The Bodyswap Post

[magicademymods]

The Bodyswap Post One: Nothing Wrong With Me In the blink of an eye, disaster strikes: disaster, in the form of a chaotic misassociation of minds and bodies. Everyone immediately blames Headmaster Birony. But for once, zaniness isn't her fault; a faulty spell has collapsed and sprawled across the campus like so much mayonnaise falling from an ice cream scoop, infused with powerful chaotic energies that make it so difficult to counteract. And so here you are: trapped in a body that is not yours. Something's Got To Give At the same time, the multicolored, feathered, amorphous blob monster has emerged without warning, lurching from its attenuated connections with the two innocent students who were used for its summonings into the light of day once more. As they promised, the faculty immediately springs into action, capturing the beast in an immense and convoluted magical cage, which it promptly squirts out of because it is now the size of a cantaloupe. In this form, the creature has no power beyond annoyance, and the staff are pretty distracted at the moment (Professor King, for example, is currently a frog), so catching it is low priority. Students are advised to be cautious around it, as it has a tendency to gnaw on things like homework, legs, buildings, and complicated spellwork. On the other hand, wouldn't catching it be worth some renown and recognition -- especially if you managed it in a body not your own? Push Me Again, This Is The End Perhaps shockingly, the Sundered aren't the only people affected by this mess of Modification. Students by the dozen find themselves in the wrong bodies, and that means the Magicademy is chaos. Cat familiars given human form raid the newly-reopened Great Hall, stealing every piece of food they can and knocking down every glass, book, or valuable item left on a horizontal surface above ground height. Unscrupulous souls take advantage of the anonymity in new forms to steal, bully, swipe, or even just catch a glimpse of attractive students of their desired gender at inopportune moments. Others are taking respect of their new bodies so far that they, well, kind of smell thanks to their unwillingness to bathe. Though classes continue as normal, attendance is a nightmare. In short, chaos rules the Magicademy, and spills over uncomfortably often into those doing their best to muddle through... LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR! LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR! LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR! This is the wildcard option. We just wanted to put that in a heading. Bodies? Bodyswap? Get it? Eh? Eh? Never mind...

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[zanarkandian]

it's a...bird?

Tidus is even more airheaded than usual today. He's climbed up a tree and started squawking.

Meanwhile, there's an owl looking irritated, swooping at his head and pecking. If the owl sees a student when it's batted away, he immediately grabs a twig from a tree and flies at the ground, scratching 'help' into the dirt in the ground.

be the star player!

The wildcard option! Congrats, you can now hold your breath for long periods of time and do backflips. He's probably trying to give your body some proper exercise, weights attached when he jogs your body back up to you.

"Hiya. Guess you're me and I'm you, right?"

[woo_oo]

Webby comes across the help signal, and, not seeing who drew it, stops in place, looking around.

"Oh, I really hope this is someone actually in danger and not related to the thing I did..."

[zanarkandian]

Yes, yes, it is! The bird eagerly flaps its wings and flies over, idly pecking her hand to get her attention.

Then he flies to the dirt again.

'T-I-D-U-S. S-T-U-C-K.'

The bird makes a pleading call. Please don't make it laugh.

[woo_oo]

"... Aw dang."

That answered that, and she rubbed one arm. "Okay, so... don't be mad, but... this is kinda, sorta, maybe my fault."

[zanarkandian]

How? is what he wants to ask. But he's tired and frustrated, so he's just going to tilt his head and blink at her, hoping that communicates the idea sufficiently.

[woo_oo]

"It's not like we did this on purpose!" She holds up her hands defensively. "We were trying out a spell to try and change our species..."

[zanarkandian]

Tidus flaps his wings at her in a way that clearly says 'Why?'

He squawks for good measure.

[woo_oo]

"... Why not?" Clearly this had not been the most well-thought-out plan.

[zanarkandian]

Tidus flapped his wings angrily, crooking the tip to point at himself as he spun in a circle. He called out again.

'Because I'm a bird! I don't want to be a bird!'

He flapped his wings indignantly and landed on a bench, where he could stare at her properly. Nailed it.

[woo_oo]

"Well it wasn't supposed to affect you, or anyone else!" Webby insisted, though the guilty feeling didn't go away.

[zanarkandian]

Tidus-the-bird flapped his way closer and gently patted her arm, as if to say that he understood. But he was still unhappy.

He made a small, sad cluck.

[woo_oo]

"Thanks for understanding." In return, have a nice little head-pat. "I promise, I'll never do anything like this again."

[holdyourhorns]

Running around with extra weights is probably extra interesting when the body in question has wings. But it's hard enough for Spyro's body to lift-off and stay in the air without that sort of thing.

Meanwhile, Sparx is thankfully normal at the moment, which means Tidus would have access to plenty of secondary insight on well... BEING an awesome fire-breathing dragon capable of smashing stuff in a single charge with his horns.

"You'd know. Can't say I'm seeing a lot of pros to this whole... human thing."

[zanarkandian]

Tidus just huffs, flicking his tail.

"C'mon, there's got to be something. Swimming's pretty good. Not that we get to do much of that around here."

[holdyourhorns]

Spyro's expression on Tidus's face remains unimpressed, with the addition of a raised eyebrow.

"I can swim too. But your body can't breathe underwater."

Implying the dragon can. Or can he? Though Spyro never had a reason or chance to suspect that specific ability was impaired from the Sundering magic.

[zanarkandian]

Tidus throws back his head and laughs.

"Hah. Maybe not, but I can hold my breath longer than almost anyone. I play sports underwater."

Which is something he misses here, actually.

[holdyourhorns]

"Really? I don't think I've heard of that one before!"

Which feels like it should be pretty surprising considering all the sports and 'sports' that he's tried and succeeded at in small challenges.

[zanarkandian]

"Seriously? Guess you haven't spent much time with my old man..."

All he does is reminisce about the glory days, after all. At least, that's how it seems.

"It's called blitzball. It's played in a giant sphere of water with a goal on either end, and two teams fight for the ball and try to score goals. It's like bala-inlota in that it can get pretty rough."

[holdyourhorns]

Sounds exactly like Spyro's sort of thing, sports with plenty of roughness involved. Especially if fire-breathing is allowed.

"Sounds fun...! And like it could be easy to set up if someone knew a spell for keeping that much water in the air."