100 divided by three

For many girls I know in the scene, watching a friend take a particularly severe thrashing is perhaps the toughest thing of all – harder to bear even than being beaten themselves. So, how to play with that idea, in my usual Machiavellian way?

I’m imagining three girls, jointly convicted of some offence or other. The judge’s sentence? 100 strokes of the cane – to be shared between them.

The guard ties down the first girl; the second is told that she can take over at any point. The caning starts – very hard; the girl being punished struggles to take the strokes.

The second, of course, can stop her friend’s whipping whenever she wants. Yet the sooner she does so, the sooner – no doubt – the third girl will volunteer to take over from her. Saving one friend will have consequences for the other. So, what to do?

4 thoughts on “100 divided by three

  • 2 September, 2011 at 6:01 pm
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    Nice idea. I suspect if I were in this situation I’d default to 33/33/34, and only if one friend seemed to be REALLY struggling would I feel compelled to step in early. If rescuing the first friend early, there would probably have to be some expressive eye contact between me and the other to see if they were willing to join me in taking some extra!

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  • 2 September, 2011 at 7:11 pm
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    I think I would be like Pandora in trying to hold back to a 33/33/34 arrangement, if I was in that second position. If I really felt the need to step in and stop the first girl’s punishment before her 33 were done, I think I would only do it if I was able to make the 3rd girl understand that I did not expect her to step in until I had taken the 66 due over the first two of us, if that makes any sense at all?

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  • 4 September, 2011 at 7:19 am
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    Exactly as the other ladies said, and if placed first I would do my best not to show my suffering too much until stroke 33 so that number 2 didn’t feel the need to take over early.

    I actually think most combinations of 3 girls would handle this situation remarkably well and without discussion beforehand, but I am quite happy to just ‘think’ this, rather than have my theory tested…

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