[FIELD TRIP] Indirect Visual Stimuli pg. 28: CLASS OVER

[Baneful]

Zar gestured to the offensive list. "That." he said to the Grue curtly. "I would be much obliged if you would remove it from my sight." He couldn't help but give the boil a slightly too toothy smile of his own.

Rules he was fine with and joined the queue to hand over their possessions, what little he had was a fountain pen oddly bereft of an ink cartridge and various notepads.

When he donned the pin he shifted in a familiar fashion into a human shape. It wasn't the aesthetically dazzling form he took on naturally as part of the deception and lure of what he was, but it would prove adequate for the time being.

"This should certainly be enlightening." It was Zar speak for this is going to be absolutely disastrous.

 

[Eight]

At some point the glowworm had made it onto Sibyl's head and was making itself very comfortable in one of the shells decorating her hair. She was talking to it, naming it, at least until she spotted the boil from last class who glowed like the worm did. Ohohoh! He had more worms on him! He must be where it came from! She remembered wanting to talk to him before! She was about to run to him until she spotted Gabby. She squealed with delight and ran right for the boil, throwing her arms around him in a tight hug. The glowworm was wriggling like it wanted to shout at Sibyl for being a stupid idiot and running without warning. "GAAAAABBYYYYYYYY~! Hi Gabby! Hi! You came! Yay! We're gonna have so much fun have you made more new friends yet I want to meet them all--are you okay? You don't look good." In fact he looked kind of sick...was he sick?! Oh no, Gabby! Ghosts could get sick?! No! Sibyl gasped. "U-um..maybe...should I get you a bucket or--oh! It's Miss Selene!" Miss Selene would have the answer!

But instead of giving an answer she was told to empty her pockets and show she had no 'illegal' items. Her skellphone? She never brought that with her, completely negating the point of having one to begin with. She cast a worried look to Gabby as she took a pin, hoping he wouldn't get sick.

She didn't feel any different after putting on her pin. Her hair was the same color, the same length, but the shells and pearls were gone. Her spots were...freckles. Legit freckles that dusted her skin a lot less noticeably than her usual spots. The blood that had been smeared all over her hands, wrists and face were gone, and her clothes had been replaced with an outfit she would never dream of wearing on her own.

"...These shoes are weeeeeeird.." Sibyl even took a step in them and, despite the small heel, nearly fell.

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Nio Love

 

[prolixity]

"Can do." Nahm picked up the offending, besmirched, no-longer-necessary list and ate it in several swift bites. Shredding accomplished.  

[Grey Dragon]

Empty... pockets? A stubborn expression crossed Jove's face, but after seeing some of the other students go along peacefully, he also turned out his pockets. There were three mushrooms hastily stuffed into his mouth, but aside from that all he carried with him was lint. After grumpily showing off the empty pockets, he grabbed a pin and wandered over to the first person he recognized, which just happened to be Nahm.

He shoved the pin on his coat.

And then suddenly... he was bizarrely pink. His hands were pink. Jove tried to rub them off his coat, only to realize he was now wearing something else entirely. What the Jack... He desperately wanted to see himself in a mirror, but he would have barely recognized the dark-haired, blue-eyed, freckled human child he had become. He tried to flatten his ears back, but they had become small and pink, and when he growled at those pink hands he realized his teeth were flat and stubby.

He looked up at the grue, and immediately stumbled backwards. Humans were kinda scary, and it was even more unnatural seeing his classmates taking on their appearance.

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[prolixity]

Nahm blinked down at Jove. Weird. "You're pink," he said, interested, and pinched Jove's cheek. Because he could.

His smile felt weird and small, not nearly stretchy enough, and he poked his own cheeks, tugging at the corners of his lips. "My mouth got small," he grumped, though by human standards, it was still fairly wide on his narrow, pointy-chinned face.

Grey Dragon

 

[Nothing Yet]

Nahm's answer got a weak smile in response, but nothing more; Shine just watched him for a moment before returning her attention to her feet. She wiggled her toes, trying (and failing) to move each of them individually. It helped pass the time, at least.

She was vaguely aware that the professor was speaking, the words finally registering about a quarter of the way in. This was just in time to catch her announcement that included the human world.

She froze.

"...maybe...maybe I shouldn't..." she squeaked, voice barely audible to herself, let alone anyone else. But everyone else was doing it, and their teacher looked so happy...

With a pained expression and her thoughts trained on rainbow stickers, she retrieved a pin, fumbled with it for a while, and finally just opted to stick it into herself rather than trying to fasten it with her claws. Curious to see what it would do, she looked down and...oh.

As calmly as she could, she shuffled towards Selene, thumbnail picking clumsily at her much smaller hands.

"Um, I...um...sorry, but...do humans...like this...." Her brow furrowed, and she looked like she might be on the verge of tears. She didn't mind having no clothes, but not knowing that humans walked around like this was a little embarrassing.

Nio Love

 

[mare]

Efflo made it past the security check, scurrying past Selene once his pockets were deemed empty. Sadly, his glowworms had been detained as well. The undead boil made a fuss; he needed those to live! But then he was being forcibly handed a pin and the incredibly weird transformation that followed was enough the shut the boil up. Efflo gasped, he felt warm and strange and he could breathe! On his own! He stretched his arms out, marveling at the pale, pinky skin. He marveled at the fact that he had not one but TWO shirts! Then he glanced down at his new pants with a groan, how had he still ended up with tattered ones? But his ears and tail were gone, along with his worms and despite being fully clothed, Efflo felt naked.

Since he’d signed up pretty early on the sheet, and hadn’t recognized the only other name there, meaning he had no idea who or what to expect. Which was fine, like usual he figured he’d keep to himself. In fact, he really preferred to learn on his own, other people only complicated things. And were annoying and…

Someone was shouting and squealing, and the horse’s frowned. What a loud creature. He watched as she ran over to someone and wrapped her arms around him, stomach sinking when he realized whom it was. Efflo shook his head, telling himself not to be stupid. But still, he thought, best not to intrude. They probably didn't want him bugging them anyway. Already feeling unsettled enough by the pin; he stood quietly near the gates, trying to make himself seem as small as possible.

Eight

Nio Love

 

[prolixity]

Nahm spotted the pin malfunction. He let out a loud, approving whistle.

Nothing Yet

 

[poke mattix]

There was a pause as Poke made a face at the remenants of a sign in sheet, before carefully squeezing her name into the bottle and steeping back so she wouldn't have to touch whatever bio hazard that was on it.

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Come next day, the dragoness had to literally fly to the front gates to prevent herself form being late. Though as she circled overhead in her process of landing, she saw Riyo had turned up with a boil she didn't reconise.

"HEYYY!" She called to the duo as she banked sharply, diving downwards towards them. Although to anyone watching it almost looked as if she was about to crash land into them. Or maybe this was all part of her plan to make a impressive show off-ish landing. Thankfully she didn't crash land into anyone, but she did stumble as her feet touched the ground. In a flurry of movement her wings were gone, and she went about the process of showing Professor Selene she had nothing in her pockets, then grabbing a pin.

"...Woah, these pins are pretty cool." She was impressed at how human she looked, though she did feel pretty weird.

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Pales

 

[Baneful]

Zar always felt naked without his tail, as if someone had cruelly deprived him of a key limb. And it was like the pin had. He was down thirty three percent recurring productivity without the aid of his tail. And he looked like a complete heel.

Standing up as stiffly as he possibly could, everything about his posture as formal as it was possible for a human body to be, he took a few tentative steps, one foot then the other. Toes were supremely silly things, as were feet and his knees were entirely wrong.

Humans. He was remembering why his prime instincts were oriented due murder.

He did do a double take as Shine though. And then stared with a very stern and unreadable expression. Well. He was remembering other things too.

 

[Grey Dragon]

Jove frowned and swatted Nahm's hand away from his poor freckled cheek. But his moody expression lightened at the other boil's own self-observation. The pup had only seen Nahm's smile on one occasion, but he was right... It had gotten small. The pup tried to wag his tail and was struck again by how painfully human he appeared, tentatively reaching behind and touching his backside where there should have been a tail. He felt... naked.

But at least his dismay over his lack of tail kept him from seeing his classmate's nakedness, which might have given the poor pup a ghostly brain aneurism on the spot.  

[Nio Love]

Each student was thoroughly checked, and when she found a cell phone or a bag, she instructed them to carefully put it in the pile, and then helped those who needed help with their pins. For the most part, the new pins were working splendidly! She would be happy to report their success to her colleagues at DETH when she wrote her report. She was still smiling at the thought of sending such a happy note over, when Shine walked up to her, fully naked, and wiped that smile off her face.

"Nn-nnnooo!!" Selene whispered out in embarrassment, pulling the pin off of the ghoul and hiding her body with a hug until Shine's clothing had returned. "You should definitely have had clothes there.. I think you've found a broken one, dear! I'm.. I'm so sorry!" She gave the rest of a class a look, as if to say stop looking!! And handed Shine another pin. "Try this one, please?" Selene waited, ready to throw herself at the ghoul again in case she became naked once more.  

[Nio Love]

Gabby had barely made it to the gates, grumpy and sleepy, before he was tackled by Sibyl. He caught the ghoul, lifting her up in one arm and glaring at her sternly. "Sibyl. You're going to give me a heart attack one day if you keep jumping up on me like that." Irony aside, he bopped his forehead gently against hers, and let her down, keeping her arm in his hand. His eyes roamed for a moment, before turning back to her. "Thanks for the compliment. I'm not looking forward to this - you know that."

Her questions had come in such rapid fire, that he had to take a minute to untangle them before catching what she'd asked. "New friends?" Technically, no, he hadn't, but he knew that despite being much more than a friend, Efflo still counted towards the question. "Sort of. Stop being so nosy. Come on."

When he set her down so she could get, and put on, her pin, he kept searching for that familiar shock of green. His heart sank when he couldn't find it, but he reached down to take a pin after showing Selene that he brought nothing with him. He doubletaked at Sibyl's new look, and then looked at his own pin warily, before settling it on his lapel.

It felt like he was melting. It was the most uncomfortable feeling he'd ever experienced, and as soon as he was over, he touched his face. All the lovely, cold, icy skin was gone. He was warm and pliable, and - where had most of his hair gone?!

"Sibyyyl.." He whined, tugging on his short strands unhappily. "Am I ugly?"

Eight

 

[x_Nata_x]

Off in one corner, Nukpana leaned against their designated meeting point as one might expect a high school thug to, arms folded loosely over his chest as if to proclaim his badassness, the way his shoulders hunched a little leaving him looking more like a gargoyle than a skinwalker. Dark, sunkissed skin and jet-black hair left him blending fairly well into the shadow he had claimed as his territory, only the recesses of his eyes glowed from the inner light they exhibited, a pair of gold eyes staring out from the shadowy figure lurking in the relative darkness. He hadn't spoken with any of the group as of then, watching them instead as they socialized in a manner that suggested they all knew each other, and not for the first time he wondered if this had been a terrible idea.

It had been a long time since Nuk had gone to class. Any class, for that matter, although he wasn't entirely sure he'd ever been to Selene's. This thought was validated in his mind as the professor hurried towards the gates, his eyes blinking a little with recognition before they slid half-closed again, a smirk curling his lips. The only reason he recognized her at all was because she was the one who had fainted at the gates, when he had been trying to locate his pants that one weird night the shadow whatevers had decided to show up and start eating the school. That in itself was enough for this entire field trip to have been worth it, although he wasn't entirely convinced that that night hadn't been some sort of bad drug trip and some a*****e hadn't sold him bad nightshade. Still, seeing her reaction when she saw him again would be worth not knowing anyone in their little group.

Well no. That wasn't quite true. There was ONE whom he recognized.

Grinning a little toothily, Nukpana pushed off the gate to smack Jove's shoulder a little roughly, albeit good-naturedly, reaching up to ruffle the younger student's hair. "Heeey, it's The Ball~" the skinwalker teased, nudging him with his elbow a little before he sauntered off towards Selene, pointing two fingers at his own eyes before flicking them to Jove's, then back to his own. "New season coming up. Practice. Websday. Be there."

And with that, he turned his focus on the professor. Sidling up to her stealthily, he shot her a devious little grin, his eyes glittering a bit as he reached into his pockets, turning them inside out. The only thing that fell from them was a stick of gum and a pack of cigarettes.

... oh. Maybe he should have thought about that. Those were probably going to be confiscated.

Oh well.

"Don't worry. Found my pants," he offered her helpfully, his grin broadening as he picked up one of the pins from the box, sliding the thin needle into the denim waistband of his jeans.

Grey Dragon

Nio Love

 

[Nothing Yet]

Oh, a hug. Shine's eyelids drooped, and the managed a happy sigh before the pin was removed. She wasn't dumb and she was getting hugs - and a whistle from someone...Nahm? Everything was going so well that she almost wanted to refuse the new pin, but that would probably make Selene mad. She didn't want to do that.

The new pin was no easier to put on, but she managed to properly snag it on a piece of fabric this time. As soon as she did, her fingers got a lot less complicated to manage, allowing her to fasten it. Maybe these tiny hands and little claws weren't so bad after all. Selene got a half-smile before she stopped to look at the clothing that actually existed now.

She smoothed out her dress and curiously plucked at a piece of lace at the bottom. It was a pretty dress, she thought, but the thing around her middle was kind of uncomfortable. She considered asking Nahm to take it off for her, and moved to find him.

Before she could even take a full step, she teetered and fell, sprawled on her side with a look of astonishment. What were these? She stretched down to poke at her boots as if she were touching something hot, jerking her hand back each time. Awful. Just awful.

But she still needed to move somehow, so she crawled over towards the boil that might have been Nahm, gingerly patting his own shoe when she reached him.

"H...hi. You look, um...really good." She nodded for extra affirmation of this, which ended up awkwardly executed since she was already trying to look up at him.

Nio Love

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