Challenge #01662-D201: The Motivation Game
“Please do not destroy the irreplaceable magical artefacts, no matter how annoying they are,” -- RecklessPrudence
The Orb of Vexation chortled at Verski. With a sigh of regret, Verski put it back onto its cushion and re-sealed the Gate of Infinity. Finally, he turned to his tutor and said, "But why?"
"Aw, da diddle baba gonna cry," said the Orb of Vexation. "Waaaah, waaah."
Maester Kalrix conjured Cone of Silence over the Orb. "No matter how trying they are, these are important relics of a day gone by. They can teach us many things. They can motivate us to new levels of accomplishment." At this point, Maester Kalrix angled a pointed glare at the lock that Verski had melted in order to enter the Vault. She raised an eyebrow at Verski, who cringed. "And they show us what we can accomplish if we strive to be like the ancients."
"An orange ball that exists just to annoy people?"
"A cogniscent artefact that can read living things around it like a book, home in on that which irritates, and use that to accomplish anger from those living things. And, more to the point, it is almost indestructible and self-repairing."
"Someone must have really hated the world in order to create it," muttered Verski.
A rare smile graced Maester Kalrix's thin lips. "That may be so. But in the process of education requires that we find that which motivates our students. Love, hate, ambition..." another glance at the Orb, which was making faces, "spite. Whatever works to move us forward." She escorted Verski out into the hallways, conjuring a new lock out of the slag of the old one. "And I admit that an hour in the same chamber as the Orb of Vexation has proven to be a most efficacious punishment."
Verski's stomach sank. "I'm in that much trouble?"
Maester Kalrix let him stew for a minute. "No. But you are going to write a treatise on how you managed to melt an unmeltable lock. With full analysis."
Verski would have moaned about that, but since the alternative was time with the Orb... he wisely took the punishment initially given.
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