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TEST DRIVE MEME 005
⚰︎ ⍢ ⌲ ⍚ TEST DRIVE MEME:
Welcome to RUBILYKSKOYE — a dark, horror-smut game where player choices will drive a mod-run storyline about the world and its NPCs. This test drive meme provides a medley of prompts evoking the game's general tone.
THESE THREADS CAN BE GAME CANON if both players are accepted into the game and agree to it. However, if players who'd prefer to start fresh are welcome to reuse these prompts in their own personal logs upon acceptance into the communities. Note: the universal test drive arrival prompt will not be repeated on the any event log, but players are welcome to reuse the prompt.
CONTENT WARNINGS for this game include: monsters, body horror, dub-con, non-con, religion, blood/violence, and marking/branding, loss of autonomy/self, and mental influences. This log additionally has warnings for: spiders, aphrodisiac and truth serum effects, public nudity, exhibitionism/voyeurism, bdsm, kink negotiation, social pressure, and animal sacrifice.
If you have QUESTIONS about the test drive prompts, please ask HERE. Questions about the game itself or the general setting should be directed to the FAQ.
FAQ ✧ SETTING ✧ CALENDAR ✧ RESERVES ✧ APPLICATIONS
THESE THREADS CAN BE GAME CANON if both players are accepted into the game and agree to it. However, if players who'd prefer to start fresh are welcome to reuse these prompts in their own personal logs upon acceptance into the communities. Note: the universal test drive arrival prompt will not be repeated on the any event log, but players are welcome to reuse the prompt.
CONTENT WARNINGS for this game include: monsters, body horror, dub-con, non-con, religion, blood/violence, and marking/branding, loss of autonomy/self, and mental influences. This log additionally has warnings for: spiders, aphrodisiac and truth serum effects, public nudity, exhibitionism/voyeurism, bdsm, kink negotiation, social pressure, and animal sacrifice.
If you have QUESTIONS about the test drive prompts, please ask HERE. Questions about the game itself or the general setting should be directed to the FAQ.
IN THE WOODS SOMEWHERE
The chirping of partridges in the treetops rouses you. Light barely filters through the canopy, just enough to suggest daylight. By the time it reaches the forest floor, the light has taken on a sickly green. You lie amongst the frost-covered mosses and ferns, the frozen soil cold and just a little damp on your bare skin. Wherever you were before this moment, whatever you were doing or wearing, when you awaken in this forest, you find yourself naked and helpless as the day you were born. As you sit up and get your bearings, aside from a brief wave of disoriented nausea, you seem to be no worse for wear than you last remember.
You seem to be alone. The gnarled oaks and moss suggest no sign of civilization or sentient life. Just flickers of movement from curious squirrels or brave lizards reemerging after a long winter. With your feet under you, and you'll find the wood is filled with berry bushes and nut trees, though much of the fruit has been picked clean. The freshwater stream that runs north-south, populated by both poisonous toads and delicious crawdads, will lead people towards the first signs of civilisation, the cabins of those who choose to live beyond Rubilyskoye's formidable walls.
In the forest, you may run into others with stories just like yours. Some may have already formed clumsy nudist groups, others may still be processing their confusion, with no memory of how they got here. Now is a good time to overcome any hang-ups you have about modesty; it's going to be a long hike.
Turn your back to the darker, shadowy parts of the forest and eventually the glow of manmade lights and the curve of a dirt road may come into view. At the edge of the wood, you'll find a town surrounded by a fifty-foot wall of beige stone. The only entrance is an iron gate positioned on the southern edge. When you arrive, the gate is already open, welcoming people inside.
This quaint, historic town of five-thousand has cobbled street and signs lit by gas lamp. Wooden shutters protect otherwise open-air windows on the buildings, which are all under three stories with gabled roofs. A number of businesses hug the main street — a clockmaker, a cobbler, a grocer — while residential homes sprawl outwards towards the wall. At the far end of the main street, visible about a mile to the north now that the trees and the enormous wall is out of the way, sits a castle with three towers.
When you enter, the streets are full of people, but despite any efforts on your part to hide or make excuses, they don't seem offended by your nakedness. Even families with children don't gawk or look twice. Those determined to find proper clothing regardless will find that modern clothing stores aren't available — the closest this town has is a tailor's shop and a stand in the central marketplace selling scarves and blankets.
breaking and entering
If you intend to have your character break into someone's house or yard to steal some of their clean laundry, please review the info about game laws on the FAQ and give the mods a heads up HERE.
Fortunately, the people of the town are very generous! Anyone who ask the locals will be directed to the boarding house for both clothes and a place to stay. Accessible through an embellished iron garden gate and obscured by hanging plants, trees, and vines, beyond an overgrown yard in the residential sprawl of the town is a bright-red door, which opens to a spacious cottage of several stories. It's already full of people who appeared in the village just as you did today.
finding roommates
Don't spend too much time asking questions in the common areas. You'll want to claim a bedroom quickly because each one only has two full-size beds, and there aren't enough spaces for everyone. Maybe you'll get lucky and run into someone who has decided to move out? (Roommates will not be mod-assigned; players should coordinate directly with one another to determine their living arrangements; at this point, many characters have used activity rewards to move to accomodation outside the boarding house.)
Get a good night's rest. By the light of day, locals will help get the new arrivals set up on the coal stove with a breakfast of thick grain porridge and caramelised bananas from the new peaks; these NPCs can also answer any questions about the situation. You may notice they're dressed in a way you would almost call normal — at least, in a manner befitting 19th century Eastern Europe. Gossip about new arrivals spreads quickly, and Rubeans who run businesses or train trades are eager to help you find a place to apply your skills so you can contribute to your new home.
writer's block?
If you're struggling to pick a way to engage the prompts, try: naked hiking, acquiring clothing, being offered work, asking questions over breakfast, or staking your claim on a bedroom!
HEARTS FESTIVAL
New arrivals to Rubilykskoye will find themselves strongly encouraged to participate in the current zadza purging festival, and will be assigned either a collar in leather or iron based on their Niez or Wilk mark, or a wrist-strap or manacle that suits the attachment of a leash for those with a Diabel or Skala mark.
Characters are encouraged to embrace this temporary designation as a sign that they will be good citizens; those who object or ignore their designation may find the NPCs try to helpfully guide them, express displeasure at "Void-Touched" who won't assimilate, or in rare cases exert social pressure, coercion, violence or shunning to ensure compliance.
Throughout town various NPCs have set up tents and booths to host myriad performances, workshops, demonstrations, and food stands for their celebration. The foods were made using some of the new flora that have brought back from the peaks. Characters can get their hands on the following heart-themed foods from the second day of the festival onwards:
The nature of the booths set up for performances, workshops, and other goods focuses around the festival's dominance and submission themes. These persist throughout the day regardless of the hour or the audience, so very few people can be found consistently at their places of work during the day this week. In addition:
However, characters may also come across some carnival games operated by NPCs who are eager to help the Duchess find her heart! Some involve slaughtering livestock by removing their hearts—rest assured, these livestock were already on the menu, but their ritual sacrifice will now involve the cutting out of their hearts. Cut out an animal's heart yourself, or just attend the show! Many of the townspeople will get into it, painting their faces with animal blood or drinking from it.
Characters are encouraged to embrace this temporary designation as a sign that they will be good citizens; those who object or ignore their designation may find the NPCs try to helpfully guide them, express displeasure at "Void-Touched" who won't assimilate, or in rare cases exert social pressure, coercion, violence or shunning to ensure compliance.
Throughout town various NPCs have set up tents and booths to host myriad performances, workshops, demonstrations, and food stands for their celebration. The foods were made using some of the new flora that have brought back from the peaks. Characters can get their hands on the following heart-themed foods from the second day of the festival onwards:
- HEART-SHAPED COOKIES: eating these intensifies body heat, making characters a great cuddle buddy for the cold weather and likely to strip down, feeling overheated even in a snowdrift
- BEEF HEART STEW WITH DUXELLES: eating these fills those who consume it with confidence, making them more solicitous and dominant
- LIME-GLAZED GOAT HEART SATAY: eating these intensifies sensation, making characters more sensitive to both pain and pleasure
- CINNAMON GLUWEIN: drinking a cup of this hot beverage will make characters especially honest
The nature of the booths set up for performances, workshops, and other goods focuses around the festival's dominance and submission themes. These persist throughout the day regardless of the hour or the audience, so very few people can be found consistently at their places of work during the day this week. In addition:
- Skala and diabel NPCs may offer to share their partner(s) with the Void-touched, or ask to share theirs.
- PIOTR, a farmer, brings tools over from the farm including bridles and saddles, which can be found at a booth near some hunters who've made anal plugs that end with real animal tails, as well as muzzles.
- The cages from the Moot Hall have been moved into the streets, and people are allowed to move freely in and out of them. One of them has been covered in curtains to function as a glory hole booth.
- Some niez and wilk NPCs line up near the main event stage and kneel to offer themselves as human furniture.
However, characters may also come across some carnival games operated by NPCs who are eager to help the Duchess find her heart! Some involve slaughtering livestock by removing their hearts—rest assured, these livestock were already on the menu, but their ritual sacrifice will now involve the cutting out of their hearts. Cut out an animal's heart yourself, or just attend the show! Many of the townspeople will get into it, painting their faces with animal blood or drinking from it.
writer's block?
If you're struggling to pick a way to engage the prompts, try reacting to being assigned a dominant or submissive role, scenes where your character is starting to feel the effects of the food, watching (or participating in) a performance, or joining in on a gory animal sacrifice. NPCs that are usually welcoming may strongly pressure even new arrivals to participate in their cultural festivities.
the fathomless dark
At the outer edges of the forest, shadows grow long and the air grows thick. Though the sun never grows warm red-gold with sunset, the wood darkens. Birdsong is replaced by the click of mandibles and the skitter of many legs. Anyone who ventures out this way will soon find it difficult to see before them, even in the middle of the day — eventually, even the brightest magical light source or darkvision cannot stretch further than a few inches. In the void, the air feels heavy, as if it were not air at all but some more solid mass. Almost like liquid-smoke, it presses down upon you. Slowing your movements. Characters who push too far into the void may stop being able to move at all, and find themselves given over to insanity if they collapse, unable to draw themselves out. This is just one of many dangers.
Monsters thrive this far out. Huge, blood-red spiders the size of hunting dogs drop from the treetops. In addition to their venomous bite, which contains a fast-acting paralytic, these creatures are clever: they attempt to use their webbing to entangle any trespassers, binding limbs together or to trees. If you're unfortunate to become fully cocooned, you don't have long before this forest will be the last thing you see.
Those who seem lucky enough not to run afoul of the monsters here are in for a worse fate. The void can play tricks on your senses. As madness sets in and you lose all sense of direction, you may also lose control of your body — what is that steers your hands to turn against your friends? Why does it sound like your own voice whispering?
In the fog, you may also hear the voices of those familiar to you — people you know from the town, or people whom you know with almost perfect certainty aren't here. these figments may recreate unhappy memories or force trespassers to hallucinate their worst nightmares. Nothing is as it seems in the void, and when you swing at these figments, desperate to silence them, it might not be a figment at all, but a friend in the flesh trying to help you. By the time you see their true face, it could be too late to stop yourself.
writer's block?
If you're struggling to pick a way to engage the prompts, try fighting a monster, hallucinating your worst nightmares, and/or attacking a friend or stranger!
HIDING INSIDE EACH OF US
Uh oh spaghetti-os.
The marks worn by all residents of Rubilykskoye aren't just cool body art, as it turns out. The town is full of rumors, whispered in shadows and over candles of a starving creature hiding in the dark corners of your chest. Feed your inner beast, they say, before it finds a way to feed itself.
Alas, its emergence is inevitable — sooner or later, the horrible things that happen here pile up and make someone repulsed by the idea of human contact. Someone holds themselves back, bites their tongue, or simply does not believe the stories. Today, for one reason or another, that creature is coming out. Someone hasn't been keeping it sated.
Symptoms escalate over weeks, from monstrous irritability to full-blown body horror transformation, where people physically shed their human forms and evolve into the monsters this place made them. Once a person becomes something more (or less) than human there's only one way to go back — sate the beast.
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Poor Merta Chesnokov, the usually stalwart older woman who mans the Apothecary, has been beset by unusual requests in addition to her regular demands, not to mention sweating blood. The festival, a rash of skala blood flu, and a little extra town chaos in January, has brought a high demand to her little shop. Now there's also a local fashion springing up for teas and herbal remedies sourced from the recently revealed tropical mountains.
After another failed tisane test drive, and the third customer asking for a new kind of aphrodisiac to add to their festival food, she was seen tossing down her work knife with uncharacteristic frustration, and taking an "early lunch" that she didn't return from that night. Though her children, friends and employees reach out to her, there's no sign of her until you stumble upon her in the woods.
Merta overboils with her suppressed fury as her body distorts and her flesh blackens and crusts. Her attempts to hold off her transformation have failed, and Merta turns into a Smoldering Skink, a large repillian creature whose thick scales hold back her magmatic insides. The noise she makes is an unhearthly hissing scream like a boiling kettle, and she attempts to vent her pent-up stress by wildly attacking everything in sight. Immediately, the surroundings catch aflame! There will be a small fire eating at the dead wood of a long winter if it's not put out, but your first priority might have to be fielding a stampeding lizard with massive teeth and burning hot scales...
(There are other monsters lurking in every townsperson — feel free to invent your own npc monsters and scenarios!)
The marks worn by all residents of Rubilykskoye aren't just cool body art, as it turns out. The town is full of rumors, whispered in shadows and over candles of a starving creature hiding in the dark corners of your chest. Feed your inner beast, they say, before it finds a way to feed itself.
Alas, its emergence is inevitable — sooner or later, the horrible things that happen here pile up and make someone repulsed by the idea of human contact. Someone holds themselves back, bites their tongue, or simply does not believe the stories. Today, for one reason or another, that creature is coming out. Someone hasn't been keeping it sated.
Symptoms escalate over weeks, from monstrous irritability to full-blown body horror transformation, where people physically shed their human forms and evolve into the monsters this place made them. Once a person becomes something more (or less) than human there's only one way to go back — sate the beast.
someone else transforms
After another failed tisane test drive, and the third customer asking for a new kind of aphrodisiac to add to their festival food, she was seen tossing down her work knife with uncharacteristic frustration, and taking an "early lunch" that she didn't return from that night. Though her children, friends and employees reach out to her, there's no sign of her until you stumble upon her in the woods.
Merta overboils with her suppressed fury as her body distorts and her flesh blackens and crusts. Her attempts to hold off her transformation have failed, and Merta turns into a Smoldering Skink, a large repillian creature whose thick scales hold back her magmatic insides. The noise she makes is an unhearthly hissing scream like a boiling kettle, and she attempts to vent her pent-up stress by wildly attacking everything in sight. Immediately, the surroundings catch aflame! There will be a small fire eating at the dead wood of a long winter if it's not put out, but your first priority might have to be fielding a stampeding lizard with massive teeth and burning hot scales...
(There are other monsters lurking in every townsperson — feel free to invent your own npc monsters and scenarios!)
you waited too long
At first, as you hide yourself from your darker impulses, a subtle itch develops under your skin. An irritability that makes you snap at the person who bumps into you on the stairs because all those fleeting emotions that you've been repressing bubble to the surface. Every dark thought you've had about being here, all the fears of never getting home, of being surrounded by ticking time bombs, the anxiety of wondering who you might hurt or what relationships you might betray by doing what you have to do. The anger. Oh, the anger.
Maybe you shut yourself in your room or run into the woods to hide away, but there's only so much you can do to deny the itch that grows into hunger like a spark catching and growing to wildfire. Someone comes to check on you. That knock on the door or crunch of leaves in the wood that fills you with dread at what you might do and hope that you will be sated.
As claws and fangs and scales and spines and fur grow and your body transforms with a sickening crunch of bones and peeling of skin, so do your appetites. If you won't sate them, you'll lose yourself to your beastly impulses sooner or later, mauling friends and taking your fill. Is it better or worse if only your claws get inside of them?
Maybe you shut yourself in your room or run into the woods to hide away, but there's only so much you can do to deny the itch that grows into hunger like a spark catching and growing to wildfire. Someone comes to check on you. That knock on the door or crunch of leaves in the wood that fills you with dread at what you might do and hope that you will be sated.
As claws and fangs and scales and spines and fur grow and your body transforms with a sickening crunch of bones and peeling of skin, so do your appetites. If you won't sate them, you'll lose yourself to your beastly impulses sooner or later, mauling friends and taking your fill. Is it better or worse if only your claws get inside of them?
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Then again, back home in Hell, everyone knows exactly who he is and has seen every inch of his body multiple times. It's a little0refreshing, actually, to have someone not immediately think "sex symbol" when they see him. Not that he'd mind -- especially with this tall hunk of beef. But it's nice to actually have to work for it, for once.
Rolling onto his stomach and kicking his fluffy spider feet into the air, Angel props his chin in one set of hands, smoothing out the blanket with the other.] Spider demon. What's your excuse, beefsteak?
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Folding his arms over his barrel chest he glares down at the spider, one ear flicking in irritation as he lets out a snort. A tell he’s feeling frustrated in spite of his intent to be imposing. ]
I’m not interested in sharing or galloping around all creation to find a bed. This is the one I want.
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Still gently kicking his feet to and fro, tilting his head to one side, Angel nods.] This one? This one riiiiight here? [A sharp grin, then Angel rolls onto his back again, splaying out all his limbs.] This one that I'm sooooooo comfy in?
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You realize I could easily toss your ass out the door, right? Me letting you skitter out on your own numerous legs is me being nice.
[ But he’s still looking. Thinking. Wondering what it would be like to fuck something unlike any cow or human he’s ever been with. ]
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So, shaking his head, looking at the cow dude upside-down, Angel folds a set of arms beneath his head, wagging a finger.] Now, now, let's be scientifically accurate, hm? I only got two legs.
[A pause, then Angel lifts one long, looooong leg up, bending at the knee slightly.] One. [He spreads the other one far apart, knee off the bed, little fluffy spiderpaw almost touching the ground. Angel's wearing some long loose tunic-y thing, the hem riding up dangerously high. He smirks.] Two.
See?
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[ Oh, he starts off so strong, but finishes on a tremble. Bending down over the bed now, placing one palm on either side of the spider so he can loom in on him real close. Close enough that Angel can probably feel the body heat radiating off of his brick wall of a torso. ]
You tryin' to slut your way out of having to leave?
[ It wasn't an excuse to get closer. Absolutely not. Those aren't his fingers twitching, wanting to move over just a few more inches and get a handful of that fluff. See how it feels in his hand. ]
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Depends. [One hand reaches out, tracing down the bull's chest, featherlight.] It workin'?
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Now, to the question at hand, he feels a ripple of electricity buzz through him where that finger traces. To his credit, his expression remains stony. Temper has had years to perfect his façade. And he keeps it even as he climbs onto the bed, mattress complaining loudly from his sheer bulk. One knee on either side of the spider to match his hands. One dick barely covered by a loincloth poking into Angel's lower belly. ]
Yeah. It's workin'.
[ Simple as that, and then he's cupping the spider's chin to steal a demanding kiss. ]
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Maybe that'd be true if whoever walked in wasn't seven-foot-sexy with big rough hands that don't care how breakable Angel looks. Looks only, of course, because you don't become the most famous porn star in Hell without being pretty damn durable in every way. But this cow guy is actually super hot -- like, fuck just for fun, not for money kinda hot.
So Angel makes a delighted chittering purring sound, one set of hands going up to cradle either side of the minotaur's face, tugging him closer greedily. The other set -- god, Angel loves having so many hands at times like these -- reaches up and trails down the bull's stomach, over his hips, the front of his loincloth.]
Mmmmmf, big boy. [It's purred between kisses, clearly delighted.]
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Those hands will find muscle upon muscle, rippling and in peak condition. Built in a way no human could ever be, bred to be a walking boulder. Delicate hands are always welcome to explore, exciting Temper with the contrast to his body. He's big everywhere, even for a typical member of his species.
In a minute, Temper is going to have to ask some questions in regard to logistics. Human males and bulls usually need a lot of help to be able to accommodate him, but Angel's body is nothing like either of those. Not that he's minding, hand coming forward to map out soft, fluffy curves as he sees exactly how deep he can get his tongue down the spider's throat. ]
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There's another of those softly purring, chittering sounds, and Angel's bright, sharp teeth nicking at Temper's mouth -- not quite deep enough to bleed, but enough to worry the flesh to bright red, swollen. His tongue is something else entirely, sinuous and long and pointed, curling and twining around the bull's. A pair of those hands tugs the loose tunic up and off and Angel leans back to let Tender take a look at him.
Fluffy, white and pink, heart patterns over his plush, slender body, and between his legs -- more fluff, sleeker, smoother, oddly damp. Angel leans back on a set of elbows and offers casually:] Retractable. Venom's not lethal, it'll just tingle a bit. Cross my heart. [That's what it is, venom leaking slick and pink from the fluffy sheath.]
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When Angel presents his full package for the bull’s perusal there’s raised eyebrows - especially at the word venom - but he doesn’t move away. Instead he trails a finger down to prod at the sheath, get some of the ooze between his digits to feel. ]
… you’re lucky I’m horny as hell. You got a hole?
[ Again, he’s used to there always being some warm, tight place he can bury his cock in no matter who he’s sleeping with. ]
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The cautious prodding gets an amused breathy moan, and Angel reaching out to tug the bull's thick fingers down slightly, pressing up and into his hole. Softer, more giving than a human's ass, but that's more a testament to how many guys Angel's fucked than to his exact anatomy. There's venom here too, slick and tingling.] Wouldn't be much fun if I didn't, hm? [A sigh, another one of those hands reaching to tug at the tie of Tender's loincloth.] Typical top, arencha? Just need a nice hot hole to fuck, huh?
C'mon, sugar. [Angel grins, all teeth, all hands, working Tender's fingers deeper inside him.] I ain't gonna break.
cw: breeding kink
The loincloth is easily untied coupled with the pressure from his contained dick that springs out like a party favor to bounce on Angel’s lower belly. There’s a relieved grunt at the release, the bull palming his girth to give it a couple quick strokes. ]
It’s what I was bred for.
[ Breeding animal or not, he at least has enough experience outside of work to know better than to just spear Angel on his cock in one fell swoop and start humping. He’ll do a little more teasing, pressing his thick head up against that weeping entrance. ]
Though I don’t think your plumbing’s right to put a calf in ya, it’ll be fun to try.
just -- breeding kink all the way down
Not that the bull seems new to fucking in general -- he moves confidently, practiced, used to exactly what he needs to do. Sex is a job for him, just like it is for Angel. There's something sort of reassuring about that.
And there's a whole lot that's tempting about that big, thick dick of his. The spider demon grins, all sharp teeth, the one capped in gold catching the light. He spreads his legs a little wider, one set of hands reaching down to stroke practiced and smooth down the bull's shaft, spreading the tingling, slick venom all along the length.]
I dunno -- if anyone could, I think you and this big guy could, baby~ [Angel tugs impatiently at Tender's cock, rising up to try and nudge it fully inside.] Bet once you fill me up, it'll sure look like ya did.
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Should reach ... right about here. Let's see how good my estimatin' skills are.
[ And without any further ado he'll plunge himself past that welcoming opening, not going too quickly but also not going as slow as he would for a virgin. He's had a long day and this little arachnid has got him in the mood to do some winding down his favorite way. He's been told by human partners that his dick seems way hotter temperature wise than what they're used to, a fiery stretch going to fill out all the space available in whomever he's with. There's a content grunt at the feeling of being so snugly buried, the spider's walls feeling as cozy as his body looks. ]
Mmm ... that's nice. This is a luxury hole right here. Fancy. A fella could get used to this.