When
David Deloren was abducted by extraterrestrials, he thought it would
be the start of a terrifying experience. He never expected that he
would have more fun than he had ever experienced.
David
saw the glowing disk-shaped UFO while hiking in the wilderness. He
came up directly underneath the UFO, to get a good look. Then he saw
some beam coming from the UFO toward him. He was astonished to find
himself being levitated into the air. He was lifted up into the UFO,
and then saw some strange creature inject him with something. He
quickly fell into unconsciousness.
David
awoke to find himself on a comfortable bed. He was in a room that
looked like an expensive hotel room. Exiting the room, he walked
around before finding a room filled with other humans, most of whom
seemed happy and cheerful.
“Where
am I?” asked David. “I think I was abducted by a UFO.”
“Oh,
another new abductee?” said a young woman with a big smile. “Well,
don't worry about a thing. You'll be plenty happy here. Let me fetch
Mr. Hawkins to give you a briefing.”
After
a short delay, Mr. Hawkins came into the room to give David an
introduction to his new surroundings.
“Welcome,
to what we call the Place of Pleasure,” said Mr. Hawkins. “In
this wonderful location, all of your pleasure needs will be
abundantly fulfilled.”
“Where
is this place?” said David. “Why was I brought here.”
“I
can't tell you that,” said Mr. Hawkins. “But I can tell you that
you will be able to live here for as long as you wish. Nothing will
be asked of you. Just enjoy yourself.”
David
began to explore around, and soon found out about the abundant
opportunities for pleasure at his strange location. The location
resembled a big resort and amusement park. There were swimming pools
all over the place, all filled with warm, clear water. The swimming
pools all had long fun slides. There were many cafes and restaurants,
all offering free food. The food was better than any he had ever
tasted. In each cafe was a singer and musician who sang songs that
seemed to David more beautiful than any he had heard before.
David
soon learned that his strange location was some kind of sexual
paradise. Every day he would be approached multiple times by amorous
young ladies eager for sensual enjoyment. Most of them had faces like
movie stars or supermodels. Before long he learned that 80 percent
of the local people were robots. But in the bedroom, he could not
distinguish between the robots and the real humans. The real humans
were all abductees like himself. All of the abductees had been
treated with injections that removed any danger of disease or
unwanted pregnancies. There was also something in the drinking water
that greatly intensified all sexual experiences.
David
also learned that at this strange location, he could drink alcohol to
his heart's content, without ever getting drunk or without his mood
being negatively affected. The only effect was that the alcohol made
him merrier and more likely to laugh. David also found he could use
recreational drugs to his heart's content, enjoying the highs of
cocaine and heroin, without any of the danger or drawbacks he would
have experienced using such drugs on Earth. The drugs were offered
for free in the cafes, and listed on the menu signs. When David once
asked whether there were any legal penalties for using the drugs, the
people in the cafe simply laughed very hard. He assumed from then on
that in this place no one went to jail for using drugs.
David
was in a wonderland of pleasure, enclosed by a huge high dome with
the color of a blue sky. He sometimes asked himself: could it be that
this whole location was part of some extraterrestrial spaceship?
There
was only one way out of the location. There were two tall doors that
were clearly marked as an exit. A strange hooded figure always stood
near those doors.
One
day David walked towards the figure and asked about the exit doors.
He could hardly see the face underneath the hood, but it looked
non-human.
“Can
I see what's outside the doors?” asked David.
“Yes,”
said the hooded figure. “But if you use these doors, your exit will
be permanent, and you can never come back to this place of perfect
pleasure.”
“What
lies beyond these doors?” asked David.
“Knowledge,”
said the figure. “Vast and deep knowledge. If you go beyond these
doors, you will learn all about why you were brought here, all about
the extraterrestrials who abducted you, and all about many other deep
truths of time, space and cosmic history.”
“So
what's it like past those doors?” asked David.
“Maybe
life is hard past those doors, or maybe it is easy,” said the
hooded figure. “I can't say. But it won't be half as much fun as
this place of perfect pleasure you are leaving behind.”
“Then
to hell with it,” said David. He went back to his bodily pleasures.
But after ten more days of sex better than any he had known on Earth,
and food better than any he had known on Earth, and more blissful
drink and drug experiences, he began to keep thinking again and again
about the exit doors. He kept thinking about what kind of deep cosmic
knowledge he might find by going out the doors.
After
another week passed, David returned to the exit doors, and found the
same strange hooded figure in front of them.
“You
said there was great knowledge to be found by going past those
doors?” asked David.
“Yes,
vast and deep knowledge, knowledge of great cosmic truths,” said
the hooded figure. “But if you pass through those doors, you must leave behind forever this place of
perfect pleasure. And I give no guarantee about how easy or hard it
will be when you pass through those doors.”
“Let
me through,” said David. “My body wants to stay here forever, but
my mind and soul want me to go through those doors.”
“Very
well,” said the figure. “You will learn many great truths.” He
unlocked the doors, and opened them.
“For
starters, how about telling me why I was brought here,” said David.
“This
whole place is merely an experiment,” said the figure. “It was
built for only one purpose – to find out what percentage of
you humans will ask to pass through these doors. If that fraction is
high enough, then my primeval race will have found out the human race
is worthy of entering into fellowship with we who have roamed the
galaxy for a hundred million years.”
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