Penance wakes up to a sharp pain in lower abdomen. The mask over her face is gone, but her vision is still hazy, and not just because the chamber is barely lit. Eeee do fine in barely lit places, after all. In the not-quite-lucid moment where sleep hasn't completely let go of her brain, she wonders if someone has just stabbed her in the gut. There are also things crawling all over her.
Penance chirps oit, trying to sound out the room since her vision is still a bit wonky. She also tries to move her limbs and figure out what is crawling all over her! Not to mention why she feels like she's been stabbed. If she's not free, well, she'll call out, "Can someone release me? Something is wrong!"
The horribs begin chewing her free, but a lot of little voices declare, "She wakes!" from all over her body.
"Oh lord, it's all of you! Just .... get off!" she complains at the serpents, the crazy, crazy, serpents. "Did one of you bite me a bit ago?!" something woke me up, she complains.
There are more stabbing pains, but they feel more internal now. The creepers are acting up again. The Garters continue climb all over her though. Maybe they're climbing off, but there a lot of them. And then an angel appears. A glowing white figure in Penance's otherwise hazy vision. Tall, possibly muscular.. but without wings.
"Who's there?!" Penance squeaks out! She's still quite vulnerable given she's partially free. "Something's wrong in my tummy, it's hurting. I might need to go to the doctor," she tells this figure, whomever it is.
"Don't worry," the glowing figure says. The voice breaks the illusion a bit though, since the it sounds like Crabs.
"You look weird," Penance says. "Why shouldn't I worry? Something doesn't," she says then grunts as another set of stabbing pains hits her. "... feel right," she finishes and breathes out. "And I still can't see; everything looks so messed up."
"You are in Gorphat's.. uh.. hands?" Crabs says. Penance's arms are finally freed at the same moment. "What are you seeing?" Angel-Crabs asks.
"You look all weird, glowing, and buff," Penance says, "So, uh, not at all like you actually look." She winces a bit, adding, "Sorry, but, yeah. You don't look like you."
The figure starts.. flexing suggestively. "Weird.. mus' be for a reason. So, why you wan' ta see the doctor?" Crabs asks.
"Tummy is hurting," Penance claims, moving her hands down to feel over her belly, to see if she can feel any wounds on the outside! She also slips a hand lower to check her 'wound' and if there is anything coming out, or blocking.
Her fingers itch, especially around the claws. And wherever she touches her skin, that part starts to itch. But her pads aren't oozing anymore. Her belly feels harder than usual, with the odd starfish feeling more 'raised' as well. There's blood on her thighs, but she doesn't feel plugged at the moment. Things tingle though.
Once her ankles are free, Penance feels dizzy.
Penance takes a step, then falls to her kneels and gasps. "I'm bleeding," she tells Crabs. "I can't see it, but i can smell it. Where am I bleeding from? How much?" she asks as she tries to stand. That fails pretty quickly and she's back on her knees, and this time hands too.
Crabs scoops her up, and holds her against his improbably broad chest. "It's probably that time for your creepers," he suggests. "If it hurts it means they're biting you because they're hungry."
"So, they're trying to make me want you?" Penance asks. "Well, that should be easy to deal with, then. I mean, it's not like I feel anything from doing that anymore," she points out. "Not since I sacrificed."
"Do you want me to take ya to one of the Yodhrinala?" Crabs asks. He already seems to be carrying her out of the chamber, as Garters keep shedding off of her.
"No, you think they need to be fed, right? You know how to do that," Penance points out. "Just .. your room and bend me over," she requests, sighing.
"Just me?" Crabs asks. He pauses out in the corridor, unsure which way to go.
"For now!" Penance squeaks. "Do you think it would even require more?"
"I will do my best!" And with that, Crabs turns down the corridor. Penance doesn't know if Crabs actually has a room of his own. He's not technically one of the hopeful acolytes, but more like temple staff, like Otto. Or he might be the librarian. She can hear them pass the dormitories though, which means he probably has a cell like Otto does.
"Just ... if I pass out, take me to the Yodhrinala outside. I'm feeling rather woozy," Penance admits.
"You might be low on blood," Crabs says, oddly cheerfully. The turn into a stone room from the sound of it, and the Skreek lays Penance gently down onto a straw bed. "Let's see.." the rat notes, and Penance feels him massaging her breasts, which only crackle a little bit from the worm scars. He even squeezes her distended, swollen teats. It doesn't feel exactly arousing.
Especially since they're still in stretches, it makes her whimper and squirm in pain! "Careful," she complains, those are very tender. She can't even see them right now but egad they felt huge when he was squeezing them! Shaking, she reaches up a hand to even feel one for herself to see if it's as big as it felt.
So, the Skreek lets them go.. and tries to nuzzle at Penance's neck. Is he actually trying to be romantic? Or is it just taking more effort for him to get into the mood? The creepers aren't that patient, and there are more bites of pain.
Penance whimpers and starts caressing him back, trying to eel, fondle, and grope him in return to make sure he's aroused soon! She won't get much pleasure out of it after all, but she does still need it soon! She's even grabbing between his legs!
"Yowp! Alright.. uh.. hold on!" the Skreek warns, and then takes the plunge. Since Penance is always 'open' now at first it doesn't register, but then something weird happens: it feels good! But then if the creepers were making her see Crabs as a hunky angel, the one that's replaced the bits that usually respond to this sort of thing might be encouraging her as well.
Penance gaps out! She wasn't expecting that. So ... her legs wrap around him and pulls him hard and tight. "Do me," she growls at him. she even pulls with her legs to get his hips bucking!
"Whoa dere," Crabs says. "Gotta go.. easy.. cuz of how sticky it is," he claims, but does speed up. At least he gets to a pace that shakes things up more, and it feels much better than it sounds.
"Sticky?" Penance asks. She's never even thought about being sticky down there. Does she have an infection? Heh, there's a stupid question of the year; she probably has several. Right now, though, she doesn't care. That much moer aggressive and rough side is making itself known as her legs pull and strain. "Do me, rat!" she growls out. Egad.
"Yer.." is all the Skreek can say as he gets squeezes between Eeee legs. So he tries harder to keep Penance satisfied and not clawing at him. He's normally a lot quicker at this. But he doesn't last too much longer. It feels almost explosive to Penance.. but there isn't a lot. Or at least not to the creepers. So they complain a bit. Has Crabs been seeing another Yodh?
"Have you been with someone else?!" Penance sort of bark-growls at him! Her lips are even drawn and snarling! "You didn't release as much as you used to! You've been cheating on me!"
"Cheating?" Crabs squeaks. "What.. what do you mean? Were we.. uh.. something?" He seems to freeze in place.
"If you don't know you just proved me right!" Penance barks at him and growls. "Take me to the others, then! Now!"
He looks less angelic now. "It not like you think," he claims. "Blarf got me, honest!"
"Hah! A likely story!" PEnance insists and crosses her arms over her chest. Bad move, that hurts too.
"Ye.. want to go or want me to bring some others..?" The Skreek asks, wringing his hands a bit.
"Just ... take me to some of the others, Crabs," Penance finally says and sighs.
His chest doesn't seem so broad this time when he picks Penance up. He doesn't have any trouble carrying her, at least until another figure is encountered in the corridor. Everything is still hazy, but if Crabs appeared as an angel, this one is more like a demigod. "Sumthin' wrong?" he asks. Was Otto's voice always that deep? Penance can feel it in her gut.
"Otto!" Penance barks out and makes grabby hands at him. "Bend me over and do me right here!" she demands!
"Uh.. you the boss," Otto says, and takes Penance from Crabs. Then he sort of spins her about, then holds her with one arm while he deals with his pants, then finally sort of holds her out, face down. And then Penny sees stars for a moment when he fills her. It should hurt. A lot. She doesn't have a lot of flex due to the leather that's basically fused to her skin down there.
Penance bark-cries on when she's entered, the stretching rather more like pure agony from her modified bits. She claws at the floor, gasping, as her vision clouds even more than it has been for a few seconds. Several choked breaths and she tries to brace herself using the rough floor for grip.
Her toes barely touch the ground, as Otto isn't squatting or anything. "Tight," he comments. Then with a firm grip on her hips, he starts thrusting. Despite the outer pain, the creepers seem to approve and make it feel really good soon enough.
So Penance finds herself in this bizarre state of both hurting and feeling good! It's messing with her mind, but then she's hardly sane anymore to begin with, not after everything she's been through. Soon enough, she's moaning like an Inala-whore.
The awkward position means that she can't really do much to change things, other than actually telling Otto. The big rat seems content to just keep doing what he's doing at his current pace. "So, wha's dis about?" he asks. Crabs replies with, "It's time for more baby creepy-crawlers, and they messing wi' her head I think."
"Less talk, more hump!" Penance barks out. She even wing-whacks Otto with her wings!
Otto is always up for less talk. Once he realizes the goal he works a little faster. "Uh.. what is dat?" he asks out of the blue.
"Dunno, the thingies are.. it's like a scent I think.. uh.." Crabs rambles.
"What is what?"" Penance says in frustration. Some of her original personality is apparently still there; the more unpleasant aspects it seems, and they're a bit more awake now. Hopefully not for long.
"You just seem.. more.. attractive," Crabs claims.
"Are you saying I wasn't attractive?!" Penance growls out and glares back! Good thing she can't really see, so she's probably glaring at a wall!
Otto picks up the pace to try and distract her, while Crabs defensively says, "I said more attractive! More! That means there was already attraction to.. embiggen further!"
"That's an excuse!" Penance barks and tries to point at him! That's a mistake because she ends up almost hitting her face on the floor! So she scrabble's again for balance. Whew! Otto does have powerful hips, good grief!
"I think they makin' her cranky too," Crabs says, backing further out of range. "Might be messy if others get close.."
"Come a little closer and find out!" Penance barks! She even extends one leg and makes grabbies at Crabs!
"I got get backup!" the Skreek yelps as he hops backwards, then runs up the corridor.
"He get backup," Otto relays to Penance. "You alright? No weird head stuff?"
"I can't see well, I've got a headache, and my gut hurts!" Penance complains. "I also think I've lost a lot of blood. I might be dying."
"Nah, you still pretty spry," Otto claims, and starts pumping with more enthusiasm. "Mebbe you just need to eat somethin'"
"That's what you're supposed to be doing! Get to it!" Penance growls. She lifts her feet and grabs his butt!
That spurs the Skreek on, certainly. It isn't clear if he's holding back until reinforcements arrive, but he can't hold out for that long. Penance definitely feels it, and it's an appropriate offering this time.
"Hah! See, this is the right about, you cheating Crabs!" Penance barks out and thrusts a leg out in his general direction again! Or she thinks is the direction, she can't see or even really know who is there.
"What's the rush, rat?" an Eeee voice calls from up the corridor. Reinforcements?
"Get yer fuzzy butts in here and do me!" Penance yells. "Now, or else!" Wow, bitchy, much?
There isn't a lot of argument after that command, although the floor is not the best place. The first Eeee gets Penance to at least brace against the wall. "Yer on fire, Yodh Penny," he whispers into the back of her head.
"I'm not well!" Penance points out! She braces herself against that wall and huffs out. "But you're helping with that right now. All of you. Or else."
This prompts the Eeee (apparently Eeee men show as golden angels compared to the white Skreek angels) to put his hand on Penance's head to check her temperature as he pumps away with his hips. "Well.. ain't that relative here?" he notes. Figure her ears haven't been messed with yet, he puts more effort into stroking those instead of any other part of Penance.
Penance changes her angle and pushes back with his pumps. Those ears of hers flick all about. At least she can sorta hear normally again, for the most part!
That last extra effort from Penance does in the Eeee, who barely has time to catch his breath before he's replaced. It's smooth enough that Penance barely notices the change, since she's still in creeper-induced euphoria for the moment.
"More, more, more!" Penance cackles, "Or I'm going to find the whips!" Yeah, she's out of her bloody mind.
"There are whips?" one of the Eeee asks the others, but the one with Penance at the moment isn't talkative. He's got his hand on her hips and is doing his best to drive her into the wall in relative, grunting silence. The weird way her vision is working, Penance can't tell if the Eeee are being 'driven' by their personal horribs or not.
Penance has braced her forearms on the wall and is grunting away as the Eeee behind her pounds away! Her wings are sort of flicking some, and at least she has shut up finally!
It takes some time to work through the queue. And despite her upright position there isn't much leakage thanks to the voracious creepers. But once they've had their fill, the pleasant sensations begin to fade as well.
"Okay, okay, they're about done. You can stop now," Penance says as she sort of flaps an arm behind herself to encourage them to quit poking her!
The Eeee attending to her is forced to quit early, and is grumbly about it.. but at least nothing bit him while he was in there.
"Wha' happens now?" Otto asks.
"Little baby.. uh.. critters soon," Crabs notes. "Important critters though."
Penance turns around, grabs the Eeee that didn't get to finish, and drops to her knees. And ... aggressively starts finishing him off orally instead!
"Ahh!" the man yelps in alarm at first, but then makes happier sounds. He isn't glowing like an angel, and seems mostly visible to Penance now (though there is still some haziness to everything). It doesn't take very long to finish him, and Penance has at least eaten some protein now.
Penance does something of eloquence and sophistication. She belches after swallowing. Then she's back up to her feet. "Better," she says, then blinks. "What was I doing?"
The Eeee men sort of shuffle about, not that the pheromones have been turned off. "Eh, exercise," Crabs claims.
Penance eyes Crabs. "I don't believe you. I was saying something about cheating, I think," she says.
"It really was Blarf!" the Skreek cries. "I swear!"
"Prove it. Why would Blarf even do that?" She demands.
"Why it do anything it does?" Crabs asks nervously. "It just grabbed me and.. I thought it was gonna eat me!"
"It likes Skreeks," one of the other men pipes up.
"It doesn't eat anyone, it just sucks on them for a while," Penance points out. "Unless the high priestess is here, then it tends to just suck on her."
"Oh.. well.. I dint know dat!" Crabs claims. "I thought it was eating me. But after.. sucking.. a bit.. it spit me out."
"And I bet you LIKED it," Penance accuses. "That's all men care about."
"I was terrified!" Crabs claims.
Penance peers. "Prove it," she insists.
"Eh? That I was terrified or dat Barf grab me?" Crabs asks.
"Both," Penance insists and grabs at his nose. "Otherwise, it just proves you like humpin' plants."
"Yeep!" the Skreek yelps at the grab. "Awight! Leggo!"
Penance lets go, and oofs. "Or maybe not right now. Feeling dizzy again," she admits.
"Hungry?" Otto asks. "Got some cheese. Really runny."
"A rat with cheese, there's a shock," Penance mutters. "I'll take anything."
"Ugh, no cheese," one of the Eeee says. "Spicy jelly-bugs! We got some!"
"Better!" Penance declares.
So, the whole group starts trouping back to the dorms. Where there are indeed still some spicy jelly-bugs left from a donation. "What ya'll been doin'?" one of the female acolytes asks, since she's apparently the Keeper of the Grub(s).
"Humping me," Penance announces and makes grabby hands at the jar.
"That hardly seems challenging," the woman claims, but does let Penance have the jar.
Penance peers at the woman. "Are you insulting me?" she asks.
"Of course not," the woman claims. Then glares at the men. "They just getting lazy."
"Right, so, then you're volunteering to have your genitals cut open and flayed. I'll make sure the doctor knows," Penance retorts. Yep, still bitchy.
The woman doesn't say anything after that! "She just a bit hungry," Crabs tries to explain.
"When are you free of your duties, tomorrow?" Penance asks the woman, and pops one of the bugs into her mouth, and munches.
"Midnight," the woman answers.
"We'll have you in surgery at 1, then," Penance says and nods.
The woman just starts to sink down to the floor unconscious.
Penance rolls her eyes. She picks up the lady and licks her right on the nose.
"Ah!" she cries out and sneezes, since Penance's tongue is still covered in the spicy sauce the jelly-bugs were in.
"You need to develop some endurance if the thought of a little cutting scares you," Penance claims.
"A little?" the woman squeaks.
"Of course. A lot would be peeling you," Penance points out and lets her sit on a chair. "Relax. I am not going to do anything to you."
"Because you have the doctor for that?" the woman asks, a bit dazed.
"No, good grief, relax," Penance says and rolls her eyes.
"Are we supposed to relax though?" the woman asks.
"Yes," Penance points out.
"I'll do my best to relax then, Yodh Penance," the woman says, sitting up straighter.
"Right," Penance mutters. "Well, I'll leave you all to your duties. I should tend to mine. May Gorphat bless you all."
"And to you as well," the woman says, bowing. She's mostly visible now to Penance's vision.
Penance returns the jar, and heads out of the room. She has no idea what she needs to be doing, but worst case she can go back and rest. She still feels like crap.
Things are starting to plug up down below, from the feel of it.
Penance pauses to ever so delicately (hardly) check herself down below.
There isn't anything immediately apparent beyond the general mess. But it feels that her womb is getting sealed off, either by inflammation or mucous (or possibly both).