Diddle Diddle

Diddle Diddle
Japanese Name:	夜の饗宴(ディドルディドル)
Creator:	Mrs. Meinster
Components:	Cat's-eye stone, glass
Original Form:	Bell
Weakness:	Cannot be defended against at night, but weak to the light of civilization. Cannot be used in front of a train station.

Diddle Diddle: Banquet of the Night (夜の饗宴(ディドルディドル), Yoru no Kyōen(Didoru Didoru)^?) is Alice Kuonji's most valued Ploy and a Magecraft infinitely close to Magic.

Characteristics

• A group of dinner utensils brought to life with Diddle Diddle

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Diddle Diddle is based on the nursery rhyme Hey Diddle Diddle^WP. Although once mistaken for a Reality Marble, it's not quite right: while a Reality Marble is a magecraft that materialises the caster's mindscape and briefly overwrites reality, Alice's "cheat" rips reality away without a second thought. Its ability is to deepen the night so that Alice's other Ploys become usable. If conditions for usage are already met, it doubles the abilities of her Ploys. It is destroyed on each use, so she needs to remake it each time.

To activate Diddle Diddle, Alice must drop it onto the ground, where it will then sink into the earth as if it had been dropped in water.

Diddle Diddle is also capable of animating and summoning objects, such as dining utensils, like in fairy tales. It can summon these objects out of the ground to skewer Alice's foes with knives and forks, or defend its master by surrounding her and guarding her from projectiles by levitating its tools as shields.