"I didn't even get a tutorial level or an annoying expository NPC! So unfair!"

"Hey, you at least got an instructions manual, all I got was lousy shapeshifting and this T-shirt."

"Well, now you can have both? I don't even have lousy shapeshifting or your T-shirt."

"I bet you could get lousy shapeshifting using spells, though."

"I'm a little afraid of trying that kind of magic just yet."

"Why?"

"Because it sounds easy to mess up even if I don't mess up by causing the out of mana accident? I mean, I also haven't tried to set anything on fire either."

"Mess up how?"

"Dunno, in body horror ways? Or even just hurting myself in a more conventional way. Not everyone here has grown up used to lousy shapeshifting magic!"

"The other results make this seem like it won't really... be a problem?"

"Still, dude. I have been experimenting with magic for less than a week, I'm willing to wait a tad longer before experimenting with rearranging my face, I'm too attached to it."

"You could experiment with rearranging bits of your hair that aren't attached to your body."

Temple frowns. "That does sound like a great experiment idea, but not necessarily one that makes me feel safe about shapeshifting more generally, not with myself. Also, now I am wondering about things like, using someone's hair as a spell component."

"'Component'?"

"A sympathetic component or something. You take someone's hair and uses it so magic can identify who you are talking about."

"Why can't you just write their name or something?"

"Maybe you can, maybe you need more than that. Maybe you can have the magic go 'find whoever matches these DNA samples'."

"Sounds like it bears testing."

"It sure does!" Temple rubs his hands.

"Doesn't quite fit the theme, though, I don't think."

Temple shrugs.

"I mean, unless you can make a poem or a declamation or even a limerick with that. I'd be pretty impressed."

"I wonder if we can just hire a poet."

"I was mostly joking, your experiments seem to indicate that's not really necessary."

"Well, we are going to have to hire one for the dramatic thunderstorm ritual."