THE HUG MARKET

[Kade Rivok]

*Feels very worried regarding the "free hugs" booth.*

[Evie]

😁

[Verdauga]

*Wraps up in a heating blanket and holds a "Warm hugs! One copper!" Sign.*

[Sebias of Redwall]

*Looks at my fine hugging tree* Y'all don't know what you're missing. 

[Kade Rivok]

*Notices the life-sized Otterbadger plushie in one corner of the market with a sign beside it that says "HUG ME!"*

Um... huh.

[Sebias of Redwall]

[Ebantu the Kararehe]

*Notices the life-sized Otterbadger plushie in one corner of the market with a sign beside it that says "HUG ME!"*

Um... huh.

*Infant Ebby kills it with fire*

[Kade Rivok]

*The fire seems to absorb into the plushie.  Its eyes begin to glow.  You feel a wisp of something... other that brushes across your mind, inviting you warmly.*

[Verdauga]

*Nullifies the plushie's influence.*

[Kade Rivok]

*You experience a mental backlash from the interference.*

[Verdauga]

*Unfortunately for the plushie, I've faced far worse and nullify its influence with hardly an exertion.*

[Kade Rivok]

*Obviously you didn't successfully interfere then.*

[Verdauga]

*And, having never said I did, simply stopped the plushie from doing anything other than being lifeless.*

[Kade Rivok]

*Which is the aforementioned interference that you didn't manage to do  *

[Verdauga]

*Which, in a stunning twist of fate, actually did succeed.*