The Transformation Story Archive It Is Full Of Worlds...

The Blind Pig

"You are the genetic sum of all life that has proceeded you. Not just human life, but life itself."

Dr. Bryan Derksen as told to the bar

In the late 20th century a meteor was discovered in Antartica which was determined to have originated on Mars. In 2001, Beagle II, an unmanned probe, was dispatched to Mars to collect samples and return to Earth. The samples proved definitively that life existed beyond our world.

Through a tragic series of circumstances, quarantine was compromised and an airborne extraterrestrial virus was released. The virus was highly virulent, and mutated. It was called Martian Flu. About 6 percent of the population of developed countries died -- in the Third World, the death toll was as high as 30 percent. The disease is present in approximately 87 percent of the population.

Approximately six months after contracting the flu began a to mutate -- acquiring characteristics and forms of animals. Some became the total animal, some just took on part of it. Some people could control their changes, some couldn't. Some people changed genders. Some could control their aging process.

Dr. Robert Stein, head researcher ast the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, found and isolated the organism that attached itself at the genetic level and caused approximately 8 percent of those affected with Martian Flu to change --- Stein's Chronic Accelerated Bio-morphic Syndrome -- SCABS -- as the process was named.

How Scabs Works

Somehow SCABS is able to tap into the racial memory within humans. Moving backwards along the path of evolution using information buried deep within our genetic code, it can pick and choose the genetic path from which to mutate. SCABS -- depending on it's host -- goes backwards in genetic time to the single organism stage and then branch out along any path it chooses, up to and including any modern animal.

SCABS acts as a key to the genetic footlocker. It fits one specific lock in a person's body. For the vast majority of humanity, the virus is a key that doesn't fit their individual lock, so they experience nothing beyond flu symptoms.

Scabs Variations

Animorphs -- having the characteristics of animal species. 70 percent of the people contracting this form of SCABS partially transform and lock and are unable to become fully animla or fully human again. The other 30 percent have some varying degrees of control over their abilities.

Inanimorphs -- have the ability to take on the characteristics of inanimate objects. This is the rarest form of SCABS. Less than one tenth of one percent of the SCABS population are inanimorphs. Science has found not explanation as yet for this phenomenon.

Gendermorphs -- causes shifts in gender. Can be voluntary or involuntary. Seems to affect mostly men. 95 percent of all gendermorphs start as men.

Chronomorphs -- another rarity. They have the ability to affect changes in the aging process. Only a tiny percentage of total chronomorphs exist. They have the power to change their age and a limited power to affect change in others for very brief periods of time.

Polymorphs -- have the power to become any shape, age, animal or gender at will. This is the rarest form of SCABS. There are fewer than 1,600 known polymorphs in the entire world. They have the limited ability to affect changes in appearance in others. Changes last no more than one day.

The Bar

The Blind Pig Gin Mill is the name of the bar where I first set the universe. The city is unnamed and should remain so. The bar is owned and operated by Donnie Sinclair, a 640 lbs animorph with the head and internal organs of an extinct breed of wild cattle called an Auroch.

The rest of the characters appear in many of the stories.


Tails from the Blind Pig [good]
by Mark Van Sciver
Lady's Night [good]
by Wanderer
Standard Bar Fare
by Jack deMule
Splendor's Story [adult]
by Regal
Splendor's Story - Afterword
by Mark Van Sciver
Prices
by Kim Liu
Donnie's ground rules
by Mark Van Sciver
Timing
by Brian Eirik Coe
The man who knew himself
by Mark Van Sciver
To Know Another ...
by Wanderer
Retribution [good] [adult]
by Bob Stein
A song of hand music [good]
by Mark Van Sciver
The Buck Stops Here
by Jon Sleeper
Wanderer's Ways
by Wanderer
Wanderer's Story
by Wanderer
Wanderer's Story - Afterword
by Mark Van Sciver
Remember When [good]
by Jon Sleeper and Brian Eirik Coe
Single Parent
by Bob Stein
Days and Nights
by Brian Eirik Coe
The Best Medicine
by Bob Stein
O' Come All Ye ....
by Mark Van Sciver
Tis the Season [good]
by Jon Sleeper
Family Ties
by Jon Sleeper
Good Mojo
by Bryan Derksen
A Mugwump Wakes
by Bill Hart
Sidestep
by Wanderer
At Days End
by Brian Eirik Coe
Refugee [good]
by Phil Geusz
The Price That We Pay
by Tal Greywolf
Holocaust [good]
by Phil Geusz
The Sweetheart Clip [good]
by Feech
A View from the Fence [good]
by J. Wells
Hard Times
by Doug Linger
Quoth the Raven
by Raven Blackmane
What Might Have Been
by J.T. Skunk
A Wolf in the fold
by Mat Charles
Empty Spaces [good]
by J. Wells
Entrances & Exits [good]
by Phil Geusz and J. Wells
One last Night [good]
by Fox Cutter
When On Earth
by Feech
A Fair Start
by Feech
Off His Noggin`
by Wanderer
Justice [good]
by Captain Webster
Green as Grass [good]
by Phil Geusz
Butch And The Blade [good]
by Phil Geusz
Everything's Wild [good]
by Brian Eirik Coe
Angel of Mercy
by Regal
Friends
by Mat Charles
The Best Medicine [good]
by Doug Linger
Death Is Real [good] [adult]
by Phil Geusz
Essence of Art
by Phil Geusz
Four Phonecalls and an Ad
by Thomas Hassan
The Gift of the Woods [good]
by Jon Sleeper and Brian Eirik Coe
Graduation Day [good]
by Phil Geusz
Great Divide [good]
by Feech
Hard Wiring [good]
by Phil Geusz
TBP- Jaywalking [good]
by J. Wells
A Quiet Night [good]
by Tal Greywolf
Requiems for the shadow people [good]
by Mark Van Sciver
Striking Back [good]
by Joanne Hunter
Ways and Means
by Mat Charles
Wild and Crazy
by Oren the Otter & Phil Geusz
A Wuff at the Door
by Mat Charles