Q&A Session

[needs-socks.livejournal.com]

[Oddly enough, part of the Nexus seems to have morphed into stone walls and wooden doors more befitting of a castle than a Nexus building. Those who investigate the change might discover a cantankerous old gnome of a man sitting in one of those rooms.]

[The Magician of Information, Good Magician Humfrey, is not at all pleased to have been summoned away from his castle in Xanth. Now he's stuck in a drearily Mundane world, and will doubtlessly be pestered with Questions now that his challenges have been dismantled.]

[Maybe he'll be able to re-use some older ones...]

[((Humfrey knows the Answer to any Question someone might have, but he might charge a service for answering it or put pun-related challenges in the way of inquiring minds...))]

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[prepare2fight.livejournal.com]

[During their gleeful spin, the pair knock over a MYSTERIOUS VIAL OF LIQUID. What's inside? Team Rocket sure doesn't know.]

[needs-socks.livejournal.com]

[Humfrey dives out of the way as his vial of Sleeping Potion shatters on the stone floor, splashing the man before evaporating, magic spent.]

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[prepare2fight.livejournal.com]

Huh? [He stops to look down at his pant leg before suddenly collapsing onto the floor.

Snores echo through the room; he's asleep.]

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[surrendernowor.livejournal.com]

James!

James! Wake up!

[And she's kicking James about now.]

[needs-socks.livejournal.com]

[The scowling old man picks himself out of the pile of books he'd fallen into.]

Don't bother; your clumsy bumbling has wasted my vial of Sleeping potion. He'll be magically asleep for centuries unless something is done.

[surrendernowor.livejournal.com]

Centuries?

[Now Jessie has James by the collar and is shaking him vigorously.]

You better not sleep on the job! We've got Pokemon to catch!

[prepare2fight.livejournal.com]

[His head lolls back and forth like a rag doll.]

[needs-socks.livejournal.com]

[Sharply] If you knock into anymore bottles, I'll spell you into one.

[Grumbling about wasted time and lost magic -that had been a perfectly useful bottle of Sleeping potion- the gnome stalks over to take in the damage.]

I already said that sort of thing won't work; he must be awakened as dictated by the spell.

[He pauses to think, searching through centuries of memory] True love's kiss is the general solution to the problem...

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[surrendernowor.livejournal.com]

True love's kiss?

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[surrendernowor.livejournal.com]

You mean, like, a fairy tale?

[needs-socks.livejournal.com]

[He bites back a comment about the fairy kingdom being elsewhere in Xanth. His fourth wife had been Mundane, so he had some knowledge of how their kind responded to magic.]

Yes. I believe there are such tales in Mundania; it is good you are familiar with them.

[A small bit of flattery might also help get the two nitwits out of his study. Although the woman did have some shapely legs.]

[surrendernowor.livejournal.com]

Mundania? What's that?

[Damn right she did.]

[needs-socks.livejournal.com]

That's what Xanthians call the land of land of no magic; it is a dreary place, filled with Mundanes who have no magic talent.

[Not quite as nymphly as his first, third, fifth, and half wives' legs, but comely nonetheless.]

[surrendernowor.livejournal.com]

"True love" huh?

[Look, Jessie's thinking deeply for once.]

Isn't there any other way?

[needs-socks.livejournal.com]

[A surprisingly less-idiotic question than he would have expected from her.]

Of course there's another way. Potions such as that are always developed with a fail-safe.

[He glowers]

But you have already wasted a potion of mine; I'm not going to just hand over more magic unless all other possibilities have been explored.

[dats-rite.livejournal.com]

[OH HEY GUYS what's going on in this thread.]

[...no really what's going on in this thread.]

[surrendernowor.livejournal.com]

Hey, it's not my fault you had your stupid potions sitting-

[Oh hi Meowth.]

Meowth! We've got a problem on our hands! You need to kiss James!

[dats-rite.livejournal.com]

What? No way, missy. I ain't kissin' nobody.

[surrendernowor.livejournal.com]

Oh yes you are!

[And she's manhandling Meowth, shoving his face at James']

[prepare2fight.livejournal.com]

[YOUR SLEEPING BEAUTY IS WAITING, MEOWTH.]

[dats-rite.livejournal.com]

[flkajda;sfjl]

[You bet your ass he's struggling. Meowth used FURY SWIPES! As soon as Jessie dares to let up a little she'll find her own face under attack. :T]

[surrendernowor.livejournal.com]

[GWOARGUARLGF]

Meowth, just kiss him and get it over with!

[dats-rite.livejournal.com]

[He lands on his feet (naturally) and immediately starts wiping his mouth off with a paw.]

I gotta idea. Why don't you kiss him?

[surrendernowor.livejournal.com]

I don't think so-

Go Wheezing! Go Arbok, Lickitung, and Victreebel! Use kiss attack!

[prepare2fight.livejournal.com]

[All of their attacks have NO EFFECT, and Victreebell might have taken it too far, since the sleeping Rocket is now sticking out of it feet-first.]