Paid In Experience follows the story of a girl who seeks work on the long voyages between sectors. Of course, nothing ever goes quite as planned...

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Story contains xwg, humiliation, gas, sci-fi elements

Written by rabidbadger

As always, this story will make its way to FA eventually, paying 2.50 just gives you access to it *now*

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Luna winced a bit at her reflection in the silver doors in front of her, there was something unpleasant about the whole ‘medical procedure’ side of this trip. It always meant being exposed in front of people, though logically she knew it wasn’t a thing about being judged – but logic didn’t make her feel any better about the large part of her right ear and the back half of her tail being gone. Logic explained why she tried to use blue hair with purple highlights and her mismatched red and blue eyes to call attention away from it, and it explained the spiked collar that was more about trying to play to it as a strength if they were noticed, but the anxiety? That was all her.

The doors hissed quietly as they opened, revealing what looked for all the world like a hot tub in the center of an otherwise bleak and slightly dirty cargo hold. Small stairs up to a sizable basin which was, from what Luna could tell, filled with some kind of pinkish goo rather than water. Nobody else seemed to be present, not even to give instructions.

“Uh, so do I climb in, or-”

Yes, please immerse yourself and remain still.
The gene therapy editing gel will need at least an hour to work.

The voice had crackled in suddenly over a PA system and managed to make Luna jump near out of her skin, but it had at least answered her question. On the other hand, it meant she was being watched. Which was enough to cause the cat to curl her arms around her chest and wish her tail was long enough to do that with her waist. It made the gel a clear thought as well, that was clearly the best way to get out of being stared at sooner rather than later.

Rushing up to the steps, Luna winced a little as she stepped in. The stuff felt bizarre, soupy but not quite as thick as she expected, warm and yet causing a distinctly minty tingling on her skin the instant her foot went inside. Luna wondered, idly, why it had to be pink, but at least it would do the job of mostly obscuring her, and this was for a good cause.

When a second hiss came from across the room, she nearly startled enough to fall into the stuff but managed to salvage it as just sliding quickly in up to her neck to stay concealed.

The other door was, briefly, silhouetted by an enormous figure. Luna was a slender thing, part of why she’d agreed to do this to begin with, but the woman who was standing in that open doorway was hefty to put it lightly. A doughy, apple-shaped creature – black fur and a tell-tale white stripe but sporting small antlers that muddied the water a bit on what she was, though any way you cut it she was huge. Luna was quite sure the woman’s tail was as big as she was.

It took a few moments for the larger woman to step in awkwardly, and for Luna to realize she’d been staring and offer a small wave.

“Err, hi there. Seems I’m not the only one who signed up for this.”

A return to the wave came from the woman before she began to lumber over. Luna couldn’t help but keep staring as the thing – she looked mostly skunk – waddled up and paused at the stairs to climb in.

“Heh, nope. Not gonna argue with cheap travel, you know? And the side-effects didn’t sound that bad.”

It took the other woman a bit of doing to manage the steps, particularly with no railing. One shuffling foot at a time, each one taking visible effort, each one setting the skunk-thing’s body quaking and wobbling about. The last one even worked loose a bubbling fwrpphhmt that left her blushing visibly as she started to tip-toe into the gel. Luna was just glad it had happened before her partner joined her in the pool.

“I think they said they were supposed to be like… ninety percent gone by the time we got there anyway, right? Luna, by the way.”

There was a visible shiver that ran through that large, soft body as it entered the gel, but Luna knew why. The stuff felt weird, her body was still tingling ferociously, and she doubted that was going to stop given the circumstances.

“Naomi, and yeah I think so. Though, I mean, I’m not sure how much I’ll notice.”

Luna didn’t quite catch herself in time to avoid snorting in amusement at that, but luckily it didn’t seem to do much but add to Naomi’s already intense blush.

“I uh, sorry. Yeah. I mean, a free ride out of this useless crap system is worth a lot to me. I can deal with some pudge and a gas problem for a month or two over that.”

Naomi had begun easing herself onto the bench down in the gel, starting to sluggishly ease her hands around her body, when the PA system startled both of them this time around.

Do try to stay still please.

There will be food provided after the procedure.

After you have eaten, you will be shown to your harvesting and stasis chambers.