September Event: Creature Feature

[loveskulls]

And now, for something a little different.

The town crier, now a centaur, had a bit of fascinating news for all those who would gather round to hear him. And you will gather round, because he seems to be one of the only ones who knows what’s going on. Some moments after you drank water this day, you may have noticed a sudden shift in body parts. Perhaps you have horse legs, or wings, or a horse tail, or extra eyes, maybe too few eyes, or perhaps hooves— A lot of creatures are part horse, aren’t they?

The town crier does his duty and tells you the tale. As it happens, a wizard of local dubious renown was seen fleeing the town early this morning. Long time locals knew this to be a sign of terribleness to come. At the scene of the crime was a discarded bucket with a sludgey residue inside. This was initially nothing that caused alarm. There were many buckets of sludge around town. Yet when the investigations began, the Mistress quickly deduced that the sludge was a horrific transmogrification potion.

She has called all suspicious persons to her castle for questioning. Ordinarily, she would allow this to slide. If the people of her town want to make one another miserable, then they are at liberty to do so. But, this was personal.

Your much beloved Mistress was looking rather more furry than usual. From head-to-toe she was covered in long, silky, fur— much befitting for the most beautiful yeti in all the land.

Will you answer her call? Are you stuck in some predicament that does not allow you to attend? Or have you lost your legs entirely?

[[OOC: The ooc for this event is over here]]

Comments

[alphinerd]

I cannot say that I have. Have you?

[He definitely seems like he has experience... Or, perhaps, just picks things up quickly.]

I suppose, just like everything else, this sort of thing requires practice. Even newborn animals need a moment to become stable on their feet, and we are no different.

[meteorman]

[Or perhaps the third, best option: he's a huge nerd.]

Not personally, no, but I have studied many quadrupedal species with this body plan before -- that is, six-limbed with a humanoid torso where the neck would be on a four-limbed animal. When you travel as much as I have you eventually will have encountered beings with every conceivable body type and then some.

[That and also he's an avid roleplayer and, like many roleplayers who are also scientists, wanted to make sure the stupid fantasy creatures in his stupid fantasy tabletop game actually made sense.]

Not that I thought I would ever be able to experience it personally, of course. Talk about a unique research opportunity.

[alphinerd]

[Nerds unite??]

Fascinating... Are there many creatures like this in your world? We have quite a few sentient races, though most do not look even partially humanoid.

[It's not every day that he gets to discuss things with someone not from Hydaelyn. And, being the scholar that he is, it's no surprise that all worries and concerns are temporarily pushed to the wayside in lieu of scholarly conversation.]

[meteorman]

[If they don't unite, who else is gonna hang out with them?]

Not in my world, no, but in many of the ones I have visited. Infinite universes means infinite potential bodyplans for the organisms living therein, after all!

[Doesn't everybody just know about and accept multiversal theory? Even the people that didn't take a ton of classes on it? Ford is pretty sure they do. They should.]