For several weeks after the second time she played at Level Two, Stephanie tried to focus on work. She made a difference by helping people get loans that they could afford but that they were having trouble getting because of paperwork problems. She won an award as employee of the month for September. She got tax advice as to how to handle the $30,000 she had been paid as "reimbursements" by the Sportsmen's Club (report to IRS as "other income").
One weekend, Stephanie went swimming and hiking in the mountains with Roberta. Roberta enjoyed the day with Stephanie. She was excited about the new man she'd met who she was sure was "the one." Stephanie did her best to act happy for Roberta.
Stephanie did not initially even read the Level Three rules. She knew the rules would both fascinate and upset her.
She learned from Naomi that Camilia had become the center at the Level Two game held August 26.
Shephanie thought she saw Shameless on the street once. She knew not to approach the woman who looked like Shameless, particularly as the woman was dressed in modest clothing and was walking with two children who looked early school age. Couldn't be Shameless. Once she thought she saw the older woman of the two women that Spielmann had called "slaves" and Naomi had said was named Jennifer or Julia. She was wearing a suit while pushing a baby buggy.
In the evenings, Stephanie had fantasies of Lake Tahoe pirates, Mexican cartel gangs, medieval knights and hordes of blue aliens. She dreamt of being worshipped as a fertility goddess and cursed as a salacious succubus. In each case, in the end she was punished and enslaved, had unprotected sex with dozens of men and left seriously pregnant. She knew these fantasies were ridiculous, but knowing fantasies were ridiculous did not make the fantasies go away.
Shameless called in early September to say Stephanie was invited to a party at the Spielmann mountain mansion on the evening of October 8. Stephanie knew that she should avoid this party because she would be encouraged to play the game at Level Three. She also knew that she would undoubtedly go to the party. To prepare, she decided that she'd finally better read the Level Three rules.
The Level Three rules were more like the Level One rules than the Level Two rules. The Level Three rules sheet which was with the money in the envelop she received after the Level Two game in August, began by repeating all the Principles of the Sportsman's Club: Legality, Honesty, and strict adherence to individual choice. (See Chapter 3). Many of the game rules were identical to the rules for Level One. Each player each round would receive a number from 1 to 14 on an electronic device from which only they could read the first number given. The player could discard the first number and receive a new number from 1-14. The House would receive a number from 1 to 8. A player would take a strike if her number was lower than the House number. Ties went against the House.
Why did they go back to the Level One game rules Stephanie wondered. This would make the Level Three game longer and make it less possible for women to throw the odds through their choice of whether or not to take a new number because they still had a good chance of avoiding a strike even if they threw away a good number.
As in Level One, the first woman or women with 21 strikes became the gang bang center(s). A woman who became the gang bang center at Level Three, though, would spend three weeks being used as a sex object. That would pretty much kill all my vacation time, Stephanie thought.
The rules sheet stated that the Level Three center would spend most of her waking time in vaginal, oral and anal sex, bondage, being abused with whips and electrical devices, discipline, and humiliation. The Club is an equal opportunity fucker, while most of the membership is of northern European ancestry, all Club members would be allowed equal access to the center. "If you have a problem with anything in this paragraph, don't participate," the rules sheet stated.
Except for piercings that would not be visible when wearing clothing, there would be no marks on the center that would last and no possibility of permanent injury. The food would be healthful and pleasant. There would necessarily be a little down time between sexual activities. Every woman should bring anything she needed such as birth control pills, books and other things she would normally bring on a three-week trip. Only one or two changes of clothing, though, were sufficient as the center would spend all of her time nude until the day she left for home. "You will have your cell phone with you but not much opportunity to use it unless you want to take selfies of yourself being fucked."
Stephanie wondered how one could even do that.
There were some strange new rules for Level Three. There was an odd new rule that when the first woman reached 16 strikes, a vote would be taken in the audience with everyone getting one vote for each $1000 chipped into the Club treasury. The woman who got the most votes got two strikes.
Stephanie's first thought was that the Club members who designed these rules have too much money and time on their hands. She also thought that the opportunities for skullduggery and conspiracy in making deals to swing votes were many.
Even more novel were the requirements for getting into the Level Three game. Before participating in a Level Three game the first time, a Level Three participant had to visit the studio of a photographer, designated in the sheet, who would take four pictures of the participant. One of them would be of the woman standing nude and smiling. A second picture would be of the women wearing nothing but a wet T-Shirt bearing the words "Enslave me," "Fuck my ass," "Painslut," or "Breeding slave." The participant could choose. The third picture would be of the nude participant smiling into the camera while presenting her vagina for mounting. The last picture would be of the participant nude, bound firmly, gagged, and ready to be penetrated in bondage.
The pictures would be taken in an environment that did not disclose where they were taken but would clearly show the participant's face. All four pictures would be posted without identification of the participant on a website entitled "Supersluts" and made available to anyone who claimed to be over 18 years old.
All of this porn photo stuff is required to even get into the Level Three game, Stephanie thought. This is harassing, disgusting, sexist, and possibly would lead to wrecking a woman's life. No self-respecting woman would agree to do this unless she had a gun to her head or was desperate for money.
On the other hand, I guess it is not harassing in any way that I can complain about. The pictures are not being required as a condition of any sort of legitimate position. I can hardly complain that I'm being harassed because I am being forced to allow embarrassing pictures to be taken as a condition of being allowed to take part in a game that might lead to a three-week gang bang. But, are they trying to dissuade us from participating with these pre-conditions? Maybe I answered my own question. Maybe they don't want self-respecting woman.
Stephanie knew it would not cost the Club much to have the T shirts made but she was surprised to see when she checked on the internet that shirts with nearly all the slogans mentioned could be mail ordered without any sort of special order. I think I'd rather wear a shirt with the slogans the Club wants than one with "anal whore" or "cum dump" that I found right away for under $30. It's a sick world. Maybe I am not so strange, Stephanie thought.
Finally, Stephanie noticed that the Club would pay $15,000 in expenses to Level Three participants. This was to be sure a lot of money for getting to the Thiesen Medical Supply facility and playing a game for the evening. $15,000, though, was not a lot more than the $14,000 paid to Level Two participants who faced at most a week of being the center of a gang bang. Perhaps, the Club's lawyers told them that expense reimbursement could not be wholly disproportional to actual expenses, Stephanie thought. Or maybe the Club was trying to create some other incentive. Maybe they were just cheap.
Naomi called in late September ostensibly to see if Stephanie wanted to carpool to the Spielmann party again and go out to lunch with Sarah and Maggie on October 4. Stephanie knew Naomi was fishing for information but agreed to meet the group.
In the restaurant, all of the women were again wearing as little as one could get away with in a public venue. After chatting about the weather and how things were going generally, they started to discuss what they had been doing in bed.
Sarah related that her husband had become enthusiastic about humiliating her. She did not really care except when he brought escorts into the home and had sex with them. "He's good for about twice a week in total. I would not care about him screwing other women if he were giving me more of what I want. It kind of galls me that he is screwing another woman when he could be having sex with me.
"When he brings back guys to screw me thinking I am going to be embarrassed by that, it totally backfires. If they are halfway decent looking clean men, I'm happy. He should know that the problem is not that I want sex with men instead of him. I want sex with men in addition to him. If I have to admit that I like sex to get a lot of sex, I admit it."
Maggie said that things had been pretty tame since August, only one foursome. Maggie admitted that she has been somewhat sex starved. "Chuck wishes he'd kept contact with the guys who did me in August. It seems that they are construction workers who aren't even in Nevada anymore."
Naomi said that Rolfi had been coming to her office alone and with friends for therapy. The therapy generally ended with her, Rolfi, and whoever came with him using her couch pretty vigorously. She particularly liked sex with some of the Asians, Africans, and Hispanics that Rolfi brought with him. "I guess I got a thing for variety although I can't say that I have found any particular characteristic attributable to any group. At some level, a cock is a cock."