Wear It
You struggle up the tree and touch the costume which comes alive and starts moving. Of cause this being a magic costume that it too be expected. The thing tries to wind itself around you, as if it wants to help you put it on! Its motions are rather feeble, however; it clearly will not succeed in being worn by you unless you’re willing to cooperate with it.
You accept it and move your limbs into the costume and it accepts and soon they are covered in the costume material. Almost as if it is feeding from the power it accelerates the change and soon you are now a male kitsune. Looking around you find that you have been teleported. looking around you find yourself in a forest overlooking what to be a Japanese village.
As happened when you put on that sphinx costume -- was it really less than three weeks ago? -- you find that you’ve acquired a goodly bit of instinctual knowledge of your new form, and even a little bit about the world this form belongs in. You know that you’re a kitsune -- a kind of fox-spirit found in Japanese cultures -- and that kitsune are tricksters. Not malicious ones; rather, kitsune tricks are intended to be educational, teaching their victims about themselves. Which doesn’t mean the victim will necessarily enjoy the experience, of course... but you can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs, now can you?
Written by Catprog & Cubist on 26 January 2011
