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Somehow, Phymi had found herself out of the glitched zone, back through the woods and into a giant tea party where everyone was doing some weird things. Or turning into rabbits. How she'd gotten herself over here, she really wasn't about to question; the glitched zone had been terrifying enough, thank you very much. The giant pieces of pastries were odd, to be sure, but not terrifying.

She giggled a little - hehe - and picked through the deserts. Huh, red cake...

And then she turned bright pink. She blinked down at herself and it took a moment to register what exactly had happened.

She was bright pink. What. The. Jack.

NOPE NOPE NNOPPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE

MUST FIND SOMETHING ELSE

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It was like a dessert lover's dream come true here. That was SugarPuss' only thought as she skittered from one plate to the next to peer at its content, trying to figure out what each of these enormous food items were supposed to be. Tarts, pies, cupcakes, ice-cream. Just about everything that one could think of could be found here. Pondering over her options for a bit as to which one she ought to try first, her eyes settled eventually on the innocuous looking honey tarts located just a plate away.

Hopping onto the plate edge, she closed the distance between herself and the tarts, taking a whiff of the aroma they gave off before using her hand to break off some of the crust and start nibbling on it. Mmm... It was delicious. The rich flavour of the crust paired with the sweetness of the honey was like a match made in heaven.

Reaching out to break off more of the honey tart crust, she started to notice something odd about her hand. It was way smaller than what it used to be and furrier. Taking a step back, she looked down at herself and realised that her entire body was now covered with the same green coloured fur. A look at her own reflection on the surface of the nearest teapot revealed that she was now a green coloured March Hare minipet just like the one she had following her around.

... so this was what this tea party was all about.

She had been a minipet the last time. So now, she wondered what the other flavors did. Having four fancy pastries already, her fifth choice was the jello.

This world made no sense, and that was coming from a mare afflicted by Insanity. She stood at the base of the giant table looking up, with eyes narrowed and features set in a scowl. All she really wanted to do was wake up, but it didn't seem like that was in the cards at the moment. So she kept moving forward, no less confused than when she had first found herself here, but certainly more frustrated.

Scaling the table proved to be easier than she would have thought, thanks to the pattern carved into the leg. She climbed all the way up until she could stand at the end, and her attention lowered to another yellow exclamation point, a 'quest'. It wanted her to sample some of the desserts. Easy enough, but she'd already learned that eating or drinking anything here always carried some form of side effect.

No reason to believe this time would be any different.

No different. no Different. no different.

Her right eye twitched, lips pulling back momentarily before a shake of her head helped clear the loud echo of voices so she could school her features.

She wandered across the table without seeing most of the desserts laid out. The smells were overwhelming. Things that would have smelled appetizing on their own, or at another time, but only managed to turn her stomach at the moment. Even Especially the apple pie.

So sweet. Addictive.

But that is where she ended up. Standing before the crisp crust and thick cinnamon. All of it overlaid across the juicy sent of sweet apple filling. She swallowed, torn, before dipping a fingertip into gooey filling and drawing it up to her lips. And of course she'd shrink. Of course everything would grow larger around her. Because that was how things worked here.

The walk back to the glowing question mark was a lot longer, but than she was much shorter now.

Rex whined as Shad decided to try the Apple Pie, he thought it was a Very Bad Idea, but Shad0ws_Suck had already made his mind up to try at least one more.

That proved to be quite the bad idea, actually, because tasting the sweetly delicious, cinnamon-and-hot apples proved to have the most unfortunate side-effect of shrinking him down to the size of a...a...well, he wasn't sure what size he was now, but it was tiny and extremely dangerous!

"Ok, you were right. Let's...find something else to eat, quickly. Anything is probably better than this." The miniscule guy in White Rabbit dress carefully made his way through the massive plates, cups and people; he was nearly stomped a few times (why did no one ever seems to watch where they stepped?) but eventually he did manage to make it over to The Peach Cobbler and it's mountain of whipped cream. It was even bigger to Shad because he was so small, but he still climbed onto the serving dish and managed to take a bite of warm, delicious peach.

[ GENERAL CHAT ]Shad0ws_Suck says: "I once tried on my Tia's heels and liked it."

Back to normal size, Shad clapped his hands over his mouth in an attempt to keep from spilling any more embarrassing secrets...too bad it didn't work because past that first attempt to muzzle his mouth, he found he actually wanted to spill his guts.

[ GENERAL CHAT ]Shad0ws_Suck says: "I wet the bed until kindergarten because I wouldn't get out of bed at night."

Oh god...he had to do something about this...and fast. Even as he was spewing some of his most horribly embarrasing secrets, he was heading back to the Red Velvet Cupcakes - since he knew the previous effects would be cancelled out by the new ones, he decided to go with the one dessert he'd tried that hadn't given him godawful results.

Quickly he munched a bite and lost the compulsion to spill his guts. He was wearing pink again, but that was okay. "Yeah, Rex...I know. Let's ...stop this now." He wasn't gonna take a single bite of anything else...no freaking way.

It was for the best, really.

As much fun as Kousagi had had in the woods, she could not say she was sad to see them go. Already her quota for being concerned for the forest had been met when she'd stumbled across the glitchy portion of it with Ornot, and her opinion on the whole matter had been soured quite fully with the appearance of the Jabberwocky. That thing had been a true menace and even if she had defeated him in only two tries, it was not something she wanted to mess with again.
To see the forest finally change was nice, but to find the air filled with a lively song accompanied by the appearance of a very large table was even nicer.

With a grin the mouse set about scaling the chair, glad it was made of well worn wood that rewarded her many a foot hold for her to employ. It wasn't the easiest task, but avatars were typically more in shape than normal bodies, so Kousagi didn't much mind the trek. After a bit of huffing and puffing, a few slips and squeaks as she almost crashed back onto the ground, the girl finally made her way onto the table top. It took one last good jump that left her fallen and sprawled on the surface, but still! She had made it!
When she stood up with a hop into the air, a pop made her jump once more and she laughed to find the table top filled to bursting with food. And not just any food: Sweets!

Another devious laugh left the girl as she launched herself forward, terribly giddy at the prospect of getting to eat whatever she wanted. Unfortunately her excitement clouded her vision and Kousagi ran straight into a bright red cake that was taller than herself.
Except it wasn't a cake because she bounced off of it and hit the table.
A cry left her, but she was up on her feet in a flash to inspect the thing she'd hit. Oh! It was jello!
"I wonder if they have-- A PURPLE ONE." Having found the exact one she wanted, the mouse dug a hand into the bouncy mold and carved out a piece of lilac colored jello. It had a delicious taste that she was quite pleased with, licking her hand with relish once she had finished the confection.

That was, of course, when she noticed two players down on the ground wandering by.
Except they were trees.
"O-oh... That's... Hm." Kousagi screwed up her mouth and watched them chatter, trying to figure out what mod they had used to become trees. Strange... But cool! She wondered if their bark was as good as their bite.
Haaaa ha.

00zingTea was tempted to have those yummy red velvet cupcakes again but she figured there were too many other good looking desserts to try. She did however walk by a caterpillar guy who had obviously just tried them

< TO TOTALLYALLAN: Hey dude, looking good! biggrin >

She grinned at him before examining the jello. Eating jello always felt slightly cannibalistic to her but this was a dream world right? She took a bite full of rainbowed jello and all the sudden felt as if she were back in that horrible forest. Trees were everywhere. Where pink guy had just stood was a tree. She stared at him/the tree, eyes unwavering.

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Still a bit hungry, and unwilling to stop just because she'd eaten one thing, Kousagi wandered on in search of something else to nibble on. She passed a peach cobbler that looked appetizing, but she wasn't sold on it. Even if it was just the skin, she was still allergic to peach peels in her real body and while this might be the perfect chance to indulge in something she typically strayed from, the girl just couldn't reconcile it with herself. Not when she spotted a honey tart next to it that caught the light so beautifully.
Her eyes went wide as she trotted over to the pastry, more in love with how golden perfect it looked rather than because she had a fondness for honey. The whole thing just looked so pretty and tasty and Kousagi wanted to eat it right now thanks.

Not really sure how to go about it, she first dipped one finger into the smooth surface and pulled out a big droplet of honey with a string attached. Unsure how to proceed next, she figured maybe some crust? Um wait she got some on the crust and onto the table oh gosh, oh no it was on her shoes uhhhhhhh this was-- She took a bite of what she had collected and leaned over the pastry, trying not to dribble more onto the table. But if she leaned too far forward her hair would fall in and that would be dreadful!
Kousagi squeaked with a mouth full of delicious honey and stood straight, but found more of the gooiness had fallen to the table anyways and nearly onto her feet.
About to really start getting worried over how messy she was being, Kousagi was not given a lot of time to be bothered by it as she instead shrank down and realized she was very small and very furry and very cute.

A small pink tongue lapped up the remaining honey on her paw (????!???) before both paws reached up to touch her head. Mouse ears had been replaced with rabbit ears and her tail was now short and cottony. Oh.
"My username makes sense now! YAY?"