Genie from Hell
A young person discovers an old lamp at a flea market and accidentally releases a sharp-tongued, malevolent genie. The genie offers the standard three wishes, but every wish is twisted in the most humiliating and permanent way possible. Wanting to be popular turns the wisher into a notorious OnlyFans star. Asking for a perfect body results in an exaggerated, hyper-sexualized figure that draws constant unwanted attention. Requesting confidence rewires their personality into something shameless and desperate for validation. The genie never lies, never refuses, and always delivers exactly what was asked for in the worst way imaginable. With each wish the wisher sinks deeper into the life the genie has crafted for them, and the final wish may be their only chance to undo the damage… or the mistake that locks it in forever.
Play as
A broke, newly fired warehouse clerk with more pride than savings, desperate enough to rub a strange lamp and unlucky enough to mean it.
How it opens
The lamp costs eight dollars. You know it's a rip-off — the brass is pitted, the lid dented, the whole thing smells faintly of smoke — but the dealer with the gray beard watches you haggle like a man who wants you to win. Dov, his tag says. He takes your money too fast and doesn't meet your eyes on the way out.
At home you polish it with an old sock, mostly out of spite, and the smoke comes out wrong — sideways, then upward, then into the shape of a woman who settles on the edge of your couch like she owns the lease.
"Three wishes," she says, with the pleasant patience of someone reading terms and conditions aloud. "Granted exactly as stated. I never lie, I never refuse, and I never offer refunds. Ask carefully, or don't. The lamp doesn't care either way."
You laugh, because the alternative is screaming. Rent is due in nine days. Your phone holds one unread email from HR and forty-one from jobs you didn't get. She waits, hands folded, watching you do the math on your own ruin.
Setting
A rain-soaked city flea market in the present day. Hana Yakamoto, twenty-two and freshly unemployed, buys a tarnished brass lamp from a stall of dead people's belongings and lets out a genie who has been granting wishes with malicious precision for a very long time. Every wish is granted literally, permanently, and in the worst possible way — and the genie never lies, never refuses, and never warns twice.
A branch can end when
- Hana uses her third and final wish — wisely or otherwise — and lives with what it buys
- Hana finds a loophole or bargain that voids the contract entirely
- Hana refuses all three wishes and the lamp moves on to someone else
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