(For the record and reference of other players, I have no grand plans, outside of possibly snagging an Eientei rabbit outfit if we want to sneak into the place as a rabbit worker, which would come after Deva K regardless. This is just what's going to happen when I get left with the keys to the polymorph bus.)
> Topological transformations are nothing but rotations, translations, stretches and squishes. There are no breaks and no fusions involved. For example, you could topologically transform a donut into a coffee mug, since they both have a closed loop, but you couldn't topologically transform a donut into a bicycle wheel because all the spokes would create a whole bunch of other loops that weren't present before. Melding would be something like touching our index finger to the palm of our hand and then fusing the two so the skin becomes seamlessly connected, as if our body easily transitioned from solid to liquid to solid again at the point of contact.