Translations:Codex: Bothrioc/12/en

The effects of the slime that accompanies eggs from their ovipositor are incredibly versatile. First, it acts as a lubricant, easing passage for both the dominant and submissive parties. Second, it acts as a fertilizer or semen-analogue, as discussed above. Third, it is mildly adhesive to egg shells and strongly adhesive to itself, creating a situation in which eggs attach to the lining of whatever orifice they are in surrounded by a substantial bubble of the slime. Fourth, it carries a hormonal and psychoaffective payload.

Psychoactive Effects

Hormonally, bothrioc reproductive oil carries many oestrogen and progesterone analogues, which in most species will have a feminizing effect as well as an uptick in sex drive due to a more minute amount of testosterone. In a technically-genderless species like bothrioc, there is little to no effect on secondary sexual characteristics, but instead these hormones serve as a trigger to reduce egg production and increase slime production within their ovipositing abdomens. As such, a repeated submissive is pushed further and further into the fertilizing role and becomes less and less effective when ovipositing. The hormones used in egg production, however, are self-reinforcing. A bothrioc who has reason to produce more eggs, for example, having deposited them or having had them deteriorate, will experience a mild increase in egg production. As such, a dominant bothrioc will eventually produce vast amounts of eggs, but a submissive bothrioc is not eternally caught on the submissive side if they seek to change.