ITT: We Have All Switched Bodies With Our Avatars!

Well, this is going to be interesting. (I remark as F and Wilhelm enter the store.)

Emperor? Wow, she's lucky. She became a king! (Plessie chirps.)

Um...not exactly...I'll explain later.

edited 8th Jul '17 9:20:07 AM by kablammin45

"Well, the king/emperor/kaiser of Germany pre-WWII. I can't exactly remember what he did, but he did some pretty heinous things. Then again, a lot of historical figures are like that. It's even more bad when it's a person honored as a hero!"

(Plessie frowns.) Oh...

(Suddenly, there is a very loud growling noise. I look around for a moment before I realize that it came from my stomach.)

Hey, you're hungry! (Plessie points out.) Why don't you eat some of that seaweed?

(I look down at the large bucket of seaweed beside me.) I'm still not crazy about eating that...

I begin to approach...me.

"Hey, what the hell's happening? You're in my body, and I'm in this body, and I feel like I should be more surprised about this!" I yell at them.

"Oh, so this is your body, huh? Interesting. Well then it seems that you are in our body." they reply.

"Uh...no. No, no, no no no. This can't be your body, because then you'd have to be Circus Baby, and you can't be Circus Baby, because Circus Baby is a character in a video game!"

"If we're just a video game character then where did that body come from?" they say, gesturing towards me.

"...Good point, but this is still impossible! I've played your game, it's called Sister Location (part of the game series Five Nights At Freddy's), and it was actually a really good game and you were my favourite character, but that's not the point! The point is you don't actually exist!" I scream.

"Well, we seem to be here, so we must be real." they reply.

"WHY DO YOU KEEP SAYING WE?" I shout back.

"Because I'm here!" a British voice says.

"Hang on, why did you change your acce—...oooh. Can't believe I forgot about you." I reply.

"You'd think that being your favourite character would mean you'd remember me..." they say sadly.

"Oh, well, I'm sorry then. ...Wait a minute, why am I apologizing to something that doesn't exist?!? Clearly this is just a dream, which means I could probably just kill you without any consequences! But, for the sake of the infinitely small chance that this is real, I won't." I say.

"Well, good. Now, we've clearly made a big fuss over this directly next to this colourful cast of characters, so we should probably discuss this later." the British voice replies, gesturing towards the group of people inside the supermarket.

"Alright, fine. I guess we could go talk to those people then." I say, walking towards the supermarket with myself by my side.

Just to be clear, the black-coloured speech with no italics is Circus Baby talking, and the black-coloured speech with italics is the British girl talking. And the blue speech is me, of course.

>Wilhelm and I walk through the aisles. As we do so, we talked.

"From what I heard from you earlier, your name is F, am I correct?"
"...yeah. It's easier if you just call me F. I don't really want to divulge my real name..."
"Alright. May I call you Fräulein F? Since you're a young woman and all?"
"Uh, yeah. I mean, it'll sound weird since you're saying it to someone possessing a grown man's body, but I guess it'll be acceptable for now...?"
"On that note. Since I can call you that, you have to address me by my name and title, got it?"

>We reach the baking aisle. I grab a packet of mince pies and put it in the shopping tray.

"Look, Willy, I'm not really sure what you eat for breakfast, but I know that your favourite food is mince pies with flaming brandy sauce. Right?"
"Yeah, but aren't we supposed to eat that at Christmas?"
"You never mind that. You need some nutrition. Sorry if I couldn't get you the brandy sauce."

>We head over to the other aisles to get other foodstuff, such as butter, milk, juice and chips.

edited 9th Jul '17 9:14:26 AM by fdiaperhead

(My stomach growls again. I feel that I have no choice but to eat out of the bucket of seaweed. I pick up a handful of the stuff.)

Maybe I'll just pretend it's canned spinach or something...

(Saying this, I pop it into my mouth. Oddly, I find it to actually be pretty good. I decide that this is only because I have Plessie's sense of taste...or something like that.)

Hey, did you like it?

Yeah...crazy as it seems, this is actually pretty good. (I tell Plessie as I take another handful. I decide that two handfuls ought to tide me over for now.)

So what should I eat? (Plessie asks)

(I look in our groceries and find a pre-packaged BLT sandwich.) Why don't you have this?

Ok! (Plessie says as she rips off the wrapping and takes a bite. She makes another bemused face.) Wow...this is unlike anything I've ever eaten. I like it though. (She quickly wolves the sandwich down.)

I decide tentatively to experiment with teleportation. I buy a sliced loaf of bread at Store, and then put one slice on the floor in front of me. I then try to teleport it slightly to the left, and breadcrumbs spray everywhere.

"Yeah, this'll take a while."

Circus Baby/the British girl in my body (who I will now call Circus Me) and I walk into the supermarket.

"It looks great!" says the British girl.

(this avatar◊, this character)

Realizing that I haven't eaten anything all morning, I sit down by kablammin and Pressie and take out a stack of Prongles and start scarfing them down uncharacteristically, remarking, I...*nom*...this body has way more...*nom*...of an appetite than my real one. *nom*

Meanwhile, the real Oersted (in my body) has figured out how to use the artifact statue to get a lay of the land...a sort of bird's eye view that gives the caster limited vision of the surroundings, but also a sense of how corrupted their souls are.

edited 10th Jul '17 8:25:56 AM by sarysa

Random!Caboose would lumber in, and purchase....

Quix cereal?" Random would state, as he took off the helmet- wait what woah er anyway- Random would then take a bite, before putting his helmet back on.

Caboose, now in Random's body would lumber in, before running over to the ice cream section.

"Wait, Caboose! Don't you dare eat tons of it and give my body a brain freeze. Also, once we're back to normal, don't bother trying to explain the adventure to anyone else, they won't believe it."

Caboose would nod, and then wander off, to the ice cream.

Random had attempted to explain such things to one with Cabooses intellect outside of machinery.

The brain freeze was likely imminent.

I wander the aisles, looking for something to do, after failing horribly to figure out how to use my power.

Then, I find an odd array of cereal boxes. They read, from left to right:

• Icy flakes

• Sailor Crunch

• Elephant Tracks

• Elephant Tracks

• Yellow granola

• Orange crisps

• Ultra hoops

I decide that now is a good time to try practicing moving myself, and fling myself at the exit in a flash of green. I fall in my face, get up, open the door, and immediately shoot up, to the top of the building.

I feel a pain in my abdomen, and realize that there is a shuriken in my belly. If Scratch had a stomach, that wound would have been fatal...

And if I hadn't gone straight up immediately, it would have hit me in the heart.

I zap myself to the other side of Store, and then let myself fall. At the last second before I hit, I flash a small distance up, and fall onto the ground much slower, from a reduced height.

I ache all over, and Scratch is definitely still hunting me. I start speed-zigzagging between buildings, crashing into them as I go.

I pass out slightly after I get lost.

"Uh.. Guys? Someone fainted. Oh god. Oh no. Ooooh no..."

Now I'm just hoping that he doesn't actually dies. If he does, we're screwed, and this'll be (officially) the last day of my pathetic life.

Do we have anything we can revive him with? (I ask as I look through all of the things we got at the store.)

Oh geez, is there a ninja running around or something? I don't have any healing items, just bland-name Xanax and a bag of weed. Both are sedatives.

edited 10th Jul '17 6:45:31 PM by sarysa

Meanwhile, on a nearby rooftop, Doc Scratch curses. He had a perfect shot at me, had seperated me from everyone else, and he hadn't predicted my panicked leap. Now I was surrounded by allies, and my body wasn't in good enough shape to take that many enemies on.

He goes to a building called Gym to get into good enough shape that next time, I won't escape.

I guess the best thing we can do is take him inside until he wakes up. (I say, unable to think of anything else we can do.) I don't suppose smelling salts will work with him now.

Meanwhile, the real Oersted (having earlier cast a simple spell to get a bird's eye view of the land) eventually finds the group at the convenience store, while seeking out individuals he could contract with. Noting kablammin in Plessie's body... (nothing I can use there) ...then noting Plessie in kablammin's body, he finds it sickeningly sweet... (far too young and innocent) ...and then he notices me.

(What the...I see. If my body is there, then she must be the owner of the body I'm inhabiting.) He detects significant amounts of corruption coming from the body itself, but the soul that resides within is pretty bogstandard. (I won't be able to get possession of my body back that easily, but perhaps the "other" presence will do away with her for me...)

I wake up with a start, and feel a pulsing of the air around my head.

Apparently, I'm breathing through tiny pores or something, and this is heavy breathing.

Hey! He woke up!

You okay, dude? What the heck were you doing that knocked yourself out?

>I paid for the groceries and had over a thousand dollars left. I tell Wilhelm to sit down near sary, kablammin and Plessie.

"Alright, Willie. I'm gonna go over to that guy who just passed out. You stay here and eat your mince pies. Don't forget to drink the milk I bought as well."
"Hey, just because you're in my body doesn't mean you can boss other people around like m-"
"Enough. Also, don't eat any of my Greatly Superior sriracha chips."

>While Wilhelm eats, I go over to Zero.

"Whoa. What happened?"

edited 13th Jul '17 12:13:47 AM by fdiaperhead

"I was running from Scratch, and using his powers, and it really drained me."

"Drained you? ...I'm figuring that every person who swapped with some sort of magic-power-whatever user is probably not used to their new abilities. After all, we're mostly just not-as-average people."

Trying to spark up a conversation, I ask, So what are Scratch's powers anyway? I never really got far into Homestuck.

He can teleport at will, see everything, and supercharge his attacks with green energy. I can stumble at 200 mph into a wall.

Okay, so, who wants to try out this Heal Jar? I'm fairly certain it'll actually do what it's named for.

I come floating back from an alleyway, holding a glass jar with a green liquid in it as well as some faint splashes of liquid on my clothes. Luckily, due to them being part of my Mana body, they don't seem to be staining. The Mana in my body can't help but groan at my comment, though.

"Oh, god, you're reminding me of Jess. Please tell me you're better at medicine than her."

Hey, I resent that! I'm going off of instinct after all.

edited 16th Jul '17 8:27:22 PM by Cabe_Bedlam