The Messy Tournament - Chapter 8: The ultimate obstacle

Written by WLG — 2022 — from UMD.net

On the third morning of the tournament. Until now Rachel and I had done a good job, we were first in the rankings and were spending a great time together and the other teams.

I would not say we would be best friends forever but, at least, the relationship with the other teams was clearly friendly.

For this morning challenge, we were assembled in the main room of the mansion.

"Hi ladies!
I see that everybody is wearing the sports clothes we gave you this morning. That's great, you will definitely need them.
Charles, Lila and Stacy are outside, ready to welcome you to the challenge but first, give me a minute to explain the rules.
The first challenge of the day is 'The Ultimate Obstacle Course'! The rules are extremely easy. There will be 5 obstacles outside, one after the other, you will have to cross them. You will all play at the same time, this one rule is essential: the last one on each obstacle will be eliminated.
We have planned a very classic elimination forfeit but I don't want to spoil the surprise... After each elimination, the losers will receive a forfeit... I definitely recommend you stay as long as possible in the course! Everything is allowed during the course except cheating of course!
If you don't have any questions, follow me outside, you will see we have prepared a lot of things during the night! "

"What do you think the forfeit will be? Pies? Mud? Slime? " asked Maria.

"Do you want to be the first to discover it, Maria?" I answered while laughing

"I will let you have the honour, Emma!"

When we arrived outside, we discovered that many structures have been installed during the night. The organisers had surely worked during the whole night to be ready this morning.

"Hello, ladies! I hope you are doing well! For this challenge, all of us will be the referees. After the first elimination, we will attend the forfeit together and move to the next obstacle. Stacy will be in charge of the loser..."

"...And I can't wait to take care of you! "

"She is indeed very enthusiastic, this forfeit is one of her favourites. Please follow me for the first obstacle."

We arrive in front of a large sandbox which was divided in its middle with a long beam. Sprinklers were installed over but were switched off for the moment.

"Please go on one of the marks on the floor."

We moved into the sandbox, the sprinklers flow started when we entered.
Charles took his time to go the other side while the sprinklers were wetting the sand and drenching us.

"OK ladies, the first obstacle is simple, you just have to dig below the beam and join me on the other side. As you can see, there are only five places available... You know what you have to do! The course starts in 3..2..1..Go!"

All of us rushed to the beam and started to dig the wet sand. The obstacle was easy but we had to do it fast to avoid elimination.

We were all doing our best and suddenly, Rachel had an idea.

"Emma, we don't have to dig one hole each, we can use the same, come here and help me."

I had a look at Charles who had a malicious approval look. This was indeed a good idea.
Thanks to this idea, our hole was dug twice faster as the others. Soon, it was big enough for us to crawl by the beam. Rachel did it first and I helped her a bit by digging more where she was a bit stuck.
When she was on the other side, I crawled in the wet sand too and joined her. We rushed to Charles, we were first and second.

Soon after, we were joined by Maria and Melissa who didn't see that we used the same hole.

Taylor and Jane were still digging, even if they were not far from being able to crawl under they still had more work to do. Suddenly, Taylor had the idea to use one of the other holes which were already big enough for her. She left her hole, jumped in another and was able to join us while Jane was just below the beam.

A horn resounded.

Stacy arrived and help Jane to stand.

"Unfortunately, Jane, you will be the first to discover the forfeit. I particularly love this kind of mess... Please, ladies, follow me to the forfeit area."

Not far from there was installed "the forfeit area", five poles were installed in front of a screen and more things were hidden a bit further.

"All the eliminated will receive their forfeit and will stay here until the end of the challenge. We have installed a big screen for them to continue to see what happens in the challenge. The eliminated will be tied to a pole and will receive public humiliation." she was hoping up and down.

"And what a more perfect public humiliation than... Tar and feathers!"

Jane's face crumpled.
"Jane, come here."

Stacy used a pallet truck to bring what was hidden: two wooden barrels and several bags.

"Could you please enter your bath? Don't worry, this is not real tar! These barrels are filled with black treacle... As messy as tar but perfectly safe!"

Jane was reassured, on my side, this forfeit would not be a premiere for me but that would not be a reason to avoid it if possible.
Jane slowly entered the barrel with treacle up to her sports bra. Stacy put her hand on her head.

"Any last word?... Too late!"

She submerged her head in the bottom of the barrel. She pushed down her arm up to her elbow.

When Jane resurfaced, she give her a second to take her breath and dunked her again.
A completely shiny black blob left the barrel and was immediately attacked by Stacy and her feathers. She was throwing them, filling Jane's clothes, shampooing it into her hair until Jane was covered by the itchy feathers.

Now looking like a messy bird, Jane was led to her pole, tied around her stomach.

"This was fun, I can't wait to restart!" said Stacy. "But you need to do the second course first!"

We left Jane alone in front of the TV where she was able to see the remaining challenges. We arrived in front of five boxes.

"Next challenge is a quiz. Please enter the boxes and sit on the chair."

Each box seemed similar, a big chair was installed on a mechanism.

"Is everybody earing me? Great! I will ask you to sit on the chair and fasten the belt."
The belt was preventing us to move, it was firmly attached and pushing us against the backrest.

"The aim is to get four correct answers in the quiz you will play. Guess correctly and you will have another question, guess wrong and... You will see it! The questions will appear on the screen in front of you and you have a controller on the right of your chair. The first question will appear after the countdown."

I was a bit stressed, I didn't know what to expect...
The countdown started, and I would soon know where to stand.

"Question 1: What is the minimum amount of points which is distributed every day? A:0-B:3-C:6-D:9"
As the first team gets 2, the second 1 and as we have two challenges a day, the result was 6. I pressed B.

"The answer was: 0 if all teams are drawn at both games"

The chair started to rise and incline. That was the reason why our belts were fastened this way...

I was now close to horizontal and saw what was below me. A hidden hatch opened and I was able to discover the first surprise. A pool full of green gunge had been installed below the chair. When the hatch totally opened the movement of the chair accelerated and plunged me into the pool. The chair rotated until I was completely dunked then it rotated again to come back to its initial position. The hatch was closed as well.

On the screen, the second question appears: "Who is she?" a picture appeared, it has been taken during one of our forfeits at the swamp. I remember that Melissa was the one who get messy there.

"Correct" a light appeared below the screen.

The third question appeared: "What is the average age of the competitors this year? A:24-B:26-C:2:30"

This one was a bit random... C? Wrong... It was 26.

Without being able to understand what happened, two mechanical arms smashed fuffy pies on each side of my face.

I had to hurry, it was already the fourth question and I still had two points to get. To save some seconds, I tried to press randomly a button... Bad idea. I had a chance on four and, of course, I get wrong! A pipe appeared over my head and covered me with chocolate syrup.

I decided to focus on the next questions and it worked. I managed to get the two next questions right. The belt was automatically removed and I was able to leave the box.
Outside, I discovered that some others were faster than me. Taylor was there, still covered in pies, Maria and Melissa were there too perfectly clean... Wait, where was Rachel?

The horn again.

Rachel left her box covered with pie, syrup and gunge.

"Rachel, you are eliminated! Let's go to the forfeit area."

We came back to the forfeit area where Jane was waiting for us.

"You know what to do but first, could you please take care of our poor Jane, I'm sure she will enjoy a refreshing coating!"

"What?" reacted Jane.

"We told you the losers would receive the forfeit after each elimination, we didn't say you would receive it just once!"

Stacy dipped a bucket in a feathers bag and then in the treacle barrel.

"Two in one application! Rachel, would you mind?"

Rachel took the bucket and poured it over Jane who had now accepted her messy fate. Then Rachel was led to the barrel for her tar and feathering. After having been dunked twice too, Stacy also covered her in feather-like she had done before for Jane. Rachel was tied to another pole next to Jane.

"Time for the third challenge!"

The four participants remaining followed Stacy to the pond.

"This one is easy, you will just have to throw three balls in the basket net. Each of you has her own net."

Four basket nets were installed in the pond within a place covered with algae.

"Take a ball each and be ready to swim to your net. You can either try to score from below the net but the pond is deeper and messier there. It's up to you! Ready? Go!"
We entered the pond, ready to aim our nets.

Taylor launched her ball as soon she entered the pond. Maybe it was luck, maybe it was skill but she immediately scored.

"Sorry girls, I don't want to finish covered in tar and feathers!"

Each of us started to throw our ball into our net. I managed to score my first throw, I swam to get back my ball. Now below the net, I tried to launch my ball, another lucky throw, and it entered immediately.

The next throws were less precise, I had to go a bit further to gain stability.

Taylor just finished her third score and was joining Charles and the others on the bank.
My ball bounced twice but finally go through the net. I was qualified!

I swam to the bank and heard the horn, somebody was eliminated. I took the time to submerge in a clearer part of the pond to remove mess from the former challenges.
"Taylor, Emma and Maria, congratulations, you are qualified. Melissa you and your team are eliminated. Follow Stacy for your forfeit knowing someone in your team will have another one tonight."

Once again, Stacy used her skills to properly tar and feather one of us. Melissa was also allowed to empty an extra bucket on Jane and Rachel before joining them on the pole line.

Back on the challenge with Taylor and Maria. I had no choice but to beat them twice to avoid the forfeit with the other.

Peter introduced the next obstacle, it was in two parts. For the first one, we had to crawl below bent wires. The track below had been loaded with a huge amount of coloured shaving cream.

The second part was an agility obstacle. We had to go through a beam over a custard pool. On each side, Charles, Lilla and Stacy would throw the big bag at us to lose our balance from the beam.

Taylor and Maria were extremely motivated, if they won, they would be sure to score two points.

When Peter gave us the go, all of us started to crawl in the thick foam. It was clearly impossible to see anything, I was absolutely not able to tell if I had to crawl for few meters or more.

Emerging from the foam, I discovered that I was the first to finish the first part just before Maria. I rushed to the beam to cross the pool.

Charles and Stacy missed me but unfortunately, Lilla's bag surprised me and pushed me into the custard pool. Maria's crossing finished in the pool too after having met Charles's bag.

Taylor, who was the last on the first part was lucky enough to avoid all the bags. She was the first finisher.

I immediately rushed to the beam again to try to qualify, Maria was two meters behind.
Unfortunately, once again, a bag threw me back to the pool, Maria took advantage of the fact all the bags were already thrown to cross without any problem. The horn was heard once again... I was eliminated!

At the forfeit area, Stacy had already prepared the buckets for the former losers.
"Here are their buckets, I will wait for you there for your personal treatment!"
Jane and Rachel were already well covered with multiple buckets of messy feathers and mine would cover them even more. After having to use the buckets, I joined Stacy for my own forfeit. I was knowing what to expect, it would not be my first bath in treacle and feathers. Stacy dunked me twice like the others and took time to fill my clothes with feathers and extra treacle. Of course, I also had the special feathers shampoo to properly finish the humiliation. Now covered head to toes in treacle and feathers, I joined the other on the poles.

"Welcome to the henhouse little chicken!" said Rachel.

"You did your best, at least, we will avoid another forfeit!"

"Yeah... YOU will avoid it, not our team!" a human blob was talking on the first pole. The poor Jane was totally unrecognizable below several very thick layers of mess.

"Congratulations US team, you have won this challenge. You are sure to win two points. Now, I have a deal for you...
We had prepared for the final round of this challenge which is a mud fight... I propose the two possibilities: first, if you do the challenge, the loser will have her forfeit BUT the winner will be sure to avoid any forfeit tonight. Second possibility: you stop now but, if you lose the second challenge today, both of you will have the forfeit... What do you think? "

Maria and Taylor discussed and finally took their decision.

"We know you spent time preparing everything for this challenge, then we will honour your work with the fight!"

"I'm very happy to hear that. Then follow us to the ring."

The little group moved to the last challenge while we were able to see what was happening on the TV.

The match started, Taylor and Maria really wanted to win to avoid the tar and feathering. Taylor was fast but Maria was stronger, it didn't take long before Maria managed to immobilize Taylor five seconds and win. As a reward, she was authorized to dunk Taylor's face into the creamy mud. Maria firmly grabbed Taylor's messy ponytail and deeply pushed her head not without rolling it back and forth. Maria enjoyed her dominant position and, before leaving the ring, posed over her victim and pushed her head in the creamy mud with her feet one last time.

They came back to the forfeit area for Taylor's forfeit. However, before that, she had to use the buckets Stacy was already preparing for us.
One after the other, Taylor emptied a fresh bucket of treacle filled with feathers over us leaving the empty bucket on our heads.

Finally, after taking care of me, it was Taylor's turn. She entered the barrel to receive her forfeit. As it was the last forfeit, Stacy took her time to trash the young girl until she was completely covered with feathers stuck on her body.

"Congratulations Maria, you won this challenge! As promised, you will also avoid a forfeit tonight whatever it happens on the second challenge today.
I hope you all enjoyed this challenge..."

"To be honest... I haven't seen a lot of it!" said Jane. She indeed had been tarred and feathered after the first game and once more after all other forfeits... It had been a really messy morning for her!

"You're right Jane, but I think you had the best place here with me!" answered Stacy.