In a room
The sign reads
"Welcome all new travellers.
To continue you must go through a series of doors.
After going through you will pick a costume. You will then become a half- human and half that creature.
After a week(100 mins a hour,20 hrs a day,10 days a week) has passed you may morph and get another costume. To start of with you will only be able to become 40% human to 60% human.
If you put on a costume you will then become that creature, be teleported to it's home town and have to wait a week before being able to morph.
After 50 costumes you may change into one of your other costumes and become 30% to 70% human. When changing costumes you must wait at least an hour before you can change costumes again.
100 different species/gender costumes allows you to gender-morph and become 20% to 80% human
200 different species costumes allows you to combine costumes and become 10% to 90% human
400 different species costumes allows you to return to your world with no more morphing
And 800 different species costumes makes a polymorph and allows you to morph outside of this world.
Also if you have a costume like a centaur then the human part will always be human and is counted towards the human percentage.
Any gender/species transformation magic of yours can only change your gender(if you have at least 100 costumes) and the animal part to a different animal.
When you change into a different costume (that you already have) you may teleport to that species home town but you will have the week penalty where you have no costume changes.
If you die while wearing a costume you will be reborn at the local inn (or appropriate location ). If you have more then 100 costumes you will lose the costume you had when you died and go to an appropriate place for your next costume.
If you fail to make it out in 100 years(100 weeks in a year) one of your possible forms will be chosen and you will be permanently stuck in that form(apart from magic) until you die. Also there will be no possibility of going back to your world.
Also, one final note: should you take a female form and become pregnant, you won't be able to change your gender until the child is born, though the other aspects of your form may change (the child will change to match.) That is all, and good luck!
You realise that you have to do what the sign said to do and go through the doors and grab a costume.
Alternatively you could use the key system to determine the room
Written by Catprog on 11 February 2004
Water Creatures
You find yourself in what appears to be a glass room deep in the ocean.
The stairs are blocked by a force field.
You realise you have to go through one of the three dark blue doors numbed 1,2 & 3.
What door do you want?
Written by Catprog on 11 February 2004
Normal Water
You go through the door.
All of a sudden it slams shut and with no handle on this side it appears that you are stuck.
There are two more doors however and both of them have a sign on them saying
Costume room for
Element: Water
Type: Normal
Gender: ????
So which door do you want
Written by Catprog on 26 February 2004
Female Normal Water
You go through the door.
All of a sudden it slams shut and with no handle on this side it appears that you are stuck.
There are five costumes in this room, all of them female, all of them are normal water creatures.
- Shark
- Tuna
- Dugong
Written by Catprog on 26 February 2004
Otter
With little other choice, you opt for a brown, furry costume - it could be an otter, you think, as you slip into it. It’s warm, but not sweltering - and both the inside and the fur on the outside is very soft to the touch.
The second you finish slipping it on, however, is when the transformation begins.
At once, the suit seems to constrict around your body, yet not in a way that’s painful; instead, it’s like it’s fusing with your very skin. And as this is happening, you feel yourself briskly shrinking in size.
You try to grab hold of the strange suit to take it off, but your fingers are weaker, smaller. You see fur growing growing from the backs of your hands, the fur on the rest of the suit now feels like it’s YOURS. You also feel a number of other shifts occuring, all of them simultaneous.
You shrink down a few feet until you are about three feet tall, maybe a smidge taller. You’re now covered in fur completely, though the fur is lesser on some parts of your body, like your belly, your neck, your thighs. Of course, with this, you also notice your physique has changed - you’ve grown small breasts, though they are covered in fur, and you notice that your nether regions have shifted as well. You are a full female, a full female otter.
The process wasn’t painful. Strange, yes, but there was no pain, for what that was worth. You are astonished, and rightfully so, by this event.
You stare at your smaller, chubby black fingers, flexing them to make sure they still work correctly. They do, but they are much smaller, just like you. You check your feet and see they are tiny and clawlike, and that you’ve also gained a tail that swishes around behind you.
You bring them to your face and feel the smooth fur there - your features have grown rounder, your ears are smaller and higher up on your head. You also have small whiskers poking out from your cheeks! They are very sensitive to the touch, and you recoil when you mess with them too much.
You start to move. You find walking on two legs is possible still, but it feels strange. You feel a compulsion to lean down and move on all fours like an actual otter and, after a few seconds of pondering whether you should or not - it sounds crazy how you want to do it - you lean down and find that, shockingly, you can move much easier on all fours.
Your body reacts smoothly to the change in posture. You scurry around the room for a bit, mostly getting used to this new way of moving. You stop after about a minute, maybe two, and look around, only to see there is now a door where you don’t recall a door being on the wall across from you.
It’s a small door, brown in color, big enough for someone of your new size to walk through.
You frown. Your lips twitch, and you walk over to it slowly, unsure if this is a good idea or a trap. None of this makes sense, and you know it, too.
Written by Hollowpages on 25 April 2019
Through the Door
You tentatively reach out to touch the door handle. Your paw-like hand can grab it well enough, and you pull it open. On the other side of the door is a massive forested area, including a large lake a few feet away from you - one that appears to branch out into a river stretching endlessly onward.
You walk through the door, hearing it shut behind you. You turn and test the door handle, but find it won’t open anymore. You sigh to yourself and turn back around, then venture onward. You test the lake water with one toe - the water is cool, yet in a pleasant way. You know otters like water, and, without much hesitation, you walk in.
The water is very nice on your fur-covered body. It’s soothing to be in, and you swim around at a rapid pace. Your new body adjusts to this rather abruptly - it surprises you how fun and freeing it is to practically soar through the lake without any sort of fear. It’s fun, and diving down is just as pleasant - you feel almost at home submerged here, as if it was waiting for you.
You pop out after a moment to catch your breath.
You look toward the direction of the river leading away from the lake. You don’t know how long it is, but it appears to go left at some point, almost like it’s curving around the foresty bank. You feel it might lead somewhere helpful, but, you aren’t entirely sure.
When you look around, studying all the trees of this weird forest area, you notice for the first time that there is also a path on land - to your right, there is a break among the trees, and you can see… something in the distance, like a cave of some kind. You see you have another potential place to go.
But then, your eyes catch something below you: there’s an underwater cavern under the lake! You see that you can fit into it with ease, and it seems to lead somewhere as well.
You calmly float there in the lake, your mind now ablaze.
Three opportunities sit before you: you can follow the river and see where it leads, go on land and follow the forest path toward the cave in the distance, or, you can dive underwater and swim through the big hole within the lake.
You look from one to the other, thinking. Choices, choices, choices.
Written by Hollowpages on 05 May 2019
The Underwater Path
You swim about in the lake, thinking. You could follow the river and see where it leads, yes - that one is relatively obvious and in one way could be the safest choice. You could also leave the water and follow the path in the forest toward the weird cave you see, yes - this one is less obvious in a way and perhaps not as safe as the river, but it’s still viable. But there is a third option, too.
You peer down beneath the water to the underwater path that is obviously another option. It’s not as visible as the other two, but you aren’t about to forget that it’s a potential choice.
The one thing you consider is that you don’t know how long you can breathe underwater now, nor do you know how deep or how far this path goes. But, you feel at this rate that there’s no point in letting fear get the best of you - nothing ventured, nothing gained, after all, and so you make your decision.
You suck in a deep breath and dive down, pleased that your eyes can stay open when underwater - you swim down to the opening and begin to follow it, offering some silent hopes to yourself that your lungs keep you alive.
The tunnel appears to loop around weirdly, but, other than this, it feels like you’re getting somewhere by following it. As the seconds fly by, you notice that the tunnel is gradually opening up, until, right when you begin to worry about how long you can hold your breath for, you come to a spot where the water is low enough at the top for you to grab some air.
You shoot up and gasp, sucking in deep breaths. You do this for about a minute before you rub your eyes. Above your head is very soft earth, yet when you press a palm against it - for curiosity’s sake - you can tell you aren’t going to be able to break through it without a lot of time and effort being expelled. So, you must continue swimming through the tunnel and hope that there is an exit waiting at the end for you.
When you feel appeased, you suck more air in and dunk yourself back under the water, and find that the tunnel drops down for a bit - you see the bottom, and as you swim toward it, you see a new tunnel appears before you.
Written by Hollowpages on 11 May 2019
Follow the Tunnel
With little else to do, you swim into it, following this one instead. Like the first tunnel, this one also loops around and goes up and down - it’s strange how these tunnels are perfect for your size, and yet, they make these odd angles, almost like they were made purposefully to confuse or annoy. At the very least, you are thankful it’s a straightforward tunnel, without any forks or multiple paths you could go, only straight on.
You swim on for a while, up until the point where the tunnel you’re following shoots up. There is no break, it’s just an immediate straight point upwards.
You follow it, of course, and see light at the very end of it, the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel - you propel yourself up and break through the water’s surface. The first thing you do is get your breath back, letting the air flow into your lungs to ease them from holding it for so long.
Once you’ve finished, you look around.
You are, somehow, poking out from a big, flat tree stump. The water is in the center of the stump, spilling a little water out as you move around. You frown at this weirdness, but, climb out of the stump and over it. Then, you look around.
The area you are in appears to be indoors - or at the very least, inside of something, because there are walls that go up and over, as if you’re in some sort of dome-like structure. And yet, there is grass beneath your feet and moss growing from all over the walls of the dome, so you consider the possibility it’s a cave of some kind.
But then, you look forward and see a door.
The door is snugly sitting in a chunk of wall, and looks almost exactly like the strange door you walked through to end up where you did in the beginning.
You move toward it briskly, but with a sense of wariness, since you have no clue what the hell could be behind it. You stop when you reach the door and press your ear to the door and listen. Several seconds pass, and besides your own heartbeat, you don’t hear anything out of the ordinary. You note this, then touch the handle.
The handle is cool to the touch, yet it moves, and you very gradually open the door - it doesn’t creak or make much noise, fortunately, and you are able to open it fully without any issue. That’s when you see what’s on the other side.
To your utter astonishment, on the other side of the door appears to be the inside of an honest to God house of all things. It’s a massive house, and you know it’s a house because you see a table with chairs, there’s a little wooden stove on one side of the room, and there’s even a carpet that appears to be made from both fur and leaves.
You step inside and shut the door behind you - quietly - and take a moment to look around. Do you explore it? Or go back?
Written by Hollowpages on 16 May 2019
The end (for now)