A/N: Just a heads up, this one is another weird story so make sure to check the tags before reading. My next story will be a more vanilla one, another story in the same universe as my first two, but following another person's perspective. After that will most likely be the next monster musume part and after that I'll try to alternate the weird stories with the more vanilla ones.
This story was something that I started writing after a flash of inspiration. I simulated each of the characters pulling cards from the box so that all of the transformations were completely random. It was really fun not knowing the direction that the story would take over time and figuring out how to adapt the random draw to fit with previous TFs.
------------------------
A group of three women were all sitting in the common room of their college dormitory. The room itself was a simple affair, there was a pair of grey couches on either side of a long table, as well as a couple of small reclining chairs that had originally been placed next to the table as well, but the occupants of the room had over time moved them so one was up against the far wall and the other was put sideways beside one of the couches. The rest of the room was featureless and empty, the bare green carpet the only thing filling the space so that the eight people who shared the space could move about.
Despite all of them living in the same dorm, none of the three women would consider themselves friends. Sure they knew each other, but none of them had ever taken the time to develop their relationship beyond simple acquaintances. Thus, the three of them sat in relative silence, each doing their own thing while acting as if the others weren't there.
The first of them was Valencia, who was a member of the college swim team. Her body was lean and hydrodynamic from a combination of extensive training and lucky genetics. The hint of a Spanish accent that slipped into her speech gave up her foreign heritage, her parents having immigrated before she was born. Her outfit consisted of a pair of skinny jeans and a sea-foam green tank top, not having changed after returning from practice. At the moment she was staring at her phone, checking the same few social media apps repeatedly despite none of them having any new posts, while occasionally brushing a disobedient brunette bang back behind her ear.
The next of the women was Ankita, a biology student from India. She was a fairly shy person and tended to prefer to fade into the backdrop during social events, something that her five-foot-eleven height made difficult. She was sitting in the chair furthest from the others, clad in simple grey pyjamas. Her nose was buried in a sci-fi novel as she occasionally snuck glances at the other two, her nervousness mading her think they were staring at her while she wasn't looking. The only reason she was in the common space at all right now was because it was an especially chilly winter night and the heating was better here than that in her room.
Finally there was Forest, a nickname she had started using back in high school due to her dislike of the, in her opinion, stuffy and old fashioned name that her parents had given her. This nickname was a shortening of her online screen name "ForestFrolicker," which had chosen back when she was twelve due to her love of animals. Tonight she was making use of her day off to work through a single-player RPG on her handheld gaming console, wearing a pair of shorts and a loose t-shirt with an abstract, gaming-adjacent design on it. Normally she would simply do this in her own room, but at the moment she had been kicked out of it an hour ago so her girlfriend/roommate could do something in secret.
"Who here is up for a game?"
The sound of glass tapping against glass filled the air as Jaden, forest's previously mentioned girlfriend, stepped out of their room carrying two boxes. One was a moderately large crate while the other was a small cardboard box. The transwoman was one of the few people in the dorm taller than Ankita, though only by an inch or so. Her raven black hair swished back and forth in time with the similarly coloured dress she wore. Said dress was cut to show off the little cleavage she had and came all the way down to the floor, covering her currently bare feet. Her goth aesthetic was completed by purple eye-shadow and lipstick, as well as the three onyx piercings in her ears and her nostril. She carefully set the boxes down on the table in the centre of the room, drumming her long purple nails on the crate as she looked around at the others to gauge their reactions.
Forest had an exited sparkle in her eye, as she knew that Jaden was an avid lover of analog games and she had never been disappointed when her girlfriend brought a new one around, while Valencia seemed quite skeptical, but her boredom wouldn't allow her to ignore the offer outright and Ankita was pretending to continue reading her book as she waited for further elaboration.
"Alright, I'm intrigued. What do you have in mind?" Valencia slipped her phone into her pocket and scooted over closer to the boxes on the table. Seeing that Valencia was interested, Ankita silently shut her book and moved to the closer chair.
"Good to see you're interested, though I will warn that this game might involve things that will make you uncomfortable, so I'll completely understand if you don't want to play."
"If anything that just makes me even more interested..." Valencia's eyes seemed to shimmer as she glanced at the mysterious boxes.
"Yeah don't worry babe, I know whatever you have in mind it'll be a good time." Forest had put her console off to the side and had stood up to hold her girlfriend's hand, laying her head on the taller woman's shoulder.
"I'm also a bit curious now," remarked Ankita, having gathered up enough courage to speak, "is this some kind of spin the bottle type game?"
"Not quite, let me show you." Jaden took the smaller box and set it aside so she could remove the already unsealed lid of the larger box. Inside were dozens of small glass vials filled with liquid of varying colours. The vials were small, only holding a couple tablespoons of liquid, and each one was labelled with a different number typed onto printer paper and taped to the cork. She then opened the smaller box to reveal that it was filled with folded cards made out of lined paper.
"These are transformation potions I bought online for cheap. They last for eight hours and there's a big variety of effects. I thought it might be fun to play a game where we randomly drink them by drawing these cards and the person who lasts the longest wins."
"Transformation potions? Aren't those things really expensive? I'm not sure how much I would trust something that normally costs thousands of dollars if you could buy this many on a college student's budget." While the type of biology Ankita was studying wasn't the same type that had led to the cutting edge nanomachine powered technology she was referring to, she had done some research to see if it would be possible to acquire one that could shrink herself down to a more average height and thus knew the most about them of everyone here. This warning made the look of curiosity Valencia was giving to potions turn into a look of concern; She inched away from the table slightly, as if she was worried that they would explode at any moment.
