going to do here?
Spoiler
It suddenly occurs to you as strange that you couldn't interact with the pink guy; after all, you've been able to manipulate physical objects just fine with ghost magic. Sure, psychic ghost powers would be slightly more useful, since they'd let you interact with other intangible objects, but what are you going to do, shake hands with other ghosts?
Wait a minute. That must be why you couldn't touch the pink guy; he must be a ghost too. And ghost magic doesn't work on ghosts. Well, that explains a lot.
In any case, you yell at the pink ghost and demand that he tell you who he is, but he doesn't take notice. Instead he starts talking to himself.
"Oh, woe is me," he sighs. "I wish I had a name. I could be Alsora Rotinoto, king of Westubori! But no, my name vanished with my death. Now I have no name, nothing, only this octopus head I found on the beach."
He pulls an octopus head out and... Wait a minute, that's your octopus head! Did they just throw it away?
Well, it would simplify everything if you could just grab it from him and put it back on. You might still have this compulsion to narrate everything to yourself in the second person, and you'd probably still get caught up in very silly things, but at least you'd have your powers back.
As you try to think of how to get the head from him, he suddenly rushes forward with ghost-speed and talks to your horse.
"Oh marvelous horsedonkey," he says, "I have never seen a creature as wondrous as you. Perhaps if I had a name, we could be together, and I could give you this octopus head as a gift."
This is incredibly disturbing and he doesn't even seem to notice you're there... Wait, wait, is your horse smiling?
Oh god, he is. Your stupid horsedonkey is actually interested in this freak. While you could try to manipulate this turn of events to get your octopus head back, the truth is you're so disturbed by the whole thing that you do not want it to come to that.
But you do still want to get your octopus head back. So what are you going to do here?