Red Meadow.

[johalt]

Ooc: why are we sommoning the mask? XD

John looked over at Jewl, a sad smile on his face. "I do not know if I am the man your father was; if he was a small fraction of what you say, then he truly was great. Remember this though: no human, none who have truly lived, is without sin; there is always something that we regret, or wish we could have done better. It is not whether or not these things happen that defines the calibre of a man, but how he goes about living with himself afterwards, how hemanages to continue on despite the fact." His focus shifted then, staring off into space, as of deep in thought...

John quickly shook his head. "But no matter, that's a horror story for another nightmare. Right now I owe you an explanation as to why he called me monster. Very well then." He removed his shirt and faux leather sandals, and pants, but decided to leave his underwear on. He placed his glasses on the desk. He then moved to the centre of the room, where there was the most space, spread his arms wide, and said, "Here goes."

Relaxing his grip on his instincts, he allowed the transformations he had been fighting to begin. It happened very quickly, and almost all at once. His dorsal skin began to schlerate (harden) and turn black, with a few bands of red, forming his carapace. The skin, bones, and cartilage of his face motives and rearranged, forming two small chelicera (jaws) (also black) on the outside of his mouth, with a hooked beak (mostly yellow with black tip) within. His arms seemed to "split" into three different sets of limbs: those that were in the "regular" place of his arms became thicker, the schlerating much more effective, the "hands" becoming larger, forming The pedipalps (claws); a little lower, another set of arms, these appearing more "normal", but the joints were much more pronounced, and the fingers were each tipped with thick black claws; finally, the third set, closer to his shoulder blade area, began to elongate, enlarge, and become feathered, forming his wings, which were black with a few speckles of gold. His eyes move position, sliding slightly more to the sides of his head, and distinct circles of bone around each eye socket formed, his pupils becoming significantly larger. His front skin morphed, becoming feathers, mostly black, with some gold speckles and red bands. His feet elongated and changed, growing scales, his toes molding into three, large, black talon tipped toes, his heel sprouting two more in the other direction, skin changing to scales, looking like raptor's feet; he shifted his stance to allow the change in footing. A carapace began to form around his crotchial region, forming an armor codpiece form him; after this formed he quickly removed this underwear: he knew what was coming next. From his posterior sprouted a large (3-4 ft) scorpions tail, black save the telson (stinger), which was a dark red. All of the hairs on his body became longer, more sensitive, but still remained too fine for most to be able to see. (ooc: if I missed anything here/you need more detail on certain parts, pls let me know :) )

After the transformation finished, John sank to his knees; it had taken a lot out of him, heck maybe even a month of his stored food cache. He panted a bit, both from the excursion and the new sensations he had to restrict. "This... I's why... He called me... Monster..." he panted. When he spoke, his vowels and some of his constanents seemed to hiss out, producing a rolling effect which made an accent not unlike a combination of German and Arabic.