Number 5. [ Dictated / Action ]

[unstitched]

What... what's going on?! Whoa, I, um-- a-aah--

[ 5 has to pause for a moment to compose himself. It isn't every morning that you wake up in a completely different body, lying in the hall outside your room because you're suddenly much too big for it. At least the castle had the decency to boot him out before transforming him into a human for its own amusement, but that's the last thing on his mind right now. ]

Someone, please-- tell me what's happening! My body is... n-no, why, it's all wrong, why am I so big and my hands are-- not... metal, it...

Please help.

[ Anyone on the sixth floor may stumble across a young man with red hair dressed in an odd burlap outfit; he's huddled against the wall with his knees bundled close to his chest, trembling. He won't be going anywhere for a while... he's a little too busy freaking out. ]

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[encryptedlock]

5? Are you okay?

[unstitched]

I-I-- I don't know...

I'm not hurt but-- I feel really strange, agh, I'm so confused...

[encryptedlock]

Hey, it's okay. Try to sit down somewhere and count to twenty. [Normally he'd advise someone to take deep breaths, but stitchpunks don't breathe.]

Now, can you tell me what's going on?

[save_the_souls]

Are you all right?

[unstitched]

I think so, u-um. I think so? Something... happened to me, it... I don't understand it. I'm kind of scared...

[save_the_souls]

Ah...[Metal, that might mean...] Are you human right now?

[pint_sized_carnivore]

5? What's wrong? Where are you?!

[unstitched]

I'm on the sixth floor. Outside my room, or... at least I think I am, but the door, i-it's tiny now, I can't go in there. I don't know what happened...

[pint_sized_carnivore]

Too tiny? Did the door shrink? I- I'll get you out! I'm on my way!

[Five would be able to hear rustling as Chie jumped out of her bed and hurried out of her room]

[the_marli_tharn]

Hrair! What is wrong? You sound positively tharn!

[unstitched]

Something happened to me... my head is spinning, and e-everything feels strange, and wrong, it--

I want it to stop.

[originalcopy]

Calm down... What's going on?

[unstitched]

I'm... not sure. I t-think I'm in a different... body? That sounds so strange but--

I'm not myself anymore.

[whistles_the_blues]

...Are you in your room?

[This is going to be a recurring thing, isn't it?]

[unstitched]

[Hey, he can't help it if his natural reaction to the castle fucking with him is to flip out and panic.]

N... no. I'm outside it, by the door. I can't get in anymore.

[whichwayyoulean]

...You okay there little Sackbuddy?

[unstitched]

Er, not... not entirely-- t-there's something wrong with me, the castle did something and I'm out in the hall because the door to my room is really small now.

I think it... made me into somebody else.

Dictated

[bravelittlegirl]

[Ah-! She knows that voice!]

Five?

[unstitched]

Ib...? I-it's okay, ah, I'm sorry-- I'm all right now. Mostly...

I think.

[It sounds like he's trying to convince himself more than her, really.]

[cyan_maid]

[She is sad but damn if she won't help out a friend!]

Five? What's wrong?

[unstitched]

Jane! U-um-- it-- it's all right now. I'm okay, I'm... okay.

[He sighs; while he's had a little while to figure out what happened to him, he's still having a very hard time coming to terms with it.]

The castle... changed me.

[kid_apocalypse]

5? Are you all right, buddy?

[unstitched]

Yeah. I should be, I'm... trying to be. I didn't mean to scare you, I-I've calmed down a little now.

[There's still an audible note of panic in his voice, though he seems to be trying to quash it. At least he's had a few minutes to get ahold of himself.]

[silentrunning]

[And as usual, Chell happens to be flipping through her journal, per usual when all the good things happen.]

Five? Where are you? What's happened?

[unstitched]

I'm outside my room. I... aah, I don't know, the castle did something but I... I'm all right. I'm not hurt.