Brady gives it a moment eventually feeling foolish and says, "It must be broken," and sets it back on the pedestal. "Let's find something cooler Ty." Brady takes a few steps but notices his friend's footsteps aren't following. Turning to see what nerdy thing drew his friend's interest he saw Tyler spasming like in some witch movie, eyes rolled into the back of his head.
"I am the genie of the lamp, you have summoned me and are awarded 3 wishes." Tyler suddenly snapped forward from his 'trance' and addressed Brady eerily.
"Ha-Ha, I'm foolish for trying, I get it. Quit fooling around."
"Mortal, do not toy with forces beyond your comprehension such as myself, you are nearing the point of invoking my ire."
"Ty man, cut it out, you've made your point." Brady began walking away again.
"You have summoned me and I must stay until you release me, I grant your first wish, or another takes control of my summoning conduit." Tyler began following for a few steps before falling to the ground. Brady looked back at the clatter, "This vessel is insufficient acquire me a more substantial one, befitting a being of my magnitude!"
"Dude, I don't even know what you're saying right now. But we should probably catch back up to the..." Ty began trying to stand but between his backpack and the floor's protective coating he struggled and slipped repeatedly. "Did you hit your head?" Brady helped his friend up realizing for the first time his friend was even standing awkwardly. "Dude, what's going on with you?"
"If you refuse to acquire a vessel that will suffice, I shall have to make this one work for I will suffer this humiliation no longer!" Tyler ripped his arm free from Brady, his eyes began to glow, the lights in the room flickered, and reality undulated. Tyler's body began growing and within just a few seconds Tyler no longer appeared to be a teen the same age as Brady but would be assumed to be a collegiate body builder.
Tyler pulled away the remaining tatters of his shirt and after struggling for a few seconds with his shoes, Brady watched as they lengthened. Tyler stretched happily, "Much better, imperfect, but doable. Now master, what are your wishes or at least your first wish? Oh yes, you wished to take me somewhere in the mortal realm, lead on. I can travel in this vessel now without destroying it."
"What did you do to Tyler?" Brady was awestricken and aware that his friend wasn't next to him for the first time in the last few moments.
"I brought him to his mature form and enhanced his form to better accommodate me while I possess him. It is all I can do without your wish."
"Posses him? Why are you possessing anybody? Why don't you just appear like in the movies?"
"We are spiritual beings in this realm, a vessel is necessary to communicate with and understand you. I use the vessel's knowledge to try to understand language and meaning of your wishes. My realm is far far different than this, but when we are here, we have immense power compared to the beings of this realm."
"How is your lamp just... just sitting there? How did nobody find you?"
"My summoning conduit? Many tried to activate it but there was no sufficient vessel for me to take, the vessel must have a certain quality to be able to be possessed. I gather the stories of my predecessors and my prior visits have been lost to myth?"
"I guess. We have stories of three wishes, genies that grant them and try to intentionally twist them to hurt the summoner..."
"Oh, no! If we don't connect well with the vessel we cannot use their knowledge to interpret meaning. The wishes are an agreement, you get material... things and I and my kind gain an understanding of world's beyond our own. We are explorers in search of fantastical knowledge."
"So what you did to Tyler..."
"Ensured I could connect with him properly. That is all, he is unharmed."
"So if I wished there was a machine that could rewrite people's DNA, correct all disease and give them the bodies they desire on every street corner, and the process cost no more than $5 per use... You would know what I meant?"
"From Tyler's knowledge, yes, though if that's what you want, I have many questions, but if you were to have actually made the wish I'd be left assuming your intent. That may also be a source of twisted wishes."
"So I have to make a wish before Tyler can come back, and Tyler is special somehow to be able to be your vessel. Am I special in this way?"
"You are correct, and no, you may not be a vessel. Something about you will engulf you in flames and you be left as cinder on the floor or reduced to a pile of your base chemicals once the carbon is gone."
"You guys are the source of spontaneous human combustion, wait, piles of salt. The bible story!?"
"Perhaps. Tyler knows few details of these things beyond the basic premise."