Chapters tagged alien

by Zeebop

Chapter 63

> No brain slugs or brain slug hosts were harmed in the making of this adult film. > This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. > Filmed with the participation of the Seacouver [Hive. > Do](http://Hive.Do) not try this at ho...

by Zeebop

Chapter 64

> Imagine everything a human fears. Pain. Loss. . A broken heart. Suffocation. Drowning. Starvation. Brain slugs share all of these primal fears. It is one of the great commonalities between both species. But brain slugs also fear something else. > —*Slug Sutra*, chapter 6...

by Zeebop

Chapter 65

> Humans are social animals; most humans need some level of social interaction for their continued mental health. Isolation is one of the key punishments in the human justice system for this reason. When the first criminal human hosts were supplied to brain slugs, the hive minds...

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Chapter 66

> Brain slug beauty standards are based on chemical cues rather than sight, nor are brain slug hosts primarily aroused by visual or audio media, though they understand this can excite humans. When attempting to initiate sexual relations, brain slug hosts will sometimes literally...

by Zeebop

Chapter 67

> The World Soul is as close to a binding identity for brain slugs, brain bats, and related species as can be imagined; a common channel of information which, in its fullest expression, acts as a hive mind of hive minds, an emergent intelligence of god-like complexity. Imagine an...

by Zeebop

Chapter 68

> Brain slug hosts prefer sex when brain slug hosts equal or outnumber human partners, and in rooms with clearly accessible exits and with mirrored surfaces. The latter enables both the brain slug's eyespots and the host's eyes to keep track of their partner, a double visual conf...

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Chapter 69

> Brain slugs have no written history. They carry their memories in generational hive minds, with important memories shared widely among members to act as a baseline cultural memory. The loss of a single brain slug host and its memories does not mean all of its memories are gone,...

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Chapter 70

> Dreaming is not a common trait among extraterrestrial species; very few experience true unconsciousness as many Earth species understand it, much less the altered state of association that is dreaming. Brain slugs had never encountered a host species that dreamed be...

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Chapter 71

> The ghola may be anathema to the brain slugs in part because of a sacrificial rite I translate as "The Worm That Gnaws." During times of war or emergency, hives have been known to implant a brain slug on a dying enemy to quickly gather information before brain set...

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Chapter 72

> Every single sapient extraterrestrial species in the Exodus has, at some time or another, been a brain slug host species. For humanity, it was the equivalent of finding out the new person interested in you has a hundred exes, and they all have stories.—*Slug Sutra*, chapter 7...

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Chapter 73

> On their home world, brain slugs presumably had some form of recorded media of their own, but in the diaspora, the various hive minds tend to adopt local media and technologies, and the archives shift to reflect the makeup and capabilities of their host species. It makes no sen...

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Chapter 74

> A brain slug budding isn't celebrated like a childbirth. The brain slug isn't a person until they're integrated with a host. A brain slug is a potential person. It is also a potential meal for any passing animal. That doesn't mean brain slugs don't care for their genetic clones...

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Chapter 75

> Brain slugs have a concept, translated into English variously as *familiar* or *sexpet*, though there are deeper connotations. In various environments, brain slugs have discovered sapient organisms whom they value for production and companionship more than they desire a new hos...

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Chapter 76

For the refugees of the Exodus, the apocalypse had already happened. They lived in the aftermath of the end of everything they knew. Their home worlds, their native biospheres and cultures, were lost to them. They landed on a strange world, outnumbered, outgunned, with limited re...

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Chapter 77

> Brain slugs understand in the way dog or horse breeders do: as a way to concentrate certain traits, at the danger of exacerbating certain recessive characteristics. Human taboos and kinks were alien to them. They adapt. > —Anastasia Massimi, *Slugnomicon: A Guide To Br...

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Chapter 78

> Earth's unrestricted media broadcasts provided considerable cultural enrichment to the children of the stars before the ships even approached Earth orbit. The hastiness of their flight from the collapsing intergalactic node meant their own store of cultural works was relatively...

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Chapter 79

> Consent means many things to many different cultures across many species. From the sparse historical records available, it seems clear that some cultures were willing to sell people to the brain slugs to use as hosts; others sent condemned criminals to the brain slugs as a form...

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Chapter 80

> Humans have dreamed of first contact for over a century. Yet when it happened, there were so many who were scared. They saw refugees as threats, or worse, strategic advantages over their enemies in their own petty, bullshit conflicts. Politicians can be imaginative in all the w...

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Chapter 81

> The oldest cultures had experienced this before. The Murkers, the Brain Bats, and Brain Slugs had all been refugees previously, had gained and lost worlds. They were not the most ; they were the most understanding. They told the humans that whatever happened, things wo...

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Chapter 82

> Imagine something slimy dropping onto your neck. The instinctive urge to reach back, rip it off. By the time you do, it's too late. A painful burn, as intense as if someone dripped red-hot steel on your spine. Then paralysis. Voluntary muscle control is gone within seconds. At...