"The one, the only, genie of the laaaaaamp," announced the big blue guy, suddenly surrounding by a clapping crowd of other identical individuals. "Thank you, thank you. Glad to be here."
"You're a what?" asked Ranma.
"Genie of the lamp," said the big blue guy. The other genies vanished in puffs of smoke.
"You're a genie?" asked Ranma.
"Yes, I got my freedom over in Agrabah," said the Genie in a conspiratorial manner. "Spent a few centuries kicking back and living it up." He was wearing a Hawaiian shirt and sunglasses for that, holding up a glass of iced tea. "Then something occurred to me."
"What was that?" asked Ranma, curious.
Shirt, sunglasses, and tea vanished. Genie started playing cat's cradle with a superstring. "It got BORING. B-O-R-I-N-G. So I asked around and found a way I could still play genie, but on a strictly volunteer basis. That gives me the full Genie power, but I'm not so much the Slave Of The Lamp as sort of the Social Worker Of The Lamp. You see the difference?"
"No," admitted Ranma.
"Can your first wish be that you were smarter and wiser and had some linguistic comprehension skills perhaps?" asked the Genie helpfully.
"Wish I was smarter and stuff?" asked Ranma.
Thunder rumbled, purple clouds swirled, lightning struck.
Ranma coughed a little smoke ring. "Oh. So that's what that means."
"One down, two to go," crowed the Genie. "So what'll it be?"
"Hmmmm," said Ranma. "Exactly how much more intelligent am I?"
The Genie pulled a computer and display out of a pocket. "Well, according to this, you now have an intelligence score of:"
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