Once downstairs, Gwen raised a brow, clearly expecting Alex's usual sex-dungeon design with chains hanging from the ceiling and walls covered with tools, adding dim lighting to set the tone. Instead, the entire area comprised a medium-sized theatre stage with seating space for a little over two hundred in front of it. The only commonality with Alex's sex-dungeon aesthetic that Gwen found was the dim lighting.
"Whoa…" It was Mary Jane who had her eyes sparkling when she saw what waited for them in the basement. Even Gloria and Elizabeth raised their brows in curiosity, their previous apprehension immediately dissipating after not actually seeing a sex dungeon.
Only Gwen had a wry expression on her face, knowing the real reason behind the stage and the whole theatre vibe.
"Are we going to have this theatre all to ourselves, Alex?" Mary Jane asked with shining eyes. "Can we do practice performances here? For our band?"
"When it's free, sure," he shrugged. "But the kinds of performances that I had in mind were a little different. This is where we will have our pledge meetings. Initiation challenges and the like."
"What—"
"You'll know when you officially pledge yourselves to Epsilon Sigma Upsilon," Alex cut Elizabeth off. "As founding members, your initiation will he shorter—lasting only for a week as compared to a month— but also more intense. You will have no breaks, no outside contact until we are finished, and no time to gather yourselves. This entire week, you will spend inside the Epsilon Sigma Upsilon house, devoting yourselves to this sorority and the pledge. Our initiation consists of four major stages: the Oath, the Trial, the Bond, and the Ascent. Each stage will test your conviction, loyalty, discipline, and drive. Instead of having a week to complete each stage, you will only have two days each, and I will be personally overseeing and supervising everything."
"A bit too grandiose, Alex," Gwen whispered from the side, bringing him back down to reality. "Why don't you tell them the actual benefits of joining our sorority first?"
"Yeah, tell us the benefits, Alex~" Mary Jane cooed, bending forward and giving him an enticing view of her ample cleavage. "I'm sure you're going to get more than enough benefits from us. Right, Betty? Glory?"
Elizabeth and Gloria shared a speechless look with their enthusiastic redhead friend before switching to entirely different expressions.
"Yeah, tell us, Alex," Elizabeth said suggestively while Gloria directly stepped closer to him and hugged his arm, repeating the same words.
Alex gave Gwen a speechless look, surprised by the sudden shift.
"You know," Gwen decided to lean into it and smiled with amusement. "You'll need to give some serious benefits if you want to have sorority girls lining up to fuck you. It's already the second semester, and those who were going to join societies and clubs have already joined. Without a solid start, we won't have anything to stand on when the next year eventually starts."
"It has a simple and direct benefit, really," Alex said directly, patting Gloria's head with his free hand.
She didn't seem to mind and merely giggled teasingly, tightening her grip over his arm and letting him feel her breasts, making Alex shake his head before he continued speaking.
"No matter what life path you choose to go on in the future, you will have the full support of the Gaia Relief Corp for five years after university. If you want to secure a job, they will help you get interviews at the best companies. If you want to start a company, they will be your angel investors. If you want to become an artist, they will take care of your living expenses. Hell, even if you want to travel the world after university and explore, they will fund you. Five years to follow whatever dream or passion you wish for. Even after all that, if you still fail, they will help you find a way to survive in the world."
Let alone the three women, even Gwen was looking at Alex with a raised brow. She knew that he was lavish and didn't care about money or resources, but giving this many benefits to a simple sorority club was still a little over the top. Such benefits had left all four of them stunned.
"Are you serious?" Mary Jane raised her brow, a disbelieving look in her eyes as all signs of her previous playfulness disappeared.
"Dead serious, MJ," Alex said with a smile. "The others may not know about the fact that I own the Gaia Relief Corp and Stacy Industries, but you three do, right? I plan to form such societies all over the world, investing in talented individuals in all of the topmost universities. In the next decade or two, my investments will bear fruit in the form of the next generation of world leaders, forming the true core of the Gaia Relief Corp and Stacy Industries. I will deploy the ambitious ones as division heads for each country's division as my proxies, giving them even more authority and autonomy than the current division heads. Even the most talented of people need nurturing and guidance."
"I usually keep this in the back of my mind to keep it from affecting me too much, but…" Mary Jane shared a look with her two black-haired friends. "You like…own half the world right now, don't you?"
"Roughly," Alex shrugged casually before turning to Gloria, who had a slightly pale complexion.
Freeing his arm from her grip, he pulled her closer and let her rest her head on his shoulder.
"None of this, beyond the benefits I told you about, is to be shared with anyone. We've had this talk before, right?" He said sternly.
The three of them nodded while Gwen looked at Gloria's expression with narrowed eyes.
"All right then, now comes the challenge for those who wish to receive the benefits that I told you about," Alex said, changing his tone to a less stern, yet also not casual. "To pledge to this society is no simple task. The four stages that I told you about? Each of them is going to push you three to your limits. Do you understand?"
"Yes, sir," the three women said with emphatic enthusiasm, bordering on mocking.
"That's the spirit," Alex nodded. "Now strip."
"W-what?" Elizabeth froze in her place and looked at Alex with wide eyes.
"You heard me," he said. "Look to the walls on our left and right sides. What do you see, Betty? What does that massive curtain in front showcase?"
"Muruls…Greek murals. Depicting…the gods."
"And what do they depict?" Alex said. "The lifestyle of the Greek gods. Pure, unadulterated debauchery, uninhibitedly expressing their sexual desires. This hall has that lifestyle as its foundation. Consider this the first tradition of this sorority. No clothes allowed in this hall. If one has any accessories that they wish to continue wearing, they must have either the approval of the Chancellor or the Chapter President."
"You should have expected this when you signed on, girls," Gwen sighed. "I'll give you the option to turn back if you really can't take it."
Looking at none of the three women taking any initiative, Gwen's expression twitched. She understood that she had to take the lead and embrace her role as Chapter President. With that decision, she started unbuttoning her shirt. The other three, after some hesitation, finally followed her lead.
Within two minutes, four naked women were standing at the entrance of the massive hall. Suddenly, the walk up to the stage seemed to become a lot more daunting as opposed to before. Despite the seats on both sides being empty, they couldn't help but feel conscious as their hearts raced.
"You too, Mr. Chancellor," Gwen said with a teasing smile, swaying her naked torso in front of him. Alex involuntarily gulped when he saw the chain hanging from Gwen's nipple piercings swaying in tandem with her. "We can't be the only ones this no clothes rule applies to, right?"
"I know, I know," Alex said and immediately got rid of his clothing, proudly displaying his cock to the four women. "To the stage, ladies."
With his words, he wrapped an arm around Gwen and another around Mary Jane before leading the two forward as Elizabeth and Gloria were compelled to follow behind them.
The redhead, despite the stuff that she'd done with him and Gwen in their two threesomes, felt squeamish as she was led through the aisle and to the stage. Even though the seats were empty, their sheer existence seemed to make the three women conscious as they unconsciously lowered their gazes.
Alex didn't comment on their demeanor and instead decided to explain the pledging process beyond the names of the four stages.
"The first stage, Oath, is a way to physically express and represent the rules and expectations of the Epsilon Sigma Upsilon society upon you. For the next two days, the three of you will work under Gwen to bind yourselves with ropes. Once you are able to successfully able to apply your respective self-bondage tie successfully without any outside support, we will conclude the first stage with the recital of your oath to the society while you are in that bound state. The ropes will serve as the representation of the oath that you make."
"I think you would be much better at teaching them self-bondage, Alex," Gwen said. "You are the only one with experience here with tying women up."
"I'd rather delegate," he said. "You know, to enjoy the view. I could always initiate things by teaching you first if that's what you want."
Thinking of being tied up in all sorts of ways in front of her bandmates made Gwen shake her head in adamant refusal.
"Moving on," Alex said, noticing that the shoulders of the three conscious women had straightened back up as they gazed at the stage in front of them. He continued as they climbed up to the stage. "The trial will be the opposite. I will tie you up, and you are to free yourselves from those bindings. This represents your autonomy within the sorority. This stage will mark a significant parting between the members, forming them into two types. One would be those who couldn't free themselves even after the stage's week has concluded. Those who freed themselves will be the true sisters of the sorority. The rest will be secondary members, and their pledging will conclude at the second stage. They will essentially be equivalent to interns who have to obey the commands of the main members of the sorority. Of course, they will have multiple chances for redemption. The month-long pledge will be done every semester as opposed to annually. They can participate in every such pledge for multiple chances."
"I'm not sure a class system is the best idea," Mary Jane said with a frown as she paused in front of the stairs that led to the top of the stage, making Alex stop as well.
"It's going to work. I know it," Alex said, not pushing her to get up the stairs just yet. "The third will be the Bond, the relationship of the pledging sister with the Chapter President and the Chancellor. Its purpose is to expose your inner self in front of all your sisters. And finally, we have the ascent. It is equivalent to a trust exercise. You are to bind yourself once again before the two leaders will join you for multiple nights of bonding. This will represent the true and final commitment of the sorority sister to this society."
"Is it just me, or does all of this sound like a threesome with extra steps?" Gloria chimed in from the side.
"What did you expect from him?" Gwen said sharply. "This whole sorority thing is an excuse for group sexual acts. It's more of a sex club than anything else."
"In my defense, most frats and sororities are sex clubs. It's the whole Greek thing, you know?" Alex laughed before finally leading the women up to the stage.
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