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Hive Week

Hive Week is a week long event during which local rowa hives in participating communities are permitted to publicly engage in certain recruitment activities normally restricted or prohibited altogether. The most famous of these activities are the public hunts, which take place in various designated locations such as public parks or forests. The rowa are also given more liberties when invited into private homes and establishments. Xenoexperience law regarding who they can claim in a hunt applies regardless of any Hive Week exceptions.

Most rowa sent out to obtain new recruits during Hive Week are worker-drones, formerly female recruits turned into petite, sexless, and rather mindless seeming humanoid-insectiods. At times, they might be escorted by formerly male, quadrapedal soldiers. All hunting groups have bio-robotic 'bug juice' dispensing units of one sort or another. These can vary in form quite considerably, though the two most common are hovering spheres, and wiggling grubs. All dispense their transformative 'bug juice' via long, retractable, prehensile tentacles.

When it comes to the public hunting of new hive recruits, the most important thing to remember is that nudity equals permanent consent. Nudity in this case being defined as the baring of one's primary sexual features. Doing so within a designated hunting ground, in the presence of any type of bug-juice dispenser, is a permanent declaration of consent to whatever the rowa might choose to do with one's body. This almost always means the immediate application of bug-juice to the appropriate orifice(s) and rapid transformation into one of the various lesser rowaform species.

Inviting rowa into one's home is also fraught with peril during Hive Week. Any appropriate resident becomes fair game in this case, nude or otherwise. While the rowa will never become aggressive, they will be quite physical in their attempts to denude and transform their quarry, and only the most definite of refusals will dissuade them.

Every Hive Week that takes place in a major city typically ends with an open-invitation transformation orgy in the late hours of the final evening. This typically takes place in a sporting arena of one sort or another, and is generally geared more toward snaring curious tourists rather than locals. Anyone who enters the floor is considered to have consented to immediate transformation, to the delight of the rowa, and the amusement (and temptation) of the curious audience.

There are typically two hive weeks per year, occurring during the first weeks of the most temperate months of spring and fall, depending on the specific locality. In Mashiva, the home of the original Hive Week, these are the first weeks of Rainsong and Second Harvest. The culminating orgies take place in the Chi'var Arena, to the East of the spaceport, where there is easy access to the Mashirowa Hive below.