limacharlie | [144.98750] RINGMASTER'S FOURTH ADDRESS (D58)

[Bright and early on Day 58, the morning after the final carnival performances, your radios will light up with a very enthusiastic broadcast from the Ringmaster. Someone's having a good day, apparently.]

Hello, all you beautiful people of mine! Guess what? I'm back to normal! As powerful and gracious as I ever was - and I want to express my appreciation for all the kind words and offers of help you have given during my time of 'weakness.' Your loyalty and support is most flattering!

Even better, with your help I have won my bet! [And she is positively thrilled.] Please know that your combined efforts and my natural cunning have awarded us something very valuable for absolutely zero charge, and it will be of great benefit to our carnival in coming weeks.

I won't bore you with the details, but the carnival is back in action, and we will be leaving Atlantis in three hours! Please finish up any last minute business you may have, and we will be on our way!

[Well! That explains almost nothing.]

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As I said, most likely not.

So there is some probability that we won't go back to the way we were before?

[If he sounds concerned about this, it's because he is. Very.]

A very small probability, yes.

[She doesn't sound concerned.]

[WHY DON'T YOU SOUND CONCERNED THIS IS ALARMING]

But you changed us in the first place, right? So why wouldn't you be able to change us back?

The nature of the change may have taken a liking to your essence, more than most. It's the same rules that govern all transformations within my realm. You could just be destined to be a fish.

What, really?!

[This is not comforting. He sounds, if anything, more distressed.]

So there's nothing controlling what happens to us except destiny?

[She sighs, loudly.]

You are so boring right now.

[Jamie is taken aback by this. For a second. Then he's indignant.]

I'm not boring! I'm worried about weird things happening to me for no reason!

[You're boring! Your face is boring!]

It's not for no reason. You should know the exact reasons by now. In fact, I just explained them to you.

[Yaaawn.]

"Destiny" or whatever isn't a reason. Reasons have logic behind them, they follow cause and effect and stuff. Saying it's destiny is like saying "just because."

[This offends him. He is so offended you don't even know.]

[She groans with the tedium of it, making no attempt to conceal her lack of interest in this.]

That's not really what I said, young man. I said that each individual has physical and spiritual qualities that make them more appropriate recipients of certain types of faeish traits. As such, I am saying that you may have the prerequisite spiritual "DNA" [You can hear the hand quotes] that makes your being a fertile ground for aquatic aspects to take root.

Are you satisfied?

[Lengthy pause.]

Well when you put it that way it makes sense. Sort of.

I'm not gonna be happy if I'm stuck being a fish though. How can we tell if something like that's gonna happen before it...does?

What use do you have for knowing before it happens?

So it can be prevented.

[Duh?]

You couldn't prevent it anyway, so it's a moot point.

Why not?

[Is he honestly curious or just being a little shit? Maybe it's both.]

How could you? You don't even know any magic!

So if someone knew magic, they could undo stuff that happens to them here? Or keep it from happening?

Depends. But probably not.

Because I am the boss of you.

[Well. That's. A fact. BUT STILL]

But - ! But spiritual DNA is stronger than you are, right? 'Cause you said you might not be able to undo something you did if that, the DNA I mean, made us more susceptible to retaining the change that'd been made. So is there some kind of magic hierarchy...thing?

[There's a lot less "trying to start an argument" in this inquiry than "this is a New Thing and I want to know how it works."]

Well I didn't actually say I couldn't... But that doesn't mean I would.

So no, magical "DNA" is not stronger than me, especially when you are under my contract.

[Is that a threat? That kind of sounds like a threat.]

If you wanted me to drop the subject you could've just said so, y'know.

[Pout!]

I'm not threatening anything, I'm just telling you the facts!

It didn't sound like facts, it sounded like "I'm the boss so stop asking questions or I'll make sure you stay a fish forever."

[He doesn't sound terribly irritated, for all that.]

...so you wouldn't leave somebody like this just for asking about magic stuff, right? ["Like this" clearly meaning the aquatic monstrosity he currently is.]

I never said anything even remotely close to that!!

[Now she's frustrated.]

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