The Loan Ranger - Revision history

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{{Tapped Out Quest
|name = The Loan Ranger
|image =
|level = 5
|update = {{TOCU|The Simpsanos}}
|requirements =
|characters = [[Costas Becker]], [[Apu]]
|optional = [[Fat Tony]], [[Krusty]]
|previous =
|next =
}}

'''The Loan Ranger''' is a questline in ''[[The Simpsons: Tapped Out]]''. It was introduced in {{TOCU|The Simpsanos}} content update. It requires [[Costas Becker]] to be obtained.

== Dialogue ==
=== Pt. 1 ===
{{Table|
{{THT|After tapping on Costas Becker's exclamation mark|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Fat Tony Icon|Grim}}
{{TB|Costas, I could use a tough, scary loan collector like you in my operation.}}
{{Tapped Out Costas Becker Icon|Annoyed}}
{{TB|I find your little city disgusting.}}
{{Tapped Out Fat Tony Icon}}
{{TB|It's an acquired taste, to be sure.}}
{{Tapped Out Costas Becker Icon|Grim}}
{{TB|I am, above all, a man of principles — principles that will not allow me to work for you!}}
{{Tapped Out Fat Tony Icon|Grim}}
{{TB|Fair enough. We shall remain mortal enemies. I will now stomp your foot. *stomps foot*}}
{{Tapped Out Costas Becker Icon|Annoyed}}
{{TB|Oww! And I will poke your belly. *pokes belly*}}
{{Tapped Out Fat Tony Icon|Happy}}
{{TB|{{*}}giggles*}}
{{Tapped Out Costas Becker Icon|Annoyed}}
{{TB|I was hoping for a more painful outcome.}}
{{THT|{{Task/Optional|Make Fat Tony Try to Hire Costas Becker|4 hours|[[Capital City Plaza Hotel]], [[Businessman's Social Club]], or a [[Brown House]]|char=[[Fat Tony]]}}<br>{{Task/Job|Make Costas Becker Vow Never to Work for Fat Tony|4 hours|[[Capital City Plaza Hotel]], [[Businessman's Social Club]], or a [[Brown House]]}}|colspan=2}}
{{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|100}} and {{XP|10}}|colspan=2}}
}}

=== Pt. 2 ===
{{Table|
{{THT|After tapping on Costas Becker's exclamation mark|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Costas Becker Icon|Annoyed}}
{{TB|I've been the wind beneath the gangsters' wings whose books I have carried for years!}}
{{Tapped Out Costas Becker Icon|Confused}}
{{TB|Why not carry my own book? Shark my own loans? Why deny what is so clearly my destiny any longer?}}
{{Tapped Out Costas Becker Icon|Grim}}
{{TB|This is the path forward for Costas Becker!}}
{{Tapped Out Apu Icon|Angry}}
{{TB|When you are done talking to yourself, please decide on your candy: Red Lines or Strawberry Twizzors. I have customers waiting!}}
{{Tapped Out Costas Becker Icon|Grim}}
{{TB|I'll take them both because I deserve it!}}
{{THT|{{Task/Job|Make Costas Becker Try to Find Marks|4 hours}}<br>{{Task/Job|Make Apu Push Twizzors Sales|4 hours|a [[Kwik-E-Mart]] or [[Brown House]]}}|colspan=2}}
{{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|100}} and {{XP|10}}|colspan=2}}
}}

=== Pt. 3 ===
{{Table|
{{THT|After tapping on Costas Becker's exclamation mark|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Lindsey Naegle Icon|Happy}}
{{TB|Costas, you know, at Devarsec, Inc., we're always looking for go-getters to work as debt collectors.}}
{{Tapped Out Costas Becker Icon|Confused}}
{{TB|Is "Devarsec" a collection agency or a new prescription drug?}}
{{Tapped Out Lindsey Naegle Icon|Happy}}
{{TB|Technically both!}}
{{Tapped Out Costas Becker Icon|Annoyed}}
{{TB|I must accept your offer, although collecting from the medically impaired sickens me.}}
{{Tapped Out Lindsey Naegle Icon|Happy}}
{{TB|If you're sick, Devarsec can help!}}
{{Tapped Out Lindsey Naegle Icon}}
{{TB|Side effects may include shortness of breath, dizziness, vomiting, bleeding, death…}}
{{Tapped Out Costas Becker Icon|Annoyed}}
{{TB|I think I'll stay sick.}}
{{THT|{{Task/Job|Make Costas Becker Reluctantly Work for Corporate America|4 hours|[[Office Towers]], [[ZiffCorp Office Building]], [[ZiffCorp Sign]], or a [[Brown House]]}}|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Grampa Icon|Outraged}}
{{TB|Devarsec? Is that one of those un-American dog breeds?}}
{{Tapped Out Jasper Icon|Mad}}
{{TB|No! Devarsec is the defenseman for the Springfield Ice-O-Topes.}}
{{Tapped Out Grampa Icon|Outraged}}
{{TB|Devarsec's a bum! We traded our goalie, Metamucil, for him!}}
{{Tapped Out Costas Becker Icon|Grim}}
{{TB|Devarsec's a drug!}}
{{Tapped Out Grampa Icon|Startled}}
{{TB|Oh, so you're a drug dealer!}}
{{Tapped Out Jasper Icon|Mad}}
{{TB|Drug dealer? I better call Detective Devarsec!}}
{{Tapped Out Costas Becker Icon|Annoyed}}
{{TB|I'm trapped in an existential nightmare.}}
{{Tapped Out Grampa Icon|Annoyed}}
{{TB|Wait till you get to our age. It's all nightmares.}}
{{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|100}} and {{XP|10}}|colspan=2}}
}}

=== Pt. 4 ===
{{Table|
{{THT|After tapping on Costas Becker's exclamation mark|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Lindsey Naegle Icon|Happy}}
{{TB|Costas Becker, you are the best debt collector we've ever hired. How do you do it?}}
{{Tapped Out Costas Becker Icon|Grim}}
{{TB|People don't say "no" to me. At least, not if they're under eigthy and can understand simple hand gestures.}}
{{Tapped Out Lindsey Naegle Icon|Happy}}
{{TB|Well our Board of Directors would like to give you a plaque for outstanding performance! Yours is the little name under our names.}}
{{Tapped Out Costas Becker Icon|Surprised}}
{{TB|Wait, "Marion Anthony D'Amico"? Fat Tony is one of your board members?}}
{{Tapped Out Fat Tony Icon|Happy}}
{{TB|I told you, you would end up working for me—}}
{{Tapped Out Costas Becker Icon|Annoyed}}
{{TB|{{*}}stomps Fat Tony's foot and leaves*}}
{{Tapped Out Fat Tony Icon|Grim}}
{{TB|That guy stomps really hard.}}
{{THT|{{Task/Job|Make Costas Becker Try to Find Marks Again|4 hours}}|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Costas Becker Icon|Annoyed}}
{{TB|What's the world coming to where no one borrows money from gangsters anymore?}}
{{Tapped Out Grampa Icon|Annoyed}}
{{TB|We all just run up our credit cards.}}
{{Tapped Out Costas Becker Icon|Grim}}
{{TB|It's intolerable! Now how will I pay my rent here in Springfield?}}
{{Tapped Out Grampa Icon}}
{{TB|Go where there's always job openings 'cause everyone's always quitting…}}
{{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|100}} and {{XP|10}}|colspan=2}}
}}

=== Pt. 5 ===
{{Table|
{{THT|After tapping on Costas Becker's exclamation mark|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Costas Becker Icon|Annoyed Krusty Burger}}
{{TB|Working at Krusty Burger is even more intolerable!}}
{{Tapped Out Fast Food Grampa Icon|Happy}}
{{TB|But at least you can pay your rent now.}}
{{Tapped Out Krusty Icon|Angry}}
{{TB|Zip it, burger chuckers!}}
{{Tapped Out Costas Becker Icon|Annoyed Krusty Burger}}
{{TB|I have a name!}}
{{Tapped Out Krusty Icon|Annoyed}}
{{TB|Not here you don't. Now take this order out to the tour bus.}}
{{THT|{{Task/Optional|Make Krusty Threaten to Dock Pay|4 hours|[[Krusty Burger]] or a [[Brown House]]|char=[[Krusty]]}}<br>{{Task/Job|Make Costas Becker Hand Out Burgers|4 hours}}|colspan=2}}
{{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|200}} and {{XP|20}}|colspan=2}}
}}

{{Tapped Out Quests/The Simpsanos}}
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 {{TB|I am, above all, a man of principles — principles that will not allow me to work for you!}}
 {{Tapped Out Fat Tony Icon|Grim}}
-{{TB|Fair enough. We shall remain mortal enemies. I will now stomp your foot. *stomps foot*}}
+{{TB|Fair enough. We shall remain mortal enemies. I will now stomp your foot. {{*}}stomps foot{{*}}}}
 {{Tapped Out Costas Becker Icon|Annoyed}}
-{{TB|Oww! And I will poke your belly. *pokes belly*}}
+{{TB|Oww! And I will poke your belly. {{*}}pokes belly{{*}}}}
 {{Tapped Out Fat Tony Icon|Happy}}
-{{TB|{{*}}giggles*}}
+{{TB|{{*}}giggles{{*}}}}
 {{Tapped Out Costas Becker Icon|Annoyed}}
 {{TB|I was hoping for a more painful outcome.}}
@@ Line 68: / Line 68: @@
 {{TB|If you're sick, Devarsec can help!}}
 {{Tapped Out Lindsey Naegle Icon}}
-{{TB|Side effects may include shortness of breath, dizziness, vomiting, bleeding, death…}}
+{{TB|Side effects may include shortness of breath, dizziness, vomiting, bleeding, death...}}
 {{Tapped Out Costas Becker Icon|Annoyed}}
 {{TB|I think I'll stay sick.}}
@@ Line 105: / Line 105: @@
 {{TB|I told you, you would end up working for me—}}
 {{Tapped Out Costas Becker Icon|Annoyed}}
-{{TB|{{*}}stomps Fat Tony's foot and leaves*}}
+{{TB|{{*}}stomps Fat Tony's foot and leaves{{*}}}}
 {{Tapped Out Fat Tony Icon|Grim}}
 {{TB|That guy stomps really hard.}}
@@ Line 116: / Line 116: @@
 {{TB|It's intolerable! Now how will I pay my rent here in Springfield?}}
 {{Tapped Out Grampa Icon}}
-{{TB|Go where there's always job openings 'cause everyone's always quitting…}}
+{{TB|Go where there's always job openings 'cause everyone's always quitting...}}
 {{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|100}} and {{XP|10}}|colspan=2}}
 }}

The Loan Ranger - Revision history

Solar Dragon at 16:07, April 25, 2025

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