MISSION: GRAB THE EYEBALLTAUR

[initiates]

Date & Time: March 7th, 1994
Location: The MICA campus: Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Characters: Everyone
Summary: All transports are shipped back to 1994 to steal art from art students. Also, some of them arrive bodyswapped.

The Initiative has timed the incoming waves of Transports to the MICA campus for Freshmen Orientation, but even so, the flood of newcomers gets a few surprised glances. Looks like MICA's up for a major boom in attendance next year, wow. But do some of those freshman look a little old to you? …And do some of them seem to be freaking out a lot more than usual about being in Baltimore?

The cloaking devices, with holograms visible only to the natives, will be blending everyone in with the native 90s fashion senses, and all non-humans will find themselves getting much more tame curious glances than they might back on Exsilium, as they project a human appearance to natives around them. So at least there's that. Just try not to get arrested, hit by cars, or challenged to any break dance competitions as you grab and run off with bizarre works of art, alright? The weirder it looks, the more likely it probably is to be the power source the Initiative needs for the Transporter.

Oh, yeah, and sorry about the body-swap-around. Just deal with that as best you can, because the mission really must go on. Any harried and worried Initiative employee along on the mission that you might be able to find will just sputter a hasty not-really-explanative explanation and hurry away, trading frantic messages with the headquarters in Exsilium. They'll get this all sorted out by the time you get back, don't worry.

Comments

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[cantquoteme]

[He was not expecting to be shaken. Really, he was just standing there in this strangely round and definitely female body when this kid he does not recognize marches up to him, looking rather angry, and shakes him. It's alarming to say the least and it shows for once if the rather quick way Rita Skeeter's arm shoots out to grab the kid's shoulder tightly in a sigh of stop is anything to go by!]

[femininityshredded]

[She does immediately. At least her anger is easy to stop. She'd be more embarrassed if she wasn't so panicked.]

Uh, sorry. I'm just- I'm looking for someone. She's got long green hair and she always wears a hoodie? It kinda sticks out... Have you seen her? It's really important.

[cantquoteme]

[Green hair, and a hoodie? a girl, too. Keith blinks, raises an eyebrow, then steps away from the kid for a second then says:]

Kido.

[femininityshredded]

[For a moment she's confused. Is she saying her name or...?

But she kind of recognises the way this person is acting and it suddenly clicks.]

Keith?!

[Talk about a difference.]

[cantquoteme]

[So that's enough to get her to recognize him, huh? He's not complaining though. If he was anyone but Keith he would even be amused by the look on not!Kido's face.

He nods, then looks down at his (her) own body. Yup. He kind of misses his coat, even.]

[femininityshredded]

Keith, you uh...

[She tries to find words but it's really hard to put into words that this is one of the weirdest switches. That woman looks like she could be on the opposite end of any spectrum Keith is on.]

...Holding up okay?

[cantquoteme]

[He sighs. Yeah. He feels the same way you do, Kido. It's not that he doesn't know a woman's body, but really this takes it in a different direction. He doesn't even know this woman. He's never seen her, never spoken to her, and jesus these fluffy things around his neck are warm.

How do you walk around in heels and he wants pants?

But he supposes it's a functioning body and that's better than nothing so he shrugs, then nods.]

You?

[femininityshredded]

Eh...

[While Elliot's body isn't gaudy or anything strange, it's still a young man's body. Kido might not be the most feminine person around but she was perfectly comfortable as a girl. And she's plenty awkward with the switch of various parts on top of the general weirdness of being in something that isn't hers.]

...Okay enough. You probably get it a little...

[Well, he does have boobs now.]

[cantquoteme]

[He nods silently to that. Boy does he get it. If Kate was here, if it could have just been his wife and he that switched, this would have been less uncomfortable. But then again, his wife is a normal woman and he doesn't like the thought of her being here even if he misses her.]

... Might last a few days.

[femininityshredded]

Days...?

[She slumps even more, sounding defeated. Ugh.] Geez, these people can't get anything right, can they?

[cantquoteme]

[He reaches over and tugs on a strand of Kido's hair. It's weird to see her in hair that's not green.]

Does this happen often?