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[dranksforthememories]

WHAT what you want
WHERE where you want
WHEN Day ""135""

[The rain has cleared, but it appears to have left some people with a case of the sniffles! The magic sniffles. Even if you've never been sick a day in your life, you might not find yourself immune. Then again, maybe you have a terrible immune system and you're fine. I'm not the magic sniffles police.

Symptoms May Include:

- runny nose
- sore throat
- fever
- thinking you're going to cough or sneeze but actually what comes out is A BURST OF THE TRUTH
- waking up in someone else's bed
- joint aches

At least the sketchy pop-up pharmacy at the mall has a special on tissues and nyquil?]

Comments

[howintreeguing]

I'm... not sure, but... I'm willing to take the risk... I think.

[selfidentitytheft]

[rolls over on the bench to dig a bottle of cough syrup out of his totebag]

What else could go wrong, right? Here, take one capful.

[howintreeguing]

We... will find out. Thank you.

[GULP]

[selfidentitytheft]

[gives a thumb's up]

[howintreeguing]

...it has a strong taste.

[selfidentitytheft]

Yeah, all cough syrup is like that. I think they flavor it extra so it's not bitter?

[howintreeguing]

...if it... changes my cellular activity in... some tissues... am I supposed to allow it...?

[selfidentitytheft]

IIiiii don't think it can work unless it makes changes?

[howintreeguing]

I understand.

[fidget. fidget.

...sneeze.]

[selfidentitytheft]

It, uh, might take a little to kick in.

How human-y is that body, anyways?

[howintreeguing]

It's... mostly... human... although, I did make some... adjustments... for example, it can... photosynthesize.

[selfidentitytheft]

Huh. That's gotta be handy.

[howintreeguing]

Yes... I wasn't sure... how easily I would be able to obtain... foods appropriate for humans... so I thought it would be... a useful safety feature.

[selfidentitytheft]

Definitely. Humans can eat like a seagull, but man do we need a lot of food.

[howintreeguing]

...I would like to try... eating more, but... it seems my sense of taste... is altered at the moment...

[selfidentitytheft]

[sniffles, and his face goes off shifting again]

Yeah, that's the congestion. Smell is a big part of taste.

[howintreeguing]

Is it... making you shift... involuntarily?

[selfidentitytheft]

More like I don't have enough concentration not to shift. Everything's cottonballs upstairs.

[howintreeguing]

...

...that... is a metaphor, isn't it...??

[selfidentitytheft]

Oh, uh, yeah. My body does whatever, but there is an actual proper real brain inside my skull.

[howintreeguing]

Oh, good...

[selfidentitytheft]

If I could shift into inanimate matter, that'd be wild. I dunno how some people do it.

[howintreeguing]

[tugs at the skirt hem of their dress]

I made this... that way.

[selfidentitytheft]

Whoa, seriously? You greew clothes?

[howintreeguing]

Yes. It was... a lot simpler... than growing this body.