Handling baits when on holiday ?

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Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2010 5:04 pm

I have the pleasure of leaving for Florence next Tuesday (yeey jump_4_joy

) and will be back the Tuesday after that. I will have my laptop with me but of course not with the intention of baiting Razz

I wonder what you do with your baits during your holidays ?
Do you find an excuse to take it slow, or do you let another baiter continue your bait ?

I have not taken on any new ones so I have the au-pair bait and another recent one going on. I plan on killing my main character in the au pair bait so that I can start with very short messages from another character to start all over again (he's going to love it Smile

).

Any other ideas ?

Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2010 5:10 pm

Just say you're going on holiday - they need you more than you need them anyway, so they will keep on going with you as if nothing had happened...

Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2010 5:21 pm

I dangle cash into the bait as many times as I can. Just before a vacation I tell them all that I just have to go to Germany to pick up my new AMG 63 as my old one is a discontinued color. I hate being seen in last year's model of anything but will be right back with that WU transfer number. If during the trip I have internet access and often do I tell them that the speedometer is in kilometers per hour not miles per Hour and ignore their script. The next time its to Paris for spring fashions and then to Miami for a new boat.

Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2010 6:12 pm

You could just tell them that you have to go into hospital for an operation, so you will not have Internet access till you come out of the hospital.... Laughing

Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2010 6:34 pm

As to operations I love using broken hips and knee replacements with stints in the ICU (Intensive Care Unit)

Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2010 7:00 pm

Tell him the truth as long as it fits the bait. Exaggerate though, with a five star hotel in an expensive resort.
Of course, a real baiter continues to bait while on holiday. Wink

Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2010 10:31 pm

I will go for the five-star vacation I think - although the ICU seems an interesting option too. But I prefer the idea of "exaggerated truth" Smile

My au pair lad is too stupid to recognize a million dollars dangling underneath his nose, though, so I don't really need to make it too complicated on him Very Happy

Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2010 11:04 pm

For me a sad funeral in the alps for a beloved grandmother did the trick.

The lad accepted it without complaints. And afterwards i told him just how beautiful it was when my mother put edelweiss flowers on the coffin. Not an eye was dry.

Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2010 11:24 pm

With one of my current baits I had a rich uncle die who left me as sole beneficiary. My lad now thinks I am now ultra rich.

I had to take time out for the funeral and to grieve (it was a week among the vineyards actually), but the lad came back keener than ever.

Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 3:55 am

Dr Mike wrote:

For me a sad funeral in the alps for a beloved grandmother did the trick.

Funerals are always good. Try telling the lad that somebody very close to you -- a parent or a sibling or significant other -- died suddenly and you had to attend to the details and the whole process left you devastated. You might get a half gram of sympathy from the lad before he quickly turns the conversation back to money. Rolling Eyes

Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 8:18 am

^^^ Funerals are very good, and a great opportunity for slappage when the lad is not sympathetic enough. Depending on the character I'm playing I've also had business trips to China to buy exotic animals; a religious retreat, going on the run from the cops and a trip to hospital to have my Shatners' Bassoon removed.

To be honest pretty much anything will do so long as you keep the money dangling in plain site as per this example from a recent bait of mine:

Quote:

Dear Mr Olusegun

I regret I will be unable to visit the Western Union for at least a week. Myself, Captain Lawrence and the rest of my crew have been assigned by Her Majesties Aerial Corps to fly to Newfoundland to patrol the Northwest passage in case Napoleon intends to sneak across the Atlantic.

I have the money being sent to me from the Royal Bank in Edinburgh and I shall return within the week to make your payment.

Kind regards. Temeraire.

I just got "Please send money as soon as you get back" Smile

Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 8:22 am

You could say you are going to a Simba Safari camp as part of your break, then say you won a free weekend stay for two on the bingo and invite them to come and meet you and settle fee payment modalities. Wink

Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 9:06 am

Windypops, great idea for the gold lad Very Happy

Will not work for the au pair lad, since he still stubbornly claims he's in the UK instead of in Nigeria where he really is.

Of course I could go on a 55C and have a rich relative die right there, combining two options !

Sunshine, I love the Napoleon - angle Cool

Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 11:16 am

Elizabeth1601 wrote:

Sunshine, I love the Napoleon - angle Cool

The lad never picked up on it for the whole bait. I was playing the charachter of Temeraire, who happens to be a dragon, from Naomi Novik's series of Historical/Fantasy crossover novels (think the Napoleonic wars but with each side having a dragon airforce).

I kept peppering my mails to him with mentions of Bonaparte, Wellsley, Nelson, ships of the line and His Majesty's Aerial Corps but he never said anything. The only time he was a bit phased was when I told him due to my size I could not fit inside the western union office Laughing

Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 1:34 pm

Just ignore them totally and enjoy your holiday.

They won't go anywhere !! Very Happy

Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 3:21 pm

Quote:

he only time he was a bit phased was when I told him due to my size I could not fit inside the western union office

Well that is probably because you are a Horse................ Laughing

Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 5:13 pm

How I do it:

-I have a business trip in [insert country other than where you are vacationing on here] and I will be gone for [insert duration of your holiday here] and then I will be back later. If the lad trusts your character he will wait the full duration but they may right a "check up" email to see if you will send the "money" while on your holiday. Ignore it.

I'm having surgery on my [insert any body part you want here] and will be unable to access my email for another 2+weeks

I was hit by a car on the way from Western Union and have to stay with the doctor for 2 week and he/she will not have computer access at the hospital.

My house was set on fire/flooded/hurricane hit/tornado/volcano erupted/earthquake/typhoon/tsunami/sink hole/etc and my computer was in the house!

-I'm going to visit my sick mother in hospital and will not be able to have access to my emails whilst I'm there.

-I'm going to my "brother", "aunt", "sister", "uncle", "grandpa", "great-grandpa", "concubine", "wife", "husband", "girlfriend", "boyfriend", etc's funeral and will be gone and during this time I will not be able to contact you until I get back.

Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 5:45 pm

"I have to rush off to Scotland and will be gone for a few days! Dear Aunt Petunia is at death's door. I need to be there for her because, after all, she is leaving me a million Euros in her will."

Bruin

Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 6:42 pm

Vampiremerchant wrote:

Well that is probably because you are a Horse................ Laughing

I was playing an 80 foot long dragon at the time Wink

However on one of my horse baits one excuse for not getting to the Western Union was I had been pulled over and given a ticket for galloping down Cambridge's Trumpington Road at more than the 30 mph speed limit with Windypops on my back (he was a three toed sloth at the time as I recall).

Getting back on topic I think the message is that you can tell your lad pretty much anything by way of an excuse and if they think there's money the odds are they will go for it. Let your imagination run riot.

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