Part XI: Round 2 - Nancy vs Her Worst Nightmare
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Lookalike headshot and foot pic for Nancy; actual animated tickle box pic
After the tiebreaker, the chatter, laughter, and teasing in the room only grew. Everyone was a little buzzed from our laughing jag. Wine and cocktail glasses were refilled as everyone told stories and joked together, miming tied positions and recalling the best tickled reactions. Lisa was with Greta, looking at her phone. Nancy sat on the tiebreaker bench in an animated discussion with Anne, as Carol listened and nodded from the couch.
I found Ellen and Tracy talking to M and Laura over by the tickle box when I went back to retrieve it. As I approached, M was saying, “...for almost an hour. It was comfortable but you can’t move at
all.” When M says ‘all,’ it sounds like ‘awl.’
“Telling about your tickle shoot?” I asked, and M nodded.
“How did you even come up with this thing?” asked Tracy, sliding the wrist stocks up and down in their slot.
“Oh that goes way back,” I explained. “Even before the video store. I built it for Laura shortly after we got our first house.”
“I think you built it for
you to
use on me,” Laura teased.
“Ok, well yeah,” I laughed. “But it also came in handy when we started making clips with our friends. It’s quick to set up and really does the job.”
“Poor Nancy,” Tracy observed. “She’s going to go crazy in this thing. Ten minutes?!”
“It’ll be good for her!” said Ellen. “I mean come on, in 20 years have you ever heard her laugh so hard?”
M was smiling and shaking her head.
“It
is fun,” Tracy agreed. “This whole tickle contest idea is a blast! I’m surprised no one’s made it into some kind of kinky party game.”
“Our friends used to say the same thing at the video shoots,” said Laura. “It’s like once you get past the initial craziness and try it, it’s so much fun to tickle people!”
“Nancy might not agree,” teased Tracy.
“Well, the goal so far has been to make people safeword as fast as possible,” I explained. “This time, for Nancy, I’ll be trying to draw it out so she has a fair shot at lasting the whole 10 minutes.” I’d finally organized all the materials into the box. “This time it’s a marathon, not a sprint.”
Tracy arched an eyebrow. “Right,” she breathed. “That’s what men
always say.”
As the ladies laughed, I returned with the box to find Nancy still on the bench with Anne and Carol nearby. Setting it down next to the discarded feathers, I began to unpack the lotion, string, tools, and clamps. Ellen had followed me over.
Nancy turned around to watch. “So I’m supposed to get into that thing?” she asked rhetorically as I set up.
“That’s the plan.” I stood to make a formal introduction. “Nancy, meet the tickle box; tickle box, this is Nancy. And man is she ticklish.” Some of the other ladies were wandering over.
“You’re going to kill me,” Nancy said. “Ten minutes? Seriously?”
“It won’t be like before,” I explained, getting the clamps in place to fasten the box to the bench. “This will start with just feathers. Then it ramps up slowly as we go.”
“
Just feathers,” she repeated. “On my feet.” She shuddered. “M says you can’t move in this thing.”
“No, you really can’t.”
“And that bar at the end is to tie my toes.”
“Yep.”
“Jesus wept.” She gave the box a good once-over, shaking her head. “I have an idea,” she finally said, raising her voice. “How about I say ‘butterfly’ right now and just Venmo everyone for the gift certificates?”
This got a round of laughs from the crowd, sprinkled with “
No ways!” and “
Nuh-uhs.”
“I’ve been in that thing for almost an hour before,” M said. “You can do it for ten minutes.”
Nancy looked at her. “Girl, you are made of tougher stuff than me. Did you see me earlier? That was torture! I won’t last ten minutes getting my feet tickled, no way.”
“He said he’ll go slow,” Ellen encouraged. “And anyway, what kind of attitude is that?” She leveled a mock glare at Nancy. “I expect to see every dime of my prize money when this is over. Besides, you’ve been tickled less than any of us who’ve played so far.”
“That’s because I can’t stand it!”
“Mind over matter, honey,” Ellen assured her. “It’s just laughing! Tell you what, I’ll sit right here with you when it happens.”
“Oh for Pete’s sake,” Nancy stood and gave me a look. Everything was ready. “We might as well get this over with.”
I removed the tops of the leg, wrist, and ankle stocks and gestured for Nancy to sit on the couch. She crawled in behind the box and sat with her knees hugged to her chest. I lined things up and held out my hand to guide her legs in.
Nancy has a larger frame than Laura, who had served as a human template for the box's design, so I was a little worried about her fit. But I needn’t have. Nancy extended her legs to my outstretched hand and I lowered them into the box. They
shooshed nicely into place between the box’s sides, a snug but perfect fit, her ankles resting in the lower half of the stocks under the toe bar. Her large bare feet dangled into the empty space past the box's far end, red toenails winking back at me.
Not gonna lie, those nails looked pretty amazing.
Next, I slid a bracket-shaped wooden brace into place just above Nancy’s knees, locking down her legs. Milled into the top of this piece are two shallow divots that act as the lower half of the box’s wrist stocks. With a sigh, Nancy put her wrists in the divots, palms down, and looked at me as if to say “get on with it.”
I slid the top of the wrist stocks over her hands and locked it in place with pins through the sides of the device. It was now impossible for Nancy to either bend her legs or pull her trapped wrists away. She rocked a little and twisted her hands, giving the box a quick test.
"Good Lord," she exclaimed quietly to herself as her predicament set in. The ladies were looking on now with rapt attention, smiling and talking low among themselves.
Nancy’s feet kicked gently in space as I slipped into place the top section of the ankle stocks and inserted the final set of locking pins to secure it. This was a little redundant, as there was no way for Nancy to lift her legs, but the ankle stocks helped finish the look. Finally, I clamped the box securely to the edges of the bench.
Nancy was now sitting comfortably on the couch, legs extended straight out and locked into the box in front of her, unable to move from hips to ankles, with her wrists fixed in place above her knees. The tickle box is a whole new level of restraint from a hogtie, and after twisting and pulling a bit, Nancy looked at me hopelessly.
Ellen sat down cross-legged beside her on the couch and put a hand on her shoulder.
"One step to go," I told her as I moved around to sit on the mattress, facing her soles. "Time to tie your toes." An “
Oh my God” came from somewhere in the crowd. Probably Tracy.
"Are you sure that’s completely necessary?" Nancy asked as her feet went
en pointe, straining as far from the toe tie bar as possible, which was also conveniently toward me.
I took this as an invitation to slip a long piece of soft string around her clenched big toes. "It actually makes things easier on you," I explained as I continued to wrap her toes together.
"It seems a bit over the top," she complained, squirming. "I can't. Freaking. Move. And you're tickling me already! Stop!"
“Sorry. Remember, though, you get tickled more softly this round so you can last the full time,” I explained. “That’s not possible if your feet can thrash around. I’d have to dig harder.”
“Riiiight, you’re doing me a favor,” she chided. “You are such a bullshitter.”
With Nancy’s big toes well-wrapped, I crossed the string between them and threw the running ends back over the bar, pulling it taut to draw her feet back until her toes pointed straight at the ceiling. When they touched the bar, I secured everything in place with several loops and a knot. Now she
really couldn’t move.
“Maybe you’ll thank me later,” I suggested.
Her look went from hopeless to despairing as she tried to flex her feet and found at best she could just barely wiggle her toes. As tightly as the box fit her legs, that was all the movement she had. “Not likely,” she answered.
My tools were laid out neatly to one side of the box, where Nancy could see them: a pile of feathers from the tiebreaker, a small bottle of lotion, a telescoping set of small plastic three-clawed back scratchers, and a couple of electric toothbrushes with the brushes removed, exposing the vibrating tips underneath.
Nancy passed her eyes over the array of tickling devices and then looked out to a middle distance at nothing, taking deep breaths to collect herself. Ellen stopped rubbing her shoulder and reached down to grasp her hand in the stocks. “Remember hun,” she coached. “Mind over matter.”
Nancy turned and looked at her. “Where was your ‘mind over matter,’ Ellen? When they were tickling you, you never stopped laughing!”
“Oh, hm. Well…oops!” Ellen shrugged. “Bad advice then. How about ‘good luck?’”
Nancy’s eyes got big as everyone laughed. Then she looked down to see that I had settled into place and grabbed a couple of feathers. She tried to wiggle but couldn’t. “Oh
shit shit shit shit…”
I reviewed the progression. “So it’ll be two and a half minutes with the feathers, then two and a half with fingers, then again with the lotion and claws, and finally with the toothbrush tips. And then everyone walks away with all their loot! Sound good?”
I got a round of nods,
yeps, and
uh-huhs. Nancy kept saying
shit.
“Lisa, are you timing?”
“On it!” Lisa called out happily.
“Ok, give me a countdown!”
Nancy took a breath and squeezed Ellen’s fingers with her trapped hand. She looked me in the eye as Lisa counted.
“Three…two…one…
tickle!”
I laid the tips of the feathers at the base of Nancy’s toes on each foot, and slowly drew them downward, tracing big S’s toward her heels. She flinched at the first touch as her eyes flew wide and shot skyward, but she held in her laughter. What I got was “Oh come
oooooooonnnn…” in a breathy, warbling tone. Her toes wiggled weakly as the feathers made their way.
From her heels I traced the feathers back up along the outsides of her feet. Now she was bouncing on the couch and whimpering, but of course her legs and feet were held perfectly still. Next to her, Ellen was watching Nancy’s face and flashing the biggest smile. I glanced around to see the same expressions of wide-eyed anticipation everywhere. The ladies were definitely not used to seeing Nancy like this.
Next I drew the feathers across her toes, which caused some frantic struggles and an “
Oh GOD!” before I found a new path downward across the insides of her feet along her arches. Nancy’s feet were large and smooth, showing wrinkles only when she clenched her toes. As I hit her arches with the feather tips, her feet started vibrating fractionally side to side in the stocks as her whimpers grew more frantic.
“Thirty seconds gone!” Lisa called out.
The feathers were at her heels again. Having gotten the best reaction from her arches, I returned the feather tips there to dig around some more. It worked like a charm. Nancy’s whimpering began to grow louder as she really started to struggle. Ellen, hand now on the box, looked Nancy up and down, continuing to smile approvingly as her friend fought in the stocks. Sounds of anticipation floated from the crowd.
“One minute!”
“
HaHA! Jesus
CHRIST this is so Goddamn
annoying!!!” Nancy finally gasped in a high voice, chuckling through her words. Her eyes locked on mine again, now with some pleading behind them. “Come ooon…
dammit! Stop!
STOP IT!!!”
That didn’t work; I just danced the feathers more quickly around the centers and arches of her feet as her toes clenched and unclenched wildly. She closed her eyes and started shaking her head, pulling hard at her wrists. “No no
no no NO NO NO!!!”
“A minute thirty!”
And then the laughter started. Not the unbridled
WAAAHAHAs from earlier, but an almost soft but growing reflexive chuckle from higher in her belly, laced with plenty of “
Oh!”s. I didn’t let up, and like before, her mirth just poured out. She’d take a breath every so often as if to say something, and then just laugh some more. Some of the watchers, delighted, began quietly giggling and laughing along with her. Ellen was nodding like this was just right.
“Two minutes!” shouted Lisa over the din.
Still laughing, Nancy looked at me again and tried to clench her jaw, pressing her lips tightly together over a keening sound from her throat as she fought. She was actually doing a decent job of regaining some composure; it was impressive to watch. “She’s fighting it!” Laura called out, and someone said “Ohhh
look at her!”
“Two minutes thirty!”
Unfortunately for Nancy’s heroic effort, I could now legally use my fingers instead of the feathers. I held off for a few seconds though, enjoying Nancy’s struggles and waiting to catch her eye.
And there it was. Right on the edge of control, she looked back at me, giving me a chance to drop her a quick wink as I let the feathers go and started in with my fingertips.
This broke her resistance with a frantic scream followed by, “
HEY!!!” I pulled away to let her think about it, and she locked my eyes again, shaking her head
no and trying her damnedest to pull her feet away. I can only imagine what my smile looked like as I slowly leaned in.
“Three minutes!”
Her hands stretched out and her eyes grew wide. “No no God
please no please
please don’t do that again
pleeeeease!!!”
Ellen looked on with glee as, of course, I started stroking her soles again. Nancy
bounced in the stocks with an “
OOHHH!!!” and then shot me one of the three best pleading looks in human history just before I started digging softly across her arches.
At this, Nancy skipped right past belly laughs to
WAAA-HAHAHAs as she lost all control. She bounced crazily on her couch cushion, laughing now with pure abandon. But every few seconds, just as I thought she might lose hope, I was careful to give her a brief respite. The idea, after all, was to let her last the round.
“Three thirty!”
The breaks were also fun because they allowed Nancy to yell sentence fragments at me, like “OH YOU SONOFA
HAHAHAHA!!!” and “PLEASE YOU GOTTA
HAHAHAHA!!! After a while, these little interrupted quips had our gallery of observers laughing almost as hard as she was.
“Four minutes!”
I try to be a good torturer, which means knowing how to work someone through levels of stimulation like they’re riding a roller coaster. As Nancy and I passed four minutes heading toward five, I pretty much had her fully under control. With feet as ticklish as hers, like Ellen before I could use the pressure and location of my strokes to work her from the edge of whining to babbling hysterics to uncontrollable belly laughter and back again at will.
If she had anything to say, I could let her start to say it and then just flip the switch, along the lines of “I AM GONNA KILL
HAHAHAHA!!!” With a submissive, this is a headspace they really enjoy, be it tickling or pain or orgasm play that takes them there. But for a dominant person like Nancy, it had to be a feat of pure willpower that kept her going, helpless, as I controlled her by tickling her feet.
“Four thirty!”
My original plan was to keep her on the edge and let her go as long as possible, hopefully the full ten minutes. But that was looking less and less likely as she gradually wore down, now close to panic with even the lightest tickling. I didn’t know what I’d do at five minutes with the lotion and claws, which are at least an order of magnitude more intense than finger tickling for most. That would have to be completely unbearable for her.
And for now, she was being a good sport about it. Nancy was laughing and out of control, but I felt she was cognizant of the fact that this was a game and everyone was entertained. Because of that, she was by all indications still having fun as she went with the flow. I didn’t want to push her past that point into real suffering. You have to understand: this lady’s feet were in their own category of ticklish.
So although it pained me a little, I decided to try and finish Nancy off before we hit five minutes. That seemed the best way out with no unnecessary suffering or hard feelings, and I didn’t want to ruin what had been a near perfect night. Also no one could fault how hard she was fighting not to safeword; even Ellen. So after Lisa called out the 4:30 mark, I really let Nancy have it with more digs to her arches. And it worked.
“
WAAA-HAHABUTTERFLY! BUTTERFLY!! BUTTERFLY!!!”
Four minutes and forty three seconds. We’d call it five, and use 50% as the hit on gift certificate values. When I stopped, Nancy was red-faced, disheveled, and panting. She cracked an exhausted smile, though, as a wave of loud cheering and applause broke out among her friends, with many glasses raised in a toast. I immediately freed her toes and opened up the stocks.
“You are
not a nice man,” she teased as I helped swing her legs out of the box. “Maybe I should have you killed.”
I was 99% sure she was joking. “Just doing my job, ma’am,” I smiled back. “And believe it or not, I was being as nice as I could.”
She started vigorously rubbing her feet. “Well then I wouldn’t want to see you mean.” Ellen helped her stand up for a victory lap around the room. Nancy found herself in a big cluster of friends, everyone talking at once. Lisa stood a bit off to the side.
As I policed up the tickle tools, Ellen strolled back to ask if I needed any help. “Thanks Ellen, but I’m ok,” I answered. “I’m used to cleaning up after a session; old habits. You hang with your buddies.”
“What an interesting life you lead,” she observed. She was about to continue, but paused as Lisa stepped up behind me.
“Hey Quinn, quick question?”
“Sure, shoot.”
“Could I finish Nancy’s time?”
I probably just blinked. “Finish…
huh what?”
Lisa nodded at the tickle box. “I mean if I got in there and you tickled me, could we add my time to hers for the certificate percentage thing?”
“Oh honey,” Ellen offered. “You don’t need to do that!”
Lisa looked at her. “No it’s ok, I want to! It looks like fun! I could just pick up where Nancy left off, and maybe get you all some money back!”
I suspect at that moment, as we shared a glance, Ellen and I had the same realization: Lisa had just watched over $1000 in sales disappear in a
poof of safewording.
Ellen put her hand on Lisa’s shoulder and pulled her aside for a quick chat that I couldn’t hear, with the chatter around Nancy still going strong. About then, Laura stepped over to give me a hug.
“That was something!” she said in my ear. “You must be in heaven.”
“She was amazing,” I admitted. “And I doubt that she’ll ever do it again, so yeah, that was definitely a
moment. I mean, the whole evening has been unbelievable, but you almost never see people like Nancy get tickled…”
We kept chatting until a moment later, when behind us, Ellen raised her voice over the din. “Hey everybody, listen up! Lisa wants to finish Nancy’s turn in the box to earn more minutes!”
This got a round of
ohhhs and some clapping sprinkled with “
we’re ok!” and “
you don’t have to do that!”
But then Lisa spoke up. “No really, I don’t mind! I’ve been watching you guys have fun all night and I never back down from a challenge! Besides, never let anyone say I’m not a fully dedicated sex toy pusher!”
With some laughs and cheers and encouragement for Lisa, the crowd turned back toward us. Laura whispered “you lucky dog” in my ear before she stepped away, and I could only shrug.
Hard to argue with that.
Coming next...
PART XII: LISA vs THE TICKLE BOX