Personally, I’d rather have the wishes to use on anything else. Could cure cancer, become filthy rich, turn into a T-rex, have guns for hands, etc. What’s the point of “out smarting” the genie like this? Fuck, I could even understand evil wishes, at least they do something productive (if terrible).
I really need to read 1001 Arabian nights again. Quest for Glory 2, trial by fire is still kinda my favorite game and very obviously based on it. even though I have beaten the whole series in every combination of classes except maybe raw fighter, because why when paladin? Anyways I was too young to really process it when I read it and would like to read it for realsies this time
Maybe wish away their protections then wish for them to be dead? That way you have an extra wish. But maybe you should use that one before killing your genie.
Personally, I’d rather have the wishes to use on anything else. Could cure cancer, become filthy rich, turn into a T-rex, have guns for hands, etc. What’s the point of “out smarting” the genie like this? Fuck, I could even understand evil wishes, at least they do something productive (if terrible).
These genie wishes are always monkey paws. Better to do something that wasn’t going to blow back, like crashing the genie.
In the Arabian Nights, the genie tended to grant people’s wishes as they were intended, and without any trickery.
The trickery of the djinn is something that has been retconned into the system.
If they didn’t like you, they would just kill you right away.
And also technically Aladdin got a second genie originally with just a small ring that granted him unlimited wishes in the form of servitude.
I really need to read 1001 Arabian nights again. Quest for Glory 2, trial by fire is still kinda my favorite game and very obviously based on it. even though I have beaten the whole series in every combination of classes except maybe raw fighter, because why when paladin? Anyways I was too young to really process it when I read it and would like to read it for realsies this time
You could also just not wish anything, or wish for no wishes, etc.
Or wish for the genie to be free, like Fox Mulder did.
Maybe he really hates genies and that’s the only way to kill one?
Maybe wish away their protections then wish for them to be dead? That way you have an extra wish. But maybe you should use that one before killing your genie.
The thing with these wishes is they canonically have unintended consequences, so a null result is coming out ahead.
If I find a genie, I will wish for we all to enjoy silly and light-hearted humor, instead of overthinking and complaining about it :D