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When writing has consequences...
- Thread starter thehangingtree
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As mentioned in the opening of this story this is occurring in a parallel universe to ‘ours’. In our world such a contest could never happen but in the Crux Forums strange things happen. Let us find out what is going on!
I have been a slave for Mistress Judith for a while now and she treats me as such. Almost weekly she crucifies me to decorate her parties. I am not unfamiliar with hanging naked from cross. This is what I have done on my Anjou Crux Tours but that was on my terms! Now I hang naked before Lady Judith as she explains what she expects from me.
“Messa, I am entering you in the Crux Forums Writers’ contest” she tells me.
“What happens if I win” I ask.
“You will be executed by crucifixion” she says drily “but I wouldn’t worry. I entered you on your "Crux Humor by Messaline" threads. I can’t picture you being nailed to a cross for any of that crap.”
I think I should be comforted by that… I think…
-Messa
Ok so that explains Messa’s situation but there is more to this than Messaline. Right now Barbara Moore is on her way to the contest to present her "Traffic Violation Saturday" stories.
There are other entered in the contest. There is LittleSiss for various dreamy poetic abstractions, Eulalia for "For the Pleasure of Prince Uday", Marcella for "Trust", Malins for "Every Shadow Burns my Face", Laetitia for "Laetitia and the Shadow of the Gallows" among others. There is only one woman that is at risk of ‘winning’ the grand prize of being crucified to death but that risk is there.
Or is there???
In Norwest Arkansaw (pronounced ‘Northwest Arkansas’ in the real world) Tree is meeting with the contest organizers. They are negotiating with Tree to get a deal on a multiple crucifixion. Tree is not known for cutting deals but is curious as to why they are going to need a ‘group discount’. Tree gives them the discount and takes a walk on the estate wondering what they have in mind…
Tree
I have been a slave for Mistress Judith for a while now and she treats me as such. Almost weekly she crucifies me to decorate her parties. I am not unfamiliar with hanging naked from cross. This is what I have done on my Anjou Crux Tours but that was on my terms! Now I hang naked before Lady Judith as she explains what she expects from me.
“Messa, I am entering you in the Crux Forums Writers’ contest” she tells me.
“What happens if I win” I ask.
“You will be executed by crucifixion” she says drily “but I wouldn’t worry. I entered you on your "Crux Humor by Messaline" threads. I can’t picture you being nailed to a cross for any of that crap.”
I think I should be comforted by that… I think…
-Messa
Ok so that explains Messa’s situation but there is more to this than Messaline. Right now Barbara Moore is on her way to the contest to present her "Traffic Violation Saturday" stories.
There are other entered in the contest. There is LittleSiss for various dreamy poetic abstractions, Eulalia for "For the Pleasure of Prince Uday", Marcella for "Trust", Malins for "Every Shadow Burns my Face", Laetitia for "Laetitia and the Shadow of the Gallows" among others. There is only one woman that is at risk of ‘winning’ the grand prize of being crucified to death but that risk is there.
Or is there???
In Norwest Arkansaw (pronounced ‘Northwest Arkansas’ in the real world) Tree is meeting with the contest organizers. They are negotiating with Tree to get a deal on a multiple crucifixion. Tree is not known for cutting deals but is curious as to why they are going to need a ‘group discount’. Tree gives them the discount and takes a walk on the estate wondering what they have in mind…
Tree
RacingRodent
Consul
What that is outrageous, I am totally voting for Messa to be crucified and so will all my squirrel friends.
I am sure Messaline will be totally thrilled with the result.....I think I have thought that one through
messaline
Crucified Amazon
What, you dont find that ...hum ... genious?!!!For the rest, I think that Tree is yet bargaining my crucifixion for money ... as usual ... he has so much Seagram to pay ...
She may regret this...Lovely foliage! I mean the leaves, not the Tree!
Better Wragg than me.
How anyone manages to be a lover of Joan... 
I'm very informal.That night Barbara visits her mentor Doctor Jollyrei to bounce this proposal off him. It is a quite setting where they can talk informally.
What I don't understand is why Barb is wearing more than I am. 
I'm just trying to level the playing field, so to speak.Hey!!!!! Get your bony fingers out from under my bra strap!!!!
And I was there, and Wragg, and Messaline, and...View attachment 550526 Who the fuck are all these people? And why am I naked? I must either be in Kansas or in a Tree story! Aunt Em, help!!!!
You are having way too much fun with the new emojis.You get
a prize!
Oh, wait a minute, Try again, Wragg!
You get
a prize!
I'm very informal.
Let’s face it ... you’re wardrobe is rather skeletal, even in the best of times.
messaline
Crucified Amazon
You get
a prize!
Oh, wait a minute, Try again, Wragg!
You get
a prize!
Oh ! I had understood ... that ! 
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Why not?You are having way too much fun with the new emojis.
I regard them as my Christmas present from @ImageMaker !
Presents from IM, demerits from Barb ... what a life our Chronicler doth lead
Important notice...
No matter your faith or beliefs the best to all here
Tree
No matter your faith or beliefs the best to all here
Tree
I must admit I am a bit bewildered with what is going on here. Usually the contestants are kept in comfortable surroundings if somewhat scantily clothed as demonstrated by Messa.
But things are not always what they seem to be. Just the other day Tree was reading the newspaper (yes he can read) and came across an article headlined with a large picture of a few bison grazing on a plain in front of some rugged mountains. The headline read an oil company wanted to build a refinery next to a national park. Now why the hell would they want to do that Tree wondered until he read the story and found the refinery would be relatively small, three miles from the eastern edge of the park, and built to the most current standards while being invisible from the park. The buffalo wouldn’t even know it was there! But perhaps Tree is off the story line a bit…
Usually the women that don’t make it to the final round are released to perhaps compete another day but not this year! Here the last seven have been noosed and hanged one at a time before a crowd of a hundred (paying) spectators. Dorothy Brown is the last of this group and has watched the others gasp and struggle as they were hanged.
I do hope she puts on a good show when she is hanged! She did of course…
…I thought her eyes were going to pop out of her head! They didn’t but it looked like they would.
This leaves us with our last seven ‘contestants’. They are being led up to hear the results.
I hope this goes well but still don’t understand what seven crosses made of premium French crucifixion wood that were brought from the Hill of 100 Crosses™ are waiting outside the abbey’s gate…
Tree
But things are not always what they seem to be. Just the other day Tree was reading the newspaper (yes he can read) and came across an article headlined with a large picture of a few bison grazing on a plain in front of some rugged mountains. The headline read an oil company wanted to build a refinery next to a national park. Now why the hell would they want to do that Tree wondered until he read the story and found the refinery would be relatively small, three miles from the eastern edge of the park, and built to the most current standards while being invisible from the park. The buffalo wouldn’t even know it was there! But perhaps Tree is off the story line a bit…
Usually the women that don’t make it to the final round are released to perhaps compete another day but not this year! Here the last seven have been noosed and hanged one at a time before a crowd of a hundred (paying) spectators. Dorothy Brown is the last of this group and has watched the others gasp and struggle as they were hanged.
I do hope she puts on a good show when she is hanged! She did of course…
…I thought her eyes were going to pop out of her head! They didn’t but it looked like they would.
This leaves us with our last seven ‘contestants’. They are being led up to hear the results.
I hope this goes well but still don’t understand what seven crosses made of premium French crucifixion wood that were brought from the Hill of 100 Crosses™ are waiting outside the abbey’s gate…
Tree
There seems to be a lot that Tree doesn’t understand here, which makes me wonder who is writing this story? And don’t tell me it’s the Rodent!
It is a little disorienting, I expect, jumping straight back into the fast-paced world of Cruxton Abbey Sport and Entertainments (CASE)(TM) Plc. Ltd. after being in hospital for a stretch. I'm sure he'll figure out what that wood is for. He has a reputation to uphold, after all. Oh, and I brought the memory enhancer, well, Seagrams.
messaline
Crucified Amazon
Mmmmmm ! That's beautiful and I love so much roses !
But Messa already has been crucified in front of a refinery and with buffalo ! That makes no problem ...
Oh ! Certainly to make some publicity for my wood ... 