The Cosmos, The Arrivals, Book 1, Chapter 9, Babs & Tiffany & Robyn Sign Steph: Vagcam Excess, also Tiffany, Day 1, Section 5, Robyn & Tiffany: Remembering Steph & The Button Rule ¶ Tiffany discovers Robyn alone in the Bunkroom, and rather than exploring Babs in the Bedroom or stripping and checking out the Bathroom, she sits down next to Robyn on her lower bunk. ¶ You really showed up that slut.” Robyn points to what is normally the Mirrored wall, but which has transmogrified into a room-wide, life-sized Screen displaying the Cam’s view downstairs in the Kitchen. “Steph Sorostitute sitting spread surrender and practicing Hand Signs.” Robyn chortles. “I’m sure Babs feeds the Cam out to the Nugget Crowd, if not the entire Prefecture.” ¶ Tiffany realizes that Robyn, who rejected she was a Cosmo Pledge last Term, might still retain trace memories of whatever happened back then, including some knowledge about the now role-reversed Babs and Steph. {Also Janet may be relevant, and ditto Penny and Coco.} ¶ Perhaps Robyn’s selective amnesia weakens when she perceives she can do damage to others or build supplicants. Besides Robyn wants to make sure Tiffany never accidentally lig.hts up the Bathroom Cam while she’s naked in the shower or “using the facilities.” And so Robyn shall share secrets, might she remember any. ¶ Tiffany opens, “So I hear that Steph was the Cosmos Monitor last Term, but somehow she got Opted back Down to a Pledge. Like where she started from her very first Term.” ¶ “She Pledged in two Garments, I warrant,” Robyn presumes. “That’s how she promoted to Monitor last Term. Now she’s got one piece and falling momentum.” ¶ “I heard that what happened was that Steph ignored the bare button Rule?” Tiffany inflects the question subtly. ¶ Robyn explains casually, hiding one eye with her hair, “It wasn’t even like she was careless or anything like that. She traded for a very sleek and sexy minidress that let her tease her legs and fancy panty lingerie, but it {did not} have a cutout in it and {did not} expose her navel at all!” ¶ “And just for that the Gamers broke her?” Tiffany wants to make sure she gets the whole story correct. Tiffany assesses that Robyn’s belly button currently sits in a tidy hole in her strapless maillot cutout. {My own centers on a vast expanse of belly flesh floating above my low-rise slacks and below my transparent croptop. Even Babs stays well revealed. Navelage 24x7.} ¶ Robyn draws Tiffany’s eyes away from the Screen and back to the story. “Steph covered her button near the end of the Term,” she elaborates. “She came to think she was above the Rules.” Robyn pauses to think about it, then continues, “I mean, like, her minidress didn’t just make it hard to see her button or even flash it. It simply covered it up. Cutout minidress buttonholeless!” Robyn laughs, then adds nervously, “But nobody did anything about it, until somebody signed an affidavit….” She thinks again, then shrugs her bare shoulders. “Steph had opportunities to reverse herself; she received hints, she got told. But she simply believed that she was above navelage 24x7. She was always demanding and in charge. She did herself in. At least that’s what I’ve heard,” she qualifies. ¶ Tiffany prods, “So what happened?” ¶ “Er, ah, well... nothing.” Robyn purses her lips. “Except until the last day of the Term.” Robyn pauses to gather attention and deliver the punch. “And then Gamers descended upon her, took her panties away, cut a big hole in her minidress, and suggested to her that she beg to Pledge.” ¶ Tiffany considers. {Makes sense.} ¶ “So here she is at the Cosmos House,” Robyn proclaims. ¶ Now a part of the Mirror/Screen changes, and a clip plays showing Steph shadowy vaging in the Parlor the day of her arrival. ¶ Tiffany studies the footage. She had missed the Steph’s arrival with Babs and Janet in the Parlor. ¶ “I cammed that,” Robyn announces proudly. ¶ “And you’ve seen this before,” Robyn informs as the video cuts. ¶ Tiffany studies this footage. {Actually I} haven’t {seen this before, but I} am {in the picture. It’s from when I came into the Bathroom, enlivened the Cam, and it collected Robyn and Steph sitting spread surrender. Except the Cam collected Steph’s spread satchel in its full glory.} ¶ Robyn, also in the shot but with her crotch covered, runs her mouth with details as if Tiffany doesn’t know. “You can see what they did to her. They hacked a cutout hole in her minidress so huge that it reveals her scruff at the bottom and the bottoms of her 32A specials at the top. The sleeves have been cut away so that her sand dollars and stalks can’t hide inside her armholes, and Gamers hacked her skirt so short that the bottom of her round stern shows below the hemline.” ¶ Tiffany watches the video as she draws up in front of the Cam, parts her temple and tinkles in front of the twosome. ¶ Robyn suggest, “Next time you should pee all over her, not just next to her foot.” ¶ The video cuts