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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[couldabeenturbo]

Bodyswap: Louie

Dewey heaves a sigh. Ten seconds in Louie's body and he's already so not about this. "Hey," he says listlessly, "wanna hear about my latest stupid get rich quick idea?"

Bodyswap: Huey

NOT AGAIN. At least he can pull this one off in a way that won't make him want to throttle people. He parks his tail in the library and picks up a book, setting it up in front of him. Instead of "studying", though, he's scribbling in a notebook. The glyphs and lists look nothing like whatever's in the book - he grabbed it completely at random. The astute may notice he's not actually studying.

Bodyswap: You?

Well, this is new. Enjoy being a three-foot-tall duck in layered blue shirts or Eiather robes ... with a gigantic timepiece following you around. CHRONOS looks very confused, either way, and his ticking starts to get louder as a result.

Dewey!You raises an eyebrow. "Buddy, calm down, I'm over here."

Bodyswap: Louie

[healingincantation]

Rapunzel looks down at the bored young duck with confusion. He looks a like like Dewey - one of the brothers he'd mentioned, she's almost sure of it.

But why does he want her to hear his idea if he thinks it's stupid?

"Um... Sure. Maybe we can work on it?" Not that she knows anything about getting rich, quickly or otherwise.

[couldabeenturbo]

His first instinct is to say what he'd say: You're so nice, how are you real? Did they make some weird featherless Webby clone? But that's too weird, and too nice, for Louie, so he reins it in, thinks for a split second, and then says, "Nuh-uh, if you work on it with me you're gonna want partial credit and a cut of the take. This is just plan sharing so if you miraculously start doing the same thing, I know you took the idea from ... meee."

[healingincantation]

Rapunzel shrugs that off. "Alright, then... I'm guessing you're one of Dewey's brothers, huh?" A beat as the obvious thought occurs to her. "Or at least, you look like him right now."

[couldabeenturbo]

This was easy, as the two of them tended to have similar answers to that one. He just had different delivery.

"What gave it away? I'm Louie, the best one. Obviously."

[healingincantation]

She can't help but smirk at the charmingly childish answer.

"Ah, I see, then. It's nice to meet you, Louie - I'm Rapunzel. I'm a friend of Dewey's."

[couldabeenturbo]

"I know," he said, a little too quickly. "Er, I mean, he told md about you. You had a lizard."

[healingincantation]

She did catch how quickly he responded, there, and she can't help wonder if she really is talking to Louie, or... Hmm.

"Yes, that's right. A salamander."

[couldabeenturbo]

"What? No, those catch on fire, we use them in potion class. You said you had a ..."

Lightbulb moment.

"Aw, phooey. ... hi, Punzie."

Bodyswap!

[unswervingcompanion]

One day Hendrik woke up and he suddenly was about three foot tall. His hands were gone, and even the sound that came out of his mouth when he noticed the white feathers sounded pretty darn duck-like.

Hearing himself, the wings went to feel a face and purple hair that suddenly weren't there. Standing up, he raced to the mirror and his eyes got as big as saucers! How in the world had this happened? Where was his armor? And what in the heavens was going on?

[couldabeenturbo]

Meanwhile, Henrik's voice was letting out a terrified scream nearby, as Dewey woke up to a sight he hadn't expected to see for maybe forty more years: no feathers.

"I'M MOLTING!!"

[unswervingcompanion]

Feathers flew in quick succession to each body part and he ran to the mirror. But, now he couldn't even reach the flocking thing and looked up at the desk that was in front of it. How to get up there?

He didn't have hands but if there was one thing Hendrik was good at, it was being a stubborn mule..or duck in this case. So he moved to the chair nearby and moved it to the desk with what little muscle he had.

It proved to be a momentous task to get his tail up onto the chair but once he did, he hopped up onto the desk and looked up at himself in the mirror. And immediately he regretted this decision as he almost feinted.

[couldabeenturbo]

Molting was not cool. It had to be a spell. Dewey got up to scramble for his spell book, and nearly tripped over the double length of his legs.

"What the..." Too uncoordinated to stand, he crawled to the mirror and pulled himself up into view.

"Oh, phooey. ... So does that mean..."

He scrambles out of the dorm into the hall, immediately searching for his friend? Himself?

"Hendriiiiiiiiiiiiick.....!"

[unswervingcompanion]

Catching himself before he fell over in a dead feint, Hendrik tried to steady himself. But his legs wouldn't obey and he ended up flat on his..err..tail feathers, his short webbed feet almost doing a complete split.

Struggling with trying not to look in the mirror, his eyes caught the tail and feathers and he realized that he only had a blue shirt on! He was completely naked! Ok, well pretty damn close to it really.

In his panic, the knight raced off the table only to fall on his face on the floor. Pain coursed through his body but he knew that he had to try and find Dewey.

[couldabeenturbo]

It was a comedy of errors, all told. Dewey took several tries at walking on Hendrik's freakishly tall legs, but finally managed to wobble his way to the room where they usually met before knight lessons.

"Seeing myself flat on the floor like this is super weird. ... Uh. I guess you noticed we have a problem."

[unswervingcompanion]

A very short person stared up at the tall person. If this was what it was like to be a duck, Hendrik really didn't want anything to do with it. And it took him a few tries for his voice to sound something like himself, though he could still hear the duck in it.

"How do we change back?" It was all the knight cared about at this point.

[couldabeenturbo]

"Iiiiiiiiiiiiii... don't know yet." Dewey made a face. "It might depend on if we're the only ones this happened to. If it's a curse, we need to find the object that reverses it. If it's a spell, we need a counterspell. If it's an artifact, we need to return it where it belongs ... annnnd if it's a dream we just need to wake up."

So saying, he reached down and pinched Hendrik's arm.

"No, huh? ... Welp, not a dream."

bodyswap : huey

[woo_oo]

By now, Webby is fully aware of the mess she and Yuugi made, and she needs help undoing it. So when she spots the Smart Triplet, she sighs in relief, dashing over.

"You have no idea how glad I am to see you!"

[couldabeenturbo]

"Iiiiiiiiii dunno," said 'Duey', lowering his book to give her a level stare. "Puh-reeeeeeetty sure I do. Sorry, Webster, your prince is in another castle."

[woo_oo]

What in the world would make him think she would get that reference?

"Look, me and a friend did a... not great thing by accident, and I need your help fixing it."

[couldabeenturbo]

Right. They hadn't gotten around to Whiffle Boy 20X0 yet. Every time they were on the brink of teaching her to play, the call to adventure had thundered through the mansion in a Scottish brogue which had brooked no argument.

Either way, he narrowed his eyes. He didn't want to be right....

"Rrrrriiiiiiight, go oooon?"

[woo_oo]

"Okay, so..." She winced. "My friend Yuugi and I wanted to try and find out if there was a spell that would allow me to be a human like he was, and him to be a duck like I am."

[couldabeenturbo]

Eyebrow.

"So you're totally the reason I'm not wearing blue right now and have to keep helping people with their homework, is that where you're going with this?"

[woo_oo]

"Kinda sorta maybe... yes." Wait. Blue wasn't Huey's color, unless...

"... Oh. Did you already... switch around?"

[couldabeenturbo]

His eyebrows shoot up about as high as they're capable of going, and he shuts the book he was only halfway caring about.

"What do you think? I had to help someone with geometry this morning, Webby. Ge. O. MEH. Try. There is totally a reason there's a meh in there!"