ZooStuck

Originally posted on MSPA by Dragon Fogel.

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Lady Hopkins, confidence trickster who has just infiltrated the social event of the season in order to seduce and disarm Lord Huffington, then blackmail him into giving you the deeds to the farm house of a poor old woman (which you intend to sell on to an oil baron for big cash monies)

Yes, that's right. You are Lady Hopkins and you are at the highly-anticipated first demonstration of a hyped-up new game. You don't know why the hoi polloi are interested in video games; you suspect they aren't but they were told this was an exclusive event and of course they weren't going to turn that down.

Of course, Lady Hopkins is merely an alias. Your true identity is...

You are URTS QUAVAVAR, casino owner.

Urts Quavavar. You own a casino, although you have a reputation as a recluse. This is mostly to keep people from noticing when you disappear to engage in one of your "games". And you don't mean the computerized variety.

Your target for tonight is Lord Huffington. He is the owner of a large farm about an hour's drive from your casino; the old woman who lives on it is some distant relative of his. Distant enough that he doesn't feel he needs to share any of his immense wealth with her.

You have happened to learn, however, that this farm is rich in oil. Which means you'll soon be rich - well, richer - once you sell it off to some wealthy oilman. But first you need to get that deed from him.

He has no idea of its value, but he has enough sentiment for his poor old relative that he refuses to sell it. She has nowhere else to go, at least nowhere else that isn't one of his mansions and of course she'd be terribly uncomfortable there so really it's the farmhouse or the streets. Truly a man of boundless generosity.

Regardless, you believe that if you found the right compromising photographs, Lord Huffington would view the deed as a reasonable price to avoid their inconvenient release to the press. And the easiest way to find compromising photographs, you reason, is to make them yourself.

You've just managed to catch Lord Huffington's eye and he's headed towards you right now. This is the moment. You only need to seduce him and everything else will fall into place.

But how should you go about doing that?