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Effie finds a notebook and has genre opinions at it
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Eventually she finishes at the craft store, has a late supper at a restaurant she likes and would like to be able to copy food from, and then goes back to her dorm room and flops into bed. 

Home.

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I think I have something for the kidnapping drawback!


Name: Hot Commodity - Grants: +3 ☐
(Requires Even Worse and Dramatic Damsel)
Stories that involve someone kidnapping you often feature your renowned beauty as a central motivation, and anyone who likes kidnapping beautiful people is likely to hear about you with particular emphasis on how beautiful you are.


As for the audible Soundtrack, I keep trying to put it together and it keeps drifting toward Musical Number...
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That's reasonable. Don't worry about the Soundtrack thing, I can probably pick up something for that with Snowglobe or Unleash the Magic. And I love that drawback.

She puts an exclamation mark next to Hot Commodity.

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Oh, I'm so glad you like it! ♡
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And now I have seven points to spend. I think I'm going to go to bed soon, sleep on it, see if I have any brilliant insights in the morning.

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Goodnight!
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Goodnight! ♡

 

 

And, in the morning: 

I had an idea for a power, and I'm not sure if it will work or not, but I think the idea is nifty! 

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Ooh, what's the idea?
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Some sort of indicator--I'm not attached to format--where, if there's something that's obviously a bad idea, and a sensible person would Just Say No, if it's actually likely to turn out well in this instance in particular there's some sort of signal for that.

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Oh, interesting! ...you know, Soundtrack might work for that already...
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--Oh, what a good point. Okay, cool, love that for me. 

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You might have to pay some attention to learn how it signals 'ominous for real' vs. 'ominous for fun' vs. 'looks ominous but is secretly just great', but it will definitely do a good job of distinguishing those things and giving you different cues to recognize them by.
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Yes, I see. I think I'm going to spend some time on Youtube watching videos about leitmotifs and stuff before I go, then.

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Good idea!
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She notes down some more things she might want and should therefore go pick up and put down in stores, then gets dressed and heads to class. She's currently planning to leave at the end of the semester, which gives her plenty of time to archive items for later pocket dimensioning, and download things like ebooks and cheatsheets and games onto her computer, and will raise fewer questions than dropping out of all her classes this far past the add/drop date. But, also, she doesn't have to care about grades or homework nearly as much! 

During class, she reviews her currently-checkmark-ranked options, since the exclamation mark tier currently has room for seven more points. A Gentler Way costs six points, but it was custom-made for her, and she does quite like it, so she promotes it--oh, and then Planned Parenthood only costs one point, perfect, she'd been feeling a little uneasy about leaving her birth control up to whatever was available at her destination, plus whatever she could manage to dimensionally pocket. 

 

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The notebook sometimes draws little hearts in out-of-the-way corners when she has it open to look over her build.

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Awwww!!! She draws it little hearts BACK, so there. 

Between classes, she goes to the school bookstore and picks up all the textbooks they currently have, because why not? Also she supposes she'll have pocket-dimensional access to a wide array of school-branded merch, which might end up interesting to explain, depending. 

On the way out of the school bookstore she happens to spot a bicycle that someone left leaning against a post. She isn't going to make off with it, obviously, that would be wrong, but if she grabs hold of it and physically hefts it into the air before carefully putting it back down and leaning it against the same spot it had been in previously, well, that's weird behavior, but not harmful. 

After classes let out she heads off to a REAL bookstore. Like, no shade to the school store, but you are for textbooks and not for quality literature. 

She does not pick literally every book off the shelves. There are as many as several spots with redundant copies. 

She writes this inventory list in sparkly ballpoint. 

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That's so many books...
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I am going to have a very long time to read them in. 

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Very true! I'm really glad you're looking forward to it. ♡
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But like, also, these aren't all necessarily for me? They'd need translating, presumably, but I want other people to have access to books from here too.

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Oh, that's very thoughtful of you!
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People should in general have access to more books!

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I think I agree, but I don't think I've ever thought of this particular solution before!
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Pocket Dimension is just such a way!!!

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