Phee said that she wanted to let Eva use her apartment on Earth to stay, and it's now been the ten days that Eva needed in Pink Desert. So it's time for Earth now.
Eva can teleport, but she doesn't know how to get back to Phee's world. There's a bridge somewhere around here, right?
Yeah! Phee can lead her back to where she landed in from exactly admittedly she doesn't really remember and is just going by her world senses and waves shyly.
"This was the bridge I took to get here from my Earth!"
And then she's going to spend several minutes locked in concentration trying to cross the bridge. and not get distracted by performance anxiety at being so pathetic and slow at bridge crossing in front of Eva.
Eva will casually read a bad actually pretty decent yuri romance novel as she waits, so as not to pressure Phee.
In that case after a dozen embarrasing minutes of trying to focus and find a path through, she'll eventually land on the other side of the bridge, collapsing pathetically to the beach sands.
(and freaking out slightly at the thought that she might have somehow just landed elsewhere in pink desert before she notices that most of the sand is beige, not pink, and it certainly feels to her conduit senses that she's back home.)
Eva is through mere moments later, easily landing on her feet on the beach as she lets her connection to the many Earths pull her through.
She casts her gaze around nervously, trying to see if there are any witnesses.
There's a couple people scattered about, far too distracted by the beach games they're each engaged in (volley ball and some kind of competitive swimming/wrestling it looks like?) to notice the new arrivals, or question why they seemingly teleported and why one of them is purple.
"Uh..."
She spends a few moments visibly looking around to jog her memory.
"This way? I think..." And then she starts walking in a direction that at least appears to have an apartment complex in it.
She really should have considered that...
She almost instinctively says she does, she always has her phone on her when she goes outside, but she first doublechecks that she does in fact have it.
"I do!"
And then she spends a couple minutes fiddling around on a map app to figure out directions back to her apartment.
"I have acquired directions!" She starts heading in the direction towards her apartment. (It is incidentally in the same direction she started to head in earlier.)
She's a little blushy about that, especially it being in public on earth where she's purple.
Ignoring that impulse, she gently lets go and asks.
"Are you okay Eva? Would you rather I not hug you?""
"It's okay! I'm just a little shy about doing anything in public that'd attract attention. Because, well." She gestures to her very purple self.
It takes her several moments to parse what she's getting at with that...
"Okay!"
She'll try to walk slightly faster back to her apartment then. And once she arrives she spends several seconds visibly trying to remember the password but does get it right first try afterwards and then leads her inside.
And tries not to worry too much about how badly Eva will judge her for the mess her apartment is.
Most of the apartment floor is covered in random junk, boxes and bags and miscellaneous bits of packaging she never got around to throwing out. (There's also a couple display cases with a haphazard combination of books, legos and anime girl figurines inside.)
There's at least a few small hazard free paths going from the entrance into the apartment proper and then towards the desk that holds her computer, towards her bed (a low to the ground mattress with scrunched up blankets and a couple plushies), towards the small kitchenette her apartment came with, and towards the only other door in the apartment (which leads to the bathroom.)
Eva looks around at the apartment, taking in the general aura. It's a familiar sort of situation to her - she's never been great at this kind of thing herself - but for some weird reason she has an urge to clean up.
When she has those infrequent urges back at home she'd lean in, but here it's Phee's apartment... It would probably be really rude to comment, right?
"Looks like my apartment at home before I lost the damn thing. I was never any good at keeping the place in order either."
"This is probably really rude, but do you want a hand cleaning up? It's always easier for me to do these things for other people than for myself."
"It's not rude! Especially considering you'd be staying here too now, and I should take you up on it considering what a mess the place is, just...."
"Yeah uh sorry I realize I don't know where any of this stuff goes or even what of it is junk, I just, sorry -"
Glomphug the poor girl.
"Don't be sorry! I'msorryformakingyoufeelsorry My apartment's a mess and I don't even know which stuffs just junk myself either, and it'd be natural to want to help with it, you're a friendly helpful girl..."
"Okay, okay, um, maybe we can go through it together? You're definitely going to have stuff that doesn't exist on my world so it can be an introduction to what your world is like."
"S-sure!" Fuckfuckfuck uh, which section is most likely to have stuff she won't be a complete reticent disaster about throwing stuff out, uh probably the kitchen???
She picks up a random box labelled 'Polynom's stellated chocolates' with some adorably spikey chocolates pictured on it.
"This is a bag of Polynoms chocolates I got at some point, they're a food brand that themes most of their stuff after each of the 48 regular polyhedra[1] and includes neat varyingly-math related trivia on the packaging."
[1] Don't ask me what a food stuff themed after the skew muoctohedron or any of the petrials would look like, i have no clue, I don't have to define everything implied by my worldbuilding.
"Cool! My world sometimes does chocolate fruits, like the Galici's Chocolate Cherries."
(And luckily she's not one of the conduits with powers which require fruit consumption to refuel.)
"They're not actual fruits in chocolate, just chocolates flavoured like fruit. But I'm splitting hairs."
She takes the package. "So where does this go?"
"Uh probably the trashbin unless it still has some chocolates in it?" She waves towards the bin (It's one of the ones with a built in foot pedal for opening it)
"Huh I just remembered that your bevin had chocolate fountains and now I'm wondering if it could grow solid chocolates as well...."
"It's only liquids, unfortunately. I don't think chocolate counts as a mineral. If you could get an actual cacao seed I guess that would work but it takes so much processing to turn into chocolate."
So saying, she snags a chocolate in the shape of a stellated dodecahedron and starts snapping off the spikes one at a time to eat them.
Cuteee, though she personally prefers to keep all the spikes on them, it feels nice as they dig into her mouth.
"Oh well, or hmm. Does it have to be liquid at room temperature? I could try tracking down and buying some of the chocolate liquid that's used to make custom shapes when put in moulds and cooled down, and we could just wait for a bit for it to solidify after pouring out of the taps?"
"Okay! I'll try and get that then and not get my hopes too up. Any other things you think I should try grabbing for your garden as well while Earthside?"
"I'm not that great a gardener, actually, but it'd probably be good for my mental health if you could grab a protein or meal replacement shake or something like that? I keep worrying I'll run out of money for proper food. So far I'm getting by with automatic welfare payments on my phone but if I were to ever lose my phone or need to get a new one I'd probably be screwed for a while. Having guaranteed calorie-rich food that wasn't just eggs would be... good."
She's gonna hug her at that.
"... I'd also be a terrible gardener and would have been in a kinda similar situation with getting by on UBI payments but I at least don't have to worry about losing access to it if I lost my phone or anything. And I'll definitely make sure to grab you some protein shakes and stuff."
"Okay, cool! Also, if you have anything made of a precious metal I could really use some - I've got copper, a really bad sterling silver, and regular iron, and a bunch of semiprecious stones, but I couldn't afford any gold or proper silver. I didn't want to risk selling gold when I, uh, look like this. Seems like a good way to end up very doomed."
"I don't think I have anything like that, but I could buy a bunch of precious metals and gems, give them to you to replicate in your garden and then sell them on my Earth and avoid ending up automatically doomed because of my appearance, and split the profits with you?"
"The other reason I haven't tried this is because I would rather people not ask questions about where I got all this gold and stuff from. Seems kind of questionable to just show up with a sack of Perfectly Legally Acquired Gemstones And Gold, you know?"
"But if your world is easier to deal with on that then I think it's worth a try."
"I'm not sure how much easier or not it'd be to do in my world, I've never tried selling mysteriously acquired gold before, but I don't think I'd risk legal trouble from just trying to sell it, it might be better to stick to gemstones because that's something I could plausibly get away with claiming i just grew using mad science and cheap chemicals whereas it'd be harder to do so with pure metals?"
"Maybe, but synthetic gemstones are a lot less expensive I think."
She hums.
"Also I'm not sure how long it'll take for my bevin to produce any appreciable amount of gold. It could be a while; the silver spigot is kind of slowish already, and I think it's inverse to cost looking at the notes about other bevins I have in my library."
"Yeah, awkward. I think good quality silver is less likely to be a problem in general?"
"Okay! It'll be less of an investment for less output, but that's probably wise."
She nods along to that.
"Probably would be wise, yeah! And there's still lots of other fun we can have with phenomenal multiversal power even if we don't use it to get rich quick."
Snug!
"Okay, so probably you order a little, I don't know, silver wire or something? And a meal replacement drink? And then we can get back to our date?"
"Sure! Should I also order us some food or takeout or groceries for us to have later too while I'm at it?"
Cuddles more.
"I'd be delighted to get you some then and for the excuse to get myself some as well!"
And then she'll hope back onto her desktop, ignore the urge to be distracted by the fifty million tabs she had open, all the games with updates automatically queued (though she does make note of a thought prompted by that) and focuses on just looking up a source of high silver, high quality meal replacement and protein drinks, ordering them, and then with some back on forth on what Eva would like, orders takeaway food.
Eva doesn't really know the local cuisine but she can nix some dishes based on their vegetable proportions pretty quick. Hopefully that'll be good enough?
That works!
The thing she eventually settles on with input from Eva is a pizza (she valiantly restrains herself from getting the largest possible size) with one half covered in meat for Eva the other pure cheese for her and with a base thick enough for her to tear it right off her slices, garlic bread as a side (which also prompts Eva to ask her to order some garlic too for her Bevin) and several brownies for desert if they want it afterwards, or to save as treats for later if not.
It's a feast. After a year of living on aphrodisiac fruit for lunch every day, food bank donations, and what she can grow or dig a "well" for over the last month, an honest to the triple goddess meat pizza is a damn rare delight for Eva.
She digs in with gusto.
She's so happy to have given her a feast that makes her react like that, and happily digs in as well, watching her friend enjoy herself making it even more delicious as she tears her half of the pizza apart and eats it one layer at a time.
Eva notices Phee's exceedingly odd way of eating pizza, and is taken aback for a moment...
Then visibly decides it's not harming anyone and goes back to her own food.
The garlic bread is disappearing pretty fast too.
Clearly this means she needs to switch to consuming the garlic rations as well instead of just her pizza!
Through a combination of focusing on the garlic and slowly savouring it she somehow manages to perfectly Eva's pace of consuming them until there's just one piece left.
Eva offers it to Phee. "You should have this since you're the one who's paying and all."
"Hey saying something that sincere is unfair, I thought we were going to get to have a cute flirty fight to see who could consume the last piece first but mrrrrrrrr"
"Uwah, I really should have known you would have had an evil plan like that, there's only a three letter difference between 'Eva' and 'Evil' after all!"
"Drat I have been foiled! I must fleeeeeeeee..." she looks around at the room and visibly reconsiders trying to flee through the mess.
So fucking cute.
"You know, your hot nubile would make quite the enticing snack, even more delicious looking than the feast we had been indulging in, and as you tricked me into giving up the garlic bread, it'd only be fair for me to consume you in return~"
"Eep!"
Eva squeaks softly, and bites her lip and tangles her hands together in her lap.
She's going to stand up, slowly walk around towards Eva, leans down towards her and-
Gently hugs her and asks.
"Are you okay sweetie, is this a bit too much for you?"
She blushes hard and wraps her arms around Phee and buries her face in her shoulder.
"Yes but in a good way?"
Awww.
"Good girl, good girl for telling me that, I'll make sure to keep this up, my tasty" She down to one of Eva's ears "little" her lips are right against it "snack!" She bites it ever so gently.
Eva flushes deeply and lets out another little squeak, overwhelmed all too quickly by the bite to her weak point.
"A-ah!"
"Gosh, you're so squeaky, you'd make an adorable little mouse, and it'd suit how clearly you are prey." Another nibble before she sits down behind the Eva and wraps limbs around her.
Oh this is dangerous. Somehow this girl has just intuited her weak point and her favorite position to be in one right after the other.
She melts back against Phee. What else is she supposed to do? Struggle? In Phee's messy apartment where she might damage something if she squirms?
No, she has no choice but to give in to the moral imperative of girlfriend produced ecstasy.
"Good girl, such a good precious snack, knows her proper place, knows where she belongs." Interspersed between every other word is another gentle bite of her Eva's ear.
And her arms that are hugging her, slowly adjust position to rest hands across her breasts. (And speaking of titties, Eva can definitely feel Phee's poking into her back, along with her quite hard cock pressing against her butt.)
Ohhhhh that's a lot. That's a lot a lot. But it's a good a lot.
"YesmistressI'myours..."
Shh, just lets us have this, she clearly wants it and if it ends up being something she doesn't want to keep up or is too far for her, we can talk about that with her later.
Now to grope her precious Eva's tits at the same time as she bites and whispers into an ear.
"Mine."
Eva lets out a breathless little gasp and slumps back against Phee.
She can feel all of it at once, the sensitivity of her breasts and the warmth of Phee's breath and the nips of her teeth that send such sweet electric pleasure through her brain and just turn off everything but the raw sensation —
"Phee yes ohmygod —"
She giggles and hugs tight.
"I think you mean something like 'Phee you're my goddess yes' don't you dear one~?"
Gentle nibble of encouragement.
Eep!
"Yesgoddess!"
She ducks her head a little (but not so far away that she can't be earnibbled.)
Oh no she is so doomed.
She squirms back into Phee and bites her lips and doesn't manage much other than making more cute mewling noises.
She lets out some happy moan at the feeling of Eva grinding back against her, and rewards her with more gropes.
"You're such a precious good girl. Such a good little pet, so small and weak and helpless and cherishable."
Gentle affectionate nibble that slowly increases in pressure.
"Thank you goddess I'm so grateful goddess please touch me more goddess —"
She bites back a moan and takes one of Phee's hands and firmly puts it on the bulge in her skirt.
Aww, her pet is so fucking cute.
"You're welcome, my beautiful needy precious pet~."
She's going to happily start groping and rubbing and teasing her pet's adorable cock, just through the fabric of the skirt for now~.
(And she of course keeps up her biting at the same time~.)
This melts the Eva. It was bad enough with just the ear nibbling but with her cock in the mix it's completely overwhelming. She quickly descends into making cute whimpery noises and quivering in Phee's arms.
She definitely wouldn't have said it (she's not even capable of it after all)-
But in the moment, distracted by how much she's having and how adorably perfect Eva is, she lets slip.
"Gosh you're so perfect and cute and such a helpless little pet and I love you~"
Before slipping a hand under her skirt, under her panties, and directly squeezing and stroking her adorable cock as she bites down harder on her ear.
"Eep!"
Eva flushes even pinker, but she manages a little squeak that sounds like:
"Iloveyoutoogoddess!"
She's also really pink and just gonna keep hugging and biting and stroking to show how much she appreciates and how happy those words made her.
Then Eva will quickly start to approach the edge as washes of electric bliss go through her whole body. Apparently she doesn't have all that much stamina once her weak points start getting involved!
Aww, what a cute slut~.
She considers slowing down and teasing her further, but she's having too much fun and will just keep at the current pace of biting and stroking until she does finally cum~.
It does not take long at all before she stains her skirt with her seed as she pops off in Phee's hand, her whole body quivering as she spurts and moans.
"Fuck, Goddess..." She puts all her adoration and satisfaction into the word, a grin coming to her face.
She does her best to catch as much of the seed as possible, but well some of it still inevitably gets in her skirt.
"Your goddess, my adorable little quickshot worshipper snack~" She says, affection and pride and possessiveness in her voice.
She giggles affectionately and lifts the hand she was stroking her with up towards Eva's mouth.
"You're going to be a good girl for me aren't you and lick clean the mess you've made of your goddess's hand~?"
Awww.
"Good girl, good girl, I'm so proud of you, such a good dutiful girl." She coos out happily in between light moans and wiggles as her hand is licked.
This does not produce a less blushy Eva! But it does produce a relatively cleaner phee hand.
She's going to gently turn around the Eva so they're face to face and hugs and kisses her.
"You're such a precious good girl, so obedient and worshipful. Would you like to worship my cock next or would you like to just cuddle or take a break? You don't need to speak you can just nod if you want my dick and shake your head if you want me to let you go."
Awww...
"Good girl!" She happily smooches back, then pulls her pants down and slowly, gently pushes Eva's head down towards her crotch and very hard cock.
Oooh. Cock.
Eva slips down and gently starts to kiss at the tip of phee's stiff prick, tasting her crown and lapping at its sensitive underside.
That's going to provoke a happy moan and headpats from the Phee.
"Good girl, that feels so good, you're such a good worshipful cocksucker."
Eva focuses in, takes Phee's tip into her mouth, and starts bobbing on it, trying to stimulate Phee as much as possible. It's a relatively gentle sensation but takes up a ton of space, so bright and warm and slick and wet...
Gosh that feels so nice, having Eva's wonderful soft warm wet mouth around the tip of her cock, bobbing up and down, pleasuring her so much.
"Fuck you're so good at this, you're making me feel so good, such a good good girl..." She moans out.
Eva flushes, but keeps focusing on her technique. She's learned a lot from erokami along with the instincts she's downloaded into herself, so perhaps Phee shouldn't be surprised when she goes a bit deeper and keeps bobbing on it.
"Mmmmmmmmh..." she moans around Phee's cock, putting all her adoration into the noise.
She’s not at all surprised and lets out more delighted moans.
”Good girl good girl good girl.”
What if the hand that been petting her begins to gently push her even further down her cock?
Eva eagerly takes Phee's cock into her throat, barely even gagging, and keeps sucking her off, her tongue fluttering along her tip on each withdrawal.
That's going to make her moan even more, each fluttering caress of her tongue and each bob of her head making her feel even more good, especially once it reaches the point of Eva practically kissing the base of her when she bobs down.
"Fuckfuckfuck you're such a good girl, good worshipper making me feel so wonderful and good, fuck I'm already so close..."
Eva keeps up her steady pace as best she can, gagging a bit on Phee's cock despite her best efforts, and brings her hand in to caress and feel up her inner thighs and balls as well as she suckles.
When she gags, Phee freezes and lets go of her head asking if she's alright-
But when her balls and soft sensitive thighs are rubbed and felt up, she's quickly moaning again.
Eva just giggles, pats Phee's head, and gets back to sucking, unruffled by the interruption. It seems she's used to gagging occasionally when she's going this deep.
She's even managing to speed up her head bobs a little, pushing Phee closer and closer to the edge.
And with all of Eva's wonderful efforts she's pushed up against the edge and-
"FuckI'maboutto-"
Cums.
Eva swallows, of course. She's a good girl.
Pulling off of Phee's cock, she snuggles up against her and smiiiiiles, her body still sweaty and her dress still stained with her own seed.
Phee makes happy contented noises and needily snuggles and kisses her lovely precious good girl Eva, far too distracted by how nice and cozy this is to worry about anything else.
Do you know who else is cute? Eva! The cuddliest of floor creatures who is being cuddled on the floor by the grounded birb.
Eventually, though, the floor becomes too hard to crash on, and practicalities start fading back in.
Eva sits up blushily and smiles.
"Uh, can I use your shower? And then I'll have to pop into my bevin for a change of clothes."
When the snuggles end and Eva sits up, she's far too blissed out to make any needy whines of disappointment, and just joins her in sitting.
"Of course that's fine!"
Then Phee will pack away the food they had been eating or/and slowly finish off her half of the pizza while waiting. She at least does some combination of the two.
Eva reappears after about twenty minutes in a new skirt and top, and waves at Phee. "Your turn?"
Uh, pretending like she had totally intended on that from the start, she'll just say.
"Yeah!"
Hurriedly grab some clothes together and disappear into the bathroom to shower.
Eva will have some of the brownies while she waits. These are actually less of a treat than the pizza given that she has infinite chocolate syrup, but they're still tasty.
Do you what else is tasty? Eva.
This Phee is not (yet) a mindreader and is busy showering and so does not actually say or get to think that.
When she comes out she's just wearing her default housewear combo of t-shirt and sweatpants and gently goes to glomp the Eva.
"Hihii! ... Um I probably should have asked before doing it but was all that s-stuff during the sex okay to you?"
Needy hug.
"Am glad you think so and that you had fun..."
"I can get really anxious about messing things up sometimes..."
As you should considering how badly you've fucked things up before and how badly you will definitely fuck things up in the future.
"I love you?"
The words are hesitant, and come out as a question, but Eva's eyes are shining with hope.
Waitfucknosheshouldn'thavesaidthat.
"I'msorry I really shouldn't have said that I really like you and you're cool but I wouldn't wanna trick you I'm really not actually the kind of thing that's capable of l-love and I wouldn't want you getting too attached to something that can't reciprocate..."
Fuck why are there tears in her eyes, those things shouldn't be there...
"Yeah, I, um, I don't know, either, if that's something we should really be saying now or not, especially with how scared you seem of it..."
"We don't have to say it, I don't mean to push, I just - you were the one who said it first, so I thought it was safe..."
Okay she had better just shut up and hug the phee. This would be better for both of them probably.
Needy incoherent hugs.
"It's not unsafe, you should feel free to say whatever you want to me, I'm not scared of it, a-and I'm sorry for saying it it just felt right and nice in the moment, it's just also..."
More incoherent needy noises that doesn't know how to speak.
This is the face of someone who is determined to snuggle a phee until the phee stops needing snuggles.
That's going to be quite a while of snuggling then.
"You're very good and nice and lo-wonderful and way too sweet to me..."
"And w-we should maybe move this to the bed..."
"Um, thank you?" Eva's embarrassed but she's sticking through it for the sake of helping Phee calm down.
Phee's still too much of a mess to comment on the cuteness of that, but she does eventually calm down a bit (for a certain definition of 'calm'.)
She wipes away her tears the gunk in her eyes, and hugs Eva a bit more gently.
"Sorry about that, I'm kind of a mess..."
"I'm not..." Good? Scared? Both?
"You shouldn't apologize, it's okay..." I love you.
It's really unfortunate she can't read Eva's mind right now, because that thought would have made her super incredibly happy, but instead she's just a moderate amount of happy and snuggly.
Snuggle.
"Good girlfriend. Should I maybe say evil girlfriend? Whatever you are you're wonderful."
Thinking wiggles.
"Good girlfriend is good! though i may randomly get brain worms about being called it, and evil girlfriend is great! much niceness in having my definite villainy acknowledged!"
Happy cheek kiss of the Eva.
"Your wonderful girlfriend...."
Lip kisses even!!!
Her is happily going to smooch and cuddle her Eva for a while.
But does she have any objects for this whatsoever?
Even if she could read the text of Eva's tags, she wouldn't actually be that pleady about introducing sex toys to this right now, it's cozy cuddles.
She stirs.
"So, um. What else did you wanna do on this date? I think we got the sex part down." She giggles and runs a hand through her hair.
She giggles as well. “I’m not sure, the plan had just been take you to Earth and do fun things together? Is there any other stuff about Earth you missed?”
"Hmmm... Do you have any good multiplayer video games? I rarely get to play anything on the internet these days. I know, total NEET desire, I just..."
Hugs!
"I'd be just as much a NEET, and I've got a few multiplayer games though I'll probably need to spend some tracking down which ones support split screen gameplay and setting, any preferences for specific game types types I should suggest first or avoid mentioning?."
(Eva might notice that Phee's desktop only has one screen attached, and the room lacks any kind of TV.)
"Nothing horror-themed? Otherwise take your pick, I think. I'm willing to try most things."
"Okay!"
And after several minutes of searching.
"How about Stellaria: Planetfall[1][2]? It's a 2d mine/craft/build where you've crash landed on an alien planet and you need to explore and make use of the environment's resources to fix or create substitutes for the tech you've scavenged from your emergency escape pod before they fail (though on the default difficult the trigger for any given bit of tech failing is once you're able to replace, actual timegating is reserved for the harder difficulties), and you can terraform the planet and tame monsters and build pretty bases and stuff."
[1] Think Terraria crossed with Subnautica with a dozen different detailed planets you could have crash landed on instead of just one, with some physics and automation systems stolen from genres I don't know good examples of or the names for.
[2] It's a cozy relaxed open world game mostly set on planets compared to its predecessor Stellaria, which was mostly set in space, had a bunch of bunch time pressure, more horror elements and was pretty claustrophobic.
"Great!"
She spends several minutes screwing try to get things set up and verifying that they worked, and the game is displaying two main menus screen on the left and right sides, she then skips over to the world generation screen (it only shows up on the right side of the screen, the left stays on the menu screen.)
She then offers the mouse to Eva and asks.
"Do any of these worlds jump out as especially appealing to you? It normally brings you to the character building screen first, but it's easy to make slight adjustments to your character to pair fine with the world, then it is to make slight changes to the world to make it pair with your character."
1. basically pre-historic Earth.
2. The ruins of a planet that was quite similar to modern day Earth, but the aliens who ruled wiped themselves out a long time ago.
3. volcano world.
4. A not quite tidally locked planet, one side is a giant jungle where the leaves of the tallest energy hungry flora shield you from the worst of the sun rays, and the other side is a frigid desert full of fossils from when it was at a life bearing angle.
5. A planet strip mined by aliens who abandoned it after they got whatever they were searching for. Their operation had wiped all life on the planet and left most of the world's generically useful resources locked up in their complex machines, which are ripe for disassembly and looting if you can manage it.
6. a moon which is the fossil of a titanic creature that was once space capable.
7. A planet completely taken over by a super infectious and subsumptive alien fungus, luckily it never learned the trick for swapping the chirality of biochemicals, so it's unable to touch you.
8. Rocky cave world with a super radioactive surface and a rich subterranean ecosystem.
9. a watery moon which lost its orbit and now never sees the light of the sun, the surface layers are completely frozen but protect the lower layers from losing any more heat to the atmosphere, and allowing the oceanic ecosystem to thrive.
10. A gas planet where almost every lifeform either has some kind of flotation method, or is living on something that does, or is living on the one of the rare titan trees that stretch from the surface all the way to the upper atmosphere. You've landed at the perfect height for heat and gravity that's tolerable unprotected, and as long as you stick to the branches of the tree, you don't have to worry about the toxic atmosphere of the rest of the planet either.
"Okay! Next up is character creation!" She brings up up the character creator on the left side and offers the keyboard.
"Pick whatever species you want for it, there's other customization options later on that make every non-experiment species just as viable as any other on each planet."
The options for species are approximately :
1. Six winged harpies. Flight capable, struggles with tool use.
2. Plant girls. Needs regular sunlight for sustenance. Can grow or graft certain flora onto themselves. Breathes Co2, not oxygen.
3. Robots. Can directly integrate tech into themselves, lacks several biological needs but can't benefit from most foods (used by biospecies to lower hunger, thirst and for healing.) Instead depends on receiving electricity for power and processed metals for repairs.
4. Demons. Flight capable. Claws can substitute in for any situation you'd want a really sharp blade for.
5. Foxes. Can nyoom.
6. Tentacle monstergirls. Thirst and hunger accumlate faster, slightly worse tool use but they can use a lot of them simultaneously (keyboard recommended).
7. Buggirls (main traits are from moths, though they have stuff from several other bug species too.) Has to worry about molts. Natural armor. Flight capable.
8. Experiments (artificial hybrids combining traits from any combination of the previous species. Not recommended for beginners.)
Each species also has quite a few suboptions. Want to change which modules your robot has? What flowers your plant starts with? What secondary bugs the buggirls have traits stolen from? Whether the demon's natural armor covers just her hooves or extends farther up potential all the way to her thighs? Etc.
Author's notes: the only species which is obligatory girls are the plants which have one sex (hermaphrodite), the others are basically fully customizable with regards to sex characteristics. Also in universe all the entries are equally detailed and complex as each other and have even more info, I just have a skill and motivational issue. Also the only name which is actually in-universe is "Experiments" the rest have custom names for each species.
Confuzzled birb noises. "It works like regular screen mode except half the resolution is half the size and one side of the monitor shows one screen and the other side shows a different one? And you need to set up which input devices have their inputs sent to which side of the screen? I've got the keyboard connected to the left side and a controller to the right?"
She'll hand the controller over to her then.
"Also um, how would you like to the sitting arrangements? I kind of only have the one chair here..."
"Hmm. That is an issue. I'm honestly not sure what to do about that, I don't expect standing would be super great for either of us..."
She pauses, thinking.
"Oh! I can grab one of my camp chairs really quick from my bevin and maybe that'll work? Height might be a bit off but it's better than standing."
And before she can think about it, she reaches out and pets Eva on the head.
"Clever girl!"
Eva giggles and grins. "Thank you!" She ducks her head a little bashfully and rubs the back of her neck.
"So shall I hop into my bevin now for that? - and is there anything you'd like from it while I'm in there, I want to minimize the number of trips in I make."
"And maybe grab some sex toys and glass in case we'd wanna use them later?"
A few minutes later she pops back out with a camp chair under one arm and a small tote bag presumably full of sex toys in the other.
"There we go," she says with a smile.
She will hand it over and find a place to set her glass toys where they won't be kicked and shatter into a million pieces.
find a place to set her glass toys where they won't be kicked and shatter into a million pieces.
Have you considered the kitchen counter? Or asking if you could put them in one of the Phee's display cases? Or the computer desk? Those are basically the main surfaces not level with the floor.
"Can I maybe put these in one of your display cases for the moment, since they're a little fragile?"
"Um... Can I be the one to put them in? Brain can be kinda particular..."
"Thanks!"
She carefully accepts the bag, opens up one of the display cases, carefully moves things about in a way that only makes sense to her brain, and then places the bag down inside it, then closes the case.
Eva will meanwhile make sure her camp chair is set up correctly and then sit in it.
"You can take my chair if you like? It seems like it would be more comfortable."
Awww. Gentle hug.
"You're welcome!" And then she flomps into the camp chair. (It is predictably less comfortable but that's just the price of giving cozy chair to gf.)
Well assuming Eva doesn’t want to do, or already finished, customising her character’s appearance.
”Next is picking cybernetic modifications! You can change out and pick out more in the late mid game but to start you can get two! Probably the most useful ones for this map to give your fox would be cyber wings or one of the expansions to what air you can safely breathe, but the latter isn’t critical and the former is not like objectively correct to take? It’s just a question of whether you want an easy way to fly under your own power or if you’d have to use the environment and discover and craft your own way of buoyancy and flight.”
"Love the idea of being a flying fox, I'll take the wings. And sure, the gas breathing expansion if you think it's a good idea."
And then a thought crosses her mind.
"You know considering how we're basically magic now, it's probably possible for us to eventually figure out how to turn you into a flying fox for real."
"And one of my powers would definitely be capable of turning you into a winged fox with only a few couple months of experimentation, no need to invest in any new powers, though actually making you flight capable would probably be beyond me."
"One of my powers building on it literally stops that from being a possibility!"
"Admittedly at the cost of not being able to do any destructive research with it, but ehh I'd be too squeaked out to do if I could and like probably having the safeties would still be a net benefit to how quickly I can figure it out."
She's by where all that's coming from, but Eva said it sounds fun to her, so she's sure the mysterious knowledge is fine.
Also hug glomp!
Eva giggles and hugs phee as best she can without putting too much weight on either chair.
She flushes but keeps up the hug for a bit more before letting go.
"You're very good and would make such a cute-"
"but figuring out how to help you be one can wait for later, it's game time!"
And then she'll help Eva with the rest of the setup steps for playing.
And she'll happily narrate and advise the Eva on what she's doing! (and suffer a couple very silly deaths from a combination of putting off tracking down food, or topping up her health, or asking the Eva to lend her some of the items for it, despite being pretty good at reminding Eva of the importance to keep them on her.)
Awww, this is fun. The game type is familiar even if this particular one isn't, and it's a welcome break from Pink Desert.
Eventually after a while of harvesting resources from the fauna and the tree, phee looks at the resources they've accumulated-
"Yeah!!! We'll basically be able to explore every part of the world on the first few layers which isn't inside one of the Trees now!"
"Yeah!"
Phee shows her how to build the airship and then they get exploring, at the layer they're able to explore at, there's variations in the air conditions and weather, different flying critters encountered (including some almost-cloth-like mostly flat and quite wide plants which Phee excitedly declares can be turned into biological solar panels, and a biome that could almost be mistaken for a floating island if you didn't look at the organ like parts on the underside) and eventually they travel enough to find the branch of another Tree, this one looks purplely and almost sickly-
And Phee immediately starts working to turn the ship around.
"That Tree is infected, we really really do not have the resources to explore that biome, that's like on the same tier of danger and equipment required for the point you're meant to explore it as like the biomes that are flirting with the boundary between being in atmosphere or being in space."
Eva takes in the purpley tree for a few minutes then directs her character to turn the ship around as well.
"Does it spawn, like, flying enemies?"
"Yeah! Poisonous spikey flying enemies with a ridiculous ability to mess up and get through most of the equipment and vehicles in the game, luckily unless we get really close to or start firing on the tree, they won't notice us."
"Yeah! And luckily there's only one infected tree in the world unless you actively try to increase the number of infected ones."
"Yeah! There's mods and harder modes that increase the number but I wasn't gonna touch any of them when it's your first time playing."
"Let's go find a less hard tree then."
She grins and sets her character to looking out the side of the airship for another place to go.
Well after a while of flying, she might eventually spot a small spikey point of something barely poking up out of the bottom of the screen.
Going lower, it's revealed that the spike is actually part of the roof of an almost cathedral like building, made of a material that looks almost like a darker version of the Tree's wood and situated on top of a squishy, almost balloon like island.
"Iiiiiiis the island going to deflate if I go down there. You have to tell me if it's going to."
"Right?!" And then she giggles at Eva's question.
"It wouldn't deflate even if you tried to make it! Feel free to hop down and explore it, it's safe as long as you've got an air filter."
"Okay!"
Eva makes sure her character has their air filter all set up, and then - off the ship her winged fox flies!
She smiles and stays in the airship, focusing on watching Eva and her exploration.
The exterior ground is quite bouncy and sends Eva's character bouncing directly up into the air, but leaves her horizontal momentum unaffected.
Once she enters the building however the bounciness completely stops, the floor transitions into a tattered inconsistent carpet laid atop a floor with the same dark barky texture of the walls. Inside there's fractured statues of four armed, antennaed, sometimes ?cloaked? sometimes winged, figures. (Poses include flying, reading book, ?praying?, painting, and harvesting.) There's several broken branching doorways leading to other rooms. One looks like it may have been a communal bedroom, another leads to a decayed library, several shelves even still have a few intact books on them, but the text is in a different language, another room appears to be a dedicated art exhibit, featuring faded paintings, more abstract sculptures and even what looks a record player with several crystalline disks.
Can she play one of the discs? She is so expecting a jumpscare at any moment right now.
They’re playable, yes! they sound varying degrees of garbled and low-res but they still function even after however long it’s been since they were made.
They sound like they’re from a very different genre compared to any of the tracks previously heard while playing, being both the first to have vocals and with the vocals being singing in a conlang (or at least a language Eva doesn’t recognise) and with several clicking noises humans can’t produce integrated in.
Most of the tracks are gentle but even the more faster paced ones are cozy in their own way.
(And absolutely none of them contain jumpscares)
