Spell name:
Sands of the Time Mage

Form name:
Chronomancer of the Sands

Form description:
This woman has the perfect hourglass figure. Quite literally! Her body is made out of crystal clear glass with her head being a sandy brown colour, her arms and legs seem to be latexy and her irises are clock faces. There also seems to be an actual hourglass inside of her. Its top is where her breasts are while its bottom is where her hips are. Inside, sand is continuously trickling down from the top half to the bottom. When the bottom is completely filled, the sands seem to defy gravity and slowly trickle back up again. She is an embodiment of time itself and may even be able to bend it. What else did you expect from a chronomancer such as her?

Place of discovery: Needles and Scratches (Used Instruments Room).

Discovery:
As you are searching through store, you stumble upon a rather peculiar object. An hourglass? In a music store? How unexpected… You decide to pick it up and inspect it a little closer. There doesn’t seem to be anything interesting about it. Just a regular old hourglass. Thus you put it back again, deciding to turn it over to see the sands trickle down. That’s when something unexpected happens. Just behind the shelves, a secret door opens up! Taking a look inside, you can see a circular room. The floor of this room seems to be a massive clock face with actual moving pointers. The walls are adorned with all kinds of different clocks, from analog to digital. The most interesting object though stands in the middle of the room. A rather large hourglass with sands trickling down from top to bottom. You are about to enter the room when you are grabbed from behind and the noise of ticking clocks start to fill your ears. What? Someone snuck up on you! They have a rather strong grip, being able to hold you with just one hand. Their other hand flips over the hourglass on the shelf again, closing the door to this strange room again. Finally, the person turns you around and you seem to be looking into the eyes of a Mechanized Clockwork Doll. Are her irises clock faces? She speaks up in her robotic voice. “I am a guardian of time,” she says. “This shrine is dedicated to time. Only those willing to harness its power and join me here may enter.” A shrine huh? A rather odd place for a shrine but alright… You wonder now what ‘joining her’ entails exactly. “Do you wish to know more?” she asks. You nod silently. “Then bring me a subject.” You assume that means you should find someone willing to ‘join’ this doll. Are they going to be turned into a doll as well themselves? Or is something else going to happen? You are about to ask more but just then, the sound of her ticking seems to stop as she completely stops moving, standing perfectly still now. She will probably need to be rewound so that she can move again. Still, her offer resonates in your mind. You nod to the silent doll and move to find yourself a victim!

Spell desc:
A mechanized clockwork doll told you to find her some subjects to join her, whatever that means. Possibly, this may turn your victims into a being of time.


Victim
1:
Another day, another transformed victim for you. You’ve been on a roll lately! You’re just now enjoying your new shirt when you walk by a notice on a nearby bulletin board. It caught your eye because the notice is addressing only the strongest of mages in bold letters. Clearly, it is referring to you! Taking a closer look, you read the following text. “Do you feel like you are wasting your time, slinging spells at psychopaths? Can you feel your internal clock ticking with every passing day? I got you covered! $ATTACKER_NAME$ is offering a special training in the art of chronomancy!” Chronomancy? This person is offering to train you into becoming a time-mage? That could be interesting. A whole new way of casting magic! You take a strip from the notice with the address on it and you go on your way.

2:
Your mind is rushing with ideas already. You could stop time for your enemies, make time go faster or even make time go back! This is going to be fantastic you think to yourself and you are surprised to find that this is the Needles and Scratches music store. Entering the store, you find what looks like a mechanized clockwork doll. She isn’t moving as her key has stopped turning but she seems to be pointing at a wall. Looks like just a normal wall, but this doll can’t just be pointing at nothing, right? That’s when suddenly the wall opens, revealing a hidden passage! The area beyond seems to be completely dark. “Hello?” You call out, but there’s no answer. That’s odd. Unsure of what to do, you decide to enter. You’re here for more power after all and you’re going to get it now. That’s when the door snaps shut behind you, leaving you in complete darkness and silence. None of the light or sounds outside seem to be able to enter… was this a trap? How could you have let yourself be fooled so easily? You are shaken out of your thoughts by a voice. “Welcome,” it booms. “Who’s there?!” you yell. “I am $ATTACKER_NAME$, your teacher,” the voice replies. “You are here for my training, are you not?” Well, that IS indeed what you are here for, so you nod silently. “Good,” the voice goes on again, “then it is time to begin.” Wait, what? Begin already? That’s quite unexpected…

3.
A bright light suddenly flashes, momentarily blinding you. As your eyes finally adjust again, you are able to see quite a peculiar sight indeed. You are standing on top of a massive clock face, its pointers indicating the current time. In the center of the clock, you can see an hourglass, sand slowly trickling down from the top half to the bottom. The walls are adorned with many different clocks. A few analog ones mixed in with digital ones and even a sundial here and there. This room seems to embody time itself! You decide to move forwards and inspect this room. There is so much to see after all. You cannot contain your curiosity! As you approach the hourglass, you are reminded of the ‘perfect hourglass figure’, desired by many men and women alike. “Halt,” the voice speaks up and instantly you stop moving. If this person wanted to turn you into their shoes, they would have done so already so why not keep listening? Something is really going to happen here. You really are going to learn to be a chronomancer here, you just know it. How though? You haven’t done anything yet besides moving forwards. “I present you now with a choice,” comes the voice.

4.
A choice? What could they possibly mean? “You stand before the sands of time,” the voice explains. “The sands flow eternally, as does time. I present you with the chance to harness this power.” Well, that’s what you’re here for after all! “But in order to harness the power of time, you must become time itself.” Wait, what? Become time? How could someone possibly become time? That doesn’t make any sense! The voice seems to laugh at your confusion. It’s not a wicked or evil laugh. It’s more innocent and playful. “Touching the hourglass in front of you lets you take its place. You will be transformed and there is no going back. You will remain animate and will be able to leave this place, but you will always remember your roots here. You will be time and you will gain the ability to control it as you see fit.” Damn, of course there was a catch! “You may also leave this place. You will forget about this place as if nothing ever happened. You will remain yourself but you will not have gained anything.” Well, at least there’s still a way out. “What will it be? Make your choice. You have all the time in the world to decide.”

5.
What a choice you are presented with. Give up on your current self in order to become time? Is this really what you want? Will your mind still be the same? Will you still be able to keep your memories? And what exactly will happen once you transform? The voice said you’d still be able to move. Is that really the case? Is this an elaborate trap after all? Lots of questions swirl around in your head. You think about getting out of here. This isn’t worth it! But something keeps you from running. You didn’t come here for nothing. You came here in order to become a chronomancer. You think about touching the hourglass but again, something stops you. Think about what you’re giving up? Just for the sake of a new magical power? Your are very much torn on this. You notice your hand reaching forwards then. Wait, are you actually considering doing this? Are you really going to do this? Do the potentials really outweigh the downsides? Your hand is just inches away from the hourglass now. ‘Touching the hourglass in front of you lets you take its place.’ The words echo in your head. You have to make a choice! It is now or never!

6.
Finally and firmly, you have made your choice. You touch the hourglass and just like that, you can feel a transformation overcome you. The hourglass seems to shrink but that is not all. It raises up in the air and before you can react it… enters your waist? That’s when the transformation begins. There is no going back now… Your skin starts turning into sparkling glass, revealing the hourglass inside, its sands trickling down just like it had been doing before. The glass spreads down your hips and up your chest, giving you that hourglass figure you had been thinking about before. A crystal clear pair of c-cup breasts sit on your chest and your shapely feminine hips make you look like a very sexy woman. Your arms and legs are next and it seems that they are turning latexy and black. Your hair grows out and becomes very long. Finally, your head and your hair alike turn into sandy brown coloured glass. That seems to finish up the changes. You look down at your body and what you see is quite stunning. You are glad to find that you can in fact still move as you inspect these changes to your body, but that is when a new magic enters you. Having transformed your body, the hourglass now seems to affect your mind… Your thoughts, your memories, your feelings, they all seem to remain the same, but something new soon takes the stage. The hourglass fills your mind. Without looking down, you can see… no… feel its sand trickling down. You can feel what time it is right now. You just seem to know how much time has passed since you first entered this room. Heck, you can even tell how long you’ve been in Sunnyglade! You get it now. You have become a physical embodiment of time itself. Your eyes glaze over for a moment as your irises are transformed into clock faces. The mark of a chronomancer. Before, you wanted to use this power against your foes. To make life easier for yourself. But now that you ARE time, suddenly those thoughts seem fleeting and far away. Time is precious and you now feel it your duty to protect and preserve it. A smile appears on your face, the sounds of sand trickling down resonating through your mind. You step off the big clock face towards the door. “Thank you,” you speak in a feminine, almost robotic voice. “You are welcome, chronomancer of the sands.” the voice of your teacher returns.

Caster
1.
Subjects, subjects, where are you going to find a subject willing to undergo this experiment of the clockwork doll? Looking around yourself, you find all sorts of mages. Some inexperienced mages just trying to not be transformed, some mages simply loving to be transformed into all sorts of different forms and some are just masters of magic, owning many different transformed victims already. How are you going to find someone in this mess that would be willing to listen to you without risking yourself getting transformed by them? That’s when you walk past a bulletin board with advertisements. Hmm, you could work with that! Using magic, you decide to make your own notice with the promise of great power in the art of time. That is after all what the doll told you. You leave a few strips with the address of Needles and Scratches on it. Who knows, someone may bite, right?

2.
Returning to the store, you can find the clockwork doll still standing where you left her. You wonder if you are allowed to alter her position a little bit so that she will point towards the entrance of the shrine. Then you remember that she can’t even move right now and you do it anyway. From here on, all you really have to do is wait until someone comes along. You pretend to just be another customer in the store for now until you find someone holding one of your strips in their hands! ‘Gotcha’ you think to yourself. Sure enough, they are inspecting the wall that the doll is pointing at and when you’re sure they aren’t looking, you use magic to stealthily turn the hourglass on the shelf again, opening the hidden door. You make sure that the area beyond is dark in order to keep the room a surprise until your victim enters. After a few moments of hesitation, they finally enter. Grinning, you quickly turn the hourglass back again, closing the door and trapping them inside. That was easy! Just then, the clockwork doll hums back to life again. Wait what? How did she do that? No-one turned her key! “Well done,” she says as if nothing strange happened. She then extends her hand to you. “Join me and you may oversee what happens.” You take her up on her offer and grab her hand and when you do so, it feels as if you are leaving your body? No, wait. You are still outside with the clockwork doll, but a part of you is also inside the room with your victim. The doll speaks to you and gives you instructions on what to say. You merely echo her words for now. “Welcome,” you say. They are startled. “Who’s there?” they shout.  “I am $ATTACKER_NAME$, your teacher,” you answer. “You are here for my training, are you not?” They nod silently. “Good,” you say with a smile, eager to see what this clockwork doll has in stall, “then it is time to begin.”

3.
The doll smiles at you. “Everything is going like clockwork,” she says, “as expected.” She then snaps her fingers (how does she even do that, being made of metal?) as suddenly, the lights inside of the shrine turn on once more, letting your victim finally see what they ran into. It seems that they did not expect this at all and they are now very intrigued by it all. “This is where the magic happens,” the doll speaks up again. “Give them a choice. Let them decide their fate. Do so before they touch the hourglass for that is what will set off the change.” Ah, so there is going to be an actual change alright. Will they be transformed? You are quite eager to see that happening. Will they turn into a clockwork doll much like this one? Or is it going to be something else? You can see then that your victim is approaching the center of the room. “Halt!” you say and they stop dead in their tracks. Whew, that was a close call. “I present you now with a choice,” you say as the clockwork doll starts explaining what you need to say exactly.

4.
A broad grin appears on your face as you are told what to say by the doll. This is gonna be good! “You stand before the sands of time,” you start. “The sands flow eternally, as does time. I present you with the chance to harness this power.” Your victim smiles. That’s what they came here for after all! “But in order to harness the power of time, you must become time itself.” You yourself find it a bit hard to believe that someone can actually BE time but you may find out how real this really means very soon. Looking at your victim, they seem to be just as confused and you can’t help but laugh a little at this. Neither of you knows what’s going to happen but at the very least, you are not on the receiving end of this spell. “Touching the hourglass in front of you lets you take its place,” you continue to echo the doll’s words. “You will be transformed and there is no going back. You will remain animate and will be able to leave this place but you will always remember your roots here. You will BE time and you will gain the ability to control it as you see fit.” It is starting to dawn on you that your victim may become some kind of animate hourglass. That actually sounds like it would be quite sexy. A woman with a literal hourglass figure. “You may also leave this place,” you carry on going. “You will forget about this place as if nothing ever happened. You will remain yourself but you will not have gained anything.” You sincerely hope that they will not pick the latter option now. They’ve gotten so far! Still, the option is there, should they want out… “What will it be?” you ask them. “Make your choice. You have all the time in the world to decide.” Maybe you’re overdoing it with the time puns...

5.
“Now we wait,” the clockwork doll says. Sure enough, you can see your victim thinking about their decision. If they leave now, that’d just be a shame and you’d need to find a new victim and do it all over again. It’s taking quite a while for them to decide… that’s good. It means that they are at least considering it, but why must it take so long? “Patience is a virtue,” the doll tells you. Easy for her to say! She could probably make time flow as slow or as fast as she wants! Looking back at your victim, you can see that their hand is now actually reaching forwards… but they are still hesitating. They just need to get a few inches closer. A part of you wants to just go in there and force them but that wouldn’t do. This clockwork doll probably wouldn’t allow it anyway and she may even have you take your victim’s place instead. You sigh and distract yourself by just listening to the ticking noise emanating from the doll. It’s quite relaxing to listen to after all. It does make you wonder what it would be like to have to listen to that sound all the time. You probably just get used to it, but still… Your victim may have to listen to that sound all the time as well. Or maybe they’ll listen to the sound of sand trickling down the hourglass? Well, you may be about to find out as their hand inches closer and closer to the hourglass!

6.
Finally, it happens. They touch the hourglass! You smile excitedly and the clockwork doll seems to smile as well at this, though not as much. As if she was already expecting this and that it was just a matter of time until it happened. The first thing that happens is that the hourglass shrinks down in size and then swiftly enters your victim’s waist. From there, the transformation quickly spreads outwards. Skin turns into glass as their shape becomes a very feminine and perfect hourglass figure. Her c-cup breasts start to sparkle in the light as they are made of crystal clear glass as well now. The transformation spreads down her arms and legs which seem to become latexy and black. Finally, her hair grows out to be very long and it along with the rest of her head turns into sandy brown coloured glass, not unlike the clockwork doll. She looks down at her new body and admires herself a little bit. Her admiration is cut short however as she suddenly looks up and stares ahead of herself. “Time is now entering her mind,” the clockwork doll says. The mental changes, of course. They aren’t really all that interesting to watch since, well, there is nothing to see. You are proven wrong however when you see that, much like the irises of the clockwork doll, your new hourglass mage received clock face irises as well. The mark of a chronomancer. With that, the transformation seems to finish. Though she looks different from the clockwork doll, you can already tell that the two are very similar now. Confidently, she makes her way towards the door again but before she plans on leaving, she halts and speaks up. “Thank you,” she says. Her voice sounds a lot like the mechanized voice of the clockwork doll you’re with. “You are welcome, chronomancer of the sands,” you reply. That’s when the doll quickly lets go of you. “Thank you for your aid,” she says before quickly resuming her earlier position of pointing at the wall and freezing in place again. You take that as a sign that you should probably move off again. This has been quite the show alright and you can’t wait to see what this new time mage is gonna do from here on out.