The fall season at the hotel was delightful.

Already, decor for the upcoming halloween party that was hosted in the hotel's ballroom was being set up, with adorable little pumpkins being placed everywhere.

Including upon some of the equipment.
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Griz was not a party person. But she was always in it for free candy.

The problem remained that she still had silkbot tests to do. And this one's systems were giving her trouble.

"Ghhhhh c'mooooon c'moooon .." she growled, gritting her teeth as she screwed in the last component…

"Griz."

"What." She didn't even need to look up to recognize Umber's voice. "I'm almost done with this tune up."

"Well you better hurry up. Kixx just got a huge cauldron full of sweets and he's tossing it out to the guests. Lil tease." The mule rolled his eyes. "And I know you're a fan of that shit."

"UGH. I told his sorry ass to wait for me!" Griz huffed, screwing on the last component. "Done. Fine. Holy shit, let's go." Grabbing a tote bag, and her coat, she shut off the lights and slammed the door. The vibrations made the silk bot tip over the edge of the table, falling and causing it to activate on its own…

The silk bot was one of Griz's all terrain models, and was more or less adapted to navigating the hotel and its grounds unattended. She had marked it off with a couple of pumpkin stickers, notifications that these ones were to be used outside for the most part… and that's where it was going.

Unscrewing the vent covers, it made its way out to the feral estate rooms. There was a scheduled appointment out there…
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Where was Delphi?

Ascer had been settled in his room for a good portion of the morning,waiting for his friend. She hadn't come back from her hike yesterday, but she had insisted that he wait for her here… it was fine, but honestly, he just wanted to know where she was…

He flicked his tail in annoyance, but sighed. Perhaps it would be fine if he took a walk, just to stretch his legs and kill time until Delphi got back.

Hell, maybe he'd even run into her on the way.
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He trotted along the marked paths, enjoying the warmth of the autumn sun on his back. The woods around the hotel grounds were lovely this time of year, boasting impressive displays of golden brown, red and yellow leaves falling down with each gust of wind. And yet it wasn't too cold as to need a blanket for his walk…

Delphi had mentioned she would be walking up to the hilltop on this trail… maybe she had gotten lost? Ascer hoped not…

"Delphi?" He called, looking around and heading towards the main trailhead. She had to be here somewhere, surely… he didn't want to miss the festivities tonight, so while there was plenty of time, it was best he found her sooner rather than later…

Upon reaching the trailhead, he paused. There was a disturbed patch of brush, one that led out away from the main trail. He lifted his legs gingerly, following the weird trail… the trees were thicker here…

It was… confusing. It was as if it were done in a panic?

It would take some time, but eventually, Ascer would arrive… back outside the hotel? He was right by the feral specific hotel area… his ears flicked, looking around. The place was more open here…ah! Yes there!

He saw the hoofprints left in the worn dirt areas, and followed them, unaware he was also being followed…
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Finally, this hour-long goose chase would be over.

Ascer arrived at the copse of trees the tracks led to, and noticed that the further he got, the more there were traces of…webbing? And a struggle? Broken branches, trampled bushes…

And in the very heart of the copse was what he was looking for.

"Delphi…?"

The mare was still up there, letting out muffled cries… she was still up in her rearing pose, trapped yet regal looking.

"What happened?! Who did this to you?" He asked, pawing with his hooves to try and pull her down.

"NMNPH! LGH MMMGH!" she cried into her muzzle, eyes wide as she looked behind him…

In an instant something had jumped on his back, wrapping a thick silken cord around his neck.

"GH!" The stallion reared, gagging and whinnying as the cord tightened, choking him a bit to try and settle him. Ascer kicked and bucked, trying to get the unseen threat off of him. But whatever it was, it clung to him tightly, using more and more silk ropes to trap him… his cries for help would be silenced by a beautifully woven muzzle, not unlike Delphi's, tight and sticky and making it hard to breathe…

"NNNN! MMGH!" He tried to run. To turn and bolt off towards the hotel. But whoever was on his back kept steering him away, pulling him back among the trees… already, the sticky, silk ropes were clinging to his flanks, being woven by the scuttling entity that held on so doggedly, so persistently…

The more Ascer struggled, the harder the thing pulled on his leash.

It would take time. But soon Ascer began to tire. The unseen thing had forced him up into a rearing pose, before pulling him up and suspending him between several sticky strands of silk… the stallion finally got a good look at whatever it was…

It was a spider like machine, scuttling on four thick legs and using two sets of smaller arms to manipulate and produce the silk. Already, it was crawling down over his back and to his underside. He would have fought more, but he was feeling so tired and dizzy from the fight…

He did perk up a bit when he felt the delicate mechanical servos teasing his cock.

"NN! SHPH!" He yelled, eyes wide as he felt himself being teased and tormented. The delicate, featherlight strokes only made it worse, soon leaving him erect and leaking… it felt so good, it was even using a makeshift sheathe made of silk to jerk him off. The soft, sticky wrap would engulf his cock, prompting his hips to buck and shudder with each stroke…

Before the top of his shaft was plastered to the bottom of his belly.

"NNGH?! HHGH!" He protested, as the silk bot continued its work. It would web him up, wrap sheets of silk around his torso… each leg would be individually wrapped before being attached to one another via a sheet of silk…

It wouldn't take long for him to be completely wrapped and trapped beside Delphi, both horses fully on display… they both would let out such weak and needy noises, struggles faint and barely able to make the web vibrate…

For now, the silk bot had completed its task.

It would hop off the stallion and leave them to hang, helpless and ripe for the taking for whoever found them next…

Sometimes, training would be more than just running the newcomers through their paces.

Sometimes it was contending with tech that was… unruly at best.
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Griz had been forgiven after serving some time in the basement levels of the hotel. She had been subjected to quite a bit of pleasure-pain and was now ready to get back to work. It helped that her new salary was at least higher than previous years.

The lizard lass was tasked today with dealing with silkbots, something one of her rival engineers had cooked up. Slightly less temperamental than actual spiders, these alternatives were less arachnophobia inducing than the real thing. However, much like spiders, their systems were finicky at times and needed maintenance. The AI in most of these was also sometimes prone to acting out when exposed to unfavorable conditions…

Such as what Griz found one of these bots in when she was called in.

One of them had sustained a bit of damage from a client who had lashed out a little too hard, and was now in need of repairs. She held the little machine under her arm, grumbling about lack of maintenance when she bumped into one of the guests by the front desk.

"Shit!" The lizard stumbled back and looked up to see the much taller mare that stood before her. "Oof, sorry miss. Was a bit preoccupied…" oh wow she was pretty. Lovely blond mane, elegant white stripe down her muzzle… and an ample chest that made Griz look away in embarrassment.

"Oh! Not a problem. Are you okay?" The mare held out a hand, smiling as she helped her up.

"Yeah… um…" she was kind of dumbfounded. While Griz wasn't the romantic type, she did like looking at pretty folks. "Sorry again. Was busy with this little silk bot. It's on the fritz."

"Oh! One of your hotel's fun little gadgets?" The mare said, smiling and leaning in to get a better look. "Adorable."

"Yeah… it's under repairs right now but here. You can look!" Griz smiled and held out the quadruped robot to let the mare hold. "The name's Griz, by the way. Or. That's what people call me."

The mare would turn the bot this way and that, peering into its small cluster of optics. "Oh, I'm Tara! It's nice to meet you, Griz! You work with the hotel?"

"Yeah! I'm one of their engineers." Griz puffed up her chest a bit in pride. "I've worked on a lot of tech in here, to make sure your stay is as pleasant as possible."

"Well! If all goes well, I'll know who to thank for my vacation." Tara chuckled, handing back the little bot. "You have a good day, Griz! I'll be sure to mention you by name in my reviews." She winked and headed off to get checked in.

Griz swallowed and waved back, unaware that the faulty bot had scanned Tara and logged that she was one of the guests at the hotel…
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An hour and some parts scavenger hunts later, Griz took the little bot back to a work station, and began to work on the menace. Even as she went through all her usual troubleshooting, she hoped that Tara would have a good time on her vacation.

Griz did not normally make friends so…

The lizard jumped when her cell phone rang. Dammit! She couldn't focus in these conditions! And this was a call she wasn't able to just send to voicemail so…

She sighed and shut the silkbot's casing, telling it to stay. However, the jostle of her shutting the case turned it on… and the second she had her back turned, the silkbot would hop off the table and scutter towards a vent. Easily unscrewing the lid, it would make its grand escape into the ventilation, looking for Tara….
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Tara meanwhile had settled into her room nice enough, and had just stepped out of the bath. It had been delightfully relaxing, and she was happy to let herself air dry while she brushed and blowdried her mane.

She hummed and sang to herself, completely unaware of the clanking that her new guest was making. If nothing else, she was preoccupied with the video she was watching as she fixed up her mane…

The mare, now mostly dried off and fluffed up, would just hum to herself as she headed out into the room itself. She sat on the bed, turning on the tv while she went to get clothes from her suitcase…

She never saw the silkbot coming.

It jumped on her back, using a silk rope to pull her back. She squealed as she fell backwards onto the bed, eyes wide as she struggled. The silkbot did not let up, yanking at her limbs to try and secure her. Even as damaged as it was, it knew its objective…

"Hey! What are you-?! Let me go! Someone get this thing off me!" Tara yelled, as she kicked and struggled. But the silkbot would not be so easily dislodged, wrapping up an arm and pulling it back so it was behind her, then doing the same to the other. Its pace was surprisingly methodical, moving quickly before putting her limbs where it thought they ought to be.

It wove her a most luxurious straitjacket made of silk, using it to wrap her up tighter so she'd have less room to struggle and thus buck it off… her cries became more frantic as it crawled over her, stringing a line between her ample breasts so that they'd be more prominently displayed…

"Eek! Wh-stop! Get off! Please!" The mare yelled, tossing her head as the silkbot tightened the whole straitjacket, making her gasp. It would use this opportunity to stuff a nice big wad of webbing into her mouth, forcing it open as it wove and stuffed more and more silk there… her cries for help became all the more muffled until she was totally silenced. The silkbot added one last layer, ensuring she couldn't spit it out…

So far, so good.

The silkbot would examine her, scanning her as she kicked and screamed into her gag… before working on wrapping up her legs. Her tail kept getting tangled in the webbing so, in almost annoyed human fashion, it would flail its little front limbs and tie off her tail in a neat little bundle before proceeding.

Her lashing out had scrambled it a bit more, so while it did wrap her legs up completely, it did not wrap HER up completely. It conspicuously left her plump ass hanging out, which only left her in a more enticing position… Tara shook her head and let out muffled pleas into her gag, eyes wide as the two silken pieces were connected, and she was pulled into a position where she had to balance on her knees and breasts…

The silkbot gave her another scanover, assessing its work on her, before finding it all satisfactory.

It perked up as it heard the door open.

"AHA! There you are, you little…uh…" Griz had barged in, holding up some sort of tracking tablet… apparently she had tracked the silkbot to this room, and had managed to get a key. "Um…hi again, Tara! Hahah, funny seeing you again…!"

Tara let out more muffled yells, trying to get the lizard to help her out of her bindings…. Griz knew better though. She could get fired for messing with a customer's bindings as she wasn't one of the bellhops AND this wasn't an emergency…

"Uh… hah… um…well! It was…nice seeing ya again! I'm just. Gonna take this and… make sure it's working. You just…hang in there!" Griz laughed nervously, grabbing the silkbot and bolting for the door.

In her haste, one of the doorstops would get caught, propping the door open and leaving it unable to be locked. Tara could only struggle in her bindings, yelling for help, and possibly attracting the wrong kind of attention from one of the security stallions…