A cult forms around you. How do you react?

[bartholen_v1legacy]

if it were all women.. ORGY WOOOHOOO!!!!

Damn right!

What I personally would do: First I'd take all their money. Then I'd have them build a monastery somewhere far away and tell them to make themselves the ultimate men: study all sorts of knowledge and train physically. When they're finished, I present them to the world, and everyone will flock to me because they want to become the ultimate men too. Failing that, I'd have my own personal army and probably raise a criminal empire. Morally wrong, but morality is bad business.

Ummm... apparently I just made myself Ra's al Ghul from the new Batman movies.

 

[Savryc]

Well, shit. It's about damn time.

 

[crimson sickle2]

It is stage 3 of the plan, so I go on to stage 4: conquer the earth one nation at a time until I reach ten conquered.

 

[Hawk eye1466]

I'd make it a classy cult none of that crazy gibbering insanity no it would be all well dressed intelligent people in positions of power who wouldn't have any official ties to me until the master plan comes to fruition and then the world will know who their true ruler is! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

I mean nothing I would politely tell them to go away

 

[M0rp43vs]

First, 500 strong chorus line. To sing various showtunes and hard rock classics. No really.

Then the money, then the bitches, then maybe the guys for a while, then the bitches again.

And then maybe the women

 

[Anatoli Ossai]

Cults like other Institutions of belief are not to be dismissed. Yes one could join the faith or fight back with reason but that will make you either a fundamentalist or a Cynic. Faith is people who need it. Instead align yourself with a cause, belief is optional (and besides cannot be quantified) and once known use the power of the Cult to manipulate the followers into propagating you ideals.

Don't ask what you can do in the cult, but what the Cult can do for you

 

[Spartan Altego]

I'd use the hot ones for sex, the rich ones for money, the influential ones for political and legal protection when the sex and money gets out of control, and the rest for suicidal attacks on my enemies should the sex, money, politics and criminality get really out of control.

I'd use my cult to assassinate yours.

...There's a thought. Train my followers to become a fraternity of assassins bent on keeping the world from going down the toilet, or otherwise just killing some of the really evil pricks in the world. We work in the dark to serve the light. We are Assassins.

First target: Barney. That purple bastard's gonna pay for raping my childhood.

 

[miketehmage]

First I get the money, then I get the power, then I get the woman.

 

[bigfatcarp93]

Wow, SO MUCH conquer the world. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: you give me ANY power, and I will abuse the FUCK out of it.

 

[Harveypot]

I would have them bring me all the Reese's Pieces they could find. And some Doritos. With some salsa. And maybe some guacamole.
What were we talking about?

 

[gigastar]

Id get them all into playing Planetside 2.

500 people who will do whatever i tell them to without question? Practically a wet dream in that game.

 

[MegaManOfNumbers]

Ask them for all their money. Then go into hiding.

Cults are freaky, but I might as well get something out of it.

 

[MegaManOfNumbers]

First, 500 strong chorus line. To sing various showtunes and hard rock classics. No really.

Then the money, then the bitches, then maybe the guys for a while, then the bitches again.

And then maybe the women

Hey! I love dogs too!

 

[Monster_user]

I'd keep all the hot non crazy chicks for myself *cough*.. and uhh.. let the rest of them go about their normal life, with making sure they don't do anything too crazy in my name.

Yeah, I'd do that too, but anyone following me as a cult leader is crazy by definition so that's out.

So I'd teach everyone in the cult how to play different instruments, and have them follow me around everywhere providing an orchestral soundtrack to my life.

Seeing that avatar, and associating it with "8-Bit Theater", specifically "Black Mage", makes it even more hilarious.
http://www.nuklearpower.com/2001/03/23/episode-008-adventurers-1-giant-0/
http://www.nuklearpower.com/2007/10/04/episode-902-we-hurt-the-ones-we-loathe/

Would Black Mage actually enjoy an orchestral soundtrack?

 

[Fearzone]

I'd tell them to go find jobs and bathe regularly.

 

[Fijiman]

Well, it's about time!

The Lord of Tacos is not pleased with this insolence

Drink all the Kool-Aid now!

....

CRAP, I'm back to square one!

You can have most of mine. Why most? I may be a maniacal sideways genius, but I'm a lazy maniacal sideways genius who's also broke.

 

[clayschuldt]

Tell them I am not God. If any still do not believe, I'd insist they check into a mental health facility.

 

[Mikkel421427]

Let them have cake! And then let everyone else have cake aswell

 

[AngloDoom]

I get anxious trying to keep track of a lie. I could not keep it up, I'd crack after maybe about a fifth of a second in and tell them all I'm a phoney. I wish I could say I'd have the cultists all trained as some kind of assassin-harem, but I'd feel guilty the moment someone so much as praised me.

 

[kypsilon]

These people are obviously delusional in some regard and though it might be incredibly dangerous to do so, I'd ask them why they were worshiping me in the first place. After that well, if they really insisted that I was a god, I'd give them directions to carve out a huge mountain temple inside one of the mountains near the city I live. Upon completion of that particularly monumental project, I'd instruct them to live out their lives there quietly, being friendly and monastic and generally leaving the non-delusional people alone.

If it was a nice place, I might actually even move there. But it's not likely.