Amorous Goods

[jaF0]

Prologue:

A lifelong collector of goods and objects from far and wide has passed and left the entire collection and the business built around them to the only remaining relative, a niece on a career path of her own. Vikki has taken on the task of Administering the estate and liquidating the business and collection. However, she has come to find out that many of the goods have been cursed or enchanted with amorous powers that affect those who encounter them. She, her cousin and another are about to embark on a journey they may be unprepared to handle. These are the stories of some of those encounters with the Amorous Goods.​

Thoughts? Edits?

 

[jaF0]

I like this story idea. It would be worthwhile to flesh out the concept of the store, and probably to detach it from the TV show explicitly.

I'm thinking one of the old mansions that were built in most towns by the steel magnates, railroad tycoons, oil or lumber barons. One of the rooms on the main floor is now the store, perhaps the ballroom or library that contains an ancient book collection which is for sale and could be some of the objects. Books could about the occult or witchcraft and the customers could discover certain spells really work.


Also, Vikki find she needs money and begins renting the rooms as an Inn or B&B. The customers who stay in the rooms find them haunted. Having been a former bordello makes the experiences along those lines.

And the dungeon in the basement ....

It ties in with something I've been working on because I've been working on a magic item/mind control story concept involving a psychotherapist who begins using an object on his patients to enable hypnosis for the purpose of treating them for sexual disorders and hangups, but of course unexpected consequences ensue and the therapist crosses the line ethically. He could buy the object from the store.

Maybe the quintessential couch that was used for exactly that same purpose. Perhaps one of the rooms had been rented out to the town therapist or psychologist who used it for impure purposes.

 

[jaF0]

Announcement thread posted in AH that Laurel should be pinning and posting on the story side:

https://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?p=92584127#post92584127

 

[SimonDoom]

I'm thinking one of the old mansions that were built in most towns by the steel magnates, railroad tycoons, oil or lumber barons. One of the rooms on the main floor is now the store, perhaps the ballroom or library that contains an ancient book collection which is for sale and could be some of the objects. Books could about the occult or witchcraft and the customers could discover certain spells really work.


Also, Vikki find she needs money and begins renting the rooms as an Inn or B&B. The customers who stay in the rooms find them haunted. Having been a former bordello makes the experiences along those lines.

And the dungeon in the basement ....




Maybe the quintessential couch that was used for exactly that same purpose. Perhaps one of the rooms had been rented out to the town therapist or psychologist who used it for impure purposes.

Excellent ideas, and as to the last paragraph it's almost like you read my mind!

The idea of having an old mansion double as the store is good because it leaves open the idea that there are rooms and wings of the mansion that can be explored later in later stories. Not everything has to be revealed at once. This concept provides flexibility for the future, which is always good if you want to start a series or have multiple authors contribute.

And concerning the couch -- my original concept is that the therapist has a friend who unloads the magic chair/couch on him because the friend has gotten in ethical trouble and will soon have his license taken away. So he dumps it on the friend, tells him how to use it, and then takes off. Soon our hero begins using it and starts getting into the same ethical issues that dogged his friend. But I could see him getting it at a store as well.

 

[MadameSarcasm]

This'll be fun to read!

 

[HarryHill]

He stopped a moment to appreciate the aesthetics of the old place; tables were scattered about the wide railed porch that must be a shady haven in summer with some book never read while sipping a cool drink.

A door opened and foot steps clattered across the porch; a woman in uniform came running down the stairs toward him calling desperately, "David! David!"

She went straight to him kissing deeply, then to knees for his zipper and a very quick oral exhibition but no less proficient . She looked up at his face he noticed the name tag 'Becky'.

"Goodbye David." And was away, running down the street. He looked after, tucking in and while calling.

"Goodbye, nice to meet you, thanks! And it's Harry." He checked the address once more and began climbing the steps.

 

[JaxRhapsody]

Sounds like a fun idea. There would need to be some concrete things and a lil bit of world building to keep everybodies stuff cannon, by the way you describe it. I might already have an idea... kinda stolen from the plot of Shallow Hal.

 

[AlinaX]

The mansion had not always been a house of ill repute. Indeed, its architecture was a hotchpotch of styles, the eighteenth century mansion of George MacArthur, who had made his fortune in tea, blended with the late nineteenth century renovations and extensions of Charles MacArthur, who through extravagance and wild adventures squandered much of his family's fortune. The last MacArthur, James, invested in molasses import, but lost heavily during the war in Europe, and the 1919 disaster was the final straw.

The mansion was sold, but for a fraction of its worth. When built, the mansion had been remote and had commanded a view across the city, but the city had grown to encompass and intrude upon the mansion's grounds, and the view it commanded in the early twentieth century was of the flourishing red light district. It was with a degree of inevitability that the mansion found new life as a brothel, and one that had by-and-large avoided major scandal and weathered numerous crackdowns on the sex work industry by the city and government.

 

[jaF0]

The challenge announcement on the Admin thread current says:

challenge date: stories submitted & posted October 1-31st, final anthology list posted on November 1st​

That was done to coincide with the Halloween contest if authors wanted to enter.

I thinking of having that restriction removed so some can start submitting stories as soon as they wish, but only stories submitted during October would be eligible for the Halloween contest.

Thoughts?

 

[SisterJezabel]

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Not sure why this made me think of this comp...

 

[bettiezyx]

The challenge announcement on the Admin thread current says:

challenge date: stories submitted & posted October 1-31st, final anthology list posted on November 1st​

That was done to coincide with the Halloween contest if authors wanted to enter.

I thinking of having that restriction removed so some can start submitting stories as soon as they wish, but only stories submitted during October would be eligible for the Halloween contest.

Thoughts?

Sure, time frame looks good, can't tell how the prompt is evolving, but that's fine.

 

[vanmyers86]

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Not sure why this made me think of this comp...

Love this! Thanks for the laugh.

 

[jaF0]

Sure, time frame looks good, can't tell how the prompt is evolving, but that's fine.

Are you saying you think it should be October only?


I was wondering if opening it earlier would help build interest and let authors test the waters, so to speak.

 

[jonnydough]

Amorous Good

My question is how tied to the descriptions you posted later of Vikki and Dylan? Being fifteen pages in Vikki is nothing like what you described and Dylan is nowhere. If you are tied to that I respect it. I went with what was posted earlier.

No mansions involved etc. My premise is she is a lost descendant of Vincent Price and inherits the shop from a sister of his that is far removed from Price family.

If it needs to add up all the characters you are coming up with, mansions etc. let me know. I've stopped the story for now and I had rather enjoyed my attempt till I see what all is required.

Characters:

Again, completely at the discretion of the author's creativity. Develop your own characters and the events that befall them after acquiring the item. Perhaps the object affects the character. Perhaps the character finds out the object can affect others and uses it accordingly. Always be mindful of Literotica rules regarding non-consent, mind control, age and so on.

It is NOT necessary to focus on any of the three main characters or the business itself. It IS necessary to feature at least one of them in some way, even if only in cameo appearances simple to maintain continuity with the theme. Simply discussing that your character visited the business to acquire the item and interacted with one or more of the main characters would suffice.


You may also add some base material to the description of the business and the backstory of how this all came to be. A flashback or pre-quel may be an idea.

 

[jaF0]

My question is how tied to the descriptions you posted later of Vikki and Dylan? Being ten pages in Vikki is nothing like what you described and Dylan is nowhere. If you are tied to that I respect it.

As with a TV or book series, the main characters probably shouldn't change a great deal to maintain consistency across all submitted stories by multiple authors. Think Nancy Drew, Mike Hammer, James Bond, Lenny Briscoe or Jack McCoy. You want the readers to be able to associate the characters as they read different stories. But again, they can be just the anchors rather than the focus. The goal here is for readers to be able to read any number of these stories and relate to the characters as if they were watching a TV series.


That's why I left the descriptions a bit vague though since we're not all in the same room writing together. This allows some room for the authors to explore a bit.

If you develop any of the main characters further, you may want to put some notes about that here for others to pick up on to maintain consistency.

 

[jonnydough]

I will gladly look forward to everyone else's stories when they come out. I think I will continue mine without Amorous Goods as the place of ill gotten booty or ill booten gotty.

As with a TV or book series, the main characters probably shouldn't change a great deal to maintain consistency across all submitted stories by multiple authors. Think Nancy Drew, Mike Hammer or James Bond. You want the readers to be able to associate the characters as they read different stories. But again, they can be just the anchors rather than the focus.


That's why I left the descriptions a bit vague though since we're not all in the same room writing together. This allows some room for the authors to explore a bit.

If you develop any of the main characters further, you may want to put some notes about that here for others to pick up on to maintain consistency.

 

[PMDlite]

I'd like somebody to create the character of the older relative who helps Vikki and Dylan.

The Wiki portrays the original character as:

Jack Marshak is a former stage magician and an expert in the occult. He has travelled all over the world and he has diverse skills including bartending , picking locks, ornamental metalwork, and forgery. He has a great many peculiar old friends. In so far as the trio has a leader, he is it; the cousins often try to work without him but have to turn to him for aid and moral support.

Our name would be something like Marcus or Marshall or maybe something unusual or mystical. Age should be 50s or 60s to allow for life experiences and implied wisdom.

Also note that I haven't done physical descriptions, height, weight, hair color, eye color, measurements, race, etc. I like to leave that open for the reader to interpret.

Vikki is obviously female and Dylan male, but this third, older, wiser character could be female, maybe even with a Wiccan type feeling to pick up on the Occultist flavor of the male character in the series.

For the older character, might I suggest the name "Oggbashan" - an homage to a senior member of Literotica who seems omnipotent and omnipresent?


Not that he drives an Omni...I think it might be a LeBaron...

 

[PoisonPen33]

As an FYI, I've been kind of working on a story (stories) in the same vein - aunt dies, niece inherits the store (Morts Précieuses, aka Precious Deaths, ala Little Deaths) while her fiancee discovers a whole trove of spellbooks and becomes a sort of traveling wizard.

I don't want you all to think I'm ripping you off should it ever get published! This is a very neat idea and I might throw something in should I find the time...

As for a current contribution, you should have the older gentleman named "Marcus Bashan." An homage without being too on the nose.

 

[jaF0]

The official announcement is up on the Story side: https://www.literotica.com/s/coming-soon-amorous-goods-a-lit-anthology-series

 

[BelleCanzuto]

I like the idea of an old mansion. I'll have to go back to find the description of Vikki as proprietor.

May I suggest a room full of jewelry, some costume, some precious gems, some hard to tell which. Toward the front of the place, or maybe off a hallway, but with big windows to catch the glitter of the metal and gems.

My idea has a woman picking up a necklace which unleashes [something... spoilers, doctor, spoliers]. And maybe a male character with some complimentary cufflinks.

Maybe the jewelry is odds and ends of the previous generations of the mansion's owners. Scattered haphazardly on mismatched end tables, dressers, and vanities in various stages of disrepair. Cluttered (I've been imagining the whole store as cluttered), and in no discernable order.

You don't look for the items in the store so much as the items draw you to them.

 

[Rustyoznail]

It's an interesting idea jaF0. Congrats for setting it up.

It raised an idea - sort of a mix between a reverse "Groundhog Day" and other time travel stories.

There's a watch - to one person to looks like a 70's digital Timex, others a pocket watch, to someone else a 1950's Tudor.

They buy the watch and when they adjust the time they find themselves in the era the watch was made, where the person they have desired lives. They go through the usual Hollywood "meet, date, fuck" but after bouncing between time periods the watch owner finds they are totally sick of having sex with this person, and whatever they do in the past doesn't matter. They wind up fucking the same fucking person time after time.

They take the watch back to the store and leave it on the counter...

I don't know if I'll get around to writing it, but if anyone want's to run with it, feel free.

Cheers

 

[OldHideki]

Perhaps a rental?

I was wondering about having Vikky rent the items. That way, if someone liked the item, it could be used in a second story, with possibly a different outcome.

My idea for an item is one that deals with karma, and possibly revealing the inner self. My first thought was a story in Loving Wives, where powe I r over sex exposes the wife’s dark side. The husband gets to see what his life would be, if he stays married to what he thought was a sweet wife.

The artifact would be set up so that it could have good and bad results, depending on the nature of the couple using it, so it could have several stories from it.

So, can Vikky rent the items?

 

[jaF0]

Sure, why not?

 

[Biggalute]

Love the concept

Great idea for an anthology, lots of scope for authors imaginations to run free.
Looking forward to sitting down and seeing where i end up.

 

[bettiezyx]

Opened the draft to see if there were any issues. Don't forget to follow the directions that the title starts with "Amorous Goods: ". This is going to significantly shorten the title of your piece.

Also don't forget to add the note at the end per directions (https://www.literotica.com/s/coming-soon-amorous-goods-a-lit-anthology-series):
"You must include the phrase "AMOROUS GOODS" in the "Notes to Admin" field so that Lit can find the stories and add them to the challenge."