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As Scar walks out of the moopop cafe he grins. The potion he holds glimmers silver. It’s a shrinking potion and it takes quite a lot to get rid of.
Perfect to get back at Jevin for hiding in his chest monster to scare him. A tiny little slime.
Jellie mews up at him and fixes him with a stare.
“It’ll be fine,” He giggles.
Flicking her tail, Jellie winds her way around Scars legs.
“Hey stop that,” He murmurs, “Are you trying to make me spill it?”
After a few more minutes Jellie sits right where Scar is about to stand. With a startled yelp he splashes down into the mer pool.
Letting himself shift, Scar flicks his blue and orange tail and gasps, “Oh no.”
Swimming over Hypno bares his teeth, “What’s up?”
“I dropped a potion, I don’t think it’ll affect any of you.”
Flicking his tail Hypno darts back to his rocky outcropping and settles back onto the soft sand. The shark mer resumes watching the fish swimming around in the pool.
Grian and Mumbo are curled together sleeping as Xb flicks his tail across the both of them. Mumbo’s large betta fins act as a sort of blanket for the sleeping pile. A spotted koi tail flicks as Grian starts to wake up. Rolling off Xb swims over to Etho and Keralis.
Giving a sharp-toothed smile the temporary barracuda mer blinks and curls his tail around Xb’s.
Spotting Scar’s gaze Etho swims over and grins, “You spilled a potion?”
“Hypno told you, yeah it should be fine.”
Flicking his blueish silver tail Etho shrugs, “Ok.”
Swimming up to the surface Scar pulls himself out and after a moment turns back. Waving to the mers he heads back to his base.
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Mumbo Jumbo Suffocated
Xisuma: oh dear
Iskall: Mumbo you ok?
Impulse: Get in some water man
Mumbo Jumbo Suffocated
Iskall: X where is he I’ll go get him
Xisuma: He’s at his base
As Iskall swings the door into Mumbo’s room open he frowns, the bed looks empty.
A flash in the center of the bed draws his attention over as a small fish flails… “Oh no.”
Rushing around Iskall grabs a mug, fills it with water, and slips Mumbo into it. Tiny gills flutter as Mumbo rubs his eyes.
Iskall: Is this normal
[photo of mumbo in mug]
Welsknight: absolutely not, town hall, please
Opening his eyes Grian frowns. There’s something red covering him, flicking his tail as he idly swims forwards and out of the thing covering him.
“That’s my shirt…” Grian frowns.
Poking his head above his pool he flicks over to where his communicator is laying.
Grian: I shrunk
Grian: halp
Wels: not you too
Grian: ?
Wels: I’ll get a bucket and come get you.
As Wels walks over to Grian’s sleeping pond he carefully pokes at the water before stepping in. Taking a quick moment to measure how big he is, Wels deposits him in a bucket.
“We should check on Scar,” Grian murmurs as he pokes his head over the side of the bucket.
“He fell in the main pool yesterday right?” Wels asks as they walk over to the hidden pond.
“Yeah took a potion with him,” Grian sighs, “Hypno and Etho were talking about it,” Dunking under the water for a moment he rubs at some of his white scales.
“Hi,” Scar murmurs sadly, “Sorry about this.”
After a quick moment measuring and a don’t go in the main pool message Scar is placed into the bucket where he’s almost double Grian’s size at two feet long.
“Wels, how big is mumbo?”
“He’s two and a half inches.”
Scar gasps, “Oh he’s tiny.”
“He’s a betta fish,” Wels laughs.
Running his hand across his dorsal fin Hypno frowns, something’s wrong. His communicator buzzes, a message from Wels calling him Keralis, Xb, and Etho over to the shopping district. Slipping down into the tunnel he flicks his tail and swims over to the shopping district.
As he pops up he slips into one of the side pools and frowns, he curls around a rock and pokes his head above water, “So why is Mumbo in a bowl?”
“The current is pretty strong over here with everyone coming and going and he kinda yeeted,” Grian explains from where he and Scar are leaning on the edge of a small pond together.
A few moments later Xb and Keralis settle around, “So what’s the problem?”
“It’s not as noticeable for you three but you’re about the size of your fishes,” Wels sighs.
“I'm not normally this big,” Xb murmurs.
“Looks like You’re six foot. Hypno’s four and a half and Keralis is around four point three feet,” Wels explains as his communicator buzzes.
Etho: could you have X teleport me,
Etho: I’m stuck :|
After a moment Etho splashes into the largest of the water hub pools.
“Oh snappers,” Etho shudders, “Do I want to know what happened?”
Wels nods, “You’re a bluefin tuna right?”
“Yep,” Etho nods as he sits on a ledge and curls his tail up.
After doing some measurements it’s determined that Etho is thirteen feet in length. The way to reverse the potion is milk and time.
Mumbo swims in lazy circles as he’s brought over to a small outside pool with Grian and Scar. As he’s gently set in the water his fins flare out as he stabilizes himself in the water.
Swimming up to him Grian grins, “Oh my goodness you’re tiny.”
“You already went through how small and adorable and doll-sized I am.”
Scar flicks his tail and slowly meanders over to the small pile of blankets.
Wrapping his fins around his tail Mumbo groans, “That didn’t feel good.”
“Are you ok?” Grian asks, pulling Mumbo over to the edge.
“That made me feel ready sick.”
“The water?”
Nodding softly Mumbo sighs, “Really bad motion sickness.”
Etho leans against the stone retaining wall and looks over at his communicator. It’s actually about the same size as his palm.
The other three are in the same pool and are currently in a sleep pile together as they wait for the spell to wear off.
Flaring out his fins Mumbo swims back and forth agitatedly. The conflicting currents from Scar and Grain swimming are hurting his head and making him feel queasy.
“Hey Mumbo,” Wels murmurs, “We have a tank for you if you want?”
Mumbo nods and lets Wels scoop him up into his hands as he’s plopped down into a large fish tank.
After taking a few minutes to explore the well-decorated tank Mumbo curls up with a blanket and looks out over the shopping district. Occasionally hermits walk by; Ren tossed in a few fish flakes and Mumbo instinctively swims up to eat.
A few hours later the spell starts to wear off, Wels puts Mumbo back in with the small pond.
Once everyone’s back to normal, Wels flops back into the main pool and starts to sink, a moment later a ten-inch flying fish surfaces, “Oh no.”