Chameleon
Thunk! Thunk! Thunk! Thunk! Thunk! Thunk! Thunk! Thunk!
"Ouch." "OUCH!" "Damn." "DAMN!" "Shit!" "SHIT!" "FUCK!" "FUCKING SHIT! That hurts!"
Thunk! Thunk! Thunk! Splat!
"FUCK!" "FUCK!" "FUCK!" "OOOO! That is disgusting!"
A friend back at the Alien Studies Society (and on Hentai, my home world, the name does not have the acronym of ASS, but unfortunately our vowels are several decibels above human hearing range)
Anyway this friend tells me that the most entertaining part of any anthropologists report is their trips through the worm hole to get to their assigned planet. A physics/engineering type tried to give me a detailed string theory explanation of what happens. I lost him after the first sentence. I gather it is something like sliding down a knotted rope, really really fast and you end up with the bruises and rope burn to prove it. No matter how many times I travel between planets, I never get used to it. You go bumping along swearing in your head. Supposedly you are outside the dimension of time, but we still perceive the trip as taking time. My experience recorder – standard equipment for an ASS anthropologist – records all of my perceptions on the trip. Every thunk and bruise on the trip; every thought is recorded. My friend back on Hentai loves it. Not a surprise as he also loves to watch 3 Stooges films that we have obtained from monitoring your TV transmissions. He – strictly speaking I should say "it" as there are no genders on Hentai as you understand them - also tells me he has learned some colorful swearing from other planets, including his current favorite "snortifx agta gribflux!" which roughly means "your mother has oral sex with Kabash dung spiders" You don't want to know more, believe me.
Whenever I take these trips I make sure I only swear in the language of the culture I am going to study, in this case, humans of North America and Europe. This particular trip had been particularly unpleasant. Not only had I endured the cosmic rope burn, I landed in a manure pile several meters away from my intended target, a 1967 Ford Mustang ASS had arranged to park on a quiet back road in Vermont.
I suppose you are wondering what a good sentient being from Hentai is doing on a backwater planet like Earth. I am an anthropologist who studies the reproductive and sexual practices of sentient species with two or more genders. Yes there are species with more then two genders, in fact, the ZipFrIX of Flatwous IV have fifteen genders if you count the prickly VibriX – but prickly VibriX only participate in ZipFrIX practices that are so kinky they would are banned in the Galactic equivalents of Las Vegas and Amsterdam. I actually made over 10 galactic pesos imitating a prickly VibriX for an orgy. That would be the rough equivalent of $10,000,000 for 20 minutes of sex. I was told I went too cheap.
Hentai are particularly good as anthropologists for the Galactic Anthropology Sociology group of ASS (yes I know GAS and ASS – earth humor is so primitive). Anyway we are good because we are shape shifters. We can change our shapes to look like any gender of any species we have encountered so far. Also, Hentai are telepathic, so we know what other species are thinking. We can read their thoughts and record them on the experience recorder, so we know what a true member of the species feels and thinks. About 50 years after we begin to receive the first electronic emissions from a planet ASS is required by the Galactic League to commence studies of the planet's sentient species to determine if we should invite them to participate in the league. I got humans, which is a pity as Dolphins seem so much more fun.
My assignment for today was to imitate a 21 year old male college student attending a party at a local – I think you call them Ivy League – University across the river in a place called New Hampshire. I understand, however, that earth females are very sensitive to smells, unlike earth males. That trait, at least made them easy for the Hentai to understand. We have the equivalent of our orgasm through olfactory stimulation. On my first trip to Earth I collapsed into my natural gelatin state while in a bakery in Paris, France. The smell of all of those pastries and chocolate --- mmmm chocolate --- was overwhelming. I heard later that the owner and four of his staff were prescribed anti-psychotic medicines after they saw me writhing with pleasure on the floor. I now take drugs to suppress my sense of smell. If I did not have them, the scent of chocolate would have me crying out, as I am the Hentai equivalent of a moaner in bed.
I extracted myself from the manure pile, which required 15 minutes of burrowing through the muck to get all my equipment – my friend at ASS will love that recording. Thankfully I could clean off with the equipment that had been stored in the Mustang. Once clean, I drove down through White River Junction, across the Connecticut River and onto the campus of the esteemed Ivy League institution. I searched and found "Fraternity Row" and the "Delta" house.
I parked and reached out to examine the minds I found there. I was not surprised to find that they were all in various degrees of intoxication. This lead both genders to loosen any inhibitions they had about copulating. The problem was that the males and females seemed to be speaking different languages to convey their desires. The males seemed to be more intoxicated and they apparently thought that shouting "I NEED TO GET LAID!" was a good method for attracting a mate. The women, on the other hand, wanted to talk about feelings as a way of becoming aroused. I guess that would be the equivalent of smelling vanilla before the orgasmic wonderfulness of chocolate. I picked out several women and got a good idea of their ideal physical type – athletic with strong arms, a very tight butt, broad shoulders and a bit of a beard and longer hair. I adjusted my looks and walked into the party.
Several women immediately began looking in my direction. I avoided taking a drink. When we first began out studies a colleague assigned to study Earth's educational system had attended a college party where he consumed several glasses of something called "blow your lunch punch" and about 100 milliliters of something called "tequila." Alcohol is a solvent and not very good for a being who is naturally gelatinous, so he made quite a mess when he melted. The party guests were convinced that the punch had been spiked with LSD by the cleaning crew that arrived.
I focused my attention on a small group of women socializing in one corner of the room. By earth standards the women were all lovely. I introduced myself to Maria, a dark haired beauty, Karen, who had natural red hair, and Elinor, a tall blonde. I noted their exact dimensions for my records. Maria was 1.62 meters tall – let me use local measurements – 5 foot 4 inches, with 32 DD, 22, 32 measurements. Karen was 5 foot 6 inches with 34 B, 22 30 measurements and Elinor was 5 foot 9 inches with 36 C, 24, 34 measurements.
They drank beer and we chatted about feelings for some time. I must confess I was glad that I had taken my olfactory suppressors. Some of the men had begun to vomit from their drinking. I could sense the disgust the women felt. Taking my cue, I suggested we get some fresh air.
We walked towards their dorm, continuing to talk about feelings. This is strange for a telepathic species as we usually know how someone feels immediately. Also, some of these feelings were so obvious. Of course Karen was mad that she had only gotten a C on a paper. Why continue to talk about the obvious? I was not there to judge, however, but to participate and record, so we continued until I noticed something odd... my olfactory suppressor was wearing off.
I noticed it when Elinor moved close to me and put her arm through mine... the smell of lavender in her hair. I like lavender. Next was Maria who smelled of tropical fruits and Karen who smelled of mountain meadows. I like those scents too. For a Hentai, this was the equivalent of a strip club. Part of me realized I should get out, get to my car and get a new dose of suppressant, but I was being seduced by the scents and I thought I could handle it.