So, we're off to see the Wizard and...

[FalloutJack]

This is a EUNOPF! topic, BTW.​

Right, so! Instead of the Scarecrow or the Lion or the Tin-Man, there is YOU. Why you're there is pretty much your own business, but you end up journying to the Emerald City, saving Oz, and all that jazz. NOW, you find out the Wizard ain't much of a wiz if ever a wiz he was, but he's a decent sort of a fellow and not without something to set you straight or benefit you somehow.

What would you get from the Wizard of Oz?

 

[Barbas]

The ability to manipulate time as I see fit - slowing or speeding it, travelling through it and making it dance to my tune. I would like to find out what pivotal events were like for those who were there. Do you think the wizard see that as a reasonable request, or is it a bit much?

Also, what's a EUNOPF?

 

[FalloutJack]

The ability to manipulate time as I see fit - slowing or speeding it, travelling through it and making it dance to my tune. I would like to find out what pivotal events were like for those who were there. Do you think the wizard see that as a reasonable request, or is it a bit much?

Also, what's a EUNOPF?

Well, if you've ever seen the movie, you know the Wizard doesn't have any REAL power. (And don't anybody tell me to use spoiler tags, because this movie and its book have been out for a LONG time.)

Anyway, EUNOPF is just how I abbreviate the Escapist United Nations of Pure Fun.

 

[Barbas]

The ability to manipulate time as I see fit - slowing or speeding it, travelling through it and making it dance to my tune. I would like to find out what pivotal events were like for those who were there. Do you think the wizard see that as a reasonable request, or is it a bit much?

Also, what's a EUNOPF?

Well, if you've ever seen the movie, you know the Wizard doesn't have any REAL power. (And don't anybody tell me to use spoiler tags, because this movie and its book have been out for a LONG time.)

Anyway, EUNOPF is just how I abbreviate the Escapist United Nations of Pure Fun.

Oh. It's unfortunate that the abbreviation sounds like someone having a short seizure. Seizures aren't fun. :C

So the wizard can basically give people Christmas story-level gifts? I suppose I'd wish for more...grace, then. Grace can get you a long way in life and people tell me I'm pretty lacking in that department. The fucking swine.

 

[FalloutJack]

The ability to manipulate time as I see fit - slowing or speeding it, travelling through it and making it dance to my tune. I would like to find out what pivotal events were like for those who were there. Do you think the wizard see that as a reasonable request, or is it a bit much?

Also, what's a EUNOPF?

Well, if you've ever seen the movie, you know the Wizard doesn't have any REAL power. (And don't anybody tell me to use spoiler tags, because this movie and its book have been out for a LONG time.)

Anyway, EUNOPF is just how I abbreviate the Escapist United Nations of Pure Fun.

Oh. It's unfortunate that the abbreviation sounds like someone having a short seizure. Seizures aren't fun. :C

So the wizard can basically give people Christmas story-level gifts? I suppose I'd wish for more...grace, then. Grace can get you a long way in life and people tell me I'm pretty lacking in that department. The fucking swine.

I think it's more like the sound someone makes if you punch him hard in the diaphragm. Not very fun at the receiving end, but if you're the one dishing it out...

What? They didn't say WHO has the pure fun here!

 

[Foolery]

Pretty simple. The satisfaction of killing that lying son of a *****. I'll teach him to pretend to be a wizard!
Then Oz will be mine. Starting with Emerald City.

 

[Barbas]

I think it's more like the sound someone makes if you punch him hard in the diaphragm. Not very fun at the receiving end, but if you're the one dishing it out...

What? They didn't say WHO has the pure fun here!

I adamantly maintain that Schadenfreude is its own category of fun. Those who wish to debate me on this are, of course, completely free to do so on the Hill of Carelessly Discarded Garden Crap.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

I'd probably receive a real Zapdos to fly back home on. At the very least give me a Growlithe.
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[JoJo]

I'd ask for a moral compass and then throw it down the nearest well as soon as the story ends and I don't have to pretend to have a character arc any more.

 

[Albino Boo]

What will I ask for well what's best in life


That and a flying monkey because flying monkeys are cool

 

[LongAndShort]

Fireworks. He pulled off some pretty impressive pyrotechnics, so I reckon he could hook a brother up with some sweet bangers. Please excuse the second half of that sentence, it just came out.

Hmmm... I suppose the fireworks need to solve some sort of 'problem' that didn't actually need solving... I can be pretty cynical, the fireworks will light up my mood. Yeah, we'll go with that.

 

[lacktheknack]

Well, I'd probably ask for direction, so the cheeky bastard would probably hand me a compass.

Hopefully it's a fancy compass.

 

[Asita]

I'd probably get a posting on the Emerald Guard.

So the wizard can basically give people Christmas story-level gifts? I suppose I'd wish for more...grace, then. Grace can get you a long way in life and people tell me I'm pretty lacking in that department. The fucking swine.

*standing in for the Wizard*

Now you my good man are suffering from the unfortunate delusion that grace is some kind of commodity, doled out like rations in a war. Grace isn't some gift from the gods, it's possessed by all creatures grand and small! Back where I come from there are people who negotiate with entire nations, called diplomats, and they have no more grace than you do! BUT they have one thing you haven't got, representation, a nation to stand for! Therefore, as de facto [pro-tempore] leader of the Emerald City and the land it governs, I hereby name you Ambassador of the great land of Oz! *places a small 'Oz' pin on Barbas's lapel* May your tenure be long and prosperous.

 

[FalloutJack]

well there is some seriously high level genetic engineering going on in OZ not to mention high level robotics/cybernetics and AI. you just have to look at the lion, the flying monkey's and the tin man not to mention whatever the hell the scarecrow is

So, what? You want to be engineered into something? Because that's more Glinda's forte'.

 

[alexwbyrd]

Perpetually good health throughout my entire life would be what I wished for. The wizard would probably give me a "Commendation of Excellent Health" all framed and what-not...the cheap bastard!

 

[Therumancer]

This is a EUNOPF! topic, BTW.​

Right, so! Instead of the Scarecrow or the Lion or the Tin-Man, there is YOU. Why you're there is pretty much your own business, but you end up journying to the Emerald City, saving Oz, and all that jazz. NOW, you find out the Wizard ain't much of a wiz if ever a wiz he was, but he's a decent sort of a fellow and not without something to set you straight or benefit you somehow.

What would you get from the Wizard of Oz?

Well, given that the real world is boring and my life isn't exactly going well, I'd probably just ask for a high ranking position in his court with the associated resources/money/title and live in The Emerald City in between expeditions to explore The Land Of Oz. Since according to this I'm a hero that saved Oz it's not all that unreasonable
I wouldn't think.

That said, Oz's capabilities are debatable as of the time of "The Wizard Of Oz", having never read all the books I don't know how much detail they went into. To put it into context while he was a fraud in terms of being a wizard, he DID seem to have access to some fairly impressive technology, and he was also apparently able to defend The Emerald
City fairly well. Not to mention that he's the de-facto ruler of the greatest city of a magical land full of all kinds of weird and magical items and stuff, with his fingers directly on that treasury and it's resources.

The recent Oz movie portrayed his beginnings, and we know where he eventually wound up in the other movies, but we really don't see him do much to my knowledge unless the books go into it. I'd imagine by the time of "Wizard Of Oz" even if his wizard routine is fake, he's probably managed to accumulate enough power (not being a moron, or as inherently non-aggressive as some of the residents of Oz) where he's still going to be quite a formidable force, and given all of the oddities might actually be able to grant some really unlikely seeming requests by having so-and-so item or substance from whatever distant land or region of Oz (or being able to get it). Just for the sake of argument given some other people's answers.

 

[octafish]

Oh, I don't think there's anything in that black bag for me.

 

[TakerFoxx]

A pocket-sized Omega-13. Seriously, that would be the handiest little gadget ever.

 

[DementedSheep]

I would extort him for cash and power under the threat of exposing his lying ass. I'd probably end up in some forgotten dungeon somewhere but hey its worth a shot.