Thank you for the reviews. There was never intent for this to actually end up with snuff - it was there to add a bit of extra tension. I've pulled most references from the rest of the story, as they really weren't necessary and annoyed some people.
Per request, we'll start with the list of contestants:
Green team: Patrick and Deirdre Kelly
Blue team: Hiroshi and Satomi Yamaguchi
Red team: Diego and Ana Hernandez
Yellow team: Paul and Allison Jones
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Bill sat back and watched the forklifts carry the stone blocks off-stage. The techs were disconnecting the three kneelers from their location to the side, and a fourth was getting carried in from off-stage. Catalina was chatting with one of the camera operators, flirting outrageously as usual.
Bidding information was showing on one of the screens. He knew the viewers were currently getting that stream as the primary, with slow-motion reruns of the blowjob money shots on the secondary streams.
The bidding was going a bit faster than usual, and he smiled. He'd hoped that a fourth couple would cause more viewers, and more bidders.
Dan was getting the cameras lined up for the next contest, and Bill hoped this one would go as well as they'd hoped. It was a new one, and with a fourth couple involved, the camera crew would need to be on their toes. He really wished he had a fifth camera right about now.
"Opening shot?" Dan asked.
Bill looked at the monitors and sighed. "Tits."
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"Opening shot is you, start with tits then pull back to waist-up," Dan said into Sam's headset.
"Got it," Sam said, aiming the camera at Catalina's mark. Catalina was just getting there, complaining that the makeup folks were all busy.
"Sorry, Catalina, they're all busy with the contestants right now," Bill said over the intercom. "We want the contestants looking pretty, too, because that increases the sale price, and that pays your salary, okay?"
Sam glanced around the camera; behind Catalina, the makeup artists were cleaning the cum off of the three losing contestants and fixing their makeup. Right, we normally only have three couples, so there's only two money shots, and the third can work on Catalina.
Not my problem, Sam thought, and got her camera set. Catalina stood on her mark, fuming, so Sam focused the camera in on her chest. Her breasts swelled with her breathing, threatening to burst out of her tight leather corset.
"Perfect," Dan said.
"We're live in five..." Bill said over the intercom. "...And go!"
"Pull back in three...two...one...now," Dan said, and Sam pulled the camera back to show Catalina from the waist up.
She smiled into the camera, her previous complaints vanished. "Welcome back to Fight for Freedom, the game show where lives are literally on the line. We're just about ready for our second round now: Sauce for the Gander!"
She walked over to one of the kneelers, waiting in front of the four couples. "We've just seen three of our lovely ladies servicing our guards from these. Now it's time for their husbands to see if they can do better. Each of the men will get to give a guard a blow job. Whoever gets their guard off first, wins, and the second and third finishers' wives get punished."
She walked back toward the couple in green, and Sam tracked her with the camera. "This is a sudden ending round, so whoever finishes last is out of the game. That couple will be auctioned off before the third round starts." She reached them, and ran her hand along Patrick's arm. "The Kellys have a disadvantage on this round - a thirty-second starting penalty." Patrick's eyes looked wide over the large green ball gag.
Two guards went to each couple, unlocked the husband from his pole, and led him over to the kneeler in front of him. Most of them knelt down without protest, but Paul, in yellow, shook his head defiantly. One of the guards pulled the taser from his belt and pressed it to his side, saying something quietly to him. Resigned, he knelt down and let them lock his ankles to the frame. A chain to the front completed his restraint.
"We've randomly selected four guards for this," Catalina said, returning to the front of the stage. "Guards ready?"
Four guards stepped in front of the kneeling contestants, signaling their readiness with a nod or a thumbs-up.