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Uh Oh, it looks like Evari and Ryan's powers have switched! Evari can now...uhh...make men 'happy', while Ryan can create fireworks! Huh, looks like these Nutbars have really messed things up!

What Needs to be done:

• The Kids need to find each other first: Either the Nutbar drags them together, or they manage to pick the other out in a crowd, if they know who their mix up is with!
  
• Decision Time!: Do they want to keep their mixed up power, or do they want their original one back? Now's the time to decide! (You might want to get in contact with the other person for plotting purposes, just a hint!)
  
• If they decide to leave it as is: Their Guardians come back, the Metaplot ends for them.
  
• If they decide they want their original powers back: It's game time! The pair of you have to convince the nutbars to switch the powers back. Can you bribe them with words? Do the nutbars make them play games for their entertainment before they decide what they want to do? Does the kid try to beat the nutbar until it gives in? No matter how it is done (and remember, this must be roleplayed!) the success and failure of the endeavor depends on the roll of a dice. Like Mini Game #1, reserve a post with a 20 sided dice roll and fill in your post depending on what happened! Once BOTH Nutbars agree to switch out the powers they do so, the Guardians return, and the Metaplot ends.
  

Here's the general breakdown of success:

• 1-5: The Nutbar has no interest in helping.
  
• 6-15: The Nutbar is interested, but wants something first before it decides.
  
• 16-20: The Nutbar is not only interested, but agrees to do it!
  

Things to Remember

• Rolling a 1-15: You need to make another post, complete with another roll, to try and convince the Nutbar to do what you want it to do.
  
• The powers will NOT be switched until BOTH Nutbars agree to it. Meaning each Kid needs to convince their own!
  
• Once this RP is over, the Metaplot is finished. You may go back to your daily lives!
  
• The Metaplot in its entirety (New Skill Solo + Nutbar Kidnapping + Group RP + Mix up Fix) counts as one playdate towards the Growth requirements.

Evari wasn't paying any attention to those around her except for Faris and their own smoke critters, they were obviously far more interesting! The critter continued to try and free itself from her hands, biting and gnawing and licking at her wrists in attempts to pray itself free itself from his glowing prison of...prison...stuff! Instead she giggled and just watched the poor thing, grinning proudly over her catch. This seemed to upset it further.

Things were going just fine when she suddenly heard something very, very familiar to her. What? She blinked and looked up until she saw flashing lights and sparkles, hearing some more whistles and screeching cries coming from the fireworks that Ryan was making. Whoa! Ryan could make fireworks too?! That was awesome! Her feet were bare as usual and so she slapped her feet on the floor to try and do the same thing Ryan was doing, only unlike Ryan...nothing happened. Evari blinked and did it again. Nothing. She gasped and tried one more time. Nothing! No! No way! There was only one explanation:

Ryan stole her fireworks.

A dark glare was set on Evari's face as she stood up without the use of her hands and stormed over to Ryan, standing beside him as he kept slapping his hands on the floor. Those were her fireworks.

"Those are MINE!" She stomped her foot on the ground. "Give 'em back! Give 'em back! Give 'em BACK!" She squeezed her hands angrily and the smokey critter gave a squeal of displeasure to which she frowned and loosened up. She didn't want to hurt it! But...but Ryan stole those from her!

Ryan had indeed not made the connection and, as Evari came over to make her demands (which confused him some), he attempted to get away from her, still scooting backwards on hands and butt, his feet starting to kick in some and setting off even more fireworks.

Then Switch came to his rescue! She picked him up and all the fireworks and noises and things stopped and he was safe from the crazy girl! The boy snuggled close to Switch, burying his face against her.

"Boyboyhavegirl'spower!" Ryan's nutbar 'helpfully' shouted to the bumpy boy.

Suddenly, it all started to click. Evari was the one who was supposed to make fireworks. Not him. These smokey things had stolen the power from Evari and given it to him.

"No wan'! No wan'!!" Ryan told his nutbar, who hovered around for a moment, thinking.

"Meswitchbackbutwantfood. Foodfirst. Thenswitch. Foodfooodfooodfoooooodfooooooood!" The nutbar went crazy, bouncing about excitedly. It had figured out how to get food! Food was good and yummy!!

Ryan frowned. He didn't have any food. How was he going to find some for this thing??

Ryan frowned at his nutbar. "Don't have any food." He didn't see any about, either.

"Foodfoodfood! Wantfoodfirst!" The smokey creature chanted, floating about both Switch and Ryan.

Ryan frowned. "My daddy can feed you when he gets here?"

The thing seemed to thing on that. It wanted food now, but it wasn't blind. Bumpy boy didn't have food. But bumpy boy's dad might! And that was better than no food!

"Okaydealdeal. Daddybetterhavefood." It chittered, floating upside down before Ryan.

Oh but wait! Xai had food! But Xai wasn't here...but at the same time Ryan's agreement with his thinger had worked! Suddenly Evari looked hopeful once more as she held it close to her face, staring at it with wide eyes. "Xai'll feedya." The critter looked thoughtful, as if considering it. Xai...Xai was the one who fed it before, right? But what if this girl was lying? She didn't know if that lady would feed it again. Hmph! It didn't budge.

"No!"

Evari glared now. Ugh! What was she going to do?! It wouldn't listen to reason! It...it...must want to be loved~. The girl suddenly looked sweet, almost scarily so, grinning widely and holding the thinger at arm's length. Oh, yes. That just had to be it. It just loved being held and hugged and squeezed. The nutbar gulped and stared at Evari with what could only be described as fear, going still in her hands and waiting for some kind of explanation behind the girl's sudden change in demeanor. "Then I'll never letchoo go." She began, bringing her hands to her chest and rocking from foot to foot with it hugged to her body. The nutbar squeaked. "I'll looooove youuuuuu and huuuuug youuuuu and feeeeeed y--"

"FINEFINEI'LLHELPLETGOLETGOI'LLHELPYOULETGOOOOOO!" It screeched in terror, wriggling and squirming until Evari laughed. She won! She won! She won~! She looked up Ryan and Switch again, looking very proud of herself.

"Yaaay! I can gets m'sparklies back now, yeah?"

He didn't want them?! This kid was truly crazy! Why wouldn't someone want to make fireworks? Geeze, this kid had no sense of fun or adventure. She would have to one day teach him how to properly have fun or else he would probably be all alone forever and ever and he'd never be happy or have a good time and that would suck and she'd never be able to be his friend! Would't that suck? It sure would, Ryan just didn't know it. But hey, this meant she got her fireworks back and that was all that mattered in the end. Ungrateful boy didn't know how good he had it right now! She watched as the other nutbar flew through Ryan and to her, telling her to let go of her own. What?! But if she did that then it might not help her! She needed a guarantee! Seeing the wary, suspicious look in her eyes the nutbar panicked.

"IWON'TFLEEIPROMISEPROMISEWON'TGOWILLSTAYLETGOPLEASE!" It screeched at the top of its lungs. Evari sighed and let go, watching the nutbar cheer and pass through her body. It then sped away and through Ryan, returning his ability to...make...men very, very happy...

...Yeah, he could keep that.

It floated above Evari's head and rubbed at the area that could be considered its belly, frowning and staring at the girl. Evari blinked and stared at her hands, clapping them together to make sure it worked. Sparkles and screeching fireworks erupted and she laughed with pure bliss, clapping her hands over and over. It worked! It really worked!

The nutbars had agreed and the powers had been switched back, and the Blue haired woman swayed a bit with Ryan in her arms, running her fingers through the boy's curly black hair. Pooor Ryan, fireworks was a scary power...and it was even scarier in Evari's grasp, actually.

Switch noticed Greloren walk in right away, and did her best to hide the glare she so wanted to give him. Stupid Greloren. Stupid, Stupid Grelorn! Apparently, Switch still held that grudge from the second time they had met...how could she not? The man was abusing the boy! To her surprise, Ryan seemed...rather eager to get back to the Half-Elf. That was certainly not something she was expecting!

She didn't say anything to him, but she waited for him to shoo the Nutbar away, holding onto Ryan until Greloren could take him back.

Greloren swatted at the nutbar, who was hovering in front of his face, still going on and on about food. Eventually, it seemed the half-elf put together that the thing had been promised food from him. "I'm not going to feed you!" He told the thing, swatting at it again, this time hitting it and making it poof into wisps of cloud. Before the thing could reform, Greloren quickly made his way over to Switch, taking Ryan from her.

Ryan clung happily to his guardian's neck. He turned his face towards the man's skin as the nutbar reappeared, scolding Greloren for hitting it.

"Badbadman. NohittinghittingmuchmuchbadbutfoodgoodandIforgiveyouifyoufeedmeNOOOOOOW!" It seemed the thing didn't even have to stop to take a breath.

Greloren grunted, swatting at the thing again. "I'm not going to feed you!"

The nutbar looked absoluted offended by that statement. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOFEEDMEFEEDMEBUMPYBOYPROMISEDFEEEEEEEDDDDMMMEEEEEEEE!" Ryan clamped his hands over his ears as the smokey creature screeched at them.

The half-elf sighed. "If I feed you, will you go away?"

"FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!" The nutbar chittered happily, flying in circles about the half-elf's head.

Poor Greloren and Ryan.