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  5940 on *ideas (#18356)                       // Fri Jan 21 12:48:50 2011 PST
  Would you like a glass of water, sir?         // From: Stabs
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  A shop opens somewhere in Corpclave that specializes in the renting out of
    butlers. These butlers could be human or robot, with very butler names such
    as Jeeves, Alfred, Butler, and ROBOBUTLER 20XX. With names like these, you
    can only expect the best!

  They come with a variety of cool butler features such as pouring you a cold
    glass of water after a long day of griefing, telling you that someone
    knocked on the door earlier but then they left without breaking in because
    your butler had the sense to be clutching a shotgun or a robot buzzsaw
    thing and yelling 'nobody is home', or finding you a very fancy hat in your
    pile of stolen goods that you forgot you owned because butlers are very
    clean and organized and they undoubtedly understand the value of a fancy
    hat.

  You would not be able to use a single payment to rent a butler, since they're
    not really indebted to you for life or anything and it defeats the purpose
    of the word 'rent'. They should cost like $10,000 a month or something,
    because they're butlers. Also if you murder them you should not be able to
    rent a butler for a while. The shop keeps track of their rented-out
    butlers, since robots with manners are hard to build and people with
    butler-like mannerisms are hard to come by, let alone train with a varying
    series of brutal electroshock methods.

  Anyway yeah. Their primary use, in a nutshell, would be sitting in your house
    and wasting your money, which are two things that a lot of people like
    doing. This is a fact. Other uses have been mentioned, like getting you
    water, picking things up around your house, and yelling at people knocking
    on your door, much like that guy does for 77Jack.

  Butlers own.

  > jacktracks   So if I knocked on your door, your extremely
    Jan 21 2011    expensive toy butler would TELL me that you
                   weren't home?  I like the idea a lot, but maybe
                   the butler should yell stuff that makes it seem
                   like you ARE at home, so people who want to steal
                   from you get all confused.
  > jacktracks   also, they should be ridable
    Jan 21 2011
  > Stabs        Oh yeah. Having the butler immediately inform
    Jan 21 2011    someone that you're not home seems bad. Perhaps
                   they could say something like "Master, someone is
                   at the door!" or "The resident of this home is
                   occupied at the moment!", or some other
                   indeterminate comment about your current
                   location-y thing.
  > Stabs        changed type: World
    Jan 21 2011
  > Malefactor   So yessed, Anyway they should page you if someone
    Jan 21 2011    knocks on your door, Players should also have
                   full acess to their inventories so they can carry
                   your greifing shotguns and hats and they should
                   clean you (unless you tell them not too) and also
                   clean rooms owned by you.
  > Stabs        I like that bit about them cleaning you.
    Jan 21 2011
  > Malefactor   This is one of the reasons I have brainslug :P
    Jan 21 2011
  > Morning_Glory ...so it would be exactly like modding but
    Jan 25 2011    requiring more effort for like the same amount of
                   results
  > Morning_Glory goddamn i am just terrible at commenting
    Jan 25 2011
  > Dr.Nanie     You should also be able to ask them to buy you
    Mar 22 2011    shit. In the form of like, <butler> <object>
                   <location> Jeebs, go buy me a Baseball Bat from
                   Ammunation.
  > Dr.Nanie     And as for them saying things, you should be able
    Mar 22 2011    to program them to say certain lines.
  > Jed          changed status: Possible
    May 24 2011
  > Jed          merged into 4169
    May 25 2011
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