(This is basically the same branch than the option “She Found a Second Note”, that I also wrote, just revised and expanded with more of my options. Feel free to follow the rules and write your own stories.)
“What is that?” Jeff, Mary’s husband, asked.
“I found it by the door. Maybe some kind of prank.”
Mary touched the button on top of the box and its front opened in two with a hiss sound. Each inside part of the box doors was filled with several rows of buttons, each row labelled Birds, Felines, Mythological, Mechanical, vehicles, etc. The center part had a shelf full of vials. Each vial had a label over it with a name of an animal. Mary saw just thirty vials, each one with a different colored liquid inside.
As soon as it finished opening, a sheet of paper fell on the table. Mary picked it up and unfolded the instructions:
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Dear Mary and Jeff,
Congratulations on acquiring The Vials! This is the ultimate transformation kit available to selected people across the globe.
Instructions on the vials:
- You drink a vial to change into the depicted being.
- Drinking part of a vial leads to partial transformations;
- If you mix the contents of the vials you will change into a mix between the beings on the drank vials;
- The changes will be complete between thirty minutes and two hours after drinking;
- The transformation lasts for 24 hours after the end of the transformation;
- All the knowledge about the subject’s new body will be available to the subject as soon as the transformation finishes.
- There are no behavior changes on the subject after drinking the vials. If you want to change your behavior, refer to the behavioral and physical special section. These special vials take effect into 15 minutes after drinking.
- At the end of the transformation, all transformation related changes on the world will be reversed.
- To avoid problems the world will be unaware of your changes and will behave according your transformation.
- The vials and its cabinet are indestructible and are linked only to Mary and Jeff. No other being will be able to take control of the vials and their box.
Enjoy your changes!
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“Just as I thought!” Mary said. “It is just an elaborated prank from someone. There is no way this thing works.”
Jeff looked into the case and, out of curiosity, pressed the second ‘Birds’ button. To their complete surprise, the labels over the vials all changed.
“Didn’t it have a chicken vial in this position just a second ago?” Mary asked.
“No way!” Jeff was incredulous.
Then Jeff pressed the other buttons and they saw the labels changing. They pressed buttons on the other rows and saw that each button leads to a different set of labels for the vials.
“Maybe this thing is really magical!” Mary exclaimed.
“You know I don’t believe in such a thing as magic!” Jeff stated.
“Well, mister skeptical, how do you explain that the labels are changing when you press the buttons?” Mary asked.
As to emphasize her argument, she pressed some random buttons. At each button pressed, the labels on the vials changed.
“It’s hard to explain, but everything has a proper explanation.” Jeff said.
“Well, I know you like stories about transformations and magic because I found some links on the history of our browser. I read some of the stories and found them quite appealing.”
“I forget to erase the history just this time and you happen to find out my little secret. I thought this kind of fetish were weird enough for you to laugh at me if I told you.”
“It’s not weird, it just doesn’t have any way to become real. Unless we dressed and roleplayed about this.”
“It would not be the same, I think. This would be just fake. I am more into the transformation process. It turns me on to think about someone changing in front of me. But magic does not exist.”
“Well, these vials can prove that magic do exist, and now we have a unique opportunity.” Mary said while she browsed through the options and then take a random vial into her hands.