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?

[save_the_souls]

Are you all right?

[pint_sized_carnivore]

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

[the_marli_tharn]

Hrair! What is wrong? You sound positively tharn!

[unstitched]

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

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

[unstitched]

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

[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...

[unstitched]

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

I want it to stop.

[the_marli_tharn]

[She frets quietly for a moment.] Where are you? I will come to you.

[originalcopy]

Calm down... What's going on?

[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?

[whistles_the_blues]

...Are you in your room?

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

[save_the_souls]

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

[whichwayyoulean]

...You okay there little Sackbuddy?

[unstitched]

O... okay.

[There's a long moment of silence as 5 tries to pull himself together and clear his head.]

I've been... changed, somehow. Everything is much bigger than it used to be, and I'm-- I'm not made of cloth, I--

I-I'm like you. I think.

[unstitched]

I--

[He hesitates.]

I might be? I think... I might be. Yeah. But-- how could that even--

[save_the_souls]

You might be experiencing your first loss. The castle...sometimes will change something about a person for at least a few days.

Non-human people turning into humans..well, it's a rather common one.

[unstitched]

Um-- on the sixth floor. Right by my room... in the hall.

[unstitched]

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

I'm not myself anymore.

[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.

[whistles_the_blues]

[It's beautiful.]

...Give me a moment.

[It doesn't take long for Blues to get up stairs, nor does it take him very long to spot 5 thanks to the change the castle made.]

Hm. That's new. You okay?

[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.

[originalcopy]

Ok... Sounds like the castle is doing it's thing again.

You'll be alright.
What did it turn you into?

[the_marli_tharn]

I will be there.

[It will take her a while ... first she has to get inside and then she has to figure out stairs, but she's persistent.]

[unstitched]

[5 nervously peers up at Blues from behind his knees, slowly moving into a more natural sitting position once he realizes who it is. It's rather jarring, to see someone who normally towers over him on the same level for the first time.]

Yeah, I should be. Just... kind of shaken.

[He blinks, rubbing at his eye to make sure that he's seeing everything correctly.]

... so I really am the same size as everybody else... t-this is so strange. Why did the castle do this to me? Is anyone else in a-- a different body like this?