The Sinking Feeling You Get When You Eat Magic Food

[bears-omnitrix.livejournal.com]

Welcome meatship crewmembers to the instrument of pure silly.

It had been a long period of waiting, but a prank was about to be issued after these dire dark times. As such, tables were set up around the WITCH Bus and other locations, unmanned stands where Lemonade and Brownies were available with the compliments of your friendly companions.

Do you dare risk chocolately goodness or sour-sweetness to discover it's dark delicious secrets?

(ooc: tag around, bug others and feel free to continue to madness. IC duration is about a day. Unless you deliberately take more with you. As a reminder, Lemonade brings you up ages to a good looking adultish level. Brownies turn you into kids. GO NUTS. Refer to the ooc post for details and ask questions there.)

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asdfso cute

[alterniantaurus.livejournal.com]

"Umm... are you okay?"

Hi, Billy. Large gold and brown eyes are peering at you in concern over the edge of a wheelchair seat. You might not have spoken to the troll before, but maybe the horns and chair look a bit familiar?

*...adds Tavros's name to spellcheck*

[morphitudinous]

"...if you define 'okay' as being alive and at a level of health that affords no significant disadvantages, I suppose I am. But I don't know how long that state is going to last."

Billy picks himself up, and...wait, what's he going to do now? Right, glasses. He crawls forward, groping for them. It takes a minute, but there they are. Now to push his over-long sleeve back and hold them in front of his eyes.

"...are you Tavros? Alex's friend?"

[alterniantaurus.livejournal.com]

Tavros grins a little, liking the way Billy talks. At his question, the troll grub blinks twice in surprise.

"Um, yeah, that's, who I am. I didn't know, that you knew Alex."

[morphitudinous]

Billy nods. Interesting that the age regression would function somewhat differently with Tavros, but he doesn't comment on it for now.

"I do. He's one of our best hackers---a critical task in our department, especially considering that I come from an era with far more outdated computers than his."

This is the point when Billy starts to worry about their status. "Have you seen age regression move any further once it takes effect, or is it stable?"

[alterniantaurus.livejournal.com]

That gets an enthusiastic nod from Tavros. Alex is amazing with computers; he's constantly impressed by the things Alex can accomplish without breaking a sweat. The troll only knows one guy who might be better at codes and hacking, and he's not currently on the ship.

"Umm... in all honesty, I've never been, age regressed before. I hope I'm done. I don't, uh, want to be an egg."

[morphitudinous]

Billy briefly glances at the others, then gets to his feet unsteadily. It's not easy to hike his suit up enough to accomplish that.

"I'll do what I can, but I suspect that this is magic. A technical solution would most likely be incompatible."

[alterniantaurus.livejournal.com]

Tavros tilts his head curiously at that remark. Billy seems remarkably composed about all this, even if he's having trouble with his clothes and glasses.

"Have you, um, done this sort of thing before?"

[morphitudinous]

Billy shakes his head. If the Ohm attack had happened slightly later in his timeline, it would have, but...

"No, but I've experienced similarly disquieting problems. I once had my personality displaced in the body of a female friend due to an experiment's malfunctions. We agreed to never speak to each other about that particular experience again."

It still brings a little flush of embarrassment to his face.

[alterniantaurus.livejournal.com]

"Oh, wow, that sounds really, awkward. Do you, uh, do experiments like that very often?"

This guy sounds interesting to Tavros, if a little scary. At least he seems nice for a mad scientist.

[morphitudinous]

"It wasn't the intention!" He looks flustered. "I was attempting to create a thought transfer device that would allow us to communicate in a way similar to what some call psychic powers. Two wires were switched, causing our entire personalities to transfer instead."

Billy's still embarrassed about that. "...anyway, it was possible to reverse that. Someone with magical ability should be able to reverse this as well."

[alterniantaurus.livejournal.com]

"Uh, sorry, I'm sorry," Tavros looks about as contrite as a larva possibly can right about now. "I didn't, mean to imply, uh, anything that could be taken as, offensive. Being able, to do that sort of thing at all, um, is pretty impressive in my book."

[morphitudinous]

Billy nods, reaching for a strip of cloth and removing his glasses. He'll have to tie these on.

"I'm not angry with you---it was just a painful memory. And I had to promise never to repeat that experiment."

[alterniantaurus.livejournal.com]

"Well, then... sorry, um, for, bringing it up. I didn't know."

Pause.

"If, magic made us all like this, do you think, uh, one of the magic users can fix it?"

[morphitudinous]

"They should be able to. I'm not as familiar with the Mystical Department members as I should be. All I can say is that Nanoha Takamachi is the department leader."

Billy just hopes it can be fixed at this point.

[alterniantaurus.livejournal.com]

Tavros ponders.

"I don't think I know, uh, anyone named Nanoha. I know, uh, a girl named Miku in the magic department, though. She's really nice. And, maybe those mages that post on the channel sometimes. Uh, Mei-Xing, and... Ali... something?"

A pause.

"Maybe not, Mei-Xing. She yells at me, whenever I type."

[morphitudinous]

Billy nods. "Then we'll have someone address the department members and request a solution."

A sigh. From what little he knew of Mei Xing, he could believe it. "She's extremely critical of grammatical errors, right? We can have someone else deliver the message."

[alterniantaurus.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, um, normally, I would have, uh, done that by now, probably."

He waggles a stubby appendage at Billy.

"Typing like this would be, uh... interesting, to say the least."