Here is part 6 of Chapter 23 of The Tickle Cartel. I hope you enjoy it! Please let me know what you think, and thank you for reading!
Chapter Beginnings
Chapter 1: Captured by the Tickle Cartel
Chapter 2: Transfer to the Tickle Cartel
Chapter 3: Finding Jens Skill
Chapter 4: The Queen Mistress
Chapter 5: Palace Night: Beginning
Chapter 6: Palace Night: Heathers Room
Chapter 7: Palace Night: Dungeon
Chapter 8: Palace Night: Closing
Chapter 9: Interlude
Chapter 10: Afternoon of Fun
Chapter 11: Prep Week, Day 1
Chapter 12: Prep Week, Day 2
Chapter 13: Prep Week, Day 3
Chapter 14: Prep Week, Day 4
Chapter 15: Prep Week, Day 5
Chapter 16: Prep Week, Day 6
Chapter 17: Prep Week, Day 7
Chapter 18: Recruiting Maddie
Chapter 19: Testing Maddie
Chapter 20: Wendy's Guests, Day 1
Chapter 21: Wendy's Guests, Day 2
Chapter 22: Wendy's Guests, Day 3
Chapter 23: Dungeon Tickler Training
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Chapter 23: Dungeon Tickler Training, Part 5
Jen woke up on Friday with energy to spare. The fun time the previous night had led to a rather restful sleep, and when Jen reached the kitchen, she learned that Maddie had experienced the same effect. Before the two knew it, they were ready to head out to Dungeon Tickler Training, with nearly a half hour to spare before their standard departure time. At Maddies suggestion, the two headed out early, with the former hoping to avoid seeing any familiar ticklers on the subway. Unfortunately for the reluctant ticklee of the pair, some of the passengers who rode the subway in the afternoon with the two actually started work early, so she was spared no tickling. She was, however, able to recover from the tickle torment before heading into Dungeon Tickler Training, as the two spent their half hour of free time walking around in the brisk morning air. As the beginning of their fifth day of training grew nearer, the two walked to the practice dungeon in their Dungeon Tickler outfits, arriving there with ten minutes to spare.
Unfortunately, seven of your classmates were unable to make it through machine testing, Adrianna informed the remaining students when Dungeon Tickler Training started. But I want to let you know that after reviewing your results, I still have confidence that all of you can pass the human testing portion of training. The requirements for passing each test are the same: each test is an hour and a half, and you have to tickle torture your prisoner for at least an hour of that. However, there will be some differences between the human testing and the earlier machine training. You will be moving from room to room for different tests; the people in each room will not change until their time is up. After walking into a new room, you will quickly enter your information, and then the test will start. In addition to the room changes, you will need a higher success rate to pass human testing: you can only fail two tests total and still pass. Like I said early in the week, there will be two days of human testing, for eight tests total.
Punishments are the final change for this set of testing, Adrianna moved onto the topic that no one wanted to address. Since you will be moving around so much, everyone is required to return to their original machine, the one that you worked in the previous three days, after all the tests are done. If you passed all your tests for the day, the machine will dismiss you to practice with prisoners, just like the machine testing; otherwise, it will deliver the same half-hour punishments for each of your failures. It will also give the thirty-minute excess punishment if you have exceeded your allowed failures. The final difference between human and machine testing is when that half-hour punishment will take place, should you fail before the day is over. In that case, you will report to me first and inform me of your failure. I will give you my fifteen-minute tickling, and then you will stay in the dungeon room until all the days tests have concluded, at which point you will be sent to your machine. Other than that, have fun with your testing! Following each test, aside from the second one of the day, the machine will inform you of your next destination; I will direct everyone to the correct tickle machines after lunch.
Just like the three days of machine testing, human testing was easy for Jen. She absolutely adored the reactions that she got from her live ticklees, and she took extra steps to tease them into ticklish oblivion. At the end of the day, her original machine confirmed that she had been perfect for the day, and on her way over to the practice dungeon, she saw that Maddie was also unscathed as of yet. Jen proceeded to continue to improve her bondage skills, now becoming very comfortable with the process of restraining prisoners for tickle torture.
Following a very good day of Dungeon Tickler Training, Maddie requested to explore a little around this part of the Tickle Cartel. The two ended up grabbing sandwiches at a food truck near the Dungeon Tickler Training building, and after dinner, they learned that the area was very similar to the area near Sixteen Swirls. Like their home sector, there were lots of stores, restaurants, and living areas, both houses and apartments, packed in the few-mile radius. Jen was intrigued when she saw a branch of the Tickle Cartel Library during their walk around, and she mentioned to Maddie that they should look for a more local branch when they headed home. After exploring the area for a couple of hours, Maddie announced that enough time should have passed that their normal fellow passengers should be off the subway, so the two headed home. This time, Maddie was correct: no one knew about her bellybutton weakness, so she was spared the same tickling as Jen, who of course loved it.
When they got back to the Sixteen Swirls subway stop, Jen suggested that they head past Tickle Dungeon 16, an area that they had not yet explored, to see if they could find the local library branch. Maddie, who still had her normal energy due to the lack of bellybutton tickling on the train, agreed, and the two walked into a still populated area past their future place of employment. A little over a half-mile past the tickle dungeon, the two found a large library building. Both of them went inside and opened up accounts, and Jen showed Maddie the series of books she had earlier checked out on Rebeccas account. Jen got the last two books in that series, which she had recently given Wendy to return to Rebecca, while Maddie picked up the first two books. Aside from that series, each future Dungeon Tickler picked up one tickling-focused book from the Sponsored Books section. They checked out and returned to their home, proceeding to set the books down on their rooms desks.
Not content to stay inside on a warm night, the two quickly called their parents before changing into crop tops and shorts and walking back out towards the Tickle Cartel town. Jen brought back up the awkward conversation with Dawn about not having any real games aside from their Switch, and Maddie agreed that they should get some cards and tabletop games to play. The two eventually headed into a traditional-ish game store and found that even this kind of store, since it was in the Tickle Cartel, had an obsession with tickling. As they looked for cards, Jen and Maddie realized that the cheapest and most popular set of playing cards was decorated with major Tickle Cartel landmarks and attractions. Willing to embrace their new home, the two ended up getting a couple of decks, and then they looked around for some fun board games to play. They ended up getting Tickleopoly, a tickling spinoff of Monopoly, and the Game of Tickles, a Tickle Cartel version of the Game of Life, amongst other tickling-related games. Following this, the two carried the bags with their lightweight purchases around as they explored the area that they had not looked at a few days ago.
Eventually, and with only a few more purchases, the two retired to Sixteen Swirls for the night. Jen ended up reading the second-to-last of her series books before falling into a peaceful sleep.
Saturday morning came before Jen knew it, and she hopped up out of bed, ready for the penultimate day of Dungeon Tickler Training. Maddie was already up and putting all the soup ingredients in the crockpot for the nights dinner. For the first time since Monday, the two had a quiet breakfast, both of them opting to flip through their earlier purchased magazines before heading out and getting ready for another fun day tickling prisoners. Also for the first time since Monday, Maddie managed to avoid any navel tickles on the way to Dungeon Tickler Training, doing so by switching subway cars again.
The sixth day of Dungeon Tickler Training went almost identically to the fifth: Jen easily and gleefully tickle tormented each prisoner that she was assigned to. After checking in with her machine, the future Dungeon Tickler, who had previously been reluctant to tickle torture for tickle tortures sake, happily bounced over to the tickle dungeon to torment some more prisoners. On the way, she saw her best friend confidently heading into the practice dungeon, and her suspicions of perfection were confirmed when Maddie picked out a prisoner to tickle. Jen did the same, and by the end of the day, she felt fairly confident in her abilities to bind and torture the prisoners that she would eventually come into contact with as a Dungeon Tickler.
Before they left for the day, Adrianna announced that the final day of Dungeon Tickler Training would be shorter than the others. Dungeon Mistresses would be coming in to evaluate and select Dungeon Ticklers for their dungeons. In addition to tickling prisoners in a live demonstration for their future employers, the Dungeon Ticklers who passed human testing would be tied up and tickled by the powerful dungeon operators. Although several of the trainees seemed to fear this, Jen and Maddie were unmoved; they already knew that Dungeon Mistress Lori would be their boss, and any tickling that she would give out was an unfortunately necessary step towards a comfortable and enjoyable employment.
Maddies confidence took a ticklish hit on the subway ride back, but she had recovered her positive sense of Tickle Cartel life by the time the two reached their apartment. After eating dinner and discussing their exciting future as Dungeon Ticklers, the two opted to try a game of Tickleopoly. Jen ended up being the victim of several of the tickle-themed rules, including spending a lot of time in Tickle Jail, where Maddie actually got to tickle her tummy during her turn. In addition to that, both friends had to pay the Standard Tickle Tax and the High Earners Tickle Tax, the games version of the Income Tax and the Luxury Tax, although luck was certainly not on Jens side for this, either. Maddie was delighted when Jen landed on her hotel and triggered the rule that in addition to paying, any guest at a hotel had to be tickled with a tool based on the spaces color. Following her tenth visit to Tickle Jail and an immediate trip to another one of Maddies hotels, Jen finally went bankrupt, and Maddie took her over to the couch for a half hour of tickling, the standard punishment for going bankrupt.
The tickler ended up going pretty easy on her best friend throughout the thirty minutes of punishment, partially because of all the bad luck Jen had endured in-game, but mostly because Maddie really wanted to play the game again, and being nice could only encourage that outcome. For the entire half hour, Maddie alternated between dusting Jens midriff, blowing raspberries on her, and wiggling her nails over the sensitive surface. Jen was ready to do it all again after the tickle time concluded, but Maddie pointed to the clock, which showed clearly that there was not time for another round of the long-lasting game.
Instead, the two headed to their rooms and gave another quick call to their parents. Jens parents were happy to hear from their daughter, and, since she had called them several days in a row, they officially gave her permission to limit her calls to once a week. However, they did qualify that by stating that if Jen ever wanted or needed to talk to them, they would always be available for her. Following a happy phone call, Jen grabbed her book from her room and walked out to the living room to read it. Finding Maddie in the recliner, the other roommate took the couch. As per tradition, Maddie got tired of just reading first, and she came over and prodded Jens bare side with one hand. Jen continued to read for a couple of pages, but she eventually became too distracted, and she finally swatted Maddies poking hand away. Sliding to the other end of the couch, Jen managed to slip her bookmark in place and set her closed book on the coffee table before opening up and inviting her best friend to come tickle her.
Maddie took full advantage, pouncing on Jen and attacking her abdomen. The ticklee responded with excited squeals and approving commentary about the fingers scrambling over her midsection, and Maddie added in her own teasing tickle talk. For another fifteen minutes, the conversation between best friends flowed as easily as the ticklers fingers on her ticklees smooth stomach, but Maddie eventually announced her intention to end the tickling to Jen. Although not really enthused about her best friend stopping, Jen agreed through her laughter, and her mirth began to die down with the ticklers slowing fingers.
Once that tickling had been ended, Maddie revealed that it was near bedtime, and Jen realized why the fun time had to stop. She bid her best friend goodnight, and the two took their books back to their rooms. Just like the previous night, Jen read some more of her book before settling into a deep sleep.
Chapter Beginnings
Chapter 1: Captured by the Tickle Cartel
Chapter 2: Transfer to the Tickle Cartel
Chapter 3: Finding Jens Skill
Chapter 4: The Queen Mistress
Chapter 5: Palace Night: Beginning
Chapter 6: Palace Night: Heathers Room
Chapter 7: Palace Night: Dungeon
Chapter 8: Palace Night: Closing
Chapter 9: Interlude
Chapter 10: Afternoon of Fun
Chapter 11: Prep Week, Day 1
Chapter 12: Prep Week, Day 2
Chapter 13: Prep Week, Day 3
Chapter 14: Prep Week, Day 4
Chapter 15: Prep Week, Day 5
Chapter 16: Prep Week, Day 6
Chapter 17: Prep Week, Day 7
Chapter 18: Recruiting Maddie
Chapter 19: Testing Maddie
Chapter 20: Wendy's Guests, Day 1
Chapter 21: Wendy's Guests, Day 2
Chapter 22: Wendy's Guests, Day 3
Chapter 23: Dungeon Tickler Training
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Chapter 23: Dungeon Tickler Training, Part 5
Jen woke up on Friday with energy to spare. The fun time the previous night had led to a rather restful sleep, and when Jen reached the kitchen, she learned that Maddie had experienced the same effect. Before the two knew it, they were ready to head out to Dungeon Tickler Training, with nearly a half hour to spare before their standard departure time. At Maddies suggestion, the two headed out early, with the former hoping to avoid seeing any familiar ticklers on the subway. Unfortunately for the reluctant ticklee of the pair, some of the passengers who rode the subway in the afternoon with the two actually started work early, so she was spared no tickling. She was, however, able to recover from the tickle torment before heading into Dungeon Tickler Training, as the two spent their half hour of free time walking around in the brisk morning air. As the beginning of their fifth day of training grew nearer, the two walked to the practice dungeon in their Dungeon Tickler outfits, arriving there with ten minutes to spare.
Unfortunately, seven of your classmates were unable to make it through machine testing, Adrianna informed the remaining students when Dungeon Tickler Training started. But I want to let you know that after reviewing your results, I still have confidence that all of you can pass the human testing portion of training. The requirements for passing each test are the same: each test is an hour and a half, and you have to tickle torture your prisoner for at least an hour of that. However, there will be some differences between the human testing and the earlier machine training. You will be moving from room to room for different tests; the people in each room will not change until their time is up. After walking into a new room, you will quickly enter your information, and then the test will start. In addition to the room changes, you will need a higher success rate to pass human testing: you can only fail two tests total and still pass. Like I said early in the week, there will be two days of human testing, for eight tests total.
Punishments are the final change for this set of testing, Adrianna moved onto the topic that no one wanted to address. Since you will be moving around so much, everyone is required to return to their original machine, the one that you worked in the previous three days, after all the tests are done. If you passed all your tests for the day, the machine will dismiss you to practice with prisoners, just like the machine testing; otherwise, it will deliver the same half-hour punishments for each of your failures. It will also give the thirty-minute excess punishment if you have exceeded your allowed failures. The final difference between human and machine testing is when that half-hour punishment will take place, should you fail before the day is over. In that case, you will report to me first and inform me of your failure. I will give you my fifteen-minute tickling, and then you will stay in the dungeon room until all the days tests have concluded, at which point you will be sent to your machine. Other than that, have fun with your testing! Following each test, aside from the second one of the day, the machine will inform you of your next destination; I will direct everyone to the correct tickle machines after lunch.
Just like the three days of machine testing, human testing was easy for Jen. She absolutely adored the reactions that she got from her live ticklees, and she took extra steps to tease them into ticklish oblivion. At the end of the day, her original machine confirmed that she had been perfect for the day, and on her way over to the practice dungeon, she saw that Maddie was also unscathed as of yet. Jen proceeded to continue to improve her bondage skills, now becoming very comfortable with the process of restraining prisoners for tickle torture.
Following a very good day of Dungeon Tickler Training, Maddie requested to explore a little around this part of the Tickle Cartel. The two ended up grabbing sandwiches at a food truck near the Dungeon Tickler Training building, and after dinner, they learned that the area was very similar to the area near Sixteen Swirls. Like their home sector, there were lots of stores, restaurants, and living areas, both houses and apartments, packed in the few-mile radius. Jen was intrigued when she saw a branch of the Tickle Cartel Library during their walk around, and she mentioned to Maddie that they should look for a more local branch when they headed home. After exploring the area for a couple of hours, Maddie announced that enough time should have passed that their normal fellow passengers should be off the subway, so the two headed home. This time, Maddie was correct: no one knew about her bellybutton weakness, so she was spared the same tickling as Jen, who of course loved it.
When they got back to the Sixteen Swirls subway stop, Jen suggested that they head past Tickle Dungeon 16, an area that they had not yet explored, to see if they could find the local library branch. Maddie, who still had her normal energy due to the lack of bellybutton tickling on the train, agreed, and the two walked into a still populated area past their future place of employment. A little over a half-mile past the tickle dungeon, the two found a large library building. Both of them went inside and opened up accounts, and Jen showed Maddie the series of books she had earlier checked out on Rebeccas account. Jen got the last two books in that series, which she had recently given Wendy to return to Rebecca, while Maddie picked up the first two books. Aside from that series, each future Dungeon Tickler picked up one tickling-focused book from the Sponsored Books section. They checked out and returned to their home, proceeding to set the books down on their rooms desks.
Not content to stay inside on a warm night, the two quickly called their parents before changing into crop tops and shorts and walking back out towards the Tickle Cartel town. Jen brought back up the awkward conversation with Dawn about not having any real games aside from their Switch, and Maddie agreed that they should get some cards and tabletop games to play. The two eventually headed into a traditional-ish game store and found that even this kind of store, since it was in the Tickle Cartel, had an obsession with tickling. As they looked for cards, Jen and Maddie realized that the cheapest and most popular set of playing cards was decorated with major Tickle Cartel landmarks and attractions. Willing to embrace their new home, the two ended up getting a couple of decks, and then they looked around for some fun board games to play. They ended up getting Tickleopoly, a tickling spinoff of Monopoly, and the Game of Tickles, a Tickle Cartel version of the Game of Life, amongst other tickling-related games. Following this, the two carried the bags with their lightweight purchases around as they explored the area that they had not looked at a few days ago.
Eventually, and with only a few more purchases, the two retired to Sixteen Swirls for the night. Jen ended up reading the second-to-last of her series books before falling into a peaceful sleep.
Saturday morning came before Jen knew it, and she hopped up out of bed, ready for the penultimate day of Dungeon Tickler Training. Maddie was already up and putting all the soup ingredients in the crockpot for the nights dinner. For the first time since Monday, the two had a quiet breakfast, both of them opting to flip through their earlier purchased magazines before heading out and getting ready for another fun day tickling prisoners. Also for the first time since Monday, Maddie managed to avoid any navel tickles on the way to Dungeon Tickler Training, doing so by switching subway cars again.
The sixth day of Dungeon Tickler Training went almost identically to the fifth: Jen easily and gleefully tickle tormented each prisoner that she was assigned to. After checking in with her machine, the future Dungeon Tickler, who had previously been reluctant to tickle torture for tickle tortures sake, happily bounced over to the tickle dungeon to torment some more prisoners. On the way, she saw her best friend confidently heading into the practice dungeon, and her suspicions of perfection were confirmed when Maddie picked out a prisoner to tickle. Jen did the same, and by the end of the day, she felt fairly confident in her abilities to bind and torture the prisoners that she would eventually come into contact with as a Dungeon Tickler.
Before they left for the day, Adrianna announced that the final day of Dungeon Tickler Training would be shorter than the others. Dungeon Mistresses would be coming in to evaluate and select Dungeon Ticklers for their dungeons. In addition to tickling prisoners in a live demonstration for their future employers, the Dungeon Ticklers who passed human testing would be tied up and tickled by the powerful dungeon operators. Although several of the trainees seemed to fear this, Jen and Maddie were unmoved; they already knew that Dungeon Mistress Lori would be their boss, and any tickling that she would give out was an unfortunately necessary step towards a comfortable and enjoyable employment.
Maddies confidence took a ticklish hit on the subway ride back, but she had recovered her positive sense of Tickle Cartel life by the time the two reached their apartment. After eating dinner and discussing their exciting future as Dungeon Ticklers, the two opted to try a game of Tickleopoly. Jen ended up being the victim of several of the tickle-themed rules, including spending a lot of time in Tickle Jail, where Maddie actually got to tickle her tummy during her turn. In addition to that, both friends had to pay the Standard Tickle Tax and the High Earners Tickle Tax, the games version of the Income Tax and the Luxury Tax, although luck was certainly not on Jens side for this, either. Maddie was delighted when Jen landed on her hotel and triggered the rule that in addition to paying, any guest at a hotel had to be tickled with a tool based on the spaces color. Following her tenth visit to Tickle Jail and an immediate trip to another one of Maddies hotels, Jen finally went bankrupt, and Maddie took her over to the couch for a half hour of tickling, the standard punishment for going bankrupt.
The tickler ended up going pretty easy on her best friend throughout the thirty minutes of punishment, partially because of all the bad luck Jen had endured in-game, but mostly because Maddie really wanted to play the game again, and being nice could only encourage that outcome. For the entire half hour, Maddie alternated between dusting Jens midriff, blowing raspberries on her, and wiggling her nails over the sensitive surface. Jen was ready to do it all again after the tickle time concluded, but Maddie pointed to the clock, which showed clearly that there was not time for another round of the long-lasting game.
Instead, the two headed to their rooms and gave another quick call to their parents. Jens parents were happy to hear from their daughter, and, since she had called them several days in a row, they officially gave her permission to limit her calls to once a week. However, they did qualify that by stating that if Jen ever wanted or needed to talk to them, they would always be available for her. Following a happy phone call, Jen grabbed her book from her room and walked out to the living room to read it. Finding Maddie in the recliner, the other roommate took the couch. As per tradition, Maddie got tired of just reading first, and she came over and prodded Jens bare side with one hand. Jen continued to read for a couple of pages, but she eventually became too distracted, and she finally swatted Maddies poking hand away. Sliding to the other end of the couch, Jen managed to slip her bookmark in place and set her closed book on the coffee table before opening up and inviting her best friend to come tickle her.
Maddie took full advantage, pouncing on Jen and attacking her abdomen. The ticklee responded with excited squeals and approving commentary about the fingers scrambling over her midsection, and Maddie added in her own teasing tickle talk. For another fifteen minutes, the conversation between best friends flowed as easily as the ticklers fingers on her ticklees smooth stomach, but Maddie eventually announced her intention to end the tickling to Jen. Although not really enthused about her best friend stopping, Jen agreed through her laughter, and her mirth began to die down with the ticklers slowing fingers.
Once that tickling had been ended, Maddie revealed that it was near bedtime, and Jen realized why the fun time had to stop. She bid her best friend goodnight, and the two took their books back to their rooms. Just like the previous night, Jen read some more of her book before settling into a deep sleep.