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Tawmis wrote: ↑Wed Mar 17, 2021 8:49 pm

Rath Darkblade wrote: ↑Wed Mar 17, 2021 7:08 pm How does the pimp know that it was Larry who took the Spanish Fly?
Will the KGB borrow some umbrellas from the Bulgarians?
Codename: Icecube. Johnny Westland decides to quit the navy and become a rapper. His latest hit, "Check Yo Sub", becomes a massive hit among sailors.

The prostitute sees him literally climb out the window to get it. She's gonna be mad that she doesn't have her supply!

Er, I beg your pardon: the prostitute only sees Larry climb out the window to the fire escape. She doesn't know what he does next, even if we do.

We also don't know that the Spanish Fly belongs to the pimp. It could be someone next door that we know nothing about.

Tawmis wrote: ↑Wed Mar 17, 2021 8:49 pmThe Codename: Icecube is epic!

I thought you were going to say you need to learn how to rap in order to control the sub.

Maybe. But if you do, how do you translate that into adventure-game mechanics?

Maybe you would have to type something like "Check yo sub; the gauge pressure an' torpedoes, yo" for the sailors to do these things, and they'd help you to control the sub. It'd be a puzzle where you have to find the right commands for the sailors.

Rath Darkblade wrote: ↑Thu Mar 18, 2021 8:21 am Er, I beg your pardon: the prostitute only sees Larry climb out the window to the fire escape. She doesn't know what he does next, even if we do.
We also don't know that the Spanish Fly belongs to the pimp. It could be someone next door that we know nothing about.

No, I bet your pardon. The prostitute is on her bed when Larry climbs out and uses a hammer to smash the window. Pretty sure she knows who broke the window.
And naturally we don't know if that's the Pimp's room - but the whole point of this thread is making up fictional games.
So - in that one - it's he pimp's room.

OK. The prostitute is on her bed, I agree. But when Larry breaks the window, he is already outside on the fire escape, tied to it with the rope, and in the dark. Also, he is leaning away from the window.

So unless the prostitute has come up to her window, poked her head out, and yelled "What da *BLEEP!* are you doing?! Get away from that, you *BLEEPER!!!*" (or something similar, then she can't see Larry.

OK, since it's a fictional game, the pimp can dust for prints on the glass and get Larry's prints ... and then he can dust the hooker's bedpost and get Larry's prints ... and compare them ... and say "Aha! The one who stole my Spanish Fly is also that loser in a white suit who came in here before! Now I'll track him down with my PimpMobile!"

Cue music. Na na na na na na na na, PimpMan!!! And his fellow assistant, Sobbin (aka the hooker, who's crying! "Where my Spanish Fly?!")

Eventually they find the evildoer in the white suit! But Larry the Loser loses 'em in a languid lovable love-seat and locks 'em in the loo, Lawd ha' mercy!

But they bust out of the loo and lure Larry into a lurid loathsome lasso, which they laboriously lock on his lousy limp legs!

Can Larry escape our Gruesome Twosome, the Horrible Harridan Hooker and her Poisonous Putrid Pimp? Find out next time, Same Pimp Time, Same Pimp Channel ...

(Sorry)

Rath Darkblade wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 1:49 am OK. The prostitute is on her bed, I agree. But when Larry breaks the window, he is already outside on the fire escape, tied to it with the rope, and in the dark. Also, he is leaning away from the window.
So unless the prostitute has come up to her window, poked her head out, and yelled "What da *BLEEP!* are you doing?! Get away from that, you *BLEEPER!!!*" (or something similar, then she can't see Larry.

Have you ever heard glass shatter? It's not a quiet thing.
Larry being outside her window (which is OPEN) when he ties the rope and uses a hammer to break the other person's window is probably easily heard by the lady of the night.
Same reason why you can be upstairs, and here someone break your window downstairs in a two story house. (Speak from experience)

Oops! That makes sense. Sorry. *blush*

Someone once broke one of the windows on my car while I was upstairs. I didn't hear anything throughout, but they didn't even steal anything ... GRR. Just broke it to make a point, I guess? Not happy, I was.

Hope you enjoyed my little Batman riff on LSL!

EmoQuest: Nobody cares about or understands this game! I hate you! Just leave me alone!

Okay, "emo" is a little bit dated but...

MemeQuest. Gotta find 'em all on google! Where are my cat memes? And dog memes? And horse memes? And ...

The most pointless game ever.

Rath Darkblade wrote: ↑Wed Mar 17, 2021 7:08 pm Codename: Icecube. Johnny Westland decides to quit the navy and become a rapper. His latest hit, "Check Yo Sub", becomes a massive hit among sailors.

notbobsmith wrote: ↑Sat Mar 20, 2021 5:36 pm EmoQuest: Nobody cares about or understands this game! I hate you! Just leave me alone!

I love these!

Romancing the Porcelain Throne: King Graham nurses a massive hangover after overindulging on mulled mead, which is the only way Cedric becomes tolerable.

The Perils of Pauline: Sierra produced tie-in game for the 1947 Betty Hutton classic.

U-Haul’s Revenge: Orange moving vehicles become sentient and seek vengeance on careless drivers.

THE MASK of Eternity: Same game, but starring Jim Carrey as Connor.

Loft p0rn Adventure - You're a guy named, uh, Barry. Barry ... uh, Baffer. And you're in Lost Wages - I mean, you've lost your wages... and you need to score... with a woman... at the top of this loft... totally unique game... totally...

P.C.'s Quest For Wires: You're a caveman, building the first PC. Super exciting stuff.

Fix Up Mother Goose: She was mixed up, not you gotta fix'er up.

Man Hunter: You're a woman who needs a man. Because women can't do anything without a man. Sure to sell MILLIONS! Right? No?

Oh, dear. If Sierra released these (especially that last one), I think they'd collapse overnight. Right?

Gary Gaffer in the Land of Lighting: You are a gaffer, i.e. chief electrician on a film crew. Your job? To execute the lighting plan for the production! But some rats have nibbled your cables, and some careless person rested a heavy weight on another cable and squashed it, and ... etc., etc...

Y'know, this might actually work if it wasn't for LSL ...

King's Quest: The Heir Stops Buck: A medieval deer hunting game set in Daventry featuring Prince Alexander.

Would that be like Sierra's game about hunting big game?

King's Quest Whatever-number-it-is: Hair Today, Gone To Hades! Oh, dear. King Graham has been cursed by a ... cow?! Seriously? A cow? But it's no ordinary cow, but a DEMON cow! Which, of course, makes all the difference.

*cuts away to the cow (without horns, but with a horned helmet) for her to do an utterly terrifying (but utterly silly) MOO!-ha-ha-ha-ha*

O... K... a cow. Fine. The cow is tired of waiting for Graham to milk her, so she curses him thus-wise:

Because thy bovine thou neglect,
On you a curse I resurrect!
Although your head now hast its hair,
Tomorrow it will be "down there"!
('Tis Hades that your hair will greet,
And not the space between your feet).
Thy head will be completely bare,
unless thou Hades now will dare!
Although my threat you now pooh-pooh,
Tomorrow you'll be sorry. MOO!

So now, because of the -- um -- Curse of the Cow, King Graham lost all his beautiful hair! Can you help him go down to Hades and get it back?! Or is he cursed to be both bald and bold?

(We're really milking it, folks ... and that's no bull)

notbobsmith wrote: ↑Sat Mar 27, 2021 11:31 am King's Quest: The Heir Stops Buck: A medieval deer hunting game set in Daventry featuring Prince Alexander.

Your titles are always genius!

King's Quest: The Phantom, Dennis. Alexander and Cassima's castle is haunted by a scaaary ghost called Dennis. (He doesn't need a slingshot to be a menace). Can they help him find his eternal rest?