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[thedarkbond]

[The first thing visible in this video is some kind of very bright surface obscuring the lens. Then it rearranges itself, and it becomes obvious that someone with a colossal mess of red tentacles for hair that are also glowing luminescent pink in areas is holding his phone at an appropriate distance with said tentacles. Ren looks a bit chaotic, between that and the purplish-white patches glowing on his skin, the purple nails and lips, but he seems cheerful enough, waving at the screen and then waving one of the two additional tentacles trailing from his shoulder blades.]

Hello everyone...I saw a couple of people with this new moonblessing already, and I'm starting to get kind of curious now. We've had that dragon moonblessing, the kitsune, and now this, right? Weird ones that just showed up once and then never again so far. But I'm wondering how many people actually got each of them - I got all three, but I think a lot of people might've only gotten one or two or only been around for one or two, right? Since I think they might've been caused by different things...

[He taps his chin a in a dramatic sort of thoughtful motion.] So I guess what I'm asking is, how many of those weird moonblessings did everyone get? And which ones? Even if you didn't get any of those three, it'd be interesting to know who managed to avoid all of them too...also, if you got pictures of yourself with them, you should definitely show me pictures. I want to see what everyone ended up looking like.

[He claps his hands together to one side of his face in a cutesy, inviting sort of manner. He mostly wants to see if there's a pattern (and potentially confirm his theories on what caused each of them, because he's a lot more sure than he's letting on), but he's not going to act like he's not just curious to see what changes people ended up going through and if they were as radically different as normal moonblessings could be.]

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[asaqueenshould]

I've only gotten the dragon one so far, but it's too soon to say whether the current one will affect me or not.

After some discussion I narrowed the source of the dragon transformation down to the tea we were served at the hot springs in Lystellus. I believe the cult force-fed its victims something as well, which would account for the kitsune transformations. As for the current one, I have no idea.

[thedarkbond]

do you have a weird marking on your arm? that's the only thing i picked up after the moon thing that might be related...

mmm, i kind of thought it might be the tea after the kitsune thing was the wine
it'd explain why not everyone who went to the dragon city got the dragon moonblessing ೕ(･ㅂ･ )

[asaqueenshould]

I don't, no.

I also didn't accompany the expedition up to Iris. Is there any indication so far that this is only affecting people who did, or does it seem to be more random?

[thedarkbond]

weird...

i've definitely seen someone who didn't go get the change, so it's not just people who went (・_・ヾ
though the jellyfish came down here too, didn't they?

[asaqueenshould]

They did, but if my friend's experience is anything to go on, this special transformation is veering more in the octopus/squid range. Iris already covers jellyfish, so even if they were acting on behalf of the latest troublemaker, I don't know if that would be enough in and of itself.

The change in mechanism for altered transformation is concerning, though. How are we supposed to warn anyone to be on the lookout for these things if there's no constant?

[thedarkbond]

still, maybe something about contact with the jellyfish could've caused it, even if people aren't actually turning into jellyfish... (゜-゜)

right, it's not just drinking something anymore either way...i guess if the marking does end up being related, that could be a warning sign? but even then, there's no way to avoid it in advance (*>_<*)

[asaqueenshould]

Maybe. We may not have enough evidence yet.

[thedarkbond]

it'll be hard to tell until the end of this month's moon cycles...
i was mostly just curious about what was going on so far ¯\_(ツ)_/¯