It's getting busier at work, but still had the time to do some morphing for fun! At the weekend I did another mass group morphing festival in London which was good. There were about 18,000 morphers all taking part, and you could do any ground based morph you wanted. They had hired out a huge part of Greenwich Park and the surrounding roads were actually closed to traffic for the day, so everyone could run and gallop in front of spectators.
I was standing around on the platform waiting for my train when I spotted a few other people who looked like they were morphers, and we got chatting. You can tell as often they've got skintight morphing clothes on, and besides, not many people are crazy enough to be at the station at 6am waiting for the first train on a Sunday morning! One guy, James, had got the morphing ability about a year ago and had only really done private morphs in his spare time. Think this was his second group morph, and here he was taking part with 18,000 other animals/people! He was going to be morphing a leopard. The other guy, Patrick, had been a morpher about 10 years ago, when the first wave of morphers got the ability (like myself), but found the morphing process itself very difficult and so had not done much practice. After a while he stopped altogether and didn't renew his license. Now, he was hoping to give it another shop, and was going to morph his pet dog.
The day was good fun, but it was let down as they didn't actually have any animals available for acquiring! This was really disappointing, as big events like this are normally the best time to get a new morph. I was hoping for something unusual, such as a cheetah or snake. So you could only morph what you had already acquired! Given that we had paid £50 to enter, a new morph only costs about half of that so I am not sure where the money went really.
We still had fun over the day though and I went with the horse morph. They had different parts of the park and roads for different types of animals and events such as speed-morphing and artistic morphing for estreens. I'm not a pro, but they had groups leading morph dances which you could take part in. Or you could just do the mass morph and go out and run/gallop around the area. Horses were very popular and they had closed off quite a few miles of parkland track for us to gallop on and we were joined by deer, moose and other large herbivores. Dogs and big cats used the roads. You could morph and demorph as many times as you needed, but if it got too busy you were meant to demorph for a while after 4 hours/2 morph cycles to let other people have a chance. You could leave all your extra clothes and bag in a special area which was useful.
There were all sorts of people taking part, from the professional estreen, to the newbie just starting out. There was an amazing performance of speed morphers, where the fastest went from human to animal in under 20 seconds! Amazing! It was so smooth as well, every part of their body morphing at once, without anything taking longer than another. It was how I imagined morphing would be when I started out, but us mere mortals are a lot messier than that. We even saw back-to-back morphs - they had 5 minutes to morph as many animals as they could. The winner managed 6 animals including back to human at the end - human/goat/human/rabbit/human/tiger/human/panda/human/bear/human/hawk/human. They have become so good that it is possible for them to go from one morph to another without becoming fully human. Whilst demorphing from goat, as soon as one part of their body became human it immediately flowed into the rabbit. How they do that I don't know - especially as they have to do their inner organs as well which you can't see!
You get loads of professionals on hand to ask for advice, and there are sessions for newbies to practice away from other morphers as they try and get a hold over the animal's brains (you don't want a newbie morphing a rabbit around big cats and carnivorous creatures!). One famous morpher was leading the group dance, so I joined in with that. There were about a hundred people, mostly girls, and lots had interesting morphing suits and leotards in different colours and textures, which I assumed was meant to look good with the animals they had chosen to morph. The theme was cats - I have 2 or 3 cat morphs but only one I use regularly, which I acquired from my own pet cat. In a morph dance they teach you the moves, and tell you the order to morph your body. It all takes place to music and if it all works out the dance/morph takes as long as the music lasts. It's not fast (usually) but can be very interesting and spectacular to watch. The woman on the stage leading it was going for a jaguar, and wore a glitzy red leotard with glitter, sparkles and gold patches on it. I just had my regular morphing gear - a purple skintight tee-shirt and black tights. It was a lot of fun, the music was the new Lady Gaga single "Applause", and everyone morphing the same way at once looked great! You could see why loads of people had fashionable morphing suits as it really enhanced the look of the morph. The leader had obviously designed her suit so that the gold pattern design morphed exactly into the pattern of her jaguar's fur. The gold and red looked good when melting into the sandy coloured fur. It appeared that everyone taking part had done morph dancing before, but some people were better dancers than morphers, or vice versa! I am certainly a better morpher than dancer so could get my body to transform in the correct order, but my moves probably left something to be desired!
After the dance, I joined the mass morph as a horse and cantered around the park. It did get really crowded at one point, so I took a short break after about an hour and demorphed, then morphed back to wolf. I saw James and later Patrick out on the roads as well, which was good! I was exhausted when we'd finished, having done quite a few transformations in just several hours, but it was all very worth it. It was a shame I did not pick up any new animals, but was still a fun day.
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