Sylvia rose at her table, and began her way to the stage. She moved steadily, but not too fast. She carried nothing, having left her handbag and program papers at her table. She was a stately figure, five feet ten inches tall, gray hair falling to shoulder length. She wore a dark blue dress, trimmed with a just a bit of gold, and a narrow gold belt at her waist. Her make-up was light, with just a touch of lipstick evident. She held her head high, and her bustline seemed firm, though not large. She wore a bracelet and earrings, a wrist watch and a small pin at her shoulder. She had barely visible eyeglasses. She seemed well groomed, every hair in place, her face unmarred by wrinkles or blemishes, her posture erect and confidant, belying the pounding heartbeat she felt as she nervously contemplated what she was about to do. Gracefully she stepped up to the stage. The M. C. offered her the center position. The table, which had held the bowl for the cards, was still in place, though the bowl had been removed. A coat tree had been positioned at the side of the stage, obviously to receive her clothing. "Are you ready?" she was asked. "You know what you are to do, according to the rules of the game?" She took the microphone. "I do, indeed. You need have no fear that I shall fully comply. But I must warn you - I did not come tonight prepared for this. The show I am going to give you is just me - all me. I was not prepared and therefore will not be responsible for your reaction to what you see. I know most of you would have wanted a younger woman for this. Well, I was younger, once; and I've not forgotten what it was like. But I'm not dead yet, either; so I don't know whether you are going to be shocked or pleasantly surprised. But I was chosen, and I'm going to play the game the way the rules were set up; and, as I told you, if you look at me I'm going to be terribly embarrassed, but if you look away, I'm going to be insulted! So - let's get started! May I have a chair?" The M. C. signaled, and someone brought a chair and set it beside her. Sylvia handed back the microphone. She bent her left knee, raising her foot, and took off her left shoe, She placed it beside the table, the repeated with her right shoe. She reached to her ears, and removed each earring, in turn, placing them on the table. She started to take off her watch and bracelet, when the M. C. cut in. "You really can keep on your shoes and jewelry if you want, Sylvia- I don't think anyone would mind!" "Sorry!" Sylvia retorted. "I understood I was to take everything off. I'm not going to be accused of cheating - you're going to get me in bare feet, bare arms, bare ears - everything off means everything!" The M. C. retired in defeat. Sylvia reached up under her dress, then sat on the chair. She pulled down her pantyhose, carefully removing them from both legs, then placing the garment on the table. Then she rose to her feet, and, stepping briefly to the microphone, she addressed the audience. "I am allowed some modesty. Nothing in rules says you get to see me in my underwear!" She unfastened her gold belt, slipped it off and placed it on the table. Reaching under her skirt, she pulled down a pale blue half slip, dropping it to her bare feet, then stepping out of it. She stepped to the clothes tree and hung her pantyhose and slip. Returning to center stage, she reached behind her, starting to unzip her blue dress, which had a zipper up the back. Sliding the zipper down a few inches, she reached behind her, and fumbled a bit. Having achieved her aim, she then pushed a bra strap down her left arm. Wriggling just a bit, she managed to maneuver her arm out of the strap. She repeated the process with the right arm, meanwhile bending forward a bit. Finally, with both arms out of the straps, in a slightly bent posture, she slipped the bra out of her dress. She held it aloft as she carried it to the coat tree. She dropped her arms and stood facing her audience, offering a full front view. She again stepped to the microphone. "I hope you're ready for this - there's just the one piece left! This is not easy- but I'm going to do it! Try not to laugh!" Taking a deep breath, she suddenly slipped the dress from her shoulders, dropped it, and stepped out of it. She laid it briefly on the table, then turned to confront her audience. She stood beside the table, naked. Her inside-out approach had delayed the inevitable as long as possible, but now she had displayed herself all at once. Her slightly tanned arms and face contrasted with the whiteness of her body. As she stood still and erect, her breasts hung on her, drooping noticeably from the high bustline which had been evident when she was in her dress. An erect nipple protruded noticeably from each breast. A couple of small moles were evident on her chest, and a small scar below her waist evidenced surgery of many years ago. Those near to her could see light stretch marks on her belly and noticeable, but not bulging, blue veins in her legs. The front of her abdominal area bulged just a bit below her navel. Her dark brown pubic hair, obviously untrimmed or otherwise prepared for display, stuck out in a thick curly patch, at the bottom of which her genital area clearly showed its slit. She made no effort to cover herself with her hands or posture, just briefly standing there, completely bare. Suddenly applause broke from one part of the room, and quickly spread. She showed no reaction, but just stood a few seconds, before taking her dress and carrying it to hang up. She did this quickly, then turned once more to the audience, and started her descent down the steps from the stage. Only those closest to the stage noticed that she was sweating slightly, even in the cool room, and actually trembling a bit as she came down the steps. She shook hands with the M. C. and then the Entertainment Committee, and proceeded to the first table. As she approached, she greeted those seated there. "I'm supposed to visit with all of you, aren't I? And do I understand I'm to share a drink at each table?" She extended her hand in greeting to those seated, as she stood at their table. Some took her hand nervously, others with enthusiasm. The women at the first table were noticeably reserved, but cordial in their greetings. The men were more animated. Someone produced a small wine glass, and filled it with a small amount of wine. She found out, as she moved about, that each table had been provided with a small glass at the center of the table, intended to be offered to her. The glass was offered to her by one of the men. "I won't be able to take much of this", Sylvia said to her table hosts, "There are forty five tables, and if I have wine at each one I probably won't be able to find the last twenty!" Sylvia felt the eyes of those at the table fixed upon her, several sets of eyes clearly staring at her breasts and genital area. She had an immediate urge to cover herself with her hands, something she knew would be useless as well as not in the spirit of the event. She stayed at the first table only a few minutes, just long enough to exchange greetings with all present and to down the proffered glass of wine. One of the men took out a felt-tipped pen, and informed her "We're supposed to mark our table numbers and sign in on you, somewhere - was it on your stomach?" "I think they said stomach or backside - which do you prefer?" The man began to write on her stomach. The pen was painless and took little pressure, but she felt the activity, like a slight tickle, so close to her genital region, which was so clearly exposed just below. As he wrote, she became aware of her bladder, now receiving the results of the several glasses of wine and water and cups of coffee she had consumed at dinner. She remembered Marianne's suggestion that she avail herself of relief before undertaking her performance. In her mind, she contemplated the volume of liquid she was expected to consume, and the rule that she could not leave the room. As she left the first table, a male occupant of the table turned to his female companion. "Could you imagine a woman her age doing this? I'm amazed she volunteered - but, really, she doesn't look all that bad, does she? Do you think she just wanted to show off?" "You were looking at the wrong places, Fred," the lady answered him. "Show off? Did you see how pale she was? That lady was perspiring and actually shaking! She was so nervous she could hardly stand there! And as for looking bad, well, are you going to look at me when I'm her age?" Meanwhile, the evening's program went on. Several ceremonial events were scheduled, along with some theatrical performances, and Sylvia was no longer the center of attention. Perhaps, she realized, not the center, but certainly a very visible and attention-getting side show. Eyes were upon her from all over, and at each table she visited she would definitely be the prime object of interest. For the performances of stage,the house lights were dimmed, and a spotlight used to illuminate the performers. Back at the table she had left, Marianne turned to Art. "How do you feel? I don't see how a man could let his wife do this - and, of all of us here, I would have thought she was the one who absolutely would never do it! But look at her - she looks so calm and collected!" Art waited a moment, thoughtfully, then replied. "I've lived with her a long time. She ran her own business for many years. She's made her own decisions. She wasn't pleased with this game - you know she called it 'disgusting' ! But she wanted to be a good sport about it, and no one's going to talk her out of it! She's going to do exactly what she thinks the game requires, even if she thinks it's in terrible taste. I don't control her - and woe to the man who tries to!" Helga nodded. "I wish I could be like her. I didn't really think she would do it. But look at her - making a point of taking off even her jewelry!" As the act on the stage ended, the spotlight moved from the stage about the room. Suddenly it shone directly on Sylvia. In the glare of the spotlight her white skin stood out brilliantly, and the attention of everyone in the room was directed at her. Sylvia felt not only naked, which she surely was, but exposed as she had never been before, somehow teribly vulnerable. She glanced about the room, her body shaking slightly, her hanging breasts quivering visibly. The exposure lasted only a minute or to, after which the spotlight returned to the stage for the next event. By the time Sylvia reached her fourth table, she decided to decline further offers of wine, and insist on water, or at least something nonalcoholic for her obligatory drink at each table. She was already feeling the effects of the wine, and she felt a bit more sure of herself exchanging toasts when water was in her glass. To be sure, the small glasses provided for her typically held only two or three ounces; but Sylvia's still sharp mind could calculate the cumulative effect of forty five such portions, which would come to over a gallon of liquid. By avoiding the wine, she thought she could avoid getting obviously drunk, but she was nervously contemplating how she could possibly hold a gallon of liquid in her body, in addition to the quantity she had already consumed at dinner. Sylvia kept up her pace, moving to new tables. Now her stomach bore a collection of inscriptions done by writers at the points she had visited. No longer was she shaking, though only those closest to her had observed it earlier. She tried to act with dignity, speaking directly to those at the tables she approached. At each stop, she was careful to turn herself around completely, assuring those present of a close-up view of her body from all sides. In bare feet, she seemed a bit shorter than when she had ascended the stage, and in some respects she seemed more vulnerable than majestic. She tried to keep up a smile, though it was becoming more difficult as her internal discomfort grew with each new glass of liquid. Yet she continued to accept the glasses at each table, always emptying the glass, though often insisting on something other than wine. To the people at the tables she visited, she had nothing of the discomfort caused by her distended bladder, now well beyond the point at which she would liked to have emptied it. She approached the fifth table, occupied by seven men and three women. A man had already prepared a glass of wine for her, and extended it to her as she approached. "No, please - I don't think I can handle the wine, thanks! Could it just be water or something else?" The man emptied the wine into his own glass, then refilled the wine glass from an ice water pitcher. He extended it to her. "Welcome to our table! I must say, you put on a great show! Won't you sit down for a moment?" He made a gesture of rising, to offer her his chair. "No, thank you," Sylvia replied, her nervousness still showing in her voice. "The rules say I'm supposed to show myself off to you - whether or not you want to look! And I've had more than enough wine - I have to be able to keep my composure through the rest of the evening!" She sipped the water. One of the women spoke up. "I don't see how you can drink so much - I'd have been running for the ladies' long ago! Anyway - tell us, why did you offer your name? Everyone was so surprised when you were chosen!" Sylvia finished the water. "I didn't like this game - I thought the idea was terrible! But it was done with the intent of just being fun. It would have spoiled the evening if enough women didn't volunteer! So I did - and, well, all of you lost - you got me!" "I wouldn't exactly say we lost," another man replied. "you were very good about it; and, if I might say so, you look rather, well- " he hesitated, groping for the right words. "Attractive! Isn't that what you mean?" another man chimed in. "I think he was starting to say old!" Sylvia answered. "But I don't feel that old!" "How do you feel?" a lady inquired of her. "I would love a trip to the ladies room - like one of you said! All of this wine and water! But otherwise; oh, I am really just feeling so exposed - I could never have even imagined doing this! Never, never, did I do anything like this!" "Are you getting used to it?" a woman asked. "Would you?" Sylvia answered, with raised eyebrows. "No, I'm not," she answered her own question. "And if my husband is unhappy with me doing this, I'll remind him he was Vice President when the Entertainment Committee thought this up, and it would have looked awful if his own wife wouldn't participate!" A man picked up the felt pen, to inscribe a notation on her body. "Where do we sign in?" he asked her with a smile. "Looks like everyone's been writing on your stomach- here, I'll use the space just down a little!" He started to write below her navel, just above her pubic hair. "If you write there, please don't press hard", Sylvia cautioned. "You can write, but I'm getting really sensitive down there!" "That's where all the drinks have gone!" another male commented, to his female companion. "She's going to have to hold a lot more!" the lady observed. As Sylvia moved to the next table, those she had just left followed her with their eyes. "Do you really think she looks old?" one man asked of another. "She's no young chick, for sure! Look at how her bustline's drooping- she can't hold those things up! But all in all, she's not bad - she's all female!" "Without a doubt! No doubt at all - you can see the evidence - all the evidence!" a woman observed. Another woman, older, possibly even Sylvia's age, was not impressed. "It's awful! Absolutely disgusting! I can't see how she could have offered herself for this. No decent woman could do this!" She wriggled her nose in obvious distaste. By the time Sylvia reached her tenth table, her smile had faded. She was bravely trying to show herself as the rules required, but the discomfort of her overdistended bladder had now turned to real pain. Her condition was noticeable to those she approached. To make matters worse, at that very moment the group on stage completed their activity, and the spotlight flitted about the room for a moment, then focusing again on Sylvia. Somehow, she felt everyone in the room was aware of her intense discomfort and somehow enjoying it. A woman addressed her "Mrs. Montfort, I don't see how you can go through this. All that staff you've been drinking - don't you need a bathroom stop?" "The rules say I cannot leave the room," Sylvia replied, with obvious distress. "I need a bathroom stop - it probably shows! No, it really hurts -" her voice trailed off. "You can't leave the room?" a man asked of her. "That's right!" Sylvia replied. "But they didn't say you couldn't have some relief if you stayed in the room, now did they?" "Don't tease me," Sylvia responded, "It hurts something awful- I don't know how to get through this!" The distress and discomfort was showing. The man was holding a large plastic cup which had held a soft drink. "I brought this in - it's empty, now. I'd let you fill it, if you want to, right here! It's big enough to help you at least a little, and I could empty it outside. It's white so no one would know what's in it!" Sylvia looked at him at first with apprehension, then disdain. "Thank you, sir, but I don't think I could do something like that!" Her attitude was cool and a bit formal. "Sorry, I meant no harm. Just wanted to help!" he commented as she moved away. "How could you offer her something like that? You didn't expect her to accept that offer, did you? That was an awful thing to say! She's embarrassed enough at what she's having to do!" "I just thought she might welcome a chance for relief - I don't see how she can keep going!" he shrugged. She got through the next two tables with a minimum of conversation. It was evident that she was suffering considerable physical distress. She drank the obligatory drinks with formality, received the markings on her body, and moved on. At the fourteenth table, Sylvia tried to keep up her composure, but she was rapidly losing it. Her mind was on her bladder, visibly swollen. As people wrote on her stomach, several had commented on the swelling or the hardness they could feel. The pain was getting to be intense, and she wondered how long she could restrain her need to urinate. Her internal torment was getting unbearable. Suddenly she shifted direction. Instead of going to the next table in order, she retreated down the route she had come, her eyes searching out for someone she had passed earlier. A number of people spoke to her, but she ignored most of them. Finally she found what she was looking for. She was back at the table where the man was sitting with the plastic cup. She stood beside him, greeting the others briefly, then turned to him. "You offered me the chance to - to use that cup, if I'd do it here?" she asked, in a rather low voice. Every eye at the table now focused on her. "Yes, I did, but it didn't seem like a good idea. No one else here thought I should have done it. I'm sorry - I didn't mean to annoy you!" "Is the offer still available?" she asked, averting the eyes of the others. "If you want to, but I'm really sorry, I don't think it was a good idea!" "Right now, it's the best idea that's come to me - really, I've got to do something - I'm sorry, too-" She hardly knew how to continue. He held out the cup. "Would you hold it in place - under me? And tell me when it's getting full, because I could probably fill it several times! Please?" She felt her face flush, as those at the table stared/ The man, flustered, held the cup under her as she spread her legs slightly. "Please watch - I may be messy! I haven't done it like this before!" A number of people around were staring, now, aware of what was about to happen. The man held the cup just under her genitals, with a gap of only an inch or so. She looked straight ahead, avoiding the eyes of all those staring at her. She tried to relax. After a bit a stream began to pour into the cup. People stretched their necks, trying to see the action. The man holding the cup kept it steady, trying to see the filling contents. After a few seconds he told her, rather loudly, "It's getting full - can you stop?" She tried. It was difficult, even harder to stop the stream than to restrain her bladder earlier. She managed, however, and stopped before the cup was full - barely. She had let out perhaps a pint; nowhere near all that she contained, but enough to afford her a lessening of the pain. Minimizing her eye contact, she said quietly to the man who had offered the cup, "Thank you - I don't know how I could go on without something like that - I hate to leave you with that, though-" He held the cop, filled with her warm urine, a bit foamy. "Never mind - I'll take it out and empty it. Glad I could help you. Come back if you need more!" "I've got to go on," she said, to no one in particular. Relieved somewhat, she returned to her table visits. The entertainment program went on, as a folkloric group present a dancing and music exhibition. Still, many eyes focused on Sylvia wherever she moved. She knew that whatever was on stage, she remained a major attraction, and, every time the stage event halted, even for a few seconds, the spotlight was inevitably trained on her. Her stomach was filled up with writing, and now people were writing the table numbers and signatures on other places. Her buttocks were beginning to accumulate some inscriptions, and at least one man had pointedly chosen to write his table's inscription on her breast, holding it gently while the writing was done. Sylvia had thought of objecting to this liberty being taken, but decided not to make an issue of it. At the table following, she motioned to the other breast when the pen was produced, suggesting "maybe I need some balance - why don't you put it here?" At the table where she had eaten, her spouse and the other guests watchfully monitored her progress. Several had noticed the incident with the cup. After it, Helga had observed, "I don't see how she could do that! In front of everyone!" She shook her hook in amazement. Freida was at least sympathetic. "After you drink so much, you're going to be so uncomfortable - well, you have to do something!" Hans observed, "I think most women would just have headed for a toilet" "Not Sylvia!" Marianne responded. "That lady's not going to give up - she's determined to do everything the game requires! But I know I couldn't have done it" Art shook his head, just a bit. "That's my wife," he said with resignation. After a number of additional table visits, Sylvia was observed to again depart from her route. Her eyes searched for the table of the man who had offered her the cup. Slowly, by a circuitous route, she moved toward the place where he had sat. He saw her coming. There was eye contact. As if to offer aid, he held up, just slightly, the cup she had used before, now emptied. He nodded to her. She approached him. "I don't know who you are, but no one else has offered to help me - would you do it again? I need it desperately - I'm so full, and it hurts so bad-" her voice was low, but shaking, and her distress was visible and real. The ritual of the cup was repeated, this time with many more watchers. As the cup was about a third full, applause broke among the audience for the on stage performer. As he departed the stage, the spitlight was turned directly on Sylvia, standing and urinating into the cup. It took a moment for even those nearby to grasp what they were watching. A gasp went up from several, mild applause from a few others. The humiliation of it struck her; her muscles froze. Her stream stopped, her bladder still painfully full. The man started to remove the cup. "Don't!" she protested, "I'm not finished - please hold it!" The cup was returned, the holder now clearly illuminated in the spotlight. She finished filling the cup. "Thank you - I may be back -" she said, in parting, as he rose with the full cup, preparing to leave the room. Only at this point did the spotlight leave her. A woman seated near the man stared at him. "How could you do that - right at our table! With that spoitlight on us! This was an awful spectacle without everyone seeing that here! I can't take any more. I'm leaving!" Fury was in her voice, as she and the man accompanying her arose and left the room. Others at the table followed suit, including, finally, the man who had come to Sylvia's aid. Sylivia continued her required circulation. She approached her own table. Art looked at her, "How are you holding up?" he asked her. "All right at the moment, but it's been rough. Here, you an write on me - everyone has been doing it!" She presented her body. The guests looked at each other, wondering who she do the writing. They were looking at Art. "One of you do it - not me!" he requested. "Are you ashamed of me?" Sylvia asked, plaintively. "Never!" Art exclaimed, breaking into a smile. He took the pen, and started to write on his wife's stomach. He commented "Hard to find a place - look's like you're getting used up!" She pointed to her breast, bearing only one inscription on each. "Here - might as well be you as someone else!" He accepted the invitation, and complied. "We saw the guy with the cup - I don't see how you do that!" Helga observed, half in admiration, half in disgust. "Well," Sylvia replied, after a moment's hesitation, "Let's say, a lady has to do what a lady has to do. I didn't think I could do it either, but the pain was killing me. I had to do something!" Art just nodded. She accepted her required drink from them, then moved on. After she had left, Art excused himself briefly. He located one of the hotel's serving staff. Explaining his identity, he offered his room key. "My wife's clothes and belongings are on stage, behind the edge of the curtain. I want you to collect her things and take them to our room. Bring me back the key!" He accompanied the man to the stage stairs, where he explained to the committee chairman the errand. A few minutes later, after Art returned to the table, the man appeared, bearing the room key. The errand was completed, he reported. Art acknowledged the service with a suitable gratuity. Meanwhile, oblivious to her husband's activity, Sylvia continued. Twenty minutes or so after leaving his table, her bladder was again very full, the result of her continued liquid intake. This time she sought relief before the situation became painful, as she knew it would. She ceased to move along the obvious route, and headed back to the table of the one who had twice assisted her with relief. Eyes all around the room followed her movements, anticipating her intention. She reach the table where she had received the blessed relief before. No one was there - the table was empty. She glanced about quickly for a sign of the cup, or the man who had offered it. It was obvious he had departed, the cup accompanying him, perhaps to become a treasured souvenir. Relief had obviously eluded her. She beganto wonder if she could make it through the remainder of the evening. The tension in her pelvic area was increasing as her bladder continued to distend. She would have to get by without any way to relieve herself. Sylvia returned to her route and continued her movement. She reached the last table just as the final act came on stage. She finished her duties in short order, downing the last drink required of her - this time she accepted the wine. After collecting the signature, she moved to the table with the Committee Chairman. She approached him. "I've run out of tables", she reported. "And every one in the room has stared at me! Is there anything left?" Her voice was impatient, reflecting her internal distress. She quickly got her response, as two committee members rose and approached her. "We need to check the signatures and table numbers - did everyone sign in?" The first committee man smiled at her, looking at thge writing scrawled all over her body. "Looks like everyone did!" commented the second, viewing the accumulation of writing. "But we have to check!" The two began going over her body, one calling out the tables which were recorded on her skin, as the second marked them off on a list. It was a laborious process, taking several minutes, and drawing the attention of all around. As the man looking her over read off the inscriptions, he reviewed her stomach carefully, then worked up her body. At one point he realized that some of the writing was obscured by her drooping breasts. Embarassed himself., he hesitatingly asked her, "Mrs. Montfort, I can't read some of the writing here - could you raise, er, lift your --?" Words failed him, as he could not think of a discreet word for her breasts. Sylvia understood, however, and raised her breasts with her hands, as he inspected the area under them. The review done, she lowered them. After a few minutes, the officials conferred. "Mrs. Montfort, I think we can confirm that you have been recorded at all tables. I think you can return to your own seat until the closing event, which should be in just a few minutes!" Gratefully, she retired to her own table, where Art and the others awaited her. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.