Rypchynes
Date: 8/1/2024,
Categories:
Fantasy & Sci-Fi,
Author: Bisamrattan
I started taking these notes because Dr. Brown asked the four of us to write everything down.
"We're making history here," he said. "For the first time, we are not just enabling or improving existing systems, but creating an entirely new organ. Your journals are the historical documents!"
"Therefore," he added, "we do not know who will read them, when, or what their knowledge of the context might be. So explain even the most mundane details, as if you were addressing children or people from the past decades."
So we all write these diaries, even those who, like me, have never written diaries and do not know how to write them well.
***
As I am going to write for possibly ignorant people, then I think I should tell a little bit about myself and the topic.
I am Kiara, a twenty-five-year-old woman. Geneering became a routine thing long before I was born.
Um... should I explain that too? Geneering is just short for "genetic engineering." In other words, most people alive today have a lot of useful body enhancements. We almost never get sick, we heal very quickly, we do not get overweight, we keep our sight, hearing, teeth, and hair until old age, and so on.
Also, like most people, I have enhanced feelings of pleasure, from sex and taste to sight, hearing, etc. Have you ever felt ecstatic pleasure from good music or painting? I feel it quite often.
So when they called for volunteers to test a completely new and different source of pleasure, a new body ...
... organ with that sole purpose, I immediately signed up and by sheer luck was selected. You know, they had about a hundred thousand volunteers applied in ten minutes, and they only needed four for the first run.
***
They gave us a nice four-bedroom in the research complex. You see, now that diseases and unplanned pregnancies are a thing of the past, people are much more relaxed about nudity and sex. You won't see separate facilities for men, women, and other genders in our time.
Also, we are literally required to test the new sensations of pleasure and compare them to sex, among other things. We are all perfectly happy with that.
We are two women (me and Lessie) and two men (Tim and Roger), all about the same age, all eager to participate in the experiments.
In fact, we are very lucky because we all like each other and have agreed to have sex together whenever we feel like it. It's fun and it helps us collect data.
***
They injected us with the rypchynes add-on, a standard retrovirus delivery package. So far, it does not cover our reproductive cells. The hereditary version will be released after we make sure it is worth it.
"Why are they called 'rypchynes?'" Roger asked curiously.
Dr. Mendosa smiled. "That's our internal joke. We named them after a similar thing in one of Stanislaw Lem's old stories... Well, we copied his idea, to be honest."
"He seems like a curious man, that Mr. Lem," Lessie said.
"He was a genius and a visionary," Dr. Mendosa ...