Book universe question

I'd:
-drink (get really drunk)
-go to church
-find the closest male (that isn't related...ew) and...
-play with my dogs.

Not in that order.

Gosh, I really don't know. I'd probably write some letters to people I love for them to read once I'm gone. I don't have a will, so I'd try to divide up some of my more important personal stuff, and make some funeral arrangements. (I'd like to be cremated and not have a religious-influenced funeral ceremony.) I'd talk to my dearest friends, probably on the phone since most of them are too far away. I'd spend the rest of the time with my family--parents, brother, nephew, etc., and my cats. I'd probably cry like a baby. I'd probably go to a fancy restaurant and have all that delicious, fattening food I'd never let myself eat otherwise. Maybe watch the sunset/rise, depending on the time of day. Stare at the stars. Contemplate infinity.

Ironically, sex, drinking and prayer would be some of the furthest things from my mind. XD I'd want all my senses with me, so no alcohol. I'm not dating anyone right now and wouldn't have sex for the sake of having sex so that's out, and I don't believe in God, so.

I am basing my response on your post in the other forum. It's not like we only have 6 hours to live, but 6 hours to be in our current human form, right? I think since this was happening to everyone else, and apparently not fatal, I don't know that I would do anything different. If I was the only one, I might freak....

I have my family, it doesn't sound like we'd be a different person on the inside, just not human beings--well, differently evolved humans? So yeah, I think I'd actually be excited about the whole prospect of having access to magic--maybe I could finally clean and organize my home Mary Poppins style! Of course it sounds like there would have to be renovations in my home to make living comfortable for our new bodies, but that couldn't really take place in 6 hours.

I'm just trying to think of all possibilities--I guess when I first started to show symptoms I would call my friends and family and tell them--I am assuming that some of them would have already made the change.

Your idea sounds very interesting--I'm looking forward to reading it!
Donna

p.s.--I am interested in Kimby's and Van's answers after they follow the link and read his post in the other forum!

Donna Leonard
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Writing that springs from the surface of existence--when there is
no other way and the deeper wells have dried up--is nothing,
and collapses the moment a truer emotion makes that surface
shake.

Now that I've read the post and realize I'd be turning into an anthromophic furry, I might just kill myself.

But you get to be MAGIC!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND you are not the only one changing--the whole world is changing!

Donna Leonard
http://360.yahoo.com/writinginmyhead

Writing that springs from the surface of existence--when there is
no other way and the deeper wells have dried up--is nothing,
and collapses the moment a truer emotion makes that surface
shake.

Can I magic myself so I don't look like an anthro-lizard-WOW-reject?

Nope. After the transformation, it is totally permanent, right down to the DNA.

Hmmmm....good question! My guess would be, no. But even if you could, remember, EVERYone else is looking like this too, so if you stayed looking pure human and being pure human it would be as though you were a Neanderthal or Cro-Magnon man walking around right now, so maybe you'd want to become "evolved?"

Donna Leonard
http://360.yahoo.com/writinginmyhead

Writing that springs from the surface of existence--when there is
no other way and the deeper wells have dried up--is nothing,
and collapses the moment a truer emotion makes that surface
shake.

I don't think so. I doubt this would change the way people THINK. I'm sure there would be a number of people who would just roll with it, but I think there'd be a large portion who would be disgusted with the way they now look. They wouldn't be attracted to other people anymore. It'd be like suddenly finding crocodiles sexual attractive, you know? It's just not going to happen for some people. Maybe after twenty years I'd adjust, but at first, I'd definitely not be comfortable in my own skin anymore, even if everyone else looked like me It'd HELP that I wasn't in it alone, but I wouldn't like it. Not at all.

Not to mention NOTHING would work anymore. You couldn't drive your favorite car anymore, or ride your favorite horse. You couldn't sit in a chair with a solid back, or sleep on your back in you bed. You'd might become too tall to stand in your own house. None of your clothes would fit anymore.

So mcuh stuff would become obsolete. Plus, you'd have all these strange movies now. Gone With The Wind would be starring these strange freakish, scaleless, tailless pink things. Disney cartoons wouldn't make sense anymore. 4,000+ years of human history would suddenly become completely confusing. You're basically talking about having to reinvent the entire world. You couldn't get in your car and drive through Starbucks anymore. You couldn't sit in your office chair. You might not even be able to type anymore.

And if everyone can do magic, do we even need jobs? Can I just magic food out of the air? Money? Clothes? Aaugh.

I promise you, if I didn't kill myself, I'd bitch all the time about the "good old days" before magic.

I like being human. As weird as it sounds, I like the way I look (except... I'm a girl! I'm allowed to critique myself and still like myself). And no offense I'd be pissed that something's changing us for piss and giggles.

But dude ask me if I want to be a X-men mutant and I'd be cool with that.

I think you would be the perfect foil in such a universe, van! You would bring level-headed reality to the freaky new planet, LOL.

Yep that is exactly what I'm going to do. He basically helped with character development on my part, as of the psychological part.

I'd take the wuss' way out and probably put myself in some kind of drug induced coma so that when the end comes, well, I'd be too doped up to care.
But that doesn't exactly create entertaining fiction, I suppose.

"What the hell do you want? Because I am not in the mood for kissing, groping, or sex, even if you do look incredibly tempting in that--what are you wearing?" --Ase

Yeah, I kind of left out drugs for a good reason, and thats the transformation.

Think about it. If I made a character (a drug addict from LA) and he was the first to transform 6 hours after the asteroid hit while he was in a drug induced coma, it would leave the mind fragmented, brain cells destroyed, a crappy personality than before, and his totem might be screwed up as well. I really don't wanna start thinking about his magic and his impact on society.

It might be funny to think about , but for an actual character in a post-impact world, thats dangerous waters for me.

If I had six hours to live, I'd probably spend the entire time writing letters to or calling everyone I know and spending time with my husband and kids.

Six hours till furry time, however, and I'd be out trolling for every good-looking man I can find. I'm sorry, but I wouldn't take the chance that when I woke up "evolved" I would suddenly be attracted to my fellow magical mammals. Everything else I could handle.

"We are put on this earth to fart around, and don't let anyone tell you any different." --K. Vonnegut

I haven't read your plot idea, so I'm not certain whether the furry creatures like to be that way, and whether they still communicate with the human world, and whether they long again for the human world, but perhaps I would prepare some sort of "time capsule" that would remind myself of what I was, or of what human life was like, or something on that order. If there is no interaction between the species, perhaps I would try to find a way to communicate with the future me.

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