Happy February, folks! The hotel is chugging along as it always does and nothing really seems that out of the ordinary, actually. Mr Bennet is at the front desk as per usual, greeting new guests, checking out old ones, generally being mediocre at his job but there's something a little... off about him this morning. A little more Springtime focused. Is it the suit? No, no, that's the same as it always is. Is it the face? No, Mr Bennet's face is unable to be perceived by eyes as per usual. No, it's the —
The bunny ears?
HOP TO IT
It seems Mr Bennet has developed a pair of bunny ears and a tail overnight, but he's not the only one. Every staff member and guest of the hotel will find that they have grown a pair of animal ears and a matching tail when they wake up that morning. It's nekomimi time, y'all! But not just neko, characters will find themselves with all categories of ears and tails. Cats, dogs, rabbit, deer, fish. Whatever animal best suits the characters are what they'll find themselves sporting.
For all intents and purposes, these will be part of your characters bodies and real additional limbs. It will hurt if someone hurts them and they will bleed if someone cuts them. There will be some added bonuses as well as characters will also take on the traits of the animals they become. However players want to interpret this is up to them — it can be light like a cat person just being more aloof or heavy like a spider person having multiple eyes and limbs. Whatever is most fun for the player and most hectic for the character, of course.
This effect will last till the end of the month.
Of course, an additional note: For characters who already have animal ears and/or tails — they will either keep those ears and tails and develop more traits of that animal. Or they can become something entirely different for the month. Player preference!
ANIMAL CRACKERS
Mr Bennet has found this to be hysterical though so he has set up a stall in the main lounge that's advertising animal crackers. They're a little less cracker and more cookie though, and larger than the traditional animal cracker. They also come in all shapes and sizes. If you can think of the animal, you can have an animal cracker with it. There is a dog cracker. There is a whale cracker. There is a spider cracker. All kinds of things. Even fictional animals, like gryphons and dragons!
The only catch is — once your character eats the cracker they will become that animal entirely. This is probably tipped off by the bunny rabbit hopping around the lounge in a little hotel jacket, huh. Thanks Mr Bennet. The effect of these crackers will last as long as the player prefers and characters are free to eat another cracker and become another animal afterwards.
One thing though, as the animal, characters will still be able to speak in animal form. So there's that!
The animal crackers will also be available till the end of the month.
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You're seriously considering eating that cookie to find out, aren't you?
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[Well—
He clears his throat before correcting himself.]
I can't deny I'm curious, but I suppose there are other methods to be employed first. There are any number of spells that could identify the magic responsible at least in part.
[Still... he's thinking about it.]
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The creature formerly known as Kaveh shifts from foot to foot before making a gentle hop toward the seat of the chair.
He crash lands on it. Give him a break, it's his first day.]
Well I'm standing here. If they're not...uh, dangerous, to the other person, or if you could figure out how to reverse this? I'm willing to participate.
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Gale winces at the crash landing, pausing midway through reaching out a hand to lend him aid— should he require it. That looked rather unpleasant, but it's possible that bringing attention to it will only make it that much more embarrassing. For his first day as a bird, really, Gale thinks Kaveh is doing quite well.]
That is the hope. If I can sort out what makes this particular transmutation spell tick, so to speak, I should be able to undo it, in theory. It would be a simple matter of working the spell backwards. I don't believe it to be dangerous, but your willing participation is much appreciated— no doubt we'll reach a satisfying conclusion much more quickly with aid.
[Thank you for volunteering!]
To start, how do you feel? For a bird, that is. Well, I hope?
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I don't know how birds are supposed to feel. Small? Sort of...alert? Things definitely don't look the same.
['Working the spell backwards' just makes him think that he'd have to somehow eat the cookie in reverse. ...That sounds horrible.]
But it didn't hurt, or anything like that.
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['Small' may be a succinct answer, but the implications of it are great, indeed.]
No pain or noticeable injury is certainly something to be grateful for it. I do believe this to be rather harmless in the long run; if the change in your stature and senses are all that feels out of the ordinary, then I think we can rule out the spell having any ill-effects. I don't believe our host would allow any harm to come to any of us, anyway.
[Although clearly, being a bird is not ideal.]
All that in mind, I do believe it might even be as simple as use of Dispel Magic, though I've never used the spell against magic from a planar system other than my own.
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This would be a little easier to take if you didn't sound like a researcher about to get a lifetime of funding.
[For the discovery of the world's first human-turned-duskbird or...whatever he is. Oh, gods, please don't let it be a dusk bird.]
But I think I've heard of that, uh, spell. Or one just like it?