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A children into Kushtaka (Alaskan otter-man) TF.
A summer camp in Alaska, which has forbidden zone. A group of children
explores this zone and found abandoned-looking village with unusual
small homes. They try to play there, and while playing started to
change. Then, real owners come and adopts them.
Or, some children are separated from the group and lost in forest. They
try to find a help, ottermans helped them, but they are cursed to
become otter each time humans see them (or, the less distance between
them and humans the more feral they looks) . They returned to their
family, but do not recognized and pit into a zoo, where they are locked
because they are in the center of a city.
Who: 3 children, 12 years old, friends, boy-scout clothes.
Marc: boy, athletic, tan skin, black hair, strong build, likes sports
ans thinks humans are supreme creatures.
Bill: boy, computer nerd, thin, red hair, white skin with freckles,
likes reading books
Jen: girl, likes nature, afro-american, likes horror.
How: during their trip on Alaska.
Who: kushtaka, native otter-people.
Into what: Kushtaka pups. no mature nor TG.
How: Kushtaka looks like a normal otter when humans are nearby. When
they are alone, they looks like ottermans. But, if there are much more
kushtaka then humans, they can force themself to assume humanoid shape.
if they do it, all humans are lured to join them. If they are in
contact long enough, they started to change into a kushtaka too. If a
human runs away, the change is stopped.
There are some ways to reverse TF. The easiest is to touch some human
-made item when there are no kushtaka around. Or, you can escape to
humans. This is why they are always trying to remove everything which
remind their human life from still changing humans. But it works only
before change competes. After it, a powerful shaman needs who, of
course, can do anything.
The secret: kushtaka are reality benders. They do not need to bite or
feed humans, just keep them nearby. Their reality is a world with
humanoid otters. But humans are reality-benders too. Their reality
contains only humans or otters, so everybody in-between changes into
their nearest form when human see it. Because chldren's reality is
weaker, they could be converted easily.
There are ultimate reality benders called shamans. They are trained to
voluntary do everything they want. For untrained humans they look like
native Indians, but really - there are no more "really" for them. Every
living being can become a shaman, but it requires a lot of time and
skills.
Detailed:
* Kustaka have the ability of Reality change. It could be turned on or
off. It could be trained. New ones ability is weak.
* Humans have the ability of Reality Stabilization. It is always on. It
is like a field around their bodies, increasing with age.
* Human artifacts have this ability too. The more complex an item the
stronger it is. Webcams and ID chips are very complex items.
* Shamans are (relatively) free from Reality. They are no more
human|otters|kushtakas at all. They can see other fields and manipulate
it.
* Overturning Reality stabilization field of an item destroys this
item.
no humans, off: previous condition (otter or otterman).
no humans, on: otterman (default form).
any human items, off: otter
=, on: otterman, but they have to overturn vs items each time.
1 child, 1-2 kushtaka, on or off: otter
1 child, 3 or more kushtaka, off: otter
1 child, 3 or more kushtaka, on: otterman, child changes into a
kushtaka, the more kushtaka the faster, the more human items are the
slower.
1 adult, 1-9 kushtaka, on or off: otter
1 adult, 10 or more kushtaka, off: otter
1 adult, 10 or more kushtaka, on: otterman, adult changes into a
kushtaka, the more the faster.
1 skeptic adult: need 20 or more kushtaka.
1 shaman, any number of kushtakas: kushtaka can freely change as there
are no human at all. Shaman can change kushtaka into human and back.
Shaman could not be changed if not wants.
Kushatka can voluntary change into an otter by touching some human
item. It damages this item. They can not do it voluntary.
Kushtaka can make their own artifacts allowing humans to change. But
they are still in stone age, so their artifacts are weak.
Kushtaka can not change a wild otter (or other wild animal) into
kushtaka (or, maybe, they do not want). They can change otters who were
humans before no matter how they turned.
Human can lower his resistance against change. But it is hard.
Human can force half-changed human to become full otter or full human,
depending of his perception. If he thinks that it is otter, he helps to
complete change. Otherwise, he helps to reverse it.
It is not easy to see kushtaka in their true form. If a human is not
trained, he feels discomfort, nausea and increasing headache. It is
very easy to think that was a hallucination. All photos give otters or
the camera breaks.)
So Little Salmon the adopted thunderbird girl came into the
Russian Alaskan tribe of otter people in 1854 when she was but a thirdbird infant of but three months old.There had been a territorial dispute between the allies of the kushtaka,the Salmon People and the Thunderbird People.So when the Russian Alaska Governor,a crusty old Cossak named
Ivan,had woken up one fine morning in the log cabin the Kremlin
called the 'Governors Palace'
he had found a dozen or so kushtaka squaws waiting outside
his door with a wailing thubderbird baby girl,apparently taken in one of the Salmon People warrior raids on a thunderbird
village at the disputed hunting territory.The warriors had dropped off the squawling baby thunder girl with their kustaka allies after the raid.
The kustaka were none too pleased since they preferred not to have thunderbird warriors flying overhead and burning down their otter people village in order
to get the baby thunder back.
So it was this fine chilly morning in 1854 that the otter people squaws were hoping ex Cossak Ivan
could handle the delicate negotiations between the
three animal people tribes.