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Moderator Characters:

Played by: Furry1337otaku
Name: Sabel
Species: Striped hyena
Appearence: Deep, yellow brown eyes, shaggy barely shoulder-length brown hair and her fur is a scruffy greyish brown coat. She is of a slender tall build only accentuated by her change. She has a modest bust size but an extreme curved waist and hips.
Skills and Abilities: She is pretty badly nearsighted. However she sees very well in the dark and her ears and sense of smell are incredibly strong, as well as her bone shattering jaws. Also she can walk within very close range of someone making practically no noise.

Played by: Ermak Lorde
Name: Aion
Species: Grey Wolf
Appearence: More Black than Grey, with an odd white patch over the middle and partially on the right part of his chest, his furr spreads from deepest black on his face and back to a smokey grey on his paws, a touch of brown around his eyes and tips of his furry ears indicate his genes may have derived from mix-breed stock. As a human he was tall and well-muscled. As a were he is huge, towering over most of the others, the black of his face, and unusual green of his eyes giving him a foreboding aura. his hair was kept at just past shoulder-blade length and is now tied into a short ponytail.
Skills and Abilities: Large and stong with a wolf's agility and stamina, he perhaps fits his newest form with uncanny irony, as he tends to be a lone wolf type. and anti-socialism bordering on extreme shyness, he is the last one to speak his mind and make his oppinions known.

Played by: The demon Angel

Name: Unknown (he himself does not remember)

Species: Giant Velociraptor

Appearence: Standing almost nine feet tall, he is an impressive and dangerous looking predator. His red-gold eyes hold a glint of unfathomable intelligence and ruthlessness. His scales are patterned black and green, with streaks of brighter red and purple. His long legs are responsible for his immense height and he is capable of running at extreme speeds, his arms are strong and tipped in dangerous claws. And his feet each possess long razor sharp retractable claws. His tail is long and flexible, and helps give him incredible balance. Lastly his face is that of a raptor, complete with rows of razor sharp teeth.

Skills and Abilities: His body is layered with corded muscles and thick scales making him a very dangerous creature. He doesn�t remember anything about being human, but he knows how to fight, and how to kill. A skill which is that much easier in his new form. His social skills are nearly non existent and he generally doesn�t talk much. But he is quick to show his displeasure or anger. He does not go out of his way to hurt people and ultimately he is as confused as anyone, though he would never admit as much.

Player Characters


Played by: kemmenlith
Name: Brice
Species: Fox
Appearence: After the transformation, he now has fox ears, tail and paws. Lean, semi-muscular form. His hair is semi-short and a blondish brown.
Skills and Abilities: Fast, graceful and strong. Can disappear without people noticing, good for pickpocketing even the most alert of people.

Played By:Tanyaknightmage
Name: Sirea
Species: Steenbok
Appearence:She is very slender and fineboned, a trait carried over to her furry self. Her light sandy blonde hair almost matches her coat exactly she has beautiful liquid brown eyes and is a very kind soul. She isn't very large and her body is still very young and thin.
Skills and abilities: Sirea is a very quick distance runner and very agile. However she is comparitively fragile with her small frame.

Played By: Tsuyoi_Kurai
Name: Tex
Species: Domestic Stallion
Appearance: Tex was a rugged looking man, built muscularly and rough. His square jaw was consistently covered in stubble and almost a small goatee. In his change he's become covered in soft glossy black fur, but strangely contrasting with the equines dark body, his eyes are still a sapphire blue, though the pupils are now horizontal slits.
Skills and Abilities: Due to his Equine features, Tex can see almost 360 degrees except for a blind spot directly in front and directly behind him. Unused to monocular vision he's constantly turning his head. His long ears easily pick up sound and he has a pretty good sense of smell. He's very strong and built that way.

Played By:Haeo
Name: Lune
Species: Scorpion (Black)
Appearance: Lune, post transformation, can either move about in a bipedal fashion or in the manner of an insect, on six legs. Two thin legs with claw-tipped grippers have extended from the middle region of his sides and can function as either crude hands or feet as needed. When on all six legs he stands about three feet off the ground. When on two, he is about six feet tall. He has a scorpion’s tail and a carapace in addition to his internal skeleton. His head is hardly friendly looking, with rather delicate mandibles and a pair of black, simple eyes in addition to his human pair of deep brown ones. His carapace is a shining black and the only hair remaining on his body is a short tuft-like mass on the top of his head, dark blonde.
Skills and Abilities: Lune has the same striking speed as a scorpion, very difficult to dodge, and the venom of one. He is also capable of moving about in the dark with great ease. He is stronger than his size would suggest, as with most insects, and is capable of carrying about twice his body weight. He will be quite clumsy at first until he gets used to his added appendages. Once he is acclimated to them, however, he will be able to run on all six legs with great speed. As a biped he will be rather slow - average as a walker. He is capable of grasping and climbing on rough surfaces without regard to the angle, although there won't be many rough surfaces on a vessel of this kind.

Played by: Misopan Kurai
Name: Carl
Species: Polar Bear
Appearance: Carl was always a heavily built man, a fact only enhanced by his transformation. Only now he's a great deal taller than he was and is covered in very thick fur.
Skills and abilities: Though his strength is nearly unrivaled, the best he can manage is a fast lumber when it comes to speed, although he can throw a punch or swat someone with his truly nasty claws blindingly fast. He has an exceptional sense of smell but can't hear or see quite as well.

Name: Owen
Species: Fire-bellied salamander
Appearence: Though his eyes are still human in appearance, their pupils are now golden-yellow and seem to almost be luminescent from certain angles. Owen's skin is smooth, rubbery, and always covered in a thin layer of mucous that gives it a glistening sheen. Mostly black all over, he has a large splotch of bright orange on his chest, with spots of it his forearms, thighs, and chin and larger blobs of the color along his scalp and down the center of his back and tail; the palms of his hands and bottoms of his feet are also this color. His fingers and toes are somewhat longer, and wider at their tips, than a human's, and thin webbing bridges the gaps between them. He is hairless, but multiple rows of frilly fin-like membranes run across his head, converging in a line that runs down his spine and the long, thick tail at its base. Similar frills extend from his elbows, and the end of his tail has a larger fin as well. His nose has flattened somewhat as his nostrils became longer but thinner slits, and he has gill slits along his neck that are usually undetectable. He lacks fur or feathers to hide his unmentionables, but fortunately more frilled membranes around his groin preserve his modesty.
Skills and Abilities: Owen is perfectly capable of breathing both underwater and in atmosphere. He also seems to have an instict for moving about in three-dimensional spaces. His movements, on land and in his element, are supple and swift. His damp, rubbery skin provides him some protection from heat and bludgeoning damage. He also no longer has external ears; they're just small slits on the sides of his head. Lastly, though his senses are no different from a human's in most circumstances, underwater his vision, hearing, and sense of smell are all enhanced, where in most other species' cases they would be dulled or hampered.

Played By: Firalina
Name: Shalobina (Shelob)
Species: Black Widow Spider
Appearence: While covered completely in a thick exoskeleton, Shhelob's body retains most of the grace of a shapely female body, with an extra three sets of limbs and a large web spinning thorax, plus an extra six eyes, three over each of her main eyes. She has large fanged mandibles. Thick wavy red hair falls gracefully around her.
Skills and Abilities:Shelob can strike with her deadly poison fangs in extremely fast lunges and har many legs have sharp claws. She can spin sticky webs and unstcky cables which make strong tensile supports.

Played By: Coonchan
Name: Krakky
Species: Archeteiuthis dux-Giant Squid
Appearence: Most of her human features have vanished. Her eyes are two enourmous suacers on either side of her large arrow shaped head, a parrotlike beak for a mouth. All of her bones have liquified, and her arms and hands have become ten strong tentacles, while her legs are large spade shaped paddles, her many arms are lined with hook-like sucker claws.
Skills and Abilities: Her many arms are very strong and the claws keep a secure grip on whatever she clutches. Having no bones allows her to fit through tiny spaces limited only by the size of her beak. Her skin is soft and easy to damage despite the thick layer of ammonia reeking mucous. Her skin can only last for short periods of time without water, when the mucous on her flesh dries out her body begins shutting down.

Name: Cougar

Species: American Mountain Lion

Appearance: As a human, the person calling himself Cougar was a military man, only five foot five, but solid wiry muscle. His sandy brown hair is now cut scruffy, and it matches the new mountain lion fur pretty well. His eyes are still blue, and bright with a manic light that lets you know he is NOT playing with a full deck. Lines here and there in his fur indicate where old scars are- he has several.

Skills and Abilities: Cougar is Insane. Not just weird, Insane. He used to be in some kind of Spec-Ops, and now, well… Not only does he have violent tendencies, he has the means to carry them out: Hand to hand combat, tracking, and anything else the madness has left him with.
He’s a fast runner over short distances most of the time. Climbing, stalking, dive-rolls, swimming and maneuvering tough environments seem to be ingrained in him. Better hope he’s forgotten how to snap necks.
He used to be a very intelligent and possibly sensitive person. Occasionally, flashes of what might have been his real personality get through through the psychoses. Sometimes it’s like he knows he’s crazy, and is just trying to get back to normal. Other times… He can be horrific. He seems to be babbling aimlessly, but more often than not what he says makes a vague sort of sense or has a twisted relevance.


Inactive Characters

Played By: mewmew500
Name: kyruu
Species: cat
Appearence: cat ears, tail and sharp claws on hands and feet, black fur all over except underside, blue eyes and sharp teeth.
Skills and Abilities: Super agility and stealth, sensitive ears

Played By: Star_Gazer_2006
Name: Star
Species: Black Jaguar
Appearence: Star is coal black with a scar on my left front paw. The scar is about 3 by 5 inches large. She is about 5' 11". She has long brunette hair with thick black tips at the bottom and red and blonde highlights mixed into her hair.
Skills and Abilities: Medium in size, and able to carry up to 200 pounds. She can run up to 100 m.p.h. for about 30 minutes. She speaks her mind as much as she can and trys not to hurt anyone when she does. Most the time, she doesn't want anyone around...but other times, she wants a lot of people around...you couldn't really tell if she is shy or not

Played by: Inferno Inflamarea
Name: Sukinoriks
Species: Komodo dragon
Appearence: Sukinoriks has deep red eyes and entirely scaled. He is extremly well built and highly curious.
Skills and Abilities: Nearsighted but he's extremly agile and a good swimmer can reach high speeds, if only for a short distance. He has an extremly long tail which is also very stong and his mouth contains poisionous saliva

Played by:saiyinman
Name: Josh
Species: Falcon
Appearence: http://www.gamenationtv.com/reviews/images/zelda242.jpg
Skills and Abilities: Can fly and has sharp claws.

[Pending]

The Story So Far...

Hurtling through space is a ship. It is an aesthetically pleasing construct, slender and aerodynamic in shape made of a dark lilac colored metal. A large clear dome rests about midway down the berth, it is the hydroponics section, and the plants have become like charming woods, many trees with vines complete with a meadow filled with wildflowers. The ship has many rooms, all storing various items. In one of these rooms, a larger one, are many people. These people are lying on cushioned tables covered with a shell of plastic. It is an interesting substance, not made from a brittle glass, but a slightly giving plastic, making it very resistant to rupturing. The people within them are asleep, just enough oxygen enters the cocoon like bubble they exist in to sustain them in this state. They are completely naked in these chambers vulnerable to the world with only their plastic and metal barriers keeping them from harm, that and the blessed ignorance of sleep?s oblivion.

However a much less pleasing to behold ship has clutched the smaller vessel to itself. Strange slimy looking creatures emerge through a tear in the hull. They choke at the fresh atmosphere of the place and set down odd tanks. These burst open filling the air with sickly greenish-grey mist. The company of creatures troops to the command bridge and the mother ship detaches itself from the smaller craft and departs.

A group of the human travelers on the ship have come awake. They have no idea who they are, where they are, or why they were sleeping in this tank. The strange mist in the air for a moment makes them gasp and some retch at the filthy sensation of it in their lungs. Then the group panics seeing themselves change in strange ways. Tails, fur, scales and feathers emerge from their skin and bodies. They're bewildered as their bodies change from familiar human shapes to bestial forms. A few of the more coherent and calm realize they're still basically human, this strange metamorphosis has made them stronger, or faster, more alert, and extra capable. They were part human, part animal. One man sees he has become a literal were wolf. A gorgeous woman is now a luxurious leopard lady. One hysterical member is shrieking beholding his talons. The situation has become too much for him to grasp. Choking he runs from the room, grasping feet slipping on the smooth lateral floor. The rest of the group deigns to explore the ship, to see if they might discover why and how they came to be here in the first place, and perhaps discover what this strange haze is.

They find the former owl-man torn limb from limb, his red blood splattering the walls, but something greenish and leathery hangs from his talons dripping a purplish ichor. He had encountered the alien beasts as he had left the hydroponics tank that separated the humans chamber from the bridge. The people don't know this and press on, committed to finding what had killed him, a few of the group head back with his body to give him a decent burial in the forest chamber. The party who headed to the bridge is cut down by the rapid fire of the alien weaponry. Strange scatter bombs and swirling shrapnel, flying heat and burning acids. Only a few make it free pursued by the aliens until they reach the others in the fresh air of the forest. The aliens will not go into the clean air, for the living plants can purify their slimy bombs...

update 11/01/05

A group of changed humans consisting of a Horse, Hyena, Gazelle, Wolf, Scorpion, Bear, Salamander meet a young Fox-man who leads them to the Hydroponics tank field known as Sanctuary by it's residents. There they are greeted by Shalobina, a beautiful black widow woman, whose appearence sends the arachniphobic hyenid Sabel into a frightened dash to Aion the wolf man, while the great scorpion Lune greets the fellow arachnid. The salamander man Owen finds the stream and meets a young girl transformed into a monsterous cephalopod. Meanwhile Shalobine shares some disconcerting news with Lune and the ggazzelle Sirea leads the studly Tex on a merry chase.

Green eyes suddenly snapped open as the instictive safety switch in his conciousness turned on from lack of air. He choked, gasping and coughing, trying to draw in the oxegen that was no longer available. He struggled thrashing against the strangely yeidling surface. He wanted OUT!! With mindless panic he clawed at the bubble that held him hostage. Throwing his whole weight against it until it finally gave under the onslaught. He stumbled from the capsule and took a deep gasping breath, only to choke a second time, Was there no air here? he wheezed and coughed as his vision quickly faded, his last thought lingering in his mind, I'm going to die! and I cannot even remember my name...

The acrid scent of the poisoned air burned his newly sensative nose, with a jolt the man came to, glancing bewilderedly about his new suroundings, It took a few moments for it to dawn on him that he as still alive. And he sank his head into his hands with short-lived relief. with a gasp he stared at his hands, thick blunt claws tipped his fur coated fingers, and his palms were rough and black like leather. His ears twitched and he realized he could move them of his own violation. A thorough investigation told him that his face and hands were not the only part of him to have changed, He groaned, but it sounded more like a growl to his incredibly sensitive ears. It took a few moments of stumbling and not a few face-plants against the steel floors before he figured out the trick of navigating in his changed body. still moving awkwardly and haltingly he fumbled his way into the hall. His sharp senses making common-place things unusually facinating.

As the wolf-man turned the corner he barely suppresed a yelp as something strange and furry bumped into him. It took a few moments for his heat to slow back down, and another few for him to remember that he was covered in fur himself. An acrid scent wafted through the air, and he realized that she had been as frightened as he,... I can smell fear! He registered numbly, he'd never thought that fear could be smelt so.... easily, no wonder Wild animals could tell if you feared them! the girl mumbled something, and were it not for his enhanced hearing hw would have missed it, so distracted was he. "Uh,...I have no Idea." He responded, distinctly disapointed that she was as confused as he. it was then that he realized she was embarased, and when he figured out why he turned away distictly flustered, ears pressed against his head and tail tucked, "Er... maybe we should... um,... find some cl....other people...-things" He had been about to say 'find some clothes' but he had no Idea if there was any, and that suggestion might only make their discomfort that much more acute.

The wolf man flushed with embarasment, not that one could particularly see it, but his ears laid flat and he ducked his head, shuffling his feet uncomfortably. "I was,...er trying to ...." He trailed off as he glanced at her and squirmed under her gaze for a few more moments, "Well,...imitate you're,....movements, cause you walk so quiet and ...." He turned away for a moment, "er....Sabel is a nice name." He said in a rapid and blatant attempt at a subject change. "I,....I am..... I und...." He blinked for a moment as he realized he was stuttering, "Uh....Ion,...no you can call me 'Aion'" The words rushed from him before he had a moment to think about it, his stutterings had given him an idea for a name. At least a temporary one.

((Okay, Furry seems to have gotten lost so I'll post a quick response))

The newly named Aion paused, his ears perked up and his black nose lifted high in the air, with a look of intense awe and excitement he turned toward Sabel, "Do you smell that?" His tail wagged as he lifted his head again, "It smells like,....bird" His head came down again, slightly puzzled since the both of them were warm-blooded animals. "What does chicken smell like?" He asked after a pause, delivering a fanged wolfy-grin.

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