RECYCLEDCRAFT: Space Sex Mystery?

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PREMISE (example)

You awaken on a train - or a sleek-feeling spacecraft, or a boat, or even a submarine.
The shape of the craft isn't important, or even immediately apparent - but you are here, a sealed, surprisingly comfortable room with a soft bed, whereas before you were home. If home was even where you wanted to be.

"Good morning, passenger," a voice purrs; you can feel a presence with it, but there's no indication anyone is in the room with you.

There is, however, a comfortable weight along your legs, your arms, your spine... something appears ready to keep you here for a while.

What will you do?

CONTEXT

What is this, exactly? This premise is a smut spinoff of a wider continuity - the 'space'craft your character is on has taken your character from their home. It - any and all pronouns are fine, and if you OOCly have a preference just give a heads-up in your starter comment and we'll go from there - has been through quite a time recently, having lost its crew and the programming that initially determined its purpose. (Some data/facts still remain for basic navigation and specialization - see the next entry!) Nor does it remember exactly how it happened, just that something terrible happened and it has to do things more on-its-own now.

But what it can still do is (A) interpret characters' emotions and respond accordingly, (B) provide safe and sturdy transport plus life support and (C) bond intensely with those now tied to it!

This can be for a one-on-one scenario, a group account, or even joint threading if everyone would like to put in the time to sort things out! Can start with the premise above, or can be time-skipped along to where both parties are familiar with one another.

OPTIONS

What kind of 'craft are you on, anyway?
The Ace - originally a sleek fighter craft, this one was made to take to space and the skies with impunity! Very flexible, good at interpreting orders, and still carries echoes of 'tude from its former crew. And now it's focusing all that energy on you. Think you can take it?

Star-Gazer - originally a solo-craft meant for exploration, this 'craft was built to take someone far, and to provide companionship to anchor someone to reality on the way. It's designed to be cozy, and is not meant to be shared. Maybe it remembers another name alongside yours, but it no longer recalls those memories consistently. But perhaps that isn't a bad thing...

Like the Lightning - this was a mercenary's craft, passed along from generation to generation. With acute knowledge of trade routes and meticulously-crafted stealth routines to take shelter on even the most unexpected worlds, its job is to do the job - but it can't do so alone, and that's where you come in. Such a partnership does come with benefits, as a matter of course.

The Lost One* - a missioncraft, badly damaged, better suited for a group than an individual... but it has found someone, and will desperately work to make sure they are safe. Believes very strongly in doing the Just thing, but now it doubts it knows how to determine that anymore. Appears to have lost everything twice over, and has just enough memory to make it very hard to accept things at face value. Befriending this one is the most difficult possibility, but it is doable - if you wish to sincerely try.

*This IS meant to poke fun at myself, to be clear.

GENERAL SCENARIOS

Introductions - Exactly what it says on the tin.
Visiting a World - Can be just shopping, can be a 'risk of getting caught' sort of deal, or you've caught whiff of Adventure. Each 'craft will have different reactions, of course, but fun CAN be had by all!
Voidstorm* - Traveling through one of these tends to have... unique effects. Usually ones that are temporarily bad for one's sanity, but not having to be alone during them is supposed to help. Or it can just make things weirder; you never know! Don't try to break the windows and go outside, though; that's never a good idea.

*I'm not changing what it's called, because I can't think of anything better to call it. To explain 'from the outside': imagine if sex pollen were a space phenomenon you could fly through, and be directly effected mentally/emotionally. Hallucinations, particularly shared hallucinations, are common. Seeing people you love outside and feeling compelled to go out there is also possible. Other possibilities include seeing emotions as aura colors, feeling compelled to speak and act on one's deepest feelings, and not being able to understand other languages.
You can see why sex pollen wouldn't be out of place here, right?

KINKS

Anticipated Content: Mindsharing, Voyeurism and/or Exhibitionism, Sense Play, Cuddling (through atypical means), Xenophilia, Mechanophilia, Vulnerability (Emotional, Physical), Light Bondage, Body Worship.
Personal Favorites (Not required for the premise, just ones I like): Biting, Sense-sharing, Orgasm Control, Sensory Overload, Slow-to-Warm-Up, Breastplay, Lactation.
Nos: Watersports/Scat, Bloodplay, Necrophilia.

Any kinks not listed under any of these are open to discussion, as well.

Comments

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[under_the_raptors_wings]

Enki looked curious at the suggestion but shrugged. "Ie. Sure... probably not a bad idea." He waited to finish the bar first and then set about breathing exercises. He'd been meditating as far back as he could remember, so it was easy enough to slide into.

Of course, last time he'd meditated he'd ended up having to fight not to get caught up in the heiran thoughts. Hopefully without them spiraling this time that wouldn't be an issue.

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And sure enough, they kept themselves out of the way, finding as much in observing Enki's patterns as they had his earlier actions.

After enough time passed, they softly began to purr. An encouragement, hopefully nothing more.

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[under_the_raptors_wings]

It was easier to pick up intent fully when meditating. Not to mention he was second guessing his own judgement a bit less. So he understood the purr.

But. It also pulled him back to the present and he grinned, cracking an eye open. "You feeling a bit better, by the way?" While he didn't know everything, he had picked up enough to know things had been....rough for the heira.

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The voidcraft was all of a sudden uncertain - for the most part, it simply did not want to think about how things had been.

But it did understand that what it was feeling now was different, and supposed that it was truth enough to answer Enki's question.

It also sent a sense of apology for having interrupted - the meditation, specifically. No sense in over-apologizing, after all.

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[under_the_raptors_wings]

Enki shrugged at the apology. "I don't mind. By all rights I should be able to meditate past interruption." He didn't go back into meditation, but he did lean back against a tree, looking up at the sky. One of the suns was off to one side but close to overhead, the other wasn't visible through the trees, at least not at this angle.

"I have to admit, it's... strange that no one has contacted me to help out with anything." He wondered vaguely if Tovan had gotten one of the others to hack his communicator so as to intercept calls. He would not put that past his friend. Not that he planned on checking. If someone called, he'd feel obliged to help and he didn't want to leave this undone. Or deal with people for that matter.

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After several moments' pause, it conjectured that perhaps declaring a specific purpose to a meditation would be better?

But then, it hardly knew the specifics of how meditation was taught on this world; there might simply be no counterpart for its suggestion, thus making it unhelpful.

Then there was that other complication, and for the first time the voidcraft began actively looking for a transmitter network.

If Enki's device was on him, it would send out a ping - just acknowledgement, nothing more.

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Enki chuckled. "When I have a set purpose, ie. Didn't... really have one for that one." Enki started at the short sound from his communicator, looking down at the wristband it was attached to. No calls coming in. Well. That was something at least.

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Oh, it was working! That eliminated one possibility, and the voidcraft did a quick check of itself to see that the network access hadn't sent anything into its systems.

Its token concern for the moment eased, it settled back into peaceable watchfulness.

It also then projected two images - one of a circle with arrows pointing out, another a circle with arrows pointing in, followed by a question.

Meditation for internal search, or external?

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Enki returned his focus to the hiera. "Umm. Internal I guess? Usually I use it to help me deal with getting overwhelmed if there's too much happening around me or to break off from overthinking. I mean, sometimes just in general too. It's good practice and I uh... I don't seem to need to sleep as much when I do meditate." Which given how sleep usually went, was no bad thing.

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The hiera agreed that those were good benefits, as well as good goals to strive for.

... Granted, the only meditation it normally achieved required the use of tethers, but that wasn't supposed to matter at present.

Then it transmitted an image, a fractal of colors, before forming those colors into shapes, faces, objects...

How do you picture meditation? Though perhaps those weren't the right concepts to communicate its idea.

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[under_the_raptors_wings]

It wasn't entirely clear, and it took a bit for Enki to work over a mix of context, the images, and the general intent he picked up to pick it up. He wasn't entirely accurate, but close enough. "What do I picture? Umm. Well it varies I guess? Based on what's going on and what my intent is. If I have a lot to process I picture it but a few steps away from it and the emotions."

"But overall and... especially if there's a lot overwhelming me I... focus on things around me that aren't people." As he continued he started to picture what he'd focus on here, the sounds, smells, what he could touch. "And if that's not enough... I picture a wall between me and the noise or interactions that had me overwhelmed?" He pictured the wall. And as he did his presence flickered away mentally for a moment, but only a moment before he shrugged.

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There were many things to take note of in what Enki described. Many flags... and so the voidcraft shrugged them all off.

Shunting his presence away did seem useful, yet opposite to how it normally had to function.

It sent an image of him literally teleporting, a rendering of what his 'presence' had done. Deliberate?

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Given that it had been incidental rather than deliberate, Enki... did not even know what the hiera was asking about with that particular image. "Umm... what do you mean?"

Well, at least the confusion did answer the question?

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The hiera switched to what it would consider an 'old school' image - of a chalkboard, with chalk and eraser, and of an eraser briefly 'wiping out' a stick drawing of a person before it was re-drawn.

You disappeared and reappeared from my sensors.

Congratulations?

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[under_the_raptors_wings]

He had to spend several moments reconsidering based on that particular image set. He... had no idea what a chalk board was. But he did finally get it. "Well... huh. I didn't know it blocked outside thought? Just um... I figured it was entirely mental. But I guess it makes sense that it could?" He'd been taught meditation by someone with telepathy after all, so him adapting over exercises from that was no stretch.

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The next 'image' was a shining shield.

It's a defense.

And not an unwarranted one. Moreover, it was also potentially useful... if not overused.

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Enki nodded, really thinking about it now. "Ie. I'll have to keep that it can do that in mind." Just because he hadn't needed something like it before, didn't mean he never would after all.

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There was a sense of quiet pleasure at having been able to assist in some small way.

Return to practice? This, symbolized by a cycling arrow.

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Enki didn't voice his confusion so much as project it as he raised an eyebrow upwards, unsure what the hiera meant.

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The voidcraft was in turn surprised. How to convey, weren't you going to meditate more? was harder than it had first seemed.

It grew quiet, not hurt, waiting to see if Enki would start again anyway.

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Enki was uncertain in the pause if the meaning was he should get back to work or back to meditating. He considered, debating if he were ready to get back to work yet. He probably could but he'd be more efficient if he rested a bit longer.

So that's what he decided to do, leaning his head back against the tree and starting the breathing exercises as he let his focus drift from the immediately obvious to the world around him at large.

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Well, that worked out.

Enki might get a sense, if he let himself feel for it, that the voidcraft was 'following' the directions his mind went.

From a distance, of course, but it was well aware that Enki could find things of interest that it would otherwise miss.

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[under_the_raptors_wings]

Honestly following his meditations might be pretty boring for most. He grounded himself by a sense of what was around him, the smells of the foliage, an ocean that was not far distant. The feeling of the sun poking through the clearing and the tree bark at his back. The sound of the breeze making it through the forest and of the animals that ventured the nearest to the aura. At this point even the mental sense of the hiera was enough of a constant part of this clearing that he remained aware of them.

It wouldn't take much of a change of any of these things to pull him out and to full alertness. There was an underlying ripple of tension that made that much clear. But that tension was the closest to an interruption that he came, the focus of this particular meditation was more about willing himself to relax than any sort of lessons or review of events, so more attention went to those constants than anything internal.

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The voidcraft allowed themselves brief distraction, internally attaching descriptors to each factor of his environment Enki took notice of.

The automatic inclusion of itself gave it pause, but not enough for it to wish to interrupt in any way.

It did, however, 'purr' gently, in the hope this would help Enki achieve relaxation, even if temporarily.

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[under_the_raptors_wings]

It did help, and this time he was prepared for it, so it didn't draw his attention back to the moment the way it had earlier. It earned a mental acknowledgement that showed how tired he was. Not overworked, or at least not with what he'd been doing here. If anything that had helped, having something to do that was tangible but not high stakes.