Discussion History WMG / FriendsAndTheHighCouncil

* The Trolls of \\\'\\\'TheTenthKingdom\\\'\\\' have \\\"dwarf moss\\\" that makes you see fairies. However, the real example is the Troll King\\\'s invisibility shoes, which give their wearer such a great sense of power that they become more and more obsessed with wearing them all the time. Even touching them seems to be enough to begin the process; as soon as Virginia does so, she hides them in her backpack, thinks of nothing else, and acts increasingly paranoid, even clutching the shoes like Linus\\\'s security blanket. This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Wolf (twice!) when he claims \\\"magic is very nice, but it\\\'s very easy to get addicted\\\", and later tells Virginia she is \\\"hopelessly addicted to those shoes... and I\\\'m not too far behind!\\\" Whether this is meant to be a parody or an object lesson is never made clear, but it certainly plays out with extreme hilarity.
** Of course, there are literary antecedents for [[LordOfTheRings some sort of invisibility equipment acting as a drug]].
** A later example would be the scene in the Deadly Swamp, where Tony and Virginia eat the magic mushrooms, drink the swamp water, and sleep ([[GenreBlind after being explicitly told not to]]) and hallucinate a [[DreamSequence bizarre dream]]. The fact that Procol Harum\\\'s \\\"Whiter Shade of Pale\\\" plays throughout is of course only window dressing for setting the scene...
*** To [[{{Anvilicious}} hammer the point home]], the soundtrack piece which accompanies both this scene and parts of the magic shoe shenanigans is entitled \\\"Addicted to Magic\\\".

Because it\\\'s more FantasticDrug.