Brought Down to "Normal?" [Closed]

[meat_mooks]

||Attention, Attention. The following personnel please report to the Observation Deck. Attention, Attention. The following personnel please report to the Observation Deck.

Goliath
Farseer Alastirra
N'tho 'Sraom
Kang
Rainbow Dash
Crematia||

When the summoned gathered, mission information was displayed on the Obs Deck for them to see:


Planet Designation: Hendersus Villae
Status: Terrestrial, H-class
Non-sentient life: Minimal flora, aggressive nonsentient fauna.
Semi-sentient life: No
Sentient life: Yes
Water: 25% of planet's surface
Climate: Primarily volcanic with frequent ash and lightning storms, dry and hot at volcanically active equator, temperate seas to the north and south poles.
Landscape: Variable. Much of the planet's landmasses are constantly being reworked by lava flows.
Air: Normoxic concentration: 31% oxygen, 60% nitrogen, 2% xenon, 4% trace gases, such as hydrogen, krypton, and argon.
Air Pressure: 93.8 kPa (kilopascals) = 13.6 psi (pounds per square inch)
Sky: Pale red, when visible.
Sun: Class G yellow star, distant orbit and dim light.
Warnings: Not suitable for crew incapable of flight, or without superhuman endurance.
Mission: Search and rescue Zarom Ghartha, missing GIA wizard, last seen en-route to investigate severe magical disturbance detected in the area of the planet. Crew is advised that native fauna is likely to be antagonistic, native sentients unfit to assist beyond the offering of information.

Comments

[elementofloyalty]

"...oh sweet Celestia, it's like Applejack and Discord had a foal."

She dropped her head into her hands. Applejack would never forgive her for that mental image and neither would her own sanity.

[governorkang]

Quirking an eyebrow, Kang sighed, muttering a few more curses, and began fixing his clothing so it wouldn't get in the way. The leather armor, however was far too large for him and impossible to fight in properly. He paused, thinking, and looked at Goliath, "I think this'll fit you better now. I'd rather not leave it here unless I have to." Hiccup had done an excellent job making it. "Do you know how to use a sword? I won't be able to carry both it and my axe."

After a moment of messing with his belt, he remembered Crematia's state of undress. "I can lend you my tunic, if you'd like."

[not_the_philistine]

Goliath frowned at his clawless hands for a moment. As if having his natural form taken from him a second time was not infuriating enough, this time he was not subject to a magically implanted notion that he had always been this way. He felt just as alien in this body as he supposed he ought to have felt, had his mind been fully without enchantment when Puck had first played his shapeshifting mischief on the clan.

"I can wield it." He held out his hand for the sword. "Armor I am less used to, but I will care for it for you."

He tried to growl, but the sound came as merely a sigh in his newly human throat. "It seems our captor has some quarrel with any species not human. What point does he think he is making by taking our natural forms from us?"

And could they ever change back? That was a deeply imperative question.

[mercyisweakness]

With Kang's suggestion, Crematia snaps out of her funk and glares at him with as much draconic dignity as she can manage with the primitive muzzle. "I don't need that," she snaps. "What I need is that filthy little worm on a pike. I will break his bones and strip his flesh, carve out his eyes and pull out his teeth . . . "

She goes on this for a while, detailing every single gory aspect of what she will do, how she will do it, when it will happen and how long it will take. She is remarkably creative in dishing out the mathematical equations on how long this man will last while dishing out the worse torture possible.

Somebody, quick, interrupt her. She'll never stop.

[elementofloyalty]

"Uh," Rainbow Dash said. "As... creative as all that is, maybe instead of doing horrible things to him, we should get him to change us back instead."

She struggled slowly to her feet, looking down as if she expected to plummet over any second. Curved spines, what is this sorcery?!

[governorkang]

Well, Kang hadn't expected Crematia to accept the offer. He had also expected her to be angry, but he was still a little surprised at the details of the torture she was rattling off.

"I don't know, and I don't care. I just want my normal body back and to see him dead," he said, with nothing but seriousness in his tone. The armor was removed, and set on the ground next to Goliath before he went to help Rainbow Dash. "Try to remember to step heel first when you walk. It'll make it much easier."

[not_the_philistine]

Dear God, Crematia. For a moment, Goliath was uncomfortably reminded of Demona - if his genocidal ex with her undying hatred had a slightly more vicious streak.

"We cannot kill him immediately. Otherwise we may remain this way forever - or longer than we would have, had we gotten the caster of the spell to lift it."

Goliath knew just enough about magic to know it was too complicated to risk the lifting of their spell for the sake of vengeance.

[elementofloyalty]

She took exaggerated steps at first, following Kang's advice on walking, but frowning as her feet found the ground rougher than hooves would have. Fortunately she was in good tune with her own body, and this form seemed to carry a certain level of reflex with it.

"Okay. I think I've got the hang of this," she finally said. "So let's find this guy and make him regret he ever messed with us!"

[mercyisweakness]

Crematia huffed and walked off, her steps coming easily to her. She had been human before, after all, when it was prudent to do so.

"Oh, he will regret it."