Every creature we have seen is different. So is every wish.
Not that I think you're incorrect, but is it not possible...that each payment is as unique as the desires that birthed it? Nothing has been given by the well without proper payment. The box, either, but at least you have to play the games to earn those tickets. [What if the clown box is good because it rewards hard work and labor?]
There is a cycle at play here, and I wonder if that cycle itself...is a payment for something that was wished.
[She's gonna pull out her two (two) books as well, one of them the purple journal she mentioned at the meeting and the other a Bible. Okay, not a bible, but some kind of very holy book.]
As this verse says, "For wishes cannot be granted, and are desires that Mankind must attain himself through work and perseverance. In the same way wishes cannot be granted, there is non who can grant a wish. Blasphemous is the Man who believes such falsehoods."
Payment, huh... Well, we've already had two people taken apart by those hands, and human sacrifices aren't all that uncommon as a concept. If that's the price to grant a wish, I could see why a church would frown on people treating it like some convenient miracle.
[Of course, there's plenty of other reasons not to rely on a magical wish-granting system, so maybe that's reading too far into it, but.]
But if we're supposing the Wish Giver started out benevolent and only started turning those wishes into curses afterwards, then something must have made it that way. Although, it's also possible that those transformations are a legitimate means of granting the wisher's desires.
what if we just all collectively died to escape plot
... It's not quite lining up in my head. If the wishes are being granted by transforming people, and they are then paid for by taking the person whose wish was granted... Then why do we even need to find them? They'll just vanish after a few days. And for that matter, why does someone else wake up at the same time as the person who made a wish?
[ does it cost two lives to grant a single wish...? but somehow that doesn't feel right to him, so he tries his hand at outlining the cycle again. ]
The hands are made of the shimmer that seems tied to some kind of wish granting entity. That shimmer ends up in the people who wish. As payment for their wish possibly being granted, they kill someone. Afterwards, they get taken away by the hands, and the shimmer returns to... somewhere? Maybe the hands, or maybe it jumps to the next wish maker to start all over again? And why even take the wishers away...?
[ with a sigh, his head thunks on the top of the booth's table. his head hurts, and it's not just because of the fun letter effects. ]
If we're payment as part of some cycle, then doesn't that mean an even bigger wish has already been made?
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oh my god i just realized the cyoa too AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA THURSDAY BAD
Not that I think you're incorrect, but is it not possible...that each payment is as unique as the desires that birthed it? Nothing has been given by the well without proper payment. The box, either, but at least you have to play the games to earn those tickets. [What if the clown box is good because it rewards hard work and labor?]
There is a cycle at play here, and I wonder if that cycle itself...is a payment for something that was wished.
[She's gonna pull out her two (two) books as well, one of them the purple journal she mentioned at the meeting and the other a Bible. Okay, not a bible, but some kind of very holy book.]
As this verse says, "For wishes cannot be granted, and are desires that Mankind must attain himself through work and perseverance. In the same way wishes cannot be granted, there is non who can grant a wish. Blasphemous is the Man who believes such falsehoods."
this week happens so much
[Of course, there's plenty of other reasons not to rely on a magical wish-granting system, so maybe that's reading too far into it, but.]
But if we're supposing the Wish Giver started out benevolent and only started turning those wishes into curses afterwards, then something must have made it that way. Although, it's also possible that those transformations are a legitimate means of granting the wisher's desires.
what if we just all collectively died to escape plot
[ does it cost two lives to grant a single wish...? but somehow that doesn't feel right to him, so he tries his hand at outlining the cycle again. ]
The hands are made of the shimmer that seems tied to some kind of wish granting entity. That shimmer ends up in the people who wish. As payment for their wish possibly being granted, they kill someone. Afterwards, they get taken away by the hands, and the shimmer returns to... somewhere? Maybe the hands, or maybe it jumps to the next wish maker to start all over again? And why even take the wishers away...?
[ with a sigh, his head thunks on the top of the booth's table. his head hurts, and it's not just because of the fun letter effects. ]
If we're payment as part of some cycle, then doesn't that mean an even bigger wish has already been made?