Jackson met Severus at exam door and led him inside as soon as the doors opened up. Since this was his third exam, he actually wasn't that nervous as he nodded to Miss Roselle and told Severus to do the same and then state his safe word. After he complied, Jackson ordered him to strip down and meet him at the table in the center of the room when he's finished.
Once Severus made his way over to him, Jackson ordered him to lay face-up on the table which was covered with rocks of multiple sizes and sticks. Once he was settled down, Jackson explained what Severus would have to do during the exam. Jackson had a whole bunch of tapered candles that were either four inches or two inches long. He would be asking the other boy questions throughout the exam. If Severus got an answer correct, Jackson would grab on of the four inch candles, heat the bottom end so that it began to melt, then lit the other end, and place it on Severus' body. If he got the question wrong, Jackson would do the same thing but with a two inch candle. Severus would have to remain perfectly still throughout the whole exam because at the end of it, he would receive one paddle for each candle that fell over.
After he made sure the Severus knew what was required of him, Jackson pulled out some Trivial Pursuit cards and began to ask him random question from off of them. Severus got most of them correct, 11 out of 15, and only one candle tipped over during the whole time. When their time was up, Jackson removed the candles from the other boy's body, blowing them, and setting them aside. Once all of them were removed, Jackson had Severus get up from the table, turn around to face it, and bend over slightly to receive his one paddle. Jackson then told Severus to get dressed and when that was finished, they walked over to Miss Roselle, thanked her for her time, and then left the exam room.
TAGGING → Jonah Ellis and Celia Clarington [ littleblueclarington ]
LOCATION → Main Hall
TIME FRAME → November 8th
WARNINGS → None
Celia was a little nervous as well. It wasn't that it was her first exam or even her second. She was very much used to what was supposed to happen but this might have been the first exam that she was with such a well prepared partner. Celia made a face. Except for Quinn. She nodded and gave him a smile back. She felt a little reassured with him in that he seemed gentle. She moved to the floor and removed her clothes. Greeting the Headmistress, she then knelt in front of Jonah and looked up at him. "My safe word is 'prince', Sir," she replied quietly.
Jonah watched as she followed through with the simple commands and nodded in approval. So far so good, time for the hard stuff. "Now Celia, you told me that you didn't do your Reward and Punishment homework like you were supposed to. Because you missed out on this valuable opportunity to learn, you're going to verbally complete the assignment for me now while bound inside of that box." He gestured to a black wooden box with random holes cut into the sides at various heights and locations. Small dark drapes covered the holes so that no light got inside until the drape was pushed aside from the outside. This would leave Celia in darkness while she was inside the grope box while still allowing quick access for him. "I will be distracting you from your task, but you will not be released from the box until you have verbally completed the assignment for me. Do you understand all of this?"
Jonah got the reassurance he needed from Celia that she understood the task and nodded before leading her over to the box. He bound her inside, arms stretched above her to leave her body exposed to him. As he did so he began prompting her to remind her of the assignment. "The assignment was to explain the importance of rewards, and give at least 4 examples of reward that you have been given. Then to explain the importance of punishment and give at least 4 examples of punishments that you have been given, or that you have seen administered." When he was sure that she understood that as well, he gave her one last look before shutting the box.
Celia was afraid of small spaces so the box was an unpleasant experience for her, but at Jonah's prompting she began reciting the assignment.
Through the holes of the grope box Jonah used a mixture of sensations to distract Celia from her task. These included the use of feathers, to provide a soft sensation which tickled her sides and armpits. He contrasted that with broken glass to provide a sharp sensation along her breasts and abdomen. He finished with a wartenberg pinwheel, running the small spikes along her sides and down the back of her thighs. Each time he went in with one of the stimuli he'd enter from a different space to keep Celia unclear of where anything would come from. This added to her fear and required her trust in Jonah. Though, whenever he heard her struggling, his heart gave out a little and he placed a comforting hand against her shoulder or side, prompting her to continue until she was finished.
Once she was able to complete the assignment, Jonah wasted no time in opening the box and getting her out of her bonds. He whispered praise to her as he got her down, then had her get dressed. They both thanked the Headmistress again before leaving the hall.
Harrison felt better about this exam then when he first saw who he was paired with. He had never forgotten about Elliot calling him conceited the very first time that they talked (and yes, Harrison knew that he was definitely conceited, but the fact that Elliot was saying that without even bothering to get to know him didn't leave the best first impression). However, when Elliot came over to his place on Thursday, Harrison found out that he was a tolerable person. He thought they had a solid plan, so he was thought that they had a good chance at getting a solid grade. He meet the submissive at the door to the main hall a few minutes before their exam time and nodded at him when he saw him approach. "You ready?"
Elliot: had prepared himself for yet another exam the same way as always, listening to an obscene amount of Queen and taking an extra long shower. Despite their rocky start, Harrison and him had gotten together a rather original exam plan a decent foundation of trust. Elliot couldn't see this exam going any worse than literally any other exam. It would be fine, he told himself as nerves crept back over him. He wasn't particularly nervous about the upcoming fifteen minutes, but more the prospect of being alone and naked in front of the HB again. He glanced up as Harrison appeared and offered a shrug. "As I'll ever be." The doors opened to the main hall and the submissive followed in after Harrison, head down and ready.
Harrison didn't really reply to Elliot's answer because all things considered, that's the best he could hope for, so he just gave another quick nod. He turned on his heels once the door opened and walked in with his head held high and approached the Head Mistress. He gave her a brief bow and then stepped aside to address Elliot. "Please bow to Miss Roselle, state your safeword, and then head to the side of the room to remove all your clothes. After you fold them neatly in a pile, please join me in the center of the room and step into the plastic box that you see there." Harrison waited until Elliot walked off to go get undressed before heading to the area where they would have the exam. He surveyed the area to make sure that everything he would need was there and then waited for the other boy to join him.
Elliot: nodded again, bowing slightly to Roselle. "My safeword is red, sir." He informed Harrison again. The stoplight system- the most simple and straightforward. Walking to the side of the room, Elliot peeled off his uniform and folded the articles into a pile one by one. He stretched his arms out and shivered slightly as he adjusted the November chill of the room. Would it kill Roselle to turn the heat on in here? Probably. El met Harrison again in the center of the room and wordlessly stepped into the plastic box.
Harrison approached Elliot after he had stepped into the box, which was only two feet by two feet but had walls that were over a foot tall. "This exam will test you're ability to stay still under duress as well as testing your self control to not react to certain situations. Once we begin, it will become perfectly clear exactly why you should stay still, but I will also be inserting a vibrating plug to make it all that more difficult on you." After he said that, he grabbed the plug from a small table that was nearby the box and walked behind the submissive. He had told the other boy that it would be best to prepare himself a bit beforehand, so he could only hope that he followed through. He eased the plug in, making sure that it should logically rest right up against Elliot's prostrate, but didn't turn it on just yet. After making sure it was snugly in place and wouldn't slide out, he grabbed a large jar from off the table and walked back around to face the other boy. "You are to raise your arms up and keep them at shoulder level the entire exam. If I see them dropped any significant amount, you will receive one whip from a crop." After he told Elliot the one major rule that he was follow throughout the hold exam, Harrison bent down and poured a large amount of a sticky substance over the boy's foot and then walked back to the table, not telling the submissive exactly what he just poured on him, and grabbed a small plastic container that was sitting on the table.
Elliot: knew enough by now to follow any pre-exam instructions to the t. Sufficiently prepped, the plug slid inside him with minimal discomfort, although he knew that would change once it was turned on. Elliot's arm rose up, parallel with shoulders on both sides. His attention was hardly on that though as his gaze followed Harrison around the room. He wasn't hoping to be whipped, but the anxiety of whatever was coming next was more prevalent on his mind. A sticky liquid oozed over his foot a moment later. Shit. He hadn't mentioned any specifics about his prosthesis to the dominant before hand. He didn't want whatever that thing was getting on his fake foot, covering it, it would be a bitch to clean off. Elliot opened his mouth to say something about it before thinking better and instead just widening his stance in the box. Maybe that wouldn't be so bad. His tongue slid over his dry lips slightly as he looked back up to Harrison and the container coming his way.
Harrison shook the container a little bit and then set it down inside the box that Elliot was standing in but didn't open it up yet. He walked back to the table, picked up the jar again, and then also grabbed a medium-sized paintbrush that was laying beside it. He still didn't say a word to the submissive as approached the other boy again. He set the jar and brush down on the floor and reached for the container, again giving it a small shake,then finally removing the top, and setting it back down into the box on it side. The minute he placed it down, the first wave of small, red bugs instantly charged out and was immediately drawn to the puddle of fluid that was on Elliot's foot, most likely already stinging his flesh since they were agitated from Harrison shaking their home. "Imported file ants are known to be the most aggressive of all ant species. They instantly swarm and attack anything that disturbs their home and have been known to actually kill humans and other animals with their sting. They will take any sudden movement as a threat and attack at once." Once Harrison told Elliot just what he was going to be dealing with, Harrison picked up the jar and brush, dipped the brush into the jar, and then starting at Elliot's foot, began tracing a line of liquid up the submissive's leg. "This is sugar water with a pheromones added that should attract them to go anywhere I want them to."
Elliot: hardly needed Harrison's explanation to realize that the buggers currently attacking his foot were fire ants. And with the guy's capital it only made sense for them to be some top notch foreign ants at that. A tingling, burning, spread up his leg. The sharp stings penetrated through him as he could feel each ant's mandibles sink in. His arms shook slightly and he fought to keep them relatively parallel as Harrison began to draw them farther up his leg. 'Anywhere he wanted', that was fucking ominous. Even Elliot's snide apathy wasn't curtailed by the ants crawling up his leg- although they were burning him like a motherfucker.
Harrison knew that Elliot was a fan of making sarcastic and snide remarks when the opportunity presented itself, so he decided to add another element into the exam to test him even more. "Also, other then your safeword, you are not allowed to make a sound throughout the exam. Any noticeably audible noises will result in being whipped twice for each sound." Harrison zigzagged the brush up Elliot's calf and lucky for him, the submissive had already spread his legs far enough that he was able to circle all the way around around his thigh, all the while keeping an eye on Elliot's arms to make sure he didn't let them drop. When the ants were up to the other boy's mid-thigh, Harrison finally reached up and turned on the vibrator to it's highest setting, then dipped the brush back in the fluid, and picked up where he left off on Elliot's leg. "What makes fire ants even more fascinating is that they're almost even more vicious in death. When an ant is killed, it releases a pheromone that's essentially a call to arms to the other ants, so they instantly swarm the area where the other ant died and attack." After he stated this fact, he flipped the brush around in his hand and used the other end to crush one of the ants that just so happened to be on Elliot's upper, inner thigh.
Elliot: Oh no, not a single sound. The horror. That was probably just thrown in there for Roselle's benefit, see what an amazing dom Harrison was and all. Goose bumps rose on Elliot's skin as the cool air combined with the tickle of the paintbrush, circling up his leg. A peculiar sensation when juxtaposed against the raw burning radiating from his calf and foot. He could feel the ants greedily swarming up his leg, following the trail of sugar water with no sympathy what so ever for the fact that his skin was in the way. Elliot's shoulders hunched up toward him at the sudden reappearance of the vibrator in his ass. That and the intensified clump of ants now attacking his inner thigh. He could hardly bare to look at the clump of insects sinking into him. His arms wavered slightly, now feeling the burn of staying up for so long, though he managed to maintain a parallel height. The pain was beginning to penetrate through his apathy as beads of sweat rolled down his forehead and back from the great heat now rolling throughout his body.
Harrison reached down, shook the box again, and watched as the second wave of ants came charging out. They instantly swarmed Elliot's foot and then quickly began to follow the path of the other ants. He noticed the submissive's arms waiver and paused, preparing to reach down and grab the whip, but saw that the other boy was able to keep them where they need to be. Harrison dipped the brush back in the jar, making sure to get as much fluid on it as possible, before finishing up with Elliot's leg. He then trailed the brush over the submissive's balls and up the length of his cock before moving it over his hip and walking around to paint the boy's ass with the sticky substance. When he circle back around to Elliot's front, Harrison flipped the brush around again and used the handle to smash a few of the ants that were gathered on Elliot's dick. He watched as the other ants swarmed to the fallen mates and then continued on to his other hip and across his stomach.
Elliot: closed his eyes tightly in tense apprehension as he saw another wave of ants pour out of the watch and roll in a tidal wave up his leg again. Sharp, stinging pain was the only thought occupying his mind. Ants swarmed over his cock and his ass all at once and his arms wavered slightly again. Determined not to let them drop or give into the nasty buggers, Elliot's jaw tensed in concentration. The biting had become nearly constant now- he'd be damned if letting ants eat him alive didn't earn them at least an a. Even more fire consumed him and it took him a moment to register that Harrison had crushed the ants again. He fought the desire to swat them away as the dom painted more of the solution over his abdomen.
Harrison slowed down the movement of the brush when he was halfway up Elliot's back so that he could step back and observe the submissive. Even though Elliot said he had no known allergies, Harrison wanted to make sure that he wasn't having a bad reaction to the bug bites. Once he was satisfied that the swelling around the bites and Elliot's breathing were normal for the situation, Harrison used the brush to crush a few of the ants that were right on the other boy's ass before picking up where he left off on his back. Once he made it to his shoulder blades, Harrison began to walk around to the front of the boy, making sure to coat one of Elliot's armpits before moving onto his chest. "You know... I'm actually quite intrigued by you. You're a shit sub. You're attitude is horrible, and you act like serving others is beneath you. No self-respecting Dominate would even bother with you because it would be an embarrassment just to put in a claim request with your name in it. So unless one of your family members takes pity on you, you're destined for the markets. I don't even know why you're even bothering here." By the time he had finished, Harrison noticed that the ants had finally made their way to Elliot's armpit, so again, he took the brush and killed a few of them that were gathered there.
Elliot: It was all Elliot could to do to maintain that stance- arms up and feet far apart, presenting his already scarred body to the two dominants. He knew all that already, thank you very much, Harrison. He had a terrible attitude and he was a terrible submissive. He had spent enough sleepless nights turning over the subject of his claim to have drawn those conclusions on his own. Elliot's arms trembled again as the ants were further aggravated. Nobody wanted a submissive that was too weak to kneel and failed to submit any more beyond that. Milo would have to take him on in a pity claim for Mark's sake. And even then, Elliot had calculated the chances that Roselle would deny it right off the bat- heck, she was probably taking notes on what Harrison said right now. His eyes remained on a fixed point of the hard floor as he tried to steady his breathing and the tremble in his heart. Each of the dominant's words rang true and stung him nearly as much as the ants across his body.
Harrison was trying to push Elliot's limits so much that he would forget about the part about staying completely silent, but so far, the submissive wasn't breaking just yet. He made sure to coat both of the other boy's nipples with the sweet syrup, brushed it over his other armpit, and walked back around to his back side to start working on his shoulders. "Yes, I can just see it now... Milo goes ahead and claims you out of pity to appease Mark, and then you spend the rest of your life washing their cum-soaked sheets and following behind them, disinfecting all the surfaces that they fucked on... You're making quite the life for yourself there, submissive." Harrison had reached the top of his shoulders and started to move towards Elliot's front for what would most likely be the last time. By the time that he moved all the way around, the red insects had gathered around Elliot's nipples. Harrison took the opportunity to crush a few of them and then began brushing the substance on the other boy's neck, but always making sure to keep an eye on his arms to make sure they didn't drop.
Elliot's arms stayed strong, trembling now as the time dragged on, but remaining at shoulder level at least. Milo and Mark, well.. they would at least have the decency to Clorox Bleach their own counter tops. But he would still technically be their submissive, responsible for grocery shopping and taking their shitlins to daycare. The ants had reached the nape of his neck and he strained again as he tried to keep them off his face, but they were crawling further up him. He wasn't going to make it, not out of school with claim. Really. Quite the life. Elliot's face, once strong and resistant, now reflected Harrison's words. Defeated but still pushing on- wow that was one deep way to put his life. The ants continued to engulf his body bit by bit as their exam time waned
Harrison didn't want to admit it, but he was impressed with Elliot. Before the exam, he had already written off the submissive as one that was definitely market-bound, but with the determination that he was showing throughout the exam, Harrison realized that he may have underestimated Elliot. There was only a few minutes left in the exam, so Harrison continued to push the other boy to see if he could finally get him to make a noise or drop his arms. "I'd close my eyes if I were you..." And with that, he finished up with Elliot's neck and zigzagged the brush over his chin, across his nose, and then along his forehead. "Actually, knowing those two, they probably get so wrapped up in each other that they forget all about you. I'm not sure what would be worse... Having to clean up their sex cave or utterly forgotten about and wasting away in their basement. Either way, sounds like a pretty shitty future you're building for yourself." He turned the brush around in his hand one last time and used the end to squish one of the first ants that made its way to Elliot's forehead and watched as the others quickly swarmed to the spot right before time ran out on their exam.
Elliot: definitely squeezed his eyes shut as he saw where Harrison's brush was heading next. The ants were still hungry from even after all that sugar and quickly ascended across Elliot's jaw. He could feel them wriggling across his lips and nose. Fuck, he was going to look ugly tomorrow. It became increasingly difficult to stay quiet- all he wanted was to swat them off him, curse out Harrison, and go fucking swimming. He wasn't going to give Harrison that satisfaction of seeing him break, however. His ability to endure really ranked as his only submissive quality considering he'd have to last the remainder of his life living his brother's basement, and he had too much rage directed towards the dominant at the moment to allow himself to give in to the fire ants.
Harrison glanced over at the clock on the wall to confirm that their time was truly over with. "Well done. You can go ahead and put your arms down or wait until I get all the ants off." While he let Elliot make up his mind, Harrison walked over and picked up a spray bottle and a towel before returning to the other boy. "This is just water, dish soap, and lemon juice." He knew that after being berated and tortured for fifteen minutes, Elliot would have zero trust for the Dominant, so Harrison sprayed some on his own arm to show him that it was generally safe. "I'm going to start with your face and then work my way down." After spraying his face, Harrison used the towel to wipe off any remaining ants before moving down to his chest and back. Once he had finished up with Elliot's leg, he walked around the other boy a few more times to make sure he didn't see any more of them on his body. "You can go ahead, step out, and get dressed. After you're done, go thank Miss Roselle for her time." As Elliot was getting his clothes back on, Harrison picked up the container and put the lid back on it, and he then took a bucket of water and flushed all the ants that were in the box that Elliot was standing in down the drain that was in the bottom. After he finished cleaning up, he walked over to Miss Roselle, gave her a slight bow as he thanked her for her time, and then walked over to the door to wait for Elliot to finish up.
Elliot: was relieved when Harrison finally announced that their time was up. Slowly, he lowered his aching arms and stretched them out, beginning to swat off all the ants. He shied away slightly as Harrison brought over another bottle. For all Elliot knew, Harrison might have decided to finish the exam with a bang and douse his submissive with an acid of some sort. But, as he saw that it really wasn't anything more than water, soap, and lemon juice, Elliot allowed Harrison to gently begin cleaning the ants off of him. Once he was generally free from them, Elliot followed the orders and dressed back in his uniform. Thanking the headmistress for her time, Elliot joined Harrison to the door and followed him out. They ascended the steps back to Harrison's dorm to more adequately address the submissive's bites.
Exam 17 || HC || Eduardo Martinez and Willa Rhodes Eduardo and Willa entered and greeted the Headmistress respectfully. Eduardo then asked Willa to repeat her safeword and explained to her that they would be testing her ability to focus on a task while she was in pain. He gave her a page from a coloring book and some pencils, and told her she had to color strictly within the lines no matter what happened. If she made more than three mistakes she would be punished, five whips for each additional mistake. He then told her to strip and kneel, and be attached nipple clamps to her, stuck two additional clamps on each thigh, and inserted three rows of needles into her back. When he took the needles out and the clamps off, he inspected her coloring. He determined she had made four mistakes and so she got five whips before they left together for aftercare, after thanking Miss Roselle for her time.
On the table were some things but he couldn’t make out what they were from the floor. On the floor though was a balance board that was normally used by snowboarders to learn balance. The exam was explained to him, making him even more nervous as he had to balance on the board and hold candles as well. With the candles in hand, Joey saw they were short ones, ones that would let the flame get close to his hand. After reviewing his safeword, Joey got on the board and started to balance there. With the candles lit, Penny started to encourage him more and more about how well he was doing and how she wouldn’t let him get burned again. Joey was then asked to recite things to her after she said them.
"My domme won’t hurt me, I can trust my Dom" Joey repeated to her, the candles burning down. The wax hurt some but the fear of the fire was more. As they reached his hands, Penny blew the candles out and helped him down. They both thanked Miss Roselle for watching as the left to return to Penny’s room for aftercare.
Sloan enter the room, following behind Ezra. She had a slight idea as to what was to come based on what she saw already out. Kneeling and saying hello to the headmistress along with her dominant for the moment, Sloan crawled to her feet.
The task was simple enough, she was to have a noose around her neck as she was dunked under the water. The noose would cut off her ability to breath as she was underwater. She was to stay under for 10 sec intervals, each time increasing in seconds. If she needed to breath, she could tap out for a break.
The first couple times, she did well without struggling and gasping. As time went on, the struggling could be seen more and she was gasping once she was up to one minute. Only having to tap out once, Sloan was proud of herself. She had pushed her ability to hold her breath and had come to trust another switch. Thanking the headmistress, they exited the room and back to Ezra's for aftercare.
After one very short, fraught meeting on Thursday to discuss limits neither student was particularly looking forward to the exam. Katarina was already on edge after a stressful week and then due to her avoidance of Erica at the beginning of the week she knew she had left the Switch with little time to prepare and as a result had no idea what to expect.
They waited outside the room in virtual silence until they were called in, once inside Erica switched to domme mode greeting the headmistress politely and instructing Katarina to do the same. She then told Katarina to undress, ensure her hair was tied up out of the way and then climb onto the table in the middle of the rooms bent over on her hands and knees. Once the submissive had done this Erica explained that she would begin to push Katarina’s soft limit of fire play and that for the purpose of the exam she wanted the submissive to use the traffic light system for her safe word.
After having Katarina explain her understanding of the system Erica began to set a line of candles along the girl’s back. “Once these candles are lit we will begin to test your understanding of the submissive rules and ability to concentrate. If you take too long to answer or make a mistake then I will use the crop that I have with me to give you five smacks on the rear and of course if you move too much you risk the hot wax landing on you.”
Erica asked a few simple questions about curfew and uniform before moving three of the candles from Katarina’s back onto the table so she had lit candles on her back and underneath her stomach and chest. Erica’s questions become more detailed but also repetitive forcing Katarina to recall small pieces of information over and over. Near the end she became tired and confused and incorrectly gave the submissive weekend curfew as 9pm instead of 10 resulting in a spanking and as while she tried hard to stay still she arched her back as the crop hit causing wax to fall on her skin in several places.
At the end of the exam Erica blew out the candles and helped Katarina climb down from the table allowing her to dress while the Switch tidied away. They both thanked the headmistress before Erica took Katarina back to her room for aftercare.
