Grinnerverse: your universe of tickle torture tales!

Grinnerverse is the name given to a fictional universe of tickle-related stories created by TickleScenes.
All the stories are linked, to a greater or lesser extent, by the influence of Grinner, a mysterious creature who exerts his power through tickling.

Who is Grinner?

Grinner (Grinius), the evil god of tickling“, or “the god of spasmodic laughter” is a devilish entity usually represented in the appearance of a chesire cat (purple cat with a persistent grin) with more or less humanoid features, although it can take a variety of forms.

The Grinner is a demon or god-like entity born of the goddess Hera tickled by a bewitched throne forged by Hephaestus, who for millennia has instilled in humanity the idea of using tickling to torture people.

The Grinner grants his worshippers long life and prosperity through mysterious alchemical or technological processes that involve robbing victims of their life force in the form of laughter obtained against their will.

In every historical epoch, the Cult of Grinner exercises harassment and immoral actions against other individuals, using tickling as a weapon to bend the will of others or to obtain valuable suffering laughter that goes to fuel Grinner power.

Mythology

Within the Grinnerverse exist all the religious pantheons that have existed in our world.
Deities are higher beings (presumably created by God) who draw power from the natural or emotional element that represents them.

Tickling, with its mixture of kinetic energy, fear, shame, exhilaration, and embarrassment, generates a great inner force, called Grinnerforce, which can be used to summon the Grinner from the dimension in which he resides, transfer strength to him, or enhance one’s vitality.

In particular, the Grinnerforce produced by certain individuals descended from the angel Luciferyne,“The First of the Ticklish” and Lilith, is particularly powerful to the point of being able to invoke Grinner and allow him to manifest in this world, if victims are tickled and laugh in the presence of the Eye of Grinius.

Locations

The Grinnerverse presents some nonexistent locations in our world in which tickle torture is practiced either as a systematic means of torturing others or as a form of devotion to Grinner.

• Grinnerville: a U.S. town whose faux-principled population likes to use tickling as a form of control over others
• Grinoa Island (Isla Risas): a Caribbean island ruled by a pro-Soviet dictatorship where an ancient cult still worships Chat Souriant, the god of tickle torture
• Grinnwich Sanatorium: a british sanitarium in which political dissidents undergo brainwashing mixed with tickling practices in order to be made obedient citizens of the Great Minister
• Castle Grinner (later Hotel Grinner): a gloomy manor house belonging for generations to the Bavarian noble family Von Grinner, where counts and countesses practice nonconsensual tickling to make a life-extending elixir.

Artifacts

The Cult of Grinner often makes use of grinnium, or gaudentium, a purple mineral that can store the tickle reactions of its victims in the form of “T-Vibes” to force its enemies to laugh as if they themselves were experiencing intense tickle torture, or to disproportionately increase the victims’ ticklishness. Grinnium can also be used in liquid or gaseous form, making it a formidable “tickle weapon.”

T-Vibes can also alter the molecular composition of plants, as in the case of the “laughter flowers” that grow on Isla Risas, from which a powerful exhilarating drug can be extracted.

The Eye of Grinius is a brilliant trapezohedron that corrupts the minds of those who laugh in its presence by turning them into a Herald of Grinner.

Some examples of Grinnium-containing artifacts are the Mask of Laughter (which forces the laughing wearer to laugh for the rest of his or her life), the Holy Hands (claws with which the Grinner Killer tortures tickling invulnerable superheroes), the Hephaestus’ Throne (seat capable of immobilizing and tickling those who sit on it).

Characters

• Pharaoh Grimhenes (Grinerino) who introduced the cult of Grinnit to Egypt in place of that of goddess Bastet
• Morgan Le Fay: Merlin’s lover and apprentice, follower of cat-demon Cath Palug
• Father Magnus Scholav: an 11th-century monk plagiarized by Grinner’s power who within the Catholic Church works to foster the proliferation of the cult
• Count and Countess Von Grinner: depraved 14th-century Bavarian nobles who kidnap and tickle men and women to make an elixir of long life
• Willy Giggleton a.k.a. Willy Giggle: a 16th-century pirate obsessed with finding Isla Risas
• Madame De Rire: a beautiful and devious French noblewoman who uses tickling to subjugate 18th-century nobles and revolutionaries to her will.
• Billy The Grin: a scarred criminal from the Wild West who uses tickling as a form of torture
• Amethra: the charming queen of the jungle, a woman imbued with the power of the Purple Diamond, which allows her to control plants to attack (and tickle) her victims
• Madame Grineau: a feared voodoo mambo that can summon Le Rictus, an incarnation of Grinius/Baron Samedi destined to torture his victims with tickling
• Olimpiada Bondarenko a.k.a. Agent Bondage: a Soviet secret agent who specialized in using tickling torture to force victims to talk.
• Olga Grinina: military scientist working on Project Smech, which aimed to summon and use Grinner as a source of energy in the Cold War against the United States.
• Professor Liora Connors: a seemingly humble and gentle scientist but who craves to perform tickling experiments on non-consenting victims to study their reactions.
• The Grinner Killer: Aristotle Sardonis, the CEO of Powergrinn, has developed a weapon that can defeat invulnerable superheroes by tickling them to death

Eventes of Grinnerverse | Timeline

Past

About 200,000 years ago, Homo Hilaris, the first species of hominids capable of laughter, developed in Africa and created the concept of tickle torture to make their victims laugh. The Purple Diamond in their possession is capable of transforming a woman subjected to tickling into Amethra, the lady of the jungle plants.

In the remote biblical past, the angel Luciferyne was banished from Heaven for objecting to the creation of an unhappy humanity and confined to the top of the Tower of Babel. There for years her physical body was tortured with tickling by a series of men and women who turned her laughter into joy for humanity. Finally Luciferyne was freed by a woman named Lilith, with whom she generated a lineage of individuals with magical powers. Luciferyne’s magical laughter transferred the angel’s weakness to humans, who from then on became vulnerable to tickling.

In “Grinner: Origins” the god Hephaestus, in revenge for the abandonment by his mother Hera, had a bewitched throne delivered to her, which, once the ruler of the Greek gods was seated on it, imprisoned her and subjected her to terrible tickling as a form of humiliation and torment. From Hera’s laughter steeped in suffering and her hatred of humanity with which Zeus conceived children was born Grinius, the evil god of tickling, a creature with great magical powers who gains strength when a victim is tickled against his will in his honor.

Gelos, the Greek god of laughter, decided to combat this abomination by providing over the centuries brave and pure-hearted human beings with the power to resist the monster’s abuse and to fight against the full evils of its heralds.

In “When a princess is tickled” Ariadneis locked up in the labyrinth of Crete and tortured with tickling by an evil captive, until the god Gelos intervenes to save her.

In Ancient Egypt, Pharaoh Grimhenes facilitated the introduction of the cult of Grinnit in place of that of the goddess Bastet. His wife Hatham-Ha was unjustly accused of this blasphemy and mummified for life after undergoing tickling torture so that her soul would be consecrated to Grinner.

Morgan Le Fay attempted to summon Cath Palug (Grinner) to conquer Great Britain, but his attempt was foiled by Nimue. Using a tickling spell, the sorceress chained her to the lake in revenge for Grinner’s confinementin the body of animals in a forbidden valley so that he could not infect people through laughter.

Centuries later, an unfortunate female hunter ended up a prisoner in the cave in which the monster was imprisoned, and Grinner, by exploiting the abilities of some animals, was able to force the woman to laugh through tickling, thus being able to break free and return to haunt the world.

In “The Name of the Laugh“, in 1327, Father Magnus Scholav and his disciple are sent to the convent of St. Gaia Teresa in Italy to investigate the plight of Duchess Francesca Contini. They discover that the convent is run by nuns loyal to Grinius who use tickling as a weapon to bend their enemies to the demon’s worship…
The poor friar falls victim to the demon’s mind control and becomes a herald of Grinner within the Church itself….

In “The Witch Trial” we learn that the cult of Grinner has now spread throughout Europe in the XV century. The Holy Office sets up an interrogation session for two women, mother and daughter, suspected of worshipping the demon Grinner. The inquisitor thinks that resorting to tickling will be a good practice to force the witches to summon the devil through laughter, but it will not go as hoped…

A recurring location in the Grinnerverse is Castle Grinner, which has belonged to the bavarian nobles Von Grinner for generations. The motto of Grinner’s family and cult is “Ibi risus ibi pavor” (“With laughter there is terror“).

Custom of these nobles, passed down from Count Gustav Von Grinner to his granddaughter Laetitia, is to practice tickling torture on helpless victims in order to obtain an elixir capable of conferring eternal youth through the energy of laughter induced against one’s will.

In 1536, Lady Lavinia Laughton intervened in the trial of Anne Boleyn, mercilessly teasing her in order to ruin her reputation by having her charged as a witch.

In 1584, the pirate Willy Giggle kidnaps Gwendoline Tempest, the daughter of the Governor of Port Royal, because her laughter activates an artifact that can guide him to Isla Risas.

In 1793 Lady Ocarina, the female bodyguard of Queen Marie Antoinette, is forced by tickling to laugh at the sight of the guillotined sovereign. To take revenge on the cruel Madame De Rire, she does not hesitate to make use of the blasphemous Mask of Laughter, which forces the wearer to laugh for eternity…

In 1825, Dr. Frankenstein manages to bring a bride for his monster to life through tickling, and discovers that it is capable of animating a force in human beings that he names grinnerforce.

In 1874, the sheriff Calamity Black undergoes the tickling ritual to gain the power of the Coyote and punish the cruel criminal Billy The Grin.

In 1927, Aphrodite Nyx, a wealthy and beautiful singer from New Orleans, is cursed by the voodoo witch Madame Grineau and tortured with tickling by Le Rictus, an incarnation of Grinius/Baron Samedi.

In 1928, British archaeologist Myra Crofton arrives in Congo to see the Purple Diamond. The Grin’bah warriors subject her to merciless tickling torture to transform her into the new Princess Amethra, the smiling ruler of the jungle.

In 1968, Masque Solange, leader of the Souriants rebels of Isla Risas, is subjected to tickle torture by Agent Bondage on behalf of the military junta ruling the island, in order to discover the identity of the masked woman.

In 1975, Colonel Olga Grinina subjects Nadya, an astronaut whose laughter can summon Grinner, to tickle torture, but discovers that she cannot control it at all…

In 1984, London, evil widow Meridian Grinnwich tries to fake paralysis to avoid being charged with her husband’s murder. An enterprising insurance agent tracks her down and tickles her feet to prove she’s faking it.

Present

In “The Silent Experiment“, Professor Liora Connors carries out experiments on the human body’s response to tickling in order to obtain data to make innovative drugs. Her experiments require the participation of victims forced to resist tickling with all their might, apparently out of the scientist’s sadistic desire to see them suffer.

In The Mischief of the Ticklebot” genius inventor Velma has created a robot that can force villains to confess their misdeeds through tickling. Velma challenges Daphne to an endurance test, but she forces her friend to participate in turn. Unfortunately, the robot actually seems very efficient, except in terms of shutting down…

In “April’s Fool Night,” a brave female TV reporter is captured by a ruthless gangster who decides to ruin her reputation by filming her in a compromising situation. And, to add a touch of exhilaration to the scene, tickling is just the thing….

In “An overlay realistic interrogation” actress Lilian is subjected to a non consensual merciless tickle torture by her husband and director.

In “I made this goth girl laugh!” famous streamer Gothie Ruthie decides to stay overnight in the cursed room of the Grinner Hotel, built on the remains of Castle Grinner. It is said that the demon still confronts those who dare to challenge it by refusing to believe in anything. In any case, Ruthie will be the one to laugh last….

In “He made this sushi model laugh!” Paul Grinn, a depraved real estate mogul, takes to tickling his ex-girlfriend, a sushi model, to disrupt her work.

In “A very sadistic pedicure!” the wealthy and shameless Lyla Laughton takes advantage of the fact that her rival at the head of the Grinnerville University sorority is ticklish, to make her laugh during an excessive pedicure and make her look bad.

In “The Peak of Joy “three restless souls have to climb a dark mountain while the grinning demon test their ticklishness with its demonic powers…

Next future

Powergrinn, a very powerful and branched multinational corporation, had been conducting tickle experiments for years to discover and synthesize the demon power associated with involuntary laughter. This led it to the creation of an unknown element, Grinnium, capable of transmitting mysterious “tickle vibes” capable of eliciting irrepressible tickling sensations in those exposed to it.

In 2035, ninja Arashi Sumiregawa, codename Warai-Onna, breaks into the Takashi-Powergrinn industrial plant in order to find the scrolls of warai-jutsu, the martial art of tickling practiced by her clan. Unfortunately, her evil kitchen has created deadly tickling robots capable of stopping her…In 2035, ninja Arashi Sumiregawa, codename Warai-Onna, breaks into the Takashi-Powergrinn industrial plant in order to find the scrolls of warai-jutsu, the martial art of tickling practiced by her clan. Unfortunately, her evil kitchen has created deadly tickling robots capable of stopping her…

The Grinnium proved to be a viable weapon against Neo-Z City‘s 2050s superheroes, the Blessed Ones, individuals blessed by the Grinner’s mysterious “The Other” enemy, as it allowed them to kill with risus sardonicus even subjects with invulnerable skin. Agent Joy of the Anomalous Crimes Unit (ACU) came into contact with these secrets when he began investigating the crimes of the Grinner Killer (Aristotle Sardonis), a criminal who killed Blessed Ones by tickle torture.

In “In Space No One Can Hear Them Laugh“ two astronauts are at the mercy of the onboard computer, GRINNER, which intends to take over the spaceship. A struggle for survival begins for the two unfortunates, who must try with all their might to resist the ruthless tickling of the artificial intelligence in order to save their lives.

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