May I?

"You know," the woman began. She was wearing an exuberant, almost impossibly colorful pair of mail and sleek leg coverings, both metallic yet soft. It looked almost Celtic in style, alien in material. Her own figure looked vibrant, and kaleidoscopic in color, eyes spiraling within each pupil. "You native English speakers always claim to have a weird language. But every language has its hot buttons."

"Well it is weird!" Another voice chimed. The woman looked, bemused, to the other side of the circular, matriculate room they occupied. It was them and a handful of other people, all adorned in similarly unworldly attire, and in various states of leisure, with the same spiral-garnished pupils and defying presence. There seemed to be no roof -- it just went on and on, a series of spiral staircases and concentric rows of shelves of who knew what extending to a limitless sky. "Just look -- for example, 'can' and 'may'. My english teacher was always such a troll. Anytime I asked if I 'can' use the restroom, he'd say no. Then he would have that dumb glint in his eye, and I'd ask it again with 'may' and he'd say yes, and I wouldn't even feel like going anymore. It's such a twisty language, man."

"Wilson," another rolled their eyes, idling by a fountain spewing something not quite water, "you know that doesn't even matter, right? Technically it might be more precise to request something using the word 'may', but no one really gives a shit unless they care about what you're implying. Like your teacher, since he was teaching english, and probably just wanted to get you thinking about those things. In common speech, though," he shrugged. "No one down there gives a shit."

Suddenly the three of them looked at each other, gears turning. A man in glistening silver noticed the buzz in the air and scoffed. "Really, guys?"

"Really!" the one called Wilson clenched a fist enthusiastically. "Right, Jeane? Luke?"

With a unanimous agreement, they both rushed out of the lounge area and, with a quick flash, up a level, where a swirling pool of the universe lay at the center of a deck. They stood by the deck rail as they mused over what fun they should have with it, and which world and life to choose.

They decided that they could have some more fun with the trigger, and wondered what to conjure while they started setting the conditions.

Someone back in their own world was about to have an interesting new use for their vocabulary...

The Basics:

• The lucky man or woman gets an envelope. Inside there's a letter with this explanation inside:
• "How to Use Your New Vocabulary."
• Using the word may while asking for permission for whatever is desired will always result in being granted that permission, even when not outright verbally stated by the permitter, as long as the permitter hears and/or knows you are asking something.
• However, using "can't" afterward, in reference to whatever was permitted, will cancel the affirmation, and return all affected people and things to their previous understanding/state. (e.g. "You can't be my boyfriend," or "I can't be your girlfriend".) Using "may not" will have no effect. On the other hand, using "can" or any other term while asking for permission will be treated normally and without the beneficial effects of the 'may' trigger.
• When using the trigger, there is a blanket effect that carries down from anyone with some kind of authority over others -- for instance, if asking the manager of a business if one "may" bed all the female employees, and the manager agrees, this will make all other employees and subordinates accept any actions related to the request as reasonable, even when they were not present during the request or not directly told after it, as long as they consider themselves in service to the one who gave permission.
• Using the word maybe in reference to the state of something or someone will take the effect of making the following statement true, valid once a day. (e.g. "Maybe you really do love wearing pink clothes," or "Maybe you really are a titjob addict.", or "Maybe this is a naked beach.") Cannot be used to give the user instantaneous or global power that will render the triggers useless.
• (The catch: the part explaining the "maybe" trigger will be in the back part of the letter, and the reader of the letter might miss this if they're not thorough... discretion advised!)
• The bottom of the letter will have a request for the reader's signature, stating:
• "If you acknowledge this geas, sign your name in order to be given its power. (Only the one signing can receive the geas.) Once signed, return the letter to a cover and seal it, then leave it in a safe container, where no one will open it, for one hour -- if this fails, an anti-geas will befall you, and everything you ask will instead be denied, and all that 'may-be' will only work against you, until you repeat the ritual. Much love, nobody."

For the seal, anything from a rubber band to a proper seal could do long as it holds... And that should be it... still might be some things to smooth out but this should do in the meantime. Don't really know if it'll catch on much but I'll try to play with it for a while, if anyone wishes to add their own, they ahem, may use the above basics as a guideline, long as it's mostly reminiscent in some way.

The Letter:

Front-

'How to Use Your New Vocabulary'

Using the word may while asking for permission for whatever is desired will always result in being granted that permission, even when not outright verbally stated by the permitter, as long as the permitter hears and/or knows you are asking something.

However, using "can't" afterward, in reference to whatever was permitted, will cancel the affirmation, and return all affected people and things to their previous understanding/state. Using "may not" will have no effect. On the other hand, using "can" or any other term while asking for permission will be treated normally and without the beneficial effects of the 'may' trigger.

When using the trigger, there is a blanket effect that carries down from anyone with some kind of authority over others -- for instance, if asking the manager of a business if one "may" bed all the female employees, and the manager agrees, this will make all other employees and subordinates accept any actions related to the request as reasonable, even when they were not present during the request or not directly told after it, as long as they consider themselves in service to the one who gave permission.

If you acknowledge this geas, sign your name in order to be given its power. (Only the one signing can receive the geas.) Once signed, return the letter to a cover and seal it, then leave it in a safe container, where no one will open it, for one hour -- if this fails, an anti-geas will befall you, and everything you ask will instead be denied, and all that 'may-be' will only work against you, until you repeat the ritual. Much love, nobody.

Back-

Using the word maybe in reference to the state of something or someone will take the effect of making the following statement true. Only valid once a day. Using it to give the user instantaneous or global power, hence rendering the triggers useless, will result in negation.

NOTE:
If you want it can be something other than a letter, or even with no letter at all, etc., as long as the basic power guidelines are mostly similar. Feel free to be creative.