Blessings and Curses II - The Challenging

[Ookalf]

Hey, hey, easy there... *Ookalf summons up vines from the ground to grab Elliot's arms.* Let the guy go, will ya? This isn't very hero-like behavior!

[Whatevr89532]

Whatevr himself doesn't seem too bothered for someone picked up by a super-strong fox-girl. He thinks calmly for a second and answers the fox-girl's question first: "I think there were at least five or boy forms given out in the last incarnation." Then he gets a..concerning grin, not helped by the fact that it exposes some sharp teeth. "Hey, did you know I can cheat if I feel threatened?" He tosses the coin casually backwards and it land on the ground behind him, shining a bit ominously.

[Harri-chan]

Elliot winced as the vines wrap around her slim arms, but it wasn't until Whatever tossed the coin that she lowered him back to his feet. Nudging him aside, she leans forward as much as the vines will allow her, and then bends forward. Having not been brought up being taught the proper way to wear a skirt, this just resulted in even more of her new panties being displayed as she looked at the shining coin on the ground.

"What do you mean... cheat?", she asks, her ears perked up and alert, her purple eyes fixated upon the coin. "Did you throw it for your turn?", comes her next question. "And you... I put him down... get these things off me... ", she complains, trying to tug herself free from Ookalf's creation.

[Ookalf]

Sure, sure... *Ookalf releases her vines, letting Elliot go free.* Still, grabbing him in the first place probably wasn't your best idea ever.

[Whatevr89532]

"Thank you," says Whatevr, brushing himself off and leaning over to pick up the coin. "I mean I can flip the coin without someone asking and decide what it lands on, in defiance of the strict randomness rules of the usual game. Hm-hm." He displays the front of the coin, which says '490', and then a purple mist starts to come out of Elliot's body. She finds herself starting to get smaller and weaker, and her sense of magical knowledge and power reduces as well. "A high-level curse form, but there's still some chance of overriding it." Whatevr tilts his head to one side. "As the administrator, I'm not allowed to play the game. suppose I could take on another look if it made you feel better, though."

[Harri-chan]

Elliot slumps onto her knees as Whatevr scoops the coin up from the floor, and her purple eyes follow it between his fingers. Her ears flattened slightly as he revealed it's face and explained it was a high level curse form. Her nose twitched as the mist began to rise from her skin, and she gasped when she realised her clothing was getting larger against her body, and her new found strength was beginning to fade. There was a tingling in her mind as knowledge was taken.

"But I let you go!", she whined, and her blonde hair flicked across her shoulders and her back as she turned her head to look over at Ookalf for support, her tail curling up between her thighs, letting the skirt finally actually cover up her butt.

"You made me let him go! I should have kicked his butt!".

[Ookalf]

It's the fact that you grabbed him in the first place that's the problem! *Ookalf sighs and shakes her head.* Do you really not get that?

[Whatevr89532]

"Do you think you could have kicked my butt?" says Whatevr, in a tone that suggests curiosity more than anything else. "I technically have less magical power 'cheating' with this coin than I normally do, but werewolves aren't exactly known for being weak or fragile."

Meanwhile, Elliot's shrinking starts to take on more specific targets, as her recently-developed curves start to dwindle off: Her chest deflating, her hips narrowing, so on, so forth. Her hair starts to shorten, too, and her voice rises in pitch, becoming steadily less mature. Her clothes shift around, first shrinking to fit her but then taking on more drastic changes. The skirt gets shorter and shorter; the hoodie turns red and pulls itself together, zipping itself up, as the sweater's material thins out and its sleeves shorten. Her ears and tail remain like those of a fox, but shrink at the same pace as her overall size loss.

[Harri-chan]

Elliot's expression was defiant... at first. Her narrowed eyes glared up at Whatever... until she felt the skirt shrinking upwards over her thighs, and her hands immediately grabbed for it, trying to hold it down, unaware her tail flicked up in the back again, lifting the garment to reveal her embarrassing, feminine underwear. The sight of her chest deflating brought mixed emotions... she hadn't exactly wanted breasts, but... perhaps they were better than where she seemed to be heading now. The fox girl squirmed as her hoodie zipped itself together, and she put her hands down on the floor with a groan of frustration as she gave up on trying to prevent her skirt from getting any shorter.

"You... knew this was going to happen?", she whined in her higher pitched voice, her ears pressed flat as she looked up in embarrassment.

[Whatevr89532]

"That..depends on what you mean by 'this'," says the werewolf. "If you mean the target form you're headed for, yes. Once the coin's decided all it decides, I have to handle the details like that. Otherwise you wind up with a supposed-blessing form that looks like a bunch of disjoint unrelated pieces hastily glued together."

As Elliot goes down still farther, the hoodie keeps enough of its length to just barely cover her hips, so that when the skirt finally shrinks its way completely out of existence she at least isn't totally bare. Her chest flattens completely, and the top under the hoodie turns into a tight white t-shirt, and then she finally stops getting smaller. Her hair stops off just above the shoulders, framing a small, round, now-green-eyed face. The fox-girl feels much weaker than she did a moment ago, but is actually about as strong as an average adult male--which is still pretty unusual. More importantly, she gets a bit of mental fuzz for a second and develops an urge, but not quite a compulsion, to obey the orders of anyone who looks older than she does.

[Harri-chan]

Elliot looked back down in surprise when she felt the skirt disappear entirely. Her fingers curled around the bottom of the red hooded top, blinking a couple of times as she slowly pulled it up, and then yelped as she saw just her panties beneath it, and quickly tugged it back down. A puzzled expression briefly passes across her face, and she lifts a hand to rub at the side of her head before it passed. Very slowly, she climbs back to her feet, cheeks rather red, a hand holding one side of the hoodie down against her thigh, while her tail was still doing the complete opposite in the back.

"Okay... maybe I deserved that", she muttered, her gaze shifting back and forth between Whatevr and Ookalf. "Does this mean I'm losing the game?", she asks. "I got one good thing, one bad thing... and... I'm not sure about the other thing... but Ookalf only had one go! She should go again... ".

[Kether]

*he walks up shaking his head almost sadly, and then with a more playful tone, "Poor Ellie what would your mother say with you dressed like that in public, no pants, no skirt"

[Ookalf]

Elliot looked back down in surprise when she felt the skirt disappear entirely. Her fingers curled around the bottom of the red hooded top, blinking a couple of times as she slowly pulled it up, and then yelped as she saw just her panties beneath it, and quickly tugged it back down. A puzzled expression briefly passes across her face, and she lifts a hand to rub at the side of her head before it passed. Very slowly, she climbs back to her feet, cheeks rather red, a hand holding one side of the hoodie down against her thigh, while her tail was still doing the complete opposite in the back.

"Okay... maybe I deserved that", she muttered, her gaze shifting back and forth between Whatevr and Ookalf. "Does this mean I'm losing the game?", she asks. "I got one good thing, one bad thing... and... I'm not sure about the other thing... but Ookalf only had one go! She should go again... ".

Huh? Oh, ah, I'm not sure that's exactly how this works... But sure, I'll go again if it'll make you feel better. Maybe an item this time?

[Whatevr89532]

Whatevr shrugs. "I'm not sure if winning is a thing. I mean, winning or losing the challenges is a thing, but I suppose otherwise you're winning if you like your current state, all blessings and curses accounted for."

"I guess you want another random intensity, Ookalf?" he says, flipping the coin again and then holding a hand over it so no one can see its result quite yet.

[Harri-chan]

Elliot bites her bottom lip as Kether teases her over the lack of anything worn from the waist down aside from her panties. She seems rather less argumentative now, her green eyes curious as they shifted around to focus on each person as they spoke, and she waited eagerly for the coin to be revealed after Whatever had tossed and caught it, tail swishing from side to side behind her in a very gentle rhythm.