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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.]

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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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...Huh?

[Yeah sorry we don't know what a "capo" or a "casino" and such is.]

We're a Camorra family. A capo is like a captain, basically.

"Camorra family"? Didn't ya say it was the "Martillo family" a second ago?

[He just doesn't get what you're talking about Firo.]

Yeah. A Camorra is the type of organization we are, but the Martillo Family is the specific one I belong to. There are all kinds a' different Families.

[Not so much in America, where Firo's Family is one of the few Camorra Families left.]

... [He still doesn't really get what a Camorra or Martillo "family" does though but at least that was cleared up.]

And you're the "capo" or "captain" of this family or something?

One of 'em. There's about ten of us, and then we've got the capo societa, the primo voto, the chiamatore, and the conta e oro.

[...Firo we don't know what any of that means. >:|]

[He probably should have guessed.]

...The boss, the underboss, the secretary, and the accountant. They're the guys who do the most runnin' the whole thing.

[...The only parts of that we understood well enough was "boss" and maybe "underboss"]

Uh-huh, right...so what do you people even do?

We do lots of stuff. Our main rackets are extortion, gambling, and alcohol. Our speakeasy serves food, too.

Most of us just do one thing--like Randy and Pezzo do extortion. They're really good at it.

Extortion?

[Don't know what that is either...then again is that something you want to be teaching Crow about though, Firo...]

[He probably shouldn't, however Firo's too surprised that Crow doesn't know to actually think.]

You've never heard of it? It's where you get money from people for protection.

[...Kinda.]

Huh? So...what, people pay you to protect them?

[Well that doesn't sound like a bad thing...]

Yeah, basically. It also makes sure that our guys won't mess with 'em either.

Oh. [Crow doesn't even question why your people would mess with them; he figures it's like how he himself acts towards some people--you know, teasing them or something.]

What about you? What do you do?

[And Firo will just leave it at that. He doesn't see anything wrong with the practice, it's just how the world works.]

Me? I manage one of our casinos. Keep the records, deal with any problems; stuff like that.

[it's probably better for everyone not to properly explain extortion to us]

What's a casino?

It's a place where people gamble, they're pretty popular back home. People can use cards, like we just did, or they can use stuff like slot machines.

...Slot machines? What do those look like?

Well, it's this thing, kinda like a big box with a handle on the side. Then, at the top, there are three spaces where you can see wheels spinnin' inside. The wheels have pictures on 'em, and if you match up all three you win.

Oh! [We might have actually seen one of those before, in one of the many run-down buildings somewhere--but it was likely broken and it didn't work, so...]

Do they have one of those here to play with?

I never checked.

[And now he feels stupid for not doing so. He knows enough about the slots to know not to play them, but it'd be a touch of home.]

Stranger things have shown up here. I'll go look around sometime and if I find one, I'll show you.

Good--I'll keep a look out for one of those things, too.

[But god help him to remember to actually let you know right away if we actually found one here...]

Really? Thanks.

It'd be nice if we could actually set up a casino or somethin' here. Not for profit or anything, just for fun.

Yeah, playing around in one of those at least sounds way more fun than "jobs" do...

[Even if your job in particular isn't actually that boring as far as we can tell.]

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