Jeanie Bottle 556
Dec29
on December 29, 2019
at 12:00 am
and modified on December 26, 2022. at 10:17 pm
Chapter: Story 12: I Dream of a Promotion
Rodge wants some payback for the whole Lilly thing, but this sounds like a bad plan…
Jean is mentally broken inside he has to face himself and accept what he let the Blue Djinn did in his body in order to help save his friends from doing a stupid plan that will get them selves most likely killed. But Neil might be the piece that can help him first.
…if they do manage to successfully get the bottle(I have my doubts), hope the first wish is something like: the blue djinn experiences all the pain from all the horrors she inflicted on others.
Or something.
They have maybe a fifty, fifty chance of succeeding. Of course if they don’t get bottle or the Blue Djinn has a back up plan to thort there plans, which he very well may. Then both Neil and Rodge could be in some really, really big trouble that neither one of them can deal with. Before trying some thing like that, they should first try to fine another Genie to cover there rear ends.
Rodge? Rodge is the one who figures out that Neil might be able to get Blue to grant wishes?
No wonder Jeanie’s gone fetal.
“Make me a ham sandwich!”
…A minute later, Rodge watches in horror as Blue licks the last crumb and a smear of mustard from her delectable lips….
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Meanwhile, Aracelli’s battery dies while she incoherently argues with a pissed off cat….
This plan could work IF Blue was careless enough to leave Jeanie’s bottle lying around the apartment.
The “go into the apartment from different sides” likely involves one of them entering through the window while the other enters through the door. Given Chekov’s Gun, there’s a good chance that the one of them who would go through the window tries to reach it by going through Rouyaa’s apartment and finds her. Rouyaa may not have enough magic to grant powerful wishes, but she likely knows “Dear Old Dad’s” flaws and weaknesses enough to tell the rest of our heroes something useful for defeating him.
Blue thinks that Neil and Rodge were eaten by Lilly and that Jeanie is a helpless wreck (which may still be true). Its possible that she’s arrogant enough to leave her guard down just a little, not expecting a mundane assault from that direction. I could see one hero entering through the front door, and bumping into the two guard “dogs” (read: distraction) while the other succeeds in gaining access through the window and obtaining bottle. I do like the idea of their rescuing Rouyaa in the process. They certainly could use the help. Jeanie’s cryptic “no… no… no…” is ominous, however.
What’s to say Blue will even listen to who ever has The bottle
The rules of Solomon’s Binding say that. Blue has said over and over that she’s a bottle genie, now. If Neil, or whoever holds her bottle, actually does give her an order, she has to follow it.
Recall that when she first became a genie, Jean was not very big on obeying Neil – it was only when Guano insisted that she had to grant three wishes or be punished that she complied. And recall also what happened to the ship captain who wished Jeannie to become his wife…
Counting on Blue to feel obligated to grant their wishes if they have the bottle really doesn’t sound like a viable plan.
And, even if he does technically grant the wish, he’s expert at twisting wishes, as 50srefugee hinted.
Kasom to the rescue of course. Release Rouyaa from the wine bottle and then confront Blue. Jeannie probably still has a quart of Buck Tooth Willie’s finest sitting around the apartment. Trick her into drinking a toast and then it gets interesting if I remember what happened to Jeannie. Lily gets thrown out with the trash, sprouts and comes looking for her one true love, Rodger. And eats Blue.
I am distressed to see Jeanie like this. Losing the genie aspects of her perceptions and personality really is brutal, as Aracelli pointed out.
But that “no…no…no” seems to be a response to the conversation she’s overhearing. What exactly is her objection? Can she pull herself together enough to explain?
I again state my disappointment in Neil’s inability to comfort her. Granted, she may well be beyond comfort, but even if not, she won’t accept it from Neil, whom she does not respect.
Rule of Funny is one thing, actively tormenting your main character with the evident inadequacies of her closest friend and former Master is quite another.
Doesn’t someone have the genie manual?
*sigh*
Yes, Neil should have it, and should be reading it, and should have been using it all along to manage his genie, and now should be gleaning what hints he can about how to deal with the current crisis.
But, golly, that would all imply knowing what he was doing and acting intelligently, perhaps even bravely, and we can’t be having a male character do that in a “grrl doin’ it for herself” comic. I guess. I dunno. I’m just a guy.
Yes, Neil has a Genie Manual. He wished to know about Genie and it appeared. It was the same day that Jean turned into a girl Genie and right at the beginning of Jeanie Bottle series.
It probably back at the apartment along with Jeanie Bottle and the Blue Djinn.
“Everything you wanted to know about Genies and were afraid to ask.” It arrived on page 7, with an audio version of “The proper care and feeding of genies. by Dr. Launra. Of course, it has over ten thousand pages. War and Peace would be an easier read.
Jean is going to sneak out to fight the blue genie alone in order to save Neil and Rodger.
1 double order of consequences, with 2 sides of comeuppance, coming up.
Something weird’s going to happen — count on it. One interesting wish, though would be, “I wish that you were human and Jean was a genie again. This would leave them both stuck in the forms of beautiful blondes, I think that Jean would handle that a whole lot better than Big Blue would.
Lily seemed kinda nice, before the eating thing.
So these two about to go both guns blazin’ and Jeanie is still struggling mentally…I beginning to sympathized Jeanie.
It’s a Rodge plan. Of course it’s bad.