MR Day 8 - Evening

At dinner, your team is anxious. They know this activity is coming, and the big gymnasium has been closed off from everyone... they are doing something in there.

After you eat, you gather in a classroom with Tiff, who has your practice uniforms from yesterday: the skimpy, sexy ones that you wore for the obstacle course. They're clean... but you know what this means.

"It's a pillow fight," Tiff tells you all.

"A what?" Lara asks, looking bewildered. "Are they bloody serious?"

"Yes," Tiff says, and it looks like she doesn't approve any more than you do. "A pillow fight. One person from each team goes in... so there will be six people on the thing they set up, and you try to knock each other off as quick as you can."

The whole team groans... it's so dumb.

"Here is why we should take it seriously," Tiff says, waving for you to all calm down. "Remember the obstacle course? They recorded all of that. Especially the part where you guys had to fight. That footage is valuable. We can see how the players react to things and find their weaknesses. So the better we do, the more footage Pink Team gets. We get a clip for every one that you knock in. Bonus points for being the last survivor."

The team murmurs thoughtfully. Interesting... if you fight well with pillows, you can gain information that can give you an advantage. That is a good reason to put some effort into the pillow fight.

You change into your practice uniforms, which are... pretty sexy. You, Viti, and Lara all have obvious penis imprints in yours, and busty girls like Ingrid will just look... amazing. Luckily no one on your team has huge boobs, except for Elena, but she's over six feet tall, so...

You head for the main gym, finding it all lit up with cameras everywhere. A platform of foam pads is suspended way up high, twenty feet above a giant pit filled with foam blocks. Jeez...

You and your team get ready to fight.

You are up first because you are the captain. Moxxi and Lulu are already doing their commentary thing... music plays and lights flash. Clips of this will be all over the interent.

You take the pillow that a stage hand gives you and get ready. Six little bridges lead to that main platform... so you don't just have to fight, you have to balance just to GET to fight. Ugh...

Fine! Uncomfortable yoga, hiking through the woods... today kind of sucked. You head out there and take it out on the other players, doing well! You knock several off before one of the tough girls from Green Team gets you.

The rest of your team does pretty well too... especially Rebecca, who gets just as many as you. You didn't expect that from her because she doesn't act confident, but she is a fighter.

So that's cool!

Somehow, your team scores more points than any other team, thanks to Lara, Sheva, Lili, and Elena ALL winning their rounds completely. The producers and announcers swoop down on your team excitedly. It's almost a little celebration, with interviews... wasn't this show supposed to be about soccer?

You feel dizzy when it's over, and Tiff takes you aside and walks you away from the team. They are going back to the cabin, but Tiff is taking you to the office building

She takes you to a very nice office, past a room where a secretary would sit... but it looks like no one works there now. There's a desk and stuff, but it looks unused.

In the office you find... the other five captains and the other five coaches, and Annette, the 40ish blonde woman who is in charge of this whole place. She's not in charge of FUTA... but she is a part of it.

"Riley, welcome," Annette says, looking happy to see you. "Good job out there. Good job, everyone. I won't keep you here long. I wanted to tell you all something before Friday. We're making some improvements to the lodge. It will be ready on Friday. You all have things you want. I can give them to you. We just want to see... thirst."

"Thirst?" Shep, the captain of Green Team asks.

"Thirst for victory," Annette says. "Big wins can bring big rewards. It's all about trying to get stronger and better. Remember that."

That's... interesting.

It is also interesting when you leave the office after her little talk, because you notice the thing on her desk. It's a decorative paperweight kind of thing... fancy office people always have that stuff on their desks. But the one on Annette's desk is round, and it looks like it's about the same size as the hole in that statue.