Bodyswap at the House on the Hill: Session 2

[hot_mess_express]

You awaken slowly, laying in the middle of a cold, hard stone floor … and realise that you have absolutely no idea where you are, or what in all the hells is wrong with your body.

Maybe you're suddenly bigger than you remember, or smaller. Maybe you've got more limbs! Less limbs! Sharper teeth? Weird, unfamiliar powers and magic to tap into, or perhaps no powers at all? Without a mirror, it's very difficult to tell exactly what — or perhaps, who? — you look like … but maybe whoever else is around you could help you figure that out.

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[felixiamnot]

[All these notebooks— are they blank? Or is there anything in them? If they’re blank, he’ll take a look at the newspaper clippings instead.]

[hot_mess_express]

The first notebook is empty, except for one page at the back: "do it for her". The second is filled with scribbles in such bad handwriting you can't make out a word of it, with doodles in the margins. The third notebook is filled with different pentagrams and magic circles; one page, which has a sketch of the same pentagram you woke up on, has a scribble in the margin, "if they're gone by daybreak, so's all this hard bloody work".

Inside the final notebook is a coupon for a book called Warlocking For Dummies, and a lime green post-it note with "STOP LOSING YOUR KEYS!!" written in big letters.

[felixiamnot]

Well.. looks like someone had trouble keeping track of their keys...

But hey, this one with all the weird magic markings... it’s like the room we started in. If we need to find a way back then maybe this could help?

[gingerdiligence]

Hm... Do we wish to leave by daybreak, or finish this one's work?

[magicalgirladjacent]

Twelve missing people isn't work I want to finish.

[gingerdiligence]

And the dummy warlock is only looking to help one.

[magicalgirladjacent]

Yeah. That's too much cost for whatever he's trying to do.

[felixiamnot]

I don’t know how much we can do but... we should see what we can learn, right? At the very least try to accomplish what we can.

[magicalgirladjacent]

Magic markings? Let me take a look. Faito, you should too, see if you can recognize anything.

[He knows magic circle stuff, anything stick out.]

[hot_mess_express]

There's several dozen variations of magic circle, but none of them seem familiar.

Except for the one you woke up on, of course.

[magicalgirladjacent]

[Are any of these circles like an inverse to that?]

[hot_mess_express]

Nope.

[gingerdiligence]

[She glances over and shakes her head.] This is not Asgardian magic.

[And looking derisively at the coupon for Warlocking for Dummies.]

I doubt whoever made this is that familiar with human forms of magic, either.

[magicalgirladjacent]

Depends on the worlds.