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Rath Darkblade wrote: ↑Thu Nov 12, 2020 2:47 am Mystery Spouse. Aaah! The Mystery House has a new occupant, one who you (the player) are destined to find and marry! Or maybe he/she is an axe murderer! (Aaah!)

Your job, should you accept it ... *insert appropriate dramatic music here* ... is to find out which it is! *insert crashing chords*

Perhaps your Mystery Spouse is a Knight in Shining Armour (who says "knee").

There’s something familiar about this one...

Semi-Happy Partygoer wrote: ↑Sun Aug 11, 2019 3:23 pm Mystery Spouse: Take control of an eccentric millionaire who buys himself a mail-order bride through a mysterious catalogue. The bride varies in each playthrough, but each one is not all she seems. Help your rich protagonist navigate the pitfalls of marriage and strive for happily ever after, assuming you survive.

Yes, all right. But note the dates: I thought of "Mystery Spouse" exactly one year and 3 months (i.e. 15 months) after you did. Besides, it's not as if I plaigiarised your idea.

OK - let's change things up a bit ...

Mystery Grouse. Aaah! In a spectacularly unlikely twist, you are trapped within the Oxford Dictionary -- and now you must help Ox the Oxonian (who has muscles as big an ox and a brain probably not the same size) to figure out a mystery.

The mystery is this: why is it that the word "grouse" has two opposite meanings, depending how you use it? For instance, as a verb, "grouse" means "complain". 'Why are you inviting so-and-so?' He groused. 'That jerk picks his nose in public.'

But if you use it as a noun, "grouse" means "excellent". 'Man, you got me the Hawks jersey! That's grouse!'

And if you beat the game, you win one of these.



Hey, that's grouse!

Kings Quest: Quest for the Trophy: At a Kings Dining & Entertainment, you must defeat your rivals to win the local bowling championship.

Conquest of Atlantis: Blue Force. You are an Atlantian Officer... Do I even need to go any further?

Freddy Pharkas: Famous Philosopher: A book publisher visits Coarsegold and meets Freddy. Charmed by his folksy demeanor, he signs him to a book deal, spreading Freddy's unique world view far and wide. But not everyone is happy with this turn of events. Will Freddy survive his encounter with... Friedrich Nietzsche?!?!

Leisure Suit Larry In The Land of the Lilliputians. Finally Larry becomes a BIG man!

Quest for Glory I.V: The Sunburn. You are the hero who has been requested to go find all these things needed to make sunscreen - avobenzone, octinoxate and oxybenzone! Make sure to stick to the shade and not get burned!

Quest for Glarry 1 - So you Want to be a Swinger? Due to a mix up at Sierra's marketing department, the "Leisure Suit Larry" and "Quest for Glory" games get mixed up, and the QfG Hero gets dropped into Lost Wages.

Help our Hero either find love or get back on the bus to Glorianna!

In the meantime:

Leisure Suit Glory 1. Leisure Suit Larry is dropped into Spielburg, where he goes looking for babes.

But Hilde the Centaur tells him to stop horsing around; Amelia the Healer tells him to bottle it; and the nameless Dryad tells him that his pick-up lines are wooden. In desparation he prays to Erana, but of course she's dead and tells him so.

After many dangers, Larry finally gets to see Elsa von Spielburg (or should I say, Elsa von Brigand). How does he get there? Don't ask me, because I don't know. But when he asks her for a date, she says she's out of dried fruit.

Larry's so depressed by the whole thing, he hits the bottle -- and drinks the whole thing -- and belches so loud and long that the shockwaves knock Elsa backwards, uncorks a spare Dispel Potion, knocks the contents over her, and changes her back into Elsa von Princess. How glorious, Larry! How wise! (How lucky!)

Larry makes it back to the Baron's castle because his leisure suit is so bright and reflective, it dazzles the forest monsters and lets him escape. Yay, it's Larry the Hero! And no-one asks what happened to Barnard, 'cos he was a jerk anyway.

Well LSL just tries to offend...

"Pussy cats"

Quest for Glarry 2: Trial by Foyer. Huzzah - Larry's made it to Shapeir! And he even found the Palace!

Your job, should you choose to accept it, is to help Larry get past the secretary's desk in the foyer, so he can see the boss. Good luck.

Police Quest: Internal Affairs - Hilarity ensues as Larry Laffer joins the Lytton PD. Then there's the sexual harassment lawsuit.

notbobsmith wrote: ↑Wed Nov 25, 2020 8:50 pm Police Quest: Internal Affairs - Hilarity ensues as Larry Laffer joins the Lytton PD. Then there's the sexual harassment lawsuit.

That's actually a good pun - with "Affairs" also meaning cheating spouses.

Hey, I created puns too? "Trial by Foyer" is a reference to "Trial by Fire", but also to Larry's trials and tribulations in getting past the king's secretary in the palace foyer.

Quest for Glarry 3: Wages of Bore. Oh dear, oh dear. Larry wants to save Tarna, but he is stuck in meetings with King Rajah because Rajah is a big, fat bore. Can you help Larry get away from boring meetings?

Rath Darkblade wrote: ↑Wed Nov 25, 2020 11:52 pm Hey, I created puns too? "Trial by Foyer" is a reference to "Trial by Fire", but also to Larry's trials and tribulations in getting past the king's secretary in the palace foyer.

Well I meant, a pun as in sexually noted to fit with what he had.

Police Quest with an affairs title which focuses on Larry. Like Larry trying to have an affair with a cop's wife.

Fair enough. *nods* Double meaning of the word "affair".

Now that I think about it, Larry's not the kind to have affairs, is he? He seems more like the kind of person who tries to pick up single women, not married ones.

Of course, there's nothing to stop him "overlooking" a wedding ring or its significance. "That's a nice ring" etc... then (much later) the husband walks in. "Whadda you doing fooling with my wife?" And so on.