Morph #1: The Awakening [action]
[Action/The Barracks]
[Rachel awakens to find herself in a large building, wearing a rather hideous sundress and nothing else. More distressingly, she discovers that she has wings. Eagle wings. For a moment, she's afraid she's been trapped partway in morph, but a moment of experimentation shows that she's still able to at least begin morphing.
And then after another moment, she remembers that she's dead. Is this heaven? I mean, wings and a white dress seems like heaven, but some grungy building sure doesn't. Where is she? What the heck is going on? She can't morph in this dress, and she can't walk around as a human with eagle wings- what if a Controller sees her?
So she casts a look around to make sure nobody's nearby, and then she shucks off the dress and slowly begins morphing into the shape of a bald eagle. It's a long, slow process, and she's still woozy and disoriented. She just hopes she isn't interrupted.]
[Action/The Plaza and the Clothing Store.]
[An eagle with a second set of wings tucked behind the first is soaring around the plaza, looking through windows, a white New Feather dress clutched in her claws. As soon as she locates the clothing store, she'll fly inside and begin browsing. Just a bird out shopping. Nothing to see here.]
[Action/Town]
[Once she's stolen obtained some new clothing and morphed into a human again, a strange girl will be walking around town, staring at everything with a mixture of confusion and dismay. Heaven, so far, sucks. A lot. Especially since everything seems to be half-pilfered from the middle ages, and half the people walking around are weird. It's almost like somebody crossed a ren faire and one of those nerd conventions. She could swear she saw a guy dressed like Spock running around.]
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[Action/Town]
I can see you're skeptical. Not that I blame you, I was too. I'm Colm Corbec, but just Corbec will work fine. I'm one of the less weird ones you'll see.
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[She shrugs.]
"Don't worry about it. I'm used to weird by now."
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Fair enough, I suppose...
[Corbec stopped. A thought occurred to him that he hadn't exactly thought to read his journal when he hadn't exactly read his journal when he got here.]
Did you get a book when you got here? You should've.
[Action/Town]
[Crap. She must have left it behind when she flew off.
... and she had no idea where that was.]
[Action/Town]
What did you do before you left there?
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"I, uh."
[... Every last fiber of her being wanted to trust him. There was no way the Yeerks were here. If they were, they'd already have tried to grab her.
But three years of paranoia and war die hard, especially when they're the formative years of your life, and she hesitates.]
".... I turned into an eagle?"
[Action/Town]
..that doesn't surprise me around here, honestly. There's stranger folk than those that can turn into eagles...
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[She smirks.]
"Just letting you know now, though, if this is some sort of trick, I can turn into stuff much more exotic than an eagle."
[Action/Town]
I'll be sure to keep it in mind.
[Corbec started walking, motioning for her to follow.]
[Action/Town]
"So, what else is going on with this place? These Malnosso do experiments or whatever, and I'm guessing they also give us our stuff, but do the people who show up here have anything in common? Like, at all?"