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Lillipad

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The Love Master
« on: July 14, 2012, 03:20:23 am »

You are the Guru of the Divine; a Master of Love; the Baron of Satisfaction. You, and no one else, possesses the mad love powers to bring together the sweet lambs around you, into one massive, writhing, ocean of dedicated relationships. Doesn't matter how, doesn't matter who's involved. If someone comes to you with a love problem, it's your duty to see to it that they get together through the power of Love. No matter how many double entendres you have to go through, no matter how many cheesy love songs you have to abuse, and no matter how soulful your collection of songs become. You must persevere.
So, Love Master? Some may ask, What's your name? You chuckle at such foolish queries. You have no name, you're simply known as Love TKO on the streets. But Love TKO, isn't that a name? They may ask again. Well, children. Names are a complicated issue. One you aren't a part of, because you don't have one. You simply abide by the Powers of Love and Funk.
Well then, Mister Love TKO, what do you look like? Ah, now here we have a valid question. In the world of Yours Truly, image is everything. Unless you're you, in which case all the fashion in the world can't stand up to the 'fro. And that's all the dear viewers need to know about you.

Case One: Can You Feel the Love Tonight?
It's midnight. Cold outside. You've got your legs up on the desk, and are about to call it a night, when suddenly, out of the corner of your eye, you see a customer enter. Looks like some guy in his late twenties. Kind of downtrodden. Just your kind of guy. You query, 'Dear customer, what might be the problem?' and he responds, "Well, I heard you specialize in love. Do you think you have time for me?" You chuckle at the question. 'Of course I specialize in Love. What righteous Funk brought you here tonight, my new, lovelorn friend?' and he takes his time. "I've been saving up for an engagement ring for months, but my girlfriend dumped me about a week ago because she thought I was cheating on her. And I wasn't, honest! I was just meeting with a friend to get their opinion on what ring I should get her. Can you help me out?" You chuckle in delight. Your first case after inheriting the Power of Love. Not quite so grand as you'd expect, but a case nonetheless.
In the end, it always comes down to the grace of the Almighty Love TKO. Now, what's your first step in this scandalous misunderstanding?

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Re: The Love Master
« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2012, 03:24:37 am »

> Advice him to buy a pitchblende ring from you, studded with diamonds.
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Re: The Love Master
« Reply #2 on: July 14, 2012, 03:39:13 am »

So... I'm guessing any attempts at just getting said friend to explain the situation to the girlfriend were met with failure.
Before I put my noodle of luuuurve to work, (that's my brain, get your mind out of the gutter) I have a question: how directly are we allowed to get involved in the case? Would simply calling this chick and setting the story straight ourselves be considered cheating? :P
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Re: The Love Master
« Reply #3 on: July 14, 2012, 04:02:18 am »

If something is suggested that might end a Case early that I use, then you can expect complications to arise.
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Re: The Love Master
« Reply #4 on: July 14, 2012, 07:15:59 am »

Meh, a hoe that jumps to conclusions that easily is either highly paranoid or cheating on you. Either way forget about that bitch and move on with your life.
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Re: The Love Master
« Reply #5 on: July 14, 2012, 05:08:46 pm »

Case One Part One
Being the insatiably delicious Love Master that you are, you have made it a practice to carry around engagement rings for the purpose of a case just like this. As such, you have no less than 45 different types on your person, so you'll have to decide exactly which one is right for poor old Funkless who came to you for help.
You briefly consider asking ool' Funkless to bring in the friend for explanations, but decide to put it off until you can confidently make such decisions. Instead, your mind turns to the anti-love. You ask him why he wants to try so hard for a woman who dropped him so abruptly, and thus he explains, "It wasn't something she had just decided at the drop of a hat... I haven't had much money to take her out to places, so we haven't gone out anywhere since I started saving up. I'm really indecisive too, so I had to consult my friend almost every day this month..."
Aha! Just as you had expected. Poor ol' Funkless is the root of the problem. He never explained his intentions to her, stopped taking her out, and went to see another woman frequently. Tsk-tsk Funkless.
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Re: The Love Master
« Reply #6 on: July 14, 2012, 05:45:17 pm »

Help Funkless, aid him in getting his girl back and then maybe if that doesn't work teach him the way.
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Re: The Love Master
« Reply #7 on: July 14, 2012, 06:42:13 pm »

Give him an interest-based loan. +1/4 of the original debt per month. Expensive help's gotta be expensive.
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Re: The Love Master
« Reply #8 on: July 14, 2012, 07:08:26 pm »

See about setting up a meeting with ol' Funkless so you can jive face to face about gettin' his posterior back on the one-way train track of love. Teach him the smooth ways of showin' his lady a good time.
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« Reply #9 on: July 14, 2012, 07:12:43 pm »

Approach the friend and ask her to talk to the fiancee. Have her apologize for the misunderstanding and explain that he really loves her, they were not sleeping together...and in fact they were conspiring together to give her a wedding proposal.

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Re: The Love Master
« Reply #10 on: July 14, 2012, 07:27:39 pm »

Approach the friend and ask her to talk to the fiancee. Have her apologize for the misunderstanding and explain that he really loves her, they were not sleeping together...and in fact they were conspiring together to give her a wedding proposal.

That almost seems like it would ruin the relationship... Revealing the proposal thing, not the friend talking to her.

Oh, and do something funky.
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« Reply #11 on: July 14, 2012, 07:42:29 pm »

That almost seems like it would ruin the relationship... Revealing the proposal thing, not the friend talking to her.

Revealing a wedding proposal is less likely to end a relationship than allowing her to believe he was cheating on her. The truth happens to give a very reasonable excuse for his actions, and generally wedding proposals come with a great deal of emotions. She's likely to forgive that the surprise was spoiled in view of the circumstances.

Working in deceit and manipulation in order to keep it a secret for a more shocking reveal at a later date seems like a pointless risk.

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Re: The Love Master
« Reply #12 on: July 14, 2012, 07:43:24 pm »

True...
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Re: The Love Master
« Reply #13 on: July 14, 2012, 10:11:53 pm »

Case One Part One Continues
In a moment of confusion you make a final decision. Funkless will be reunited with his sweetheart. You shall show him the path of all things Righteous, Funky, and fueled by Love. You groove on down to his house, he foolishly objects due to the time of night, but you set him straight. He called upon your Divine Intervention, and that's exactly what you'll lay upon the land. You procure his couch, coffe table, phone book, phone, and a cup of the most Funkelicious, creamy, velvety smooth coffee Funkless can muster up.
Looking through the phone book, you find the girlfriend's name and number, and get the friend's number off of Funkless when he takes a seat of his own. You light up a cigarette, let the Righteous 'fro hold the phone, and keep the Joe in the remaining hand. The 'fro dials up the friend's number first, and, much to your surprise, the lady answers almost immediately. Barely even sounds tired, almost happy even, "Hello, <name of Funkless>? What's wrong, did you need me?" 'This ain't Funkless, he's busy at the moment. You the friend he's been meeting. The one about the ring?' she seems reluctant to answer until you have Funkless get her to respond. "Yeah, I'm that friend. So what? Is there anything wrong with two friends meeting? If she was going to flip about us getting together, then they're probably better off apart anyway."
Well, well, well. The familiar taste of a conspiracy touches your succulent ears, and all you can do is chuckle. Seems Friendy knows a bit too much about the case. Funkless told you he hasn't talked to anyone about the breakup yet. Said he was too busy trying to contact Wifey, and struggling to keep up with work during the past week. Didn't have time for anything, or anyone, else.
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Re: The Love Master
« Reply #14 on: July 14, 2012, 10:29:31 pm »

...reading through the previous posts I don't see anywhere where he said he hadn't told anybody. Being informed that he didn't tell anyone after telling us it's a conspiracy that she knows about totally comes across as an asspull.

That aside, I can see a couple perfectly reasonable explanations for her knowing.

1) The breakup happened within earshot of witnesses who know both parties. Word of mouth travels quickly.
2) Obviously the girl who did the breaking up know about the breakup. She could have told anyone.
3) Funkless could have been speaking non-literally. Or, since it was understood that "Friendy" was part of this whole thing in the beginning, and was the one he was conspiring with about the ring..."haven't told anyone else" could easily be interprted to mean "haven't told anyone who wasn't already involved."



But since the GM has informed us that there is now a conspiracy, and since Funkless is there listening in and heard all this, put our hand over the phone and look at him and ask him how she knows about it.
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