Morph #1: The Awakening [action]

[xenamorph]

[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.]

((OOC Note: In-morph replies will come from xenamorphs ))
 

Comments

[xenamorph]

"... Pokeymon?"

[Oh, she knows what they are. She's from the year 2000. She has experienced Pokemania.

She, however, is one of the kids who never learned to pronounce Pokemon because she didn't care.]

"Like the little, uh. Yellow electric thing that all the ge- uh, kids were into?"

[weaponry]

Yeah! That! One of my floormates has one of those Pikachu things. He named it Linda. I know a couple of other people have a pokémon too, but that's because their native worlds have pokémon.

[ Think about Rachel.... You can be a little electric yellow thing! ]

[xenamorph]

[Wait. Okay. Wait. First scrolls and now Pokemons.]

"... Am I completely insane?"

[weaponry]

I don't think so? [ She shrugs. ] You seem reasonable enough, like you have a good head on your shoulders.

[xenamorph]

"I just woke up in some weird Ren Faire type village in the middle of nowhere, with wings on my back, talking to a girl whose first response to me turning into a bear was 'Can you turn into pokamons too?' To say nothing of what was going on in my life before I got here.

I'm just saying, I've been wondering if I'm insane for a while now."

[weaponry]

Well, I'll be honest. Transforming into animals doesn't really shock you when you see a giant sharkman that tries to drown you. It's just lower end on the "what rattles Tenten" scale.

With that said, Luceti is really weird. It brings in people from random worlds and then forces you together, hence the pokémon comment because I was wondering what world you were you from. You're trapped here, and, sometimes, the Malnosso, who are responsible for us being here, do some really freaky things to us. One time I believed I was a kangaroo and angrily demanded to be petted, another time I was King Arthur and some middle aged man was my excalibur. This place is strange, and, no amount of questioning if you're insane changes the circumstances, but it's always helpful to note everyone around you is crazy too.

[xenamorph]

[Blink. Blink blink.]

"I feel better already."

[weaponry]

Glad to hear it! Now then, there should be a guide in your journal that explains where the place is. If you want something to eat as you mourn what your life has become, there's a pretty good restaurant here, or, if you want something more Chinese, I can cook some at my place. [ Living in a Japanese inspired place when you're a Chinese themed character seriously sucks. ]

[xenamorph]

[You are way more chipper than she can handle right now, Tenten.]

"Uh, I think I'd rather just... try and get my bearings. I'll worry about food later."

[weaponry]

All right! Do you have a place to stay or anything? Generally, house these things work, is that you find an empty house or apartment and then just kinda claim it as your own. Just put something there and then it's kinda yours to do what you please with it.

[ I do not know if you've ever played Animal Crossing but right now I am imagining Tenten as Tom Nook and Rachel as the most unenthusiastic villager ever that just really wants to leave and the mental image is slaying me. ]

[xenamorph]

[ooc: I have not, but I'll take your word for it.]

"Uh, sure. Grab a place. That sounds good."

[Almost as an afterthought, she starts picking up the clothing racks she knocked over as a bear. One of them comes apart in her hand.

Great.]

[weaponry]

Don't worry about that. The shop resets and repairs itself usually within a couple of hours. [ She's made the same mistake of feeling bad when someone broke open the wall for her. ]

[xenamorph]

"Oh. Uh. Okay."

[She still feels weird just leaving it all lying there, but what the heck. She'll just go ahead and shove everything out of the walkway so people can get by.]

"Well, I should probably stop bothering you,"

[Not that she seems bothered. Remotely. Which continues to disturb her.]

"Uh. Thanks for your help, and I'm sorry again for the bear thing."

[weaponry]

Don't worry about it. It happens. It was a perfectly natural reaction. [ Pardon the pun. ] If you need anything, just give me a shout over the journal-book thing. It's kinda easy to figure out on your own.

[xenamorph]

"Yeah, I'll keep it in mind, uh..."

[Wait.]

"What was your name? I'm Rachel."

[weaponry]

I'm Tenten. It's nice to meet you, Rachel! I live in the community house one if you ever need anything. The rooms should be listed in the main entrance.

[xenamorph]

"Will do. Thanks again."

[She smiles and waves somewhat awkwardly and heads out into the village.]