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Poking around the high number channels one night, our protagonist find the Quick Violent & Cheap shopping channel. At first, it's a typical shopping show, but then what they're selling sinks in.
Transformation spells. Mind-control potions. Immateriality cloaks. Mind-reader goggles. Clown Nose of Excessive Creepiness. (OK, that last one is natural, but you know what I mean)
The show has an ongoing tagline, "Of course, the first sample is free!" Seeing no downside, the protagonist calls the 888 toll-free number and order their free trial of something, and it gets delivered. Perhaps astoundingly fast, maybe a couple days, maybe a month, depends on how you want to tell the story, but it shows up. And it works! It's just a trial version though - it only works once for a short period of time. The terms and conditions are ignored, of course - who reads all that fine print, anyways?
Going back into the wilds of TV-land, the protag realizes that they're not selling things for money, but instead for a fraction of a fancy double-S symbol (see Wikipedia for what I mean - need to figure out how to print it on Lit, eventually). 0.1 SS, 0.05, up to 0.85 on the show today, and that item is pretty damn powerful whatever it is.
Of course, they're selling things for souls.
Up to you what they buy. Lots and lots of options. The only thing is that it has to be constructed to be cheezy and cheap. The potions taste like cherry cough syrup at best, coming in a thin plastic squeeze-bottle like a kid's drink. The cloak is paper-thin and paper-fragile. It's all built with excessive amounts of planned obsolescence, it probably will work once, twice if you're insanely lucky, and you better handle it reeeeal careful if you're going to try to keep it around for any amount of time before you use it.
Transformation spells. Mind-control potions. Immateriality cloaks. Mind-reader goggles. Clown Nose of Excessive Creepiness. (OK, that last one is natural, but you know what I mean)
The show has an ongoing tagline, "Of course, the first sample is free!" Seeing no downside, the protagonist calls the 888 toll-free number and order their free trial of something, and it gets delivered. Perhaps astoundingly fast, maybe a couple days, maybe a month, depends on how you want to tell the story, but it shows up. And it works! It's just a trial version though - it only works once for a short period of time. The terms and conditions are ignored, of course - who reads all that fine print, anyways?
Going back into the wilds of TV-land, the protag realizes that they're not selling things for money, but instead for a fraction of a fancy double-S symbol (see Wikipedia for what I mean - need to figure out how to print it on Lit, eventually). 0.1 SS, 0.05, up to 0.85 on the show today, and that item is pretty damn powerful whatever it is.
Of course, they're selling things for souls.
Up to you what they buy. Lots and lots of options. The only thing is that it has to be constructed to be cheezy and cheap. The potions taste like cherry cough syrup at best, coming in a thin plastic squeeze-bottle like a kid's drink. The cloak is paper-thin and paper-fragile. It's all built with excessive amounts of planned obsolescence, it probably will work once, twice if you're insanely lucky, and you better handle it reeeeal careful if you're going to try to keep it around for any amount of time before you use it.
