Rick thought the whole animal option would just be distracting. Even the hybrid option was overkill. You'd have so many different changes in widely separated parts of your anatomy all vying for your attention. Sure, it would be a great way to get a holistic version of the animal experience, but what Rick had really come here curious about were things like, what would it be like to have a tail? What would it be like to walk on hooves or smell through a dog's nose or see ultraviolet? Especially if you had time to live with that for days on end, discovering the upsides and downsides of that one aspect of being an animal. Would it become normal? How would your daily routine change, even if it was the "routine" of being on vacation? It would be like a vacation from your own body!
And the best part would be that Rick would actually still have his regular body for the most part. He would still be human enough to do all of the things humans do in a fancy resort. He would just be experiencing those things differently because he would be part animal. For example, he might be eating through a proboscis, but he could still hold a glass and sit at a restaurant table with a suit on. And that would just make the notion of having a proboscis stand out all the more.
"This is going to be great!" thought Rick, smiling and waving his arms in a celebratory expression. "I'm going to be part animal! Those people walking around with cat ears seemed to be having fun. I wonder if I'd like to try that, or..."
The possibilities were endless. ANY animal, even mythical ones, even extinct ones. ANY part of its of anatomy, he could own. Wings? Ears? Lungs? Claws? Antennae? Fins?
"If I'm going to try an animal part, I want it to be a cool one," thought Rick. He remembered that some mythical creatures actually had a whole second head, or a tail that was like the front half of a snake. What would it be like to have a head as a body part? Or, since he was such a minimalist, even something as simple as actual whiskers?
"I've got it, I've got it!"
Rick had decided on ...