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4. Try bargaining with Charlie!
“What if Big Guy made a deal?” Big Guy asked.
“A deal? Why would you need to do that?” Charlie asked.
“Big Guy has ideas to make restaurant more… popular?” Big Guy suggested, though he knew Charlie would pick up the lack of confidence in his voice.
“Oh, yeah?” Charlie asked, folding his arms.
“Give Big Guy his stuff back, Big Guy will help advertise restaurant and come up with less… permanent side-effects?” Big Guy said, but formed it into a question.
“They’re only as permanent as you’d want them to be, y’know,” Charlie said, sighing.
“What?” Big Guy asked.
“Yeah! This week is ‘Tricks of the Fae Wilds’!” Charlie pinched the bridge of his nose. “Every time I give you a massage, it randomly chooses something you’d enjoy or wanted to try… it’s just really dumb luck that this happened to you.” Charlie gestured to Big Guy. “Losing your name, your identity being stolen, gaining a lot of weight, getting dumber, getting BLANKED for crying out loud! You can’t tell me this was all a coincidence, can you?”
“Uh, was it?” Big Guy asked.
“My heck…” Charlie lifted a finger and snapped it. “You want the changes or not, Sarge?”
“Wha?” Sarge felt his body shrink. He noticed his fur regained its color and his mind started to flood with memories and thoughts. He slapped a hand to his head. “Oh duh, I’m Sarge!”
“Yeah! First customer I get all week, too… so yeah, thanks for that.” Charlie scowled and folded his arms. Sarge noticed that Charlie’s features still stayed the same as his.
“I can still pay, you know,” Sarge said, pulling out his wallet. “I mean, I already did, but I thought it was quite a good show!”
Charlie rolled his eyes. “Then why were you bargaining with me?”
“I dunno, maybe let people know upfront what this week entails? Mysteries are nice, but there’s only so much mystery you can give before people start having doubts.” Sarge sighed, scratching his chin. “I mean, yeah… you basically hit the nail on the head with me. I’ve always wanted to experience being magically brain drained, and being blanked, and being turned into a mannequin thingy…. Looking back on it now, those were actually kind of fun.”
“Only a matter of time before I hit either the pig transformation or the inanimate transformation… though I don’t know how well you being a chair would turn out.”
Sarge felt his tail wag, and he felt his cheeks run hot. “Both those options sound fun. How would I go about them?”
Charlie’s disgruntled expression changed. A smile crept on his face. “You’re really wanting to be turned into a chair? You realize you’ll be stuck like that… could be for forever.”
Sarge nodded. “I’m aware, yes… but again, that is one of my schticks. Either that or turning into a pig would be fun.”
Charlie scratched his chin again. “Well, tell ya what, how about we do that pig one now, then? It won’t be random… so none of the ‘eat until you’re full, get a massage to try again but stakes are higher,’. Just a simple hand shake, then… uh…” Charlie tried to think about this.
“Then the more I eat the food, the more transformed into a pig I become?” Sarge asked excitedly, his tail wagging furiously.
“Like Spirited Away?” Charlie asked.
“Yeah. Been envious of that scene, honestly.” Sarge chortled, taking a few steps forward and staring at the ceiling. “But you see what we did there? We made the idea up front! Maybe you could have that be a side thing, ‘Ironic Wishes Buffet’, an after-dark special for the night-timers!”
Charlie’s smile widened and he held a hand out. “Honestly, I like that, Sarge. You were right, you did help me with advertising.”
“Happy to help!” Sarge said, reaching a hand out and enthusiastically shaking Charlie’s hand.
Within a moment, Charlie’s grip strengthened and he pulled Sarge in close. “Simple handshake, Sarge…. Congratulations, you’ve started turning into a pig. Better get to eating.”
Sarge’s eyes lit up as he let out an unexpected snort. He also felt his stomach begin to growl. “Oh… oh… whoops.”
(OUTCOME 4: PIG TF)
Go back and try again?
FIRST
Art/Story/Characters (C)
Juntarhenogu Me
“What if Big Guy made a deal?” Big Guy asked.
“A deal? Why would you need to do that?” Charlie asked.
“Big Guy has ideas to make restaurant more… popular?” Big Guy suggested, though he knew Charlie would pick up the lack of confidence in his voice.
“Oh, yeah?” Charlie asked, folding his arms.
“Give Big Guy his stuff back, Big Guy will help advertise restaurant and come up with less… permanent side-effects?” Big Guy said, but formed it into a question.
“They’re only as permanent as you’d want them to be, y’know,” Charlie said, sighing.
“What?” Big Guy asked.
“Yeah! This week is ‘Tricks of the Fae Wilds’!” Charlie pinched the bridge of his nose. “Every time I give you a massage, it randomly chooses something you’d enjoy or wanted to try… it’s just really dumb luck that this happened to you.” Charlie gestured to Big Guy. “Losing your name, your identity being stolen, gaining a lot of weight, getting dumber, getting BLANKED for crying out loud! You can’t tell me this was all a coincidence, can you?”
“Uh, was it?” Big Guy asked.
“My heck…” Charlie lifted a finger and snapped it. “You want the changes or not, Sarge?”
“Wha?” Sarge felt his body shrink. He noticed his fur regained its color and his mind started to flood with memories and thoughts. He slapped a hand to his head. “Oh duh, I’m Sarge!”
“Yeah! First customer I get all week, too… so yeah, thanks for that.” Charlie scowled and folded his arms. Sarge noticed that Charlie’s features still stayed the same as his.
“I can still pay, you know,” Sarge said, pulling out his wallet. “I mean, I already did, but I thought it was quite a good show!”
Charlie rolled his eyes. “Then why were you bargaining with me?”
“I dunno, maybe let people know upfront what this week entails? Mysteries are nice, but there’s only so much mystery you can give before people start having doubts.” Sarge sighed, scratching his chin. “I mean, yeah… you basically hit the nail on the head with me. I’ve always wanted to experience being magically brain drained, and being blanked, and being turned into a mannequin thingy…. Looking back on it now, those were actually kind of fun.”
“Only a matter of time before I hit either the pig transformation or the inanimate transformation… though I don’t know how well you being a chair would turn out.”
Sarge felt his tail wag, and he felt his cheeks run hot. “Both those options sound fun. How would I go about them?”
Charlie’s disgruntled expression changed. A smile crept on his face. “You’re really wanting to be turned into a chair? You realize you’ll be stuck like that… could be for forever.”
Sarge nodded. “I’m aware, yes… but again, that is one of my schticks. Either that or turning into a pig would be fun.”
Charlie scratched his chin again. “Well, tell ya what, how about we do that pig one now, then? It won’t be random… so none of the ‘eat until you’re full, get a massage to try again but stakes are higher,’. Just a simple hand shake, then… uh…” Charlie tried to think about this.
“Then the more I eat the food, the more transformed into a pig I become?” Sarge asked excitedly, his tail wagging furiously.
“Like Spirited Away?” Charlie asked.
“Yeah. Been envious of that scene, honestly.” Sarge chortled, taking a few steps forward and staring at the ceiling. “But you see what we did there? We made the idea up front! Maybe you could have that be a side thing, ‘Ironic Wishes Buffet’, an after-dark special for the night-timers!”
Charlie’s smile widened and he held a hand out. “Honestly, I like that, Sarge. You were right, you did help me with advertising.”
“Happy to help!” Sarge said, reaching a hand out and enthusiastically shaking Charlie’s hand.
Within a moment, Charlie’s grip strengthened and he pulled Sarge in close. “Simple handshake, Sarge…. Congratulations, you’ve started turning into a pig. Better get to eating.”
Sarge’s eyes lit up as he let out an unexpected snort. He also felt his stomach begin to growl. “Oh… oh… whoops.”
(OUTCOME 4: PIG TF)
Go back and try again?
FIRST
Art/Story/Characters (C)
Juntarhenogu Me
Category Artwork (Digital) / Fat Furs
Species Werewolf / Lycanthrope
Size 1702 x 1388px
File Size 693.6 kB
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