So far Lion hasn’t been very happy with the choices he’s made from the Box O’Fun. He’s had menthol rub, plastic clothes pins and ball swats. I promise there are more exciting things in there for him. And there are a few more that aren’t so exciting. He likes spanking but hates Velcro. He likes when I tie his balls up but hates those tiny little clothes pins. Lucky for him the items I’ve doubled and tripled up are things he likes. He’s due for a string of lucky picks soon. I can feel it. In the meantime he’ll feel it.

Last night Lion said he hopes we can do more ass play. We do it for a while and then we don’t for a while. He thinks his ass shrinks back to normal size. I wonder if it ever really stretches or does it just remember over time. No idea. I haven’t read anything about it. I told him we’d do more ass play in the future. Then he asked when we could play in the sling.

Today I’m going to a friend’s house. Originally, Lion was going to make stew and my friend would come back to our house for dinner. Lion’s tummy is upset today. It doesn’t make any sense for him to make stew if he doesn’t feel well. Either he’ll join us for dinner somewhere later or my friend and I will go alone. Or I can even beg off and come home to take care of Lion. Whatever the case, I think the sling is out for tonight. But we can see how things go later.

Tomorrow night I have a work function. We’re welcoming a new employee so we’re hitting happy hour. I never stay too long for these things but Lion likes to eat at a reasonable hour so he may be eating alone. Of course I’ll be home before eight so it’s not like an all-night party. I’m not sure I’ll feel like doing anything to him in the sling tomorrow.

I told Lion Tuesday could be sling night. I know we moved it from Wednesday to the weekend but then we just started the Box O’Fun and that took up last night. I probably should have done the ball swats with him in the sling but I didn’t think of it. The game is so new I wasn’t thinking about anything but how to play the game the best way. Now I think we should always use the sling along with whatever he picks on Saturday/Sunday.

It’s a work in progress. We may never be done tweaking the rules of the game. I can always add things to the mix and I can always change what’s already in the box. We may decide to use the box more or less often. The only thing certain is that Lion is back in his cage following whatever we do.

Wednesday night was our first try at Mrs. Lion’s Box O’Fun. I picked (randomly), Icy Hot on my balls. Mrs. Lion got the dreaded stuff and applied it. The result was the expected burning pain. That’s the game we decided to play. At least that’s what I thought. Then, yesterday while thinking back on that play, I realized something might have been missing.

Generally, when we play, there is a period when Mrs. Lion arouses me. When we first start a sling session or one on the bed, it always begins with her playing with my penis and getting me very aroused. Even with Velcro, which requires me to be fairly flaccid, she starts off getting me very hot. For me, at least, sexual arousal is the key difference between play and punishment.

When I picked a card and then with no real time to get me very excited, the Icy Hot was applied, it felt different; worse. I suppose you can argue that it’s part of the game. I don’t think so. Play for us always includes a build up. This is a time when my anticipation has a chance to grow as well as my erection. Some of the cards in the box are for milder activities. Even so, if they are performed when I am very aroused, they are much more interesting to me.

The game, because I am picking a card and then experiencing what it says, suggests that the item should be done in isolation. Thee is no reason it can’t work that way. I’m hoping we can change things up a bit to make the game a little more fun for me. If, for example, Mrs. Lion doesn’t tell me I will have to pick a card, but just begins edging me. At some point she announces I have to pick a card, I will already be aroused and ready for whatever fate will befall me.

If I know I will be picking a card, but I don’t know when, the foreplay might be made hotter by my anticipation. Alternatively, if Mrs. Lion picks the card and doesn’t share what it says to me until after she finishes foreplay, suspense can be even greater. Of course, she or I could pick more than one card at a time.

No, this isn’t topping from the bottom. It’s just a suggestion. 2.0 will do exactly what she wants.

carved ginger for figging
Figging. Ginger, carved and ready for Lion’s butt.

I agree with Lion’s suggestion about moving sling day to Saturday or Sunday. We have more time on the weekends. It’s true the sling is just downstairs and it literally takes a minute to get there but after work and dinner and showers and… and… and, it’s difficult to find the motivation to go “all the way” down to the basement.

The latest question to come up is whether the Box o’ Fun happens on scheduled days, random days or some other arrangement. Lion says random equates to never. What he’s really saying is that I’ll forget and won’t do it. When we instituted punishment days it was for my benefit. If I forgot to punish Lion at the time something happened, theoretically I would catch up with him on punishment days. Even though I’ve been lax in my punishments (catching him, not lighter swats) I’ve gotten better at doing the swats closer to the crime. I guess we should do the same thing with the Box O’Fun.

My original thought was to have Lion choose every other day. Then I realized we’ll get bogged down on what day we last did it and is today the day or did we miss it yesterday. So the days will be Wednesday, Friday and Saturday/Sunday. Some weekends we have plans on one of the weekend days so we’ll adjust when needed. Also, I’ll throw in a random day here and there.

We can adjust things as we go. If he picks pegging on Wednesday and we decide it would be better in the sling, we can save that till the weekend playtime and he’ll choose another card. Similarly, if he chooses figging and we don’t have ginger, he can choose again and we’ll throw the card back in for when we do have ginger.

Of course I can do whatever I want so if I decide I want to use Velcro on him Monday night and he chooses it again Wednesday, oh well. It’s the luck of the draw. As far as orgasm cards are concerned, he didn’t want the Magic Wand thrown in because that’s pleasure. Isn’t an orgasm pleasure? I thought so. Unless I decide to give him an orgasm every day for a week. He might think that was torture.

Lion cut up some index cards to make little squares so I could write play ideas on them. I started with ass things: spanking, figging, pegging, butt plugs. Then I moved on to cock and ball things: menthol rubs, clothes pins of all sorts, Velcro, etc.

Lion suggested some things might include a second pick. For example, a blind fold all by itself won’t really do much. However, if he picks a blindfold and one of the various clothes pins it would be much more interesting. I took the suggestion and added “hands tied” and “tied to the bed” as other choices that allow second picks. I also have double or triple cards for certain choices. Spanking has two or three instances in the mix. Also at Lion’s suggestion, the card he picks will be kept out of the rotation until all items are chosen. The cards allowing second picks will be returned to the rotation since they’re generally fun additions.

Once we settled in I had Lion make his choice. Wouldn’t you know it? He picked menthol rub. First time out he gets something he hates. This does not bode well for Lion. Next time he’ll probably get Velcro. Poor thing. Maybe he should stop having ideas.

When I went to get the menthol rub Lion said he wasn’t even hard yet. Why would I start when he wasn’t hard? I looked at him and took hold of my weenie. He was well on his way to hard. Mr. Weenie was excited at the prospect of his neighbors to the south being fire bombed. And Mr. Weenie stayed that way for quite a while.

Eventually I gave up trying to edge him while his balls were burning. When I returned later he said he needed some help getting started again. The Magic Wand helped to some extent but I think it was too much all at once. Lion said he was done for the night.

About a half hour later I brought the key safe back into the bedroom. I told Lion to put his base ring on while I changed the batteries in the lock. After Lion was all locked away I took both keys and locked them away as well. He said the keys were close but of absolutely no use to him. Then he said he knows I have another key on a necklace around somewhere. It’s true. If he wants to go rummaging through my stuff to find it he can. If it’s that important to him to know where the keys are. Of course, if it was really important to him he could still have the emergency key in his possession.

[Lion – She could always wear the necklace]