Ch. 4
After the women returned from their showers - dressed again - the men went to take their own. When they returned the girls had gotten food ready and the six sat down to eat. The thunderstorms had mostly passed with only an occasional flash of lightening remaining. It was past sundown, but they could see the sky was beginning to clear. Conversation, not surprisingly, centered around the activities of the last two days. "Not at all what I expected from this trip," Rick remarked.
"Are you complaining?" Liz asked.
"Not in the least. In fact I wouldn't change a thing. It's just that I would never have imagined all this a couple of days ago."
"You wouldn't have imagined it!" Janet's voice left no doubt that she thought him one of the best able to imagine it. "I'd never done more than neck in the same room with others before, much less getting undressed. But I will admit that now that I've begun to get used to the idea, it doesn't really bother me. As long as no one's hurt and we all want it, why not?"
"Why not, indeed?" James said. "I'll admit I like the freedom and I won't deny I like seeing all you girls naked." Barb gave him a playful swat. "Of course, I like seeing Barb naked the best," he quickly added. "In fact I think I might like to keep her that way all the time." This brought good natured laughs and Barb stuck out her tongue in response. "Anyway," James went on, maybe it's just the end of semester feeling or maybe it's the setting out here, but I find I really am comfortable with all of this."
The others agreed and Liz spoke up. "You all know I act like a real free spirit, a little loose and always ready for a good time. Actually, I have to work at it. You'd all - well, all but Rick - be surprised to find out that I'm really a little shy. Yes, I really am. But I work at overcoming that by going the other way, acting the super extrovert. Last week I'd have talked about orgies and sex movies, and such, but I'd never imagine really being involved in such things. But, like the rest of you, I'm comfortable with what's been happening. And I don't think I want it to stop happening after this weekend."
This caused the others to fall silent and look quickly around. Finally Charles spoke up. "I'll go along with that. I don't want to involve anyone else, but I do like being able to be with all of you and just let things happen. Right, Janet?"
Janet nodded and said, "Right. I didn't even try to act like I wasn't shy. Maybe not really shy, but certainly not really extroverted. But now it seems that the six of us have always been so close that this would never have bothered me. And, by the way, I like seeing all of you guys naked, too." This was answered by calls of agreement from the other two women and somewhat embarrassed looks from the three men.
When the dishes were cleared away, the six gathered in front of the fireplace again and Rick built up the fire once more. As he was doing this, he asked, "Well, what does everyone want to do tonight? I mean besides that."
A couple of quick laughs and finally Barb said, "Well, I'll ask. Are there any more of those tapes left, Liz?"
"I don't think so," she replied, "but I'll take a look. Maybe there were some more in one of the other cabinets."
"If not," James said, "I suppose we could play Trivial Pursuit again. Or maybe some other game. Let's see what there is"
"I'll see what I can find," Liz said and went to look through the cabinets. In a minute or two she said, "I don't see any tapes, but let's see what we have here." She pulled a cardboard box from the cabinet. It was labeled in magic marker "Trivia Game." She returned to the group and set the box on the floor. Opening the top she pulled out another flat box, much like a board game box. In fact, that's what it turned out to be. But as she held it up and read the words on the top, everyone realized it wasn't the usual game.
"Sexual Trivia. An adult game for sexually adventuresome couples." Liz looked up at the others. She looked back at the box and read, "WARNING: This game involves sexually explicit material. If you are not of legal age or are offended by nudity or sexually explicit material or acts, you should not proceed." She looked around at everyone else again and asked, "Interested?"
After a few seconds Janet answered for all of them. "I suspect that after the last couple of days, even a game of strip Trivial Pursuit would seem kind of bland. Read some more about it."
Liz opened the box and took out a playing board. There were markers and a die and the board looked a lot like most board games. She opened the rules and began to read again. "This is a game for two to four couples who enjoy their sexually and each other. Players are seated around the table, alternating genders: boy, girl, boy, girl. Each player should be seated directly across from his/her partner. The die is thrown to determine who goes first and then play moves around the table in a counter clockwise direction. Each player rolls the die, selecting a category. A question is then read from the stack of Question Cards and the player must answer it. If the player does not correctly answer the question, the player takes the next Penalty Card and must do as instructed. Play continues until one player has correctly answered a question from each of the categories. To complete the win the player must then draw a card from the envelope of "finishes" and do as instructed. The "finish" cards should remain in the envelope until needed."
"NOTE: There are three levels of Penalty Cards corresponding to the three levels at which the game may be played. LEVEL 1. Level 1 includes penalties which do not involve actual sexual acts, but which are suggestive and/or teasing in nature and which are done alone or with the player's partner. Nudity may be involved. LEVEL 2. Level 2 penalties may involve sexual
acts with the player's partner and non-sexual acts with other players. NOTE: The penalties in Levels 2 and 3 are designed to be either heterosexual or bisexual. At players' option the penalties may be restricted to heterosexual acts simply by changing the designated receiver to the named receiver's partner. LEVEL 3: For advanced players only. Penalties may involve sexual acts with other players."
Liz looked up again. "Well, what do you guys think? Interested in playing?"
Everyone sat still. Finally Janet broke the silence. "What the hell, why not? I mean after everything else we've been doing, this probably won't be that much different. But I will say I don't think I'm ready for Level 3. Level 2 and all heterosexual sounds good to me."
Barb said, "I guess I'm ready. I'll go along with what Janet said." Liz nodded and Barb added, "OK, we girls seem to agree. What about you guys?"
The men looked very interested, but didn't say anything for a few seconds. Then Charles
said, "Have you ever known a guy who wasn't interested in something sexual?" Then he added almost to himself, "And if he wasn't he'd never say so in front of you women, or, even more importantly, would never say so in front of other guys." This brought a couple of strange looks, but soon everyone was agreed and a round table was moved over in front of the fire.
The rules called for the Level 1 cards to be all played before Level II cards were started. They also clearly stated that any penalties had to be performed so that everyone could watch. The rules also indicated that some props would be required and Liz dug out two cloth bags from the large box which had contained the game. One was labeled Level 1 and the other Level 2. She spread the props for Level 1 on the table and the six stared at a wood paddle, a leather strap, several short pieces of soft rope, some clothes pins, a feather and several other items.
Janet was seated with Rick on her left and James on her right. Since each player was seated opposite his or her partner the order around the table was Janet, James, Liz, Charles, Barb, and Rick. Each person rolled the die with Janet getting the high number.
"Well, I guess I start," Janet said and rolled the die again. The six categories of questions were history, movies, science, literature, wild card, and a category called underground, myth and customs. However, each of the categories was restricted to sex. Her roll brought her the film category.
Barb read the first question. "In the late 60s classic film, what is it the Debbie does?"
"What?" For a second Janet looked blank and then suddenly said, "Oh, I know. Debbie Does Dallas."
"Right," Barb called.
Liz added teasingly, "And I thought you'd never watched those kinds of movies."
Janet turned a little red and said, "I hadn't, but I have heard of some."