Theories
"So what could be causing this?" you think and try and come up with a list of possibilities and a way of testing them. If it's carbon dioxide, you're doomed to remain clueless; this world doesn't even know about the stuff, let alone keep track of it. Natural causes, well seems quite an extreme change and there should be legends about massive climate shifts. These people would know about volcanoes; they wouldn't have records of the CO2 emissions from volcanic eruptions, of course, but if volcanic activity had recently increased, that increase would be recorded. And methane, that's another greenhouse gas, which comes from the gut of pretty much every mammalian creature. So does anyone keep an eye on cattle and horse ownership? Does this world have the kind of bureaucratic record-kee—"Aaaahh!"
Yours is a shout of surprise, not pain; the spell which kept you in humanoid shape just ran out, quite without warning. Your forelegs flowed out of you like an irresistible tide, just in time to catch you when the return of your lioness-body forced you to fall forward. The worst part of it all is that you were just between two closely-spaced bookshelves... and you're wedged in there too tight to move!
Written by Catprog & Cubist on 26 September 2010
