The Pyrite Wedding Band

[alias x]

For those who don't know, Pyrite=Fool's Gold. While perhaps a Singelringen-made single ring would be more appropriate, a gentleman (I'll call him Mark) decides to buy a wedding band for himself. As a bit of a joke, the ring incorporates pyrite. The reason he gets the wedding band is because of a newly married friend's comment that despite the prominent ring, women still flirt with him. Much to Mark's delight, the wedding band turns out to be a chick magnet. Better still, the women it attracts are only interested in one night stands, not commitment.

Story subideas:

A woman could try to blackmail him with the threat of exposure to his wife. He could then laugh in her face.

The jeweler could be female and aware of the ring's signicance. Maybe she'd screw him too. She'd probably get a kick out of it when he returned to buy a real one (see subidea below).

For a touch of irony, Mark could end up in a relationship with a girl. After the supposed affair had been going on for a while (with the girl gradually encouraging him to divorce his wife), he would end up saying something like this to her:
"Honey, I know you love me, but I've been a bit dishonest with you this past year. Please don't hate me for lying to you. I know this may come as a shock. I have not been having an affair. I'm not actually married. Will you marry me?"

 

[hyulhyulhyul]

Try this and see how it feels

He's not married. He's not getting married. He doesn't even have a girlfriend. Once he starts wearing the ring, it (as you said) becomes a chick magnet. Unfortunately, he is never able to develope a close meaningful relationship as long as the fool's gold ring is on his finger. At the moment he put it on his finger, it became an evil talisman that dooms every relationship that starts out looking "golden" but always turns to "fool's gold" after a brief time.

He meets a girl whom he falls madly in love with. When it looks like this relationship will also end in disappointment, he loses the ring. Once the ring is off, it's power to destroy his relationships is gone.

At the close of the story, you might have a young man on his way to his engagement party find the ring, pick it up and put it on his finger.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

Hmmm....fascinating.

 

[alias x]

He's not married. He's not getting married. He doesn't even have a girlfriend. Once he starts wearing the ring, it (as you said) becomes a chick magnet. Unfortunately, he is never able to develope a close meaningful relationship as long as the fool's gold ring is on his finger. At the moment he put it on his finger, it became an evil talisman that dooms every relationship that starts out looking "golden" but always turns to "fool's gold" after a brief time.

He meets a girl whom he falls madly in love with. When it looks like this relationship will also end in disappointment, he loses the ring. Once the ring is off, it's power to destroy his relationships is gone.

At the close of the story, you might have a young man on his way to his engagement party find the ring, pick it up and put it on his finger.

I don't really like it. I guess I prefer happy stories. Anyhow, I think this makes an interesting non-scifi story and see no reason to introduce scifi. The ring is capable of preventing meaningful relationships using perfectly non-magical means (i.e. women expecting meaningful relationships tend to avoid married men) and is generally successful...which is kind of what the guy had planned in the first place. His goal in buying the ring was to get laid.

 

[hyulhyulhyul]

I don't really like it. I guess I prefer happy stories. Anyhow, I think this makes an interesting non-scifi story and see no reason to introduce scifi. The ring is capable of preventing meaningful relationships using perfectly non-magical means (i.e. women expecting meaningful relationships tend to avoid married men) and is generally successful...which is kind of what the guy had planned in the first place. His goal in buying the ring was to get laid.

Evil Talismans are occult, not scifi.

 

[alias x]

Hmmm....fascinating.

Then write it

 

[Texguy84]

Evil Talismans are occult, not scifi.

Why not both? They could be evil talismans created by magic aliens

 

[WhiteTigerNipples]

Why not both? They could be evil talismans created by magic aliens

They might be hatched out of purple turkey eggs too, but generally speaking, they belong to the occult category.

 

[only_more_so]

An intriguing idea. I kind of like the idea that the ring is in some way magic. That it amplifies the man's original intent. So the more he uses it to pick-up one-night stands, the more effective it becomes. But it also ends up repulsing the commmitment minded. Eventually he figures it out, but can no longer take the ring off until he has done some sort of penance.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

An intriguing idea. I kind of like the idea that the ring is in some way magic. That it amplifies the man's original intent. So the more he uses it to pick-up one-night stands, the more effective it becomes. But it also ends up repulsing the commmitment minded. Eventually he figures it out, but can no longer take the ring off until he has done some sort of penance.

Penance for what?

 

[anyotherman]

penance for deception

penance for being deceptive..
but what would be appropriate penance?

well, since he can no longer take the ring off until he has done some sort of penance, let the penance be the opposite, i.e. Mark having to sleep with women that he does not want to sleep with and who do not beleive they are being deceived.....
Say, as penance, he has to sleep with very unattractive women <imagining Marge Simpson's sisters> who are polyamorous/swingers. These women are not being deceived because since they are polyamorous; his ring symbol does not affect their moral system. Furthermore, his penance could be that he has to sleep with their husband(s) as well. You could add and aspect that Mark is homo-averse, and he gets sick to his stomach everytime he has to lay men. As a twist, you could make the unattractive women he has to sleep for his penance turn out to be part of a cult of witches. It turns out that this cult is what created the spell on the ring in the first place...in order to draw more followers to their cult...whoever show up to remove the spell never leaves

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

penance for being deceptive..
but what would be appropriate penance?

well, since he can no longer take the ring off until he has done some sort of penance, let the penance be the opposite, i.e. Mark having to sleep with women that he does not want to sleep with and who do not beleive they are being deceived.....
Say, as penance, he has to sleep with very unattractive women <imagining Marge Simpson's sisters> who are polyamorous/swingers. These women are not being deceived because since they are polyamorous; his ring symbol does not affect their moral system. Furthermore, his penance could be that he has to sleep with their husband(s) as well. You could add and aspect that Mark is homo-averse, and he gets sick to his stomach everytime he has to lay men. As a twist, you could make the unattractive women he has to sleep for his penance turn out to be part of a cult of witches. It turns out that this cult is what created the spell on the ring in the first place...in order to draw more followers to their cult...whoever show up to remove the spell never leaves

Hmmm...deceiving women who set out to seduce a married man into cheating. Not really feeling any sympathy for them.

 

[anyotherman]

sympathy for the innocent only

You'd feel sympathy for the innocents only, only the women who felt deceived. You'd not feel any sympathy for the witch women, since for the purposes of this story their ugliness are only representations of his guilt and their polyamourous nature represents his commitmentphobia. You'd feel empathy towards Mark, though, him having to endure the consequences of his choice to abuse the magic of the ring in order to redeem himself to the ring's orginal meaning.

You could make it funny too. As his final act of penance, make him have to sleep with the head witch, a hundred year old bag of bones with more warts than teeth, leathery knarled breasts, with nipples that taste like rubber grommets, and a dry cunt that makes Mark feel like someone is sanding 60grit sandpaper into his foreskin.

For the ingrediants of our caldron.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.
Cool it with a baboon's blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.

P.S. no offense to any poly forum members.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Anyone writing this????

 

[alias x]

I see nothing hot about the main character being forced to sleep with ugly women.

 

[anyotherman]

well, part of the spell could be

you cojuld make part of the spell that he temporarily thinks thay are hot and then gets grossed out, like beer goggles..describe the scenes really hot but the body decriptions as nasty.