Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-26444017-20180706074628/@comment-9041013-20180706111453

Oh Mr Wizard Man who questions his hands, lost his mind, but he's clinically fine.

I'll be honest, at first I found this self defeating and rather tidious as a story. I mean, you keep on going and going and going about how you shouldn't mess up the whole thing, which is discouraging to even go through such a journey thus leading to people saying "well, he's got a point I'm not gonna do this" but after a few moments of thinking about the whole thing, it hit me.

It hit me like a five tonne truck running at full speed.

This thing is just another dubious ritual story, but better, because it's an actual Genie who will twist your wishes into something that you clearly do not desire. Here's why; you make sure to tell the possible participants of the ritual that it's extremely hard and dangerous, mostly for something they can very much achieve in their own universe (if you think about it for a second) only to encourage them to eventually still do the ritual and achieve said perfection. Now this is where the real dubious part shows, one's "want" universe, is eventually going to drive them mad because lack of needs and actual wants drives humans crazy.

So, nice job over all.