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.
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 Forest Path
You deliberate for a little while, pondering what feels like it could be the safest course of action - you know you aren’t going to get anywhere if you dwell in the lake for too long. Finally, you decide that while the wate feels nice, you want to try by land first and see where this weird forest path leads.
You climb out of the little lake and start down the path between the trees.
As you move, you note that this feels weirdly man-made, rather than a natural path - the way it has formed between the rows of trees and how it’s smooth dirt, devoid of rocks or weeds.
You head onwards, regardless, since this information doesn’t seem to be important right now - and instead you look ahead of you, to the strange cave-like thing you saw from the lake. As you get closer to it, you see that it is some sort of cave sticking out of the ground, with trees growing all around it, preventing you from seeing anything beyond.
You get close to the opening of the cave - there are stalagmites and stalactites poking out, looking like fangs on some gigantic mouth. Yet inside is actually lit, enough where you don’t feel like you’d get lost in the dark if you ventured in.
Written by Hollowpages on 19 May 2019
Into the Cave
You ponder it for a few seconds then decide, why not, and go in.
The instant you step into the cave, you notice several things at once: first, you notice the change in temperature, as the air in here feels cool. Not icy to the point of discomfort, but there is a definite change, and you feel you need a moment to adjust to this. The second thing is the fact that the ground beneath your feet is smooth and cool as well; it doesn’t feel like rock, but rather… like marble.
You are surprised by this since it feels so very random, but, you press on and venture into the cave. The way forward is rather self-evident - the cave leads deep in, and appears relatively well lit. Too well lit, you feel, since there are no obvious sources of light.
A few minutes trek by as you get deeper into the cave and begin to notice it’s growing brighter - the light takes on an orange hue to it, and you swear it’s flickering the deeper in you go. After some time passes, you come to the source of this and find that there are lit candles poking out of the cave walls on both sides.
You are now confused to the brim by this, since you swear it feels more like someone has been here before you. The candles are vivid and strong in their light, dripping little teardrops of wax every few seconds, but there are so many, you question who would have the time to come here, make these candles - or put them in these spots - and then light every single one.
You shake it off. This whole scenario is strange.
The candles guide you onward, and you keep your wits about you. The temperature remains a steady cool the whole time, even though when you get close to the candles, you feel the warmth radiating from them.
Eventually, the cave opens up, and you see it is even brighter now. You rush forward and come to a stop at the opening - your eyes go wide and your mouth falls open as you gaze upon a massive oasis within the sanctity of the cave!
Dipping down before you, there is a large lake, bigger than the first one you found when you left the strange room. Yet the lake seems to change depending on what direction you go further in, and you pause to take these all in.
To the left, you see that the lake shrivels into a point - and when you peer over, you see there is another opening down before, as if the lake is pointing toward it. You can’t tell from where you’re standing - you’re too high up - but you swear you can see the faint flickers of candles coming from it, which means that it’s possible the path continues that way.
To the right of the lake, you see and hear a very obvious waterfall - the lake seems to expand even more, and then become a waterfall. Peering that way, you can’t see what lies beyond it, since it goes right down. The waterfall sounds very large and potentially steep, however, and you consider it might be dangerous to go that way. But then, you don’t know for sure.
And then, going forward…
You frown and nearly strain your eyes to see that, no, you aren’t seeing things: the way forward appears to turn the lake into solid ice - the change, much like everything else, is weirdly instantaneous; one instant, it’s water, the next, it’s solidified into an icy path that keeps pushing onward too far for you to see.
You have three options, clearly, but you can’t make them from where you’re standing. You glance down and see that the water is deep, and far from you, but you feel you could make the jump alright.
Written by Hollowpages on 25 May 2019
Dive into the lake
You hesitate for a few seconds, then leap forward, careening down until you hit the lake with a mighty splash. The water seems to embrace you - you don’t feel any pain, only mild stinging, and you soon swim upwards until you are safely at the top of this massive lake.
Now, you think, is the time to choose what way you want to go: just like before, you’ve got plenty of options.
Written by Hollowpages on 29 May 2019
The end (for now)