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At the height of the first assault a few guards and overseers managed to avoid the withering hail of bullets and mortar rounds. One of the ‘brave’ overseers bolts into the Scandals Resort replica of the Coffee Shop, run down the steep stairs to the subbasement, and dives into the civet pit where Thessela sits chained. She wipes her mouth on the back of her hand and unaware what is going on above asks “May I help you Sir?”

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With a trembling hand clutching his .44 Magnum revolver he growls at Thessela “Like you could help me.”

“Sir, you are in a civet slave pit!’ Thessela says.

“Like I give a shit, slave!”

With her bowels full of beans Thessela shrugs, rolls her hips up while spreading her bum with her feet. She pulls the burlap pad she had been sitting away and says “But I do give a shit! I am a slave; I have no choice.”

With that Thessela lets loose and purges what seems to be an unending stream of If beans from her bowels that splatter against the overseer’s khaki pants and Red Wing boots. He points the massive handgun at Thessela and says “Slave you are going to pay for that!”

Thessela closes her eyes and in a futile attempt to shield herself, she crosses her arms over her face as she hears him pull the hammer back with his thumb. Before he can pull the trigger he hears a woman’s voice say “George, put that pea-shooter in its holster right now. I’d hate to waste such a prime batch of slave civet beans but if you shoot my slave I will paint that pit with your brains!”

He looks up and sees Melissa smoking a Madame Wu and holding an even bigger pistol than his.
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As he holsters his gun he stammers “Um… Yes… Yes, Ms. Melissa… I… I am sorry… I just got carried away!”

“Honey, if you would have shot that girl you would have been carried away! Now be a good boy and scoop up those beans and put them in this bucket” Melissa says as she tosses a 5 gallon galvanized steel bucket into the pit.

The overseer looks around and not seeing a scoop or shovel asks “What am I to pick them up with?”

Melissa pulls the hammer back on her pistol and relies “You have two hands. Now, be a dear and hurry; the beans are best when washed and roasted fresh from the civet and Eulalia is already working the billows on the roasting fire.”

Face with no choice the overseer hand-scoops the beans into the bucket then carries them away to be washed and roasted. Thessela looks up at Mistress Melissa and says “Thank you, Mistress, for sparing my life.”

Melissa shrugs and says “Think nothing of it. You are an investment; I had no choice…”

Tree
 
As the initial assault winds down, mainly due to lack of targets, two up-armored Army surplus HUMVEEs pulls up to the mound where Barb is still buried to her waist. Several overseers looking like ‘Pillsbury Doughboys’ with their body armor clamor out of one of them while in the lead HUMVEE an overseer nervously scans the hills with a turret-mounted M60 machinegun shielded with a ½ inch plate of steel. Anne Moore looks through the sight of her Lapua .338 sniper rifle and purrs “You dumb bastard; if I wanted to I could fill your armor with your brains every time I see your goggles!”

In her headset one of her soldiers says “I can take them out with a TOW missile, boss.”

“I know you could, baby, but it would kill Barb. Let them dig her up. We’ll get her in round two. I’ve got something to do. Cover the compound for me” Anne says as she stashes the rifle in the dense brush and picks up an M16 with a grenade launcher and disappears. Barb is loaded into one of the HUMVEEs and is driven through an arched opening in the wall. She would be held as a ‘bargaining chip’.

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Anne scrambles through the forest and comes upon the Scandals Tree house. She can’t believe see hasn’t tripped a sensor or even come across a guard to dispose of! She looks at the deck and watches Tree light a cigarette thinking ‘that dumb bastard is way past his prime’. The last area flair for the night even lights the Tree house though it is more than two kilometers from the main resort.

Anne creeps up on Scandals Tree house deck with her M16 aimed at the back of his head. She is surprised when he spins the chair around. She moves her finger inside the guard and sides it over the trigger.

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Before she can tell him not to move he lights a cigarette, pauses the CD player silencing Ian Hunter’s ‘Just Another Night’ mid-song, and says “Hi Anne, nice light show!”

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“You couldn’t have heard me” Anne says somewhat exasperated.

“The floor buckled as bit. What do want, Anne?”

“I want to know what’s going on” Anne demands.

Tree looks up at her and says “I’m the ‘Switzerland’ of this island. What the hell do you mean ‘what’s going on’?”

“It’s been too easy” Anne replies.

“Congratulations, you seem to have run a good campaign” Tree says.

“They haven’t surrendered yet” Anne says.

“So you have won the battle is all…”

Tree
 
In her headset one of her soldiers says “I can take them out with a TOW missile, boss.”

“I know you could, baby, but it would kill Barb. Let them dig her up. We’ll get her in round two.

cage 150.jpg Wait a minute here! What do you mean by "round two". I need to be rescued NOW! And by the way don't trust the guy with the yellow hat!
 
As the initial assault winds down, mainly due to lack of targets, two up-armored Army surplus HUMVEEs pulls up to the mound where Barb is still buried to her waist. Several overseers looking like ‘Pillsbury Doughboys’ with their body armor clamor out of one of them while in the lead HUMVEE an overseer nervously scans the hills with a turret-mounted M60 machinegun shielded with a ½ inch plate of steel. Anne Moore looks through the sight of her Lapua .338 sniper rifle and purrs “You dumb bastard; if I wanted to I could fill your armor with your brains every time I see your goggles!”

In her headset one of her soldiers says “I can take them out with a TOW missile, boss.”

“I know you could, baby, but it would kill Barb. Let them dig her up. We’ll get her in round two. I’ve got something to do. Cover the compound for me” Anne says as she stashes the rifle in the dense brush and picks up an M16 with a grenade launcher and disappears. Barb is loaded into one of the HUMVEEs and is driven through an arched opening in the wall. She would be held as a ‘bargaining chip’.

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Anne scrambles through the forest and comes upon the Scandals Tree house. She can’t believe see hasn’t tripped a sensor or even come across a guard to dispose of! She looks at the deck and watches Tree light a cigarette thinking ‘that dumb bastard is way past his prime’. The last area flair for the night even lights the Tree house though it is more than two kilometers from the main resort.

Anne creeps up on Scandals Tree house deck with her M16 aimed at the back of his head. She is surprised when he spins the chair around. She moves her finger inside the guard and sides it over the trigger.

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Before she can tell him not to move he lights a cigarette, pauses the CD player silencing Ian Hunter’s ‘Just Another Night’ mid-song, and says “Hi Anne, nice light show!”

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“You couldn’t have heard me” Anne says somewhat exasperated.

“The floor buckled as bit. What do want, Anne?”

“I want to know what’s going on” Anne demands.

Tree looks up at her and says “I’m the ‘Switzerland’ of this island. What the hell do you mean ‘what’s going on’?”

“It’s been too easy” Anne replies.

“Congratulations, you seem to have run a good campaign” Tree says.

“They haven’t surrendered yet” Anne says.

“So you have won the battle is all…”

Tree

Nothing, but nothing, will keep Tree from a nice Marlboro' :rolleyes:
 
Tree is curious (no jokes you morons)…

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…and asks why Anne only blocked the cell calls and not the land lines (Scandals has an up-to-date Nortel DMS 100 telephone central office with at least one line running to every structure on the island). She explains that cell phones could be used strategically while land lines could be used mostly defensively. He asks Anne if she is worried they could call for help. She says “No, we have the complete list of anyone who visited Scandals and sent a message to them that if they come to Scandals aid we would expose them. Even shadier elements such as le Costa Nostra won’t help because we’d tell their wives.”

“You are bad, Anne Moore, but Joan told me all those records were secure and encrypted” Tree says.

“She hired the wrong people. It took about five minutes longer than it did to get into Hillary’s server.”

Tree adjusts his hat and asks “Why don’t you put that gun down?”

Anne slips her finger out of the trigger guard but still points the M16 at Tree. He shrugs and reaches for the walkie-talkie on the table. He keys the microphone and says “Demo time!”

A split second later huge holes are torn from the deck between her feet and before her leading left foot. Tree says “Your fault, my fault, and nobody’s fault; if that gun isn’t on the deck in five seconds the next rounds will be your double mastectomy… now Anne! That's good… now the pistol… and the one on the back of your belt… And how about all your knives… I said all! …That was so hard, was it?”

The walkie-talkie crackles and Bull says “She’s got a pick in the back seem of each of her boots and at least two in her hair.”

She dumps them onto the deck and asks “So what happens now?”

Tree walks over to the decks bar and says “I’m having a drink. Do you drink wine like you sister or do you want something stronger?”


Tree
 
At the height of the first assault a few guards and overseers managed to avoid the withering hail of bullets and mortar rounds. One of the ‘brave’ overseers bolts into the Scandals Resort replica of the Coffee Shop, run down the steep stairs to the subbasement, and dives into the civet pit where Thessela sits chained. She wipes her mouth on the back of her hand and unaware what is going on above asks “May I help you Sir?”

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With a trembling hand clutching his .44 Magnum revolver he growls at Thessela “Like you could help me.”

“Sir, you are in a civet slave pit!’ Thessela says.

“Like I give a shit, slave!”

With her bowels full of beans Thessela shrugs, rolls her hips up while spreading her bum with her feet. She pulls the burlap pad she had been sitting away and says “But I do give a shit! I am a slave; I have no choice.”

With that Thessela lets loose and purges what seems to be an unending stream of If beans from her bowels that splatter against the overseer’s khaki pants and Red Wing boots. He points the massive handgun at Thessela and says “Slave you are going to pay for that!”

Thessela closes her eyes and in a futile attempt to shield herself, she crosses her arms over her face as she hears him pull the hammer back with his thumb. Before he can pull the trigger he hears a woman’s voice say “George, put that pea-shooter in its holster right now. I’d hate to waste such a prime batch of slave civet beans but if you shoot my slave I will paint that pit with your brains!”

He looks up and sees Melissa smoking a Madame Wu and holding an even bigger pistol than his.
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As he holsters his gun he stammers “Um… Yes… Yes, Ms. Melissa… I… I am sorry… I just got carried away!”

“Honey, if you would have shot that girl you would have been carried away! Now be a good boy and scoop up those beans and put them in this bucket” Melissa says as she tosses a 5 gallon galvanized steel bucket into the pit.

The overseer looks around and not seeing a scoop or shovel asks “What am I to pick them up with?”

Melissa pulls the hammer back on her pistol and relies “You have two hands. Now, be a dear and hurry; the beans are best when washed and roasted fresh from the civet and Eulalia is already working the billows on the roasting fire.”

Face with no choice the overseer hand-scoops the beans into the bucket then carries them away to be washed and roasted. Thessela looks up at Mistress Melissa and says “Thank you, Mistress, for sparing my life.”

Melissa shrugs and says “Think nothing of it. You are an investment; I had no choice…”

Tree
very wise !!
 
Tree is curious (no jokes you morons)…

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…and asks why Anne only blocked the cell calls and not the land lines (Scandals has an up-to-date Nortel DMS 100 telephone central office with at least one line running to every structure on the island). She explains that cell phones could be used strategically while land lines could be used mostly defensively. He asks Anne if she is worried they could call for help. She says “No, we have the complete list of anyone who visited Scandals and sent a message to them that if they come to Scandals aid we would expose them. Even shadier elements such as le Costa Nostra won’t help because we’d tell their wives.”

“You are bad, Anne Moore, but Joan told me all those records were secure and encrypted” Tree says.

“She hired the wrong people. It took about five minutes longer than it did to get into Hillary’s server.”

Tree adjusts his hat and asks “Why don’t you put that gun down?”

Anne slips her finger out of the trigger guard but still points the M16 at Tree. He shrugs and reaches for the walkie-talkie on the table. He keys the microphone and says “Demo time!”

A split second later huge holes are torn from the deck between her feet and before her leading left foot. Tree says “Your fault, my fault, and nobody’s fault; if that gun isn’t on the deck in five seconds the next rounds will be your double mastectomy… now Anne! That's good… now the pistol… and the one on the back of your belt… And how about all your knives… I said all! …That was so hard, was it?”

The walkie-talkie crackles and Bull says “She’s got a pick in the back seem of each of her boots and at least two in her hair.”

She dumps them onto the deck and asks “So what happens now?”

Tree walks over to the decks bar and says “I’m having a drink. Do you drink wine like you sister or do you want something stronger?”


Tree
If that isn't one of the best Tree posts ever..., rip roaring THT in fine form! :clapping:
 
‘Unintended Consequences’

One thing the phone land lines allows the remaining IMF forces to do is all slaves to be immediately bound in chains to be prepared for pick up. This hardly sat well with Sirs Despard and B. Robert Wragg who instructed the Scandals Cruxton Abbey staff to round up their numerous slaves.

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All but Gwen were taken to the abbey’s dungeon and Gwen would be handed over to the IMF as a token of their cooperation (not to mention the IMF knew about her!!!).

One by one the slaves were taken to the hell hole called the Scandals Resort dungeon.
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Even trustees were taken! This one could not believe they would do this to her…

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…and argued her case the best she could…

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…that as a slave trustee that had abused the other slaves almost as much as their free masters the slaves would surely extract revenge while she is locked up with them! She was correct of course!
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Perhaps the greatest blunder of the slave roundup was when the IMF came to Messa’s chateau. They find Messa in irons and chains and assume she is the slave!

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She explains she is just waiting for the Nailus Martyrs photographers for a new line of restraint. They don’t believe her and haul off to the dungeon while Siss basks in the steam shower after an evening of passionate love making with Mistress Messa!

Meanwhile the IMF Director of Western Hemisphere Operations phones Tree while Tree is enjoying drinks on the Tree house deck with Barb’s sister and leader of the guerrilla army Anne Moore.

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“Tree, Anne Moore and her rebel army has invaded Scandals Resort!”

“So I’ve heard.”

“I want Ulrika locked up in the dungeon with the slaves” he demands.

Tree says “Ulrika is not a slave. You can’t just lock her up!”

“I have it on good authority she plays on both sides!”

“I don’t discuss her sex life with her, your pompousness” Tree replies.

“Damn it Tree I want to see her naked and in chains right now!”

“You and just about every member of Crux Forums but it ain’t happening on my turf unless she asks nicely. You come and get her if you dare” Tree says then hangs up.

“Were you defending me?” Anne asks.

“No, your name hardly came up…”

Tree
 
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