The Ice Cream Horror: Compound W34
Copyright October 21st, 2023 by Fit529 Dotcom
DISCLAIMER:
1. All persons are aged 18+. All names were changed to their complete opposite, then randomized, then re-changed, then randomized again, eaten, spit up, torn up, re-invented, forgotten, and finally just copied from an 1890's phone book.
2. This is a submission for a Halloween writing contest, so while we can imagine the scary bits, yeah, keep in mind, it's supposed to be scary (and somewhat funny) as well as somewhat sexy (and somewhat funny) and somewhat... yeah, add some adjectives to suit your reading predilections if you please.
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Conversation of agents of mythical government agency we'll call OGGO:
OGGO 1: "Compound W34 is in the snacks, sir. Handled."
OGGO 2: "Everyone will get a single snack?"
OGGO 1: "Confirmed with the professor, yes, sir. He's already under our control."
OGGO 2: "Excellent! At least, I hope they don't die this time."
OGGO 1: "W34 is only 5% as lethal as W33, on test primates, at least. We'll see about humans..."
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Higgins started class like normal and collected the papers they'd written on how barn shape/size showed the farmers' country of origin.
As his Cultural Geography 244 students came up to drop their assignments on his desk, they were permitted (by a tiny sign in the wicker basket on his desk of, 'one per person') a single homemade chocolate-treat snack.
Only two students didn't have papers to hand in, but Higgins wasn't a hardass; he pointed and said, "It's okay, ladies, you can have one, too."
The two coeds both smiled broadly, got up and retrieved the small Halloween-frosted cookies and thanked him.
As Higgins launched into his lecture on how regional differences in wedding ceremonies aligned with types of lawn bowling, something was happening inside the students' stomachs.
The 27 students in class had been hand-picked from the small college's student body. There were specific criteria: They'd previously dated someone else in that class or expressed a desire to, they weren't dating anyone currently, they were verified to be completely healthy, and they were living off-campus.
The professor, Dr. Higgins, didn't know this, of course, he was one of those hand-picked and drugged by the OGGO agency spooks before this whole thing started.
Inside their stomachs, compound W34 quickly entered their bloodstreams and spread widely, especially to their brainstems and gonads. W34 was a combination of several quasi-hypnotic truth and love-induction drugs, and CRISPR drugs that re-wrote the DNA activation sequences, changed some genes' expressions, and triggered a large set of cascading changes in their prefrontal cortexes as well as hindbrains.
One of the last ingredients in W34 was the active ingredient in PIOVA, a psycho-active drug and a substance of strong spiritual significance. Historically, it had also been prized by researchers because it's one of few biological substances that can be detected by high frequency radio waves due to how a several iron atoms in the molecule makes it resonate.
This made it useful for tracking who had been exposed to W34, remotely.
Of the 4 men and 23 women, all had been deemed by OGGO agents as being ideal test subjects.
Their halloween was going to be unlike anyone else's at the entire college - they were being hacked by the government.
No, it wasn't ethical. No, it wasn't altruistic. The government agency involved, the OGGO, needed their test results to know if W34 could be used safely long-term for psyops military ventures.
Kevin was one of the first to notice he was feeling odd, lightheaded, disconnected from sensations. The tranquilizer worked quickly.
W34 also gave him some seriously horny feelings.
He looked over at Kim, who he'd dated the previous year. Kim was a piece of work. Outspoken and assertive, she'd gotten Kevin past his normal shyness and formality and for that he was thankful, but in the end he had decided he didn't want to date someone so religiously and personally conservative.
Kim had definite (but NOT mainstream) religious ideas about how birth control was evil, and Kevin didn't really want to have kids while he was still in college. Kim was clueless about some biology and didn't want to use a condom, either, which would have led down a 'dark path' and 'towards profligate sluttery', among other phrases she used.
Her ideas was, having a kid with Kevin would be Really Great, but she wanted a ring, first. Mostly she wanted a ring. She really wanted it now and urgently and her life was wasting away and Kevin had insisted some kind of birth control was needed and she was seriously conflicted on the topic - her body was desperate but her ideals said something else.
Kim's parents (and some friends at her church) told her that learning about sex would make you go mad-horny so you'd need to have it all the time. She'd signed an abstinence pledge, but pledges were just wishes, she knew she could do what she wanted. Away from her parents? Rockin' times were ahead, she knew, and Kevin's body was the best option in a long time. Sadly, he had been on-off for her - and thus hugely frustrating.
Maria sitting next to Kim, was from Honduras. She was Catholic and was Kim's roommate with a bedroom next to Kim's that shared a kitchen and living room in their apartment-like dorm. Maria had known Kevin while he and Kim were dating, and liked him, a LOT, but she was far too shy to do anything about it. She had a big chest, something she hid because it meant the guys (including some profs) didn't take her seriously.
Maria felt tired, too. The tranquilizer was making everyone mellow, and having a strident effect on her willpower to resist all of her sexy-time thoughts.
Higgins' lesson plan, given to him by the previous semester's professor, was an activity and his students looked tired, so he launched into it early.
"Okay, now, class. We're going to do an activity. Back in the 1820's, the cultural geography of many small towns was set by the predominant religion, or done in contrast to the surrounding areas. We're going to re-enact a marriage ceremony in the same traditions as were in native american rituals of the Harnikee Indians of Jessboro. The goal here is to see how different marriage ceremonies can be from what you think of as 'standard'. Stand up, move the desks to the outside walls..."
[Note, this tribe name was invented by the OGGO, though the ceremony was lifted from an actual tribal custom on another continent]
They stood and cleared the room as asked.
"Now, two circles, let's have, all four men in the inner one. Then, women outside, hands on shoulders side-by-side..." They did this, making an inner and outer ring. "Now, inner, go right, outer, go left... yes, cross-feet opposite now, first in front, then in back... GOT IT! Good job!"