The Cost and Expense of Transmogrification and Morphing

by 3curlyfries

I own a shop called Bits and Pieces. I don’t have much NP but I use the little I have to keep my shop well-stocked. I know the damage Transmogrification Potions are supposed to do and I have been looking around for them to sell in my shop. Well, I have recently discovered the Shop Wizard and I already located some snowballs, and Neodrops to sell in my shop for cheap prices.

I logged onto NeoPets one time, and after trying the Wheel of Mediocrity and having my Nimmo, Thimble110, bit by a Pterodactyl, I decided to go to the Magic Shop and buy a Healing Potion. The Healing Potions there were too expensive, so I went to the Shop Wizard. After I located one, I gave the Healing Potion to Ariel310 instead, who was recently knocked out in the Battledome. Then I decided to do, well, a little scrounging for my shop.

I typed in Transmogrification and success--one for 500 NP! I spent almost all my NP but it was worth it, and spent a little time deciding what to do with it. I didn’t want to open up an account and test it on a Chia (it was a Chia Transmogrification Potion), so I put it in my shop for 250 NP. Then I did some research in the Neopedia. Transmogrification Potions are supposed to turn your pet into evil, mean creatures. They are worth 50,000 NP each. Apparently there are lots of naive Neopians turning their pets into these ugly things every day. Not wanting to swindle anyone, I hurried back to my shop. Maybe I could put it in auction, or trade, or discard it. But it had already been bought. I had had my Chia Transmogrification Potion for a mere minute before it was taken. I checked out that user's shop (it wasn’t in there) and then I looked at the profile of the user. The person doesn’t even have a Chia . . .

I felt kind of stupid--why had I put it in my shop? I looked on the Shop Wizard and saw that I had purchased the cheapest T-Potion in all of Neopia! After seeing this, I looked up some Morphing Potions. For those of you who don’t know, after your pet is transformed-say, by the lab ray, a paintbrush, a Chia pop, or a T. Potion, if you have a Blue Techo and have a Blue Techo Morphing Potion, you can change it back to a regular old Blue Techo with the Blue Techo Morphing potion. I realised that the Morphing Potions sell for up to 100,000 Neopoints anywhere, yet I bought my Transmogrification for 498 NP! I conducted an interview with Kauvara, the Kau who runs the Magic Shop, about this.

“Yeah, yeah. They come in every day and buy those Transmofo Potions.”

“Transmogrification,” I corrected her.

“Uh-huh.”

“So, why do continue to sell the potions if you know they turn innocent pets into lazy, stinky, ugly creatures?” I inquired.

She leaned over. “Inflation is high, and prices are expensive. To someone, the Transmogrification Potion might look attractive for them to give to their NeoPet, I want to stop them but don’t. I have to eat, too.”

“So, you sell the Morphing Potions because you feel it is your duty as a Neopian?”

“MMM MMM MMM MMMM MMMM MMMM,” came from the back of her store. I left quickly, scared.

So, it is my conclusion that in the Magic Industry, or the Magic Shop Industry, it isn’t the Healing Potions, Healthshrooms, or Battledome Items that keep it going. It's really the Morphing and Transmogrification Potions that hold it all together.