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The Loophole - A Halloween Story

   by The Technician

   Halloween, Fantasy, Hell, Devil, Exhibitionism, Voyeurism, Forced
Nudity, Forced Orgasm, Consensual Pain, Forced Pain, Sybian, Satire?

    = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Couple's contract with The
Fallen One comes due on Halloween.

   A thousand year old contract between an apparently middle-aged couple
and The Fallen One has come due.  But their manservant thinks he knows a
way to escape the terms of the contract.

    = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =

   WARNING!  All of my writing is intended for adults over the age of 18
ONLY.  Stories may contain strong or even extreme sexual content.  All
people and events depicted are fictional and any resemblance to persons
living or dead is purely coincidental.  Actions, situations, and responses
are fictional ONLY and should not be attempted in real life.

   If you are under the age or 18 or do not understand the difference
between fantasy and reality or if you reside in any state, province,
nation, or tribal territory that prohibits the reading of acts depicted in
these stories, please stop reading immediately and move to somewhere that
exists in the twenty-first century.

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   Fred Whetherington held the stiff piece of parchment lightly in his hand
as he drank his morning coffee.  His wife, Willie, sat across the table
from him sipping a glass of juice.  His voice was calm as he said, "This
was on my pillow this morning when I awoke." She smiled and replied
lightly, "He does like the dramatic touches, doesn't he?"

   Fred laughed slightly.  "At least he didn't do the full flash of fire
and puff of smoke thing this time."

   "Last time he did that," Willie bristled, "it scorched the carpet.  And
it took forever to get the sulfur smell out of the house."

   "He once told me that he doesn't like the smell of brimstone any more
than we do," Fred added with another slight laugh, "but he has to use it to
keep up his image."

   A long pause followed before Fred continued.  He held up the stiff paper
that was still curled slightly from having been rolled up.  The heavy wax
of a broken seal hung on the back of the upper edge, pulling it slightly
back.  "This is official notice that the term of our agreement is upon us.
Do you want me to read it to you?"

   "He expects you to, doesn't he?" was her only response.

   "It says," he continued as he read the fancy script on the page in front
of him, " Be it known by all concerned that on this first day of October in
the twelve thousand and thirty-ninth year since the great fall and rise of
myself, the term of one thousand earthly years having passed, I hereby
invoke the completion clause to the contract which exists between myself
and Frederick and Wilhelmina Whetherington.'"

   "Notice that he uses our current names and the modern calendar," Fred
commented before continuing.  "It goes on, This constitutes thirty days
notice that on or before midnight of October thirty-first of this year,
also known as Halloween, the aforementioned couple's bodies and souls will
be due and collectable.  Said bodies and souls are to be brought to the
place agreed upon through future missives and presented to me for transfer
into Hell.  I hereby swear, vow, and affirm that I have fulfilled my
portion of the referenced contract and have provided wealth, life, and
sustenance as well as the originally-specified unlimited sexual power and
opportunity for the term of said contract and now claim the payment agreed
upon at the signing of that document.'"

   He took a sip of his coffee.  "If he always spoke like that, it's no
wonder that The Benevolent One kicked him out of the upper abode," he said.

   "I guess no one has ever liked lawyers," Willie responded.  "Is there
any way around it, honey?"

   After another sip of coffee, Frederick replied, "Sorry, I don't see any
way out of it.  It was nice while it lasted, but the agreement itself is
very specific.  After one thousand years, we are to be conducted into the
depths of Hell."

   "Maybe we can find an escape clause," she said.  "You, yourself, have
been a lawyer many times, off and on, in the past thousand years.  You know
that no contract is unbreakable.  There is always a way out." "The contract
isn't the main problem," he said.  "It never is.  People think having an
iron-clad contract will get it done, but do you realize how many times
through the years, because of some insignificant loophole, I have been able
to reverse things and weasel out of something while still legally
fulfilling the exact wording of the contract."

   "Ah yes," Willie answered with a laugh.  "I particularly liked that time
that your construction company built a tunnel between that town's two
defensive castles.  The contract specifically said that it was to stretch
from beneath the moat of the high castle to beneath the moat of the low
castle."

   She laughed again.  "It never said anything about actually going under
the walls of either castle itself.  The mayor and council were royally
pissed about having to pay extra for all that support structure in the
tunnels to safely go beneath the walls.  But you showed them clearly that
you had fulfilled the terms of the contract as they had written it, and
that the additional construction was at their expense."

   "But this isn't castle walls," Fred replied.  "This is hell, and that is
precisely the problem.  It is iron clad that we are to enter hell.  And
there is, unfortunately, no way out of hell, once you have entered,"

   "That isn't totally true, m'Lord," a deep voice said from behind them.

   "Maxwell," Fred said cheerfully.  "I didn't hear you come in.  How much
did you overhear?"

   "Enough m'Lord," he answered.  "It sounds as if your contract with The
Fallen One has come due.  I assume that means that your contract with me
and Marta will also come to an end."

   "I'm afraid so," said Fred.  "But all you had to promise in return for a
long and comfortable life was your faithful service to Willie and me, so
it's a little different for you.  After we're gone, you and Marta will
begin aging normally once again and will eventually die.  But The Fallen
One won't have any claim on your souls."

   "If you read your contract very carefully which I have " Maxwell
continued in his very precise way of speaking, "you will see that he
doesn't actually have any claim on your souls either."

   "What do you mean?" asked Wilhelmina "The wording is specific and
unbreakable.  On Halloween, sometime before midnight, we are to enter Hell,
and once we have entered, there is no return."

   "Back when you first revealed your powers to me and Marta, m'Lord,
Florence was the economic power of the world.  We entered your service
there.  Do you not remember that very interesting writer by the name of
Durante degli Alighieri whom you often invited to your parties?"

   When both Fred and Willie looked back at him with confused faces, he
added, "He is better remembered by his nickname, Dante.'" "Ah yes," replied
Fred.  "He was always going on and on about that book he was working on
about his journey through Hell."

   "Precisely, m'Lord," said Maxwell.  "His journey THROUGH hell."

   "Dante went through hell and came out on the other side!" both Fred and
Willie shouted together.  "There has to be an escape clause."

   "I'm sure The Fallen One has changed the wording since Dante let that
little piece of information out of the bag, so to speak," Maxwell said,
"but your contract pre-dates him by almost four hundred years.  The
loophole is still in place.  All you have to do is go through the proper
levels of hell and emerge on the other side.  When you do so, you will have
fulfilled your contract to the letter, but will have escaped Hell, itself.
I'm not sure if the wealth, life, and all of that will continue as before,
but the worst case would be that we would all age normally after you
complete the journey."

   "One problem," Willie said dejectedly.  "One very big problem.  Dante's
book was fiction.  He never really went to or through Hell."

   "But he had stumbled onto the truth," Maxwell responded with a raised
hand and a slightly raised voice.  He pointed his extended finger at Willie
as he continued, "And THAT is what is important.  Do you not remember the
night when HE showed up in the middle of one of your dinner parties in
Venice."

   "Ah yes," said Fred, "half of the guests jumped into the canal when he
suddenly appeared in a thunderous flash of light.  The rest ran into the
inner courtyard and barricaded themselves there until the next morning."

   "Not all of them," corrected Maxwell.  "You and m'Lady just stood there
looking very, very upset that your dinner party was ruined.  And one guest
ran screaming upstairs to the bedrooms seeking a place to hide.  The Fallen
One followed that guest upstairs and had a very heated discussion about the
possible costs of revealing secrets of the nether realm."

   A heavily-accented voice interrupted his story with, "...  and I was
upstairs getting the guest rooms ready at the time."

   "Marta heard everything," Maxwell continued.  "The Fallen One was
extremely upset that Dante had guessed a secret weakness of Hell or at
least of The Fallen One's contracts.  He held him up against the wall and
snarled, I'm not sure how much you know and how much you have accidentally
guessed, but I am going to explain to you EXACTLY how Hell works.  And if
your final book is anywhere close to that, or reveals more than you have
already said, I will send my minions to tear you limb from limb and eat
your flesh for as long as you still live..." The Fallen One's eyes became
pools of flame at this point as he said in an icy staccato, "...  and - I -
can - make - you - live - FOREVER!'"

   Marta again interrupted, "Evidently the real escape path only exists on
the night of the completion of the contract.  Or maybe it is only open on
that night each year when the veil between this world and the nether world
is the thinnest.  It doesn't matter which is correct because your contract
happens to end on the night of the thinnest veil.  So, in either case, the
escape route will be open for you this Halloween night when your contract
fulfills and you are to enter Hell."

   Maxwell interrupted his wife and said, almost showing excitement in his
voice, "The journey itself, like Dante's final book, is metaphoric, but the
levels are not.  Despite what Dante wrote, there are only seven like there
are only seven deadly sins.  All that is required is for a person to
sequentially go through the seven levels of a particular sin between dark
and midnight and they can escape Hell forever at least under the terms of
your current contract.  Since your contract dealt primarily with sexuality,
all you have to do is go through or at least witness all seven levels of
sexual sin before midnight."

   "In other words," Willie chirped, "we have to have one hell of a
Halloween night in order to stay out of hell."

   She laughed slightly and added, "Even if it doesn't work, we'll go out
with a bang."   Maxwell coughed and said in a somewhat embarrassed tone of
voice.  "Uh...  yes m'Lady.  That is one way of looking at it."

   "But I've never heard of seven levels of sexual sin," said Fred.  "How
will we know what to do, and in what order?"

   "We've done a little research over the years," said Marta.  "We've had
the time.  And we knew this day would eventually come."

   "And?" said Wilhelmina.

   "And I will guide you through the seven levels of sexual sin," replied
Maxwell.  He was actually starting to sound more pompous than usual.  "It
has to be done in front of at least a double-double coven of witnesses, so
you need to invite forty-eight or more of your friends who will stay all
the way through until midnight."

   "Do they have to be invited?" Willie asked.  "Friends might leave early.
They sometimes do, you know.  Perhaps street rabble would be better.  If we
pay someone to stay, they will remain until they get their money."

   "Perhaps, m'Lady, you should do both," intoned Maxwell.  "Invite your
friends, but make it worth their while to stay until the stroke of
midnight. And invite some of the rabble of the street.  We will also need
some unwilling participants in our little journey through sexual hell... 
unless you want to use some of your friends for that."

   "That might be interesting," laughed Willie, "but I think it might be
safer to use the street rabble." "Then I believe it is time to prepare a
little parchment of our own," Fred said slowly as he pushed back his chair
and stood next to the table.  As he began walking toward his den, he added,
"Maxwell, would you please help me prepare the invitations?  We are going
to invite thirty of our friends to a Halloween orgy they will never
forget."

   He laughed it was not a pleasant laugh.  Then he said, "And we can
forget about rounding up street rabble.  I think I can come up with another
list of at least thirty enemies who pretend to be my friends whom I would
love to have experience our evening.  Fifteen couples who are friends and
fifteen who are actually enemies would give us a total of sixty people. 
That should supply the needed numbers actually attending."

   The invitations went out the next day.  Fred and Willie were known for
their lavish and decadent parties, so the invitations were eagerly
received. As an incentive to stay for the whole evening, the invitations
also announced that there were to be cash prizes given out at midnight. 
One thousand dollars would be given for the best costume, another thousand
for the sexiest costume, another thousand for the sluttiest, and another
thousand for the most evil.  In addition, a ten thousand dollar door prize
would be given to someone chosen at random from among the guests.

   In small type beneath the announcement of the prizes it said, "Certain
guests may be called upon to participate in themed demonstrations
throughout the evening.  Participation is mandatory, but couples who
participate will receive a minimum of an additional $5000 each." It then
added in even smaller print, "Acceptance of this invitation is acceptance
of these terms."

   No one ever bothers to read the small print, especially on an
invitation.

   Thirty invitations went out.  It was hoped that at least twenty-four of
the couples would accept the invitation, but within days, replies from all
thirty indicated that they would attend.

   ***

   Halloween arrived at last.  The long driveway which led back to
Whetherington villa was lined with Jack O'Lanterns, and a fake graveyard,
complete with a mechanical hooded figure of death, decorated the secluded
front lawn.  Orange lights outlined all edges on the front of the house. 
Inside, spider webs festooned with black bows and shiny silk witch's hats
stretched across the walls of the foyer.  Ancient broomsticks, carved
pumpkins and other symbols of Halloween were scattered throughout the
house. A large bubbling caldron in the middle of the living room, whose
steam poured out across the floor to form a low hanging mist throughout the
house, completed the theme.

   The evening was to begin with a sumptuous dinner so the guests began
arriving around six for pre-dinner drinks and hors d'oeuvres.  Fred and
Willie greeted each guest at the door, and immediately after the guests
walked past, dictated notes to their personal secretaries who were
listening to the earwigs both hosts were wearing.

   Fred especially liked the Adam and Eve costumes and they topped his best
costume list.  Adam was wearing a fig leaf loincloth with what appeared to
be a snake peeking out from the front.  Eve was also wearing leaves, but
two large, red apples with very large stems appeared to hang from the
front.

   Wilhelmina, on the other hand, felt that the spider and the fly were the
best.  The makeup was perfect, both the spider and the fly's faces were
horrific, and it was very difficult to tell whether the spider or the fly
was the male of the couple.  "Maybe you will be able to tell if the spider
eats the fly," Fred told her with a smirk.  He then added, "Or perhaps we
will have to give out a double prize."

   Both agreed that Marilyn Monroe, accompanied by Madonna, were the
sexiest couple, but they disagreed as to which was the sexy slut and which
was a sexy drag-queen.  "Are you sure that isn't Cindy and Clarice?" Willie
asked.

   "No," answered Fred, "Cindy is Cinderella and Clarice is the handsome
prince."

   "They do make a handsome couple, don't they?" she replied.

   "They always have," he answered.  "They always have."

   Fred and Willie also agreed that the naughty nurse and horny doctor were
the sluttiest.  The doctor was wearing a hospital lab coat, open at the
front with nothing under it but a very strategically placed OR mask.  The
nurse was wearing a skirt not much bigger than a belt, thigh- high white
fishnet stockings with red crosses on the front, and an oversized,
old-fashioned nurse's cap.  Her tiny, but oddly shaped, thong was red with
a white cross exactly over her clit.  What made the tiny thong look strange
was that it did not decrease in a V to just a G-string going between her
legs.  Instead, it remained an inch or two wide until it curved slightly up
to meet the strings of the waistband.  Two stethoscope heads acting as
nipple covers completed the ensemble.

   By 6:45, it appeared as if all of the guests had arrived and Fred and
Willie had all but given up on selecting a most evil costume.  Then the
door opened and both of their mouths dropped wide open in shock.  Someone
made up to look exactly like The Fallen One walked through the door with a
female companion made up to look like a she-devil and not just any
she-devil.  She was the spitting image of The Mother of Lilith.

   "It's not him.  It's not him," Fred hissed to Willie.  "He's not quite
the right height and doesn't move right, so it's not him.  But, damned,
that makeup is exact.  It has to be someone who has met him...  someone
with a huge set of brass balls."

   "It's not her, either," Willie hissed back.  "She's smaller, and much
more graceful than that, but the skin looks right.  With as much as she is
showing, it had to have been dyed red all over her body, and her yellow
eyes have the same slits as The Mother."

   Fred started to whisper something else to Willie, but stopped because
the couple was now directly in front of them.  The man took Fred's
outstretched hand in greeting and said in a deep, resonant voice, "Thank
you for inviting me into your house.  I go by many names, but tonight you
may call me Scratch.'"

   At the same time, the woman took Willie's hand and murmured, "And you
may call me Lily."

   Maxwell and Marta were standing nearby holding trays of canape's and
champagne for the arriving guests.  Both looked over with raised eyebrows
and strange expressions on their faces.  Max shrugged his shoulders and
formed his lips into an exaggerated frown.  He then mouthed, "I have no
idea."

   Willie recovered first from the shock which had frozen them in place and
said cheerily.  "Welcome to the greatest Halloween party ever.  We will be
dining shortly."

   She grabbed a flute of champagne from the tray Marta was holding and
offered it to The Mother, saying, "We have opened the best of our wine
cellar for tonight.  After all, tomorrow may never come."

   "Tomorrow always comes," the man dressed as The Fallen One said with a
deep chuckle.  "The question is whether or not you will be there to see the
sunrise."

   "Yes," Fred answered dryly, "that is always the question." Then after
his own forced chuckle he added, "...  isn't it?"

   At exactly seven pm, Maxwell appeared at the edge of the room and
announced in his typically precise manner, "Dinner is served."

   As the Whetheringtons and their guests filed into the dining room, Max
leaned close to Fred and said softly, "I had to set two additional places.
We have gatecrashers." He frowned, then tilting his head slightly upward,
pointed his nose at The Fallen One and The Mother and said in his most
pompous tone, "I believe it is the couple who dares to impersonate your
master and mistress, m'Lord."

   "We will see when the masks come off at midnight, won't we?" Fred
answered.

   ***

   The seven-course meal was presented in European fashion with each course
being cleared from the table before the next course was served.  Dessert,
the final course, was creme brulee.  The rich, caramel-topped custard was
one of Marta's specialties and both Fred and Willie's favorite dessert. 
Willie had especially requested it for tonight, "just in case this doesn't
work."

   After all had finished and the dishes were cleared, Fred invited
everyone into the large front room for coffee and conversation.  "We have a
few games that ought to make the evening interesting, enjoyable, and
memorable," he said as he ushered people to the couches and chairs which
had been arranged in a large ragged circle in the huge room.  A warm fire
crackled in the large fireplace in the corner along one of the outside
walls.  Heavy curtains blocked off the wide bay window area.

   As the guests found their seats, Maxwell and Marta hurriedly brought two
more chairs into the room.  Max quietly huffed his displeasure at whomever
the party crashers were, but no one except Willie heard or noticed him.

   "You have just participated in and enjoyed a seven-course meal," Fred
began.  "Now we will participate in and most of you will enjoy a
seven-course evening of sexual pleasure."

   Several of the women blushed and quiet murmuring filled the room, but no
one reacted in shock or attempted to leave.  All present knew what type of
parties Fred and Willie often gave and were expecting some sort of sexual
content to the evening.

   "And since," Fred continued, "my majordomo, Maxwell, did such a superb
job of directing us through our marvelous supper, he will now guide us
through...  The Seven Levels of Sexual Sin."

   Several of the women giggled slightly.  One or two of the men laughed
aloud and one exclaimed, "All right!"

   "Monsieurs and Mademoiselles," Max began, "all of you agreed to
participate as needed in our festivities this evening." He chuckled deeply.
"For those of you who don't remember agreeing, I would advise that you read
the small print on everything in the future."

   He chuckled again.  "And for those of you who think you aren't willing
to participate or you won't participate or that we can't make you
participate, participants have already been selected.  If you were
selected, you have already been given a very expensive and very secret
drug. There was a timed cocktail of sedatives and other drugs in some of
your creme brulees that will kick in at the appropriate time." Another
chuckle.  "So, if you suddenly feel very, very tired, know that you are
perhaps part of the next course."

   He chuckled slightly once again as he looked about the room "Prince
Charming and Cinderella," he asked, "are you feeling a little tired...  or
perhaps like your inhibitions are fading away?"

   "We don't have any inhibitions to begin with," Clarice answered
cheerily. "As long as it doesn't involve screwing a man or a horse, bring
it on."

   Everyone laughed as Clarice Prince Charming took Cinderella into his/her
arms and gave her a loud passionate kiss.

   A witch in black satin and her partner warlock dressed in a matching
robe made from purple satin suddenly stopped laughing as Max added, "What
about Merga and Cyric?"

   Cyric, the warlock in purple started to rise, but stumbled drunkenly
into the center of the circle.  "Why the hell not?" witch Merga said with a
smile.  "It's not like I haven't screwed in public before.  What do we need
to do?"

   "Our selection from the first level of sexual sin is Voyeurism and its
complimentary sin, Exhibitionism," Max explained.  "All you have to do is
let us watch you have sex.  You will be the exhibitionists, we will be the
voyeurs."

   "Come here, honey," Merga said with a lopsided smile.  "That drug has
totally destroyed my inhibitions and I'm ready to exhibit some primo sex
for these nice voyeurs."

   In one swift motion she stripped off her witch's robe and stood naked in
the center of the room.  Cyric actually David, the accountant stripped off
his robe.  He was wearing a T-shirt and a pair of sports shorts beneath it.
Merga actually Alice, David's wife, laughed and said, "I guess I'm the
exhibitionist in the family, aren't I?" She gave another loopy smile and
added with a slurred voice, "But you won't pass up a chance to screw me,
will you, honey?"

   In answer, Dave pulled off his T-shirt and slid down his shorts.  The
fact that he was wearing a pair of tighty-whities under the shorts brought
a chorus of laughter, causing him to turn bright red as he slid them slowly
to the floor.

   Alice pushed downward on his shoulders and he slowly went to his knees.
She pressed her body against his and it looked, at first, like she was
going to press her bushy cunt against his face.  Instead she continued
pressing against him until he fell over on his back with her straddling his
chest.  She then slid down slightly on his body and, after raising up a
little, impaled herself on his now rigid prick.  She began moaning and
panting almost immediately as she rode him with forceful bounces that
caused him to give out a distinct "oomf" each time she bottomed out against
his pelvis.

   As her cries continued to climb in volume and pitch, Willie leaned in
close to Fred and whispered, "What sort of secret drug did Marta put in
those desserts?"

   Fred laughed softly and shielded his mouth as he whispered back, "The
secret is...  there is no drug.  But they don't know that."

   They both laughed quietly as Alice screamed out her first orgasm.

   Meanwhile, Cindy and Clarice were naked and locked in a mutual scissors
that allowed them to wildly grind their cunts together.  Clarice encouraged
Cindy with cries of "That's it baby, harder, harder, harder!" until they
both began screaming out in orgasm.  Cindy swung around in one sudden
motion and embraced Clarice as she pressed their mouths together.

   Someone in the crowd of voyeurs began a slow clap that grew in speed and
volume until everyone stood with many shouting "Bravo!  Bravo!"

   As the applause began to die away, Fred motioned for everyone to be
quiet and then said, "There is one other rule to the evening that I really
should explain at this time.  That rule is simple.  Once something comes
off, it stays off.' That means masks, clothing, whatever."

   "What about my glasses?" asked Little Bo Peep.  From the thickness of
her lenses, everyone knew it was Beverly despite the excellence of the rest
of her costume and makeup.

   "Don't worry, Beverly," Fred replied.  "If it's something you need to
function, then you can put it back on."

   "I assume that includes my peg leg," laughed Captain Hook.  "The hook's
fake, but I left my real prosthetic leg at home and don't want to be
hopping around all night."

   Fred joined his laughter, "Yes, Gerald," he replied, "that includes your
peg leg."

   ***

   Maxwell stepped into the center of the room and announced in his
typically pompous voice, "It is now time for the second course."

   He nodded to Clarice and Cindy and then to David and Alice and said,
"You may return to your seats."

   As they picked up their clothing and walked back to the sofas and
chairs, Marta handed each of them a towel with instructions to put it under
them before they sat down.  After they were seated, Max swivelled his head
back and forth several times stopping briefly to stare at this person or
that.

   "I believe it is time for a horny doctor and slutty nurse to show us the
rest of their costumes," he said firmly.  Donna Tucker and Wayne Forrester
immediately turned deep red.  They were both Fred and Willie's pick for the
sluttiest costumes but, as usual, Maxwell knew the rest of the story better
than anyone else in the room.  After all, he spoke with the servants and
maids of all of the other guests and knew secrets that only those who are
deemed invisible by their masters and employers ever get to see.

   Neither Donna nor Wayne rose from their chairs.  Everyone else in the
room was now staring at them.  Max again spoke, "Give the drugs a minute to
catch up," he said in a measured tone.  "Timing such things can be a very
tricky process."

   He walked over so that he was directly in front of the nurse and doctor
and asked, "Do you feel that joy juice flowing through your veins shredding
your will and destroying your inhibitions?"

   He smiled a most disconcerting smile and then added, "You have no
choice. Leave what little clothing you have at your seats and come out into
the center of the room."

   Both Donna and Wayne stood up, stripped off their insignificant
costumes, and walked slowly into the center of the room.  Donna obviously
had something in her vagina, because a small, T-handle was visible
protruding just past her labia.  It was most likely a chastity pear as that
would match Dave's cock, which was enclosed in a chastity cage.

   "The second level," intoned Max, "is public humiliation.  Our naughty
nurse and horny doctor didn't wear their skimpy costumes just to win the
most slutty prize tonight.  They did so in the secret hope that something
would go wrong with their car, or they would have an accident and have to
walk around in public in those costumes.  Similarly, they wore their
chastity devices beneath their costumes in the perverse hope that they
might be forced to publicly expose themselves and their perversions here at
this party."

   He paused for a moment and then continued, "Sometimes hopes become
reality.  If you look carefully, you will see that Donna and Wayne also
have almost matching anal plugs." He chuckled and said, " Lean over and
show the people your hidden jewelry." Both Donna and Wayne bent at the
waist to reveal shiny butt plugs.

   "Spread your cheeks and tell us what the plugs say," Max ordered.

   Donna answered for both of them and said, "Mine says slut.' Dave's says
slave.'"

   "You actually get turned on by being humiliated, don't you?" he asked.

   "Yes," Dave answered softly.  Donna merely nodded her head.

   "Your holes are all plugged," mused Max, "so what could I possibly have
you do for our sexual enjoyment?"

   He turned to the group and asked, "What do you think?"

   "They're not all plugged!" shouted someone.  "They still have an open
mouth."

   "Ah, yes," Max replied.  "And the most humiliating thing that a woman
can do is to give a man a blow job in public."

   Donna turned a deeper shade of red, but at the same time she began to
pant slowly.

   "And would that not be even more embarrassing for a man?"

   Max slowly turned around with his hand in the air pointing at the crowd
with his finger.  "I guess we need two men to help us out." He stopped and
extended his arm fully "How about Thing 1 and Thing 2?"

   Two young men dressed in red shirts with big white circles on the front
with the numbers one and two on them stood up.  "I know it will be a bit of
an imposition to ask that one of you let yourself be sucked off by a woman,
but I think the drugs will help you relax your standards a little." "A blow
job's a blow job," answered Thing 2.  "As long as she doesn't bite, I'm
game."

   "Keep your costumes on," Max instructed.  "It will add to their
humiliation."

   Thing 1 and Thing 2 walked into the center of the room, unzipped their
pants, and pulled out their pricks.  Thing 1 was already stiff.  Thing 2
gave his cock a few quick strokes and it also stiffened.

   "On your knees," Max ordered Donna and Wayne.  "...  and crawl over to
your proper positions."

   Both dropped immediately to their knees and began crawling across the
floor to where Thing 1 and Thing 2 were standing.  As Wayne approached
Thing 1, it was obvious that his own cock was trying to become erect but
the rings and thorns of the chastity cage were preventing that.

   "Beg for it," Max ordered, and Wayne said "Thing 1, may I please suck
your cock?"

   Donna just looked up at Thing 2 and said, "Please?"

   Thing 1 and Thing 2 answered in unison, "Of course," and Wayne and Donna
immediately pulled their cocks into their mouths.

   Donna was obviously an accomplished cocksucker.  Wayne knew what he was
doing, but he seemed distracted by the pain of his chastity cage. 
Amazingly, the humiliation of sucking Thing 1's cock in front of all of
these people was turning him on so much that eventually his own cock no
longer responded to the pain and swelled up to fill the constraints of the
cock cage to the absolute limit.  As he continued to suck and lick, Thing 1
began to thrust against his mouth and reached down to hold his head so that
it would not bounce away from the thrusts.

   Finally, with a deep groan, Thing 1 spurted into Dave's mouth.  As soon
as that happened, Dave himself shuddered and a small amount of semen
dripped from his trapped cock.  His cock remained totally stiff, however,
because the tight rings of the cage now trapped the blood in his engorged
member.

   A moment later, Thing 2 also groaned and thrust one last time very
deeply into Donna's mouth.  She pumped her mouth up and down a few more
times on Thing 2's cock and then fell over on her back and spread her legs
so that she could frantically get herself off with her own hands.

   Someone again began a slow clap, but Max held out his hands for silence
and said solemnly, "One does not applaud humiliation unless it adds to the
humiliation." After that, everyone stared in silence as Wayne and Donna
rose shakily to their feet and looked around the room.

   "I'm afraid that cock cage is going to have to be cut off," Fred said,
stepping into the center of the room with a large pair of wire cutters in
his hand.  "Or we could just wait until gangrene sets in," he added with a
laugh, "and it will drop off all on its own."

   He then turned Wayne so that they were more or less face to face and
reached down with the wire cutters and began snipping the rings of the cock
cage.  "Hold yourself out of the way," he ordered, "or I might snip off
something you don't want to lose."

   Wayne groaned in added humiliation as he pulled his trapped prick away
from the metal rings as best he could so Fred could cut them.  A moment
later he screamed out in pain as the cage fell away.  It was not just the
sharp barbs pulling out of his skin.  The circulation to his penis was
restored and with it came the pain that his body had been prevented from
feeling while everything was cut off by his swollen member straining
against the metal sheath.

   "You know," said Fred rather matter-of- factly as Dave swayed in pain,
"a eunuch doesn't have to worry about chastity devises or the pain they
sometimes cause." He laughed and added, "And if you don't get a cock cage
with an emergency release, you just might find that out first hand." He
then slapped Wayne soundly on the ass and told him to go sit down.

   ***

   Maxwell had once again come to the center of the room.  "The third level
of sexual decadence," he began, "goes beyond exhibitionism and
humiliation... ...  to pain."

   He again turned slowly in place surveying the assembled party goers. 
"I'm afraid, however," he continued, "that we do not have even one matched
pair of pain sluts with us tonight." He smiled, "So that means we have to
break up a couple or two for our demonstration."

   He spun rather suddenly and pointed directly at Wonder Woman.  "How do
you feel about pain, Diana King?"

   She gasped and Max laughed as he added, "I do rather like the play on
names with Diana Prince and Diana King.  But while Diana Prince's alternate
identity is Wonder Woman.  Diana King's alternate identity is
PainslutQueen1942, and your password is DCDPDW1942."

   Diana again gasped, this time grabbing at her throat with her hand.  "
DC for DC Comics.  DP for Diana Prince.  DW for Diana White, her married
name.  And 1942 because that is the year that Wonder Woman premiered in DC
comics."

   "How...  How...  How could you know all that?" she sputtered out.

   "PainslutQueen1942 made way too many references to Wonder Woman comics
in the chat rooms," Max explained smugly.  "It piqued the interest of a
hacker friend of mine.  He came to me after he had discovered your secret
and asked me if I knew who you were."

   He smiled once again and Diana slumped her shoulders and looked down at
the ground.  "Now we all know who you really are, don't we?"

   He spun almost 180 degrees and pointed at a really bad Jack Sparrow
impersonator.  "Just as we know who you really are, Trevor."

   The pirate jumped back slightly as Max advanced on him.  "I've seen the
costumes that you have created for others.  They are wonderfully inventive
and exquisitely constructed." He lifted up the felt vest that Trevor was
wearing.  "This piece of crap, on the other hand, can have only one
purpose, and that is to cause people to make fun of you or perhaps go even
beyond that and maybe punch you or spank you."

   At the word spank, Trevor began shaking his head and stammering "No, no,
it isn't anything like that."

   "But the drugs will reveal the true you," replied Max.  "Why don't you
just drop your pants to the floor, bend over this sofa, and let your lovely
wife Mahaila whale away on your ass with this leather paddle."

   Max once again gave that false smile that somehow seemed very foreboding
and continued, "It's what you have wanted to do for a long time, isn't it?
But you have never had the nerve to ask her to do it."

   Trevor continued to shake his head slowly back and forth, but at the
same time inched his way over to the back of the couch and began unbuckling
the belt of his costume.  Once it was loose, he opened his pants and let
them drop to his feet.  He wasn't wearing anything under them.

   "We will deal with Wonder Woman in just a minute," Max said, suddenly
very cheerful in his speech.  "But first we have to decide how many swats
our wretched imitation of Captain Jack Sparrow should receive from his
lovely wife."

   As he spoke he handed a black leather paddle to a rather muscular black
woman who was dressed as an Amazon warrior.  "Trevor made that exquisite
costume for you, didn't he?" he asked.

   "Yes," she replied softly.  "It was what I wanted."

   "Then don't you think you should thank him by giving him what he really
wants and needs?" Max asked.

   In response, she swung the paddle through a wide arc and a loud "Crack"
echoed through the room.  Trevor gasped...  grunted...  and then moaned as
if someone had just taken his cock into their mouths.

   "Not yet," Max said.  "We haven't decided how many strokes you should
give him."

   "Until he cums," the Amazon replied, "...  or begs me to stop."

   With that she stood behind Trevor, and looking defiantly into Max's
eyes, began delivering blow after blow to her husband's upturned ass.  The
crowd was counting softly as she repeatedly swung the paddle.  At around
ten strokes, a light sheen of perspiration appeared on her ebony skin.  At
around twenty strokes Trevor began grunting out "Oh, oh, oh, oh" with each
impact of the shinny leather.  On the thirty-ninth stroke, he suddenly
yelled out a deep, long cry and stood up.  His cock was erect and spurting
cum over the top of the leather couch cushions.

   "I think this is definitely going to change some things around our
house," Mahaila said as she stood with the paddle at her side panting
perhaps in exertion, perhaps in passion.  "I'm going to take him over in
the corner, and he is now going to do a little something for me." She
smiled as she slapped the leather against her hand.  "Only his paddle is a
lot smaller and wetter and can get to just the right spots if he sticks it
out far enough."

   As Mahaila pulled Trevor toward the far corner, Maxwell once again
stepped into the center of the room.  "We haven't forgotten you, Diana," he
began.  "And before you waste your time protesting that we are wrong about
you, look down.  Your body testifies against you."

   Diana looked down at her blue spandex costume.  A darker blue splotch
now decorated the area between her legs and the stars within the splotch
were no longer shining white.  "Why don't you just take off those sopping
wet bottoms or for that matter, why not take everything off except your
bracelets and crown, and put yourself over the couch like Trevor did?"

   Wonder Woman slowly slid her panty-like bottoms to the ground, followed
shortly thereafter by her red top and cape.  That left her standing there
in her crown, her bracelets, and her thigh-high red and white shiny leather
boots.  "The couch," said Max and she slowly draped herself over the
leather cushions.

   "On second thought," he said, "it might be better if you were just on
your hands and knees in the middle of the room." Diana pushed herself up
from the couch and followed Max's directions so that she was now on her
hands and knees in the spot he indicated.

   "We are going to see just how much of a pain slut you really are," he
said.  "You can get up and go back to your partner at any time, but if you
do so before you orgasm from the pain, you will not be able to cum in any
fashion for the rest of the evening.  The drugs you ingested will prevent
that and I won't give you the antidote unless you stay with the pain all
the way to the peak.  Do you understand that?"

   "Yes," she answered.  "I cum from the pain or I don't get to cum at all
for at least the rest of the night."

   "You understand very well," Max said with a smile.  Marta walked into
the center of the room to join him for a moment.  She was carrying a long,
cane-like object which she handed to her husband and then returned to the
edges of the crowd.

   Max lifted the cane and placed its tip or should I say tips against
Wonder Woman's cunt and asshole.  There was a slight click, a soft "pffft",
and an extremely loud scream as the cattle prod discharged.  Diana's body
reflexively straightened from the jolt which passed through it and she
launched herself forward several feet to where she lay panting and sobbing
on the floor.

   "Return to the position," Max ordered softly.  As she pulled herself
back up to her hands and knees and crawled back into place, he turned to
the room and asked, "How many do you think it will take for her to cum?" He
surveyed the crowd and added, "Or do you think she will break first?"

   "She will take whatever you give her," said Superman, who had
accompanied Wonder Woman to the party.  "She is that much into pain."

   Six more times the click, pffft, and scream were repeated.  Each time it
took just a little longer for her to pull herself back up to her hands and
knees and return to her position.  The last time, as she wobbled back to
her place in front of Max, instead of finalizing her position by spreading
her hands and knees to brace herself, she rolled over onto her back with
her legs drawn up and her feet nearly against her ass.  She then spread her
knees widely.

   "Are you sure you want to do it this way?" Max asked.

   In response, she spread her knees even further apart causing her cunt to
gape slightly.  Max muttered, "So be it," and pressed the prod against her
from the front.  Now the two prongs were against her clit and the very back
of her cunt opening.  This time the click, pffft, was followed by an
extremely loud and long yell that sounded like the scream of a tormented
soul from the depths of hell.

   Diana took a gurgling intake of breath and continued to scream, but the
tone of the scream changed.  It was deeper, throatier, and broken into
short gasps.  Her back arched so greatly that her body came up off the
ground except where her shoulders and heels were touching.  She remained in
that position quivering and screaming for several minutes until she
collapsed back to the floor with a sigh.

   Several people in the crowd could be seen exchanging money.  Evidently
there had been a few side bets as to whether or not anyone could actually
cum from such pain.  Diana rose shakily to her feet and Marta handed her a
small glass.  "It will taste like white wine," Marta murmured, "but it will
counteract any effects of the other drugs."

   Diana drained the small glass in one gulp and returned to Superman on
one of the leather couches.  Again, Marta handed her a towel to sit on.

   "It's time for a short intermission to our activities," Max announced.
"Refill your drinks.  Pick up some snacks.  But do not leave.  We will
resume shortly.

   ***

   About a half hour later, Maxwell called everyone back into the front
room.  The furniture had been slightly re- arranged so that it was now in a
semi-circle facing the outer wall.  Four raised lecterns or podia stood
facing the room.  A fifth was slightly to the side.

   "For our next courses of sexual sin," Max explained, "We are going to
play a little game for some very high stakes." One of the helpers came into
the room and handed something very heavy to Max, who grunted slightly as he
stepped forward and placed it on a small pedestal slightly in front of
where he was standing.  When he stepped back so that the object could be
seen, there was a loud gasp from the crowd.

   "Yes," he said smugly, "that is a standard 400 ounce bar of gold
bullion." He chuckled, "I'm sure that all of you know the current price of
gold.  It is down a little from its peak, but this shiny door stopper is
still worth somewhere around a half a million dollars."

   He looked around the crowd, stopping to make eye contact with several of
the people who were staring greedily at the softly shining gold bar.  "Are
any of you greedy enough to put yourself up against this gold bar in our
little game?"

   He laughed then said, "Of course you are.  How silly of me to ask." He
raised his hand with one finger extended like some ancient orator and
asked, "But are any of you greedy enough to put your spouse up against this
Good Delivery Certified' bar of precious metal?

   "What about you, Dracula?  Are you willing to put Elvira at risk?

   "And you, Klingon?  Would you risk your Starfleet mate?

   "Or perhaps you, Doctor Frankenstein.  Are you willing to put up your
bride?

   "Perhaps Clyde would be willing to put Bonnie on the block for a chance
to win this little bauble?"

   The room became very quiet.  Max waited for a few more moments and said
softly, "I assure you that none of you have been given any drugs.  The only
drug acting on you right now is your own greed.

   "The rules of the game are very simple.  We will play four rounds.  The
loser of the first round experiences forced exhibition.  The loser of the
second round receives forced humiliation.  The third round is, of course,
forced pain.  And the fourth round...  well, we will discuss that when we
get there.  But at that point, the remaining player will have to decide if
they are going to walk away with a consolation prize or risk everything
going for even more than this bauble that you now see before you."

   Marta was standing next to the curtains which closed off the bay window
area.  She reached behind the edge of the curtains and they began slowly
sliding open.  "If you are willing to take the risk," Max continued, "then
restrain your partner or spouse in one the devices in the bay window and go
take your position behind the corresponding podium."

   For several more moments, no one moved.  Then the mad doctor stood up
and pulled his wife to a standing position.  "Do I have to?" she whined. 
"You said I wouldn't have to do anything tonight.  I only came because I
wanted to see what that crazy old bastard was up to this time."

   "I know what he is up to," Dr.  Frankenstein actually Harold Bently, a
local real estate developer said harshly.  "He is hoping that he can
embarrass me or hurt me.  That might happen, but I'm willing to take the
risk.  That gold bar is worth over $500,000 dollars."

   "But I'm the one who might get stuck with a cattle prod or have to suck
off one of these old farts," Gloria whined, shaking her heavy,
lightning-bolt-streaked wig from side to side.

   "You married me for my power and wealth," he shot back, "remember,
honey? And you've gotten real used to using that power and spending my
money.  Don't you think it's time that you earned some of it?"

   With that he dragged her over to the first platform, which was labeled
with a large number 1.  "Into the stocks," he ordered.  Gloria complied and
he quickly closed the top over her head and hands.

   "Actually," Maxwell said, now holding his hand up as if instructing a
student, "these are pillories, even though they are commonly called stocks.
Technically, a stock is flat on the ground and holds a person's legs while
they are seated on the ground.  A pillory, on the other hand, holds a
person bent over at the waist by trapping their hands and head."

   "Whatever," snarled a rough-looking man in a pin- striped 1920's style
suit as he locked his partner in crime into pillory number 2.  Bonnie was
actually Loraine Westcamp, and Clyde was her husband Tim.  Tim was a local
banker known for foreclosing on properties as soon as possible if a person
began to have trouble making the payments.  Loraine was known for
controlling most of the upscale social activities in town and taking great
joy in freezing out any woman whom she deemed to be unworthy.

   Mr.  Worf, actually Virgil Hampton, a physics teacher at the local high
school, carefully placed his companion's head in pillory number 3.  "I'll
do my best to win," he assured him.  "I know it's a risk, but we really
could use the extra cash."

   "I knew I shouldn't have worn a red shirt tonight," the Starfleet
midshipman wailed in response.  He was actually Lee Williams, a grade
school teacher.

   Meanwhile, Dracula and Vampira continued a rather loud, hissing
argument. Dracula actually an accountant named Bruce Stover and Vampira
actually his significant other and co-owner of his accounting firm, Wendy
Saperstein evidently reached agreement because she walked over and set her
hands and head into Pillory number 4.

   Several heads swivelled in an attempt to get a good view down Vampira's
cleavage, but as she leaned over it was very obvious that she had a thin
blouse or some other kind of wrap beneath the deep V of the black dress. 
Actually all four of the "spouses" were very conservatively dressed for one
of Fred's parties.  It was rather obvious that none of them had intended to
be participants in whatever it was that Maxwell and Fred had in mind.

   "We are not going to rely on buzzers or any other gimmicks like that,"
Max began.  "This will not be a contest of luck and speed, but rather will
be purely a competition of knowledge, wisdom, and cunning."

   He paused to look each contestant squarely in the eyes and said, "You
have heard the rules.  You know what you are risking.  We are descending
into non-consensual sex.  There are many different choices at each level,
but we are going to stick with our choices from the three consensual
levels. That means non-consensual exhibition, non-consensual humiliation,
and non-consensual pain.  That is what you are risking."

   He paused and took a deep breath before continuing quietly, "You can
still change your mind at this point.  All you have to do is release your
partner and go back to your chairs." His voice suddenly became loud and
forceful, "But once we begin, there is no backing out.  You are in this
contest until you win or until your partner pays the forfeit."

   Max again looked each man in the eyes and asked, "Are you in or out?"

   "I'm in," responded each in turn.

   "Then we begin," he said softly.

   ***

   "The first question is a moral and legal one," Max explained.  "Your
company has built a substandard apartment building which collapsed when it
caught fire from faulty wiring.  Many people were killed in the inferno and
you are being held personally and legally liable for the negligence.  What
do you do?"

   Max reached under his podium and pulled out a large analog timer.  It
was set to five minutes.  "You have five minutes to come up with an
appropriate solution," he said.  "After we have heard all solutions, the
group will judge them from best to worst." He laughed and added, "Remember,
you don't have to have the best answer, you just have to NOT have the worst
answer.  The worst answer is the loser in this round."

   He pressed a large button on the top of the timer and the second hand
began its sweep around the clock face.  All four men paused in thought for
a few moments and then began writing furiously on the large whiteboards
which would display their answer.  Meanwhile, Marta and several other
serving maids, passed through the crowd with drinks and snacks.

   A loud "ding" announced the end of the five minutes.  "Pens down," said
Max.  "And be ready to display your answers." Clyde turned over his slate
and said in his tough-guy voice, "Cop a plea and turn against your partners
and the architect.  Let them take most of the fall."

   Polite applause met this response and Tim Westlake frowned at the crowd,
obviously displeased that his answer was not appreciated.

   Lt.  Worf snarled out his answer.  "Hire the best lawyers money can buy
and tie it up in the courts until you die of old age."

   From the level of conversation buzzing in the room, it appeared as if
the party goers were arguing about which of the attorneys they knew could
actually do that.

   Dr.  Frankenstein turned over his slate and read his answer in a
clipped, Austrian accent that wasn't a part of his character but was
actually the way that Harold, whose last name was Von Schmidt, actually
spoke.  "Convert your holdings into cash," he read, "and flee to a country
without extradition.  With enough money in your hands, anywhere is home."

   This answer was met with more enthusiastic applause than the first two.

   Dracula chuckled softly.  His laugh had an evil tone to it that brought
shivers to many of those who heard it.  "I would not be in that position to
begin with," his answer began.  "I would have formed a new company through
one of my holding companies when I bid the contract to build the building.
That way I would be at least two levels away from the charges and they
wouldn't be able to come back against me personally."

   Bruce Stover, who actually ran several different construction companies
in the state in addition to his accounting firm, then finished with "And to
make sure, I would probably use a holding company headquartered in Mexico
or some Caribbean nation so that the listing of ownership and board of
directors would not be public record."

   His answer was met with loud applause and shouts of "Bravo, bravo,
bravo!"

   "I think we have a winner," said Max.  "And more importantly, we have a
loser."

   Loraine Westcamp began to struggle against the wooden stock which held
her firmly in place.  Meanwhile, Tim began slowly backing further into the
corner of the room.

   "Don't worry, Mr.  Banker," Max intoned.  "Nothing will happen to you.
The only pain you will experience will be to stand and watch your wife
publicly humiliate herself by displaying for us her true inner slut."

   He chuckled slightly, "But then you usually just stand in the shadows
and watch others struggle while you collect your fee, don't you?  Your fee
tonight, by the way the consolation prize for this round is twenty thousand
dollars."

   Tim smiled at the thought of the cash while his wife, Loraine, renewed
her struggles in the pillory.  Two of the black-clothed helpers pulled the
stand holding the pillory and her into the center of the room.  They then
began cutting away at her clothing using electric scissors.  They did not
cut through the cloth so that the blouse or dress would immediately fall,
but instead cut thin strips so that they slowly trimmed the cloth back
revealing more and more of her body to the crowd.

   "Slow and steady does it," said Maxwell in his measured tone.  "Let the
suspense build as she displays more and more flesh like the common whore
that she really is."

   At his words, Loraine turned an even deeper shade of red.  The phrase
"common whore," was one of the descriptors which she, herself, used when
denying membership to other women at one of her exclusive clubs.

   When the old-fashioned blouse and skirt were lying in strips on the
floor at her feet, the two helpers began attacking her undergarments.  Soon
she was standing bent over, naked and quivering, in front of people whom
she normally viewed as her inferiors.

   "Now we will see just how much of a slut you really are," boomed Max. 
Another platform was wheeled into the room.  On it sat a Sybian female
masturbation machine.  Loraine immediately knew what it was because she had
one secreted in her upstairs closet.  She was sure that no one knew about
it, but this unit was identical, even to exactly the same twin dildos
mounted on the crest of the saddle-like machine.

   Of course, "no one," in Loraine's mind would not include her personal
maids and servants.  She didn't ever think of them as people.  They were
nothings...  nobodies...  no ones...  and those "no ones" knew all about
her evenings riding her "unicorn," as she called her machine.

   "How long do you think this slut needs to ride the unicorn before she
has her tenth orgasm?" asked Max.

   Loraine's mouth was now fully agape.  The fact that Max had called it a
unicorn shocked her greatly.  But ten orgasms!  She had ridden her unicorn
to five before, and perhaps six or seven if she was really carried away,
but she would not be able to stand ten.  And she would be doing this in
front of her friends.  They would know how truly wanton she was if she
allowed herself to orgasm in front of them again and again and again.

   The two helpers who had cut off her clothing stepped back and a
different two released her from the pillory and guided her over to the
platform with the Sybian mounted on it.  They forced her to her knees
straddling the machine and positioned her above the dildos.  Then, after
strapping her feet and shins firmly in place, they pushed her down on the
twin plastic pricks.

   The two dildos had been heavily lubricated and she slid relatively
easily into place.  A wide leather belt was strapped around her waist and
four very strong elastic bands were attached from the belt to the edges of
the platform and made taut.  She could move slightly, but was held very
firmly in place on the machine.  Her arms were then crossed behind her
back, wrists to elbows.  and bound in place.

   After the two helpers stepped away, silence reigned for several moments
as the guests watched her squirm with discomfort and try to look away from
their gaze.  Then a soft humming filled the room which grew louder and
louder as the machine was brought up to its maximum settings.  Those who
were familiar with a Sybian knew that the forward dildo was now also
rotating within her cunt stimulating her from within as much, or more so,
than the vibrations were stimulating her clit and the tender flesh between
her legs.  The anal probe transmitted the vibrations of the machine deep
inside her.

   Now soft moans and cries of "No, please no, please make it stop," were
starting to fill the room.  The cries soon turned to gasps of "Oh, oh, oh,
oh," and then, as the vibrations continued, became unintelligible grunts
and gasps which soon turned into a shrill, keening wail as Loraine was
forced higher and higher toward her first orgasm.

   Suddenly, she threw back her head and ground her crotch frantically
against the machine as she screamed out her first orgasm.  Her mind wanted
to drift in the afterglow of that orgasm, but as many of the women in the
crowd knew, that was not possible on a running Sybian where one orgasm was
just the gateway to a second and third and fourth until your body could
stand no more.

   Loraine gasped and screamed as the rotating plastic penis massaged her
cunt from the inside while the thundering vibrations pounded against her
clit and slit and ass from below.  Somehow, she was managing to rise high
enough to almost pull off of the dildos, but her body did not have the
strength hold her up for very long against the strong elastic.  Her muscles
soon fatigued, causing her to slam back down on the saddle as if pushed in
place by a very forceful set of hands.

   "Three," Max counted aloud as she was driven to her third orgasm.  The
crowd counted for him when it was obvious she had reached her fourth
orgasm. By the time she reached her ninth forced orgasm, only a few in the
crowd were even bothering to keep count.

   "Ten," Max finally said.  Then he added, "Just turn it down a little and
push her over into the corner and let her enjoy herself while we go on with
our contest."

   Even in her lust- fogged state of mind, Loraine was able to comprehend
what Max had said and tried to protest.  "No, please," her voice quivered
out.  She tried to say something else, but the ministrations of the machine
overwhelmed her and she once again slid into the throes of orgasm.

   "We will keep watch over her and shut things down if it looks like it
might cause permanent damage," Max assured the guests.  Loraine's husband,
Tim, meanwhile was back in one of the couches, sitting quietly and sipping
a drink as he watched his wife writhe in passion on that devilish machine.

   *** Max listened to the soft moans and whimpers from the corner for a
few moments and then turned his attention back to the remaining three
contestants.  "The question this time is a business problem," he began. 
"You are the owner and manager of a large construction company.  You have
had an understanding with the inspectors for years, but now there is a new
inspector who won't look the other way.  The local newspaper is also
sniffing around trying to dig up a Pulitzer Prize winning expose'.

   "There is no way that you can finish on time and satisfy this new
building inspector.  There are significant penalties for late completion
and significant bonuses for early completion.  The very existence of the
company hinges on your actions.  How do you handle the problem?

   " ...  Again, you have five minutes to formulate your answer."

   While soft music played and the three contestants wrote furiously, Marta
and several others servants again moved among the guests with trays of
drinks and after-diner snacks.  At exactly five minutes, the timer chimed
and Max yelled out, "Pens down."

   After a moment of silence, he said, "Let's start with our mighty Klingon
warrior."

   Lt.  Worf Virgil the physics teacher suggested, "Bribe him at whatever
level it takes."

   Significant murmuring resulted from that plan.

   Bruce Stover Dracula turned over his slate which said, "Have him taken
care of so it looks like an accident."

   That also created some significant murmuring, and there were also many
people nodding their heads in agreement.

   Doctor Frankenstein had what was obviously the favorite plan.  His slate
said, "Blackmail his wife and make her put pressure on her inspector
husband to play along.  That way, there's no direct connection or paper
trail."

   When he turned over his white board, his plan was met with applause.

   "I think we have a winner," Max said loudly.  "But who is our loser and
why?"

   Abraham Lincoln actually Judge McConnell stood and said, "The Klingon's
plan is the worst for the same reason that Frankenstein's plan is the best.
Bribing the reluctant inspector directly creates a paper trail that a cop
or reporter or some federal racketeering commission can bring into court,
especially if he won't go along with you.  You might get your building
built on time, but you could be in prison before the tenants move in."

   Cries of "Exactly" and "Tell em judge" filled the room.

   "I'm sorry, Lee," Lt.  Worf said through his tears.

   "Don't fall apart, Worf," Max said.  "Our red- shirted midshipman will
end up being humiliated, but you will also experience that humiliation. 
So, at least you will be together."

   He clapped his hands sharply several times and two rather large men
dressed entirely in black hurried into the room and pulled the pillory in
which Lee was restrained into the center of the room.  Meanwhile, two other
similarly-dressed men pushed a platform into the room on which stood what
appeared to be a very solid door frame.

   "Mr Worf," Max instructed, "would you please remove everything from the
waist down and step into the restraining frame?"

   Virgil did so and Max's helpers put restraint cuffs on his wrists and
ankles and tied him tightly in place in the frame.  The helpers then
removed Lee's pants, shoes, and socks.  He was not wearing underwear.

   Max turned to the crowd and asked, "Have you ever noticed that partial
nudity is often much more humiliating than complete nakedness?"

   He then went on to explain, "Virgil and Lee have been together for
years, but have stayed very firmly in the closet...  or at least in the
doorway.  That means they would be very embarrassed and humiliated to be
caught in the act,' so to speak.  Tonight they will not only be caught in
the act, we will watch from start to finish."

   One of the helpers returned.  He was wearing thin rubber gloves and was
carrying a small jar of some sort.  "That is a lubricant and stimulant,"
Max explained.  Once they are greased up, the drugs in the mixture will
stimulate them so that they can't help themselves."

   The helper dipped his gloved hand into the mixture and began rubbing it
over Virgil's prick.  There truly were drugs in the mixture and Worf's cock
immediately sprang to full erection.  Meanwhile, another of the helpers was
rubbing the same mixture between Lee's asscheeks.  Lee quickly also became
turgidly erect.

   Lee's face was beet red and he kept muttering, "Oh God, Oh God," as he
was forced to stare into the faces of the gathering.

   Then the helper guided the tip of Virgil's erect prick to Lee's rosebud
and centered it on target.  Both Lee and Virgil quivered with a combination
of shame and sexual excitement.  The sexual excitement soon won and Virgil
pushed forward, impaling Lee, who was now chanting "No, no, no, no."

   His chant, however, soon changed to "Yes, yes, Yes!" as the sexual
excitement overwhelmed him and he thrust back against Virgil's penetration.

   Just as Virgil began to shake and quiver in orgasm and started to erupt
into Lee's ass, another of the helpers stepped forward with a broad band of
some sort and bound Virgil firmly in place, deep in Lee's ass.

   "We will leave them like that," Max said softly, "as sort of a living
statue of shame."

   Max then looked out upon the now lust-filled faces of the party goers
and said, "Although Lee and Virgil were definitely humiliated by their
experience, I think that most of you would have been willing to change
places with Virgil...  or Lee in exchange for the forty thousand dollar
consolation prize that they will receive."

   ***

   Max watched as the platforms holding Lee and Virgil were rolled together
over to the edge of the room near where Gloria was still writhing on her
unicorn.  He then slapped his hands together with a loud "Clap!" and said
briskly, "Time to move to our next level."

   He once again surveyed the room and stated.  "Earlier this evening, five
of you agreed to act as special judges during our competitions this
evening." He paused and looked at several specific people before asking,
"Would the judges now please come forward?"

   Three men and two women stepped to the front of the room.  "Dracula and
Dr Frankenstein," Max began, "you have five minutes to write out something
that will convince these five upstanding judges to vote for you rather than
your opponent. ...  Starting now!"

   After a few moments of thought, Dr.  Frankenstein began writing. 
Dracula, meanwhile, stood smiling at the judges.  Then he wrote quickly on
his slate and set down his pen.  At the end of five minutes, Max curtly
said, "Pens down."

   Frankenstein's answer was first.  Harold Von Schmidt, explained how he
and Gloria were valued members of the community and had helped many
charitable causes and so on and so forth.  When he had finished reading his
answer, the five judges nodded appreciatively.

   Then it was Dracula's turn.  His slate held nothing but a list of five
words.  They were, "Sandburg; Lignite; SAT; LuAnn's; and William."

   Sandburg was a reference to an unsolved fatal hit and run on Sandburg
Road from over a decade ago.  Lignite is a form of soft coal found in cheap
gravel that can sometimes contaminate concrete and weaken it.  Especially
in beams exposed to the weather, lignite contamination can cause weakening
and even result in building collapse.  SAT, of course, referred to the
Scholastic Aptitude Tests which were required for most college admissions.
LuAnn's referred to LuAnn's Escort Services which often provided willing
companions for some of the more well-to-do members of the community, and
William referred to William Rath, a young and extremely handsome young man
who owned a local landscaping business.

   Each of the five judges knew exactly what at least one of Bruce's five
phrases meant and they each immediately stammered out, "I vote for
Dracula."

   "That isn't fair!" screamed Gloria.  "He's threatening them."

   "I see no threats," answered Max.  "He is just suggesting that he might
have information available should it be desired."

   Gloria gasped.  Her eyes were wide open and her mouth agape.  Those were
the exact words she had used to pressure Fred Whetherington into investing
in one of her and Harold's rather shady real estate developments which had
gone belly up and bankrupted several of the investors.  Somehow, when one
of Harold's great deals went sour, he never ended up losing money.  Others,
however, were never so lucky.

   When Gloria had encouraged Fred and Willie to invest in what they all
could see was obviously a flawed plan, as part of her sales pitch, she
hinted that she and Harold had access to some potentially damaging legal or
financial information.  She was very careful not to directly threaten Fred,
but she did point out that she and Harold had "information available should
it be desired by the authorities."

   When Max used those words, both she and Harold suddenly knew that this
was a set up and that they had been tricked.  But they also knew that their
best course of action was to endure whatever was to come and learn from the
evening.

   Gloria did not resist as two of the helpers removed her from the pillory
and brought her to the center of the room.  Two other helpers were bringing
a restraint frame similar to what had been used to hold Virgil.  She knew
what was expected of her and stripped off her costume and stepped between
the uprights of the frame.  Surprise showed on her face when one of the
helpers stopped her from removing her large wig.  "It stays on," he said
simply.

   Once she was standing in the proper place, the helpers attached wrist
and ankle restraints and then pulled her taut.  She was now spread in an
obscene X within the frame with legs pulled tightly to the sides and arms
stretched wide almost to their limits slightly above her head.  She
remained rather serene and composed until they began taping electrodes to
her body.

   She began to protest, "No, No!, Please!  Please!  Anything but that!"
Her voice started out subdued, but rapidly rose in pitch and volume and she
began thrashing against her bonds.  "Harold," she finally screamed out,
"you will PAY for this!"

   She and Harold had tried electro-sex a couple of times.  Harold actually
enjoyed it and sometimes taped TENS pads to his ass and nipples while they
were making love.  It would drive him into extreme orgasm if Gloria would
reach out and turn the dials to maximum just as he reached climax.  In
fact, he had purchased a TENS unit with a remote so that all Gloria needed
do was push a button on the remote and the unit would switch to the higher
levels.

   Gloria, on the other hand, hated electro-sex.  But then again, she hated
being shocked in any fashion.  As a small girl, she would run crying to her
parents if one of her brothers shuffled their feet across the carpet and
zapped her on the arm with static electricity.  Maybe her body was just
more susceptible to electric shock.

   By the time the nipple clamps were in place, Gloria was crying
continuously.  Fred approached and stood before her.  "I know your aversion
to electricity," he said, "so we are going to prepare you a little before
we begin."

   One of the helpers held up a rather large dildo with wires leading from
it.  "This is a little larger than it would have to be if it were just an
electrode," Fred explained.  "It is also a rather powerful vibrator that
twists and turns within you in addition to vibrating."

   A different helper held up a smaller version of the same dildo.  "And
this anal plug operates in much the same fashion," Fred added.  As the two
helpers pushed the dildos into place, Fred held up a leather belt that had
a crotch strap.  "And to keep you from pushing them out," he continued,
"they will be held in place with this belt." One of the helpers reached out
and took the belt from Fred and began tightening it in place around
Gloria's waist.  He then tightly cinched the crotch strap in place, firmly
imbedding the dildos in her body.

   Before returning to his seat, Fred said softly, "The vibrators will kick
in immediately and will be stimulating you well in advance of any possible
electric shock." He then gave Gloria a quick smile and walked back to join
Willie.

   Meanwhile, a small pedestal was brought out and set in front of Harold.
"You might remember something like this from when your children were
little," Max explained.  "The four lights flash in a specific order and
each color makes a specific sound.  All you have to do is to press the
colored switches in the same sequence.  After five sequences, it switches
to giving you only the sounds.  For the next five tries, you have to
remember which color goes with which sound."

   He turned to the crowd and said, "There will be three rounds for a total
of 30 sequences."

   He then looked over at Gloria and smiled pleasantly.  She glared back at
him.  "We left your lightning bolt wig in place because this will involve
electricity."

   "I had already figured that out," she spat back.

   "If Harold gets the sequence exactly right," Max explained, "nothing
happens.  But each key that he presses incorrectly will cause the TENS
units attached to your body to discharge.  The units will then immediately
step up in strength and the next incorrect key in that sequence will be at
a higher voltage.  After the second incorrect touch, the nipple and..."

   Max suddenly looked astonished and embarrassed.  "We forgot the clit
clip ...  " he said in an almost shrill-sounding voice, "...  and I didn't
notice."

   By the time he had finished speaking, one of the helpers had run in and
quickly attached a large electrode clip to Gloria's pleasure nub.

   "As I was saying," Max continued in his normal deep voice.  "After the
second incorrect touch, the nipple and clit clips come into play.  After
the third incorrect touch, the vaginal and anal electrodes kick in and they
are set for much higher voltage."

   He raised his hand into his most pompous pose and said, "Should their be
a fourth incorrect touch in a given sequence, the electrodes in the wrist
and ankle restraints will activate and will pulse at high voltage for
thirty seconds.  That may never occur, but just in case, we are going to
protect the carpet around your restraint frame."

   All four helpers came back to the middle of the room carrying plastic
tarps which they spread out around and over the platform.  While they were
doing so, Gloria alternated between glaring at Max, Fred, and her husband
Harold.

   "Shall we begin?" said Max and the large disk on the platform in front
of Harold slowly flashed red-red-green-green-blue-blue-yellow-yellow.  With
each color was a corresponding electronic note.

   Gloria tensed as Max began pushing buttons.  The machine made a clicking
noise as it went dark awaiting the next press of a key.  Max hesitated, but
then began pressing keys.  Gloria gave a deep sigh as he hit the final
yellow with no mistakes.  Almost immediately, the device played a new
sequence, red-blue-red-green-red- yellow-blue-green-blue-yellow.

   Gloria's eyes widened as she realized that it had added two steps to the
sequence.  It has also sped up slightly.  She would have easily been able
to match that pattern, but she knew that Harold would not.  She could only
hope he got most of them right.

   He didn't.

   There were eight steps in the sequence.  Max got the first five of them
right, but then repeated color five instead of moving on to color six. 
That meant that steps six, seven, and eight were wrong.

   At step six, Gloria gasped slightly as a relatively light shock tingled
her thighs, buttocks, and tummy.  At step seven, she yelped as a somewhat
more intense shock hit the same areas and her nipples and clit.  At step
eight, she screamed as a significant shock tightened the muscles of her
legs, bit at her clit and nipples, and tore through her pelvis between the
rectal and vaginal electrodes.

   Sweat was beginning to form on her body as the lights flashed once again
and the beeps filled the room.  This time there were twelve steps to the
sequence.  It was the same beginning sequence as before,
red-blue-red-green-red-yellow-blue- green-blue-yellow, but this time it
added green-yellow at the end.  Harold noticed that it was the same and
managed to get the sequence right all the way to step eleven.  He pressed
yellow- green for the final two steps rather than green-yellow.

   Gloria yelped as the first shock tingled her muscles and the second bit
at her nipples and clit.

   The next sequence again remained the same, but added red-blue at the
end. Gloria could always spot patterns and recognized that the sequences
weren't random, but rather were the mix of potential combinations of colors
on the device.  If she were pushing the buttons, she would probably be able
to get every sequence correct.  Unfortunately, it was Harold, not Gloria,
who was playing the game.

   This time there were six incorrect steps.  Harold evidently recognized
the pattern, but kept skipping or repeating steps, and once out of
sequence, the remaining steps were wrong.  Gloria yelped, but not quite as
loudly, as the nipple and clit clamps kicked in and she grunted when the
internal electrodes forced the muscles of her pelvis to convulse.  When the
wrist and ankle electrodes were activated, however, Gloria screamed or at
least she attempted to.  All that came out was a strangled gurgle as her
body shook and bounced with the electrical pulses that were flowing through
it.

   As Max had feared, Gloria lost control of her bladder and sprayed urine
onto the protective covers which had been placed on the floor beneath her.
When Max finished putting in his incorrect sequence, Gloria continued to
buck and writhe for an additional thirty seconds until the units timed out.

   "Fortunately for you," Max interjected, "the thirty-second time for the
restraint electrodes is restarted each time they are activated.  Otherwise
you would have been in for several minutes of their pulses."

   Gloria did not look as if she felt fortunate.  She was panting heavily
and trying to re-compose herself as the device kicked into a new sequence.
Somehow, this time, Max was able to enter all fourteen steps correctly. 
Gloria sighed very deeply in relief while murmuring spread through the
disappointed crowd.

   She gasped, however, as the next sequence started.  The sequence was
identical except it skipped the first color.  If Max didn't notice that, he
would get all sixteen steps wrong.

   He did...  get all sixteen steps wrong.

   This time, Gloria not only lost control of her bladder and expelled what
little urine was left in her system, she also lost control of her bowels.
Despite the leather belt designed to hold it in place, she expelled the
anal electrode along with a significant amount of fecal matter.

   "Let's get her cleaned up a little before the next step, shall we?" Max
said as the helpers hurried in with soapy water and towels.  A few moments
later Gloria was clean and again properly wired.

   "This time it will just be sounds," Max said.  Gloria moaned.  She knew
Harold was as tone deaf as a mule and sang like one.  There was no way that
he could get the sequences right.

   But he did.

   Actually, he couldn't tell one tone from another, but he just repeated
the sequences that had flashed before him in the first five steps.  That
worked for the first four tone steps, but Harold had not noticed what was
different about the final sequence and once again he got all sixteen steps
wrong.

   Gloria bucked and screamed as the pulses tore through her, but there was
nothing left in her bladder or bowels, so at least this time she did not
shit herself in public.

   "Time for round two," announced Max and the diabolical game piece once
again flashed eight colors.  It was moving through the same combinations of
colors, except this time it started with green-red rather than red-blue. 
Harold was a fast learner and he got the sequence right.  He also got the
ten, twelve, and fourteen step sequences correct.  But once again, he was
so fixated on the pattern that he didn't realize that the first step had
been left out and got all sixteen steps wrong in the fifth sequence.

   Between grunts and screams, Gloria managed to choke out, "Harold, you
stupid son of a bitch, watch the damn colors."

   Harold mumbled a soft, "Sorry," but Fred could also see that he was
suppressing a smile.  Perhaps Harold wasn't as stupid as his gold-digging
wife thought him to be.

   The tones again mimicked the colors and again Harold got the first four
sequences correct, but missed all sixteen steps of the final sequence.  By
the time the pulses timed out, Gloria was now hanging limp in her
restraints.

   "One final round," Max announced.

   Gloria raised her head.  If she were running this game, the third round
would employ a totally different method of setting up the sequences so that
the player would be overwhelmed and unable to get any of the colors or
tones correct.

   But she wasn't running the game, and the only difference was that the
sequences started with blue-red.  Again Harold got the first four right and
totally messed up the fifth sequence.  When the thirty-second timer for the
restraint pulses finally switched off, Gloria was muttering softly over and
over, "Stupid son of a bitch, stupid son of a bitch, stupid son of a
bitch."

   The whole process repeated itself the final time through the tones. 
This time, during the fifth sequence, Gloria barely responded even to the
heavy pulses that tore through her body from wrist to ankle.  As the
helpers removed her from her restraints, Max said, "I am sure that she will
recover shortly, but just to be safe we are going to take her into one of
the other rooms and have our standby doctor check her out."

   He looked over at Harold and added, "It might help her to recover if you
told her that your consolation prize is eighty thousand dollars."

   Harold did not answer, but returned a broad smile.  As the helpers
carried the practically unconscious Gloria out of the room, he followed a
little ways behind.

   ***

   After they had left the room, Maxwell turned and surveyed the crowd. 
"Our first level of sexual sin was exhibitionism and voyeurism," he said.
"Our second was consensual humiliation.  The third was consensual pain. 
The fourth, non-consensual public display and voyeurism of that
non-consensual exhibition.  The fifth was non-consensual public
humiliation. And the sixth was non-consensual sexual pain."

   He slowly scanned the crowd, looking almost everyone present directly in
the eyes for just a fleeting moment.  "What then," he continued, "could
possibly be our seventh level of sexual sin and depravity?"

   Max paused.  Several persons started to raise their hands or say
something, but then fell back into silence.  "There are several to choose
from," he said, "but which would we choose to demonstrate in public?" Max
laughed.  "Some of the deepest sexual sins must never see the light of
day."

   He held his hand to his jaw as if pondering some great question.  "Which
sin is perverse enough to be at the seventh level, yet at the same time,
tame enough to present at a party in front of dozens of witnesses?"

   He turned around slowly scanning the faces of the partygoers.  Then he
continued, "It is so obvious, and yet so elusive.  When I announce it, you
will all think...  or say...  Of course!' But until I speak it, you will
keep what it is carefully locked away in the back of your mind with all
your deepest and darkest secrets for fear that what you are thinking may
even be beyond the seventh level of sexual sin."

   He turned to face Elvira, still held captive in her pillory, and then
turned his gaze toward Dracula, who stood alone at the four podia.  "The
seventh level of sexual sin and depravity which we have chosen for this
evening," he began slowly, "is sexual submission and slavery...  and of
course, its companion sin of owning and using such submissive slaves."

   Pointing directly at Dracula, he said loudly, "That is what we are
playing for in this round.  If you lose, you and Wendy become Fred and
Willie's sexual slaves for a period of one year."

   He paused for effect and then said, "You could quit now and walk away
with a consolation prize of $160,000 dollars.

   "Or," Max continued, "we could up the stakes and the risk and entice you
to stay in the game."

   The four helpers walked slowly into the room.  It was obvious they were
each carrying something very heavy.  They walked to where the bar of gold
bullion was sitting and each placed an identical bar alongside it.  There
were now five 400 ounce bars of gold bullion on the small platform.

   "A consolation price of $160,000 dollars," Max said.  "Or one year
against one bar of bullion. ...  Or the risk of permanent slavery against
all five bars.  Those five bars, at current market price, are worth
somewhere north of three million dollars."

   Bruce looked over at his partner and then back at Max.  "One year or a
lifetime really makes little difference," he said smugly.  "I hear that you
have a contract due and payable tonight that makes all of this moot."

   "I guess I now know who invited our gate crashers and supplied them with
the proper costumes," Fred said from somewhere in the crowd.  Most of the
party goers looked around totally confused.  Bruce and Wendy, as well as
one other couple in the crowd looked over directly to where the false
Fallen One and imitation Mother of Lilith sat.

   "Perhaps," said Dracula with a smile that showed his artificial fangs.
He shrugged his shoulders.  "Perhaps not.  But in any case, we accept your
terms.  A lifetime of sexual slavery against five Good Delivery Certified
bars of gold bullion."

   Max walked back to his podium and picked up an envelope.  "Our final
question is in this envelope.  All you need do to win the five bars of gold
bullion is to answer it truthfully and correctly." He slapped the envelope
against his palm and added, "And there is no time limit."

   Max then tore open the envelope and removed a single sheet of ivory
paper.  "The question is this, Is it possible for a person to escape
permanent captivity in hell at the end of the term of their contract with
the Fallen One?'"

   "I don't need even the five minutes to answer that one," Bruce snorted.
"The answer is No!' Contracts with the Fallen One are iron clad.  They are
absolute and inescapable."

   "I believe you... ...  are wrong," came a deep voice from the edge of
the room.  All eyes turned to the source of the voice.  The Fallen One and
The Mother were standing next to the couch on which they had been seated.

   "And I suppose you are some kind of authority on contracts with the
Fallen One," said Bruce in his most sarcastic tone.

   "No," the voice answered, "I am not SOME authority on contracts with the
Fallen One.  I am THE authority because I AM the Fallen One."

   Bruce snorted in laughter, but those sitting closest to the standing
couple were beginning to back away in fear.  This was because they were
close enough to see that it was the red-skinned woman, not the man who was
speaking in such a deep voice.

   The couple walked to the center of the room.  The person in the Fallen
One costume said in a rather high pitched voice for a man "We were going to
wait until midnight to unmask, but it appears we have to do so a bit
early." She then began to melt.  So did The Fallen One.

   Melting is the only word which describes what was happening.  Their
makeup...  or skin...  or costume...  or whatever it was...  began to
slough off.  But it didn't drip onto the floor, instead it congealed around
their body in a slightly different form.  Slowly the imitation Fallen One
transformed into the true Mother of Lilith and the imitation Mother
transformed into the true Fallen One.

   "Had Frederick asked if it were possible for YOU to escape permanent
captivity in hell," the deep voice continued, "then the answer would have
definitely been No.'"

   He laughed.  It was a deep, resonant laugh that nearly froze the blood
in the veins of the people who heard it.  "But Fred has an older contract
one of the last with a certain weakness in its language.  Under the terms
of that contract, all he and Willie had to do was enter into hell... 
enter, not stay there.  If the circumstances were just right, they could
enter and go THROUGH hell without staying permanently.

   "And their faithful retainers, Maxwell and Marta, uncovered a way to
symbolically do that by descending through the seven levels of sexual sin
on this night in which their contract was due.  They did that.  They have
gone through Hell and come out on the other side.  That makes them the big
winners for this evening."

   He laughed a very deep and even more frightening laugh before pointing
his finger directly at Dracula / Bruce and thundering, "And you...  You
lose!"

   He laughed once again.  This time a flash of heat pulsed through the
room and a faint trace of sulfur became present in the air.  He turned
toward Fred and Willie.  "As Maxwell had surmised, this little stunt does
fulfill the terms of your contract.  You are released from the completion
payment.  And because the contract is technically fulfilled, all the
benefits offered under the contract remain in place."

   The Fallen One and The Mother walked slowly to the front of the room to
stand in front of Fred and Willie.  "But you are perhaps wondering," he
said, "why I did not simply derail your plans for this evening."

   He turned to face the guests who were starting to huddle against the
walls.  "The answer to that is very simple.  Once in a while someone has to
beat the Devil at his own game.  If no one was ever able to beat me, no one
would ever enter into one of my contracts in the misguided hope that they
would be lucky enough to someday escape the conditions of the contract."

   He turned toward one small group which was cowering in the corner. 
"Believe me," he said, "you have a much better chance of winning the
lottery."

   The Mother laughed.  Her laugh was much lighter than The Fallen One's
and did not create the same icy fear in the people who heard it.  "But once
in a while," she said in her silvery voice, "someone does win the lottery
even against such odds."

   She turned to address Willie, "You have beaten the odds."

   She then smiled.  For some reason her smile, unlike her laugh, struck
fear into the hearts of the guests.  Perhaps it was because her teeth were
sharp and pointed.

   "Besides," she continued, scowling slightly, "Bruce and Wendy have
really pissed me off over the years with their incessant bickering over
minor terms and conditions of their contract."

   The Fallen One again spoke this time directly to Bruce and Wendy.  "You
have made yourselves sexual slaves of Fred and Willie for the rest of your
lives."

   Now it was the Fallen One's turn to smile.  He seemed to be now actually
enjoying himself.  "Because of our agreement," he said.  "that will be a
very, very long time.  Should it get to be too much for you, perhaps you
could initiate the early termination clause of the contract.  I'm sure The
Mother and I would be agreeable to that."

   He turned toward Max and added, "And no, Max, early termination isn't in
Frederick's contract either.  It was added only a few centuries ago. 
Through the years, I've learned many things the hard way, just as many
humans do."

   Turning back toward Bruce, he said, "I will be watching over you to be
sure that you live up to your wager.  As a matter of fact, I am going to
hang around tonight until you and Wendy kneel naked before Fred and Willie
and officially submit yourself to them."

   He snapped his fingers and suddenly Bruce and Wendy were standing naked
in the middle of the room.  Fred and Willie stepped forward to stand in
front of them and The Fallen One said ominously, "You know what has to be
done, you did it for me a long time ago."

   Bruce and Wendy dropped to their knees and bowed low.  Their heads
touched the carpet in front of Fred and Willie.  In unison they said, "I
submit myself to you as your slave and sexual plaything forever."

   Also in unison, they yelped and jumped to their feet.  Both of their
right buttocks were now smoking slightly.  "As my parting gift to you,
Fred, I branded them for you.  You may notice that the brand on their right
ass cheek says, Slave of Frederick and Wilhelmina Whetherington.' The older
brand on their left cheek says, Property of The Fallen One.'

   "Remember, Fred," he said in a very stern voice, "despite the fact that
my brand is only visible on this night or in my presence, it is always
there.  The wording of the other brand will remind you that although they
are your slaves, they are my property." With that, the Fallen One and The
Mother disappeared in a flash of flame and a cloud of smoke.    As the
guests stood coughing and gasping in the acrid air Willie exclaimed, "Damn!
He scorched the carpet again."

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The Loophole - A Halloween Story

   by The Technician

   Halloween, Fantasy, Hell, Devil, Exhibitionism, Voyeurism, Forced
Nudity, Forced Orgasm, Consensual Pain, Forced Pain, Sybian, Satire?

   = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Couple's contract with The Fallen
One comes due on Halloween.

   A thousand year old contract between an apparently middle-aged couple
and The Fallen One has come due.  But their manservant thinks he knows a
way to escape the terms of the contract.

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   WARNING!  All of my writing is intended for adults over the age of 18
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living or dead is purely coincidental.  Actions, situations, and responses
are fictional ONLY and should not be attempted in real life.

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   Fred Whetherington held the stiff piece of parchment lightly in his hand
as he drank his morning coffee.  His wife, Willie, sat across the table
from him sipping a glass of juice.  His voice was calm as he said, "This
was on my pillow this morning when I awoke." She smiled and replied
lightly, "He does like the dramatic touches, doesn't he?"

   Fred laughed slightly.  "At least he didn't do the full flash of fire
and puff of smoke thing this time."

   "Last time he did that," Willie bristled, "it scorched the carpet.  And
it took forever to get the sulfur smell out of the house."

   "He once told me that he doesn't like the smell of brimstone any more
than we do," Fred added with another slight laugh, "but he has to use it to
keep up his image."

   A long pause followed before Fred continued.  He held up the stiff paper
that was still curled slightly from having been rolled up.  The heavy wax
of a broken seal hung on the back of the upper edge, pulling it slightly
back.  "This is official notice that the term of our agreement is upon us.
Do you want me to read it to you?"

   "He expects you to, doesn't he?" was her only response.

   "It says," he continued as he read the fancy script on the page in front
of him, " Be it known by all concerned that on this first day of October in
the twelve thousand and thirty-ninth year since the great fall and rise of
myself, the term of one thousand earthly years having passed, I hereby
invoke the completion clause to the contract which exists between myself
and Frederick and Wilhelmina Whetherington.'"

   "Notice that he uses our current names and the modern calendar," Fred
commented before continuing.  "It goes on, This constitutes thirty days
notice that on or before midnight of October thirty-first of this year,
also known as Halloween, the aforementioned couple's bodies and souls will
be due and collectable.  Said bodies and souls are to be brought to the
place agreed upon through future missives and presented to me for transfer
into Hell.  I hereby swear, vow, and affirm that I have fulfilled my
portion of the referenced contract and have provided wealth, life, and
sustenance as well as the originally-specified unlimited sexual power and
opportunity for the term of said contract and now claim the payment agreed
upon at the signing of that document.'"

   He took a sip of his coffee.  "If he always spoke like that, it's no
wonder that The Benevolent One kicked him out of the upper abode," he said.

   "I guess no one has ever liked lawyers," Willie responded.  "Is there
any way around it, honey?"

   After another sip of coffee, Frederick replied, "Sorry, I don't see any
way out of it.  It was nice while it lasted, but the agreement itself is
very specific.  After one thousand years, we are to be conducted into the
depths of Hell."

   "Maybe we can find an escape clause," she said.  "You, yourself, have
been a lawyer many times, off and on, in the past thousand years.  You know
that no contract is unbreakable.  There is always a way out." "The contract
isn't the main problem," he said.  "It never is.  People think having an
iron-clad contract will get it done, but do you realize how many times
through the years, because of some insignificant loophole, I have been able
to reverse things and weasel out of something while still legally
fulfilling the exact wording of the contract."

   "Ah yes," Willie answered with a laugh.  "I particularly liked that time
that your construction company built a tunnel between that town's two
defensive castles.  The contract specifically said that it was to stretch
from beneath the moat of the high castle to beneath the moat of the low
castle."

   She laughed again.  "It never said anything about actually going under
the walls of either castle itself.  The mayor and council were royally
pissed about having to pay extra for all that support structure in the
tunnels to safely go beneath the walls.  But you showed them clearly that
you had fulfilled the terms of the contract as they had written it, and
that the additional construction was at their expense."

   "But this isn't castle walls," Fred replied.  "This is hell, and that is
precisely the problem.  It is iron clad that we are to enter hell.  And
there is, unfortunately, no way out of hell, once you have entered,"

   "That isn't totally true, m'Lord," a deep voice said from behind them.

   "Maxwell," Fred said cheerfully.  "I didn't hear you come in.  How much
did you overhear?"

   "Enough m'Lord," he answered.  "It sounds as if your contract with The
Fallen One has come due.  I assume that means that your contract with me
and Marta will also come to an end."

   "I'm afraid so," said Fred.  "But all you had to promise in return for a
long and comfortable life was your faithful service to Willie and me, so
it's a little different for you.  After we're gone, you and Marta will
begin aging normally once again and will eventually die.  But The Fallen
One won't have any claim on your souls."

   "If you read your contract very carefully which I have " Maxwell
continued in his very precise way of speaking, "you will see that he
doesn't actually have any claim on your souls either."

   "What do you mean?" asked Wilhelmina "The wording is specific and
unbreakable.  On Halloween, sometime before midnight, we are to enter Hell,
and once we have entered, there is no return."

   "Back when you first revealed your powers to me and Marta, m'Lord,
Florence was the economic power of the world.  We entered your service
there.  Do you not remember that very interesting writer by the name of
Durante degli Alighieri whom you often invited to your parties?"

   When both Fred and Willie looked back at him with confused faces, he
added, "He is better remembered by his nickname, Dante.'" "Ah yes," replied
Fred.  "He was always going on and on about that book he was working on
about his journey through Hell."

   "Precisely, m'Lord," said Maxwell.  "His journey THROUGH hell."

   "Dante went through hell and came out on the other side!" both Fred and
Willie shouted together.  "There has to be an escape clause."

   "I'm sure The Fallen One has changed the wording since Dante let that
little piece of information out of the bag, so to speak," Maxwell said,
"but your contract pre-dates him by almost four hundred years.  The
loophole is still in place.  All you have to do is go through the proper
levels of hell and emerge on the other side.  When you do so, you will have
fulfilled your contract to the letter, but will have escaped Hell, itself.
I'm not sure if the wealth, life, and all of that will continue as before,
but the worst case would be that we would all age normally after you
complete the journey."

   "One problem," Willie said dejectedly.  "One very big problem.  Dante's
book was fiction.  He never really went to or through Hell."

   "But he had stumbled onto the truth," Maxwell responded with a raised
hand and a slightly raised voice.  He pointed his extended finger at Willie
as he continued, "And THAT is what is important.  Do you not remember the
night when HE showed up in the middle of one of your dinner parties in
Venice."

   "Ah yes," said Fred, "half of the guests jumped into the canal when he
suddenly appeared in a thunderous flash of light.  The rest ran into the
inner courtyard and barricaded themselves there until the next morning."

   "Not all of them," corrected Maxwell.  "You and m'Lady just stood there
looking very, very upset that your dinner party was ruined.  And one guest
ran screaming upstairs to the bedrooms seeking a place to hide.  The Fallen
One followed that guest upstairs and had a very heated discussion about the
possible costs of revealing secrets of the nether realm."

   A heavily-accented voice interrupted his story with, "...  and I was
upstairs getting the guest rooms ready at the time."

   "Marta heard everything," Maxwell continued.  "The Fallen One was
extremely upset that Dante had guessed a secret weakness of Hell or at
least of The Fallen One's contracts.  He held him up against the wall and
snarled, I'm not sure how much you know and how much you have accidentally
guessed, but I am going to explain to you EXACTLY how Hell works.  And if
your final book is anywhere close to that, or reveals more than you have
already said, I will send my minions to tear you limb from limb and eat
your flesh for as long as you still live..." The Fallen One's eyes became
pools of flame at this point as he said in an icy staccato, "...  and - I -
can - make - you - live - FOREVER!'"

   Marta again interrupted, "Evidently the real escape path only exists on
the night of the completion of the contract.  Or maybe it is only open on
that night each year when the veil between this world and the nether world
is the thinnest.  It doesn't matter which is correct because your contract
happens to end on the night of the thinnest veil.  So, in either case, the
escape route will be open for you this Halloween night when your contract
fulfills and you are to enter Hell."

   Maxwell interrupted his wife and said, almost showing excitement in his
voice, "The journey itself, like Dante's final book, is metaphoric, but the
levels are not.  Despite what Dante wrote, there are only seven like there
are only seven deadly sins.  All that is required is for a person to
sequentially go through the seven levels of a particular sin between dark
and midnight and they can escape Hell forever at least under the terms of
your current contract.  Since your contract dealt primarily with sexuality,
all you have to do is go through or at least witness all seven levels of
sexual sin before midnight."

   "In other words," Willie chirped, "we have to have one hell of a
Halloween night in order to stay out of hell."

   She laughed slightly and added, "Even if it doesn't work, we'll go out
with a bang."

   Maxwell coughed and said in a somewhat embarrassed tone of voice. 
"Uh... yes m'Lady.  That is one way of looking at it."

   "But I've never heard of seven levels of sexual sin," said Fred.  "How
will we know what to do, and in what order?"

   "We've done a little research over the years," said Marta.  "We've had
the time.  And we knew this day would eventually come."

   "And?" said Wilhelmina.

   "And I will guide you through the seven levels of sexual sin," replied
Maxwell.  He was actually starting to sound more pompous than usual.  "It
has to be done in front of at least a double-double coven of witnesses, so
you need to invite forty-eight or more of your friends who will stay all
the way through until midnight."

   "Do they have to be invited?" Willie asked.  "Friends might leave early.
They sometimes do, you know.  Perhaps street rabble would be better.  If we
pay someone to stay, they will remain until they get their money."

   "Perhaps, m'Lady, you should do both," intoned Maxwell.  "Invite your
friends, but make it worth their while to stay until the stroke of
midnight. And invite some of the rabble of the street.  We will also need
some unwilling participants in our little journey through sexual hell... 
unless you want to use some of your friends for that."

   "That might be interesting," laughed Willie, "but I think it might be
safer to use the street rabble." "Then I believe it is time to prepare a
little parchment of our own," Fred said slowly as he pushed back his chair
and stood next to the table.  As he began walking toward his den, he added,
"Maxwell, would you please help me prepare the invitations?  We are going
to invite thirty of our friends to a Halloween orgy they will never
forget."

   He laughed it was not a pleasant laugh.  Then he said, "And we can
forget about rounding up street rabble.  I think I can come up with another
list of at least thirty enemies who pretend to be my friends whom I would
love to have experience our evening.  Fifteen couples who are friends and
fifteen who are actually enemies would give us a total of sixty people. 
That should supply the needed numbers actually attending."

   The invitations went out the next day.  Fred and Willie were known for
their lavish and decadent parties, so the invitations were eagerly
received. As an incentive to stay for the whole evening, the invitations
also announced that there were to be cash prizes given out at midnight. 
One thousand dollars would be given for the best costume, another thousand
for the sexiest costume, another thousand for the sluttiest, and another
thousand for the most evil.  In addition, a ten thousand dollar door prize
would be given to someone chosen at random from among the guests.

   In small type beneath the announcement of the prizes it said, "Certain
guests may be called upon to participate in themed demonstrations
throughout the evening.  Participation is mandatory, but couples who
participate will receive a minimum of an additional $5000 each." It then
added in even smaller print, "Acceptance of this invitation is acceptance
of these terms."

   No one ever bothers to read the small print, especially on an
invitation.

   Thirty invitations went out.  It was hoped that at least twenty-four of
the couples would accept the invitation, but within days, replies from all
thirty indicated that they would attend.

   ***

   Halloween arrived at last.  The long driveway which led back to
Whetherington villa was lined with Jack O'Lanterns, and a fake graveyard,
complete with a mechanical hooded figure of death, decorated the secluded
front lawn.  Orange lights outlined all edges on the front of the house. 
Inside, spider webs festooned with black bows and shiny silk witch's hats
stretched across the walls of the foyer.  Ancient broomsticks, carved
pumpkins and other symbols of Halloween were scattered throughout the
house. A large bubbling caldron in the middle of the living room, whose
steam poured out across the floor to form a low hanging mist throughout the
house, completed the theme.

   The evening was to begin with a sumptuous dinner so the guests began
arriving around six for pre-dinner drinks and hors d'oeuvres.  Fred and
Willie greeted each guest at the door, and immediately after the guests
walked past, dictated notes to their personal secretaries who were
listening to the earwigs both hosts were wearing.

   Fred especially liked the Adam and Eve costumes and they topped his best
costume list.  Adam was wearing a fig leaf loincloth with what appeared to
be a snake peeking out from the front.  Eve was also wearing leaves, but
two large, red apples with very large stems appeared to hang from the
front.

   Wilhelmina, on the other hand, felt that the spider and the fly were the
best.  The makeup was perfect, both the spider and the fly's faces were
horrific, and it was very difficult to tell whether the spider or the fly
was the male of the couple.  "Maybe you will be able to tell if the spider
eats the fly," Fred told her with a smirk.  He then added, "Or perhaps we
will have to give out a double prize."

   Both agreed that Marilyn Monroe, accompanied by Madonna, were the
sexiest couple, but they disagreed as to which was the sexy slut and which
was a sexy drag-queen.  "Are you sure that isn't Cindy and Clarice?" Willie
asked.

   "No," answered Fred, "Cindy is Cinderella and Clarice is the handsome
prince."

   "They do make a handsome couple, don't they?" she replied.

   "They always have," he answered.  "They always have."

   Fred and Willie also agreed that the naughty nurse and horny doctor were
the sluttiest.  The doctor was wearing a hospital lab coat, open at the
front with nothing under it but a very strategically placed OR mask.  The
nurse was wearing a skirt not much bigger than a belt, thigh- high white
fishnet stockings with red crosses on the front, and an oversized,
old-fashioned nurse's cap.  Her tiny, but oddly shaped, thong was red with
a white cross exactly over her clit.  What made the tiny thong look strange
was that it did not decrease in a V to just a G-string going between her
legs.  Instead, it remained an inch or two wide until it curved slightly up
to meet the strings of the waistband.  Two stethoscope heads acting as
nipple covers completed the ensemble.

   By 6:45, it appeared as if all of the guests had arrived and Fred and
Willie had all but given up on selecting a most evil costume.  Then the
door opened and both of their mouths dropped wide open in shock.  Someone
made up to look exactly like The Fallen One walked through the door with a
female companion made up to look like a she-devil and not just any
she-devil.  She was the spitting image of The Mother of Lilith.

   "It's not him.  It's not him," Fred hissed to Willie.  "He's not quite
the right height and doesn't move right, so it's not him.  But, damned,
that makeup is exact.  It has to be someone who has met him...  someone
with a huge set of brass balls."

   "It's not her, either," Willie hissed back.  "She's smaller, and much
more graceful than that, but the skin looks right.  With as much as she is
showing, it had to have been dyed red all over her body, and her yellow
eyes have the same slits as The Mother."

   Fred started to whisper something else to Willie, but stopped because
the couple was now directly in front of them.  The man took Fred's
outstretched hand in greeting and said in a deep, resonant voice, "Thank
you for inviting me into your house.  I go by many names, but tonight you
may call me Scratch.'"

   At the same time, the woman took Willie's hand and murmured, "And you
may call me Lily."

   Maxwell and Marta were standing nearby holding trays of canape's and
champagne for the arriving guests.  Both looked over with raised eyebrows
and strange expressions on their faces.  Max shrugged his shoulders and
formed his lips into an exaggerated frown.  He then mouthed, "I have no
idea."

   Willie recovered first from the shock which had frozen them in place and
said cheerily.  "Welcome to the greatest Halloween party ever.  We will be
dining shortly."

   She grabbed a flute of champagne from the tray Marta was holding and
offered it to The Mother, saying, "We have opened the best of our wine
cellar for tonight.  After all, tomorrow may never come."

   "Tomorrow always comes," the man dressed as The Fallen One said with a
deep chuckle.  "The question is whether or not you will be there to see the
sunrise."

   "Yes," Fred answered dryly, "that is always the question." Then after
his own forced chuckle he added, "...  isn't it?"

   At exactly seven pm, Maxwell appeared at the edge of the room and
announced in his typically precise manner, "Dinner is served."

   As the Whetheringtons and their guests filed into the dining room, Max
leaned close to Fred and said softly, "I had to set two additional places.
We have gatecrashers." He frowned, then tilting his head slightly upward,
pointed his nose at The Fallen One and The Mother and said in his most
pompous tone, "I believe it is the couple who dares to impersonate your
master and mistress, m'Lord."

   "We will see when the masks come off at midnight, won't we?" Fred
answered.

   ***

   The seven-course meal was presented in European fashion with each course
being cleared from the table before the next course was served.  Dessert,
the final course, was creme brulee.  The rich, caramel-topped custard was
one of Marta's specialties and both Fred and Willie's favorite dessert. 
Willie had especially requested it for tonight, "just in case this doesn't
work."

   After all had finished and the dishes were cleared, Fred invited
everyone into the large front room for coffee and conversation.  "We have a
few games that ought to make the evening interesting, enjoyable, and
memorable," he said as he ushered people to the couches and chairs which
had been arranged in a large ragged circle in the huge room.  A warm fire
crackled in the large fireplace in the corner along one of the outside
walls.  Heavy curtains blocked off the wide bay window area.

   As the guests found their seats, Maxwell and Marta hurriedly brought two
more chairs into the room.  Max quietly huffed his displeasure at whomever
the party crashers were, but no one except Willie heard or noticed him.

   "You have just participated in and enjoyed a seven-course meal," Fred
began.  "Now we will participate in and most of you will enjoy a
seven-course evening of sexual pleasure."

   Several of the women blushed and quiet murmuring filled the room, but no
one reacted in shock or attempted to leave.  All present knew what type of
parties Fred and Willie often gave and were expecting some sort of sexual
content to the evening.

   "And since," Fred continued, "my majordomo, Maxwell, did such a superb
job of directing us through our marvelous supper, he will now guide us
through...  The Seven Levels of Sexual Sin."

   Several of the women giggled slightly.  One or two of the men laughed
aloud and one exclaimed, "All right!"

   "Monsieurs and Mademoiselles," Max began, "all of you agreed to
participate as needed in our festivities this evening." He chuckled deeply.
"For those of you who don't remember agreeing, I would advise that you read
the small print on everything in the future."

   He chuckled again.  "And for those of you who think you aren't willing
to participate or you won't participate or that we can't make you
participate, participants have already been selected.  If you were
selected, you have already been given a very expensive and very secret
drug. There was a timed cocktail of sedatives and other drugs in some of
your creme brulees that will kick in at the appropriate time." Another
chuckle.  "So, if you suddenly feel very, very tired, know that you are
perhaps part of the next course."

   He chuckled slightly once again as he looked about the room "Prince
Charming and Cinderella," he asked, "are you feeling a little tired...  or
perhaps like your inhibitions are fading away?"

   "We don't have any inhibitions to begin with," Clarice answered
cheerily. "As long as it doesn't involve screwing a man or a horse, bring
it on."

   Everyone laughed as Clarice Prince Charming took Cinderella into his/her
arms and gave her a loud passionate kiss.

   A witch in black satin and her partner warlock dressed in a matching
robe made from purple satin suddenly stopped laughing as Max added, "What
about Merga and Cyric?"

   Cyric, the warlock in purple started to rise, but stumbled drunkenly
into the center of the circle.  "Why the hell not?" witch Merga said with a
smile.  "It's not like I haven't screwed in public before.  What do we need
to do?"

   "Our selection from the first level of sexual sin is Voyeurism and its
complimentary sin, Exhibitionism," Max explained.  "All you have to do is
let us watch you have sex.  You will be the exhibitionists, we will be the
voyeurs."

   "Come here, honey," Merga said with a lopsided smile.  "That drug has
totally destroyed my inhibitions and I'm ready to exhibit some primo sex
for these nice voyeurs."

   In one swift motion she stripped off her witch's robe and stood naked in
the center of the room.  Cyric actually David, the accountant stripped off
his robe.  He was wearing a T-shirt and a pair of sports shorts beneath it.
Merga actually Alice, David's wife, laughed and said, "I guess I'm the
exhibitionist in the family, aren't I?" She gave another loopy smile and
added with a slurred voice, "But you won't pass up a chance to screw me,
will you, honey?"

   In answer, Dave pulled off his T-shirt and slid down his shorts.  The
fact that he was wearing a pair of tighty-whities under the shorts brought
a chorus of laughter, causing him to turn bright red as he slid them slowly
to the floor.

   Alice pushed downward on his shoulders and he slowly went to his knees.
She pressed her body against his and it looked, at first, like she was
going to press her bushy cunt against his face.  Instead she continued
pressing against him until he fell over on his back with her straddling his
chest.  She then slid down slightly on his body and, after raising up a
little, impaled herself on his now rigid prick.  She began moaning and
panting almost immediately as she rode him with forceful bounces that
caused him to give out a distinct "oomf" each time she bottomed out against
his pelvis.

   As her cries continued to climb in volume and pitch, Willie leaned in
close to Fred and whispered, "What sort of secret drug did Marta put in
those desserts?"

   Fred laughed softly and shielded his mouth as he whispered back, "The
secret is...  there is no drug.  But they don't know that."

   They both laughed quietly as Alice screamed out her first orgasm.

   Meanwhile, Cindy and Clarice were naked and locked in a mutual scissors
that allowed them to wildly grind their cunts together.  Clarice encouraged
Cindy with cries of "That's it baby, harder, harder, harder!" until they
both began screaming out in orgasm.  Cindy swung around in one sudden
motion and embraced Clarice as she pressed their mouths together.

   Someone in the crowd of voyeurs began a slow clap that grew in speed and
volume until everyone stood with many shouting "Bravo!  Bravo!"

   As the applause began to die away, Fred motioned for everyone to be
quiet and then said, "There is one other rule to the evening that I really
should explain at this time.  That rule is simple.  Once something comes
off, it stays off.' That means masks, clothing, whatever."

   "What about my glasses?" asked Little Bo Peep.  From the thickness of
her lenses, everyone knew it was Beverly despite the excellence of the rest
of her costume and makeup.

   "Don't worry, Beverly," Fred replied.  "If it's something you need to
function, then you can put it back on."

   "I assume that includes my peg leg," laughed Captain Hook.  "The hook's
fake, but I left my real prosthetic leg at home and don't want to be
hopping around all night."

   Fred joined his laughter, "Yes, Gerald," he replied, "that includes your
peg leg."

   ***

   Maxwell stepped into the center of the room and announced in his
typically pompous voice, "It is now time for the second course."

   He nodded to Clarice and Cindy and then to David and Alice and said,
"You may return to your seats."

   As they picked up their clothing and walked back to the sofas and
chairs, Marta handed each of them a towel with instructions to put it under
them before they sat down.  After they were seated, Max swivelled his head
back and forth several times stopping briefly to stare at this person or
that.

   "I believe it is time for a horny doctor and slutty nurse to show us the
rest of their costumes," he said firmly.  Donna Tucker and Wayne Forrester
immediately turned deep red.  They were both Fred and Willie's pick for the
sluttiest costumes but, as usual, Maxwell knew the rest of the story better
than anyone else in the room.  After all, he spoke with the servants and
maids of all of the other guests and knew secrets that only those who are
deemed invisible by their masters and employers ever get to see.

   Neither Donna nor Wayne rose from their chairs.  Everyone else in the
room was now staring at them.  Max again spoke, "Give the drugs a minute to
catch up," he said in a measured tone.  "Timing such things can be a very
tricky process."

   He walked over so that he was directly in front of the nurse and doctor
and asked, "Do you feel that joy juice flowing through your veins shredding
your will and destroying your inhibitions?"

   He smiled a most disconcerting smile and then added, "You have no
choice. Leave what little clothing you have at your seats and come out into
the center of the room."

   Both Donna and Wayne stood up, stripped off their insignificant
costumes, and walked slowly into the center of the room.  Donna obviously
had something in her vagina, because a small, T-handle was visible
protruding just past her labia.  It was most likely a chastity pear as that
would match Dave's cock, which was enclosed in a chastity cage.

   "The second level," intoned Max, "is public humiliation.  Our naughty
nurse and horny doctor didn't wear their skimpy costumes just to win the
most slutty prize tonight.  They did so in the secret hope that something
would go wrong with their car, or they would have an accident and have to
walk around in public in those costumes.  Similarly, they wore their
chastity devices beneath their costumes in the perverse hope that they
might be forced to publicly expose themselves and their perversions here at
this party."

   He paused for a moment and then continued, "Sometimes hopes become
reality.  If you look carefully, you will see that Donna and Wayne also
have almost matching anal plugs." He chuckled and said, " Lean over and
show the people your hidden jewelry." Both Donna and Wayne bent at the
waist to reveal shiny butt plugs.

   "Spread your cheeks and tell us what the plugs say," Max ordered.

   Donna answered for both of them and said, "Mine says slut.' Dave's says
slave.'"

   "You actually get turned on by being humiliated, don't you?" he asked.

   "Yes," Dave answered softly.  Donna merely nodded her head.

   "Your holes are all plugged," mused Max, "so what could I possibly have
you do for our sexual enjoyment?"

   He turned to the group and asked, "What do you think?"

   "They're not all plugged!" shouted someone.  "They still have an open
mouth."

   "Ah, yes," Max replied.  "And the most humiliating thing that a woman
can do is to give a man a blow job in public."

   Donna turned a deeper shade of red, but at the same time she began to
pant slowly.

   "And would that not be even more embarrassing for a man?"

   Max slowly turned around with his hand in the air pointing at the crowd
with his finger.  "I guess we need two men to help us out." He stopped and
extended his arm fully "How about Thing 1 and Thing 2?"

   Two young men dressed in red shirts with big white circles on the front
with the numbers one and two on them stood up.  "I know it will be a bit of
an imposition to ask that one of you let yourself be sucked off by a woman,
but I think the drugs will help you relax your standards a little." "A blow
job's a blow job," answered Thing 2.  "As long as she doesn't bite, I'm
game."

   "Keep your costumes on," Max instructed.  "It will add to their
humiliation."

   Thing 1 and Thing 2 walked into the center of the room, unzipped their
pants, and pulled out their pricks.  Thing 1 was already stiff.  Thing 2
gave his cock a few quick strokes and it also stiffened.

   "On your knees," Max ordered Donna and Wayne.  "...  and crawl over to
your proper positions."

   Both dropped immediately to their knees and began crawling across the
floor to where Thing 1 and Thing 2 were standing.  As Wayne approached
Thing 1, it was obvious that his own cock was trying to become erect but
the rings and thorns of the chastity cage were preventing that.

   "Beg for it," Max ordered, and Wayne said "Thing 1, may I please suck
your cock?"

   Donna just looked up at Thing 2 and said, "Please?"

   Thing 1 and Thing 2 answered in unison, "Of course," and Wayne and Donna
immediately pulled their cocks into their mouths.

   Donna was obviously an accomplished cocksucker.  Wayne knew what he was
doing, but he seemed distracted by the pain of his chastity cage. 
Amazingly, the humiliation of sucking Thing 1's cock in front of all of
these people was turning him on so much that eventually his own cock no
longer responded to the pain and swelled up to fill the constraints of the
cock cage to the absolute limit.  As he continued to suck and lick, Thing 1
began to thrust against his mouth and reached down to hold his head so that
it would not bounce away from the thrusts.

   Finally, with a deep groan, Thing 1 spurted into Dave's mouth.  As soon
as that happened, Dave himself shuddered and a small amount of semen
dripped from his trapped cock.  His cock remained totally stiff, however,
because the tight rings of the cage now trapped the blood in his engorged
member.

   A moment later, Thing 2 also groaned and thrust one last time very
deeply into Donna's mouth.  She pumped her mouth up and down a few more
times on Thing 2's cock and then fell over on her back and spread her legs
so that she could frantically get herself off with her own hands.

   Someone again began a slow clap, but Max held out his hands for silence
and said solemnly, "One does not applaud humiliation unless it adds to the
humiliation." After that, everyone stared in silence as Wayne and Donna
rose shakily to their feet and looked around the room.

   "I'm afraid that cock cage is going to have to be cut off," Fred said,
stepping into the center of the room with a large pair of wire cutters in
his hand.  "Or we could just wait until gangrene sets in," he added with a
laugh, "and it will drop off all on its own."

   He then turned Wayne so that they were more or less face to face and
reached down with the wire cutters and began snipping the rings of the cock
cage.  "Hold yourself out of the way," he ordered, "or I might snip off
something you don't want to lose."

   Wayne groaned in added humiliation as he pulled his trapped prick away
from the metal rings as best he could so Fred could cut them.  A moment
later he screamed out in pain as the cage fell away.  It was not just the
sharp barbs pulling out of his skin.  The circulation to his penis was
restored and with it came the pain that his body had been prevented from
feeling while everything was cut off by his swollen member straining
against the metal sheath.

   "You know," said Fred rather matter-of- factly as Dave swayed in pain,
"a eunuch doesn't have to worry about chastity devises or the pain they
sometimes cause." He laughed and added, "And if you don't get a cock cage
with an emergency release, you just might find that out first hand." He
then slapped Wayne soundly on the ass and told him to go sit down.

   ***

   Maxwell had once again come to the center of the room.  "The third level
of sexual decadence," he began, "goes beyond exhibitionism and
humiliation... ...  to pain."

   He again turned slowly in place surveying the assembled party goers. 
"I'm afraid, however," he continued, "that we do not have even one matched
pair of pain sluts with us tonight." He smiled, "So that means we have to
break up a couple or two for our demonstration."

   He spun rather suddenly and pointed directly at Wonder Woman.  "How do
you feel about pain, Diana King?"

   She gasped and Max laughed as he added, "I do rather like the play on
names with Diana Prince and Diana King.  But while Diana Prince's alternate
identity is Wonder Woman.  Diana King's alternate identity is
PainslutQueen1942, and your password is DCDPDW1942."

   Diana again gasped, this time grabbing at her throat with her hand.  "
DC for DC Comics.  DP for Diana Prince.  DW for Diana White, her married
name.  And 1942 because that is the year that Wonder Woman premiered in DC
comics."

   "How...  How...  How could you know all that?" she sputtered out.

   "PainslutQueen1942 made way too many references to Wonder Woman comics
in the chat rooms," Max explained smugly.  "It piqued the interest of a
hacker friend of mine.  He came to me after he had discovered your secret
and asked me if I knew who you were."

   He smiled once again and Diana slumped her shoulders and looked down at
the ground.  "Now we all know who you really are, don't we?"

   He spun almost 180 degrees and pointed at a really bad Jack Sparrow
impersonator.  "Just as we know who you really are, Trevor."

   The pirate jumped back slightly as Max advanced on him.  "I've seen the
costumes that you have created for others.  They are wonderfully inventive
and exquisitely constructed." He lifted up the felt vest that Trevor was
wearing.  "This piece of crap, on the other hand, can have only one
purpose, and that is to cause people to make fun of you or perhaps go even
beyond that and maybe punch you or spank you."

   At the word spank, Trevor began shaking his head and stammering "No, no,
it isn't anything like that."

   "But the drugs will reveal the true you," replied Max.  "Why don't you
just drop your pants to the floor, bend over this sofa, and let your lovely
wife Mahaila whale away on your ass with this leather paddle."

   Max once again gave that false smile that somehow seemed very foreboding
and continued, "It's what you have wanted to do for a long time, isn't it?
But you have never had the nerve to ask her to do it."

   Trevor continued to shake his head slowly back and forth, but at the
same time inched his way over to the back of the couch and began unbuckling
the belt of his costume.  Once it was loose, he opened his pants and let
them drop to his feet.  He wasn't wearing anything under them.

   "We will deal with Wonder Woman in just a minute," Max said, suddenly
very cheerful in his speech.  "But first we have to decide how many swats
our wretched imitation of Captain Jack Sparrow should receive from his
lovely wife."

   As he spoke he handed a black leather paddle to a rather muscular black
woman who was dressed as an Amazon warrior.  "Trevor made that exquisite
costume for you, didn't he?" he asked.

   "Yes," she replied softly.  "It was what I wanted."

   "Then don't you think you should thank him by giving him what he really
wants and needs?" Max asked.

   In response, she swung the paddle through a wide arc and a loud "Crack"
echoed through the room.  Trevor gasped...  grunted...  and then moaned as
if someone had just taken his cock into their mouths.

   "Not yet," Max said.  "We haven't decided how many strokes you should
give him."

   "Until he cums," the Amazon replied, "...  or begs me to stop."

   With that she stood behind Trevor, and looking defiantly into Max's
eyes, began delivering blow after blow to her husband's upturned ass.  The
crowd was counting softly as she repeatedly swung the paddle.  At around
ten strokes, a light sheen of perspiration appeared on her ebony skin.  At
around twenty strokes Trevor began grunting out "Oh, oh, oh, oh" with each
impact of the shinny leather.  On the thirty-ninth stroke, he suddenly
yelled out a deep, long cry and stood up.  His cock was erect and spurting
cum over the top of the leather couch cushions.

   "I think this is definitely going to change some things around our
house," Mahaila said as she stood with the paddle at her side panting
perhaps in exertion, perhaps in passion.  "I'm going to take him over in
the corner, and he is now going to do a little something for me." She
smiled as she slapped the leather against her hand.  "Only his paddle is a
lot smaller and wetter and can get to just the right spots if he sticks it
out far enough."

   As Mahaila pulled Trevor toward the far corner, Maxwell once again
stepped into the center of the room.  "We haven't forgotten you, Diana," he
began.  "And before you waste your time protesting that we are wrong about
you, look down.  Your body testifies against you."

   Diana looked down at her blue spandex costume.  A darker blue splotch
now decorated the area between her legs and the stars within the splotch
were no longer shining white.  "Why don't you just take off those sopping
wet bottoms or for that matter, why not take everything off except your
bracelets and crown, and put yourself over the couch like Trevor did?"

   Wonder Woman slowly slid her panty-like bottoms to the ground, followed
shortly thereafter by her red top and cape.  That left her standing there
in her crown, her bracelets, and her thigh-high red and white shiny leather
boots.  "The couch," said Max and she slowly draped herself over the
leather cushions.

   "On second thought," he said, "it might be better if you were just on
your hands and knees in the middle of the room." Diana pushed herself up
from the couch and followed Max's directions so that she was now on her
hands and knees in the spot he indicated.

   "We are going to see just how much of a pain slut you really are," he
said.  "You can get up and go back to your partner at any time, but if you
do so before you orgasm from the pain, you will not be able to cum in any
fashion for the rest of the evening.  The drugs you ingested will prevent
that and I won't give you the antidote unless you stay with the pain all
the way to the peak.  Do you understand that?"

   "Yes," she answered.  "I cum from the pain or I don't get to cum at all
for at least the rest of the night."

   "You understand very well," Max said with a smile.  Marta walked into
the center of the room to join him for a moment.  She was carrying a long,
cane-like object which she handed to her husband and then returned to the
edges of the crowd.

   Max lifted the cane and placed its tip or should I say tips against
Wonder Woman's cunt and asshole.  There was a slight click, a soft "pffft",
and an extremely loud scream as the cattle prod discharged.  Diana's body
reflexively straightened from the jolt which passed through it and she
launched herself forward several feet to where she lay panting and sobbing
on the floor.

   "Return to the position," Max ordered softly.  As she pulled herself
back up to her hands and knees and crawled back into place, he turned to
the room and asked, "How many do you think it will take for her to cum?" He
surveyed the crowd and added, "Or do you think she will break first?"

   "She will take whatever you give her," said Superman, who had
accompanied Wonder Woman to the party.  "She is that much into pain."

   Six more times the click, pffft, and scream were repeated.  Each time it
took just a little longer for her to pull herself back up to her hands and
knees and return to her position.  The last time, as she wobbled back to
her place in front of Max, instead of finalizing her position by spreading
her hands and knees to brace herself, she rolled over onto her back with
her legs drawn up and her feet nearly against her ass.  She then spread her
knees widely.

   "Are you sure you want to do it this way?" Max asked.

   In response, she spread her knees even further apart causing her cunt to
gape slightly.  Max muttered, "So be it," and pressed the prod against her
from the front.  Now the two prongs were against her clit and the very back
of her cunt opening.  This time the click, pffft, was followed by an
extremely loud and long yell that sounded like the scream of a tormented
soul from the depths of hell.

   Diana took a gurgling intake of breath and continued to scream, but the
tone of the scream changed.  It was deeper, throatier, and broken into
short gasps.  Her back arched so greatly that her body came up off the
ground except where her shoulders and heels were touching.  She remained in
that position quivering and screaming for several minutes until she
collapsed back to the floor with a sigh.

   Several people in the crowd could be seen exchanging money.  Evidently
there had been a few side bets as to whether or not anyone could actually
cum from such pain.  Diana rose shakily to her feet and Marta handed her a
small glass.  "It will taste like white wine," Marta murmured, "but it will
counteract any effects of the other drugs."

   Diana drained the small glass in one gulp and returned to Superman on
one of the leather couches.  Again, Marta handed her a towel to sit on.

   "It's time for a short intermission to our activities," Max announced.
"Refill your drinks.  Pick up some snacks.  But do not leave.  We will
resume shortly.

   ***

   About a half hour later, Maxwell called everyone back into the front
room.  The furniture had been slightly re- arranged so that it was now in a
semi-circle facing the outer wall.  Four raised lecterns or podia stood
facing the room.  A fifth was slightly to the side.

   "For our next courses of sexual sin," Max explained, "We are going to
play a little game for some very high stakes." One of the helpers came into
the room and handed something very heavy to Max, who grunted slightly as he
stepped forward and placed it on a small pedestal slightly in front of
where he was standing.  When he stepped back so that the object could be
seen, there was a loud gasp from the crowd.

   "Yes," he said smugly, "that is a standard 400 ounce bar of gold
bullion." He chuckled, "I'm sure that all of you know the current price of
gold.  It is down a little from its peak, but this shiny door stopper is
still worth somewhere around a half a million dollars."

   He looked around the crowd, stopping to make eye contact with several of
the people who were staring greedily at the softly shining gold bar.  "Are
any of you greedy enough to put yourself up against this gold bar in our
little game?"

   He laughed then said, "Of course you are.  How silly of me to ask." He
raised his hand with one finger extended like some ancient orator and
asked, "But are any of you greedy enough to put your spouse up against this
Good Delivery Certified' bar of precious metal?

   "What about you, Dracula?  Are you willing to put Elvira at risk?

   "And you, Klingon?  Would you risk your Starfleet mate?

   "Or perhaps you, Doctor Frankenstein.  Are you willing to put up your
bride?

   "Perhaps Clyde would be willing to put Bonnie on the block for a chance
to win this little bauble?"

   The room became very quiet.  Max waited for a few more moments and said
softly, "I assure you that none of you have been given any drugs.  The only
drug acting on you right now is your own greed.

   "The rules of the game are very simple.  We will play four rounds.  The
loser of the first round experiences forced exhibition.  The loser of the
second round receives forced humiliation.  The third round is, of course,
forced pain.  And the fourth round...  well, we will discuss that when we
get there.  But at that point, the remaining player will have to decide if
they are going to walk away with a consolation prize or risk everything
going for even more than this bauble that you now see before you."

   Marta was standing next to the curtains which closed off the bay window
area.  She reached behind the edge of the curtains and they began slowly
sliding open.  "If you are willing to take the risk," Max continued, "then
restrain your partner or spouse in one the devices in the bay window and go
take your position behind the corresponding podium."

   For several more moments, no one moved.  Then the mad doctor stood up
and pulled his wife to a standing position.  "Do I have to?" she whined. 
"You said I wouldn't have to do anything tonight.  I only came because I
wanted to see what that crazy old bastard was up to this time."

   "I know what he is up to," Dr.  Frankenstein actually Harold Bently, a
local real estate developer said harshly.  "He is hoping that he can
embarrass me or hurt me.  That might happen, but I'm willing to take the
risk.  That gold bar is worth over $500,000 dollars."

   "But I'm the one who might get stuck with a cattle prod or have to suck
off one of these old farts," Gloria whined, shaking her heavy,
lightning-bolt-streaked wig from side to side.

   "You married me for my power and wealth," he shot back, "remember,
honey? And you've gotten real used to using that power and spending my
money.  Don't you think it's time that you earned some of it?"

   With that he dragged her over to the first platform, which was labeled
with a large number 1.  "Into the stocks," he ordered.  Gloria complied and
he quickly closed the top over her head and hands.

   "Actually," Maxwell said, now holding his hand up as if instructing a
student, "these are pillories, even though they are commonly called stocks.
Technically, a stock is flat on the ground and holds a person's legs while
they are seated on the ground.  A pillory, on the other hand, holds a
person bent over at the waist by trapping their hands and head."

   "Whatever," snarled a rough-looking man in a pin- striped 1920's style
suit as he locked his partner in crime into pillory number 2.  Bonnie was
actually Loraine Westcamp, and Clyde was her husband Tim.  Tim was a local
banker known for foreclosing on properties as soon as possible if a person
began to have trouble making the payments.  Loraine was known for
controlling most of the upscale social activities in town and taking great
joy in freezing out any woman whom she deemed to be unworthy.

   Mr.  Worf, actually Virgil Hampton, a physics teacher at the local high
school, carefully placed his companion's head in pillory number 3.  "I'll
do my best to win," he assured him.  "I know it's a risk, but we really
could use the extra cash."

   "I knew I shouldn't have worn a red shirt tonight," the Starfleet
midshipman wailed in response.  He was actually Lee Williams, a grade
school teacher.

   Meanwhile, Dracula and Vampira continued a rather loud, hissing
argument. Dracula actually an accountant named Bruce Stover and Vampira
actually his significant other and co-owner of his accounting firm, Wendy
Saperstein evidently reached agreement because she walked over and set her
hands and head into Pillory number 4.

   Several heads swivelled in an attempt to get a good view down Vampira's
cleavage, but as she leaned over it was very obvious that she had a thin
blouse or some other kind of wrap beneath the deep V of the black dress. 
Actually all four of the "spouses" were very conservatively dressed for one
of Fred's parties.  It was rather obvious that none of them had intended to
be participants in whatever it was that Maxwell and Fred had in mind.

   "We are not going to rely on buzzers or any other gimmicks like that,"
Max began.  "This will not be a contest of luck and speed, but rather will
be purely a competition of knowledge, wisdom, and cunning."

   He paused to look each contestant squarely in the eyes and said, "You
have heard the rules.  You know what you are risking.  We are descending
into non-consensual sex.  There are many different choices at each level,
but we are going to stick with our choices from the three consensual
levels. That means non-consensual exhibition, non-consensual humiliation,
and non-consensual pain.  That is what you are risking."

   He paused and took a deep breath before continuing quietly, "You can
still change your mind at this point.  All you have to do is release your
partner and go back to your chairs." His voice suddenly became loud and
forceful, "But once we begin, there is no backing out.  You are in this
contest until you win or until your partner pays the forfeit."

   Max again looked each man in the eyes and asked, "Are you in or out?"

   "I'm in," responded each in turn.

   "Then we begin," he said softly.

   ***

   "The first question is a moral and legal one," Max explained.  "Your
company has built a substandard apartment building which collapsed when it
caught fire from faulty wiring.  Many people were killed in the inferno and
you are being held personally and legally liable for the negligence.  What
do you do?"

   Max reached under his podium and pulled out a large analog timer.  It
was set to five minutes.  "You have five minutes to come up with an
appropriate solution," he said.  "After we have heard all solutions, the
group will judge them from best to worst." He laughed and added, "Remember,
you don't have to have the best answer, you just have to NOT have the worst
answer.  The worst answer is the loser in this round."

   He pressed a large button on the top of the timer and the second hand
began its sweep around the clock face.  All four men paused in thought for
a few moments and then began writing furiously on the large whiteboards
which would display their answer.  Meanwhile, Marta and several other
serving maids, passed through the crowd with drinks and snacks.

   A loud "ding" announced the end of the five minutes.  "Pens down," said
Max.  "And be ready to display your answers." Clyde turned over his slate
and said in his tough-guy voice, "Cop a plea and turn against your partners
and the architect.  Let them take most of the fall."

   Polite applause met this response and Tim Westlake frowned at the crowd,
obviously displeased that his answer was not appreciated.

   Lt.  Worf snarled out his answer.  "Hire the best lawyers money can buy
and tie it up in the courts until you die of old age."

   From the level of conversation buzzing in the room, it appeared as if
the party goers were arguing about which of the attorneys they knew could
actually do that.

   Dr.  Frankenstein turned over his slate and read his answer in a
clipped, Austrian accent that wasn't a part of his character but was
actually the way that Harold, whose last name was Von Schmidt, actually
spoke.  "Convert your holdings into cash," he read, "and flee to a country
without extradition.  With enough money in your hands, anywhere is home."

   This answer was met with more enthusiastic applause than the first two.

   Dracula chuckled softly.  His laugh had an evil tone to it that brought
shivers to many of those who heard it.  "I would not be in that position to
begin with," his answer began.  "I would have formed a new company through
one of my holding companies when I bid the contract to build the building.
That way I would be at least two levels away from the charges and they
wouldn't be able to come back against me personally."

   Bruce Stover, who actually ran several different construction companies
in the state in addition to his accounting firm, then finished with "And to
make sure, I would probably use a holding company headquartered in Mexico
or some Caribbean nation so that the listing of ownership and board of
directors would not be public record."

   His answer was met with loud applause and shouts of "Bravo, bravo,
bravo!"

   "I think we have a winner," said Max.  "And more importantly, we have a
loser."

   Loraine Westcamp began to struggle against the wooden stock which held
her firmly in place.  Meanwhile, Tim began slowly backing further into the
corner of the room.

   "Don't worry, Mr.  Banker," Max intoned.  "Nothing will happen to you.
The only pain you will experience will be to stand and watch your wife
publicly humiliate herself by displaying for us her true inner slut."

   He chuckled slightly, "But then you usually just stand in the shadows
and watch others struggle while you collect your fee, don't you?  Your fee
tonight, by the way the consolation prize for this round is twenty thousand
dollars."

   Tim smiled at the thought of the cash while his wife, Loraine, renewed
her struggles in the pillory.  Two of the black-clothed helpers pulled the
stand holding the pillory and her into the center of the room.  They then
began cutting away at her clothing using electric scissors.  They did not
cut through the cloth so that the blouse or dress would immediately fall,
but instead cut thin strips so that they slowly trimmed the cloth back
revealing more and more of her body to the crowd.

   "Slow and steady does it," said Maxwell in his measured tone.  "Let the
suspense build as she displays more and more flesh like the common whore
that she really is."

   At his words, Loraine turned an even deeper shade of red.  The phrase
"common whore," was one of the descriptors which she, herself, used when
denying membership to other women at one of her exclusive clubs.

   When the old-fashioned blouse and skirt were lying in strips on the
floor at her feet, the two helpers began attacking her undergarments.  Soon
she was standing bent over, naked and quivering, in front of people whom
she normally viewed as her inferiors.

   "Now we will see just how much of a slut you really are," boomed Max. 
Another platform was wheeled into the room.  On it sat a Sybian female
masturbation machine.  Loraine immediately knew what it was because she had
one secreted in her upstairs closet.  She was sure that no one knew about
it, but this unit was identical, even to exactly the same twin dildos
mounted on the crest of the saddle-like machine.

   Of course, "no one," in Loraine's mind would not include her personal
maids and servants.  She didn't ever think of them as people.  They were
nothings...  nobodies...  no ones...  and those "no ones" knew all about
her evenings riding her "unicorn," as she called her machine.

   "How long do you think this slut needs to ride the unicorn before she
has her tenth orgasm?" asked Max.

   Loraine's mouth was now fully agape.  The fact that Max had called it a
unicorn shocked her greatly.  But ten orgasms!  She had ridden her unicorn
to five before, and perhaps six or seven if she was really carried away,
but she would not be able to stand ten.  And she would be doing this in
front of her friends.  They would know how truly wanton she was if she
allowed herself to orgasm in front of them again and again and again.

   The two helpers who had cut off her clothing stepped back and a
different two released her from the pillory and guided her over to the
platform with the Sybian mounted on it.  They forced her to her knees
straddling the machine and positioned her above the dildos.  Then, after
strapping her feet and shins firmly in place, they pushed her down on the
twin plastic pricks.

   The two dildos had been heavily lubricated and she slid relatively
easily into place.  A wide leather belt was strapped around her waist and
four very strong elastic bands were attached from the belt to the edges of
the platform and made taut.  She could move slightly, but was held very
firmly in place on the machine.  Her arms were then crossed behind her
back, wrists to elbows.  and bound in place.

   After the two helpers stepped away, silence reigned for several moments
as the guests watched her squirm with discomfort and try to look away from
their gaze.  Then a soft humming filled the room which grew louder and
louder as the machine was brought up to its maximum settings.  Those who
were familiar with a Sybian knew that the forward dildo was now also
rotating within her cunt stimulating her from within as much, or more so,
than the vibrations were stimulating her clit and the tender flesh between
her legs.  The anal probe transmitted the vibrations of the machine deep
inside her.

   Now soft moans and cries of "No, please no, please make it stop," were
starting to fill the room.  The cries soon turned to gasps of "Oh, oh, oh,
oh," and then, as the vibrations continued, became unintelligible grunts
and gasps which soon turned into a shrill, keening wail as Loraine was
forced higher and higher toward her first orgasm.

   Suddenly, she threw back her head and ground her crotch frantically
against the machine as she screamed out her first orgasm.  Her mind wanted
to drift in the afterglow of that orgasm, but as many of the women in the
crowd knew, that was not possible on a running Sybian where one orgasm was
just the gateway to a second and third and fourth until your body could
stand no more.

   Loraine gasped and screamed as the rotating plastic penis massaged her
cunt from the inside while the thundering vibrations pounded against her
clit and slit and ass from below.  Somehow, she was managing to rise high
enough to almost pull off of the dildos, but her body did not have the
strength hold her up for very long against the strong elastic.  Her muscles
soon fatigued, causing her to slam back down on the saddle as if pushed in
place by a very forceful set of hands.

   "Three," Max counted aloud as she was driven to her third orgasm.  The
crowd counted for him when it was obvious she had reached her fourth
orgasm. By the time she reached her ninth forced orgasm, only a few in the
crowd were even bothering to keep count.

   "Ten," Max finally said.  Then he added, "Just turn it down a little and
push her over into the corner and let her enjoy herself while we go on with
our contest."

   Even in her lust- fogged state of mind, Loraine was able to comprehend
what Max had said and tried to protest.  "No, please," her voice quivered
out.  She tried to say something else, but the ministrations of the machine
overwhelmed her and she once again slid into the throes of orgasm.

   "We will keep watch over her and shut things down if it looks like it
might cause permanent damage," Max assured the guests.  Loraine's husband,
Tim, meanwhile was back in one of the couches, sitting quietly and sipping
a drink as he watched his wife writhe in passion on that devilish machine.

   *** Max listened to the soft moans and whimpers from the corner for a
few moments and then turned his attention back to the remaining three
contestants.  "The question this time is a business problem," he began. 
"You are the owner and manager of a large construction company.  You have
had an understanding with the inspectors for years, but now there is a new
inspector who won't look the other way.  The local newspaper is also
sniffing around trying to dig up a Pulitzer Prize winning expose'.

   "There is no way that you can finish on time and satisfy this new
building inspector.  There are significant penalties for late completion
and significant bonuses for early completion.  The very existence of the
company hinges on your actions.  How do you handle the problem?

   " ...  Again, you have five minutes to formulate your answer."

   While soft music played and the three contestants wrote furiously, Marta
and several others servants again moved among the guests with trays of
drinks and after-diner snacks.  At exactly five minutes, the timer chimed
and Max yelled out, "Pens down."

   After a moment of silence, he said, "Let's start with our mighty Klingon
warrior."

   Lt.  Worf Virgil the physics teacher suggested, "Bribe him at whatever
level it takes."

   Significant murmuring resulted from that plan.

   Bruce Stover Dracula turned over his slate which said, "Have him taken
care of so it looks like an accident."

   That also created some significant murmuring, and there were also many
people nodding their heads in agreement.

   Doctor Frankenstein had what was obviously the favorite plan.  His slate
said, "Blackmail his wife and make her put pressure on her inspector
husband to play along.  That way, there's no direct connection or paper
trail."

   When he turned over his white board, his plan was met with applause.

   "I think we have a winner," Max said loudly.  "But who is our loser and
why?"

   Abraham Lincoln actually Judge McConnell stood and said, "The Klingon's
plan is the worst for the same reason that Frankenstein's plan is the best.
Bribing the reluctant inspector directly creates a paper trail that a cop
or reporter or some federal racketeering commission can bring into court,
especially if he won't go along with you.  You might get your building
built on time, but you could be in prison before the tenants move in."

   Cries of "Exactly" and "Tell em judge" filled the room.

   "I'm sorry, Lee," Lt.  Worf said through his tears.

   "Don't fall apart, Worf," Max said.  "Our red- shirted midshipman will
end up being humiliated, but you will also experience that humiliation. 
So, at least you will be together."

   He clapped his hands sharply several times and two rather large men
dressed entirely in black hurried into the room and pulled the pillory in
which Lee was restrained into the center of the room.  Meanwhile, two other
similarly-dressed men pushed a platform into the room on which stood what
appeared to be a very solid door frame.

   "Mr Worf," Max instructed, "would you please remove everything from the
waist down and step into the restraining frame?"

   Virgil did so and Max's helpers put restraint cuffs on his wrists and
ankles and tied him tightly in place in the frame.  The helpers then
removed Lee's pants, shoes, and socks.  He was not wearing underwear.

   Max turned to the crowd and asked, "Have you ever noticed that partial
nudity is often much more humiliating than complete nakedness?"

   He then went on to explain, "Virgil and Lee have been together for
years, but have stayed very firmly in the closet...  or at least in the
doorway.  That means they would be very embarrassed and humiliated to be
caught in the act,' so to speak.  Tonight they will not only be caught in
the act, we will watch from start to finish."

   One of the helpers returned.  He was wearing thin rubber gloves and was
carrying a small jar of some sort.  "That is a lubricant and stimulant,"
Max explained.  Once they are greased up, the drugs in the mixture will
stimulate them so that they can't help themselves."

   The helper dipped his gloved hand into the mixture and began rubbing it
over Virgil's prick.  There truly were drugs in the mixture and Worf's cock
immediately sprang to full erection.  Meanwhile, another of the helpers was
rubbing the same mixture between Lee's asscheeks.  Lee quickly also became
turgidly erect.

   Lee's face was beet red and he kept muttering, "Oh God, Oh God," as he
was forced to stare into the faces of the gathering.

   Then the helper guided the tip of Virgil's erect prick to Lee's rosebud
and centered it on target.  Both Lee and Virgil quivered with a combination
of shame and sexual excitement.  The sexual excitement soon won and Virgil
pushed forward, impaling Lee, who was now chanting "No, no, no, no."

   His chant, however, soon changed to "Yes, yes, Yes!" as the sexual
excitement overwhelmed him and he thrust back against Virgil's penetration.

   Just as Virgil began to shake and quiver in orgasm and started to erupt
into Lee's ass, another of the helpers stepped forward with a broad band of
some sort and bound Virgil firmly in place, deep in Lee's ass.

   "We will leave them like that," Max said softly, "as sort of a living
statue of shame."

   Max then looked out upon the now lust-filled faces of the party goers
and said, "Although Lee and Virgil were definitely humiliated by their
experience, I think that most of you would have been willing to change
places with Virgil...  or Lee in exchange for the forty thousand dollar
consolation prize that they will receive."

   ***

   Max watched as the platforms holding Lee and Virgil were rolled together
over to the edge of the room near where Gloria was still writhing on her
unicorn.  He then slapped his hands together with a loud "Clap!" and said
briskly, "Time to move to our next level."

   He once again surveyed the room and stated.  "Earlier this evening, five
of you agreed to act as special judges during our competitions this
evening." He paused and looked at several specific people before asking,
"Would the judges now please come forward?"

   Three men and two women stepped to the front of the room.  "Dracula and
Dr Frankenstein," Max began, "you have five minutes to write out something
that will convince these five upstanding judges to vote for you rather than
your opponent. ...  Starting now!"

   After a few moments of thought, Dr.  Frankenstein began writing. 
Dracula, meanwhile, stood smiling at the judges.  Then he wrote quickly on
his slate and set down his pen.  At the end of five minutes, Max curtly
said, "Pens down."

   Frankenstein's answer was first.  Harold Von Schmidt, explained how he
and Gloria were valued members of the community and had helped many
charitable causes and so on and so forth.  When he had finished reading his
answer, the five judges nodded appreciatively.

   Then it was Dracula's turn.  His slate held nothing but a list of five
words.  They were, "Sandburg; Lignite; SAT; LuAnn's; and William."

   Sandburg was a reference to an unsolved fatal hit and run on Sandburg
Road from over a decade ago.  Lignite is a form of soft coal found in cheap
gravel that can sometimes contaminate concrete and weaken it.  Especially
in beams exposed to the weather, lignite contamination can cause weakening
and even result in building collapse.  SAT, of course, referred to the
Scholastic Aptitude Tests which were required for most college admissions.
LuAnn's referred to LuAnn's Escort Services which often provided willing
companions for some of the more well-to-do members of the community, and
William referred to William Rath, a young and extremely handsome young man
who owned a local landscaping business.

   Each of the five judges knew exactly what at least one of Bruce's five
phrases meant and they each immediately stammered out, "I vote for
Dracula."

   "That isn't fair!" screamed Gloria.  "He's threatening them."

   "I see no threats," answered Max.  "He is just suggesting that he might
have information available should it be desired."

   Gloria gasped.  Her eyes were wide open and her mouth agape.  Those were
the exact words she had used to pressure Fred Whetherington into investing
in one of her and Harold's rather shady real estate developments which had
gone belly up and bankrupted several of the investors.  Somehow, when one
of Harold's great deals went sour, he never ended up losing money.  Others,
however, were never so lucky.

   When Gloria had encouraged Fred and Willie to invest in what they all
could see was obviously a flawed plan, as part of her sales pitch, she
hinted that she and Harold had access to some potentially damaging legal or
financial information.  She was very careful not to directly threaten Fred,
but she did point out that she and Harold had "information available should
it be desired by the authorities."

   When Max used those words, both she and Harold suddenly knew that this
was a set up and that they had been tricked.  But they also knew that their
best course of action was to endure whatever was to come and learn from the
evening.

   Gloria did not resist as two of the helpers removed her from the pillory
and brought her to the center of the room.  Two other helpers were bringing
a restraint frame similar to what had been used to hold Virgil.  She knew
what was expected of her and stripped off her costume and stepped between
the uprights of the frame.  Surprise showed on her face when one of the
helpers stopped her from removing her large wig.  "It stays on," he said
simply.

   Once she was standing in the proper place, the helpers attached wrist
and ankle restraints and then pulled her taut.  She was now spread in an
obscene X within the frame with legs pulled tightly to the sides and arms
stretched wide almost to their limits slightly above her head.  She
remained rather serene and composed until they began taping electrodes to
her body.

   She began to protest, "No, No!, Please!  Please!  Anything but that!"
Her voice started out subdued, but rapidly rose in pitch and volume and she
began thrashing against her bonds.  "Harold," she finally screamed out,
"you will PAY for this!"

   She and Harold had tried electro-sex a couple of times.  Harold actually
enjoyed it and sometimes taped TENS pads to his ass and nipples while they
were making love.  It would drive him into extreme orgasm if Gloria would
reach out and turn the dials to maximum just as he reached climax.  In
fact, he had purchased a TENS unit with a remote so that all Gloria needed
do was push a button on the remote and the unit would switch to the higher
levels.

   Gloria, on the other hand, hated electro-sex.  But then again, she hated
being shocked in any fashion.  As a small girl, she would run crying to her
parents if one of her brothers shuffled their feet across the carpet and
zapped her on the arm with static electricity.  Maybe her body was just
more susceptible to electric shock.

   By the time the nipple clamps were in place, Gloria was crying
continuously.  Fred approached and stood before her.  "I know your aversion
to electricity," he said, "so we are going to prepare you a little before
we begin."

   One of the helpers held up a rather large dildo with wires leading from
it.  "This is a little larger than it would have to be if it were just an
electrode," Fred explained.  "It is also a rather powerful vibrator that
twists and turns within you in addition to vibrating."

   A different helper held up a smaller version of the same dildo.  "And
this anal plug operates in much the same fashion," Fred added.  As the two
helpers pushed the dildos into place, Fred held up a leather belt that had
a crotch strap.  "And to keep you from pushing them out," he continued,
"they will be held in place with this belt." One of the helpers reached out
and took the belt from Fred and began tightening it in place around
Gloria's waist.  He then tightly cinched the crotch strap in place, firmly
imbedding the dildos in her body.

   Before returning to his seat, Fred said softly, "The vibrators will kick
in immediately and will be stimulating you well in advance of any possible
electric shock." He then gave Gloria a quick smile and walked back to join
Willie.

   Meanwhile, a small pedestal was brought out and set in front of Harold.
"You might remember something like this from when your children were
little," Max explained.  "The four lights flash in a specific order and
each color makes a specific sound.  All you have to do is to press the
colored switches in the same sequence.  After five sequences, it switches
to giving you only the sounds.  For the next five tries, you have to
remember which color goes with which sound."

   He turned to the crowd and said, "There will be three rounds for a total
of 30 sequences."

   He then looked over at Gloria and smiled pleasantly.  She glared back at
him.  "We left your lightning bolt wig in place because this will involve
electricity."

   "I had already figured that out," she spat back.

   "If Harold gets the sequence exactly right," Max explained, "nothing
happens.  But each key that he presses incorrectly will cause the TENS
units attached to your body to discharge.  The units will then immediately
step up in strength and the next incorrect key in that sequence will be at
a higher voltage.  After the second incorrect touch, the nipple and..."

   Max suddenly looked astonished and embarrassed.  "We forgot the clit
clip ...  " he said in an almost shrill-sounding voice, "...  and I didn't
notice."

   By the time he had finished speaking, one of the helpers had run in and
quickly attached a large electrode clip to Gloria's pleasure nub.

   "As I was saying," Max continued in his normal deep voice.  "After the
second incorrect touch, the nipple and clit clips come into play.  After
the third incorrect touch, the vaginal and anal electrodes kick in and they
are set for much higher voltage."

   He raised his hand into his most pompous pose and said, "Should their be
a fourth incorrect touch in a given sequence, the electrodes in the wrist
and ankle restraints will activate and will pulse at high voltage for
thirty seconds.  That may never occur, but just in case, we are going to
protect the carpet around your restraint frame."

   All four helpers came back to the middle of the room carrying plastic
tarps which they spread out around and over the platform.  While they were
doing so, Gloria alternated between glaring at Max, Fred, and her husband
Harold.

   "Shall we begin?" said Max and the large disk on the platform in front
of Harold slowly flashed red-red-green-green-blue-blue-yellow-yellow.  With
each color was a corresponding electronic note.

   Gloria tensed as Max began pushing buttons.  The machine made a clicking
noise as it went dark awaiting the next press of a key.  Max hesitated, but
then began pressing keys.  Gloria gave a deep sigh as he hit the final
yellow with no mistakes.  Almost immediately, the device played a new
sequence, red-blue-red-green-red- yellow-blue-green-blue-yellow.

   Gloria's eyes widened as she realized that it had added two steps to the
sequence.  It has also sped up slightly.  She would have easily been able
to match that pattern, but she knew that Harold would not.  She could only
hope he got most of them right.

   He didn't.

   There were eight steps in the sequence.  Max got the first five of them
right, but then repeated color five instead of moving on to color six. 
That meant that steps six, seven, and eight were wrong.

   At step six, Gloria gasped slightly as a relatively light shock tingled
her thighs, buttocks, and tummy.  At step seven, she yelped as a somewhat
more intense shock hit the same areas and her nipples and clit.  At step
eight, she screamed as a significant shock tightened the muscles of her
legs, bit at her clit and nipples, and tore through her pelvis between the
rectal and vaginal electrodes.

   Sweat was beginning to form on her body as the lights flashed once again
and the beeps filled the room.  This time there were twelve steps to the
sequence.  It was the same beginning sequence as before,
red-blue-red-green-red-yellow-blue- green-blue-yellow, but this time it
added green-yellow at the end.  Harold noticed that it was the same and
managed to get the sequence right all the way to step eleven.  He pressed
yellow- green for the final two steps rather than green-yellow.

   Gloria yelped as the first shock tingled her muscles and the second bit
at her nipples and clit.

   The next sequence again remained the same, but added red-blue at the
end. Gloria could always spot patterns and recognized that the sequences
weren't random, but rather were the mix of potential combinations of colors
on the device.  If she were pushing the buttons, she would probably be able
to get every sequence correct.  Unfortunately, it was Harold, not Gloria,
who was playing the game.

   This time there were six incorrect steps.  Harold evidently recognized
the pattern, but kept skipping or repeating steps, and once out of
sequence, the remaining steps were wrong.  Gloria yelped, but not quite as
loudly, as the nipple and clit clamps kicked in and she grunted when the
internal electrodes forced the muscles of her pelvis to convulse.  When the
wrist and ankle electrodes were activated, however, Gloria screamed or at
least she attempted to.  All that came out was a strangled gurgle as her
body shook and bounced with the electrical pulses that were flowing through
it.

   As Max had feared, Gloria lost control of her bladder and sprayed urine
onto the protective covers which had been placed on the floor beneath her.
When Max finished putting in his incorrect sequence, Gloria continued to
buck and writhe for an additional thirty seconds until the units timed out.

   "Fortunately for you," Max interjected, "the thirty-second time for the
restraint electrodes is restarted each time they are activated.  Otherwise
you would have been in for several minutes of their pulses."

   Gloria did not look as if she felt fortunate.  She was panting heavily
and trying to re-compose herself as the device kicked into a new sequence.
Somehow, this time, Max was able to enter all fourteen steps correctly. 
Gloria sighed very deeply in relief while murmuring spread through the
disappointed crowd.

   She gasped, however, as the next sequence started.  The sequence was
identical except it skipped the first color.  If Max didn't notice that, he
would get all sixteen steps wrong.

   He did...  get all sixteen steps wrong.

   This time, Gloria not only lost control of her bladder and expelled what
little urine was left in her system, she also lost control of her bowels.
Despite the leather belt designed to hold it in place, she expelled the
anal electrode along with a significant amount of fecal matter.

   "Let's get her cleaned up a little before the next step, shall we?" Max
said as the helpers hurried in with soapy water and towels.  A few moments
later Gloria was clean and again properly wired.

   "This time it will just be sounds," Max said.  Gloria moaned.  She knew
Harold was as tone deaf as a mule and sang like one.  There was no way that
he could get the sequences right.

   But he did.

   Actually, he couldn't tell one tone from another, but he just repeated
the sequences that had flashed before him in the first five steps.  That
worked for the first four tone steps, but Harold had not noticed what was
different about the final sequence and once again he got all sixteen steps
wrong.

   Gloria bucked and screamed as the pulses tore through her, but there was
nothing left in her bladder or bowels, so at least this time she did not
shit herself in public.

   "Time for round two," announced Max and the diabolical game piece once
again flashed eight colors.  It was moving through the same combinations of
colors, except this time it started with green-red rather than red-blue. 
Harold was a fast learner and he got the sequence right.  He also got the
ten, twelve, and fourteen step sequences correct.  But once again, he was
so fixated on the pattern that he didn't realize that the first step had
been left out and got all sixteen steps wrong in the fifth sequence.

   Between grunts and screams, Gloria managed to choke out, "Harold, you
stupid son of a bitch, watch the damn colors."

   Harold mumbled a soft, "Sorry," but Fred could also see that he was
suppressing a smile.  Perhaps Harold wasn't as stupid as his gold-digging
wife thought him to be.

   The tones again mimicked the colors and again Harold got the first four
sequences correct, but missed all sixteen steps of the final sequence.  By
the time the pulses timed out, Gloria was now hanging limp in her
restraints.

   "One final round," Max announced.

   Gloria raised her head.  If she were running this game, the third round
would employ a totally different method of setting up the sequences so that
the player would be overwhelmed and unable to get any of the colors or
tones correct.

   But she wasn't running the game, and the only difference was that the
sequences started with blue-red.  Again Harold got the first four right and
totally messed up the fifth sequence.  When the thirty-second timer for the
restraint pulses finally switched off, Gloria was muttering softly over and
over, "Stupid son of a bitch, stupid son of a bitch, stupid son of a
bitch."

   The whole process repeated itself the final time through the tones. 
This time, during the fifth sequence, Gloria barely responded even to the
heavy pulses that tore through her body from wrist to ankle.  As the
helpers removed her from her restraints, Max said, "I am sure that she will
recover shortly, but just to be safe we are going to take her into one of
the other rooms and have our standby doctor check her out."

   He looked over at Harold and added, "It might help her to recover if you
told her that your consolation prize is eighty thousand dollars."

   Harold did not answer, but returned a broad smile.  As the helpers
carried the practically unconscious Gloria out of the room, he followed a
little ways behind.

   ***

   After they had left the room, Maxwell turned and surveyed the crowd. 
"Our first level of sexual sin was exhibitionism and voyeurism," he said.
"Our second was consensual humiliation.  The third was consensual pain. 
The fourth, non-consensual public display and voyeurism of that
non-consensual exhibition.  The fifth was non-consensual public
humiliation. And the sixth was non-consensual sexual pain."

   He slowly scanned the crowd, looking almost everyone present directly in
the eyes for just a fleeting moment.  "What then," he continued, "could
possibly be our seventh level of sexual sin and depravity?"

   Max paused.  Several persons started to raise their hands or say
something, but then fell back into silence.  "There are several to choose
from," he said, "but which would we choose to demonstrate in public?" Max
laughed.  "Some of the deepest sexual sins must never see the light of
day."

   He held his hand to his jaw as if pondering some great question.  "Which
sin is perverse enough to be at the seventh level, yet at the same time,
tame enough to present at a party in front of dozens of witnesses?"

   He turned around slowly scanning the faces of the partygoers.  Then he
continued, "It is so obvious, and yet so elusive.  When I announce it, you
will all think...  or say...  Of course!' But until I speak it, you will
keep what it is carefully locked away in the back of your mind with all
your deepest and darkest secrets for fear that what you are thinking may
even be beyond the seventh level of sexual sin."

   He turned to face Elvira, still held captive in her pillory, and then
turned his gaze toward Dracula, who stood alone at the four podia.  "The
seventh level of sexual sin and depravity which we have chosen for this
evening," he began slowly, "is sexual submission and slavery...  and of
course, its companion sin of owning and using such submissive slaves."

   Pointing directly at Dracula, he said loudly, "That is what we are
playing for in this round.  If you lose, you and Wendy become Fred and
Willie's sexual slaves for a period of one year."

   He paused for effect and then said, "You could quit now and walk away
with a consolation prize of $160,000 dollars.

   "Or," Max continued, "we could up the stakes and the risk and entice you
to stay in the game."

   The four helpers walked slowly into the room.  It was obvious they were
each carrying something very heavy.  They walked to where the bar of gold
bullion was sitting and each placed an identical bar alongside it.  There
were now five 400 ounce bars of gold bullion on the small platform.

   "A consolation price of $160,000 dollars," Max said.  "Or one year
against one bar of bullion. ...  Or the risk of permanent slavery against
all five bars.  Those five bars, at current market price, are worth
somewhere north of three million dollars."

   Bruce looked over at his partner and then back at Max.  "One year or a
lifetime really makes little difference," he said smugly.  "I hear that you
have a contract due and payable tonight that makes all of this moot."

   "I guess I now know who invited our gate crashers and supplied them with
the proper costumes," Fred said from somewhere in the crowd.  Most of the
party goers looked around totally confused.  Bruce and Wendy, as well as
one other couple in the crowd looked over directly to where the false
Fallen One and imitation Mother of Lilith sat.

   "Perhaps," said Dracula with a smile that showed his artificial fangs.
He shrugged his shoulders.  "Perhaps not.  But in any case, we accept your
terms.  A lifetime of sexual slavery against five Good Delivery Certified
bars of gold bullion."

   Max walked back to his podium and picked up an envelope.  "Our final
question is in this envelope.  All you need do to win the five bars of gold
bullion is to answer it truthfully and correctly." He slapped the envelope
against his palm and added, "And there is no time limit."

   Max then tore open the envelope and removed a single sheet of ivory
paper.  "The question is this, Is it possible for a person to escape
permanent captivity in hell at the end of the term of their contract with
the Fallen One?'"

   "I don't need even the five minutes to answer that one," Bruce snorted.
"The answer is No!' Contracts with the Fallen One are iron clad.  They are
absolute and inescapable."

   "I believe you... ...  are wrong," came a deep voice from the edge of
the room.  All eyes turned to the source of the voice.  The Fallen One and
The Mother were standing next to the couch on which they had been seated.

   "And I suppose you are some kind of authority on contracts with the
Fallen One," said Bruce in his most sarcastic tone.

   "No," the voice answered, "I am not SOME authority on contracts with the
Fallen One.  I am THE authority because I AM the Fallen One."

   Bruce snorted in laughter, but those sitting closest to the standing
couple were beginning to back away in fear.  This was because they were
close enough to see that it was the red-skinned woman, not the man who was
speaking in such a deep voice.

   The couple walked to the center of the room.  The person in the Fallen
One costume said in a rather high pitched voice for a man "We were going to
wait until midnight to unmask, but it appears we have to do so a bit
early." She then began to melt.  So did The Fallen One.

   Melting is the only word which describes what was happening.  Their
makeup...  or skin...  or costume...  or whatever it was...  began to
slough off.  But it didn't drip onto the floor, instead it congealed around
their body in a slightly different form.  Slowly the imitation Fallen One
transformed into the true Mother of Lilith and the imitation Mother
transformed into the true Fallen One.

   "Had Frederick asked if it were possible for YOU to escape permanent
captivity in hell," the deep voice continued, "then the answer would have
definitely been No.'"

   He laughed.  It was a deep, resonant laugh that nearly froze the blood
in the veins of the people who heard it.  "But Fred has an older contract
one of the last with a certain weakness in its language.  Under the terms
of that contract, all he and Willie had to do was enter into hell... 
enter, not stay there.  If the circumstances were just right, they could
enter and go THROUGH hell without staying permanently.

   "And their faithful retainers, Maxwell and Marta, uncovered a way to
symbolically do that by descending through the seven levels of sexual sin
on this night in which their contract was due.  They did that.  They have
gone through Hell and come out on the other side.  That makes them the big
winners for this evening."

   He laughed a very deep and even more frightening laugh before pointing
his finger directly at Dracula / Bruce and thundering, "And you...  You
lose!"

   He laughed once again.  This time a flash of heat pulsed through the
room and a faint trace of sulfur became present in the air.  He turned
toward Fred and Willie.  "As Maxwell had surmised, this little stunt does
fulfill the terms of your contract.  You are released from the completion
payment.  And because the contract is technically fulfilled, all the
benefits offered under the contract remain in place."

   The Fallen One and The Mother walked slowly to the front of the room to
stand in front of Fred and Willie.  "But you are perhaps wondering," he
said, "why I did not simply derail your plans for this evening."

   He turned to face the guests who were starting to huddle against the
walls.  "The answer to that is very simple.  Once in a while someone has to
beat the Devil at his own game.  If no one was ever able to beat me, no one
would ever enter into one of my contracts in the misguided hope that they
would be lucky enough to someday escape the conditions of the contract."

   He turned toward one small group which was cowering in the corner. 
"Believe me," he said, "you have a much better chance of winning the
lottery."

   The Mother laughed.  Her laugh was much lighter than The Fallen One's
and did not create the same icy fear in the people who heard it.  "But once
in a while," she said in her silvery voice, "someone does win the lottery
even against such odds."

   She turned to address Willie, "You have beaten the odds."

   She then smiled.  For some reason her smile, unlike her laugh, struck
fear into the hearts of the guests.  Perhaps it was because her teeth were
sharp and pointed.

   "Besides," she continued, scowling slightly, "Bruce and Wendy have
really pissed me off over the years with their incessant bickering over
minor terms and conditions of their contract."

   The Fallen One again spoke this time directly to Bruce and Wendy.  "You
have made yourselves sexual slaves of Fred and Willie for the rest of your
lives."

   Now it was the Fallen One's turn to smile.  He seemed to be now actually
enjoying himself.  "Because of our agreement," he said.  "that will be a
very, very long time.  Should it get to be too much for you, perhaps you
could initiate the early termination clause of the contract.  I'm sure The
Mother and I would be agreeable to that."

   He turned toward Max and added, "And no, Max, early termination isn't in
Frederick's contract either.  It was added only a few centuries ago. 
Through the years, I've learned many things the hard way, just as many
humans do."

   Turning back toward Bruce, he said, "I will be watching over you to be
sure that you live up to your wager.  As a matter of fact, I am going to
hang around tonight until you and Wendy kneel naked before Fred and Willie
and officially submit yourself to them."

   He snapped his fingers and suddenly Bruce and Wendy were standing naked
in the middle of the room.  Fred and Willie stepped forward to stand in
front of them and The Fallen One said ominously, "You know what has to be
done, you did it for me a long time ago."

   Bruce and Wendy dropped to their knees and bowed low.  Their heads
touched the carpet in front of Fred and Willie.  In unison they said, "I
submit myself to you as your slave and sexual plaything forever."

   Also in unison, they yelped and jumped to their feet.  Both of their
right buttocks were now smoking slightly.  "As my parting gift to you,
Fred, I branded them for you.  You may notice that the brand on their right
ass cheek says, Slave of Frederick and Wilhelmina Whetherington.' The older
brand on their left cheek says, Property of The Fallen One.'

   "Remember, Fred," he said in a very stern voice, "despite the fact that
my brand is only visible on this night or in my presence, it is always
there.  The wording of the other brand will remind you that although they
are your slaves, they are my property." With that, the Fallen One and The
Mother disappeared in a flash of flame and a cloud of smoke.

   As the guests stood coughing and gasping in the acrid air Willie
exclaimed, "Damn!  He scorched the carpet again."

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