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Pearl Replacement Idea: Incriminating Holotapes

jexsamxjexsamx Member Posts: 2,803 Arc User
edited May 2015 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
So the Pearls are being retired. What should the currency taking their place be called?

Well, friends, I have a thought on that! Why not replace them with "Incriminating Holotapes"? Turns out someone saw you duck into that cave with that Rigelian hooker. And taped it - I mean, seeing a renowned member of a major galactic power makes you one hell of a target! And further, being an enterprising blackmailer, he made about a thousand copies. He forgets how many exactly. But the point is, if you run the event mission repeatedly and suffer for his amusement, he'll give them back to you. Suffer enough and he'll even throw in a ship!
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  • qziqzaqziqza Member Posts: 1,044 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    this made me lol so hard.. good way to start the day, but erm, she was talaxian not rigelian

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  • apsciliaraapsciliara Member Posts: 247 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    I have a better idea. Point a gun at the ****er's head until he gives those tapes back.
  • voivodjevoivodje Member Posts: 436 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    What if he's a photonic criminal?
    Think again...
  • oldravenman3025oldravenman3025 Member Posts: 1,892 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    jexsamx wrote: »
    So the Pearls are being retired. What should the currency taking their place be called?

    Well, friends, I have a thought on that! Why not replace them with "Incriminating Holotapes"? Turns out someone saw you duck into that cave with that Rigelian hooker. And taped it - I mean, seeing a renowned member of a major galactic power makes you one hell of a target! And further, being an enterprising blackmailer, he made about a thousand copies. He forgets how many exactly. But the point is, if you run the event mission repeatedly and suffer for his amusement, he'll give them back to you. Suffer enough and he'll even throw in a ship!




    For some strange, twisted reason I absolutely love this idea. :D:P



    I can see it now....



    "You see, I have these recordings of you sneaking into the caves at night, with this creepy Pavel dude. And you happened to be married into a powerful family on Betazed. Now, I can make this go away....with a little.. *ahem*... "incentive" from your Bank of Bolus account, if you know what I mean....*wink* *wink* *nudge* *nudge*"



    Blackmail Trek Online. LOL. :D
  • deaftravis05deaftravis05 Member Posts: 4,885 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    this would be ABSOLUTELY perfect!
  • aelfwin1aelfwin1 Member Posts: 2,896 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    But ... didn't we already have "Incriminating Holotapes" last summer ?








    ... we know what you did in that cave on Risa ... , and with a helpless Tribble no less ...
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  • saurializardsaurializard Member Posts: 4,405 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    While it'd be hilarious, it's not really meaningful this year because we face total annihilation by the Iconian invasion force and your character is the special snowflake who's gonna save everyone.

    So "relieving the pressure" in an unfitting way for an officer and having it taped doesn't hold up against the risk of a gateway opening in your bridge and having M'Tara vaporising you because she's getting annoyed by you, meddling children... and that mangy, cuddly, friendly epohn!

    Plus, with all your crew has gone through and survived, it'd be like trying to blackmail Batman.Good luck!
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  • jexsamxjexsamx Member Posts: 2,803 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    I'm only half joking with this proposal. Unlike the Winter Event, whose currency changes will be easy to explain by virtue of the whim of Q, it'll be thematically more difficult to come up with new Risa-themed currencies on a yearly basis. My idea is amusing and harmless and doesn't contain anything suggestive that STO doesn't do already what with that T-rated strip club on Nimbus and those "companions" dancing on Qo'noS.

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  • phalanx01phalanx01 Member Posts: 360 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    jexsamx wrote: »
    So the Pearls are being retired. What should the currency taking their place be called?

    Well, friends, I have a thought on that! Why not replace them with "Incriminating Holotapes"? Turns out someone saw you duck into that cave with that Rigelian hooker. And taped it - I mean, seeing a renowned member of a major galactic power makes you one hell of a target! And further, being an enterprising blackmailer, he made about a thousand copies. He forgets how many exactly. But the point is, if you run the event mission repeatedly and suffer for his amusement, he'll give them back to you. Suffer enough and he'll even throw in a ship!

    Coming in June, Paparazzi Risa! Look for your copy of "Galactic Newsweek" for the latest gossip from Risa, now complete with holopictures!

    Oh... I'd love to see that one :P
  • berginsbergins Member Posts: 3,453 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    saurializard wrote: »
    While it'd be hilarious, it's not really meaningful this year because we face total annihilation by the Iconian invasion force and your character is the special snowflake who's gonna save everyone.

    For that matter, since we are saving the Galaxy and all that, shouldn't they be giving us a fleet of shiny new ships Just Because?

    No, if there is to be blackmail involved, we are the ones collecting incriminating tapes on Risian Officials so that they will give us their newest ship. Anything to save the Galaxy, right?
    "Logic is a little tweeting bird chirping in a meadow. Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell BAD." - Spock
  • geminisierrageminisierra Member Posts: 180 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    jexsamx wrote: »
    it'll be thematically more difficult to come up with new Risa-themed currencies on a yearly basis.

    OH I don't know, I think there's all kinds of things...
    - pearls
    - sea shells
    - coconuts
    - palm fronds
    - monkey toes
    - monkey tails
    - parrot feathers
    - bikini strings
    - sand pails
    - sand shovels

    I like the ides of holosuite incriminating evidence, but I'd make it more like "Turns out someone saw you duck into that <cave/room/pier shack/boat> with ...", leaving the end off to "protect" the kiddies out there and the leave it to our imagination...
  • bobbydazlersbobbydazlers Member Posts: 4,534 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    jexsamx wrote: »
    So the Pearls are being retired. What should the currency taking their place be called?

    Well, friends, I have a thought on that! Why not replace them with "Incriminating Holotapes"? Turns out someone saw you duck into that cave with that Rigelian hooker. And taped it - I mean, seeing a renowned member of a major galactic power makes you one hell of a target! And further, being an enterprising blackmailer, he made about a thousand copies. He forgets how many exactly. But the point is, if you run the event mission repeatedly and suffer for his amusement, he'll give them back to you. Suffer enough and he'll even throw in a ship!

    I think its more likely to be something simple with not too much of a backstory, perhaps beads or gems or golden seashells, besides if anyone had some Incriminating Holotapes of me with a Rigelian hooker I might want to get my hands on them but I sure would not be trading them in even for a new starship.

    When I think about everything we've been through together,

    maybe it's not the destination that matters, maybe it's the journey,

     and if that journey takes a little longer,

    so we can do something we all believe in,

     I can't think of any place I'd rather be or any people I'd rather be with.

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