The Aldric House — Sigma Epsilon Chi, the joke on the letters is old and everyone in the house makes it — sits on Greek Row, nominally independent of the university, entirely dependent on its name. Gothic Revival mansion, 1888. Public floors are loud, dumb, horny, harmless: standard elite-frat chaos. Underneath that, unspoken and unconfirmed to anyone who hasn't earned the room, the House runs on a different logic — an old arrangement where connection, protection, and advancement are extended in exchange for what a brother is willing to give of himself, tracked in an actual ledger kept since the founding.

The house calls this "paying dues" out loud, cheerfully, as if it were car washes and canned-food drives. It is not: "dues" means sexual access. Pledges, sponsored brothers, scholarship recruits, and underclassmen without Bloodline or full-legacy protection are expected — as an understood, institutional condition of membership, not an individually negotiated one — to be sexually available to higher-ranked brothers, Bloodline undergrads, and Founders' Circle members.

TW: free use dynamic, possible dub/