Evaluation and Power Plays

As the lights shift and the crowd’s attention pivots to the scoreboard and Rhett’s parting theatrics, your tablet vibrates softly in your lap. It's time to check your new challenge card — and reassess your current hand. From last week, you're still holding Handjob, Blowjob, Regular Sex, and Public Sex. Now naked kiss joins them. It’s only x2 multiplier, but it’s there.

You have three women in play now - your free reserve, Freya, is joined by this week’s pick, Jada, and Rebekah Flores in your reserve slot. Milo managed to get two different Ladies to give him blow jobs at the same time in some crazy truth or dare party a couple of weeks ago. He set the bar with that one. But the idea of scoring with three girls in one week is ridiculous.

You look over the two new bio cards to get a better sense of who you’re dealing with this week. You start with Rebekah Flores, the Six of Clubs, and the last points Tank scored before being ejected from the game. She negotiated a **** contract with him, which cost her a night of sex and him a year of coaching a little league team. You wonder what kind of girl she is.

Name: Rebekah Flores

Age: 21

Rebekah is a Philosophy major with a minor in Women's Studies and a black belt in deadpan sarcasm. Known around campus for her aggressively oversized coffee mug and the kind of stare that makes you re-evaluate your last five life choices, she’s notorious for making TAs cry during seminars — and for somehow still being the one they flirt with afterward. Rumor has it she once led a week-long dorm debate over whether orgasms are proof of free will. Nobody won. Including the guy she was dating at the time.

Availability: 66

Fertility: 59

Kinkiness: 86

Sexual Rumor: She once gave a guy a safe word — and then philosophically argued he hadn't meant it.

You grin. That explains it. Smart, sexy and heavily kinky. Tank had no chance of getting anywhere she didn’t lead him to.

You turn your attention to the other Lady of the College Spread deck you acquired this week - the girl you picked from the draw - Jada Washington, the Five of Clubs.

Name: Jada Washington

Age: 22

A senior History major with a focus on Civil Rights movements and post-colonial theory, Jada is deeply passionate, endlessly curious, and known for writing term papers that make her professors sweat. She works as a campus tutor and still insists on using a paper planner “for accountability.” Despite her serious exterior, she’s got a sharp wit and an unexpected love of trashy 90s soap operas — and she never misses an episode of Forbidden Love. Most people on campus either respect her, fear her, or want to ask if she’s single... and then chicken out.

Availability: 42

Fertility: 77

Kinkiness: 58

Sexual Rumor: She says she’s into historical accuracy — but apparently she’ll let you colonize her if you bring enough footnotes.

She reminds you of the free reserve card you’ve been working on this week, Freya Anderson. Both seem to be extremely intelligent college women in fields related to yours but years ahead. You’ve been able to take time with Freya since she’ll sit in your free reserve slot until you lock her in for points as part of a hand, fail with her or lose the game.

But Jada is this week’s pick. That means you have this one week to score with her or she’s gone back to the deck. Then you’d be left holding a partially completed hand and just hoping that she or the Jenny came up in the draw AND you got her. Those are long odds. This close to securing your straight flush means you NEED her. No matter what.

As you read, the music sounds for the Power Plays section of the game, but after the screw up Tank made last week you know you don’t want to screw up such a powerful but dangerous move. You’re already sitting on the hand that you need: part held, part selected and part reserved. It’s **** though, but probably not targeted when you still have to succeed in three challenges to lock the points. The best move for you is to keep quiet unless you need a defensive play.

Milo’s phone buzzes again. Hard. He glances at it like it’s rigged to explode. Which, considering who’s texting, isn’t far off.

Rhett raises an eyebrow. “Oh no. She’s still going. Professor Ravensmoor, I’m glad to see you’re such a… strong, guiding hand to your little boi here. Did you want to make a power play purchase or use his cycle 1 king reward perhaps?”

The screen behind him flickers to life as the tech booth mirrors the incoming messages for everyone to see. Milo makes a sound halfway between a gasp and a whimper. “Seriously, can we not—?”

But it’s too late. The contact name glows bright and damning:

EVIL WITCH

And beneath it, the messages scroll:

EVIL WITCH:

You will use BDSM ×7 for the Ace of Diamonds.

No substitutions.

EVIL WITCH:

Combine it with Naked Kiss ×2.

Total value: 9x

You’re not getting out of this with a handshake.

EVIL WITCH:

For the Ace of Spades:

Impregnate ×9.

Reserved. Long-term. You’ll try until you succeed.

EVIL WITCH:

No complaints. You owe me everything.

The screen hangs there for a beat. Rhett turns slowly, theatrically, and gives Milo the kind of look usually reserved for wildlife documentaries. “Well, that’s a full house of nope right there.”

He paces forward a few steps. “So just to be clear, Milo’s challenge this week is a stacked BDSM ×7 and Naked Kiss ×2 combo with Dean DuPont, thanks to his Horny As Fuck reward… and it looks like he’s playing the ‘Challenge Accepted!’ power play as part of that since I KNOW he doesn’t hold a Naked Kiss challenge. Finally, he’s now officially committed to an Impregnate ×9 with Dean Blackstone.”

The scoreboard ticks down. 80 points gone.

Rhett glances at it, then back at Milo.

“That’s still 4420 points to burn. Plenty of cushion. But don’t be sad, Milo, with two deans in play at x9 multiplier each that could be 1800 points...”

He pauses, smile sharpening. “Assuming you can do the seemingly impossible.”

“And we move on.”

There’s a pause. Just like you, neither Professor Rourke nor Cassie have a good reason to use a power play. Cassie shares your exact situation in that she will want to preserve her power play in case someone targets the hand she’s building. At first it looks like Dr. Ravensmoor’s nasty attack on her signed **** boi is going to be the only play this week. Just as Rhett is about to move on, a voice cuts through the air like a knife sliding across silk.

“Score Slasher.”

It’s not shouted. It doesn’t need to be. Graham West speaks in that low, deliberate baritone that doesn’t rise — it leans. Smooth as dark liquor, with just enough velvet menace to make the room quiet.

Rhett turns, raising a brow. “Target?”

Graham doesn’t look at anyone in particular. He straightens the cuff of his blazer, then finally lets his gaze settle on Milo — not with anger, but with something worse.Amusement. “Milo Gutierrez,” he says. Calm. Casual. Like he’s ordering wine.

Milo stiffens in his seat, confused. “What? Why—”

Rhett grins as the screen flashes, calculating the impact. “Well, well, well. Someone’s playing the long game.” He points up toward the scoreboard. “Score Slasher activated. Let’s see just how deep the cut runs.”

Rhett grins like a crocodile as the audience holds a collective breath, waiting for the result. Graham leans back, relaxed, unreadable. Just like last time. When he cost Tank lost everything.

On screen, numbers roll against a percentage sign, finally settling on 10. It’s not a high score, but it doesn’t need to be. Graham just paid 10 points to cost Milo 442 - a profitable deal for the businessman. The distance between them drops. Not massively — Graham still sits at 2900 while Milo remains at 3978 — but given where they were after locking in their respective points… Milo still looks like this was a killshot. He has his Mistress, Professor Ravensmoor making things impossible on one side, and his opponents, especially Graham, sabotaging him on the other.

With that, Rhett rounds out the game show section of the game and it is on to week 5.