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There's danger in this. Our reputation is ours to risk, our master's isn't. I don't think he would appreciate if we start throwing his name around while we are peddling miracle cures.

 

You said it yourself, her father is a Fellow so she is more likely to be believed. If anything, she'll forve us to help her in the trials, but nothing says we can't outsmart her and get a win for ourselves too. Will she tell the husband? Probably not, she'll like having us in her pocket for the competition and screwing the Madam will, quite frankly, probably make her insecure, what with the whole "I'm a goddess, you have no chance." Thing is, we can turn Jing's charms on her too, hormones make idiots of everyone and she's kinda attracted to him:

Hope that doesn't ruin our chances with Yunzi.
Edit:

excellent point, Yao will be pissed if we drag his name and professional integrity through the mud, he has a lot of pride in his work.

 

I also said there is another Fellow who does not want to endanger his membership. A daughter of a Fellow versus a Fellow, my bet is on the latter.

The question is, are you going to submit to the whims of the girl that threw a snake down your pants for a snide remark? It is not healthy. Oh, and what happens after the competition? Do you intend to win her over by then? You might want to start your relationship from a different position instead of her pocket, then.

You've GOT to be kidding. :/

We are not doing it on a regular basis. If anything, so far we had improved his reputation by trying to smooth things over with his patients. Time to tap into this reserve, I say.

Oh, and if you want to see Yao pissed, just you wait until the whole town learns of your private adventures.

Yeah, I'd rather be a government's dog than an old fugly hag's bitch. Hindsight is 20/20. I know.

 

Would a secure, mentally stable person follow us through the whole city at night to someone else's home, after poisoning and sicking her snake on us might I add, and then watch us screw a woman twice our age? I'm just sayin' that if she really does all of that (which she may not, it's not a fact she's even following us) then that will make her an insecure psycho stalker. Creepy, but we can use that.
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He doesn't care about that, at most he'll laugh. I'm pretty sure he's done it himself more than once.

 

Would a secure, mentally stable person poison someone in the middle of the street for hello? The girl is as barmy as they come. And also vindictive.

I am suspicious of her involvement with The Wudu Cult, but everyone knows I am paranoid at this point. Let's settle on the fact that her agenda is unknown to us, if she even has one.

 

Because the whole reason she's sleeping with us is to get back at him for fooling around with the staff? Seriously, catch a clue, bro. Women can't keep quiet about this kind of shit. They're creatures of emotion, not logic. Sooner or later it WILL come out.

And I'll laugh when it does.

edit: I love these new smilies btw.

Yes, that's how it works. She is too, if it makes you feel better.

 

Yeah, the probable presence of Qilin in addition to make everything else makes B unpalatable. A2 > C1.

 

He'll care when the resentful, dishonored and influental husband will drive us out of the city, and even if he doesn't, no married man and no daughter's father would open his door to his apprentice without supervising us 24/7. This isn't the kind of reputation he'd want to follow him either.

Let's make it official. Flopped to A2>C1.

 

Voting B1. I wanted it to be with Cao'er or Yunzi, not this old woman, but it will have to do.

 

Being a charlatan will anger him much more, though, if that's what you're worried about. Sorry, but I just don't see A working out well for us. B can cause problems too, C1 is just straight up burglary but it's the most palatable option (that can actually work) and the Miao girl will still have leverage on us no matter what we do, so might as well stop worrying about that.

 

Burglary might land us in prison. What's the worst that can happen in A2?

Why would A2 not work? So far we have concentrated on consequences, not on actual chances of working.

 

I'm flip-flopping to A2 (will update my post). I still think that A2 will hurt Yao's reputation and would be much happier if we could find a way to keep him out of this, even though that might not be possible at this point. What convinced me to switch is the possible consequences B would have with Cao'er. Crazy or not, she is the closest thing we have to a friend and ally, and I fear that if B becomes public it would hurt our relationship with her (she does after all seem to have something of a crush on us).

Damn, we really went unprepared into this. We should have cased the place and gathered some info on the old lady before we ever committed ourselves like that. Why the hell did we take laxatives with us? We should have let Cao'er whip us something more valuable instead. Like a very potent aphrodisiac or maybe something with completely opposite effect that the wife could use to control her husband's night-time excursions. Something like that would make for an excellent bargaining chip right now.

 

Eh, well... he made his reputation healing ailments, not selling beauty charms. At most, he will be known as the one who travels with a charlatan. His doctor reputation would not suffer... much.

 

"Eh well" is a bad approach to this. Yao is dead serious about his profession, nothing we do here will piss him off more than this. He won't really care for seduction or our removing from inventories or even being forced to leave, he doesn't care about mundane things. Disgracing his teachings will, though.

If we don't get caught, I doubt anyone will even check for the papers specifically once we're dismissed; it will take the husband a while to return from his trip, notice the theft, "Ooh, I wonder if my invitation is still in the desk. I'm late for the trials already, but let me make a random check just because."
It will take him even longer if the wife has reason to hide it with B, probably will pin it on her least favorite maid.

If the Miao girl wants to fuck us over, she can do no matter what we do, everything here is illegal, so might as well not worry about her involvment if it's going to happen.

 

You are entirely free to turn this attempt into a casing operation using the C options. Then again, hindsight is perfect. Bemoan your misfortune.

 

Dont care to much what choice here will be but if we will hit reputation of person able to kill in line of his duty we will be loyally screwed. Dont screw with killer physician.

 

Bros, consider that we have an astronomically high chance of being cockblocked even if we go for B. Treave hasn't exactly been doling out much of this tomfoolery in the past, why would he change that now? I'm pretty sure it'll be funny, though, so I'll vote B.

There's also getting bitten on the dick by a snake when the poison lady inevitably intervenes and requiring someone to suck out the poison, I guess.

 

Smashing Axe - B2
Azira - A2
TOME - B2
Zero Credibility - C2 > A2 >C1
ERYFKRAD - B2
Storyfag - B2
Grimgravy - C1
Kipeci - B1
Jester - B1
Esquilax - C1
Nevill - C1 > A2
Lambchop19 - B2
Tigranes - C1 > A2
The Brazilian Slaughter - B1
Baltika9 - C1 > B1
LWC1996 - A1
ScubaV - B2
Ifeex - B2
Nim - B2

Current tally:

A1 - 1
B1 - 3
C1 - 6

A2 - 1
B2 - 8
C2 - 0

 

A1

 

I can see the merits of Esquilax's argument that she doesn't want to feel used, but considering our year-long celibacy and endurance of only 5, I'm not sure we would outlast her sufficiently to sneak off with B1.

Voting B2.

 

Sounds like she's been frustrated for a long while too so it should be easy for us. It's better to di this right, even if what we're doing is wrong. I don't want Jing to become a heartless, soulless gigolo, bros, let us keep his passion and love of the female form burning!

Or why don't we put a spin on B2 that doesn't make her feel used: "But Mistress, I can't possibly return without the invitation, you see, or I would be punished for being a bad, bad boy. We don't want that, do we Mistress?"

 

Jing has a tongue, doesn't he? He can use it. Then again, bad luck might prevent us from getting hard. Jing will pull it out only to find he has a tumour growing out of his cock.



Nevill, I'm talking Jiang Du's wife. I believe that we're talking past one another. I thought that you were referring to Madame Jiang speaking up about the affair, but you were talking about the Miao girl witnessing the adultery and using it as blackmail against us. If so, blackmail is just as likely with us fucking her as it is with us conning her. I don't know what she's thinking, I don't know if she'll see it, and frankly, I think we can't really accurately speculate as to what she'd think. That being said, out of all our options, sleeping with her, then taking the invitation is the least likely to have the event traced back to us. She might resent her husband, but Lambchop19 is wrong in suggesting that this woman would admit to fucking some kid out of spite. I'm not sure what the laws against adultery are in this setting, but I doubt it's pretty. She's not going to rat, because she'll die if she rats. Conning her with A1 and stealing the invitation traces it back to us.

A2 I'm a bit iffy about. On the one hand, it might get traced back to us, but on the other, if she really believes that we've got a miracle cure, she could keep buying it. Which... would be even shittier than what we're about to do now. But still, if you want to do this quietly, B1 is the way to go. I just think it's incredibly naive to believe that we can fuck this woman and she'll just give us the invitation like that after we're done. She'll either want us to keep coming back or she'll tell us to get out of her house immediately because we made her feel cheap.

I'm even inclined to C1, but given our Sneak skill of 1 (3 with the Yinglang Step), an alert Madame Jiang, and a bunch of chambermaids running about, I'm not sure about our chances here. If we do pull it off, we would earn Chi Qilin's respect without any of the nastier consequences for sure. No question it's harder, though. Would love to see if you bros are down to discuss it or flop? Baltika9

 

Hey, I already have it on secondary and am open to a flop. I like B1 for the "practice" and pissing off Chi, and C1 is much more difficult, but I'm willing. It will definitely increase our skills in stealth if we pull it off, win Qiulin's respect instead of scorn/jealousy and keep us out of the precarious position of adultery (that's pretty sketchy and immoral, really).

And then there's Yunzi.
In fact, C1>B1.

Edit: The Brazilian Slaughter, don't give up hope bro, true love can prevail! We don't have to let the first cougar jump our bones!

 

As Madam Jiang's rough breathing grows more frenzied, you pull your lips and fingers away from her body. "Wh-why are you stopping?" she moans huskily. You give her an apologetic look. “I’m sorry, madam, but this is not right. My master sent me here to obtain the invite, but here I am losing myself in pleasure with a beautiful woman without a care for the mission he gave me.”

The woman rolls her eyes, sitting up in the bed without any care for modesty. You trace a finger over her flushed cheeks before pulling away guiltily. “No, I can’t, Madam Jiang.”

“Of course you can. If it’s the invite you’re worried about, I’ll just pass it to you afterwards so that you don’t get in trouble with your master,” she says hastily, pulling at your hand. She seems keen - desperate, even - for you to come back to bed. Of course, you had timed your withdrawal perfectly. It is all going according to plan.

“But… what about your husband?” you ask. “Would he not mind that it goes missing?”

“It’d serve him right,” she snaps. “Maybe he can learn to keep his own things safe. It'll be a good lesson and I'll find joy in seeing his sullen face when he finds that it is gone. Now, enough about that useless man, and let’s continue where we left off…”

...and that is what the Rogue would do.

edit: As for adultery punishment, it is different in the cosmopolitan cities. They'd just give her fingers some painful squeezing between bamboo sticks, perhaps some lashes, cut her hair, put her in the stockades. Men get more lashes and stockades too. In the rural areas, adulterers, both men and women, are put into pig cages and tossed in the river.

 

Fuck ups are hilarious to watch, but I would not vote on this sole reason.

I know who you were talking about, and I never mentioned her at all. I spoke only of Qilin. What would she blackmail us with if we just con Du's wife? Why is conning her worse than whoring out/comitting adultery? I don't get it.

Lambchop19 is right in that she tries to make a point to her husband - "if you are cheating on me, I can do so, too - now how does that feel like?" As treave said, it is unlikely that the husband would want to prosecute her, because his own indecent behavior would come up, too. But there is no keeping this skeleton in the closet, one way or the other.

I've already stated that I am ready to flop to anything but A1, B1 and B2.