You are standing by a tree
There are 3 paths.
One appears to go to a jungle,
one appears to go to a cave,
one appears to go to a beach,
you could try and climb the tree,
there is a nearby shop you could go in,
or you could do something else.
So what's its going to be?
Written by catprog on 01 April 2003
You sit under the tree
You sit under the tree.
Suddenly...
Written by catprog on 21 May 2003
Plant change
As you sit against the tree you start to feel funny. You look down to notice that your clothes have turned to bark.
You run away but when you hit a sunny patch you stop as you are now rooted to the ground. Your legs then start to combine with wood.
The change continues until you are a 6ft tall tree.
Written by on 20 May 2007
Yell for Help
You watch in stunned silence as the bark grows up your legs and pushes out, forming a tree trunk where your legs once were. Below the surface of the earth you can feel your toes and the heel of your foot digging deeper and deeper into the soil. You start hyperventilating as the bark crawls up your sternum. You finally find it in you to call out for help, but all you do is run out of breath. You try and suck air back into your lungs, but the bark is up to your neck, which means your lungs are most likely gone, replaced by tree. You're still trying when the bark reaches your lips, and your mouth and throat fill in with wood. The last thing you see as the bark covers your eyes is a vast canopy of leaves covering you. You feel your branches continue to grow, and your roots delving into the ground. Then there is nothing. You're hearing is gone, as is your sight. Oddly you can breath, smell, and taste through your leaves. You can feel the bark, the roots, and every single leaf. It's fascinating when you think about it.
You start to calm down, and enjoy the peaceful breeze blowing though you. You could stay like this...you shake yourself out the thought mentally.
"Help!" you cry out with your mind. At first no one answers, but then you feel a tiny voice in your mind.
"You'll be a tree for a hundred years, give or take," the voice whispers. "You can't talk to the other trees until your roots touch theirs. Concentrate and you'll be able to make them grow."
You try, and manage it. You branch out your roots, seeking another to talk to, so at least you won't loose your mind. Then the voice speaks again.
"That's right, you're doing it. Right now you're the only tree not connected, so once you touch another, you'll be connected to the whole forest." Then she adds with a giggle "of course then you'll be stuck as a tree forever, but that's not so bad is it?"
You stop immediately, but is it too late?
Written by An Anonymous Wierdo on 19 March 2008
Whew! That was close.
You stop immediately when you hear whoever this is say that. You can hear her giggling in your head.
"Gotten cozy with the locals yet?" she asks "Let me just check. Noooo...no your not hooked up yet, I'll bet your close though. Close enough that if the other permanent residents should find out you're here then they'd probably start branching out to look for you. Yes, knowing them that's exactly what they'd do. It's a good thing they don't know. Of course it could be a very bad thing for them to find out. So, how about this. You be a good boy, or girl (I forget which one you were frankly), and do what I tell you, and make me happy, and I'll keep your attendance as a forest resident a secret. Get me mad, and I'll rat you out, or is that...root you out?" she laughs at you again.
It isn't much of a choice.
Written by An Anonymous Wierdo on 19 March 2008
You wisely agree
You realize that making this woman mad, whoever she is, would be a very bad idea, you don't know for certain that she has to do with what just happened to you, but you also don't know for sure that she's not responsible.
Uhhh....hello? you think
"Yes, made a decision yet?" the voice says.
Yeah, you think I'll do whatever you want. But I'm not sure how much good that's going to be at all, considering I'm a tree.
"Well I'm sure you're aware by now how that kind of thing can change when you least expect it. I can give you a more mobile form if needs be." She pauses for a moment.
"As to what you can do for me, there are two things I can think of. The first is that you replace yourself with more plant life. One will do if you stay rooted in place, but if I let you walk around it will have to be five new plants." You feel a delicate feminine hand playing with one of your leaves.
"But if you're too moral for all that, then maybe you're current form can give a home to something other then sparrows. You see there will be a gathering of various nymphs for a celebration of some weird moon celebration thing. The dryads only get to come if it's in their neck of the woods, so to speak, because they can only be a certain number of miles away from their tree. I've been experimenting with trying to solve that problem and I've got a spell I'm ready to test, a dryad willing to give it a shot, and all I need now is an oak tree that used to be human. Hint hint." The voice says.
"So...what will it be?" She asks.
Written by An Anonymous Wierdo on 24 March 2008
Wait aren't Nymphs...
<spanFullTF>"Alright... I'll let you try out the spell." You say reluctantly, but anyway to get back to being human or at least partially human is better than this.
"Great! That's Fantastic!" she giggles and then you feel a tingling in the base of your trunk. You feel your consciousness getting sucked downwards into a new body as it steps out of the tree.
As you step out you collapse to the ground sucking in large gulps of air. But there is one problem. You look down at your chest where two orbs are hanging and you feel your new weight that has grown there. At least you are wearing clothes.
You scream in alarm and back up against the tree you just came out of. You touch your face now and realize that you aren't the same person you once were. You are now Female!
"Like it?" the voice says. Then you see her jump from the tree landing nimbly on her feet, "My name is Vivia by the way." She holds out her hand which you take.
Do you like this new form?
Written by Anonymous on 11 March 2013
The end (for now)