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houraipeachPink Stripe Confections
Type: Privately held company
Industry: Foods & Alchemy
Founder: Penelope Fitzgerald
Headquarters: Snoqualmie, Grand Duchy of Cascadia, Royal Protectorate of America
Area Served: Sol System
Key People: Penelope Fitzgerald(President and CEO), Inga Idunnsdottir(Vice President), Annabelle Toulouse(Head Chef), Dido Abdalahad(Product Spokesperson & Sponsored Athlete)
Products: [See Below]
Employees: 6,000+, predominantly constructs
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Founded in 776 ME in the Grand Duchy of Cascadia, Pink Stripe Confections is the fourth-largest major producer of magically-active consumer goods in the Sol System. Formed by bombastic local personality Penelope 'Peach Fizz' Fitzgerald, it specializes in delivering alchemical agents via food and drink, largely priced to make their products easily-available to those with limited finances. Praised for its charity work, its enigmatic owner funnels most of the company's profits back into the community. The company has come under fire by competitors frequently, however, claiming its use of magical constructs in production unfairly undercuts business costs, though so far all legal rulings have come out in the company's favor.
Pink Stripe products focus on magical reactions intended for transformation and personal augmentation. Pink Stripe advertises itself as a cheaper, more accessible alternative to expensive-though-quicker direct transfiguration, and it targets queer communities directly in its marketing. President Fitzgerald herself is also known to give regular tours of the factory floor at their Snoqualmie plant, though guests must sign extensive safety & medical waivers after a series of highly-publicized 'accidents' involving industrial espionage.
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Major Figures
Penelope Fitzgerald: Though she insists people call her 'Peach,' the questionably-organic founder and chief executive officer of Pink Stripe has been making cotton-candy pink waves for the last 30 years. First drawing attention for her alchemical self-experimentation, then for her partnership with local nature spirits, and then again for her campaign to provide civil rights for magical constructs, her reputation as a firebrand and magical genius is well-deserved. The primary mind behind most of Pink Stripe's reagents and product lines, she once famously declared herself a 'sapient product demonstration'; her body is 100% self-manufactured, self-replenishing candy material, which she will happily feed chunks of to interested parties. And anyone she thinks is cute. Immortal and stunningly gifted in magic, Peach is likely to be a major figure in the field of applied alchemy for centuries to come. Assuming she doesn't accidentally obliterate herself in an experiment.
Inga Idunnsdottir: A reindeer nature deity immigrant from what she consistently describes as 'oh, somewhere in Europe, dontchaknow,' Inga is the Vice President and primary supplier of fresh produce for the company. After tense early negotiations for the use of her local lands as a supply source, Inga and Peach came to an 'agreement' that employees are still cleaning out of the company boardroom. Since then Inga has been in a fairly-public extramarital relationship with both Peach AND Peach's wife, local pegasus meteorologist Sylvia 'Silver Lining' Lindberg. When asked to comment on this by tabloids, Ms. Idunnsdottir reportedly began laughing, followed by hellish light pouring from her eyes and mouth as the nearby plants begin to rapidly overgrow. She has not been interviewed since.
Annabelle Toulouse: A New Orleans-born alligator with a reputation for ferocious innovation matched only by her staggering ego and body mass, Chef Toulouse is the mind behind Pink Stripe's award-winning candy lines. Though she has no magical background herself, Annabelle is a master at working alchemical compounds into meals without damaging their flavor profile. She's well-known for her 'proclivities,' which mostly involve stuffing dining partners until they're the size of luxury sedans; Peach picked up her contract after a prominent meltdown on popular daytime cooking show 'The Bite,' which resulted in several audience members suing her for assault after she forcefed them a 13-course dinner on-air. While Chef Toulouse is still a popular target of late-night comedy shows, her personal restaurant in Seattle, Auntie Anna's, is still beloved by locals thanks to low prices and the chance to sneak-preview new Pink Stripe desserts.
Dido Abdalahad: Dido likely needs no introduction, as one of the more famous professional monster hunters and athletes in the Sol System. The powerful squirrel djinn began working with Pink Stripe as the mascot and spokesperson for their 'Cascade' line of energy drinks, most notably the wildly popular Blueberry Blitz. Her caffeine addiction and naturally bubbly personality as well as her fame and heroic reputation make her a natural saleswoman for the drink; company financial reports indicate Dido may be an entire market demographic unto herself, as she consumes roughly 13% of the product line individually. While popular, theories that her ludicrous overconsumption are the cause of her vivid blue fur are entirely mistaken, even though that IS a fully-intended side-effect.
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Product Lines
Bubble-Up! Gum: Arguably Pink Stripe's flagship line, Bubble-Up! was Peach's first product. A caffeinated chewing gum originally designed as an alternative to coffee, she used reagents that were intended to boost the elasticity of the gum itself allowing for it to be blown into bigger bubbles, but shortly after it launched, she discovered that it actually increased the elasticity of the person chewing it, temporarily allowing them to stretch and inflate hugely without discomfort. Peach quickly rebranded it as a digestive aid for overeating, a tactic which succeeded wildly after Chef Toulouse began serving it alongside the check at her restaurant. It really caught on, however, after Peach began marketing it to kinky communities, for whom the potential applications were obvious and numerous. Long-term usage(a period of roughly daily use over the course of six to eight months) will permanently elasticize the subject, typically adding a subtly glossy tone to their coat and/or skin and promoting a more rounded physique. Even longer-term habitual use can lead to a moderate reduction in attention span and feelings of general contentment and calmness. A number of physicians now recommend it as a supplement for patients suffering from depression and low self-esteem.
Hi-Bounce: After the popularity of Bubble-Up!, Peach realized there was a strong market in transformative and kinky candy simply for its own sake. For her next line, she decided to focus on making an explicitly smutty product, and Hi-Bounce was born. Coming in a wide variety of hilariously artificial fruit flavors, Hi-Bounce gummis are intended to do one thing in particular: increase breast size, or produce breasts where none existed prior. Hi-Bounce comes in packs of ten individually-wrapped pieces, and its effects can vary heavily depending upon how they are consumed. Each piece will cause the breasts to inflate and swell out roughly the equivalent of one cup size; this is normally temporary and intended purely for recreation, and generally lasts about 36 hours. However, taking at least one piece every 24 hours for about ten days to reinforce the process will cause the permanent gain of a single cup-size, with the accompanying strengthening of back muscles to support them. Hi-Bounce-based breast augmentation tends to come across as noticeably artificial-looking, producing breasts that are perfectly rounded, never sag, noticeably shiny, and seem to bounce even when simply breathing. Other varieties include Hi-Bounce Creams, a caramel candy variant with an alchemical cream filling designed to promote lactation. Because of the potential for abuse by users, Hi-Bounce gummis are classified as an over-the-counter controlled substance: sales are limited to one pack per day, and sale can be denied if a pharmacist determines the purchaser to be exceeding healthy limits.
Mix-&-Match Bars: Mix-&-Match Bars are made for variety. Literally so, as they come in hundreds if not thousands of different types. Only available by custom online order, Mix-&-Match Bars are created via a simple process: gender, body-type, and species with each selection corresponding to an ingredient. For example, an Extra-Girly Zaftig Zebra Bar would be an alternating mixture of white and dark chocolate, with a creamy caramel and lavender jam filling. The effects, like most Pink Stripe products, are temporary, gently transforming the eater over the course of roughly the next 24 hours, before gently changing them back over another 48, allowing buyers to 'preview' a form before committing entirely. For the process to be permanent, a 45-day, one-bar-a-day regimen is needed. While Mix-&-Match Bars are the priciest thing on the Pink Stripe menu, and are a generally slower method of transformation than 'conventional' transfiguration spells, they are also vastly more comparatively affordable and allow participants time to 'ease-in' to the change. It's equally popular among people looking for a 'quick-change' before costume parties, conventions, and social functions; 'guess who turned into what' is a common party game in markets where Mix-&-Match Bars are available.
Cascade Energy Punch: While Pink Stripe has a number of 'normal' sodas in its catalog(as least as normal as they get), by far the most popular variety is Cascade Energy Punch. Coming in a variety of bombastically-named flavors like Blueberry Blitz, Apple Avalanche, and Fireball Cherry, all made with magically-active fruit sourced from Inga's forest, they're more than just a dose of caffeine... though they do contain by far the single highest legal dose of caffeine-per-serving of any product on Earth. Cascade is enchanted with a number of potent buffs, perks, and mood-boosting effects, all of which fall just under the classification of a performance-enhancing drug. Drinking one instantly results in the user being cured of all fatigue and muscle aches, an increase in alertness and memory-retention, swifter and more fluid movements, and most of all, an utterly overwhelming sensation of confidence and positive self-esteem. This is all accompanied by a feeling of tightness and internal pressure, as though one is bursting with energy. Where things get a bit fuzzy, however, is the interaction of taking multiple servings at once, a common occurrence as the confidence-boosting effect leads you to feel like you can handle it. The more you have, the more pronounced the effects become, following a geometric curve; feeling full of energy rapidly turns into swelling out of control with energy, as the enchanted fruit juice aggressively self-replicates and inflates the subject until they either spring a leak or are simply too immobilized to have another drink. The effects usually subside quickly enough, with the overpressure of juice typically collapsing into spent magical energy over the course of 4 to 6 hours. Habitual users, however, can develop obvious symptoms of overuse, such as changes in skin, hair, fur, and even eye color, changes in body odors to that of their preferred flavor, sweating or even cumming juice, and a slight-but-noticeable squishiness to their flesh reminiscent of fruit.
Type: Privately held company
Industry: Foods & Alchemy
Founder: Penelope Fitzgerald
Headquarters: Snoqualmie, Grand Duchy of Cascadia, Royal Protectorate of America
Area Served: Sol System
Key People: Penelope Fitzgerald(President and CEO), Inga Idunnsdottir(Vice President), Annabelle Toulouse(Head Chef), Dido Abdalahad(Product Spokesperson & Sponsored Athlete)
Products: [See Below]
Employees: 6,000+, predominantly constructs
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Founded in 776 ME in the Grand Duchy of Cascadia, Pink Stripe Confections is the fourth-largest major producer of magically-active consumer goods in the Sol System. Formed by bombastic local personality Penelope 'Peach Fizz' Fitzgerald, it specializes in delivering alchemical agents via food and drink, largely priced to make their products easily-available to those with limited finances. Praised for its charity work, its enigmatic owner funnels most of the company's profits back into the community. The company has come under fire by competitors frequently, however, claiming its use of magical constructs in production unfairly undercuts business costs, though so far all legal rulings have come out in the company's favor.
Pink Stripe products focus on magical reactions intended for transformation and personal augmentation. Pink Stripe advertises itself as a cheaper, more accessible alternative to expensive-though-quicker direct transfiguration, and it targets queer communities directly in its marketing. President Fitzgerald herself is also known to give regular tours of the factory floor at their Snoqualmie plant, though guests must sign extensive safety & medical waivers after a series of highly-publicized 'accidents' involving industrial espionage.
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Major Figures
Penelope Fitzgerald: Though she insists people call her 'Peach,' the questionably-organic founder and chief executive officer of Pink Stripe has been making cotton-candy pink waves for the last 30 years. First drawing attention for her alchemical self-experimentation, then for her partnership with local nature spirits, and then again for her campaign to provide civil rights for magical constructs, her reputation as a firebrand and magical genius is well-deserved. The primary mind behind most of Pink Stripe's reagents and product lines, she once famously declared herself a 'sapient product demonstration'; her body is 100% self-manufactured, self-replenishing candy material, which she will happily feed chunks of to interested parties. And anyone she thinks is cute. Immortal and stunningly gifted in magic, Peach is likely to be a major figure in the field of applied alchemy for centuries to come. Assuming she doesn't accidentally obliterate herself in an experiment.
Inga Idunnsdottir: A reindeer nature deity immigrant from what she consistently describes as 'oh, somewhere in Europe, dontchaknow,' Inga is the Vice President and primary supplier of fresh produce for the company. After tense early negotiations for the use of her local lands as a supply source, Inga and Peach came to an 'agreement' that employees are still cleaning out of the company boardroom. Since then Inga has been in a fairly-public extramarital relationship with both Peach AND Peach's wife, local pegasus meteorologist Sylvia 'Silver Lining' Lindberg. When asked to comment on this by tabloids, Ms. Idunnsdottir reportedly began laughing, followed by hellish light pouring from her eyes and mouth as the nearby plants begin to rapidly overgrow. She has not been interviewed since.
Annabelle Toulouse: A New Orleans-born alligator with a reputation for ferocious innovation matched only by her staggering ego and body mass, Chef Toulouse is the mind behind Pink Stripe's award-winning candy lines. Though she has no magical background herself, Annabelle is a master at working alchemical compounds into meals without damaging their flavor profile. She's well-known for her 'proclivities,' which mostly involve stuffing dining partners until they're the size of luxury sedans; Peach picked up her contract after a prominent meltdown on popular daytime cooking show 'The Bite,' which resulted in several audience members suing her for assault after she forcefed them a 13-course dinner on-air. While Chef Toulouse is still a popular target of late-night comedy shows, her personal restaurant in Seattle, Auntie Anna's, is still beloved by locals thanks to low prices and the chance to sneak-preview new Pink Stripe desserts.
Dido Abdalahad: Dido likely needs no introduction, as one of the more famous professional monster hunters and athletes in the Sol System. The powerful squirrel djinn began working with Pink Stripe as the mascot and spokesperson for their 'Cascade' line of energy drinks, most notably the wildly popular Blueberry Blitz. Her caffeine addiction and naturally bubbly personality as well as her fame and heroic reputation make her a natural saleswoman for the drink; company financial reports indicate Dido may be an entire market demographic unto herself, as she consumes roughly 13% of the product line individually. While popular, theories that her ludicrous overconsumption are the cause of her vivid blue fur are entirely mistaken, even though that IS a fully-intended side-effect.
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Product Lines
Bubble-Up! Gum: Arguably Pink Stripe's flagship line, Bubble-Up! was Peach's first product. A caffeinated chewing gum originally designed as an alternative to coffee, she used reagents that were intended to boost the elasticity of the gum itself allowing for it to be blown into bigger bubbles, but shortly after it launched, she discovered that it actually increased the elasticity of the person chewing it, temporarily allowing them to stretch and inflate hugely without discomfort. Peach quickly rebranded it as a digestive aid for overeating, a tactic which succeeded wildly after Chef Toulouse began serving it alongside the check at her restaurant. It really caught on, however, after Peach began marketing it to kinky communities, for whom the potential applications were obvious and numerous. Long-term usage(a period of roughly daily use over the course of six to eight months) will permanently elasticize the subject, typically adding a subtly glossy tone to their coat and/or skin and promoting a more rounded physique. Even longer-term habitual use can lead to a moderate reduction in attention span and feelings of general contentment and calmness. A number of physicians now recommend it as a supplement for patients suffering from depression and low self-esteem.
Hi-Bounce: After the popularity of Bubble-Up!, Peach realized there was a strong market in transformative and kinky candy simply for its own sake. For her next line, she decided to focus on making an explicitly smutty product, and Hi-Bounce was born. Coming in a wide variety of hilariously artificial fruit flavors, Hi-Bounce gummis are intended to do one thing in particular: increase breast size, or produce breasts where none existed prior. Hi-Bounce comes in packs of ten individually-wrapped pieces, and its effects can vary heavily depending upon how they are consumed. Each piece will cause the breasts to inflate and swell out roughly the equivalent of one cup size; this is normally temporary and intended purely for recreation, and generally lasts about 36 hours. However, taking at least one piece every 24 hours for about ten days to reinforce the process will cause the permanent gain of a single cup-size, with the accompanying strengthening of back muscles to support them. Hi-Bounce-based breast augmentation tends to come across as noticeably artificial-looking, producing breasts that are perfectly rounded, never sag, noticeably shiny, and seem to bounce even when simply breathing. Other varieties include Hi-Bounce Creams, a caramel candy variant with an alchemical cream filling designed to promote lactation. Because of the potential for abuse by users, Hi-Bounce gummis are classified as an over-the-counter controlled substance: sales are limited to one pack per day, and sale can be denied if a pharmacist determines the purchaser to be exceeding healthy limits.
Mix-&-Match Bars: Mix-&-Match Bars are made for variety. Literally so, as they come in hundreds if not thousands of different types. Only available by custom online order, Mix-&-Match Bars are created via a simple process: gender, body-type, and species with each selection corresponding to an ingredient. For example, an Extra-Girly Zaftig Zebra Bar would be an alternating mixture of white and dark chocolate, with a creamy caramel and lavender jam filling. The effects, like most Pink Stripe products, are temporary, gently transforming the eater over the course of roughly the next 24 hours, before gently changing them back over another 48, allowing buyers to 'preview' a form before committing entirely. For the process to be permanent, a 45-day, one-bar-a-day regimen is needed. While Mix-&-Match Bars are the priciest thing on the Pink Stripe menu, and are a generally slower method of transformation than 'conventional' transfiguration spells, they are also vastly more comparatively affordable and allow participants time to 'ease-in' to the change. It's equally popular among people looking for a 'quick-change' before costume parties, conventions, and social functions; 'guess who turned into what' is a common party game in markets where Mix-&-Match Bars are available.
Cascade Energy Punch: While Pink Stripe has a number of 'normal' sodas in its catalog(as least as normal as they get), by far the most popular variety is Cascade Energy Punch. Coming in a variety of bombastically-named flavors like Blueberry Blitz, Apple Avalanche, and Fireball Cherry, all made with magically-active fruit sourced from Inga's forest, they're more than just a dose of caffeine... though they do contain by far the single highest legal dose of caffeine-per-serving of any product on Earth. Cascade is enchanted with a number of potent buffs, perks, and mood-boosting effects, all of which fall just under the classification of a performance-enhancing drug. Drinking one instantly results in the user being cured of all fatigue and muscle aches, an increase in alertness and memory-retention, swifter and more fluid movements, and most of all, an utterly overwhelming sensation of confidence and positive self-esteem. This is all accompanied by a feeling of tightness and internal pressure, as though one is bursting with energy. Where things get a bit fuzzy, however, is the interaction of taking multiple servings at once, a common occurrence as the confidence-boosting effect leads you to feel like you can handle it. The more you have, the more pronounced the effects become, following a geometric curve; feeling full of energy rapidly turns into swelling out of control with energy, as the enchanted fruit juice aggressively self-replicates and inflates the subject until they either spring a leak or are simply too immobilized to have another drink. The effects usually subside quickly enough, with the overpressure of juice typically collapsing into spent magical energy over the course of 4 to 6 hours. Habitual users, however, can develop obvious symptoms of overuse, such as changes in skin, hair, fur, and even eye color, changes in body odors to that of their preferred flavor, sweating or even cumming juice, and a slight-but-noticeable squishiness to their flesh reminiscent of fruit.
