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The cafeteria chaos episodes were fun to write. I liked being able to work in a lot of the Lake Point High School 'quasi-canon' characters into this one, and include some pop culture references.

Clyde Meehan and Starla Stanfield are new additions to the Lake Point High School cast, as is the lunch lady Enid Parkes. Everyone else in this episode has appeared in at least a few other branches besides this Transformation Guns story.

If you know the song being referenced, feel free to play it during this episode. In my mind, it starts just as Athena tells Jay "I've got this", and ends when Coach Barry blows the whistle to indicate the fight's over.

There have been a number of branches where Athena has some variant of an anti-magic pendant. One variant protects its wearer from magic, and the other variant just protects them from memory or personality alteration. I decided that in this branch, Athena would have one of each variant. It made sense to me.

As for the premonition, it probably came around the same time as Jon's unfortunate wish that "something interesting would happen", but Athena doesn't know about that yet at this point in the story.

and the parents of the year award goes to….. some other family

Cats seem telepathic sometimes….

wow does this branch deserve more love. It ties different pieces of the story together perfectly and if Jon gets pregnant from this and actually gives birth, it won't just be Karyn but Jon too will have very strong and a deeply personal reason and vested interest for making the new reality permanent that would likely supersede the strength of desire to have his original body back, and allows the character Bernie the chance to grow as a person in the process, and actually drives the story forward instead of just being aimless filler material. It looks like passiveobserver got a real hate following based on his last post, I’m guessing the others writing this story ignored this branch solely out of resentment and contempt for him personally which is a pity since his writing is better than theirs. I kind of don't even want to read the other branch now, they should have just accepted this as canon and continued from here. It looks like the best writers left this place possibly out of disgust. I keep looking at the last few posts of writers and they obviously leave for that reason, lalilu and mystchevious are other examples making this very clear. And I don't see anything recent from BroomB but I bet the reason is the same.

ironic that this would prove to be your final post on fictionbranches when you are clearly facing the same issues based on your post “disappointed” (corrected spelling) and actually are in agreement with the one this is a reply to.

doesn’t seem likely to me that the catgirls’ behavior would be so fundamentally different than humans. Do you not think your caveman and monkey ancestors ate all sorts of gross things? Bet they would be more likely to eat a live mouse than a catgirl raised in modern culture. They should culturally be just the same as humans if they were raised alongside them. I would expect they would be as revolted by eating a live mouse as a typical human, but if not then it definitely wouldn’t be the case that a whole room of humans would be shocked and appalled by this behavior. All the humans and catgirls seem so mystified by the behavior of the other species when it’s pretty easy for me to understand and I haven’t even been living together like they have in their world, so it should be even easier for them if anything.

"Maybe she isn't really your sister," thought Jon. "I mean- maybe she just calls you sister? Girls do that.. right?"

Karyn shook her head. "No- I- I can sort of tell we're sisters." She gestured to her nose. "You must be able to tell Tabby is your sibling too right?"

So they can communicate with telepathy then? If I say something in quotes accompanied by 'thought Jon', that means Jon was thinking those words, right? And then Karyn responds to it.

you know, another thing is they shouldn’t give birth to singletons but have litters if they have 6 breasts. They wouldn’t have evolved to have 6 otherwise, so it really makes little sense that all of Jon’s siblings are just catgirl versions of themselves. Instead of Jon’s brother being a single girl named Tabby, she should suddenly find him replaced by like 4 sisters all the same age.

actually there are a few all female species like the whiptail lizard, it is called a parthenogenic species when they do this and the males disappear entirely, so it actually should have had no trouble granting the result of the roll without complication, it would probably be better to explain it by the stone only affecting things within a few miles if you didn’t want to have the whole world population changed and explain it as best as possible. It seems much less likely they would be able to interbreed with humans since they would be much more distantly related to humans than lions and tigers are to each other, or horses and donkeys, and even they are too distant for their reproduction to be a complete success since the offspring are usually sterile and riddled with other genetic problems

And so here I fix what (to me, anyway) was a plot hole with Gladys Brewer. I always pictured Lake Point's MTI branch building to be far, far in another part of town from Lake Point High School. And the more I thought about it, the more I thought there was no way Gladys Brewer (in her pre-Babe Gun form) could just run all the way from McMillan Tech Industries to the high school, and get there at the moment she did.

I also needed to account for where Mycroft Brewer was, so that we know where all of the six Transformation Gun collaborators are at this point in the story. So I establish here that Mycroft drove Gladys home, and then Gladys left home and went to the school, taking with her the Fat Gun she had stolen from MTI. (This Fat Gun was in the batch Jeffries teleported to the non-basement levels of the building).

Jessica Davis is another one of those cheerleaders that appears in several branches, though not as often as Tiffany Sanders, Melissa Smith, and Amber Levine. She's only occasionally used, and while she has run into Athena in some branches, I don't think she has been in the same episodes as Jay Duncan and Leonard Drullers (though she might have, and I just haven't seen them). It makes sense, however, that she doesn't usually interact with them, as they're not in her usual social circles.

It's fun to sometimes have the opportunity to end an episode with at least two cliffhangers. Here, we've got one at MTI, and one at the school. I plan on adding more soon.

If these Transformation Guns are from MTI, then they must be from the other two batches Jeffries was trying to teleport to the Pittsburgh branch of MTI when the Teleportation Chamber's power source overloaded. Perhaps they didn't reach their intended destination. I pretty much left it vague as to what happened to those specific batches.

Aside from those two batches, all Transformation Guns outside of MTI (Lake Point Branch) and Lake Point High School are the result of the wave from the overload transforming normal guns into Transformation Guns. They were, in effect, created outside of MTI so they didn't come directly from there.

Anyway, up to the episode this branches off of, the fate of those last two batches of Transformation Guns that Jeffries sent through the teleport was left ambiguous so these COULD be (at least in this spinoff branch) those last two batches. However, there's no Random Gun in either of those two branches. Samantha switched one with a Restoration Gun, and removed the other one just before the teleport.

I probably won't add to this spinoff branch, as I didn't really want to get Mikey involved in all this.

Am happy Jon is a lesbian with a girlfriend. We need some not half bad lesbian shit.

It’s interesting you can infer the difference in the ideologies of the writers by the pronouns they use for Jon. With this one we get a sudden shift to he/him/his again. This one would probably contend you are what you identify as. And not just that, but now Jon is suddenly all sensitive about it and deeply traumatized over the change in body and hung up on "his" gender identity while before this page "she" was simply going with the flow and enjoying it. Honestly though, I would expect to a normal person, that having half a body, never again to have privacy, being immortal and forever bound with your childhood friend would be far more significant and worrying, and a change in gender would be incidental by comparison.

Of course if this was supposed to be taking place in the year 2000 then gold should be 250 to 300 dollars per ounce and those 1000 ounce bars would only be worth a quarter million each.

Thanks for all the details! Appreciate the help ^_^

I hope everyone enjoys this addition! Again, I definitely will slowly be picking up the pace, but I want Jon to get entrapped by his wishes. I'm always happy to hear any recommendations for some entrapment ideas

Well, as Principal Davison notes in this episode, the change only happened an hour ago, so it's too early to tell how it will affect society. But some Transformation Guns are more obviously troublesome than others. And I've thought of ways some people might object to even the more obviously beneficial ones, like the Jock Gun. Will professional athletes be thrilled at the idea that anyone can make themselves into perfect athletic shape, meaning that they aren't as special any more?

Glad you liked the Babe Gun scene. It's one of my favorites, and was fun to write. Not just the transformation itself, but the reactions of Jacques and the audience to it. Anyway, I'm planning on writing more material with the Babe Gun in the near future. Stay tuned.

A little more info: you can modify any episode that you wrote, unless another author has written a child episode. This is to ensure that stories stay as consistent as is reasonable, and that one author can't make another person's work retroactively inconsistent. Usually this doesn't come into play for minor edits like yours, because they'll be spotted before someone else even has a chance to add another episode. But if in the future you're trying to modify an old branch of yours and you can't, this will probably be why.

Happy writing!

Really great addition. Hope you add soon!

I mean... The guns changing means they're no longer lethal. I fail to see the disaster. XD

Also, hawt. More babe guns. Yar. :D

Thanks! Fixed now :D. And thanks again for the writing compliment

Great writing! And welcome to the site—there should be a “modify episode” option at the top of the page.

Also, realized I messed up the previous title and put nolink. New to the site: any way to modify that?

Hopefully everyone enjoys. Apologies it's a bit 'slower'. Definitely like this whole idea, and am open to involuntary wishes which will help our friend Jon progress :)

I like your take on the switch! I'm interested to see where you go with this.

But don’t forget this is presumably all taking place in the year 2000 when the original fictionbranches passage was posted, so Jon should not know who fictional characters are that were created after this.

Honestly this ought to be fun for anyone else to add to. Be sure to include your favorite genius character or real life person on whatever you write for it. What will Jon have his crack team of intellectual giants cook up?

Also, i was wondering if Traver has a daddy. It would be quite fun the idea of seeing a teenage boy, who everbody treats like a little girl, being changed by a man. Hell, there is some many scenarios to explore!

Hey! I'm definitely going to come back, but I'm busy atm. It may be a bit before I'm free.

Ah I find it hard to deny a direct request sure ;)

Seems promising, write more, please :)

No probably not Mira. I was mostly thinking about this after watching a haunting youtube video called “Timelapse of the future”. I didn’t actually have a story in mind for this at all. There’s no conflict at this point, no villain, no macguffin, they simply both made mistaken wishes and are now stuck with the consequences. Feel free to write something for it yourself. Maybe have them face some problem which only they in their now botched altered states are qualified to handle.

Yay! I'm so happy someone added to family acting! I would love to see this storyline continue! You're really good!

^ ^ ^ boy, this would be a top notch story path! i defently feels that the concept of someone having their lives sorta "stolen" by someone who they already knew, would be a cool element to it. Cause, i mean, until this point every swap that happened it involved people having their lives switched with folks they didn't know previously before the swap. So, i mean, the idea of someone seeing another person living their lives, while they are now trapped in the life of that person, but only they remember that something is wrong seems worth exploring

<3 Loving where the story is going anyways. Thank you for these additions. Planning on adding more?

It seems like the whole point of this branch is just to be as confusing as possible.

It’s because they’re simps and you wrote something based and redpilled as heck that their puny minds couldn’t handle buddy. I see in the internet archive they used to have a rating out of 10 system but if you ever see this, be assured apparently all the old ratings are gone so there’s that at least. Which is also kind of a pity since a rating system is better than a simple upvote system with no downvoting but of course that’s no use if they get triggered and rate down your content for ideological reasons because they’re brainwashed slaves.

Very redpilled. But all the same I kind of would expect different behavior out of Karyn. Remember she ostensibly is best friends with Jon, that makes her probably pretty atypical for a female, I would expect better than an utter lack of sympathy, continually pidgeonholing Mark and standard shaming responses out of her. I’d almost want to continue from here but the problem is now her character is ruined beyond redemption.

This…. this is the sort of thing this website was made for.

As far as depth goes, this is nothing. Branches like 'The Bench', 'Musical Closets', and 'Iridescent Sun' have an insane amount of episodes, most of them by the same author.

Anyway, I've got more twists to come. Including some that will make the whole problem a lot harder to solve by using the most obvious method.

I kind of have to respect your dedication to writing at such depth so far in from the original starter passage.

She also left off the part about only respawning as soon as it is safe to do so without immediately getting killed again or severely injured

Thank you so much User 616, now to go modify episodes.

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@Hikaru It doesn't even have to be that... it might be that the best romantic match in terms of personality an interest is a guy... and I though I could have sworn I wrote it to only include women... going back to check I didn't. So it could match him with another guy and change them both. Or change their sexualities. Or give them transformation powers. Though technically the "satisfy each other" part should only kick in if they decide to start a relationship.