I’ve been volunteering to help @sofsh out at the Magic Item Shop they work at by sorting through the mostly-unorganized, mostly-unlabeled items in storage. Once I mess around with them a bit and find out what they do, I’ll usually label them and put them up for sale in the store. Aside from this one little mishap, here’s what I’ve got so far:
Bracelet of Bendergending:
I don’t know why I thought trying another loop-shaped accessory was a good idea (not that I “tried” the first one, it jumped onto me itself), but I guess this one wasn’t too bad, at least for me. As far as I can tell, this bracelet was created with some notion of bodily traits generally considered “masculine”, “feminine”, or otherwise gender-y. It doesn’t “reverse the wearer’s gender”, though (that’d be even more problematic than this item already is!). It just applies these differently “gendered” traits at random to the wearer’s body, their pronouncedness fluctuating like a sliding scale going back and forth.
When I tried it on, I quickly grew a pair of rather sizable breasts, which then shrank away soon after, all while my muscle mass and hair distribution were going all over the place. Then at a later point I had boobs again (m-maybe more than one pair at some point?) and then I didn’t and… it was honestly super disorienting, if not frightening. It’s fortunate that this item found its way onto the wrist of a gender-fluid person first, since it’d really suck if it put someone in a form they’d be dysphoric in… but, that being said, having my gender expression rapidly randomized over and over, uh, isn’t exactly my idea of what being gender-fluid is… I took it off at a form that was pretty close to something I like, and used my own magic from there to return to normal, but others might not be able to do that. Now, though, the item’s safely labeled, so at least this won’t happen to anyone by accident.
Fursuit Warehouse
This one is a door in a frame that works like it’s straight out of Monster’s Inc. The frame acts as a gateway to a pocket dimension that appears to be some kind of storage closet for hundreds (could be an infinite number. I don’t know how big the space is…) of fursuits, all hung up neatly in rows. They aren’t organized by color, species, or any other metric I can discern. The space is dimly lit and eerily quiet.
None of the fursuits depict characters I’ve ever seen before. They look like fairly typical fursonas, and some have designs that make me think of things like Pokémon, but I’ve looked up about a dozen of them and couldn’t find any existing works that resemble them. On repeated visits to this space, the fursuits remain the same, so they aren’t “randomized”, I guess. I haven’t noticed anything terribly out of the ordinary in the realm of, say, fursuits disappearing or relocating. And I’m fairly certain they aren’t living suits.
The most troubling thing about them is that I am unable to put them on or even touch them. It’s not that they have an invisible wall around them or anything… well, actually, for all I know they do. That’s the problem, though. I can’t find out. For whatever reason, my body refuses to take any action relating to making contact with these fursuits. It doesn’t freeze up dramatically or anything, it’s more like it just rejects the request my brain sends to it. I didn’t even notice at first, just thought I was naturally deciding to examine things other than the suits, but eventually I ran out of other things to look into.
What do we do with this one? Do we put it up in the shop like all the other items? What purpose does it serve? It makes me kinda sad, being in there with all those cool costumes I can’t touch. It’s also fairly creepy.
“Unfinished Potion”
The only item I’ve found back here so far to already have a label on it, though it’s a very unhelpful one. It is, indeed, a bottle of red, bubbly liquid, labeled “unfinished potion” in English, its size suggesting it was made by and/or for humans.
After some difficulties with getting a sample that wouldn’t just disappear on me, I realized that the mass of the original potion itself was not decreasing. Spilling some out, it appeared that, indeed, the bottle’s supply of this liquid was more or less infinite. Furthermore, the stuff I spilled out vanished shortly after hitting a solid surface. The density of the liquid itself is slightly higher than that of water.
Of course, after finding that I had an infinite supply, I tried drinking some. It tasted kinda sweet, but wasn’t hydrating or very refreshing, as it’d disappear upon entering my body. As far as I can tell, the potion has no effects on its drinker whatsoever. I even tried drinking some while wearing that ring of mine, and absolutely nothing happened. If anyone notices anything odd about me, though, please let me know. It’s kinda putting me on-edge… maybe it really just does nothing, though.
This is another one that I’m not sure we should put up for sale. Just makes me really uneasy. I don’t know…
Anyways, testing and labeling these items takes a long time, and there are a ton of them, but I’m really enjoying it so far! I’m gonna get back to it for now, but I’ll keep you all posted. Until next time!
