The abyss generates novel essences, lapped up by the vast, stony roots of the world. From the ceiling above dangle trawler-boats, long-legged insects fit with seats and winches, hauling nets through the void.
You've had little success in your trawling today. In your bucket float (either: "scrawls of unwritten cursive", "scatters of unshed tears", "flakes of summer snow", "shards of forgotten reflections", "clots of angelblood")
There's a weight in your net.
[[Haul it up]](set: $netcontents to (either: "root-grubs", "fragmentary poems", "half-formed souls", "disorienting dreams", "apocryphal godlings"))\
A pile of $netcontents flop, damp with abyssal primordium, into your boat.
Glistening in the center is the real prize, though. Your eyes widen as you pick it up. A single, perfect droplet of unrefined novelty.
[[Swallow it]](set: $eyes to (random: 2, 8), $horns to (random: 1, 7), $tails to (random: 1, 3), $arms to (random: 2, 10))\
You feel your body twist and shift. You carry a mirror for these exact occasions, and begin a simple count of bodily features.
You have $eyes eyes. (if: $eyes is 2)[No change there.](elseif: $eyes is 8)[Very arachnic of you.](else:)[It takes effort to adjust to the new input.] You have $horns horns sprouting from your head, and behind you whip(if: $tails is 1)[s a long, slender tail](else:)[ $tails long, slender tails]. (if: $arms is 2)[You still only have two arms.](else:)[$arms arms sprout from your torso.]
(if: visits < 3)[The effect still lingers. You could reshuffle your anatomy [[again->Swallow it]].](else:)[The changes set, the novel energy dissipated into the extant.]