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New Species Event - Mass Interaction Log

Who: Anyone!
What: All in here
When: Today, Tomorrow, Until April 2nd
Where: Anywhere in Luceti!
Summary: People in Luceti wake up as something they weren't before. An elf, a gremlin, a vulcan, or perhaps a mermaid? Try living in someone else's shoes... if they can even wear those.
Rating: Not recommended for those with weak constitutions, raging hormones, shipping goggles, or people just too cool and attractive for this kind of thing.

No need for LJ Cut! Mass action style stuff all around town. You can use this if you don't want to make a post. Or you can make a post anyway. Have at!

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[It's not something that happens every day. Raine doesn't usually even venture that close to the fountain to begin with.

It's probably very noticeable that while the woman was seen falling into the fountain, there's hardly a trace of the woman now. Instead, this creature--admittedly woman sized and perhaps the coloring is a bit familiar-- seems to be in her place instead.

Disorientation isn't even the word to begin with.]

[Albert walks over to the fountain, peering into it in search of the woman. He's well aware of what Raine thinks of swimming and bodies of water, so...

...

He stares at the large animal in the fountain. Upon confirming that there is nothing else in the fountain, he returns to where the animal is.]

...Raine?

[Her head feels very muddled for a few moments--so much that she can't even think of answering the boy right away. What was her purpose for coming here, and what had happened?

Fountain. She was in the fountain, in that wet cold water. And yet--almost as soon as it had gotten cold, the cold had gone away. The wetness of clothes--even the initial panic had been replaced by an odd onset of disorienting calm.

Her body was different. Her body had warped... to something else entirely. Her eyes focus again, suddenly, taking in the presence in front of her. Searching. There's familiarity there, though also a change. Experiment.

For the moment she can't make the words. Her strange eyes acknowledge his query.]

[He stares back, searching those eyes for recognition. He's not entirely worried, as other run-ins have given him an idea that people do indeed remember themselves in their new forms, but the added shock of suddenly being in the water... Well. He can't be entirely sure.]

Raine, are you hurt?

[Hurt.

Everything seems to be sinking in slower, somehow. As if she could somehow tune out what had just happened, because it didn't matter anymore. Had she escaped, somehow?

No. It was just this body. And maybe she really was sore, underneath it all.

His question. In order to answer it she couldn't hide like this. But it just felt so odd, communicating with that body. Her head moves from side to side, though that searching stare remains. No. Not hurt.

The attempt at speech doesn't go so well at first either. She's certain she can manage it, somehow, but at first what comes out is just an odd warble. Huh.]

[...Of course. He'd caught her just as she came into this transformation. It would take awhile for her to adjust, especially if she was trapped in the form of some aquatic creature. But he recognizes that motion of shaking the head back and forth.]

Don't worry. The fountain isn't so deep that you can't climb out. [Just in case she's inwardly panicking.]

[Of course she was panicked, somewhere in there.

Her gaze moves to the rim of the fountain. Falling in with a thin woman's body made a difference from climbing out with this one, but the attempt would have to be made. After all, she couldn't just stay in the fountain. That would be silly.

But how to ... navigate? She puts her arms--no, they're flippers, and so oddly short-- forward, attempting to turn her body so she can push herself over that edge. Is it really something she can climb out of alone?]

[He gets his little body closer to the fountain edge, peering in as the creature that is Raine tries moving around. He's somewhat reminded of when she had changed into a mermaid before.]

[The body feels like it should be able to move smoother, but maybe that would be in the case with more water. Right now adjusting to her new balance is another matter. She's just not used to that extra weight.

She slowly pushes herself forward, her tail flipper splashing in the cold pooling water.

Maybe she would be able to get over if she just didn't think about it.]

[Albert may be thinking along the same lines, watching how slowly and carefully Raine is being while trying to get out of the fountain.]

Don't overthink it. There seems to be some instinctual element to this experiment.

[Right. It seems easier said then done at first, but then--she remains perfectly still in that position at the edge for a moment as she tries to inwardly focus--just to withdraw, in that effort of Not overthinking it.

And then she moves. It makes the climbing out a lot less clumsy. An almost fluid motion. It's just... strange. And all too easyto pull in and let that other mentality take over.]

[Albert stumbles back as Raine climbs out right near him, but manages not to fall over. He keeps his distance from the creature.]

So you are not confined to the water.

[It's easier to get a look around once out of the predicament. Being on the ground is not very comfortable. It's harder to move around, too. Not very practical.

The boy in front of her had already suggested listening to her instinct. She could feel another odd compelling--communicating might be more difficult in this form, but perhaps, if there was another...

And all of a sudden she feels something there, her humanness, and suddenly the seal's body feels almost surreal-- and weighs more like a very heavy coat that she very much wants to be out of. The head, at least, slips back slowly, almost like a hood, revealing her face as she looks blankly toward Albert with her own eyes.

She still doesn't feel very much like herself at all.]

[And from Albert's point of view, it appears as if Raine's form is again changing, and the skin of ... whatever she was ... was now being sloughed off.

He looks blankly at Raine. Very blankly, like he's trying to process what this is that he's witnessing.]

[Her hair is a little longer, eyes a little more suited to the ocean's coloring, though somewhat haunted, with all that just happened in succession. And of course, wet and damp from the initial fall into the fountain. The seal's skin slips further, though she though she slowly gathers it about herself like a shroud as she pulls herself upright to a sitting position.

She stares blankly back at him for a few moments, for the first time taking in that he had been affected as well.]

I-I think I'm fine. Now. [Maybe. She wasn't sure. She didn't feel firmly rooted.] Did something like this happen to you?

[He shakes his head slowly, blinking as he watches Raine's face emerge from the creature's skin.]

Nothing like that, no.

... mmm.

You're so small. [And those ears... they're definitely noticeable.]

And you're-- ah. [What does he even say about that skin she's still wearing?] You're wearing that creature's skin.

... yes. So I am. [But she doesn't seem too perturbed by that at the moment.] A week of this, then.

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It seems that way. [He continues watching Raine, then looks around.] I suppose you have even more reason to stay away from the water.

... yes. [Her voice is a touch absent, at that. She slowly gets to her feet.] I just want to get dried off, for now. Are you sure you're all right?

I'm fine. I have already had time to adjust after my shift. [He gestures.] Back to the clothing store, I suppose.

I see. [Now that he mentions it, he does seem almost comfortable. There's something familiar about the style of dress--and something about those ears too, but she can't place it just yet.]

Good thing that it's in the vicinity.

[He makes sure Raine is following before he picks up his pace a little.] Your physical appearance has changed as well, Raine.

[She follows after him, picking up the pace when he does once she's certain of her footing, though she blinks a little at his words. Maybe she'll have to look at a mirror. She did start this transformation off as a sea animal, after all.]

... Oh? Is it a major change?

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