Quest 049

( Attempted Private//Somewhat Hackable )

...Well, other than looking a bit like I washed my hair with grape juice instead of water this morning, I suppose it's not so bad.

There's a tale in the Library about a boy named Bob Jack poor lad who found a magic stone that allowed him to move from place to place at random by rubbing it, rather like a genie's lamp. Excited about the prospect of adventure and hoping to poof himself into an easy fortune, he began to rub the stone, disappearing and reappearing from place to place. The first few times, luck was with him, and he went from town to beach, across mountains and over the seas, to all sorts of strange and wonderful places. But then, fortune seemed to say, "All right, Bob Jack, you've won a few; now it's time to lose a few!" and on his next rub, he found himself face-to-face with a hungry lion. Terrified, he rubbed the stone again, and found himself in a magician's chambers--and the resident magician was hardly delighted with the intrusion. A third rub and he found himself up a roaring stream without a paddle. And he went on and on, rubbing the stone until he'd used up all of his bad luck as well as his good, and when finally he had no luck left at all, he perished.

Of course, the moral of the story is printed neatly at the end of the tale, but I think there's quite a few that could be taken from it, don't you think?

And just for curiosity's sake, does anyone happen to know what nightshade juice is, or how a person might go about getting some?


[OOC: Spells and tale are lovingly borrowed from the King's Quest Companion, third edition!]