HiveWear (World Guide, Clothing, Xeno) (Patreon)

In order to capitalize on the Feyli Empire's relatively open market for xenoexperience catalyst goods, the rowa developed HiveWear. An effective means to get individuals to commit their bodies to the hives in places where no hives exist, this "clothing" line is as fascinating as it is unpleasant to behold. Each piece effects the partial transformation of its particular body region, and can be mixed and matched to craft a variety of hybrid rowaform bodies.

Smelling of earthy brine, each HiveWear piecetakes the shape of a partial rowa worker drone, soldier drone, or worm body. These are all hollow, and split in strategic places to allow an individual to don them in the fashion of normal clothing. Inside, each piece is coated in a glistening, pulsating membrane of translucent black flesh. Some particular pieces have other interior features, such as protrusions intended to anchor in body orifices. These serve no actual sexual purpose, and instead act merely as visual inducements for prospective wearers.

Once put on, any particular piece of HiveWear will rapidlyand permanentlytransform its covered body area into a fully rowaform equivalent. Sensations of this process range from mildly pleasant, to surreal, to somewhat uncomfortable, depending on the piece and wearer. Body proportions are left unchanged, and will remain so unless the wearer undergoes full transformation into a lesser rowa, via the liberal imbibing of rowa "bug juice".

Most HiveWear pieces have little effect on the wearer aside from the purely physical changes they impart. Removal of physical sex is the most notable of these changes. All lower body pieces eliminate the genitalia of the wearer, while upper body pieces eliminate mammary glands and other upper body secondary sexual features, depending on the specific species.

Mask-like HiveWear face pieces do have a considerable effect on wearers. Covering the mouth, nose, lower cheeks, and under the chin, these masks do much more than change the wearer's facial appearance. Oral protrusions delve deeply into the wearer's head, transforming the inner structure to resemble that of the rowaforms the masks are crafted to resemble. This involves a drastic change in brain structure and volume. Though it does not render the wearer as mindlessly servile as a typical lesser rowa, it does reduce the wearer's higher intellectual capacities. Personality becomes less individualistic, and the wearer gains a significant attraction to other HiveWear wearers, and rowa in general. The ability to solve problems via logic is reduced, as is technical ability in most respects. Memory is unaffected.

The initial offerings of HiveWear tended to be styled after the sportswear that Feyli have adopted as everyday clothing in modern times. Sport tops, bikini tops,bikini bottoms, bike shorts, full "pants", long gloves, and worker-drone masks made up the initial lineup. To these were soon added worm-body miniskirts, and pencil skirts. To cater to the more masculine crowd, soldier type HiveWear was eventually crafted, with chest pieces, abdominal "belts", shorts, full "pants", boots, gloves, full arm coverings, and pincer-mouth masks.

HiveWear Prices:

Worker Drone:

• Mask: ¢75
• Bikini Top: ¢100
• Sport Top: ¢125
• Bikini Bottom: ¢100
• Bike Shorts: ¢125
• Pants: ¢150
• Boots: ¢100
• Hand Gloves: ¢50
• Elbow Gloves: ¢75
• Shoulder Gloves: ¢100

Worm Body (Upper body and arms use worker drone pieces):

• Miniskirt: ¢100
• Pencil Skirt: ¢150
• Full Lower Worm Body: ¢200

Soldier Drone:

• Mask: ¢100
• Chest: ¢175
• Waist: ¢75
• Shorts: ¢125
• Pants: ¢175
• Boots: ¢100
• Hand Gloves: ¢75
• Elbow Gloves: ¢100
• Shoulder Gloves: ¢150