(Hey, you take this wherever you want. In terms of "dumb", I don't think so. We've already got a mile-long snake and a fox who can eat a demon-thing without even distending his stomach, so a gooification wizard or whatever isn't<span style="font-style: italic">that</span>implausible. If you wanna do goo, you just go ahead and do goo. As for the conversation with yourself, there's plenty of ways of avoiding it. "After a few minutes of searching and a long conversation, Nova eventually convinces the man..." and so on)