put it on a spacecraft that will be pretty much inaccessible for 50 years
put it in a big box in a volcano
bury it in a random place on the ground
drop in into a deep ocean with a gps locator that will only activate after 50 years
scan the pen store digital copies in many places. It no longer matters if evil forces get access to the pen.
sell Einstein a different pen
become a pen collector. The evil forces will not know which pen to steal.
put it on the moon
go inside a locked room and somehow have energy to not have to leave for 50 years
put it in your pocket
purchase safety deposit boxes in every major bank
break the pen into a bunch of pieces and scatter then across the globe
melt part of the ice in Antarctica and freeze the pen there
pay money to the forces of good to prevent the forces of evil from acquiring the pen
store the pen in your bag of holding
you probably don’t have to hide it for evil forces to not be able to get it. It’s pretty hard to find a random pen without other identifying markers and they can’t afford to obtain every pen.
fort knox
put it in a lake of poison on an island surrounded by inferni
stare at the pen for a long time to burn it into your memory. Destroy it and hope that neuroscience will advance far enough for the pen to be reconstructed from memory (and that your memory is reliable enough).
spin it fast enough that no one can grab onto if for fifty years.
sell it to Einstein today
travel 50 years into the future
eat it
have surgery and put the pen somewhere in your body
put the pen somewhere in someone else’s body. Bonus points if they’re part of the evil forces.
put it in your ear
lose it under the couch. Nothing ever gets found from under the couch in less than 50 years.
Put it in the wet concrete of a random building that is currently being constructed.
mail it to a confusing place and hope the UPS loses it for 50 years
fly somewhere and hope the TSA loses it for 50 years
put it in a shoebox under your bed
give it to the evil forces immediately. Once they have it, they’ll get bored of it. Acquire it again in 50 years.
put it under your pillow along with children’s teeth. The tooth fairy will take it. Buy it back with more teeth in 50 years.
melt it in acetone. Sell the acetone to Einstein and tell him it’s a pen. His confusion will cause him to write even more miraculous papers.
put it in a dumpster with a gps locator that will activate itself in 50 years.
cut open a young tree and put the pen inside, letting the tree grow around it.
put it in a glass bottle and throw it into the ocean. By literary convention, someone will find it in 50 years.
put the pen in a massive set of recursive envelopes, each one instructing the recipient to mail the set to the next person. Time it so that you get the pen back in 50 years.
attend events that you think are very impactful. Wait for time travelers. Politely ask the time travelers to send the pen 50 years into the future.
politely ask the evil forces to stop being evil.
melt the pen and craft it into a different object. Reconstruct the pen in 50 years.
use that spell from harry potter that prevents anyone from knowing the location of a building.
tell everyone you know it’s a treasured heirloom. Die. You will be buried with the pen. Have one of the ancestors dig up the pen and sell it to Einstein.
spend a lot of your time trying to hide a pencil instead. The evil forces will assume that they misremembered and are actually trying to obtain the pencil. Cackle.
Replace each part of the pen with an identical part creating Theseus’s Pen. The resulting philosophical confusion will drive the evil forces mad.
Sell the evil forces the pen for a high price. Invest the money. 50 years later, you will be rich and easily able to buy the pen back.
Join the evil forces. Now they have the pen, so they are content. Obtain a high rank in 50 years and sell the pen to Einstein.
write Einstein’s miracle papers for him using this pen. No need to sell it to Einstein anymore.
Give the pen to some other babble challenge participant and ask them to hide it for you.
become a pen influencer. Convince the world that this style of pen is the best style. There will be so many identical pens that the evil forces will not be able to find the specific pen they seek.
I’m a fan on the ones turning traditional story tropes on their head, and find various clever ways of interacting with evil forces instead of just escaping them, like #32, #46 and #47
Thanks for doing these. They’re really fun.
put it on a spacecraft that will be pretty much inaccessible for 50 years
put it in a big box in a volcano
bury it in a random place on the ground
drop in into a deep ocean with a gps locator that will only activate after 50 years
scan the pen store digital copies in many places. It no longer matters if evil forces get access to the pen.
sell Einstein a different pen
become a pen collector. The evil forces will not know which pen to steal.
put it on the moon
go inside a locked room and somehow have energy to not have to leave for 50 years
put it in your pocket
purchase safety deposit boxes in every major bank
break the pen into a bunch of pieces and scatter then across the globe
melt part of the ice in Antarctica and freeze the pen there
pay money to the forces of good to prevent the forces of evil from acquiring the pen
store the pen in your bag of holding
you probably don’t have to hide it for evil forces to not be able to get it. It’s pretty hard to find a random pen without other identifying markers and they can’t afford to obtain every pen.
fort knox
put it in a lake of poison on an island surrounded by inferni
stare at the pen for a long time to burn it into your memory. Destroy it and hope that neuroscience will advance far enough for the pen to be reconstructed from memory (and that your memory is reliable enough).
spin it fast enough that no one can grab onto if for fifty years.
sell it to Einstein today
travel 50 years into the future
eat it
have surgery and put the pen somewhere in your body
put the pen somewhere in someone else’s body. Bonus points if they’re part of the evil forces.
put it in your ear
lose it under the couch. Nothing ever gets found from under the couch in less than 50 years.
Put it in the wet concrete of a random building that is currently being constructed.
mail it to a confusing place and hope the UPS loses it for 50 years
fly somewhere and hope the TSA loses it for 50 years
put it in a shoebox under your bed
give it to the evil forces immediately. Once they have it, they’ll get bored of it. Acquire it again in 50 years.
put it under your pillow along with children’s teeth. The tooth fairy will take it. Buy it back with more teeth in 50 years.
melt it in acetone. Sell the acetone to Einstein and tell him it’s a pen. His confusion will cause him to write even more miraculous papers.
put it in a dumpster with a gps locator that will activate itself in 50 years.
cut open a young tree and put the pen inside, letting the tree grow around it.
put it in a glass bottle and throw it into the ocean. By literary convention, someone will find it in 50 years.
put the pen in a massive set of recursive envelopes, each one instructing the recipient to mail the set to the next person. Time it so that you get the pen back in 50 years.
attend events that you think are very impactful. Wait for time travelers. Politely ask the time travelers to send the pen 50 years into the future.
politely ask the evil forces to stop being evil.
melt the pen and craft it into a different object. Reconstruct the pen in 50 years.
use that spell from harry potter that prevents anyone from knowing the location of a building.
tell everyone you know it’s a treasured heirloom. Die. You will be buried with the pen. Have one of the ancestors dig up the pen and sell it to Einstein.
spend a lot of your time trying to hide a pencil instead. The evil forces will assume that they misremembered and are actually trying to obtain the pencil. Cackle.
Replace each part of the pen with an identical part creating Theseus’s Pen. The resulting philosophical confusion will drive the evil forces mad.
Sell the evil forces the pen for a high price. Invest the money. 50 years later, you will be rich and easily able to buy the pen back.
Join the evil forces. Now they have the pen, so they are content. Obtain a high rank in 50 years and sell the pen to Einstein.
write Einstein’s miracle papers for him using this pen. No need to sell it to Einstein anymore.
Give the pen to some other babble challenge participant and ask them to hide it for you.
become a pen influencer. Convince the world that this style of pen is the best style. There will be so many identical pens that the evil forces will not be able to find the specific pen they seek.
So many good ones!
I’m a fan on the ones turning traditional story tropes on their head, and find various clever ways of interacting with evil forces instead of just escaping them, like #32, #46 and #47