A hand basket full of assorted magical items, you approach the cashier girl, and she checks out your items, and bags them up.
"Oh hey, guess what?" She folds her hands excitedly between her legs.
"...what?"
"You won a special drawing! We enter every customer, and you won!" She rummages under the table.
"Oh cool. What did I win?"
She pops out and hands you... floating letters. She hands it to you, and from the feeling in your palms, you realize it's some sort of paper, that's completely invisible except for the letters printed on it. Anyway, it reads,
~'You have been invited to the Soy residence'~ there is a printed silhouette of what looks like some mansion. There's also a phone number, and an address, and a date.
"Well, thanks~" You tell her, and she sees you off.
Back home, in your bedroom, you spill out the bag. You grab a deck of magic cards, but all they do is slip out of your hand most of the time; the 'infinite bouncy ball' totally stops bouncing; the 'soul glasses' just make everything look foggy; the 'key to anything' doesn't even fit any of the locks on your door; the 'unpoppable balloon' doesn't even inflate, you can't blow into it; the 'hunger quenching fork' doesn't seem to make you any more nourished than any other utensil; and the 'special diary' doesn't even let you write in it, pencils and pens don't make any mark.
"Well... *that* was 200 dollars wasted." You throw the stuff back in the bag and throw it under your bed.
You look up the address on your invitation--"3^9 Soy Dania Hokya"--but Maps doesn't even have any suggestions. You try to call the number, but realize that it's "3907-945050-544542", which doesn't exist at all; you tried.
"Whatever." You roll your eyes, collapse into your bed and dissolve to sleep.
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You wake up, and note the weight of the blankets on top of you. You don't have that many blankets. Your vision focuses in, and you see yourself in a very large, decorative bed, in a fairly large, patrician bedroom. You confusedly sit up and assess your surroundings. You notice that...