aurorastation | Trial Announcement

I'm going to be running an bodyswap explora trial! It is not intended to be a trauma game, per se, but there's likely to be alarming situations and danger, and injury is possible.

The sessions will run for approximately 4~5 hours each:
Saturday 21st - 2PM PST (9PM GMT)
Wednesday 25th - 12:01AM PST (7AM GMT)
Wednesday 25th - 11AM PST (6PM GMT)
Friday 27th - 6PM PST (2AM GMT)

(ALSO IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO RUN ONE OF THE PM SESSIONS, or a separate one, please let me know! P L E A S E.)

!! Please sign up by Thursday 19th if you intend to play! I need time to organise the swaps, and you need time to make your temporary journals. Additionally, remember that part of the fun of bodyswap is the Mystery of who's who.

Sign up HERE with your character names; you can play two characters, but please try to put them in separate sessions. Then comment below with the following information:

EDIT, NEW INFO:
Note on magic, powers, etc: If you're playing a character who's magic is tied to their soul, it doesn't mean that it's compatible with the body and you will not be able to use it for the duration of the game.

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CHARACTER DETAILS:
Name: Solar Flare
Team: Senna
What's it like to be your character?: Chances are, she's gonna be a pony. However, her hair clip will allow someone to change between forms. Up to you if they figure that out.

As a human, pretty normal late teenage feeling wise. Sense of touch is somewhat sensitive thanks to years of fur, but nothing extreme. Solar herself is actually fairly athletic.

Also she has a large tattoo over her neck and down her back to her side she got after snake game. It's in both forms. If for some reason your character consumes meat, you WILL get sick, her body is entirely unused to meat products. Eggs, milk, and fish however, are safe to eat. (Ponies will apparently eat fish, thanks existence of Hippogrifs making that fact known.)

As a pony: Is a pony. While possible to balance and move on hindlegs, it's very hard to do, especially over time. Very posable legs though, so no worries there. Hooves can also hold things. How? No idea! It also seems like if the pony THINKS about their hooves holding a thing, it will fall, so it's probably some subconscious tactile telekinesis magic. Their tails are also somewhat prehensile. It can be manipulated to scoop or cover things. No fine motor skills in a tail, but it can be used to throw a ball so yeah. (Ponies are Weird.)

Singing. Random dance numbers are an acknowledged phenomenon. You want to do a random music number because it's thematically fitting for what your character is doing, have at.

PLEASE do not lose either her hair clip or necklace.

Powers and abilities: In general: Fairly good at taking a magical hit, she can get up again after a magical blast. Extremely strong mental defenses, though not invulnerable. She's able to resist charms, byproduct mental alterations (such as memory loss due to time loops), and at least slow down the loss of memory caused by a memory stealing artifact.

The Power of Friendship. Probably not applicable, but gosh, if you're having SUPER DRAMATIC FRIENDSHIP moment with someone and need rainbow lasers, go wild, have fun fam.

Human: Ponying up. Any super emotional singing or said dramatic power of friendship moment while human will lead to getting pony ears and extra long hair. Potentially an outfit change. It's very glittery and rainbowy.

Pony: Solar is a unicorn and thus has unicorn magic. Unfortunately, most unicorn magic runs on knowing the MATH and SCIENCE behind a spell. Which is unlikely for your character, but they WILL have access to telekinesis and Solar is STRONG. You want to lift something the size of a house? That won't be an easy lift, but it can be done. It can also be used on multiple directions, that just depends how well your character can focus. Telekinesis can also run wild if the user is inexperienced. Also wild bursts of magic can happen if the user is in a dangerous, life or death scenario, but it's very much uncontrolled chaos in that case. Magic is all channeled through the unicorn hour and there is a magical red aura around her hair and anything she's using the magic on.

ELEMENT OF HARMONY: Okay, so this. Sorry you have to read all this, but ponies are bullshit and so are Elements of Harmony. Solar is currently in possession of an Element. In her human form, it's a necklace. Its inside her body as a pony. So the Element can be accessed in either form.

BUT HERE IS THE THING.

Elements of Harmony react in personalized ways. Solar gets empathy/telepathy/memory reading magic from hers because what she represents is Empathy. And this can change. Because when Solar used an Element as a bad person, her power was Mind Control and Altering Of Others, the bad inverse of those abilities, and that was using Twilight's. So anyone in possession of Solar's necklace does not get Solar's power.

They get what would be their Element of Harmony.

Now what's a person's element? It's a thing that's a core part of them and a core part of how they relate to other people. Sunset went from controlling others to doing her best to understand them, and her powers made that easier. And sometimes this is a little vaguer on how it works.

Dash is speed because loyalty means being at someone's side when they need it. Rarity is shields because generously giving protection. Fluttershy is talking to animals because it makes it easier to be kind and ask for kindness from different sources. Applejack is strength because the truth is unrelenting and undeniable and strength is a pretty honest power. Pinkie Pie is explosion of sweet because that's chaotic and fun. Twilight is magic so she gets the epitome of unicorn magic, telekinesis, and the versatility of such.

So what is your character's element of harmony is for you to determine and what that power is. How well they can control said power also depends how much they're willing to embrace the magic. The more harmoniously they want to work with it, the easier it is, the more they reject, the worse.

And if your character is one who is Bad At Friendship And Being Harmonious???

The Element can corrupt them. When Sunset first wielded an element, she got turned into a she-demon and all her worst traits got turned up to a hundred. However, corruption is avoidable as long as the character never tries to USE the element. It can be possessed safely. If they try to use it? Well, it works fast. And once it's removed, all memories will remain, as well as being slammed in the face with all your character flaws that self delusion may have blinded you to.

So have fun.

Also no wings, temp alicorn status is just Solar's thing.

Edited 2020-03-18 07:49 (UTC)

CHARACTER DETAILS:
Name: Loki
Team: Senna
What's it like to be your character?: Loki is super strong and super durable. Very little phases him physically, it generally takes hits from someone on his own strength level to even hurt him, and he could cause serious injury to normal humans with very little effort. He's also constantly under a subtle illusion that someone might not even sense, which makes him appear Asgardian rather than a blue Frost Giant.
Powers and abilities: Most of Loki's magic skill will go with his mind, as it's because of training. His body probably has some innate affinity for magic, if another magic user gets it and wants to try using their old spells, but a newbie would have to start learning his magic from the ground up. He also has Frost Giant abilities, which include being able to induce a dangerous frostbite with a touch and create and manipulate ice; these powers are easier to use instinctively, but only if they are known about, and knowledge of their existence doesn't come with the body.

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