A special pole

[Strangebuddy]

Guy gets his girlfriend a stripper pole as a gift. She’s been admiring other women who use them for workouts so he thinks she’ll like it. But money is tight so he decides to get one used. He goes on Craigslist and finds one. Seller says they bought it years ago and never assembled it. Guy takes it home, assembles it...and then girlfriend texts him: she’s breaking up with him.


Guy is dejected and puts on some music, when of all the god damn times, he gets a knock on his door from a female officer. Officer is harassing him like normal when she spies the pole and her eyes suddenly glaze over and she pushes past him to get on it. She starts stripping and guy sits down and watches, unable to take his eyes off of her. When she’s completely naked, she then crawls over to him and asks guy what he wants, so he fucks her right there. After they finish, officer is confused and tells him to keep quiet about it, promising to not harass him again.

Guy is still horribly confused but hungry so he orders delivery. The driver arrives late, and is a real bitch to him. Remembering what happened before, he makes sure she sees the pole, which she laughs at Jim’s about...he switches on some music and suddenly delivery driver rushes over and starts working the pole like crazy....and he goes over to the couch, mesmerized.

Guy eventually figures out that there are two steps to using it: someone has to see the pole and there has to be music. Guy suddenly can’t resist trying it out the limits of the pole

...of course, he might be biting off more than he can chew and seems to forget that he’s just as spellbound and under the pole’s influence as the person dancing.

 

[Hypoxia]

Do you explain why the pole has such power, or is that left unsaid? The mechanism will likely be either magic, mad science, or aliens.

• Magic: a vengeful sorceress cast a spell to entrance and punish folks like those who rejected her.
• Mad Science: a geeky technologist purposely or accidentally built and released the device.
• Alien Artifact: ETs are studying Earthling fertility rites, or maybe it was meant for Uranians but arrived on Terra by mischance.
• Alien Entity: The pole is alive, one of an invasion force. It and others of its species want human vibes in order to reproduce. They're breeding.

Or just let it remain a mystery and see what happens. What sorts of endings do you visualize?

 

[Strangebuddy]

I was going to leave it a mystery (there would be a short investigation that would turn up nothing) so the focus would just be on the character. Alternatively, it would be a pole that had been taken from a demolished home or strip club. The place it was from left an impact on it and it spreads the feelings of lust and desire it used to be surrounded in (one possibility was that the more it’s used, the more hallucinations the guy has: for example, he starts hearing a DJ announce and introduce the person stripping)

I figured it would be a series of hookups at first but as the story goes on, the guy starts to realize he’s becoming dependent on it and it’s impacting his life.

For the hookups, one I wanted to do was some church ladies, they come to the door and the moment the pass a pamphlet, he turns the music on and has unique experience: either both women strip for him, they take turns, or he ends up stripping for them. It all ends in a three way but guys’ understanding of it gets brought into question.

Another was election workers (for the pun of working the polls)

A home invasion getting thwarted

One last fuck with girlfriend

But as time goes on, guy finds he doesn’t have as much control as he once thought. For example, neighbors daughter is in college and sometimes comes over to relax and talk about sports and stuff. They’ve always had a platonic relationship...then her ringtone goes off while they’re hanging out and next thing he knows, he’s stuffing money in her panties and they’re fucking on the couch.

While neighbors daughter doesn’t hate him and they both enjoy it in the moment, she doesn’t want that kind of relationship and stops coming over.

His nephew (who graduated high school) comes over like he usually does during the summer and despite the guy warning him, he puts on some tunes and winds up losing his virginity to the first woman who comes to check on the noise...then her daughter when she comes to check on her, then a neighbor, and by the time guy gets home, nephew is in a pile of sweaty bodies wondering what the hell is going on...but the tunes are still going so he winds up joining in...and he’s (the guy) now the black sheep of the family because everyone believes he’s a lethario who wrapped his nephew into it.

Guy tries to sell the pole, makes sure his stereo is off, tells buyer to make sure their phone is muted...then an ice cream truck comes by.

He then tries to disassemble it.

1. He succeeds, tosses it in the dump. His life gets back on track when he gets a call from a friend...he’s getting his first house and wants to set up a little love suite for his girl. Guy helps with the renovations, glad to be doing honest work. When it’s done, he comes by for the unveiling with other people from the neighborhood who he’s now back on good terms with...his friend then reveals he made one addition: a stripper pole for his girl to work out on funny thing is, it was sitting by the dump’s entrance, looking pristine. Guy tries to stop his friend but friend’s girl comes out planning to playfully strip a little for the guests and then the music starts and it all begins again.

2. He tries, but as he takes it apart, the room begins to change around him. He hears a DJ announcing the end of the night, smells cigarettes, sweat; and spilt booze. He looks around and finds himself in a club with everyone toasting him for the good times. They then put him into a seat, letting him know he’s now a permanent member of the club. His neighbors check on him the next morning, they don’t find him, just a boxed up stripper pole that’s never been opened.

 

[AvroAnson]

• Alien Artifact: ETs are studying Earthling fertility rites, or maybe it was meant for Uranians but arrived on Terra by mischance.
• Mad Science: a geeky technologist purposely or accidentally built and released the device.

Mashing those two together ...

The rest of the universe has a unified postal/express package delivery service, and a Star-Trek style "prime directive" to not interfere with less advanced cultures. Like the less advanced delivery services on Earth the vast majority of intergalactic pickups and deliveries are correct. However when there are errors the results can create considerable chaos.

The devise is a popular alien "sex toy / bachelor(ette) party favor." New label printing software with AI capability to decipher and interpret 1,117 alien languages (with an accuracy rate of 99.99%) installed at the pole factory erroneously codes several devices (for delivery to 237 Saturn Drive, Earth instead of 237 Earth Drive, Saturn et cetera).

This type of mix up also explains UFO sightings (intergalactic drivers who forgot to engage their cloaking devices), odd objects found in mysterious places (1,903 acorns found in my clothes dryer vent), periodic product shortages (where did all the paper products go?), and strangely missing items in your house (like every-other sock being taken from your bureau.)

Hilarity ensues (owe you a quarter).

 

[jaF0]

This could fall into Amorous Goods territory if we ever decide to re run the event.