See if there's any Perfectly Legitimate Individuals around town who need any work done.

>>1386

As fun as running around shouting "REPENT! REPENT FOR THE END IS NIGH!" is, it has already been established that it won't do us any good.

>>1388

Not really. None of them ever figured they would need to resort to adventuring.

>>1391

Maybe. Who was that the Oracle mentioned? Hmm...

>>1402

Oh yeah! We gotta find that Perfectly Legitimate Politician!

Ed Pastry 2009/06/23(Tue)21:03 No. 1430 ID: 35cea2
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The party arrives at the entrance of Town Hall

Ed Pastry 2009/06/23(Tue)21:05 No. 1431 ID: 35cea2
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They enter the building. It smells like wasted money and lies.

>>1431

Ask to see the Perfectly Legitimate Politician about some Perfectly Legitimate Business.

Advise him that the world will be ending shortly, and ask that he dedicate some money to prevent this, as preventing the destruction of the city is in his interests as a Perfectly Legitimate Politician, and the city is part of the world.

>>1443
I think even mentioning the apocalypse here is a good enough reason for them to just bounce us right the fuck out of town. From what I've understood in my tired and exhausted haze reading through this is that we know that the world is about to be destroyed by an elder god but have no idea how to stop it. We should LOOK for CLUES. Explain to the receptionist that we are astrologers and that we are tracking strange lunar activity. Ask him if there has been anything out of the ordinary lately?

Ed Pastry 2009/06/26(Fri)19:01 No. 1536 ID: 35cea2
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Receptionist: "May I help you sir?"
Simon: "Yes actually. You see we're astronomers studying strange lunar activity. We would like to talk to whoever is in charge here."
Receptionist: "Strange lunar activity. Right, whatever. The mayor's office is all the way down the right hallway, but he says he's 'busy' right now."
Simon: "Is there anyone else I can talk to?"
Receptionist: "Well, there is Tweed Tammany, who is going to run for mayor in the next election. Down the hall, fourth door to the left."
Simon: "Thank you."

Io whispers to Slater during the conversation:
"I wonder what help we could possibly get from a politician."
Slater: "I suppose we will just have to see Ma'am."

Visit Tweed Tammany.

Ed Pastry 2009/06/27(Sat)11:29 No. 1570 ID: 35cea2
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Simon knocks on Tweed's office door. A raspy bass voice answers.

"Come on in."

The party files into Tweed's office. A huge Clockwork sits at the desk, smoking a vile smelling cigar.

Tweed: "So, how can I help you?"
Io: "We were told that you can help us with our money problem."
Tweed: "Hmm... maybe. I'll let you know, though, that I don't hand out free money. You'd have to help me with a bit of a problem first."
Simon: "That's reasonable. What's the job?"
Tweed: "You see, I am running for mayor of this city because I care about it. I want to make Clockburgh prosperous. The current mayor, Chester Watergate, is just holding his position for his own personal gain."
Slater: "Oh dear, how terrible."
Tweed: "Yes. I need someone to prove that Watergate is a conniving bastard."
Simon: "How do you suggest we go about doing this?"
Tweed: "That's your job. But I suppose I can lend you this camera and recording device to help. So, you fellas up for it?"

>>1570

Agree to help him.

>>1570
Hmm. How expensive do the camera and the recorder look?

Ed Pastry 2009/06/27(Sat)19:38 No. 1577 ID: 35cea2
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>>1571

Simon: "Sure."
Tweed: "Alright then. Pleasure doing buisness with you."

They leave Tweed's office.

>>1573

Not very expensive at all.

>>1577

Take a peek in the window of the 'busy' mayor's office. Maybe he's screwing his secretary or something.

Ed Pastry 2009/06/27(Sat)20:25 No. 1579 ID: 35cea2
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They sneak by the receptionist's desk and go to the Mayor's office. Simon kneels over to look inside the keyhole.

Io: "So what's he doing?"
Simon: "Just regular Mayor stuff. Singing papers and such."
Io: "Oh."

Ed Pastry 2009/06/27(Sat)20:26 No. 1580 ID: 35cea2
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Simon: "Hahaha, I'm just kidding. He is actually fucking his secretary!"

Ed Pastry 2009/06/27(Sat)20:29 No. 1581 ID: 35cea2
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Simon: "Hot damn would you look at that!"
Io: "Oh gosh."
Slater: "Wait, that makes no sense! Clockworks don't have sex, none of us even feel sexual attraction at all!"
Simon: "No idea, but damn would you look at them go!"

Have Slater look through the keyhole and offer some rational explanation of what the goddamn is going on.

Totally called it.

Take pictures! And see if you can record any sound too from behind that door.

Maybe he's just murdering her.

Ed Pastry 2009/06/28(Sun)15:11 No. 1586 ID: 35cea2
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Slater bends over to look in the keyhole.

Slater: "Goodness! I've never seen any Clockworks do this before."

Simon: "It's a mystery we will solve later. Right now, it's PICTURE TIME!"
Io: "Hold on, doesn't this seem a little weird to you?"
Simon: "Yes."
Slater: "Very yes."
Io: "No, what I mean is, don't you think it is a pretty big coincidence that we stumble upon the mayor doing this RIGHT just after Tweed told us to spy on him."
Simon: "Well, what do you propose we do then?"

Barge in and demand an explanation for this foolishness.

>>1587
taking pictures

>>1587
Sounds like a plan, barge in and at the least see what they do.

Ed Pastry 2009/06/29(Mon)08:54 No. 1609 ID: 35cea2
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Simon barges into the room.

Simon: "Ha, gotcha Mr. Watergate!"

Ed Pastry 2009/06/29(Mon)08:56 No. 1610 ID: 35cea2
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It soon becomes evident that they have been tricked however. There was a small television displaying an edited clip of the Mayor engaging in debauchery.

Ed Pastry 2009/06/29(Mon)09:00 No. 1611 ID: 35cea2
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And the Mayor is unconscious.

Simon: "Well, I didn't expect that."
Io: "Ha, I knew something didn't seem right."

Slater looks at the sleeping Mayor
Slater: "It appears that Mr. Watergate drunk himself unconscious. There's old oil cans everwhere."

This looks picture worthy!

Wake up and explain the meaning of this folly.

>>1613
He manufactured a scandal because he's sick and tired of politics.

>>1611

Rifle through his desk while he's down for the count. Maybe there's something incriminating in there.

Take a few pictures. That way you can truthfully tell Tammany that you spied on him.

Then wake him up.

Ed Pastry 2009/06/29(Mon)17:03 No. 1652 ID: 35cea2
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Simon searches through the desks. Nothing interesting nor especially incriminating, just a few office supplies and a report that the Mayor had apparently doodled on.

Ed Pastry 2009/06/29(Mon)17:04 No. 1653 ID: 35cea2
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Simon decides that maybe this is some of the incriminating evidence that Tweed wanted. Io takes a few pictures.

Ed Pastry 2009/06/29(Mon)17:10 No. 1654 ID: 35cea2
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Simon: "Wakey wakey Mr. Watergate. We have got quite a few questions for you."
The Mayor groans a bit and promptly falls back to sleep. After some prodding he finally opens his eyes.
Watergate: "Urgh. What a night..."
Simon: "I'll say! Its past noon already. Anyways, we have a few questions for you, if you wouldn't mind answering them."
Watergate: "No I wouldn't. I'm having a killer hangover, so if you wouldn't mind talking to me... errghh."

It doesn't look like the Mayor will be willing talking with a pounding headache.

>>1654

Give him some oil. "Hair of the dog that bit you."

Ed Pastry 2009/06/29(Mon)21:30 No. 1665 ID: 35cea2
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Slater takes out the larger oil can he had in his inventory and refills one of the smaller oil cans. He then offers it to the Mayor.

Slater: "Here you go Sir, a little hair of the dog."

The Mayor pours the liquid into his, uh... chest.

Watergate: "Merciful Sculptor, this stuff is bloody awful! What the hell is it?!"
Slater: "This isn't actually drinking oil. We use it to grease door hinges."
Watergate: "Ergh. I will regret this later, but for now, I feel a bit better. Alright, now I believe one of you had some questions for me."

>>1665
show him the television

>>1665

Also ask him for money/potential job opportunities (for money).

Keep silent about your involvement with Tweed, for now.

Ed Pastry 2009/06/30(Tue)15:29 No. 1697 ID: 35cea2
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Simon: "First, I think you should see this."

Simon walks over and and picks up the televison to show it to the Mayor.

Simon: "We found this behind the keyhole in your door."
Watergate: "What the hell? Is that supposed to be me? What a horrible edit, that guy doesn't even look like me, and everyone know Clockworks don't feel sex anyways."
Simon: "We think someone is trying to get you removed from your office."
Watergate: "It must be Tweed! The cheating bastard just wants to be the mayor for his own greedy purposes."
Simon: "What a shame."
Watergate: "I have to find out a way to show everyone what a rotten scumbag that guy is!"
Simon: "Maybe we can help you with that. You see, we are broke and we were hoping to get some work from you."
Watergate: "Hmm. Maybe you could do something for me. Spy on him for and see if you can find proof he is doing something illegal."
Simon: "Any tips?"
Watergate: "He probably has some financial reports and such inside his desk. I bet if I search through them I can find evidence of some illegal activity there."
Simon: "Alright, sounds good."

>>1697

Demand the top hat for Slater also.

Say something along the lines of:

"For the record, we have evidence that a terrible disaster will hit in thirty days. It's a shame the only way to fund an expedition to try and stop it is by doing jobs around town..."

What a jerk.

We need to figure out how to betray BOTH of these guys for profit.

Ed Pastry 2009/07/01(Wed)20:49 No. 1998 ID: 35cea2
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(repostan because I am a moron)

Simon: "Can we get the top hat as a reward also?"
Watergate: "No, this is an ancient hat, passed down for generations in my family. It is absolutely priceless!"
Simon: "Really?"
Watergate: "Of course not! It's my hat though and I'm keeping it."
Simon: "Fine. I suppose we better get to work then. It's a shame that we have to resort to odd jobs when the entire world is in peril."
Watergate: "I don't care. Just do your job."

>>1996
>>1998

Hmm... We should find a way to lure Tweed out of his office, and find those incriminative documents. Then we sell the pictures of the Mayor drunk to Tweed and the documents to the Mayor.

Ed Pastry 2009/07/05(Sun)14:00 No. 2468 ID: 35cea2
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The End is temporarily discontinued. It will resume at some point in the future. Maybe.

At this time I'd like to thank the people who bothered posting suggestions in this Quest. Stay awesome, guys.

Suggestion 2009/07/05(Sun)14:25 No. 2483 ID: e92f50
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>>2468

Awww, no, man. Why?

>>2483

Simply put: Lack of confidence in my own abilities.

But worry not, I suspect I will cease brooding and wallowing in self-pity some time later. Maybe.

>>2489
NOOO!

Simon's oblivious nature and Slater's dry wit will be missed.