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For a lands of magic challenge I did birthday lists for 3 fictional characters. Here are Sherlock Holmes, Bertie Wooster, and Carmilla.

1. A really interesting case.
2. Two seats at a concert heavy on the Mendelssohn so that Watson will resist the temptation to fall asleep—and snore!
3. A pouch of whatever it was he smoked that one time in Kathmandu while he was ‘dead.’
4. A new tablecloth to replace the one of Mrs. Hudson’s which now has chemical burns.
5. If #1 is not available, a new bottle of cocaine.

1. An aunt radar, with two alarms, one for when there is nearing a Good and Deserving Aunt and a second for when an Aunt who Eat Broken Bottles and Wear Barbed Wire Next to the Skin is approaching.
2. A shield to deflect incoming dinner rolls at The Drones.
3. A very, very rare species of newt so that Gussie Fink-Nottle will become famous in newt-loving circles and name it woosterus newterus.
4. Beazel repellent, so that members of the delicately nurtured with matrimonial designs or favours to request or blackmail to perform will take their nefarious schemes to parties other than Betram.
5. The return of a gentleman’s gentleman from his two-week holiday, bronzed and fit, and ready to sling the y. m. out of the soup.

1. Blood. Lots of it. Fresh. Human.
2. Laura
3. A set of earplugs good for muffling out peasant funereal wailing
4. An anagram dictionary to help when it’s time to pick a new name.
5. A new statue for the crypt, and if it resembles Laura’s heaving bosom, well, so much the better.