6 ☣ gamble

[freewolfmoon.livejournal.com]

[A little ways inside the front gate, something strange is going on. There is an elf sitting up against the edge of the path. For those who know him, he has back the markings that vanished during the time when everyone's powers got mixed up. But that's not what's strange. What's strange is that he is not lurking and brooding, or cleaning up and brooding, or serving hot dogs and brooding (he does a lot of different things around here, and also he broods).

Instead, he is staring with a deeply quizzical expression at the five Triple Triad cards spread out in front of him. Every so often he picks one up, turns it over repeatedly in his hands, then puts it back down.

He doesn't get it.]

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[freewolfmoon.livejournal.com]

I don't fully grasp it yet.

[In truth, he's still working on teaching himself to recognize the numbers, though he's made quite a bit of progress on that.]

Two people play at a time, I know that much. It's very popular here.

[loyalfirst]

Hm.

[It didn't look like poker, which he was used to playing. He starts to reach for the deck, but stops.]

Do you mind?

[freewolfmoon.livejournal.com]

[He sweeps up the five cards he has and holds them out.]

Be my guest. Perhaps you can make sense of it where I cannot.

[loyalfirst]

[Joe shuffles them around for a minute and...

Nope. He had no idea. The numbers on the cards most likely signified something, though the pictures... could be for decoration. They weren't just any normal deck.]

Sorry. I don't have a clue.

[He sets the cards down.]

I wonder if I could get a deck of real cards, though.

[freewolfmoon.livejournal.com]

[A brow arches.]

Perhaps. What would you do with them?

[loyalfirst]

Play a few hands.

[Of poker. Or solitaire.]

[freewolfmoon.livejournal.com]

[Give him a moment to think...]

Of...diamondback? That is what the game is called?

[loyalfirst]

Diamondback? I was thinking poker.

[freewolfmoon.livejournal.com]

Poke who?

[A pause, wherein it's not entirely clear if he's joking.]

I've not heard the word.

[loyalfirst]

[Joe stares for a second, thinks that the other is joking. After that brief pause, he figures that this guy has no clue what poker is.

So he grins.]

It's a game-- you make bets, best hand wins, while people try to call your bluff. I've never heard of diamondback, either.

[freewolfmoon.livejournal.com]

From what I gather, they must be similar.

[loyalfirst]

[Shrug.] Same game, different names, maybe.

[freewolfmoon.livejournal.com]

No stranger a thing than some I've seen here.

[He considers.]

So it's a game where you win money by lying? Hmm. That sounds about right.