Round 1 Day 1 Part 3: Surpises

Katie's head was in a familiar place, resting in Miri's lap while looking up at her. This time her vision was a bit more crowded than usual. The writer's boobs were attached a pair of hoses descending from the roof of the Honeypot shack they were resting in. The place was moderately crowded for its size with half a dozen other vespian women each at their own station.

Showed the captain her breasts! 2 VP
Completed Daily Mission: Public Honey Donation! 25 BP

It had been around a half hour since the crew had left customs. Pandi just got back to their booth carrying some snacks, the others left to explore on their own. A loud click and wordless shudder from Miri signaled that her session was over. The hoses detached from the writer and retreated back into the ceiling. A honeycomb themed table emerged from the ground as a synthesized voice played in the booth's speaker, "You produced 2.5 liters. Thank you! We're grateful for you BEEEEing here!"

Katie stat up and tried to keep eye contact with her best friend but glistening honey on her nips were a constant distraction. "Well you certainly were backed up. Was that first time you did this?" Pandi passed Katie her order of fries.

Miri looked at her bracelet to calculate the hours. "If its 9:30 AM ship time now I guess it's been about 12 hours." She took a look around the room, the other vespian women were minding there own business, one was talking too loudly on whatever communication device she had but couldn't see, another was clearly having fun with someone under the table. A wry smile crossed, "I got to say Bud, this is a fun world you have cooked up."

Katie inhaled sharply and started staring at her feet. "I guess." she mumbled.

"Oh come on are you saying you didn't like the sexy laser tag we just did."

"Of course I fucking did! That was the hottest thing I've experienced in my life." The captain took a deep breath and looked between Pandi and Miri, "But if this planet has a population anywhere close to Earth's that means my kinks are being imposed on billions of people on this planet alone. Whose to say what other planets would be like given what I'm into."

"There's the Catholic Guilt. How are you to blame for this?", Miri sighed as her smile faded, she held out her arms for a hug, which was quickly reciprocated. Pandi moved over next to the writer and the hugging par leaned into their friend. "Especially this one, you didn't make up their culture. The sex show is using you as the canvas, it's going to appeal to you by default. In my opinion just embrace it."

"Miri's right about the guilt. If we are going to be at the for 10 weeks at least feeling bad about every new planet we go to will completely destroy you." Pandi turned her eyes to the writer. "I do disagree with Ms. Hedonism here about just completely embracing this though."

"Why? What is so wrong about just wholeheartedly just cutting loose. We are space adventures now. What good was conventional society for anyway? It trapped Katie in a job that was killing her spirit, you got fired for standing up against some **** pricks and a stupid plagiarism bot stole my job because apparently the slop it makes is good enough for corporate. So fuck'em. Let's live in world forged from my best friend's fantasies." Katie buried her head into Miri's shoulder during that last sentence.

"I'm saying we should at least be aware that this adventure will have consequences." Pandi drunk the last of her smoothie. "Any are you sure you are ok with me tagging along, it is supposed to be your 'Date'?"

"Girl I have no idea what's even around."

"Actually I have an idea about that, but first I need to show you guys something that just came up for me." Katie broke away from the hug, taking a napkin to clean the honey that had rubbed off on her fishnet dress. After connecting her bracelet to a projected screen the captain opened up the ship customization screen and navigated to the BP store. This listing had countless options with each item have sections for the effects it would have on the crew and ship itself. The captain selected the first listing designated as Fast, Harder, Stronger. It was listed as increasing physical strength along with libido. "As you can probably deduce all the options had side effects. Pandi does have a point about preparing for the future but I'm not to keen to flood our ship with aphrodisiacs, at least not for a long term thing and especially without everyone being aware of it."

Katie moved away from the catalog listing to the notifications. There a glowing pink exclamation highlighted a special item: Conferi Affiliate. The price was listed as 50 BP which was a third of the cost of the next cheapest option. The effects were too good to dismiss out of hand as bait ELEECE cooked up to create drama. Increasing the crews' dexterity, and stamina were nice perks on their own. The star of the show was the arena it would add to the ship. It would be the perfect place for the crew to practice in a variety of climates and still be in a safe environment. The problem was the side effects, it only lists one thing: Glory to the Conferi. A soundless moan escaped Katie's lips when she read the sacred phrase and when she looked at the slight dazed look in her friends' eyes she could tell they all had the same experience.

"I can't buy any of these ship upgrades outside of my quarters, but I was going to put it up for a vote. This feels sketchy but we need all the help we can get."

"Look you have no complaints from me if it will help you loosen up about this." Miri said as she put on the black tube top their adventure customs left her with.

"It feels like a trap to me but I feel like you would be **** to buy something eventually so at least go with the deal."

Katie nodded taking in her friends' advice. In the bracelets text chat app, she posted a link to the upgrade and made a poll. It finished quickly with results of 4 yeses, 1 no and 1 don't care.

"Huh that was quick. I wonder who the no was." Katie remarked looking at the results.

"It was me," Pandi said raising her hand.

"Oh is wasn't Odie? That's a relief she hasn't been having a good time." Miri said as she began eating the burger the trainer bought. "I'll see if she is up to hang tomorrow. Oh Katie you said you have an idea of what to do for our date?"

"Yeah, one of my bodies found a museum and it's free!"

The trio of friends followed the memory of one of her bodies until they found the museum. At some point along the walk, the Conferi prize wore off and they were once again in their original outfits. At the entrance Cocktail Katie was waving to get the others attention in the crowd. Once at the gates both Miri and the Mesh Katie collapsed onto a nearby bench.

"How are you two going to be adventurers when your exhausted by an hour long jog?" Pandi said towering over her friends with an open-mouthed smile.

"Oh fuck off! Your stride literally grew three feet overnight." Miri said between gasps of air.

"It was only six miles. So Katie what's this museum's deal."

"Well it's the Currie Calum City history museum so I figured it would be a good idea for to learn about this place since we are here for a week at least." Answered Cocktail Katie while fanning her other body.

The museum itself could easily be mistaken for the contents of a lava lamp from the way that the door lead into an amorphous orange liquid. Stepping inside revealed a fairly empty entrance hall and a bored golden-haired Carnie woman who lit upon seeing new people enter the building. "Welcome to the Currie Calum City History Museum! What can I do for you?"

"Hi we just arrived on planet today and thought this would be a fun place to go so where do we start?" Cocktail Katie asked while the others caught up.

"Just head down the stairs, it will start you at our general history section and once you get through there you will see our various wings for you to explore at your leisure. Though I would recommend you see our special exhibit on loan from the Ettamoan government. If you able please donate they need all the help they can get in their war efforts."

Taking the stairs down the group found the start of the exhibit. There was woodcarving artwork five symbols from approximately 6000. A voice-over started playing, "You are currently looking at the piece known as the unification carving. This is oldest item in our collect that suggests some idea about the age of the clades." The path continued with displays for each of the clades and how the clothing styles have changed over the years.

Unfortunately the exhibit itself was rather bad. Many of the items were listed as being taking down for restoration or just not listed. It was to the point were even the voice-over was mistimed with some of the exhibition sections. After getting to the end none of them felt like they really got anything from it.

Hoping to see if the rest of the museum improved they tried the other exhibits. They were all either closed or so rundown that it was surprising there hadn't been calls for safety violations. The place was practically devoid of anyone staff or patrons. Katie spotted a museum staff member who at the intersection of the major exhibits. She tried striking up a conversation, "Slow day huh?"

"Same as every day for the last three months. The Ettamoan thing is just eating everyone's time. You all are the first people I've seen today." the baseline man responded. "You might as well go see it, this is the last week it will be available. "

"Ok thanks." Katie replied. Given the disappointment in the worker's face she decided it would probably for the best to see the special exhibit and figure out what to do from there. As the trio (and extra body) walked towards the exhibit things began to change. The white lightning started to change becoming tinted with increasingly pink light as they approached. More people started to appear but even then every seemed to be on guard. Finally they reached the exhibit, a large golden dildo standing on a pedestal. The very air crackled with pink lightning. Cautiously a petfolk woman approached with a camera for photos. Suddenly a blast of pink light bathed the woman. When the light dispersed the woman was on the floor thrown off balance from her breasts suddenly growing to the size of exercise balls.

"FUCK YOU WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO FIND THIS ON DAY ONE!" ELEECE was standing next to Katie. Panic visible on her face for the first time any of the present company could remember.

"Wait you didn't plan this?" Katie asked barely holding back laughter as the evernude host stomps her in a feet in a tantrum.

"No Kati- Captain Ajax, some of my contemporaries prefer to micromanage, but I desire a degree spontaneity in my work." ELEECE attempted to regain composure.

"Hey ELEECE," Miri began, "There isn't anything that prevents us from grabbing the dildo now right?" A devilish smile began to spread on her lips.

"Guards and cameras?" ELEECE answered tilting her head.

"I mean in the rules of the game." Miri gave a sideways look to Pandi who was also beginning to smile.

"Oh. Oh! No there is nothing stopping you on that front." the host joined on the smiles.

Katie felt a chill go up her spine that she hadn't felt in a long time. This was a chill that proceed her high school's football captain and student president getting busted for an ecstasy ring. A chill that usually resulted in her having to pick up her idiot friends from a jail cell or some random street corner five blocks from a bar fight.

"Oh no," was all that Katie could muster the energy to say.