Prank 2: Magically Materialized Otherworlder’s Really Pranking Game

Prankstein neared the summoning circle and started filing in some of the blanks in the needed spaces. Starting race: blank. Starting profession: blank. Special trait, here he filled the space with Prankster in the language of the gods, which we all know will be an important clue as to why what happened next happened. Form of summoning, here the god of pranks decided to be a little creative and chose the original body of the summoning target. If his plans were to work without unneeded complications, the original was the best option. On summoning dismissal he put the word none. With what he was planning, there was no need to cross any streams of magic, so to speak. Everything filled and the gifts prepared, the circle activated.

Penelope Roslyn Ankster was working late that particular day. They were on the final stretch of publishing their newest novelty joke item, the smelling whoopee cushion. Of course their deadline was next week and they still had problems with the prototypes, so as the developer of the new product, Penny was still working late, to remove the defects from their product. She has just entered the lab and inspecting the airtight zipper on the cushion, where the smell was to be introduced in the cushion, when a strange sensation overcame her body and she was whisked away to another realm.

The god of pranks hovered around the ceiling, waiting for the summoning to be complete, so he can play his role of the almighty being responsible for the summoning, with his booming voice and oppressive aura. Then the human woman he had summoned materialized and started to swivel her head taking in her surroundings.

-Mortal, you have been summoned- what is that you are holding?-The speech that began with a booming voice turned into the squeak of an innocent child’s question… well not innocent, as his prankster instincts were telling him that the thing that the woman was holding had great pranking potential. He landed closer to her, eyes glued to the interesting little item, its presence in the room alone, sparking ideas for future mischief.

-Where am I, and what do you want from me? And better make it the abridged version instead of the grand speech you were planning, because I am in a very bad mood.-By the way the mortal spoke, one would think she … I don’t know what one would think. That she was summoned often? That she was used to being interrupted while at work? Or maybe used to dealing with kidnaping scary beings/humans/criminals/rivals? Maybe borderline sociopathic? Eh, maybe after editing something better will stick. On with the conversation.

-You were summoned t-

-I can see I’ve been summoned! Why else will I be standing on a magic circle? I said the abridged version. Where am I, what do you want from me and how do I go back to work. In that order!

-You are in the gods realm in $0m)(/#3r3. I want you to be my champion. And how you are going back depends on your answer.-

-Your champion? If it involves saving a world, killing someone or even randomly living in said world needing or not needing saving, then the answer will be No!-

-No, no that would be boring, and besides Lightner and Miasmar are already playing that game…-

-Wait, who came up with these names? They sound ridiculous.-

-The one who came up with the names is me, The Author. I’m not very good at coming up with or remembering names, so you are lucky with what you got. Even you miss. When there is character development you will either turn out to be a tomboy, me being a heterosexual male, or normal female character which means either I am good at characterization, or I have to ask myself some questions… As you were!-

-By becoming my champion you will turn into the greatest, most powerful prankster in the mortal world, and possibly some god realms. All I ask of you is to pull a big prank once a week or maybe a giant prank once a month and you can use my gifts for whatever else you want. You are a prankster, don’t you want to be the greatest?-

-I am Industrial Product Designer working almost without a break to launch our newest product. I don’t have the time to play pranks, even if at the moment I am working on a novelty joke item. The only way you could mistake me for a prankster is by my name P.R. Ankster, Penelope Roslyn Ankster.-

-Huh, so that is possible when you leave so much blank spaces in a summoning circle an write prankster in the god language for special trait. It could have chosen a character trait, but the god language compared every spelling in every language in the multiverse and chose you for your physical trait. Interesting how I played a prank on myself. Or that is simply what The Author wanted. So do you want my gifts or not?-

-You actually still haven’t told me what the gifts are?!-

-The first gift, the champion of pranks contains the abilities to shapeshift by manipulating healing magic, and master level disguise skills, for when you want to challenge yourself. Knowledge and mastery of any tool machine or item, as long as they are needed for a prank. That is a limitation so you don’t go and just conquer a world, but there are so many ways to bypass it so who knows what can happen. The gift also unlocks your magic potential, so you will be able to cast spells. There is the knowledge of enchantments, so you can use any magic you know in an object for increased prank potential. Then there is the increase in thinking speed, reaction time, search and recall of memories and you will have a hard time forgetting things. So if you do forget something, blame The Author, because it will not be your fault. These kinds of gifts for champions usually have a physical increase, but I used it to strengthen your nerves and synapses so electricity and magic flows at least three times faster. There is also the increase in magic power. That is three times your starting magic powers, not accounting for what you have after training on your own. And finally there is the Prankster Magic. One of my favorite and most used spells is the selective invisibility.-

-How does that spell work exactly? There are all kinds of ideas that come to mind from the name.-

-Hmm, if I have to describe the spell, it works like mimes.-

-Mimes?-

-Mimes.-

-Mimes!-

-Mimes.-

-What exactly does that mean? That did not explain anything!-

-Well you know how mimes are the only ones that see the objects that they interact with? It works on the same principle. You designate one or more creatures that see the object, and the rest just see through the object.-

-That is not how mimes work. They imagine an object and then pretend to interact with it with incredible mastery of their body, movement and center of mass. There are no objects to be seen.-

-Are you sure? It took me a year of tinkering to modify the ordinary invisibility spell into selective invisibility, and then another year to perfect it. And all because I misunderstood how mimes work? Those mimes are seriously good pranksters. HA haha ha ha HA. Oh also there is the knowledge of how to modify spells somewhere in there.-

-That sounds really tempting, but I still don’t know how I am going home. You said that depends of what I choose, so what are my choices?-

-Your first choice is to accept the gift and become the champion of pranks, and then I bestow you with a second gift. We give two gifts to every summoned being in Play World. Your second gift would be Transportation magic. It contains all sorts of spells used to move things. There is teleporting and flying. Acceleration, creation of a pocket dimension, dimensional and multiverse travel. There is even a spell to visit fictional worlds if enough beings know about them. You know if you get bored with puling pranks in the same world over and over. Your second choice is to refuse to become my champion in which case I send you back, erase your memories of this encounter and try to summon a new champion.-

-Is there a time travel somewhere in there?-

-Time travel is a tricky business. You go back in time, change the name of a future leader on his birth certificate to Dick Johns, and the next thing you know he is no longer a leader and you return to your time and suddenly speaking a different language. It is bigger hassle than pulling the prank is worth.-

-What about the fictional world travel? Won’t that derail the progression of the story?-

-Now that one works on the parallel world principle. Every copy of a story is its own parallel world. Whatever you do only impacts your one copy.-

-What about getting stuck in another world if the laws of magic or physics or anything are not compatible with my own?-

-Now that is a very smart question to ask. Your system will be self-contained in such worlds and will not have any negative effects. You will still die from poisonous environments and lack of atmosphere and such, but that is preventable with a little common sense. Also if you transport an item from any such dimension it will convert itself to work in accordance with the natural and magic law of the new world.-

-You know these abilities can make me the greatest thief, assassin or even inventor in any world?-

-That is something you can do in your spare time if you want. I am only interested in the mischief and pranks. I like good humor. So what will you choose?-

-Where do I sign?-