A Game of "Transformation" - Trapped in Paradise: Day 5-END

Story by Leena Recently, I wrote about a number of roleplaying games that allow you to roleplay as a mutant. Well, today I am showing you the result of one of these games. Transformation by Absurdist Productions is a horror journaling game about, well, undergoing a transformation and the strain that puts on you and the people around you. I decided to play a full round and show you the results here. To give you an idea about the mechanics, every day I will be drawing a card which tells me how I transform, another card that will tell me the events that happen to me, and a third card that tells me how they resolve. I can alter these results by destroying “mementos” or straining (underlining) or breaking (striking through) emotional bonds. I’ll be listing them at the end of every chapter. Let’s dive in shall we? Day 5 Writing… harder. Thoughts fuzzy. Body… so big… so hungry. Outgrown bed. Very large. Barely fit in house. Jenine… looks so small. Journal looks so small. Must write carefully. Things not really working well. Fever back. Mind racing. Animal inside more at wheel. I black out, wake up somewhere else. Ive left the house. Found myself climbing trees and mountains on the island. Hunting. I don’t stop until I hear her voice. Jenine’s voice. She calls me. She says please come back. I come back. Today she cried. She is scared too. I am less scared. If this is me, this is me. Maybe this island is my home. Maybe I am meant to be here. Jenine, doesn’t want that. Jenine wants us to get off this island. Live a normal life. I am not an animal, she says… I am not a beast. I am not a monster. I can pick her whole body up in one hand. She is like a doll. But a doll I want to protect. Mementos - Phone, Ukulele Bonds - Growing Crush with Jenine, Future Date Ideas, Shared Mutant Life, First Mutant Kiss Day 6 There is more clarity today, because today I gave in. I ran out of the house in the early day because I needed to eat. Not just spam and canned vegetables. I needed to hunt. I needed to hunt food. Something that will run. Something that will get my heart pumping. So I bounded off into the tropics, the ground shaking under my immense clawed feet and hands. And I found my quarry. I snatched up wild boars like they were candy, biting into their flesh like they were fruits hanging from a tree. I was gone… I was no longer myself. I was a giant mutant beast of the island. Or at least… I thought I was. Despite the blood covering my body and my immense hunger, greater than anything I ever felt as a human, something pulled on my heart. As I ravaged through the tropics, I found a small cat. It must be big by human standards, possibly a Lynx or some kind of small predatory cat. Its back legs were broken and it was crying in pain. My first thought was to eat. Eat… feed. But then I remembered Jenine. She liked cats. She liked cats and liked me. My mind snapped back into clarity, my fuller belly allowing me to think like a civilized person again. I looked over myself. I had grown four new breasts and scales had begun covering my body. I looked more like a kaiju than I did a woman at this point. I gently wrapped the cat in my tail and brought it home Jenine. We were both soaked, but at least the rains washed the blood off my face. While her first response was shock, she was happy to see me safe. She used some supplies from the first aid kit to help bandage up the cat’s back legs. We started feeding it, named it fritz. Fritz was now eating some of the food left in the storehouse while I was out, exploring the island, hunting for prey…. But thinking. This is fine. I’ve watched survivalist TV shows. Hunting is just a natural thing you do when supplies become short, and my greater size requires more supplies. I’m not an animal. I’m Maya. And I’m going to remain Maya for Jenine and Fritz. Mementos - Phone, Ukulele, Fritz Bonds - Growing Crush with Jenine, Future Date Ideas, Shared Mutant Life, First Mutant Kiss Day 7 I wish I could say today was a simple day, but it was not. Because today it was not me who changed, but Jenine. She came down with the same symptoms I had and soon, she began to grow, to a similar size as me. It was clear this was not a normal mutation. Something was affecting her too. She too thrashed around like a panicked animal. But luckily having another creature of her size was enough to keep her in check. We wrestled like two giant beasts straight out of a Godzilla movie, caked in mud, destroying the house in the process. We roared and slashed and bit at each other. And then… we kissed. We kissed long and hard and passionately. I felt her long pointy tongue swirl in my mouth, intertwine with mine, licking over my fang like teeth. We moaned. It made the island shake. She slipped her tail inside me, I slipped mine inside her. We thrusted passionately in the middle of the raging hurricane. Lightning striking around us. Pleasure welling up in our body. Two monsters. Fucking, Leveling everything around us. It felt so good. SO GOOD! We both came in a torrent of passion, and afterward she looked into my eyes and said “I love you”. I love her too. Unfortunately, there wasn’t a lot of time to bask in the afterglow. With the house now destroyed, we had no shelter, and we weren’t going to survive sleeping outside in a hurricane. We gathered up what little we could, which basically amounted to this journal, so that the doctors on the mainland could read what we have been through, and Fritz, who I wrapped in my tail. We decided we were going to swim for it. It was probably a horrible idea, but we were larger creatures now, and the distance from here to the main island of Port Solei did not look quite as intimidating. As we began swimming we felt gills open up in our neck. We breathed the water like it was fresh air, pushing ourselves through the waves. It was but a matter of time until we found ourselves on Port Solei shores, with hospital personnel attending to us… and fritz. Mementos - Phone, Ukulele, Fritz Bonds - Growing Crush with Jenine, Future Date Ideas, Shared Mutant Life, First Mutant Kiss, I Love You Epilogue What happened on that island was not natural. When the doctors looked us over, they had thought we were abusing mutagen. We swore that we weren’t. Turns out that there is a flower that grows on that island that acts as a very potent natural mutagen. It’s like catnip for the mutant gene. Makes it go wild if you have even the slightest potential to mutate. No wonder that AirBNB was so popular. People must have booked it specifically to undergo mutations. If they were there for a short time, it must have been fairly safe, but we were stuck there for two weeks, one on vacation, and one in the storm which must have kicked up all the mutagenic pollen. The government of Port Solei has now quarantined the island until they can learn more about this plant species. Luckily that means we aren’t on the hook for the damage to the house. In a way, I almost wonder if these mutations were meant to help us survive. We might not have lasted the storm if we didn’t have these new instincts to hunt and these larger bodies that made hurricane force winds feel like small gusts. Maybe it was a coincidence. Jenine thinks it was fate. Either way life is going to change a lot for us now. Neither of us will fit in our old homes, so we will have to find some new kaiju sized residences, semi-aquatic too considering our gills. Not easy to find, but luckily Port Solei has many government programs to help mutants like us. Honestly, starting a new life here can’t be scarier than what I just went through. Besides, Port Solei has an entire neighborhood dedicated specifically to monster girls our size! So I’m sure we will make a lot of new friends. Oh and Fritz made it out OK too! We’d like to say we kept him and lived happily ever after… but he was a wild animal and even Port Solei has animal control laws. He was given to a local Zoo and we visit him every chance we get. The one thing I can’t help but think of, though, is that if there is such a powerful natural growing mutagenic, where did it come from? Other people have been on that island. Did they use it? Take it? Cultivate it? Perhaps this naturally growing flower is what caused some of the first mutations in history… … oh well, I’ll leave that to the scientists. For now, me and Jenine are going to rent a room in the Kaiju district, buy a pizza the size of a city block, and sleep. Thank you for following me on this playthrough of Transformation by Absurdist Productions. I will be trying to poke Sophie into trying it out as well. And if you want to buy your own copy of this solo journaling game, check it out at AbsurdistProductions.com