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]

"Training dummies? How can those be dangerous?" He wondered, immediately picturing a row of Gyro robots gone wrong, shooting lasers and fire everywhere.

[healingincantation]

"Well, remember what I said about the emotion magic? Well, just before I got there, there was a festival that mostly focused on the emotional magic connected to love, but I guess... To balance it out, I believe, there was some magic about hate, too. People were getting out their anger by fighting those training dummies, but too many people felt the anger too strongly."

She sighed. "The magic brought the dummies to life a little while after I arrived. It was really bad for a while, but a bunch of people were able to stop them. I even helped, a little."

[couldabeenturbo]

"So they wanted to balance everything out but there was more hate than there was love?" Dewey made a face, shifting on his feet uncomfortably. Something about that really hurt: especially for someone who really did think it was most important in life for people to have fun, and be happy.

"That ... that's awful."

[healingincantation]

"Hey..."

Rapunzel knelt down on the ground, to get right on eye-level with Dewey. "It was awful, but it's not like Verens was a bad place. There was only so much hate because people were focusing on making it. I'm sure of that. I met so many kind people there, Dewey."

[couldabeenturbo]

"Oh." He looked up, met her warm eyes, and instantly felt a little less awful. It was hard to feel bad with friends nearby, after all.

"I think I get it. Like when you're making a bowl of cereal and you add too much milk, so then you need to get the cereal out again?"

[healingincantation]

"Oh, yes, actually!" While Rapunzel didn't have experience with the kind of cereal Dewey meant, it was easy enough to carry the comparison over to something like making a soup and needing to more vegetables if it got too salty. "Like I said, it all worked out. And after the dummies were stopped, some people put together a petting zoo to bring more love back into Empatheias."

[couldabeenturbo]

"Petting zoos? Awwww! That's cool. What kind of animals did they have? Were there any really weird or crazy ones? Still cute, obviously. Like sheep with eight legs or buffalo with no eyes?"

[healingincantation]

"Actually, yes! Not like those, but there were shrimp with legs they used to bounce all over the place."

Was that still cute? Rapunzel had wound up thinking so.

Care to start wrapping this one up?

[couldabeenturbo]

"Leggy shrimp. So like lobsters." He shrugged a bit. "I guess that's kinda neat. I wouldn't want to pet a shrimp though, ew." He made a face at the thought. "Way too slimy. .... But now you're making me hungry. I might look like Louie but I still have my appetite. You wanna go get lunch?"