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The Codex:
I am have just confused myself.

I am a were form with Inhuman Toughness and due to my skill shuffle now has a Endurance of Great or Good from Average, and hulking size, meaning my character now has 5 !!! additional stress boxes (all clear so far)

Then due to some reason, spell, compell etc I revert to a human form,

What happens to me? do I all of a sudden take consequences for the additional Stress boxes and any stress in them or do they just disappear?

What happens to the Stress, its Stressing me out 

Saedar:
I also would like a ruling on this. I have a werebear that I am going to run and I am concerned about this.

srl51676:
An official ruling would be good but if you look at the examples from the novels the Alphas can be easily sidelined by wounds that would not stop them in wolf form and all their wounds remain after they revert. you might not want to shape-shift until you heal up a bit.

Deadmanwalking:
The Alphas are a bad example as we have their basic stats, and they don't get Inhuman Toughness and thus have at most a single extra Stress Box.

And an official answer was given a while back, though I can't for the life of me find where. It was more or less as follows:

If reducing your Stress Track would take your stress over the new rating, you must take Consequences immediately or be taken out as per usual.

iago:
This is the official ruling, which has been worked into the marginalia in what will be the final text:

It's much like boxes that you don't get access to when someone attacks you with something that satisfies The Catch. The boxes are still there, still numbered as they're numbered, still marked; you just don't have access to them when you're in the other form.

So, say you shapeshift into a form that gives you a 5th and 6th stress box, and you get hit several times, and hard.  One gives you a Mild Consequence and another gives you a mark on your 5th stress box.

Then you shapeshift back.  You can only access stress boxes 1 through 4, but there's still a X mark on your 5th box that'll be there when you shapeshift back (or will clear out once you get to clear out all your stress boxes normally).

The mild consequence would still hang around too (and this is where you see the Alphas still carrying over their wounds from their wolf forms).

"Hey, what if my form has an extra mild consequence slot?"

Similar logic. It's still there, and still occupied (and still taggable!), you just don't get to access it for its benefits.

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