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Holly

Holly is Melvin's crush. After the genie incident Holly is aware that Melvin likes her, but there is a little too much strange surrounding Melvin and his friends for Holly's liking.

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Recent Appearance: 167: Well, It's Just Kazom, Right?
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Kazom is a 3,000 year old genie. In order to conserve power and thereby extend his life, Kazom does as little magic as possible. He is bound in the form of the Clark family's cat and mostly just lays around Melvin's Room.

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Melvin Clark

The unofficial leader of the trio of friends. Melvin sees himself as the wise wizard of the party.

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# 56 Imagination Is The Only Defense

Sep22
by Bach-Mann on September 22, 2015 at 2:16 AM
Chapter: Coming Of Mage
Characters: Holly, Kazom, Melvin Clark
Location: Melvin's Room
└ Tags: Holly, Kazom, Melvin, Witchcraft
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Discussion (16) ¬

  1. Robert Nowall
    September 22, 2015, 4:14 AM | # | Reply

    I hadn’t considered how much these guys need their glasses—from the blur, Holly more than Melvin.

    • CD Rudd
      September 22, 2015, 5:57 AM | # | Reply

      Well, you think they had large glasses just to complete the nerd look?

      Bah ha….!

      • Robert Nowall
        September 22, 2015, 10:57 AM | #

        With nerds, you never know. I had glasses from about age thirteen…I wore them from age sixteen in order to see while driving.

        Tell them there’s some hope. Presbyopia will strike.

  2. Larry
    September 22, 2015, 6:28 AM | # | Reply

    It will make it easier to pass is off as a dream or something. Well, at least Holly understood that is was Melvin doing. But, we will have to wait for further installment of the Melvin Conical to find out what happens next.

  3. 50srefugee
    September 22, 2015, 10:33 AM | # | Reply

    BACH-MANN: Shouldn’t Melvin’s line be, “you appeared MOST suddenly”? Nothing “almost” about it.

    ===

    Oh, Melvin, you silver, uh, blue tongued devil! “Well done!” indeed; you have asserted the authority to judge her works.

    “Not entirely unpleasant.”

    …And she accepts the serve. Outstanding.

    • ranck
      September 22, 2015, 5:59 PM | # | Reply

      I, uh, “almost” posted about the word he wanted being “most.” But I don’t want to be too much of a grammar nerd here . . . 😉

      So apparently Holly is not totally unaware of Melvin and his feelings. Damn, girls can be smart!

  4. Frith Ra
    September 22, 2015, 12:49 PM | # | Reply

    I’ve always been told to “know your audience” Melvin is certainly showing some knowledge of his.

    • Frith Ra
      September 22, 2015, 12:50 PM | # | Reply

      BTW: nice way of showing Kazom watching from UNDER the door.

  5. Regreme
    September 22, 2015, 1:26 PM | # | Reply

    Hope one of the unintended effects is for blondie to be a girl, and that being what’s being referred to while Melvin’s blurry vision makes him think ‘he’ means something else by it being not entirely unpleasant.

    • ijuin
      September 22, 2015, 11:50 PM | # | Reply

      As far as we know, Holly has been a girl all along, which is exactly why Melvin was worried that she might be upset at having suddenly appeared in his room sans trousers–she could have too easily assumed that “the evil wizard has kidnapped the fair maiden so that he may ravish her”.

  6. 50srefugee
    September 23, 2015, 8:01 AM | # | Reply

    “It’s working!”

    Hm, is Kazom’s spell working to frame events so as to keep the kids from freaking?

    Or is this truly Melvin’s work?

    Do gamers fall into character this easily?

    • Larry
      September 23, 2015, 9:40 AM | # | Reply

      There several things that we don’t currently know here.

      ” It’s working!”

      There are two possibilities here:

      1. It all Melvin’s doing and Kazom is just an interested party here. Which probably isn’t what going on.

      2. That Kazom is actually directing Melvin and how he uses his powers on Holly. Because, we know that a Genie can’t use there powers on other people to force them to do something against there will. Because, when Jeanie was here under Kazom tutorship, she got disembodies when she tried doing that. So is Kazom directing Melvin to do some of this stuff, which would add another twist to this story too and add other possibilities too that a Genie can’t do on there own. A wizard might not have the same restriction that a Genie has.

      It could truly be Melvin work, but with Kazom directing it? Don’t know!

      “Do gamers fall into character this easily?”

      I don’t think that most gamers will do that. But, there are some people that get so wrapped up in there character and being some came character that they lose touche with all reality. There fantasy in there game world is more real to them than the real world is and they lost touche with the real world fairly easily or they never really come back to the real world at all. They basically walk around in a fog all the time. It like someone that drinks too much or is on drugs will lose touche with reality too.

      So it would be Holly that in the dreamworld right now. It Melvin that being very careful here not to spoil the illusion, because, he doesn’t want to have to explain to her what going on, so he basically is punting, because, he afraid of Holly and what she will say to him.

  7. SaylorA
    September 24, 2015, 9:13 PM | # | Reply

    I get the feeling Bach-Mann is putting together an adventuring party.

    Melvin – Wizard
    Holly – Cleric
    BJ – Fighter
    Kazom – Thief

    So now the question is what sort of adventures are they going to have.

    • Mulgarath
      September 24, 2015, 10:54 PM | # | Reply

      What about Red?

    • Larry
      September 25, 2015, 5:36 AM | # | Reply

      Actually, Kazom is a Genie when he chooses to use his powers.

      • 50srefugee
        September 25, 2015, 10:47 AM | #

        Yeah, Red would be the better bet for thief. She’d be able to distract just about any male.

        Frankly, though, I think BJ and Red would make a good fighting team.

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