The Portable Grove
Experiments in Erotic Horticulture
As transcribed into 21st Century English by Meighan Chimera
Studies conducted by
Tara del D’myn, Ph.D., Marquesa of Dolparessa, Empress of Sideria and Matriarch of Skarsia
and
Ashtara, Archon of Skarsia, Nightside, and Shambhala in the person of various emanations
Approved by the Council for Cu’enashti Psychological Research. All participants named herein have given their informed consent and waived their right to confidentiality. All research has been conducted under CCPR authorization and review.
Cover Image: Vitruvian Mothman by Leonardo da Vinci (recently discovered in a hidden cache of artworks concealed in the pleroma-faux Moika Palace)
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Table of Contents:
(with annotations by the translator)
About this Project (as written by Her Eminence Tara del D’myn)
Experiment 1: Trans-galactic Cross-fertilization (Scientific procedural or soft-porn romance novel? Warning for kinky sex, both animal and plant)
Experiment 2: Unnatural Acts (In which the excesses of oligarchy are plainly documented. Plant kink, twin-brother kink, and nothing of any real literary value.)
Experiment 3: Code of Conduct (In which the definitions of “ethics” and “legality” are robbed of all semantic value. All innuendo – the action is off-screen, so the rotten girls can just skip to the next chapter.)
Experiment 4: Bonds of Brotherhood (Pollen kink, branchest, explicit depiction of male anatomy and a forkful of steaming hot angst.)
Experiment 5: Interventions (Drug use, soft porn m/f, testosterone poisoning)
Experiment 6: Conjuration (More-or-less harmless mucking with the occult and non-explicit vanilla sex…another dud.)
On Brotherhood: an official Archonist Church doctrine (Whatever.)
Experiment 7: Intelligent Design (In which an added appendage or two equals serious alien kink – explicit.)
Experiment 8: Account Upgrade (In which a meditation on the nature of romantic love turns into an explicit pollination orgy. Why am I not surprised?)
Experiment 9: Flower Arrangement (In which Tara tries to explain human conceptions of gender and sexual preference to Ash. Of course, everything goes off the rails. Explicit.)
Experiment 10: Good Apples (In which experimenting with sex and drugs leads to a PR disaster in an amusement park.)
Experiment 11: The Pits (In which psychotherapy overcomes inhibitions. Explicit.)
Experiment 12: Big Budders (In which psychotherapy results in innuendo and drama.)
Experiment 13: Test of Strength (In which the Matriarch reads XXX-rated fanfic – explicit. Also, the actual story, which isn’t.)
Experiment 14: The Importance of Accurate Record-keeping (Political intrigue and incomprehensible mysticism – how dull.)
Experiment 15: Incubation (Ancestry, origins and an existential crisis.)
Experiment 16: Generations (A little roll in the hay with a new emanation, but really, just getting the engine warmed for the grand finale.)
Cross-pollination requests sent to the CCPR
Experiment 16a: The first stress-test: Hedonism (Now we’re talking – nothing like a bit of a branch orgy to heat things up. Explicit.)
Experiment 16b: The second stress-test: Cleanliness (Ailann’s jealousy puts a damper on a bath full of naked men. Raunchy.)
Experiment 16c: The third stress-test: Indiscretion (Tara plays Truth or Dare with a group of emanations. Really, such an obvious plot device it’s surprising it hasn’t occurred before this. Innuendo.)
Experiment 16d: The fourth stress-test: Vanity (Caught between orgies, the aesthetic philosophies of furniture, lovers and mothmen are discussed. Soft porn.)
Experiment 16e: The fifth stress-test: Equivocation (In which The Tempest is ruined forever. Also sex-kinks.)
Experiment 16f: The sixth stress-test: Intoxication (In which memories are shared, orgiastic sex occurs, and the mystery of Rasputin’s death is probably (not) explained. Explicit.)
Experiment 16g: The seventh stress-test: Gluttony (Now we’re cookin’ with plasma! Ashtara finally figures out the way between a woman’s legs – dessert! And yeah, Tara gets screwed a lot, but petit fours! Pandowdy! Archbishop slices!)
Experiment 16h: the eighth stress-test: Tyranny (Tara judges a contest to see who is the best dom and the best sub. Explicit.)
Experiment 16i: The ninth stress-test: Pride (In which a masquerade ball kind of makes sense of this whole thing.)
Appendix A: Arcanum Magicam Archontes
Appendix B: Yggdrasil Cafe Dessert Menu
On Skarsian Astrology: a Paper by Archbishop Seth del Eden’d