The oubliette

I’m moving in a few years when I retire. I’m building my next home. When I do the first thing I’m going to do is to excavate a deep hole. I want a two layer basement. Here is a little about the default mode of my brain. When given a free moment some people think about sex, or money, or sports, or gardening. When I get a free moment I frequently think about planning the perfect dungeon. Yeah, I know. If the authorities found out about me they’d keep a watchful eye on me.

In my design, the top level of the basement has tiny rooms for trusted servants and work tables. There are small ground floor windows. It is Spartan but not uncomfortable.

The lower level is designed to terrify a man. This is where an initiate of my Queendom must begin his journey. The bottom level is reached by a secure and hidden door on the first level of the basement.

There are obviously no widows as you descend deep in the earth. I think a lot about the features I want…..
-Soundproof.
-Concrete floors with extra grit to avoid slipperiness when wet and a pressed design of irregular color to resemble stone.
-All floors sloped to a central floor drain that leads to a deep oubliette covered with heavy iron bars. Below the bottom of the oubliette a sump pump.
-Rough hewn walls of real stone. Overhead large wooden stressed beams. -Black twelve foot ceiling.
-One large room to allow space for the whip.
-Several chain hoists with hand held controls.
-Elevated couches surrounding exterior of the main room for women for viewing action in the dungeon.
-Marble altar with life-size statue of the goddess.
-Hidden surround sound speakers, lighting for color changes.
-Gas burning wall torches and fireplace.
-Full bath with a plenty of room surrounding the toilet
-Several individual cells 5’X7’ each with two doors. One door with bars and one door that allows no light for isolation purposes.
-Cabinetry for equipment
-St Andrews Cross
-A large Catherine’s Wheel
-Rack which also serves as operating table.
-Surgical equipment
-First aid kit, crash cart.
-Cameras and motion detectors.

What I have dreamed, I will build. My favorite part is the oubliette. An oubliette is basically a hole or shaft dug into the ground. One drops a slave into it and then leaves him there. No other torture is required if you leave him in long enough. Oubliette is from the French verb “to forget”. Once a slave is dropped in there you can forget about him. It’s how I feel when I block a slave on Fetlife. They are dead to me.

However, when I drop a man into my real oubliette then I could never forget about him. It would be too damn exciting knowing he was in that dark hole. It would make everything feel and taste sweeter thinking about him. In my version the oubliette will not be about me forgetting him. It will be about the slave forgetting his old life and seeing that he must embrace his new role as my slave. I believe every man who serves in my Queendom should go through this rite of passage.

Imagine yourself deep under ground, looking up at the dim light. Imagine leaving your old life behind and emerging only as a slave in my Queendom.