“KNOCK IT OFF!” He yelled into her face. She tumbled off the table that she was sitting on in a lotus position onto the floor.
“Geeze, you didn’t have to do that!” She complained as she stood up and stretched.
“Well, you’ve been doing that for the last thirteen days!” He said angrily. “All the other authors left days ago and you seem to scare off every other potential vic…er, customer that has walked through the door!”
Most Grand reached around behind her cowl and was fiddling with something. “Well I had to make sure they were all gone.” She said as she pulled down on her head and the body suit slid away to reveal a tall curly haired man underneath.
“After all, I did promise on the plume that I would never participate in another author related episode.” He relied with a wiry grin. “Since all the authors have seemed to vacated the barroom I figured now was a good time to extract myself from the archive.”
The old man looked Ghost Hand over closely. ‘Fairly average looking young man here.’ He thought to himself. ‘I’m sure I could spice his life up a little with one of my special drinks.’
“I think you just don’t want to run into any of the avatars you messed with earlier.” He said with a laugh.
Ghost Hand laughed with him. “That too.” He replied as he pulled a long trench coat out of the body suit and slipped it over his shoulders. “But it did shake things up around here for a while!”
“By the way,” He said as he held up the body suit. “I wonder if you would be interested in a slightly damaged evil personified body suit? I’m willing to part with it for a very low price.”
“No thank you.” The wizard replied as he stepped behind the bar. “I already have several in my stock at the store. Would you care to sample one of my special brews though?”
Ghost Hand walked up and sat at the bar. “Sorry old man, I’ve read way too many of the stories about your adventures to even come close to falling for that old trick.” He told him as he reached into the trench coat and withdrew his own drink along with a mug and coaster.
As he poured the Pepsi into the mug he looked up at the wizard. “So, did they all get themselves back to normal?”
“You’re an avatar, don’t you know?” The old man asked puzzled. “I thought all you avatars knew every thing that went on in the Addventure.”
“Not really. We are just characters just like you, it’s just that some of the writers like to give their avatars more power than others. My writer doesn’t give me any special powers. Just this magical trench coat.” He explained as he opened the coat to reveal a seemingly bottomless pit of miscellaneous items. “I don’t know any more than anyone else in the Addventure, and a lot less than several of them.”
“Well, let me fill you in then.” The old man said. “After you went into that irritating trance most of the other avatars left to try to return themselves to normal. After several different thread starts and some dizzying back links, (And Dabbler trying to lay all of them!) they finally all got back to normal except DJ Woohoo. Her author decided that he liked her better for an avatar than the previous one that was given to him. She’s now working backstage as a troubleshooter for the Addventure. She and her partner are currently trying to map out all the Backstage area.”
“So, everyone else got back to normal then?” Ghost Hand asked.
“Well, except Dabbler.” The wizard cringed. “He got changed back to his male self but because of a curse put on him by You Wish he split into two different people. Now we have a good Dabbler and a evil CMOT Dibbler.”
“CMOT?”
“It’s suppose to be an inside joke.” The wizard explained with a shrug. “I don’t get it.”
“Oh well, I kind of liked Dribbler.” Ghost Hand said.
“So did all the newborns down at the orphaned episodes orphanage.” The old man said with a twinkle in his eye. “Before she left I had accumulated over fifty gallons of the best breast milk around! Strange though, the registry said that there were around sixty percent boys in the orphanage before I dropped off the milk. Now it seems that it’s an all girl orphanage. I wonder what happened?”
“Yeah,” Ghost Hand said nervously. “I wonder what. Well, I really must be going before any of the other avatars find out I’m here.”
“Well, see you around.” The wizard said.
“I don’t think you will.” Ghost Hand said with a smile. “But you never know!”
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