Upon learning what my fate would be, Master sent me off to work that day with the last to have my idea ready to present to him, verbally, when I got home that afternoon. Needless to say, it kept me in a state of total distraction all day. I thought and thought and finally remembered an idea I had read about in the BDSM Library Forum involving a deck of “Yes Master” cards. That’s it, I thought happily to myself and proudly explained the idea to Master that very night just as he had asked.

Master was suitably impressed with the idea and approved it immediately. But, as Master’s have a way of doing, he quickly went on to up the ante and adjust it to his liking. The end result was this – I was to create not one, but four different decks of cards that would up deciding what my actual punishment would be. One deck would be time ranging from 15 minutes and increasing in 5-minute increments up to 3 hours, equalling 34 cards in total. The second and third deck would also be 34 cards each – one deck specifying 34 individual body parts and the other listing 34 places in our home and around town. The last deck was to be whopping 68 cards that outlined different activities. I was given until Friday to complete this portion of the task. Master then told me that I would draw 2 sets of cards for each week I had neglected my commitment for a total of 6 punishments that would be dealt to me over the upcoming Remembrance Day long weekend. Further, I would be required to document the entire story from start to finish and share it with my friend so that he may know exactly what happened due to his request. My friend seemed quite pleased when I relayed this information back to him.

I had more difficulty with the cards than I thought I would. It’s not easy coming up with 68 potential punishments or even 34 different places where they might be carried out! I was thankful Master had given me to Friday to complete them. I finally had my lists done on Thursday night and set about the task of making the actual cards. This also proved to be more difficult than I had anticipated – I couldn’t get the margins quite right and the wording was not centred on the card. In addition to that, when I tried to glue the paper onto the actual card, the paper got crinkly and they just looked like crap. In the end, I retyped all the 4 ‘decks’ of information, cut them into strips and decided to keep them in 4 small, decorative boxes that sit on our coffee table. Instead of drawing cards, I would draw slips of paper but the end result would be the same.

That decision earned me an extra draw for not completing the task as assigned and for altering it without Masters permission. In discussing it, Master admitted that my alternative was fine but he still maintained that I would have an extra draw for this. He had me draw my first set of slips on Friday morning before we left for work. I am sure he planned it this way on purpose, to build the anticipation as I certainly had a lot of time to ponder it while I was at work all day! My first draw revealed Spank – Other (spank with an instrument other than Masters hand), 45 minutes, outer thighs, loft. As we left for work, Master let me know that I should be prepared to receive my punishment when I got home. He also reminded me that I would be receiving 6 other punishments throughout the weekend as well as any others he saw fit – to really ‘test out’ the cards, as he put it.