Week 12 Summary and End of Cycle 3

The spotlights shine over the now familiar stage where you and the other contestants sit. There are just three of you left. Theoretically, Graham West isn't eliminated until the points are tallied this week, but after Cassie and Dr Ravensmoor sabotaged him, he had no chance of staying in the game. It looks like he has decided not to bother attending for his elimination. Not that you can really blame him.

That leaves you, Cassie and Milo. All of you have the capability to win; the question is which of you can close out the strongest. Cassie’s in first place, of course, but you are chasing hard in second and, though Milo trails, he's shown he's capable of a good score.

Selene stands behind Milo, dominating him as always. Rebekah sits at the front of the audience, ready to push you if needed. And Claire, as always, sits naked at her keyboard and plays a wild introduction, seemingly questing for which keys are rigged to trigger the sex toys within her. A single squeak tells you she found a particularly juicy one.

As she reaches the end of her intro, Rhett strides out onto the stage, looking more the stereotypical showman than ever before.

“Good evening, reprobates,” he calls out, greeting the audience. “Tonight sees us reach the end of week 12 and with it the conclusion of the third cycle of College Spread. Now, I know what you’re thinking. Our boardroom baron, Graham West, should be seated alongside our other contestants, right? He might already have lost mathematically, but what kind of sore loser doesn’t attend their final night? Well, he did send this…”

Rhett indicates the wall-sized screen that shows the game logo as it changes to a video instead. It shows the inside of a private jet, the camera vibrating from the effects of turbulence. Aiko Tanaka leans over a table towards the camera, naked and gasping. Behind her Graham West was enjoying her more than eagerly offered charms.

“Hey guys, Graham can’t be there this w… EEK!” she gasped. “He’s treating me to a one month round the world vacation and all the… oh god yes… sex I can handle. He says good luck with the game.”

The College Spread logo replaces the video once more as Rhett gives a cheeky grin.

“So, I think we can all agree that the video more than makes up for his absence. Now, the remaining three contestants all competed this week and it’s time to find out how they did. We went oldest to youngest, so first off we have Cassie Li!”

The spotlight focuses on the returning champion. She sits as composed as ever in her seat, her tablet held ready in her hand, her body poised. Yet the slight pout to her lips betrays a mixture of amusement and mild annoyance that intrigues you. Something’s happened, and you wonder what it is.

Rhett pauses, staring directly at her for a moment before speaking again. “Cassie,” he says, his drawl slow and steady. “This week we didn’t receive a video of your completed challenge. Care to explain what happened?”

“Apparently…” she fixes you with a gigawatt stare that seems to combine mirthful frustration. “I got Phantomed.”

“Phantomed?” Rhett clearly knows what's going on, which only makes you more intrigued.

“Yes. It appears that all the members of the drama department, of those partly involved in it, are now on ‘Team Phantom.’”

“Yes, that's right,” says Rhett. “It seems word got out about what our Fresher did with Kaori last week and they’re so delighted that they’ve decided to align fully with our own Mr. Impossible and refuse to accept challenges from anyone else. There’s more too, but we’ll cover that later.”

You stare at him dumbfounded. It had been hard enough to believe that a play would have been made because of your Phantom challenge, but locking people out of several women in the deck?

“I’m beginning to think our new joker, ‘The Phantom, Upstaged’ should be ‘The Queen, Dethroned.’ So, folks, you best be careful which ladies you pick because the fresher’s got some of them locked tighter than a chastity belt!”

The stage light shifts to spotlight Milo and Selene Ravensmoor.

“And mentioning people who are all tied up… Dr Ravensmoor, how has your little **** done this week?”

“Satisfactorily,” she says, offering the slightest compliment she can for what must have been a successful challenge. “He managed an anal sex challenge.”

Milo shifts uneasily in his seat.

“He got our star athlete Amina Okoye to agree to anal sex on camera? Let's check the video to see how he managed that.”

The giant screen behind you switches to video once more, displaying what happened in Milo’s challenge. But it's not Amina who is naked; she's wearing a corset. It's Milo, down on his hands and knees before her, his face wracked with discomfort if not pain. The camera focuses on his ass, showing the strap-on Amina is using to ride him. The gathered crowd in the Frat House goes crazy. Milo blushes profusely.

“Well,” says Rhett, wincing and shaking his head. “That IS a successful challenge, but I'm beginning to wonder if Milo will ever come out on top at any point in his game… or maybe if he even wants to. Perhaps our cool guy arts major has discovered a submissive streak a mile long and a touch of shame kink to go with it.”

The cries and laughter that greet the comment show how much the crowd loves it. Everyone else is winning from a primarily dominant position. Milo has been submissive repeatedly instead.

“The Ten of Clubs with an anal sex challenge completes Milo's flush,” declares Rhett. “Let's add in those scores.”

The wall changes to show the scoreboard with Cassie in first place on 41,400 points, you in second on 34,070 and Milo trailing on 14,408. Then it displays the cards and challenges in his flush.

The Empress, Dr Papadopoulos, bdsm for 350 points.

Your own girlfriend, Rebekah, the Six with the public sex challenge he tricked you into watching, 48 points.

The Queen, Dr Te Whetu, oral sex for 100 points.

Agnes Petrovic, the Three, with a naked kiss for 6 points.

And now, Amina Okoye, the Ten, with an anal sex challenge for 60 points.

A total of 564, which gets multiplied by the flush multiplier of 10 for a hand value of 5640. It slides onto his score, which changes to 20,048. He's still behind by a significant distance, but not out of touch. One very strong hand this cycle could be devastating.

“And finally…” Rhett drawls as the spotlight shifts to you. “Our Phantom. I’m not sure I’ve seen young women so eager to throw their panties at a guy since Elvis Presley started swinging his hips. The difference being, his weren’t allowed to be shown on screen.”

Without even waiting for you to respond, Rhett indicates the screen behind him which shows a video of both Rebekah and Camilla riding you. They’re fully into it and the moaning that fills the air is missing just one voice - the man whose tongue is busy in his girlfriend’s pussy. YOU!

“Two women at the same time. You don’t do anything by halves do you, fresher? So, what challenge card are you playing today? Group sex? BDSM given you could call that being dommed? Regular sex… questionable given the context, but there’s definitely vaginal penetration going on?”

You glance at the challenge cards in your hand. Impregnate, two anal sex cards and two oral sex cards. It would be NICE if you had one of the higher scoring challenge cards to grab more points. It would be nice if anal sex had occurred so you could make it a six point multiplier. But none of that happened and you realize the only cards that count are the lowest scoring ones in your hand.

“Oral sex, Rhett,” you say.

“Oral sex?” he says, amused. “ORAL SEX? All of that for a four-point modifier. Friends, I give you the Phantom. He goes big even for the smallest challenges. Cassie may be leading in the points, but if this was based on effort then Mr. Impossible would be ruling the roost.”

He pauses.

“Or would he? See, I heard from a reliable source that, apart from the sex itself, you put zero effort into this week’s challenge. I heard that, in fact, you weren’t even going to attempt a challenge at all but take a week off instead. Is this true?”

You nod. “I was going to play the Glass Ceiling Mafia joker to take a breather and still score.”

“Which means what this really was was…”

He’s drawing the truth out of you, but it’s clear he already knows. You wonder if perhaps Rebekah told him, or Cassie, and if not how he learned what had happened.

“A gift from the drama department for the Phantom of the Opera challenge last week…”

“And,” interrupts Rhett, “Because certain members of the department are now working on a fully developed sexual play to run at the end of the year. A play WE are ALL invited to free of charge. Well played, Mr. Phantom!”

That gets the loudest cheer of the evening, a cheer that goes round and round the room for minutes. Even Selene and Cassie can’t help but nod their heads towards you. You’re the only player in the entire game who has literally scored without making any attempt to do so whatsoever. Claire plays a fanfare, squeaking at times as particular keys cause her toys to buzz particularly hard. She glares at Rhett before grinning once more, evidently shocked by the change but delighted.

“All right, Phantom, that leaves one question. Are you going to hold Camilla’s card or bank the points?”

It’s an easy decision. If you bank the points now then you’ll score 32 points for a high card play. If you hold her, that’s 3 Sixes and an Eight in your hand. Draw Rebekah’s card and you can get four of a kind, sacrificing that 32. But if you get another Eight, then you can get a full house and make it far more powerful than a single card play. “I’m holding her, Rhett,” you say.

“And that brings us to the end of week 12 and cycle 3,” says Rhett. “All the ladies who’ve been banked are returned to the deck for the start of the next cycle, including Graham’s cards and the flush Milo banked. That leaves just one thing before we move on to the next cycle… Cassie, once again you gained the most points this cycle, and as the cycle Queen you get to roll for a leader reward for Cycle 4.”

Cassie smiles and flicks a finger across her tablet. On the screen behind her a giant die rolls and comes up 6.

“The six,” says Rhett. “That’s ‘Sleeping Around’, the advantage that makes the choice all yours. Each week you may refuse to choose a lady from the draw in favor of a new lady card of your own choice from the entire deck. Obviously, you cannot choose any unavailable card, but beyond that you basically select your own card value every time.”

Cassie takes a deep breath, seemingly very satisfied at the power she has. Not only can she choose cards that improve her hand, but she can choose those that would disadvantage you and Milo. It’s a good one, that’s for sure.

And with that, Claire plays the way into week 13.