Where does the druid's gear go?

When I was a kid I watched the television series The Incredible Hulk starring Lou Ferrigno as the green giant and someone else as Dr. Bruce Banner (although iirc the split-personality scientist was oddly enough called David and not Bruce in the series).

Being a kid, it was no trouble accepting that a thin, average-sized man could turn into a green-skinned giant who couldn’t talk but hit like a ton of bricks (hey! There was this scientific experiment that went horribly wrong, these things happen you know…) and the real mystifying question was: How could this man’s normal outfit of jeans, shirt, whatever he was wearing when the rage hit him, how could this set of ordinary clothing turn into a frayed and tattered pair of pink-purple jeans?

No matter what he was wearing in man-mode, he inevitably ended up wearing those purple cut-offs in hulk-mode.

Well, being a curious girl kid, there was some other questions that went unanswered, like, was he really green all over, and did the size increase really apply to everything, and if so, how come the pant’s seams only bursted up to about knee height. Stretch jeans?

When I got older, I started reading Terry Pratchett’s excellent Discworld series (a must-read! Go get a book immediately if you haven’t done so!) and there was this werewolf named Angua who was employed in the City’s Night Watch. A strong beautiful woman most of the time, a lethal beautiful wolf the rest.

Angua, unlike the Hulk, did not retain any of her clothes or gear when she shapeshifts, which is why she wore her watchman’s badge on a chain around her neck and aimed to shapeshift out of sight , preferably someplace where she had previously stashed some articles of clothing rich in the covering department. (I am not sure which would attract most attention on crowded city streets, a naked woman or a green decently clad giant.)

Hmm, sounds a little like my druid Joaquime is like a cross between Angua and the Hulk – a strong beautiful woman who turns into a purple cat ;P

Anyways, where does Joaq’s gear go when she shapeshifts? She runs along, dressed in her leather tank outfit, green-shimmering Earthwarden bouncing on her back, when suddenly she transforms into a furry but naked cat… Sure, she’s furry, lethal, feral, lithe and beautiful but she is still naked… Where did her gear go? The same place Dr. Banner’s mad scientist-garb went?

Maybe they went to that place where all her bags are, her 4 jammed-to-the-bursting-point bags of extra gear (bear, cat, healing, had to stash the old moonkin gear in the bank or the bags would indeed burst) and good to have around things, and her one herb satchel, also filled to the limit with as much herbs as she can cram into it.

And while we are on the subject of bags, how can those bags that you carry around actually contain your mount? Or even several mounts? Hunters’ pets need feeding, why don’t mounts need that?

Hmm I guess there really are some infinite mysteries in this world and some things we will never know the how-and-why of...:-)