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
Normal Land
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: Land
Type: Normal
Gender: ????
So which door do you want
Written by Catprog on 26 February 2004
Male Normal Land
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 male, all of them are normal land creatures.
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Written by Catprog on 26 February 2004
Fox
The door creaks in a long, pained whine, like a wailing cat, or some other pitiful creature. It hardly opens enough for you
to step through before the hinges lock up altogether - seemingly caked in rust - and you have to squeeze yourself into the
gap sideways.
Once beyond, the smell hits you. Not entirely unpleasant, but noticeable nonetheless; damp, dust, and old paper. This
room has clearly been left unmaintained for some time, and from the thick layers of dust upon the floor beneath your feet,
it was fair to think that no-one had even been in here during that period. Squinting into the foggy space, unlit except
for the dingy illumination from the door behind you, you frown. Perhaps you've explored a little too far into the
building here... Maybe it's time for you to turn back, and go back outside to the sun, instead of down here among the dust
and old, discarded things.
Deciding that there was nothing to see, you reach back around to let yourself out, with a mind on peeking about
elsewhere. Just as you do so, however, something in the corner catches your eye, and your brow furrows in confusion at
what you see. Just on the other side of the door, next to where you squeezed in, there is a metal rack, and upon it is
something that perplexes you in a moment, and brights a halt to your step. Lengths of brightly coloured material, draped
over the old iron spines in perfectly symmetrical rows. Looking closer, you can see much to your surprise that each and
every one of them has arms and legs. Costumes of some kind? Mascots? What were these things? And, most importantly,
what àre they doing here?
Approaching slowly, you extend a hand and touch the nearest one – orange and tan, clearly designed to be the pelt
belonging to a fox of some sort - and find it enticingly soft to the touch. They seem surprisingly comfortable, not like
something awkward or ungainly that a stage performer would wear. Glancing around, you wonder who they belonged to,
and what they were worn for. Strangely, at that thought, you find the idea of someone wearing this... beautiful thing very
appealing. Surely, it is a shame that cloth of such quality is wasting away back here, even though it was covered in dust,
and probably hasn’t been used in many a year. Perhaps you should try it on. After all, why not? What would be the harm?
It’s not as if anyone could possibly follow you in without you hearing, or like anyone would know if you had just one
quick try.
With curiosity only growing stronger and stronger with each unanswered question, interest finally gets the better of you.
Taking the one that had caught your gaze first, you unhook it from the rack, and feel it's weight drop into your hand. It is
surprisingly heavy, but you manage to find an opening in the center of what would appear to be where the chest goes, and
raise your leg up and into the opening without much consideration for the clothes you're already wearing. The inside is
much, much softer than you had expected. Silky, pleasant to the touch, and surprisingly natural feeling, not like it was
something synthetic and false. It feels as though your limb is being sheathed in long warm, snug, and cozy socks, and
when you wiggle your toes you can hardly feel any fabric about your toes.
For a moment, pulling the garment up around your other leg, you repress the urge to tear your hand back. This wasn't...
real fur, was it? Staring at the thing for a long moment, you remain quite unsure. There doesn't appear to be any stitches or
seams holding the thing together, but at the same time the patterns over the whole garment were entirely consistent...
surely this was not possible if it were actual fur.
Running your hands up the neck of the thing, your grip stops as it comes across a small plastic tag – square, gray, with a
small light in the center. Strange. It must have been a microphone or some kind of device like that, back in the day
when these things were used, assumedly. Perhaps this thing was a stage prop after all, though you could hardly
believe it if it was.
Moving on, and fitting your hands and arms in next, you find yourself inexplicably drawn to do up the zipper and
complete your outfit. After all, you’ve come this far already, why stop now?
Gripping at the label, your now gloved fingers take it up and up from the low of your stomach to higher up your chest,
slowly enveloping more and more of your body in the cloth-padded softness. As you continue, however, and as the metal
grows closer to your neck, where the entire thing threatens to close over your head as a whole, you begin to feel... strange.
The sensation that spreads across your chest and face isn’t so much… pain… as something completely else and
unidentifiable. It isn’t exactly pleasurable, but the familiar pang of hurt wasn’t there either. However, regardless to it’s
lack of lack of classification, this feeling spreads further and faster across your entire form - soon covering every inch of
you, head to toe, as indeed you complete your now blind, unthinking aim, and secure the zipper at its highest point. The
ground beneath your feet seems to sway, almost as though it were moving, and the rack before you seems to blur...
And then you lose consciousness.
Written by Doppelfoxx on 26 January 2022
Awake
What feels like a long, long time later, your senses come back to you. You feel yourself laying flat on your back upon a
hard, cold surface that is very much definitely not the wooden floor of the room you had been in earlier.
After some time, your eyes blink open groggily, feeling caked with sleep and almost stuck together. Gross. However, at
first all is still dark, and you question whether you had actually opened your eyes at all. After a few seconds there comes a
tinkling crackle, and with it a row of sparking light arcs across the ceiling in long, thick rows - fluorescent lights of some
kind.
Shielding your face momentarily from the suddenly intense glare, you squint tightly, propping yourself up from what you
can only assume to be the ground with one arm, and feeling a surge of nausea at even this slight movement. By the time
you muster the strength to open your eyes fully, a few minutes pass, and you aren't feeling any better – regarding your
surroundings with a blurry, weak gaze.
The floors are a dark, deep, and glossy black that connects seamlessly with walls of pearlescent white to either side of
you. Behind where you had been laying, there seems to be a corridor of the same material that leads on indefinitely, and
on the other end before you there stands a grayish paneled door that seemed something like the roller on a garage. What is
this place? How did I get here?
Slowly, squeezing your lids shut once more, you struggle to your feet, swaying to balance upon legs that feel strangely
unfamiliar. There, beside the door, there is a panel, and above it a blinking red light. Staggering forward, you raise your
hand out, hoping perhaps that it will switch the painful lights off, so that you may recover in peace. However, before you
can even touch the panel, vision still too blurry to make out much, you nonetheless notice something very, very unusual,
that causes you to stagger back with some violence, sending your head into another set of aching spins. Those... aren’t
human...
These things attached to your body, covered in fur and strangely joined, somehow aren’t as agile as your usual fingers...
or perhaps you simply just don’t know how to use them yet. As you glance at them, however, something odd becomes
very clear. At the termination of each pad, there lays slightest indent, and when you clench your fist, there they are, as
your dawning horror had expected. Claws. For a moment, your mouth drops open, and your mind flounders uselessly.
What has happened to me?Is this all just a bad dream?
Before you can sink any deeper into terror and shock, however, there comes a loud noise from just in front of you - dark,
loud, and metallic, causing a jolt to run through your heart, and your feet to jump in lpace on the floor. The door appears
to be shifting, and the light next to it has gone a bright green, as if announcing that it will soon be opening. A new level of
adrenaline pumps into your brain, and your feet tingle with the instinct to flee, knowing that if caught like this in a body
you do not understand, you will likely not be able to defend yourself at all - not that you would have been, were you in
your natural form, even so - you’re not exactly a pinnacle of martial form.
Body beyond rational command, and motion completely at the call of your shredding nerves, as the space beneath the
rising door grows larger and larger, you...
Written by Doppelfoxx on 27 January 2022
Run
Seized by an instinct that isn't entirely yours, your legs launch into sudden action like two coiled springs, and you bolt
away from the door so fast as your unfamiliar body can take you - stumbling, tripping, and almost falling over with each
step. You turn back and run into the corridor behind you, paying not a single glance over your shoulder as to what might
have caused the door to open.
It seems that the way winds on forever - endless, seamless panel after seamless panel, until your dizziness isn't entirely to
do with your earlier condition. Yet, still, you press on, until it seems that more than a minute has passed in fleeing
desperation. Just as your breath begins to burn in your chest, and you are feeling weaker and more disorientated than ever
before, your eyes latch upon another door with a panel not unlike the first one to the side of the way.
Frantically, and not paying mind to your foreign hands any longer, you skid to a halt and slam your palm against the panel
in the hope that it opens. For a long, long moment, nothing happens, and then there comes the noise of moving metal, as
the thing begins to rise, and you let out a held breath – stooping to squeeze beneath the opening so soon as it reaches a
height that you can manage. You spin around to slap an identical interface on the other side, before sinking against the
door with your chest huffing furiously as it closes once more, bringing the space into weakly lit darkness.
Pulse racing, and pace of breath struggling to slow down, you eventually manage to take yourself from the wall, and turn
around to look behind you. Though dim, there is just enough illumination for you to see into a space that is perhaps five
meters across and reasonably high, made from the same panels as the corridor outside, filled with stacks and stacks of
completely plain cardboard boxes, standing tall from floor to ceiling. However, most of them seem to have had their lids
roughly opened and be completely empty – almost as if what had been stored within had already been put to use, and this
was just the resulting trash afterwards.
Walking forward, still eyeing the door behind you with fear and caution, you feel your forehead grow incredibly damp
with sweat from a mixture of stress and tentative relief. Raising a hand automatically, your fraught nerves jump as instead
of simply brushing moisture from your skin, your strange new hands impact against something protruding in it's way -
resulting in a jolt of pain that shoots through your face. Ouch.
Freezing in place between two tall towers of boxes, you halt and reach up to your face in abject horror, growing both
increasingly more shocked, and yet also more utterly resigned at what you feel. Fur. A lean, athletic, male body. A long,
pointed muzzle, finishing in a wet nose. You glance down at your body, and behind the black tracksuit which was most
certainly not what you had been wearing before putting on this costume, you swallow upon a dry throat as you catch the
dark sight of something swirling behind you in no particular rhythm. A tail. Had something been done to you, in this
strange, futuristic place, or was this something to do with what had happened, what you had felt back in that dusty old
room?
Shaking your head – now newly discovered to be topped with sensitive, twitchy, fur-covered ears - perhaps the reason that
the sound of your footsteps had given you a pounding headache – you push on, refusing to delay and panic with someone
or something possibly on your tail. The stacks of boxes proved hard to navigate, moving on, but you gently shove your
way through nonetheless, being very careful as to not knock any over and make a noise that could be audible through the
door as you do so.
After about half a minute of doing so, you come to the other side of the space, and through the last mountains of
cardboard. Much as you had expected, there appears to be nothing more than the plain and unadorned wall marking the
end of the room here, however in one corner there lies a vent cover, seemingly concealing a passage about as tall as one of
the boxes stacked beside it. A possible escape, then, but it is a difficult decision, even so. Perhaps the hatch leads nowhere,
but there is only one other way out, and it was back out into the corridor where you had run from.
Written by Doppelfoxx on 28 January 2022
STAY STILL
Sighing, you step backwards, and slump into one of the chairs – having to be careful not to sit on your newfound tail.
What mess have I gotten myself into. The seat was cold, but sitting helped your head stop spinning enough for you to set
your jaw and make a decision. There didn't seem to be a reason for you to believe that there was anything wrong going on
here, and it wasn't as if trying to escape would improve the chances of the creature, person - whatever it was – remaining
in a friendly state for now.
You sit there sunk in your own thoughts and trying to gather your bearings for some minutes, hoping that the distraction
will reduce the beating of your heart, and the stress of the bizarre, supernatural situation. In this way, it isn't long at all
until footsteps come again, and you stand to the door opening once more. There are two of them, this time, and though
they were dressed in the same black jumpsuits and with the exception of a few differences in their relatively generic and
less than noteworthy faces completely identically, you reckoned the one standing to the rightmost to be that which had
originally come to you, and it was this creature that nodded his head in acknowledgement of your presence. “Come forth
again.”
Already standing, you step forward as the two turn and lead you on, back down the corridor. This time, however, there is
not much walking to be had, as before ten seconds pass, all the two creatures stop before one of the smaller, branching
doors to the side of the passageway, and press the panel beside it to open the door beyond – entering without even turning
to you, this time.
Following after, you soon see that this room is the most distinguishable from the rest of what you had seen in this strange
place yet.
The surfaces are made of a different, darker material – more sheer black than those outside – and the walls are almost
completely covered with monitors and screens of varying sizes, flashing between indistinguishable screens of data and
diagrams you cannot hope to even grasp the purpose of. In the place of tables and chairs, this space contains only one seat
– a long, black, laid-back one that reminds you of a dentists' chair – and no surfaces but for a white, metal desk on wheels
that shelve a few monitors of its own, as well as tray after tray of what looked like medical equipment – giving your heart
the greatest start yet, and freezing your feet there in the doorway.
Calmly – almost too calmly – one of the figures turns about, while the other continues to the desk. It seems to notice your
hesitation, as it reaches promptly to it's side and produces the sleek black weapon that you had seen earlier, and brandishes
it against its chest, threat clear, and insistence silent and gently forbidding. “Lay down.”
Your breath hitches in your throat, and for a long moment, you cannot move, even if you knew in which direction you
wanted to – back out the door where you had come, to make a run for it, or to comply with the insistence of the creature
before you instead, and get into the chair. The creature which had gone over to the computer seems entirely engrossed
with whatever it was causing the lights to flicker rapidly upon it's plain, pale face, which reassured you by way of the fact
that he had not gone to prepare any of the medical equipment. For now, at least.
Slowly, each step seeming to fight against your instinct to flee, you approach the chair, and settle yourself onto and then
back into it with unsteady hands. Approaching thereafter, the creature – which you now recognised once more as the one
who had greeted you – returns its weapon to its hip, and produces another as your head meets the black cushion on the
back of the chair. It is more square and short than the large one, and has an end not at all that different from the mouth of a
grocery market scanner. Nearing your side, the creature raises the instrument with a level of calm precision you had yet to
see in a doctor. “This will not hurt. Remain still.”
Closing your eyes, and practically quaking in fear, you remain stationary as the creature approaches, and brushes the
device up against the side of your head. The sensation causes you to blink... However, when your eyes open once more,
everything has changed, and you find yourself glancing to and fro with confusion. What just happened? Have I blacked
out again? Has everything changed, and do I have some other body?
Thankfully, as you frantically glance down and around, you find that at least outwardly your form seems to appear much
like you first saw it – though it was among one of the only things that remained unaltered. The positions of everything
about the room have changed – the medical-seeming table is much closer to the chair than it had been earlier, the first
creature from earlier is nowhere to be seen, and, most prominently, the second is standing directly above you – glancing
down with a complete lack of expression upon its face. “Fortune smiles today. You are one of the stable ones.”
“Stable?” You rasp, looking straight up at it in shock, not realizing before doing so that it was the first time that you had
spoken or made a true noise since all this madness had begun. Your voice is strangely unfamiliar to your own ears, when it
comes – sounding as though you hadn't spoken in days, if not longer.
The corner of the creature's lip quirks, almost as if expressing the slightest of smiles. “Stable. You are a satisfactory
specimen.”
Sitting up and standing from the chair, you glance over to the table with the computers, where a small operating mirror is
facing outward - giving you an uncomfortably accurate view of your own beastly, foreign visage. This body... was
completely alien to you. You had never seen anything like it, and you had never wanted to either. It felt so strange about
you, so strange to use, and yet it was certainly your own flesh, there was no questioning the fact. “I... I don't understand.
Why do I look like this?”
The door to the room shifts open once more, and the creature gestures over its shoulder lightly, beckoning you to follow
just as the first one had before. “Let me show you why we do this. Allow me to explain.”
Written by Doppelfoxx on 31 January 2022
FOLLOW HIM
With a repressed sigh, you fall into step once more behind the creature, and follow him out through
the easily ascending door, feeling a little weaker upon your legs than before, and a little as though
you had been napping for a long, long time. What did they do to me? Should I be more scared now,
or less?
After a long walk down a corridor not unlike the one that had led you to the room in which you had
lain upon the chair, you come to another door which slides open in a similar fashion to all those that
you had passed through already.
This next room beyond seemed to be a of a different build than the rest, a different metal making up
the floor, and a series of somewhat more comfortable-seeming chairs and couches arranged about
the space, all pointing towards one wall to the direct left of the doorway you were walking through
with the creature just in front of you. The wall in question appeared to be glass lined on the outside
with a kind of metal not unlike an electric window shade, built with interlocking chains that seemed
to be for strength. What exactly is it keeping out, you wonder.
The creature stopped in the centre of the room, and moved its hand down to a small pedestal
between two of the middlemost couches, where a single button glowed out on the white steel. “Now
look.”
The metal shade begun to slide up into the roof outside the glass much like the doors, revealing a
well lit and wide space beyond, filled with some piece of furniture like those behind you, and with
many, many dark figures; some moving to and fro, and others sitting in various positions. At first,
you assumed that they would be more like the tall, lean creature next to you and the other that you
had met so far, but it didn’t take you long to realise that in no way this was the case.
For a long, long moment, you gaze down upon the milling figures, utterly entranced as you
observed them, and stunned to silence yet again. They were almost... animalistic, in a way, though
they all walked on only two feet, and you could see that they possessed muzzles, ears, and loping
legs, clothed only in scraps of what you could only assume had been white coats – doing a
miserable job of covering the various colors and shades of fur that lay beneath.
The closer you looked, the more of a haunting feeling you got, until finally it struck you. They look
exactly like me.
Your shock was forestalled by the creature’s speech, as it walked next to you to stare down at the
figure milling below in turn. “A long, long time ago, our planet was destroyed by a virus. It took the
adults of the world and turned them into raving, insane monsters, focused on nothing but creating
destruction and killing everything that put itself in their path. We were young then, all of us. Things
were much different. But we realised before long that things would have to stay that way.”
The creature turned to you with it’s cold eyes and pale skin, meeting yours uncomfortably and
seeming somehow even more grave than before. “We would have to stay just as young as we were.
Forever, so we did so. But that's where you come in.”
Your brain spun with confusion as the thing paced away from you as it spoke. So we are truly in
space, and this is truly happening. This was all too much information for you to process, but it
doesn’t seem like your ‘captor’ has finished just yet. “Our bodies still grow old inside, and we still
die, nonetheless, for our bodies cannot exist forever without developing to the stage where the virus
will take us. We began modifying ourselves, our people, making them as different as they can be
from our own bodies while remaining, at the core, inhabitable for our minds.”
However, before the creature can continue speaking, it is interrupted by a loud, ear-splitting screech
that seems to come from all around, and wails up and down with a strong, artificial tone. The
creature jumps in surprise just as much as you do and looks around in fear – probably the first and
strongest expression of emotion that you have seen it give of so far. You glance down through the
window and see a similar disorganised reaction in the animal-creatures below as well. Yet the
longer you look, the more a pattern becomes apparent to you. The things below seem to be fleeing
from one particular corner of the room, and before long you can hear sounds of breaking and yells
just out of sight, causing the figures to scatter and run with increased speed, though it remains
unclear why.
The creature looks to you urgently. “I will explain more later. It’s happening again. Come.”
Without hesitation, you and follow the creature once more to the opposite side of the room where
another door sits, and press on at speed to the corridor beyond, leaving the room behind, and
causing you to soon be joined by several other creatures almost entirely identical to the one that had
been leading you about so far, wordlessly joining the urgent pace onwards.
The group of fleeing figures rapidly grows and grows, each new member giving you strange, half-
fearful glance after half-fearful glance before merely continuing to run in stride with the rest,
pressing on down featureless corridor after featureless corridor.
Eventually, the crowd grows too dense for you, and the ankle of one of the creatures catches at your
own, causing you to stumble and hit the smooth, featureless floor with an explosion of pain, eyes
blinded and shut until you manage to scramble to your feet, and pull yourself together, nursing your
foreign body as you struggle up.
In the moment of panic that follows, you realise that you have lost track of the figure in particular
that you were following – and at the worst possible moment, too. Before you lays a fork in the way,
and behind you lays nothing but the intimidatingly empty walkway that you had run down,
populated only by sounds of breaking and smashing in the far, far distance. The creatures are
splitting and going body ways entirely indiscriminately, seeming much more unsure and panicked
than even before, leaving you with only one choice. Who to follow?
Written by Doppelfoxx on 07 August 2022
LEFT
You grit your foreign feeling teeth, and make your decision as quickly as your fear and body’s
reluctance to move allows. Pushing on, you feel sweat begin to form beneath your suddenly all-toothick pelt, despite the fact that the air around you isn’t all that hot. In a way, the moisture made it
easier for you to continue onwards, now sliding somewhat through the vent, making more progress
with time as the shape of the metal changes, and you get used to the strange pattern of motion that
works best.
Eventually, you came to a place where the vent capped of in a dead end. Luckily, however, there
was a grate to the side of the way, and you could feel the lightest of traces of fresh air against your
face as you craned your neck towards it, unable to see anything through the thick metal bars. This
appeared to be as far as you were going to go, and so, with little other choice, you reach out and try
to jimmy the grate away like you had done to climb in these vents.
Once you were somewhat successful in this endeavour, you wiggle your form through the gap your
hands make with some difficulty, scraping yourself painfully on the sharp edge clearly not designed
for contact with bodies.
As you right yourself, turning away from the partially broken grate from whence you had crawled,
you notice that the space around you to be dark in here, almost darker than it had been in the room
you had come from, but you could feel nonetheless that it was much bigger and open. Though,
perhaps this feeling only came from the absence of boxes and from having been in such a cramped
position for such a long time.
“You're here too.”
The voice coming out of nowhere caused you to jump with a fear unlike you had ever felt before.
Wheeling around in the dark, you lift your hands in an unsure way, trying your best to defend
yourself, but stagger back against the wall and the vent as you do so, and nearly fall over before
your eyes even find where the words had come from.
At first you saw nothing, in the relative darkness of the space, and your eyes strained to make out
even the slightest details, dilated through your terror. Then, something flicked like a switch, and
light flooded your eyes – though not any light from outside, but a light from inside, that stung even
the insides of your reflexively closed eyelids. Suddenly, vision just came to you, it was as simple as
that. The change hurt like hell, it really did, pain splitting through your skull like a crack of
lightning, almost causing you to stagger backwards all over again, but once you got over it, you
could finally see, now, though in a shade of greyish, muted colours. The corners of the room,
featureless and composed almost entirely of bare metal, the well-polished floor not unlike that of
the rest of the rooms you had already been in, and the single door at the end of the space.
However, out of all things, these were not the most interesting or urgent. That title belonged solely
to the single figure stood not far away from you to the front, not much taller than you, and not all
that large, either. The creature was strangely warped in its stance to seem somewhat like an animal
and bore a muzzle that trailed dark silver fur to a body clad in little more than scraps and tatters of
what had once been white cloth above yet more pelt. Its eyes were yellow and inhuman, but there
was no question that it was watching you, and intently so, staring across the space with earnest
interest.
Finally forcing yourself to speak, you gasp out. “What… what are you?” With all this stress, it felt
almost like you were going to have a heart attack any time soon, if there was another scare.
The creature tilts its head at you, seemingly intrigued. “You’re new, I see.” It holds out its…
hands... and in that moment you realise something. They look exactly like mine.
A new wave of shock comes over you, and though it is less violent than the last, it is none the less
horrifying. That’s what I look like?! Slowly, almost unwilling to believe it, you pat at your face all
over again, feeling your features slowly. It takes a while for you to collect yourself, during which
time the creature simply stands there calmly and stares, but when you eventually do, you are still
unable to speak in anything more than a creaky, weak voice. “What is this place?”
The creature shakes its head, turning slightly from you, almost as though it is uncomfortable with
the question. The movement allows you to see more of its body – the lean, bestial form that it takes,
leading to thick, digitigrade legs – and your eyes follow with unwilling scrutiny. “Well, that’s just it.
I’m as unsure as you are.” It gestures upwards to the invisible roof. “This place specifically is just
one of the unfinished rooms. Above, however, is where the Young live, and where things like us are
born.” After spitting out ‘things’, the creature’s tone darkens. “Then, when they’re done with us,
they leave us down here to observe us, see how long it takes for us to go crazy.”
Your jaw drops at this, but the creature gives you no time to respond, and beckons once more with
its strange, unfamiliar hands. “Come. You should meet the others.”
For a moment you hesitate as it turns and begins to pace away, but soon your resolve hardens. You
are here now, and there was no running away from what secrets this place had to show.
It was time you went and found out exactly what was going on here.
Written by Doppelfoxx on 11 August 2022
The end (for now)