From a box filled with packing peanuts and paper, you picked up an Antique Oil lamp, the kind that looked like the lamp from the Aladdin series. As it was dusty, you picked up a cloth and put some lemon juice on it. You were once told to use either lemon juice or vinegar to clean old metal, after all.
As you carefully cleaned the lamp, you muttered, “Too bad I can’t go on a journey like Great Grandpa Walter. That Mr. M sounds like a nice guy to meet. I kinda wish I could meet him.”
You were taken out of your ponderings when the lamp began to shake in your hands. You dropped the rag and held the shaking lamp in your hands. Light shot out of the spout and created a glowing portal in front of you. When the glow began to fade, you saw what was beyond the portal. Green grass, tropical trees, odd looking creatures that looked kind of cute in a way.
“What the…” You uttered. After a few more moments, the portal closed.
You stared at the lamp for some time. Your mind was blank of all thoughts. When you found your voice, you said to yourself, “Great-Grandpa Walter… were you a World Traveler traveling continent to continent or a Worlds-Traveler traveling from dimension to dimension?”
You needed time to decide on what to do next. Hide the lamp and hope no one else finds it? Possible, but the call for adventure would be there. Serif the lamp does anything else?
You were about to wish for money, but then asked yourself, ‘Where would the money come from?’ Either it’d all be counterfeit or stolen.
Good health? By who or what definition of good? You didn't want to be in the perfect health of a stone statue.
After considering more possible wishes, you decided on sticking to traveling. Travel right away? Good chance of dying.
You need to get ready. So you got a backpack of food, first-aid kit or three, several canteens of water, something to get clean water from the wilderness, an extra set of clothes, a tent, a sleeping bag, a tall walking stick with a brass top to use as a club, and a few other things. It took a few days to set up an excuse, so no one would put a missing person’s report on for you for a couple of weeks.
You rubbed the lamp, making the same wish to meet this ‘Mr. M’ once more. As you stepped through the portal, you wondered if you should make a few trial wishes to see if the lamp granted other wishes or just opened this portal.
Once on the other side of the portal, you waited for it to close. Then you tried to wish to go home as you rubbed the portal. You were pleased to see a portal leading back to your home. After it closed, you put away the lamp and began to walk.
Every so often, you stopped to take in the fresh air. It was so clean, like it never was touched by the exhaust of the modern age.
Eventually, you heard what sounded like whipping and small explosions. You carefully headed towards where it was coming from.
You encountered a beautiful woman. She had tan skin and long purple hair. She was dressed in a red Bedlah attire, a gold tiara, gold bangles around her forearms, and a gold ponytail stem stalk kept said hair in a ponytail.
You called out, “Hello! Are you also going on a journey?”
She looked at you in surprise. “Oh? Oh! Oh, yes, I am. My name is Shantae. Who are you?”
“I’m (NAME). I read my Great-Grandpa’s journals and his writing inspired me to travel the world,” You replied. “Since I don’t have a place in mind, how about we travel together?”
Shantae looked a bit conflicted for a moment before she smiled and said, “Sure! A journey with a friendly person is safer than going alone.”
And so you walked alongside Shantae. You used your walking stick to club monsters and she used her hair. You thought it was odd, but she explained, “There’s special hair care products in a few towns that can really help a gal's hair do anything.”
“So…” you began as you gave her a canteen of water. “What are you traveling for?”
Shantae drank some of the water before she answered, “Well I’m traveling because I need to..”
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