34th Fantasy // Voice

[magicalworld]

Hey everyone, I have a purely hypothetical question for all of you. What would you do if you accidentally, through absolutely no fault of your own, you did something really bad? Wait, no, not did something bad, just caused something bad. Say you, oh, I don’ t know, accidentally doomed a City or something. What would you do? Try to fix it? Find a way to make up for the demise of a major metropolis? Flee the country? Commit hari-kari to escape becoming a hunted pariah and despised by everybody? I was just, you know, curious about ethical dilemmas and thought I’d ask. Part of a growing boy's curiosity about life's complexities, haha, no other reason!

By the way, and this is completely unrelated and also hypothetical, which is further away from the City? Mexico or the Yukon?

Man, I’ve got to get that stupid pirate to tell another story...

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[voice]

[notadartboard]

That pirate...?

Ugh. I should have known.

[voice]

[magicalworld]

...You know him?

[voice]

[notadartboard]

You could say that.

Looks like he's due an ass-kicking.

[voice]

[magicalworld]

Do you know anything about how his power works? Specifically, if it can be changed back?

[voice]

[notadartboard]

Eh...I'm not exactly sure. The last time I had to deal with it he refused to change it back, but that might have been because he didn't know how to...

[liarboo.livejournal.com]

I never refused to! The power just happens, I don't control it.

[notadartboard]

Oh, there you are. The horse, Usopp? The horse.

[liarboo.livejournal.com]

I didn't make that happen!--Well, I did but I mean, not on purpose! Just like this!

[notadartboard]

[sigh]

The kid's got a point, though. Can you stop it?

[liarboo.livejournal.com]

One: I don't know if the power works like that. Two: That's a totally lame way to end a story, just saying they all just go away.

[notadartboard]

Well if you ask me, now's as good a time as any to find out if it works that way.

Sure, no one's been killed, but...

lol that face

[liarboo.livejournal.com]

But that's such a lame end to a story, couldn't I end it with all of them converging en amsse to battle it out, no survivors standing? Maybe an explosion could go off. Or they all go out to sea for adventure, as buddies.

I couldn't resist

[notadartboard]

I don't care how you end it, just end it! If you can.

[liarboo.livejournal.com]

Oh my God, fine. So all the dinosaurs and cardboard boxes and evil duplicates and flying death traps and everything I talked about that's roaming around the City, causing havoc, all gathered together in one spot to battle for the title of Supreme Annoyers of the City. But, as fat would have it, a small black hole, just large enough to suck all of those things in and maybe a mail box or two appeared, and gobbled them all up.

Its hunger satisfied, the black hole collapsed on itself, all tuckered out, and everything returned to normal and the Brave Captain wasn't lynched for his inability to control his own powers.

The end.

[notadartboard]

.... [and now to wait and see if it works]

Didn't get lynched, huh? What a fairy tale.

[liarboo.livejournal.com]

. . . People really wouldn't lynch me, would they?

I mean, it's kinda fun, right? Some people seem to like it.

[notadartboard]

Oddly enough, yeah, people seem...all right, I guess. It's just annoying.

[liarboo.livejournal.com]

Well then there we go, half of it is true already.

[notadartboard]

[ffff]

Why can't your power ever work on something useful? Like a story about the great Straw Hat pirates setting sail and earning bounties in a new world. Er. New new world.

[liarboo.livejournal.com]

I dunno, it doesn't seem to work on people. I've told plenty of stories about how awesome I am, and even though most of them are true, the more exaggerated ones never, ever came true. Same with stories I've told about you or Zoro or others.

[notadartboard]

Hm. I wonder wh...

...wait a minute. What stories have you been telling about me?

[liarboo.livejournal.com]

...Awesome stories.

[notadartboard]

That's not an answer. [suspicous! He knows how you work, Usopp]

[magicalworld]

Great! That's the best story ever!

Now all we have to do is sit back and watch all our problems take care of themselves. That was a cinch!