"Yeah, it's me...I'm sure it must be a shock to find me like this, all fat and grey and wrinkly. Let me tell you, it was just as much a shock for me when I wound up like this, but I've started adjusting to it. Been a few weeks since you visited the camp, right? It's that damn artifact we dug up...looked like a maternity fetish like all the others we've found, all bloated with big boobs, missing its head...well this time I found the head, an elephant head, and foolishly connected it to the body. I blacked out after that, and...god, you should've been there to hear the trumpeting the next morning. It was a rude awakening, to say the least. Since then I've kept trying to study it, want to find out what in the world happened and whether it's reversible. I haven't had the guts to ask the locals yet. Don't know whether they'd be more scared to see me, or know exactly what happened and get angry at how we were meddling with their relics.
One step at a time, though. The main thing I've been missing in this form is...well, you can probably tell from back there. Is that...something you'd be willing to help with?"