Kumi-chan wrote:"Green apples. Gray oceans. Brown bananas. Teal eggs. Ohh and tails." K spouts some random nonsense. As he tends to do at times.
The coin goes up and down as K talks, until the fox-girl catches it with a slight flourish into an open, face-up right palm. And..it's tails!
"Hm..no luck for me today, I suppose," she says, her tone of voice neutral: Not enthusiastic but not especially sad, either. She produces, as if from a left pocket that doesn't appear to be on her dress, a five-dollar bill and offers it to him. The bill doesn't set off his tail alarm if that's a thing.
If or while he takes that, she examines the coin while playing with it as if expecting it to talk back. "Maybe the stakes just weren't interesting enough for lady luck..hmm.."
Ookalf wrote:...Or, if you're busy, that's cool too. I can wait. *Ookalf sits back and lets K and the fox do their thing, briefly glancing at the bottle in his hand to see how much potion's left.*
The potion is a little more than half-full, maybe. It wasn't completely full to begin with, and the container's shape has more width toward the bottom, but the top of the liquid is a little beneath the vertical center of the bottle.
Ookalf's ears start to grow bigger and taller, and a little bit of fuzz forms on them, which tickles his hair a bit with the upward motion of the growth. His shrinking continues, now at different rates for different parts of his body, causing a change of proportions. Particularly, his arms and stomach start to look pretty skinny, his hips stop shrinking altogether, and his legs are a bit longer in relation to his torso. As far his clothes go, they're mostly unchanged, but his shirt has washed out to just being pure gray, a little on the lighter side.
And then, the changes stop. The serene feeling starts fading off, but much more slowly than the sudden jolt out of it before. Creeping in with the loss of that feeling is something of an unidentifiable discomfort. If he tries to examine it, the thing that comes to mind as its source is the idea that his body isn't quite right.
Ryan5011 wrote:Ryan walks up to the cart of potions, a look of curiosity as he glances around the place. "Hmm...Might I ask what's exactly going on? These 'drinks' seem interesting, with all the different colors and all that."
Some of the people around seem rather busy choking, as if they had all just been force-fed something, with some odd mild changes coming to their appearance. The calmer people around include a guy and a fox-girl who are apparently exchanging currency over some kind of coin-toss game, and another guy who looks really mellow, despite visibly losing height a little bit at a time.
But there might not be time to take all of that in before Ryan's shadow suddenly seems to move around on its own, and then a black form something like a dark silhouette of a man against a bright light rises up out of it. "It seems to me these drinks are free," he says, moving so that he is no longer standing in Ryan's shadow. "With no owner or guard to see..."