Usual Rules everyone
Shipwrecked
Chapter 2
The Dictatorship Strengthens
A code of conduct and the beginnings of a book of laws were formulating in Seb's mind. Zack was the closest Seb could think of to a bully so he thought placing him as the head of a law and order unit with some input on the side would get him what he wanted.
"Zack, when you get your committee drafting the penal code I want punishment to be effective so it has to be corporal punishment. We aren't going to build a prison and we can't fine people so cp it has to be. I suggest we have a range from one stroke of a cane to say twenty. For really serious breaches of our code the punishment should be varying numbers with a whip. All punishment is to be rendered with the guilty guy restrained and in front of everybody else. No stupid jury system either. Three of us four to make the decision on guilt and punishment, two out of three to agree and again one of us four to administer the punishment. I'll get Marty, and Matt, to find some suitable canes and material for whips. Are you ok with that?"
"Yeah, can I have rugby players for the committee, they are likely to endorse my suggestions easier than the rest?"
Agreement reached, Seb then got hold of Robbie.
"Rob, I want you to pick three guys and draw up a code of conduct for us. We are becoming a community and communities have laws. I think we should as well. Zack is going to head a committee to draw up a penal code and a scale of punishment for breaches of our code and laws. Happy with that?"
"Yeah, sounds good Seb."
Seb realised he was getting very good at manipulation as well as leading. There had been no dissent at anything after the initial declaration of his leadership. He guessed that would change when the penal code was discussed but the rugby players and probably most of the wrestlers would back a strong punishment code he was sure.
A week later Zack showed Seb his committee's suggestions. Every mis-demeanour however small warranted some cp. Seb was pleased at how comprehensive the laws were for their environment. Robbie had an equally comprehensive code of conduct which as Seb expected followed an honour code format. It was then easy for the two to get together to put the crime and appropriate punishment in their boxes. Seb had to mediate almost constantly on this. Zack always wanted stronger punishment than Robbie, no surprise there. Proving how diplomatic he could be Seb came down on Robbie's side equally as often as he came down on Zack's, reducing punishments, but usually not by much. Robbie wanted a rotation of the judges but Seb reminded him that a democracy this isn't.
Fighting and theft were two of the most serious crimes and Seb explained when the remainder of the boys were sat to hear the findings of the two committees.
"If you steal stores you are stealing from everyone. If you fight you could get hurt and we have no doctors or adequate medical supplies so you could cause unacceptable injury. We know we must not break the skin with punishments if we can help it but at the start we won't know how hard we can strike without doing that so there may be a few early mistakes, that is also one of the reasons I am not going to rotate executioners. The four of us will learn without too many mistakes I hope."
"I am against any form of corporal punishment Seb."
Everyone looked at Ray, he had said so little since being shipwrecked it was easy to forget he was a master.
Seb thought about this for a few minutes.
"I told you Ray, this isn't a democracy, the penal code and code of conduct was drawn up by committee's because I wanted input from several of you, not because I had to. If you can suggest punishment that is effective without cp or reduced amounts of cp I'll listen."
Case closed temporarily but Ray would mull it over for days before producing an alternative punishment code that Seb was surprised at. It featured fairly heavily on humiliation, some of it almost erotic, no not almost, totally erotic.
"Are you gay Ray?"
Ray blushed and then blustered denying it, dead giveaway.
"You are," was Seb's surprised rejoinder. "Don't worry, I'm not going to say anything. Expand on your ideas and let me have a look when you have. You should expand on method of delivery of any punishment as well because that is where you can build the humiliation and eroticism if you want." Ray looked to see a grinning Seb and joined him.
"Kindred spirits Seb?"
"Perhaps," was Seb's reply.
What Ray came up with a week later was a dilly. He showed Seb his designs for the punishment restraints. For the cane it was a bench set up like Seb had never seen before, and for the whipping frame it was diabolical.
"Christ Ray, where did those ideas come from?"
Ray was grinning. "You'd be surprised the magazines that circulated at Uni. Every kind of fetish or kink you can think of is catered for in some magazine or other. These two came from one of the Sado/Masochist Mags."
"Ok, get Peter and Nick to build them for you. That tree over there," pointing at a tree on the edge of the jungle but only about fifty yards from the camp, "Has a branch at a good height to throw the support rope over for the whipping frame, the caning bench can stay under the same tree. As soon as they are ready I'll get one of the Rugby boys to be the guilty boy to demonstrate. Of course I will let him have his clothes on, but for real, all punishment will be carried out naked."
Peter and Nick were goggle eyed when they saw the plans.
"Crikey Sir, are you practising to become the new Marques de Sade?"
Ray laughed and replied, "Peter, the Sir is outdated now, I'm Ray, and in answer to your question, yes, maybe."
He laughed as he said it and Peter and Nick joined in.
"Truth, Seb wants punishment to be as painful and humiliating as possible to deter anyone from doing anything wrong. I argued for less strokes of the cane or whip and more humiliation because I thought the cp was too severe. This was the only way I could get it."
When the two pieces of equipment were completed Seb got all the guys together in front of it.
"Ray, as you know is against cp. What we have here is a compromise. We are going to rack up the humiliation and lower the number of strokes of the cane or whip. Zack is going to be our criminal so that I can demonstrate how bad this will be in respect of humiliation, but he will be clothed for it. In the real world guilty parties will be punished naked and before punishment the guilty one will be completely shaved so that he carries his shame with him for weeks."
There were gasps and tons of dissent headed, of course by Robbie.
"That's not on Seb and no committee came up with that one."
"I'll remind you again Robbie, this is not a democracy, I'll be the final arbiter of how this colony is run."
"In that case I'll fight you for it."
Seb laughed, "You won't Robbie because as your committee decided fighting carries the most severe penalty. You hit me and you'll be whipped."
Robbie realised he was beaten for now but thought, `I'll get you somehow Seb.'
Zack was secured in the caning frame first. It was neat, there were two well padded indents to take knees, secured on the ends of two swivelling arms. They could be spread as wide as necessary to stretch whatever size boy was secured in them. A padded bar was set in front of that for the boy to be bent over and on the floor in front was another bar fixed to the frame where the boy's wrists would be restrained spread wide. The knee pads would stop any damage as the boy squirmed under punishment but the restraints over the back of his legs would stop him moving too much. With Zack secured in it the boys realised their anal entry would be on full display. The whipping frame was basic. A long pole suspended from the tree by two lianas and another long pole on the floor with ankle restraints linked to it. The boy's arms would be spread along the pole and secured by a liana wound round his arms and his legs would be spread wide making any movement minimal. Zack was used to demonstrate again and the resulting position looked as though the recipient of the whip could be stretched so tight his skin would be split with even a light whipping.
"Zack and Robbie will sit down and decide by how much each punishment will be decreased with the use of this humiliating equipment."
The boys wandered off then in little groups to discuss it. Matt, Zack and Marty walked off with Seb to talk about it.
"That all looks pretty extreme Seb are you sure about this?"
"Not really Matt but Ray hated the cp thing completely and this was his suggestion for a compromise. I know it looks a bit kinky but the humiliation is meant to be a deterrent. We will have to monitor it and look at changing things if necessary. We can always up the humiliation or the cp as necessary to keep everyone in line. We are going to start getting bored now that the camp is set up and with boredom will come mischief."
Marty hero worshipped Seb despite the fact they were both of similar stature and sporting ability.
"How did you get so wise so soon Seb?"
Seb laughed, "I read a lot, and survival stories rate high in my reading list."
The others nodded sagely and decided whatever Seb wanted they would back him.
With the boredom came the arguments and then the fights. Mike and Wayne, two of the rugby players set at each other when an argument got heated. Wayne was an American student, an Army Brat whose father was at one of the East Anglian Air Bases. There was about six boys witness to it so mitigating circumstances appeared the only defence. Robbie offered to be the defence lawyer and Seb said he would prosecute with Marty, Zack and Matt as the three judges.
Seb was very uncomfortable with this. These boys were his team mates.
He started and it didn't take him long to unfold the prosecution case. He just produced three boys who confirmed they had witnessed the fight but didn't know who started it. Seb just called Mike to the stand and asked him.
"I did." Was his reply.
Wayne jumped up and said, "He's lying, I did."
Seb looked at his three judges and said, "If the defence can't sort that one guys I suggest they receive equal punishment as prescribed in our penal code."
The defence just pleaded the mitigating circumstance of boredom for two active young men.
"This is a first offence guys, I plead for the minimum sentence."
Seb stood up and said to his triumvirate of judges.
"The prosecution has no argument against that."
The three boys huddled together and Marty who was in the middle spoke after they were sat back again.
"It is the decision of this court that each miscreant will receive five lashes of the whip to be carried out before dinner this evening. Seb will administer them. This court is now closed."
The camp was alive with talk until Seb took Mike and Wayne out to the punishment area.
"I hate to do this guys because I know it has to hurt otherwise I am going to be accused of favouritism, and I am going to have to humiliate you a little as well."
In one of the cases washed ashore were medical supplies including razors so when Wayne was spread wide top and bottom Seb detailed Ian and Alex, the two little wrestlers to shave him of all body hair except his eyebrows. When they were finished Wayne looked ridiculous and everybody was laughing. Seb made it worse by stroking the whole of his body to make sure nothing had been missed. It hadn't, but Seb upped the humiliation by spreading Wayne's butt cheeks wide and telling Ian to run his fingers down the crack to make sure it was free of hair. He then administered five lashes keeping them as soft as he dared but making sure Wayne screamed with the pain. No skin was broken and the same routine was carried out on Mike. They both shook hands with Seb afterwards and he addressed the others.
"I hated doing this to my team mates but fighting is absolutely the worst thing you can do. You are all fit guys and capable of injuring others. We don't have a doctor so we can't mend you if you get broken."
Even Robbie who was beginning to seriously dislike Seb had to admit the sense of what Seb said. Ray took Seb aside after supper and suggested that the humiliation had been too mild.
"Why don't you rewrite the code so that it allows more humiliation, you know, make them play with themselves until they have a hard on, and then punish them, you could even substitute that for the shaving for some of the lesser offences."
Seb laughed, "I'm beginning to like you Ray, and not just as our cook."
Both laughed and Seb put it to the other three, incorporated it in their code and then told Robbie who looked set to be the defence lawyer to Seb's prosecutor.
"I won't support you on this Seb that is going too far. If you get away with that the next thing you will do is introduce sex as a punishment and I don't fancy watching someone giving a blowjob or getting butt fucked as a punishment."
"Mmm, those are two good ideas Robbie, we are a bit short of entertainment aren't we?"
Robbie knew then that he would have to try to persuade enough of the others to break with Seb so that they could form a more civilised community. He felt that the law of the jungle was being taken too far. Robbie had given Seb exactly the idea he perceived as being the perfect way to get some serious sex going. New amendment to the penal code. Any crime against the person, that person would set the punishment and it could be anything that didn't cause actual body harm. Just a little tongue in cheek Seb set out his decision to the others.
"Many of you are saying cp isn't the way to go with punishment so here is a new penal code which leaves punishment in the hands of the aggrieved party. Where it is the community that is damaged the judges will still set the punishment based on our present code. In future if you break our laws and the broken law is against an individual or group then they will decide the punishment and I am drawing no limit on that except that no bodily harm must be done. So for example, if Mike strikes Ian, but Ian doesn't retaliate Mike's punishment can be anything Ian wants. If he is feeling horny he can get a blowjob or a fuck, if he is feeling mean he can whip Ian. You get the picture?"
There were gasps and Robbie was almost apoplectic with anger.
"You can't advocate homosexual acts that are disgusting."
"You suggested it Robbie why are you angry now that I have implemented it?"
Very clever, Seb had now placed the blame on Robbie undermining his position as a likely challenger to Seb's rule.
"I only said it was the kind of thing you would do."
"But you suggested it as an alternative to cp any way, like everything else we will give it a trial."
Seb took Matt, Zack and Marty aside and told them. "When the punishment is down to you three, err towards sexual humiliation rather than cp then we can all have some fun. The only repeat offenders will be gay guys who want to suck cock or be reamed out."
The others laughed and Seb was another step closer to his goal. ========================================================================= Seb gets what he really wants in the next Part.