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7th Hat Flip [Voice/Action]

[Voice]

[After having a close friend return home a few weeks ago, Firo's been largely keeping to himself. He was aware of the danger of losing friends in Luceti, but it always seemed abstract and alien until it actually happened.

It's boredom that finally prompts him to address the network. That and the concern that if he doesn't keep using his skills he'll be near useless when he gets back home. Why not kill two birds with one stone?]

Does anybody here wanna play cards? Any kinda game is fine, or even if you just wanna learn. Most of 'em aren't that hard to pick up and I don't mind teachin' anyone.

[His tone suddenly becomes less light and takes a turn for the grouchier.]

But if you're gonna cheat, save it. I'll know.

[He wasn't put in charge of a Family casino for nothing.]

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[Soon after he makes his message, Firo will be rummaging through the item shop for a few packs of cards, carefully going through each one he finds to make sure they're complete. Then he'll linger a little while by the art supplies to pick up some markers.

...No, he is not going to be using them to mark the cards.]

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...You wouldn't have given me a heads up?

[Not that Firo's ever been much better behaved. He shakes his head.]

Whatever. Let's get started.

[He takes a deck--still in its box--out of his jacket pocket and tosses it to Crow.]

You have seen one a' these before, right?

[He catches the box, giving it a once-over before he opens it to pull out the cards to look at.]

...Yeah, once or twice. I think the park and hotel had a few of these lying around... [Not looking up from the cards in his hands as he's looking at the numbers...and the face and ace cards, at least now we sort of recognize them for what they are...]

[He watches as Crow looks over the cards. The kid looks interested and he's been rather polite so far; could this be a good sign?]

Okay, good. So then you know the four suits--diamonds, spades, clubs, and hearts--right? They're important; any kinda flush has to be cards of all the same suit.

Suits? [There's a long pause before he holds up two of the cards at random--a seven of hearts and a five of clubs]

You mean these shapes on the cards, right?

[He peers at the cards, then nods.]

Yeah, those. There's four suits and thirteen cards per suit. You got a hearts and a clubs right there.

And the other two are diamonds and spades...okay, that sounds easy enough.

[He knew what hearts looked like, obviously, as well as a vague idea of diamonds. And at least he now knows what spades and clubs are to try telling them apart.]

Yeah, it's not hard at all.

[He turns to head inside, pausing halfway.]

Think you're ready to try playin' now?

[For a second he almost missed the question since he had turned his attention back towards the cards in his hands.]

Huh--oh, yeah! Why else would I bother asking about it if I didn't want to play?

[He shrugs. It was something of a silly question, but he had the nagging concern that Crow would grow bored and dash off.]

Just makin' sure. Let's get inside before we start anything.

Fine, fine...

[Which is still a legitimate concern to have considering this is Crow we're talking about who has gotten bored and ducked out on things before. But nonetheless, he'll go back inside if he has to for the time being...]

It'd be hard to play without a table.

[Firo heads inside, pausing to hold the door for Crow. If he follows, then Firo'll take a seat at the kitchen table.]

[He'll hesitate a second before he take a chair too, though of course he sits in it like you'd expect most punk kids to sit in a chair: not the proper way.]

Which game were we playing again? Poker or the blackjack one?

I thought you asked about poker--the one that has all the different hands.

[He shrugs and takes another deck out of his pocket, shuffling them carefully.]

Doesn't really matter to me. Which one do you wanna do?

[Uh...]

...The poker one. [Might as well try to learn the harder of the two first and get it out of the way...?]

[He nods, somewhat pleased since he does prefer poker.]

There's a few different kinds a' poker, actually. Seven card stud's what we normally do at my place, so we'll do that one. High only.

[Crow probably has no idea what that term means, he realizes after a moment.]

Meanin' the person with the highest hand gets the pot, it doesn't get split like in high-low. Get it?

[...What. Firo just gets a stare in reply to that.]

[Come on, he was clear enough, wasn't he? Firo backtracks to try and figure out what could be confusing Crow.]

The pot? You know, the money. High is where the person with the highest hand wins all the money.

[And the highest hand was stuff like those royal flushes or whatever Firo had been talking about before...right...but wait--]

Money? You didn't mention that before.

Huh? Oh, well, normally you play for money; place bets and stuff. I guess we can't do it that way here, but it doesn't matter.

It doesn't?

[~~Actually better question does Crow even know what money technically is...~~]

Nah. We just skip the parts where we'd normally bet.

[He smiles mischievously, not realizing that his attempt at joking might not be appreciated.]

Besides, I think Seto'd get mad if I cleared his best friend out.

[He gives a Look at that.]

Yeah, as if that would ever happen.

[He could easily mean "getting cleared out" or even just "Seto getting mad" too]

[In his overconfidence Firo finds it inconceivable that he wouldn't completely wallop a rookie--no way he'd go easy on him--so he assumes Crow's referring to Seto. He pauses in his shuffling and shrugs.]

Okay, maybe not mad, but he'd be upset.

[Well yes, he would be, but instead Crow says--] No way, he'd be cheering for me because I'm gonna find a way to win at this game.

[...Even though we've never played this game before until now.]

What?

[He laughs and continues shuffling. Time for some good old fashioned trash talking?]

C'mon, you don't even know how to play yet. And even when you do, don't think it'll be easy to win.

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