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[Don is feeling a little claustrophobic today. The number of vehicles he has stashed in his workroom has increased to five over the past week, and he's running out of room to build more. He'd been hoping that the wet, overcast weather would break so he could take his work outside, but that didn't exactly pan out. It is sunny today, but it's also unseasonably cold.]

[Determined to continue his work anyway, Don has shoved all the furniture out of the way and set up camp in the living room, surrounded by a mass of lightweight canvas and metal struts. Hang-glider Number Four is now Under Construction.]

[It's been quite some time since he asked a general question over the journals, so he decides to do so now. Companionable conversation is just what he needs to make the repetitive work go faster.]

If you had access to Shifting technology, and could change something about the world - what would you do? How long would you make it last?

[He also has some things he wants to talk about with Mike and Master Splinter - separately, that is. If they don't stop by while he's working, he'll be looking for them later.]

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This world, or worlds in general?

Any world.

Well, then first things first, I'd try to see how we can't resolve the situation here. [...] And then I'd make the world more interesting.

Pretty vague. What's your name?

There's nothing vague about it! If the world needs aliens, we add aliens. If it needs espers, we add espers. If that's not enough, let's throw in some time travel. If that's still not enough, then start to make for an alternate version of that world. With the power to change it, there's no reason not to make it better.

Oh, you're talking about a non-specific world.

Do you think 'interesting' is always better?

Ye- [...] Yes... no. Usually - legitimately interesting things are always better, but if you're using "interesting" to mean "nightmare induced place where people die all the time" then you're not handling it correctly anyway.

You mean things that are just interesting and not also dangerous?

And not also... well, like, you know, sometimes people are interesting, but as a result they're ostracized. That defeats the point.

[...Actually, isn't this guy a giant turtle? Of course he'd know that]