<span style="font-weight: bold">OOC: </span>Blobby doesn't seem to be posting any more. Feel free to join in. We can bake you a cake... if you want, we can bake you into a cake. In the mean time, here's a little something to keep people interested.<br/><br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">IC:</span><br/><br/>Rena looked up at the sign over the bakery frontage and sniffed. 'Yeah right...' Then she continued to breath in, the scents coming from inside made her stomach rumble. The red fox thief had been staking this particular joint for several days. A lot of money, richly dressed money had come in here, and back out, carrying various packages. That suggested the money was still in there.<br/><br/>Bakers, even magical ones, wouldn't have much defence against a determined robber such as herself. Today she'd simply go in, case the join, get an idea of any guards... and snag herself a few dozen of those cookies in the window on the way out. She'd started out as a cut-purse, and her dexterity hadn't decreased since then. Then she'd plan out the best way to get at the real money, and bring in some friends to help if needed.<br/><br/>She went inside, checking out the room. She noted a male and female human coming through one of the side doors, looking fairly happy with themselves. The female was pregnant, if she was any judge, and the male was some dsrt of mage. Behind the counter was a big red dragon with bubbles trailing from his nostrils, and a white fox. He was serving another customer, while she was ringing up a sale on the register.<br/><br/>She sneered at the 'Shoplifters will be transmuted' sign, and as she looked around, couldn't believe her luck. No guards. That dragon looked big enough to be a problem, but nothing that a heavy crossbow bolt couldn't fix, especially if he didn't know it was coming. There was some sort of red bear, obviously a cook, who was mixing up something in back, but no-one else. This, to coin a phrase, was going to be a piece of cake.<br/><br/>She made sure the pair at the counter were still dealing with customers as she pretended to look at the displays, the turned to go, scooping a dozen cookies off the nearest shelf. She'd gone no more than two steps before  something struck her, and she was lifted up into the air, floating inside some sort of transparent bubble. She tried clawing at it, but it stretched and gave no purchase.<br/><br/>Rena floated up over the heads of rather surprised customers. She found herself hanging above the counter as both the red dragon and the white fox looked up at her. The white 'fox' she could now see, with a sinking feeling, had the multiple tails of a kitsune, a lot of them. Suddenly that sign didn't sound so silly. However, the red fox just glared defiantly.<br/><br/>The fact that the cookies had floated off separately, and formed up inside a smaller bubble that exited the main one, and floated down to the red dragon, made it futile to protest her innocence. He caught them in a fancy cardboard box.<br/><br/>The kitsune spoke. "You attempted to leave without paying for those cookies you took. One way or another, you will pay for them, as now I can't sell them to anyone else. I can either call the city watch, or you can pay them off in kind. I believe about 30 days service should square it."<br/><br/>Rena couldn't believe her luck. The city watch would not be gentle, especially if this white vixen had the kind of pull with the authorities that the wealth of the shop suggested. Compared to that, a couple of weeks as a drudge was  easy. Not that she intended to put in the full time, as soon as they took their attention off her, she'd be out of there so fast their heads would spin.<br/><br/>"Uh... Service... I'd pay it off. I was hungry, and my little ones are starving..."<br/><br/>The kitsune smirked. "Boy, are you a rotten liar. Or rather a good liar who desn't know when the opposition is using a truth detection spell. However, you picked service, so we have a contract."<br/><br/>Rena scowled. This was looking less and less hopeful by the second.<br/><br/>The kitsune looked over her shoulder. "What do you need most right now, Li Fei?"<br/><br/>The red panda stopped her mixing, and looked up. "I could do with some serving plates."<br/><br/>"Serving... wait, stop..."<br/><br/>The kitsune ignored Rena, and gestured to the red dragon. He nodded and Rena felt the bubble pop around her. She remained floating, but from the way the kitsune's tail tips were glowing, it was she who was levitating the red fox thief. Another gesture and Rena felt her clothes dissolve around her. "Hey, what are you... mmmpph!"<br/><br/>Suddenly her lips were sealed, literally. She reached up and felt the slight groove which was where her mouth had been. The fact that she was floating, clad only in her fur, suddenly seemed unimportant. The kitsune made a slashing gesture with one paw, claws out, and Rena found her body stretching in various places, narrowing as they did so. Alythough she could feel the changes, it didn't hurt, but that was small comfort as she felt her lower legs, thighs, tail, hips, belly, torso, breasts, arms and head, all split off into separate pieces.<br/><br/>Rena's body was now like a bunch of party balloons, the limbs long ones, the body parts round ones, and getting more so as they lost their shape. One white furred breast floated into her face, and she felt the nipple brush across her nose, and vice versa, a most bizarre sensation.<br/><br/>The kitsune clapped her paws together, and one lower leg squished along it's axis. The resulting disk was a crimson serving plate, with the black outline of a print perfect black paw on the underside. Another clap and the other lower leg went the same way. The thighs were also squished into round flat plates, and the arms, forming more red plates with the markings of black paws on the undersides. Bizarre was no longer sufficient to describe the sensations coming from Rena's disembodied, and now flattened, limbs.<br/><br/>Her hip section was almost a perfect sphere, a white inverted triangle pattern on one side where her belly fur had led down to her crotch. Her white furred pubic mound stood slightly proud at the tip of it. She felt it squash flat, and the plate it formed had the same pattern on the top side, while a spin showed the pattern of her flattened buttocks. Her tail flattened next the white tip forming a white circle on the upper surface of the plate.<br/><br/>Rena was almost resigned when her belly became a white topped plate with a red underside, the navel in the middle, and each breast compressed into the same pattern but with the image of a nipple taking centre stage. She felt her muzzle compress back into her face, and the back of her head squash forwards, and suddenly she was loooking out from the upper surface of a plate, with the image of a very surprised fox face on.<br/><br/>Looking around at the astonished and somewhat nervous customers, Kimiko stated. "Don't worry, she's completely unharmed. I'll restore her in 30 days, when she's paid off her debt."<br/><br/>"Will need to be clean first!" said the the red panda chef.<br/><br/>The stack of plates lined up, Rena's face at the front of the procession, and floated over to a wash basin at the back. Rena could no longer close her eyes, as they were just coloured glaze on porcalain so she couldn't avoid seeing what she'd missed at first, a basin full of soapy water with scrubbing brushes circling in the suds like sharks around an unwary swimmer.<br/><br/>Her head plate plunged into the soapy, scolding hot water, but it didn't hurt. She could feel the heat, but it was like it was behind a plate of glass. Similarly, the scrubbing brushes scubbing fiercely across her open eyes caused no pain.  A few seconds later her head plate bounced out of the water, into the grip of washing towels that wrapped around her like fluffy flat octopus tentacles... okay, not very much like octopus tentacles after all. They wiped away the water, but the heat was still in her.<br/><br/>Behind her, she felt one breast plate, then the other take the plunge, and while she couldn't do anything about it, having her nipples scrubbed in the hot water showed they had if anything gotten more sensitive. Arms and torso plates then belly plate were next getting their thourough scrubbing, and then her crotch plate...<br/><br/>The plates neatly stacked themselves, feet plates on top, on the work surface by the draining board. The stack quivered slightly with a clattering sound as Ti Li Fei came over and picked up the stack.<br/><br/>"You not to be worrying. I not break plate in ten years. I give you lots of use. That means you get lots of scubbing."<br/><br/>Rena, who's face was currently up against the backside of her left breast, was thoroughly disoriented from her vigorous scrubbing, and no longer sure whether that was good or bad.