To the few who fiddled with the Cheats option they didn’t amount to anything of use with whatever codes they attempted to input randomly, Kendal never had been one to make such things easy on anyone of course. The moment everyone’s characters were finished, the screen gained a small box that read “Processing…” as it seemed to be loading the information of their characters into the game. It was about a minute or so before a ping was heard as all the screens seemed to suddenly flicker… before going white… only to flash all sorts of colors, blinding each of the players and making them each suddenly dizzy… and then they would each feel a hand grasp onto their faces,” Welcome”, was the garbled words they would hear before they felt a tug, and then utter darkness as they each lost consciousness... the sound of the same voice laughing as they descended into darkness assaulting them even then.
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Group One: Ashley, Vera, Anna
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Ashley came to, feeling… quite off as for one it felt like “he” was wearing less clothing and yet still felt comfortably warm. As Ashley came to, Ashley found the reasoning quite clear upon looking down at “himself” as SHE was quite clearly not a male… well, not fully as there was quite a familiar piece of male anatomy Ashley could feel was still a part of… herself. The fur on Ashley’s body and the equipment on her person also helped strike home that Ashley was not home and that this body she found herself was utterly not “his” usual one. As Ashley recovered, it would be hard not to miss the darkness of the rocky chamber he/she was inside of… the ground under him/her made of wood and… moving? Perhaps this was some sort of elevator or lift going down? Though Ashley would lose focus on this at the sounds of groaning coming from behind. (70 Gold)
Anna woke with a headache as she opened her eyes, revealing a dark chamber… the rocky walls of which seemed to be moving as she felt the wood flooring under her shaking in turn… wherever she was she was being lowered. As she stood up, she felt a little… off, the first thing she’d notice being her teeth felt completely wrong… and from there she’d feel how different her body now was, the biggest thing of notice being the green skin she now seemed to have. She was wearing some padded clothing… a pair of goggles on her head as upon discovering these she’d also notice her hair color was a strangely natural looking pink, this of course in turn made her recall the Goblin character she’d made… which she apparently now WAS. At her sides she found some holsters, one with a Pick-Axe and the other a Shovel. As she rose, she’d also notice how… different her hands were, it at this point she’d notice the furry form of a… Mole Girl of some sort being nearby, staring at her and what seemed to be an Elf lying on the Floor beside them. (Equipment: Padded Clothing DR 1, Pick-Axe 2 Dam, 110 Gold)
Vera woke feeling oh so wrong… mostly due to the extra appendage between “Her” legs as Vera woke and stood up… the room was dark, this much she could tell, yet everything seemed easily viewed to her, though upon the sight of the Mole Girl and the Goblin girl in the lowering lift they seemed to be sharing, it wouldn’t be too hard to realize things were not normal. A quick inspection of “herself” revealed SHE was now a HE and given all Vera had seen, it wasn’t hard to realize that HE was in the body of the dark elf character that HE had just finished making. The room was silent, minus the sounds of gears shifting from the lift continuing to lower, Vera basically boxed in with a Goblin and a Mole person for the moment… as they were boxed in with Vera, though at the very least they were each armed in case one of the others started something. (Wooden Bow and 30 Wood Arrows 2 Dam, Leather Armor 2 DR, 150 Gold)
Group Two: Beth, Axel, Azura
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Beth woke from her cat-nap, eyes opening to reveal she was inside of what appeared to be a hollowed out tree… and a massive one at that as the roof seemed reaaaaally high up. As she made her way to her boot clad feet, it would quickly become clear something was different… a quick inspection revealing the fact she had a tail and an inhuman level of balance that seemed actually normal to her at the moment making it clear she wasn’t in Kansas anymore. She was wearing some pretty loose clothing as per the design she’d set for her character, four throwing daggers smaller than the two daggers she found were more likely to be wielded. She had become the Cat woman character she’d made, though she didn’t have much time to focus on this as she’d notice the two other forms in the room with her. (Equipment: Clothing, Small leather pouch, 4 throwing daggers 1 Dam, 2 Daggers 2 Dam, 80 Gold)
Alise woke to find herself feeling utterly moist, her body feeling just… different. Once she had a chance to look herself over she’d realize why, the sight of the nearby Cat Woman looking her way giving her a clue she wasn’t home and she certainly wasn’t herself anymore… the shade of blue her new skin being just the same color she’d fought over when making her Nereid character as well. It wasn’t hard to make the jump, though how this could be at all possible was hard to fathom… the fact she still had humanoid legs at the moment at least answered THAT question for her. Of course this led to the question of whom the Cat woman and the Elvish woman whom was only now getting up were and just where the hell she was… and finally, where were her friends and how could this possibly be happening? (120 Gold)
Axel woke, feeling the most difference due to the missing piece of male equipment between his legs, and the new parts of himself on his chest area. As “he” stood up, he easily spotted the forms of the Blue skinned… water nymph or whatever she was and the humanoid cat woman, both whom seemed as clueless as Axel was about the place they were at. However, Axel felt something else they didn’t… a sense of peace filling “him” and helping him think straight on the situation… it almost like the tree they were in was speaking to Axel, helping Axel deal with the fact HE was now a SHE… at least a little bit so Axel wasn’t having a panic attack or so. Axel of course wouldn’t find it hard to jump on the idea that SHE was inside of the game and in the body of the very character “he” had spent making along with the others… were these other two part of his group or was he on his own here? And either way, where were the rest of his friends? (Wooden Bow and 30 Wood Arrows 2 Dam, Leather Armor 2 DR, 160 Gold)
Group Three: Barrett, Amy, Xillia
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Barrett woke up feeling awesome, even more so then usual as he slowly got to his feet… finding himself in what looked to be a Temple of some sort, religious symbols he’d never seen before on the clear glass windows, along with an altar with a book resting upon it, though what it was about he couldn’t tell where he was currently standing. He was now clothed in… armor, heavy armor that he could still move about pretty well while wearing, a sword at his side and a shield on his back. As he got a look around, he’d spot the two clearly not human forms lying down on the ground, each slowly getting up and groaning as they woke up. They looked like things right out of Kendal’s game… and given what he was clad in and where he apparently now was, he either was dreaming or this really was the game itself… perhaps some sort of virtual reality even? (Short Sword 3 Dam, Small Shield/Block, Splint Mail DR 5, 140 Gold)
Amy woke up, her head feeling just a bit heavier than usual… as she found this was due to the jewelry apparently on her head and the horns now growing out of her head. She spotted Barrett nearby… in heavy armor, a shield on his back and a sword sheathed at his side, his hair spiked up to pretty much anime standards, Barrett pretty much looking like he was going to some sort of cosplay convention, only the armor and weaponry he had on him were real. She herself also spotted what seemed to be some kind of… demonic orc to her right, she herself in turn found she wasn’t in her normal body… but the very character she had designed to play within Kendal’s game, the location and everything making it hard not to wonder if they were somehow inside of the game… it certainly wasn’t virtual reality as she was fully inside of the body of her own character and everything. (4 Throwing Daggers 1 Dam, 80 Gold)
Xilly woke up feeling quite different, mainly due to the new piece of equipment hanging between her legs that she certainly didn’t have before. Her body felt like pure muscle, like she could bear hug someone to death if she wanted to… and as she got to her feet she found the armored form of Barrett happily looking himself over while what appeared to be some kind of sexy succubus like woman was getting to her feet like herself. They were in some kind of temple as Xilly looked herself over, being able to see her new form… it being the very character she’d made to play Kendal’s game. Given she was with Barrett and someone else, it was more than likely she was with the real Barrett and one of the others of their group… but that left six other members unaccounted for, and the big question of how all this was possible. (Great Axe 6 Dam, Leather Armor 2 DR, 110 Gold)