Thread: Lost in space

Would....it offend anyone if I didn't eat part of that....animal? We have similar creatures on my world....though much smaller...and....I have something of a fear of them... Trace glanced at the giant spider-like corpse again, then away quickly as they entered the house, breathing a slight sigh of relief that he no longer had to see that thing outside. If there were things like that moving around on this planet...well....he certainly wasn't intending to wander off anywhere by himself if there was a risk of running into one of those things. Wow.... He glanced around the house slowly once he was lead inside...it was like something from a history book. Nobody lived like this on Earth anymore....virtually the entire population lived in the cities or space stations in orbit of the Earth and its moon. Then again they didn't have trees even remotely as big as this. Back on my world we have nothing like this....even the largest trees aren't much wider than a person.....and certainly nowhere near as tall.... He slowly sat down when invited to do so, blinking at the odd variety of food before him. Much of it had analogies at least with food from Earth, though it was in appearance only. As soon as Trace started to eat it was quite clear this food was unlike anything on Earth, in both taste and the experience eating it. Still, many of the new tastes were certainly pleasing...almost everything was sweet in some way too....this planet would be a dentists nightmare. Still, Trace ate plenty, he was extremely hungry after all thanks to being unconscious for so long...quite possibly days given how far he had apparently travelled. By the time he was done he smiled, relaxing back a little, then blinking as Alma mentioned a feast. Uhh...a fest as well...? I don't know if I'll be that hungry again that quickly... He raised an eyebrow as she mentioned getting drunk...that was something that Trace had...well...never done. I've never really been huge on alcohol or getting drunk....it would only get in the way of research by making my head unclear. If there was time to attend parties and get drunk, then that was time better spent carrying out research He shook his head as she mentioned their breeding habits again, then brought over a book, Trace assuming it would be some kind of scientific textbook. Hm? Oh...well yes I have to admit I was rather curious He glanced down as the book was opened. He couldn't understand the bits of text dotted around, but the pictures were more than clear. I....oh my....Hermaphrodites...? I don't think there are any real ones on Earth... He blinked as he examined the book a little more closely, then started to notice the egg sacs....and other illustrations detailing the actual process of fertilization. Uhhh.....this is rather...graphic...for a textbook isn't it? Trace's cheeks had flushed a little, whilst he was no stranger to the concept of sex and found no embarrassment in it, he was only used to the concept of human sex...and even then in rather more clinical scientific textbooks. This however was more like pornography than a textbook. Um.... He blushed again as the book went on to detail what looked like some kind of....inflation contest was the only way to describe it. I....your people....this is....very...very different to my world.... He rubbed his head. On my world we have two genders....males have a penis and women have the womb.....the man ejaculates into the woman and impregnates an ovum....and then 9 months later gives birth to a live baby..... He looked away from the textbook, but unfortunately whoever he looked up at, be it Alma or one of her parents, all he could now imagine was one of them participating in this odd, from his perspective, version of mating. S-so um....Alma....you've....participated in this....contest? Or....have a uh.....wife or mate...? It was the only question that came to his head, though Trace honestly wasn't quite sure why.