Maverick's Master Ceremony

Master:         Mavrick Broadfoot
Time:            Tuesday,  Jan. 2, 2018
Place:            Chateau Patio
Mentor:        Taylor Smitty

by Blue Ronsein, Roissy Journaliste  
Xanadu Xu, Photographer

Late on a cold winter night, throngs of friends and family members crowd into the patio, happily gabbing about the upcoming event as Maitre Thomas brings the ceremony to order. Thomas steps forward and adjusts his tie.

W E L C O M I N G   D O M I N A N T

"Welcome all my friends and a hearty thank you for joining us this afternoon as we celebrate the perseverance that Master Maverick Broadfoot has shown to complete his journey and achieve his full Master tag, and now joins the ranks of the many fine Masters of Roissy Val D'Oise.

"After applicants receive their Dominant role and begin work on their path task, it is much like any other journey where one seeks to learn and complete work and yet learn a great deal about themselves and the others around them. They find the others around them, both Dominants and submissives alike teaching one another from their wealth of wisdom. Maverick had his own unique challenges to overcome. Overcoming them makes this occasion all the more sweeter.

"At Roissy Val d'Oise, we believe that being a Master of the Chateau is an achievement to be truly earned through hard effort, education and practical experience exercising new concepts. We ask our Dominants to demonstrate their diligence in learning about our culture here at VdO and BDSM in general, to express their knowledge and understanding of critical components in this lifestyle and to exhibit skill in building creative, enjoyable and erotic scenes with the submissive women in our community.

"I ask our Dominants also to be good citizens, with a presence that imparts a harmonious environment to everyone here ar Roissy Val d'Oise.

"As with anything in life, not everyone who begins this journey completes it. Those who do complete it do so because they don't give up, they keep moving forward. Many come here looking for a chance to have good role-play; most that make it through to earn their Master's tag discover much more than that. They discover a chance to learn, or re-learn about themselves and about D/s Relationships and BDSM concepts in a warm, encouraging growing community that takes it's heart from the Story of O."

T H E   C O N F E R M E N T

"Before I turn the floor over to Maverick and his guest speakers, I wish to present his Master ring that has been made for the Masters of Roissy VDO.  So Maverick, on behalf of Rene, I give this to you as well as one who now joins the ranks of the Masters of the Chateau."

 Maverick Broadfoot takes the ring,  "Thank you, Thomas"

Thomas walks over to him, offering him the ring. "We are honored to have you, Maverick, in our community. I know  that you will continue the hard work you have demonstrated so far as you continue this next part of your journey in our community."

Maverick shakes Thomas' hand, and Thomas offers him his hand, "Maverick, let me be the first to shake your hand and offer you my thanks and congratulations.  Maverick, the floor is yours to introduce your first speaker."

Maverick Looks down at the piece of jewelry on his finger, “Most of y’all don’t know, but I actually failed out of college first time ‘round – three semesters and out.  Crashed and burned; it wasn’t pretty.  I did go back eventually, and I did finally graduate.  The school I went to is chock full of traditions, including the class ring – the one I’m wearing right now on this side of the keyboard.  I still remember the day I put on my class ring – how heavy it felt.  And also how proud and pleased I was.  Feels a lot like that today.

"You can’t do something like this on your own.  Try it; see how far you don’t get.   And I had lots of help, mostly from the ladies here in Roissy.  I don’t think there’s a girl here who hasn’t impressed me in some way.  They know their stuff.  Each lady had some good ideas and good questions for each interaction.  One lady here who impressed me is Ju.  I had the pleasure of her help with my final scene.  Ju, would you like to say a few words, please?"

F I N A L   S C E N E   S I S T E R    S P E E C H

Ju smiles gratefully, and attempts to rise up in her long skirt, without tripping or worse.  "Of course, Sir Maverick, with pleasure, thank you.  Good afternoon Famille." smiles softly.  "I am so pleased to be here today, granted, I am not overly skilled with public speaking so if I get nervous and stammer or blush too much, bear with me." offers an apologetic lopsided grin then. "I was pleased when asked to participate as the sister in Sir Maverick's final.  I have known him for almost as long as I have been at Roissy and I was excited to be in such a role.  Though in all honesty I had no clue what it would entail."  nods, and continues, "Sir Maverick was very eager to get started, and contacted me with the time in a few days when we would meet and get it going, exactly what would happen, and his confidence in the upcoming scene was admirable."

She  laughs softly, "Of course, I was not able to accommodate the time set out, and, the challenge of scheduling here became obvious when we had set dates a few times and each time had to reschedule.  It took about a month for us to come together for a couple scenes.  During that time through note cards Sir Maverick made sure to check on my likes and dislikes and to prep me on expectations and what to wear."

 "Sir Maverick handled me being just a little bit of a challenge with my surprise actions in an effortless example of creativity and passion, I was corrected with feeling and control.  He gave me the focus, time and attention that was just right and needed for quality after care, with genuineness." smiles softly in his direction."

Her eyes glitter. "I have no doubt that -Master- Maverick is a wonderful contribution to VdO and skilled with those who are lucky enough to serve him.  He is a man of value and strength and someone who is not only good with humour and one of the few who plays piano in the Chateau, but someone I am grateful to have as a friend.  Plus who else can pull off the suits and hair style he can." gives him a grin.  "And, I don't need to mention that a girl he holds near and dear, is one of my favourite people too, so by default, he is of high quality."

She smiles again, and takes a slow breath, sweeping her hair from her vision before continuing.  "Sir Maverick is patient, and takes his time to perfect all things.  He is in the moment when he is with you." chuckles, "In fact he takes his time so well, that it was over a year ago now that he did his workshop for the community, on Breast Play.  He delivered it with smooth confidence like he does in most things, and I imagine a lot of the community left the workshop with eager plans to try some of the skills he shared."  turns slightly to face Maitre Thomas, lips still curled, "As a Sister of Roissy VdO it is my pleasure to recommend Sir Maverick to become Master Maverick here, without any hesitation or further delays." she offered this heartfelt, before turning to Maverick once more, "Master Mav, congratulations on this accomplishment and I wish you all the best in the next part of your journey, I am honored that I was able to be a part of it." smiles softly, and slips back to the cushion, kneeling down

"Ju, thank you.  Personally, I think you have a knack for tall tales."  He winks back at her.  Ju smirks, and flutters her lashes.

M E N T O R I N G   D O M I N A N T   S P E E C H

"Now, I should say a word about my mentor, Taylor Smitty.  What can I say about him?  Not much, actually.  Taylor tends to be a very hands-off kind of mentor.  This turned out to suit me just fine.  It allowed me to make my own mistakes and cut my own trail.  He did answer when I had a question or a concern.  It’s been a good fit for me.  What do you think, Taylor?"

Taylor stands , "Oh indeed Mav. You didn't need me in your way." He turns to the crowd,  "Good day to you all and thank you for having me. Its an honor to speaking for my friend Maverick.

"Here at Roissy we use the term Mentor and Mentee, but, from what i have read the appropriate term would be Mentor and Colleague. My apologies if it sounds like this is meant to be a grammar lesson but the point is, Colleague is a more befitting term for the relationship between Maverick and myself.  Colleagues, two equals.

"Maverick is a man that came to us with convictions, searching for knowledge about a certain kind of relationship between Males and a females. You might ask "how do you know this is what he was looking for?............................. Well, he is still with us, sitting right there," he points to Maverick while looking out at the crowd,  "and on this day he will receive his Master ring; A ring that will signify his commitment to knowledge of BDSM and also a token of our appreciation for his contributions to this community.

"One admirable trait of a Master is his ability to lend a hand to submissives for comfort and guidance as well as applying a nice rosy red color to her ass." He cracks a grin,  "And from what I have been told, Maverick is somewhat of an expert in the art of spanking."  He turns to Maverick, "Maverick, soon you will take on Mentees or Colleagues (God help you!!!!).  You never know what you will get." he looks to the Mentors in the crowd, "Am I right??!!.....

"I wish you the best of luck in being assigned a man as driven and even keeled as what I have seen from you. You did this the right way.  I am proud to call you my friend and I am sure the submissives of Roissy Val d'Oise will be just as proud to call you Master Maverick.......Again, congratulations." He walks over and extends his hand to Maverick, who takes Taylor's hand.

Thomas nods, affirming Taylor's words.

Maverick responds, "that's high praise, I think.  Thank you.

M A S T E R   S P E E C H

"I suppose y’all want a speech from me now.  Not that I’m much on speechifyin’, myself.

"When I first tried out Second Life, I figured it might be a nice diversion during my lunch.  Just something to pass the time.  After a while I started exploring around.  There’s so much to see and do in-world. When I first tried out Second Life, I figured it might be a nice diversion during my lunch.  Just something to pass the time.  After a while I started exploring around.  There’s so much to see and do in-world.

"But soon it just became a world of the temporary sim.  I’d take a day or two off from SL, and whatever sim I had been visiting would be gone.  Disappeared.  No word, no nothing.  Or worse, it would just be an endless beach party.  These made it very hard for me to get in with the in-crowd.  Naturally, I couldn’t get a girl to save my life.  By the time I got my gumption up to talk to a girl, her significant other would suddenly teleport in and swoop her up.

"All this made it very hard for me to find a home here in Second Life.On one of these sims, one that has also has long-since vanished, I met a girl named Asfirdr.  She mentioned a place called Roissy Val d'Oise to some others there.  And some of those others there in that had some less than kind things about Roissy.  I was curious, though, and paid a visit.

"I was impressed.  Such architecture.  The people were so welcoming.  There was so much information ready at the Landing Area.  So much information in those panels at the Landing Area.  Oh, so much information. So much to read. Oh, so very much information…. I was thoroughly intimidated!

"A few days later I decided to put in my application.  As I was approaching the yellow mailbox, I got a message that one of those other  sims that had disappeared had suddenly reappeared again.  Literally, I stood there for a moment, with my hand on the mailbox, trying to decide what to do.  He looks around the crowd ... Seems I choose rightly.

"During my time here at VdO, my internship seemed to go fairly quickly.  Good thing, too.  I felt like I was wearing a damn chastity belt!  My first scene was a simple drink service, which was also the girl’s first scene here.  I was a little nervous, but we had fun with it. (Laughter)

"Once my internship was done and I made Dom, real life decided to make things difficult.  My personal schedule didn’t allow for as much time here as I wanted, but I muddled through.  As my schedules changed again I was able to have more time here.  I figured I’d been a lowly Dom long enough.  I got busy making progress."

He looks to the blond before him.  "And let’s not underestimate how the love of a good woman can motivate a man. Now, I’ve been on the Internet since I got my first computer in 1994 – long before Second Life was a gleam in Linden Labs’ eye.  Role-playing online isn’t a new concept to me.  In fact, that’s how I first discovered this thing referred to as “BDSM”, through an adult chat site.  Naturally, I thought that getting the required scenes here done would be relatively easy.  But once I really got into them, there was one aspect surprised me: how much I learned about me, myself.  It is true that you don’t know what you can really do until you try going beyond what you normally do.

"Now, at this time in my path, I look around here in this community, this familie, and I have seemed to stumble into much more than I expected I’d find.  It seems I’ve found a home.  I can’t tell you what that means to me. Now that I can use the title of ‘Master’ here, I hope you’ll indulge me.  I’d like to pass on some words to you younger pups coming up behind me.  Theses are words that both my tae kwon do master and my bagpipes instructor have told me on different occasions.  (Yes - bagpipes: two tenors and a bass drone, blowpipe, chanter, squeeze bag, and a heluva lot of noise.)

"Slow down.  No one’s in a hurry here.  Whether I’m learning a new technique in sparring, or a learning riff in a new tune on the pipes, or spending time with a lady (especially then), take time to do things right. Be deliberate.  Don’t do nothin’ half-assed.  If you’re my opponent in a sparring match and you don’t block me full-out, well you won’t like the what comes next.  If I don’t use my musical instrument fully, as I know how, it won’t respond as I like, and the tune will and you won't like the sound.  If you’re going to do a scene with a lady, then do it – no reason to hold back.

"Have fun.  Whether in tae kwon do, or bagpipes, or here in VdO, if all concerned aren’t enjoying things, what’s the point? One other thing that my tae kwon do master has said - he likes it when one of his students finally gets the black belt because that’s when the training can really begin.  I get that now, today, more than ever.

"Now, the fun can really begin! Thank you all."

T O A S T   &   S U M M A R Y

At this point, cheers and loud voices congratulate the new Master and make warm (and snarky) comments!

Maverick whispers: "damn allergies makin' my eyes water."

Thomas holds my hand to briefly quell the congratulations. "Thank you,  We are truly grateful for all each of you have done, Ju, Taylor, and Mav. Everyone grab a glass of champagne to toast the new Master.  To Master Maverick !   I think  I'll call him M^2 ( MM =M^2)." And Thomas raises his glass, "To M^2...our newest Master, welcome to the inner circle of Roissy, the fun starts now as you said."

Taylor slurps down the bubbly drink, "I want to hear some bag pipes sometime. Or better yet see you incorporate them into a punishment scene!!!!" and Maverick raises his eyebrows, "Really?"

Thomas continues, "I also wish to take the opportunity to also thank Rene, for providing all of this for us, for having the vision to bring us all together,  we are a large diverse group with many things to share, and It warms my heart for  having all of this to share with each and everyone. Thank you all for joining us here, to celebrate with  Maverick.

"Please join us now at the Ball Room with  Vocalist  Jack Slade as we celebrate  Master Maverick's achievement."

More cheers, toasts, and the people gradually drift off to the ballroom to dance and celebrate.