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7th Hat Flip [Voice/Action]

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[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.]

[Action]

[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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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.

Just watch me. I could be better than anyone once I get the hang of this--maybe even better than you.

[Crow, no, no you won't, you didn't even know that this game existed until just now.]

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Yeah, right. I've beaten guys with way more experience than you.

[He taps the deck on the table.]

Are you ready to actually try and play now? Or are you gonna give up and save me the trouble of beatin' you?

[Hahaha no way]

As if! Let's start playin' already!

Alright.

[He places three cards in front of each of them, one face up and two face down. Setting the deck to the side, he taps both of Crow's face down cards.]

These're your hole cards. You can look at 'em, but don't show 'em to me. Normally the face up card would decide who's gotta bet first--the one with the lowest card--but we're not doin' that.

[ooc: How would you like to do this? Should we each determine which cards our respective characters have or skip over it?]

[He looks down at the cards curiously (and setting aside the deck that you were letting us look at a moment ago) before reaching out and picking up one of the facedown cards, turning it over for him to look at by himself.]

Then what are we doing with the face up one instead?

[ooc: Haha I can go either way, it's up to you. (It's probable Crow will lose the first few times or so anyway no matter what his cards are XD)]

Nothin' yet. Now's the part where we'd go around and either raise, call, or fold.

[He picks up the deck again to give each of them a face up card, then realizes that Crow probably doesn't know those terms.]

Raise is to put in a higher bet than the last person, call is to put in the same one, and fold is to resign. We'll skip all that too,

[ooc: I guess saving it for the end, then, if that'll work for you?]

[Wow there's a lot more rules than he had thought was left to this game.]

...Okay, then what?

[ooc: Yeah, that's fine with me!]

Now that we've both got four cards, normally we'd bet again. We'll skip that, too, so now...

[And he gives them each another face up card.]

Then we'd bet again. Think you're gettin' the hang a' this?

[ooc: Alrighty, thanks!]

I think so? [Sort of? Still a little confused but he's doing his best to memorize the instructions for this.]

[It probably doesn't help that this is the first time Firo's ever taught someone; most of the picciotto working for him come in already knowing how to play.]

It might make more sense once we're done. But really it's mostly just repeatin' the same thing over again. You bet, get your cards, then bet again.

[He slides them each yet another face up card.

See? So now we'd bet again, and then you get another card.

[He gives them both their sixth card, once again face up.]

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