Once she recognizes the name, Christy immediately answers the phone, wondering for what reason the mermaid would be calling her.
“Hello, this is Christy right?” Leah asks, her soft-spoken voice taking Christy back at first, having only ever heard her speaking in her “role-play” voice before
“Yes this is Christy. You're Leah, the mermaid from the park, right?
“Yeah. So, I was wondering if you would like to come to the LARP, uh, the Live Action Role-Play, session my group is having today, it's the last session of our current story arc and the organizers wanted to see if we could get more members for the next one. Since you played along with me when we, uh, “met” in the park I figured you might be interested in joining.”
“What would I have to do? I've never really done any role-play before so I'm not really sure what would be expected of me”
“Nothing really, as I said its the finale of the current arc we're doing so you would mostly just be sitting in and watching, to get an idea of how it works, then you would meet the organizers and talk with them, you wouldn't have to make any commitments immediately though, the group is taking a month break before we start back up, since we've been doing sessions every week for the last few months."
“Well I would need to double check to see if it would conflict with my cheer practice, but I'm willing to at least see how one of these “LARP” sessions go, where is it being held?”
“Great thanks for agreeing to come, I'll text you the location. The session starts in an hour, but if you get there early I could introduce you to some of the other group members before we start”
“Okay then, I'll head right over, see you there!”
After saying her goodbyes and hanging up, Christy began to trot towards the location Leah had texted her. Christy was pretty sure she wasn't going to end up joining the group, she had quite a few obligations already, but the session seemed like as good a place as any to continue transforming people. Besides, maybe the session would be entertaining in and of itself.
The location Leah sent her ended up being in a clearing in the middle woods next to the local park, so after only a half-hour of travel Christy had arrived. Despite the fact that the session wasn't starting for another half-hour there were already almost a dozen people here. Leah, still a wheelchair bound mermaid, was over with four other people, the five of them were putting on simple costumes and inspecting prop weapons. Leah quickly spotted Christy's large body, still recognizing her despite having changed a ton due to the reality alteration powers of the TF gun, and waved her over to the group
“Hey guys, this is the girl I was talking about, Christy, as well as her cock Madison” The mermaid introduced Christy to everyone. They all exchanged greetings before Leah gave Christy an explanation of the story of the role-play, the others often chiming in with their own comments. The basic story was pretty typical, the five people here were all the heroes of the story, each one representing an element: water, earth, fire, wind and light. The villains of the story, most of which weren't at the clearing yet numbered eight in total, their theme was the seven deadly sins, with the final one acting as the leader “The Dark Lord”. The overall plot was pretty typical generic fantasy stuff, but it was clear from they way the group members talked about it that the simple summary didn't do the quality justice, and that everyone really cared about their characters and took the LARP seriously, but not too seriously.
Christy looked over the five people in front of her, deciding that since she had some easy targets in front of her she might as well change them while she waits for everyone to arrive.
First was Leah, who was the hero of water, dressed up in cardboard painted to look like armour and wielding a plastic prop flail, though she had already been changed making her a lower priority
Second was Nico, the hero of earth, a Latino dude wearing a dirt brown robe and wielding a thick tree branch like a staff.
Third was Toby, the hero of fire, a white guy wearing a tunic and trousers with some cardboard shoulder pads and wielding a red foam sword.
Fourth was Jamie, the hero of wind, an immigrant from England, who was also wearing a tunic with trousers, though she had no additional armour, she had two plastic daggers tucked into her belt
Finally the hero of light was Bryce, a black man who was wearing nearly a full suit of plastic armour, and had a large plastic great-sword strapped behind him, he was also apparently one of the organizers of the role-play.
Christy subtly pulled out the TF gun and wondered who she should change first.