>>5579729"Transform the Mercury Toothpick!" Monster urges. "Do it! Do it now!"
"I'm trying to think of something!" You hold the toothpick out on your palm. The problem isn't so much you can't think of something so much as you've got so many options to choose from.
"Just pick something already! There's no such thing as a good shapeshifter who's slow! A mercurial will makes a mercurial body!"
You have to admit, he has a point. Cut-up though he is, Monster does take shapeshifting seriously, if nothing else.
You finally convert the Mercury Toothpick into...
Monster tilts his head. "What is that?"
You shrug.
"No, don't shrug! You made it, what is it?"
"I wanted it to be a spatula." You think you got something in your hands that's spatuloid. It's like a cheese grater with a stick attached.
"Well. That's not what it is." Monster says. "I pity and fear the universe where that would count as a spatula. I bet you weren't thinking clearly, were you?"
"I was still of two minds bout what to make...okay, maybe several minds."
"Focus, padwan, focus! When I turn into something, i don't think "Oh no, maybe I should turn into something else!" I think about it what I want to turn into and NOTHING else! Put the image in your mind, get it nice and focused, then make it!"
>>5579730You try again.
You aren't sure why the object comes to your mind, but it does, and don't question it when it comes. You follow Monster's advice and just do it.
You toss the Mercury Toothpick, and where it lands a glossy white mannequin appears.
Monster walks around it, hmm-ing and pondering your creation.
"Do I do good?" you ask.
"Well. You certainly made a mannequin. This here is 100% genuine mannequin."
"Should I have put clothes on him?"
"Dude, dude, my dude, you overthink things, you know that? Should you have put clothes on him, I don't know, he's your mannequin. The real question is this--does he match what you envisioned?"
"Yes." you reply.
"Then you did good." Monster makes some stabbing motions toward the mannequin. "Is this the kind that comes to life and fights people?"
"No. It's the kind that models clothes in a department store."
"Awww..."
"I'm not sure you should be hitting the Mercury Toothpick anyway, Monster."
"Oh, you don't need to worry about it's durability. Believe me. If you're fighting someone that can actually break it, you got more problems than the Mercury Toothpick breaking, you get what I'm saying? It looks like glass, but dude, this thing was made to be tossed around by Sun Wukong. Fragile it is not."
>>5579731You walk over to your mannequin and place a hand on its shoulder. "I'm going to try something a little different." you announce.
Then, suddenly, the mannequin is replaced by a fax machine, complete with paper ready to go in the hopper.
Monster presses the buttons and looks amused by how the screen lights up.
"Okay...this is a good one."
He opens the fax machine to find that it even has ink and toner. Monster whistles.
