Poker Night

[kingroadie]

Who: Eddie Riggs & EVERYONE; adults who attend
When: Thursday, 1 am onwards. (Open to back tagging)
Where: Rec Room
Summary: Eddie decides POKER NIGHT is the best idea for off week.
Rating: PG-13 to R to be safe.
Warnings: Smoking, drinking, cursing, poker and horrible drunken stories. Thread jacking out the wazzoo. Mingling funtimes.

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[gesta_danorum]

Denmark walks into the Rec Room, looking all around him like the entire place is new. Which it is, and he doesn't hide the fact that he's unfamiliar with the whole thing. His expression is slightly perturbed but when he catches sight of the game spread that changes his whole face lights up. There's already a nice collection of people and hey, it looks like he's just in time.

And if his eyes linger a little overlong on the available drinks it's only the look of a desperate man and can be ignored.

"Hey, is this a group event? Mind if I join?" He's already pulling up a chair as he says this, smiling widely.

[slug_sannin]

Tsunade recognizes the look of a man in need of a drink and pushes a can of beer over to him. It's not very often the adults get together without the kids. Polite adults definitely needed to be made welcome. And she might actually stand a chance of winning a hand if they weren't all cheats like Jack and Tyki.

"You look plenty old enough to join in. You've made it before the first hand."

[gesta_danorum]

He laughs at that observation about his age, taking the can and raising it in thanks. The relief is likely written all over his face.

"Great timing on my part!" he says as he pops open the tab and takes a deep drink, closing his eyes for a moment and just savoring. Not the best he's had, but he really wasn't about to be choosy right now. At the moment simply having the drink along with what looked like potentially good company was enough to settle his somewhat frayed nerves. Setting the can down he looked at the woman, grinning cheerfully.

"My name's Denmark," he said, holding out a hand to shake.

[slug_sannin]

Fortunately Tsunade was getting used to hand shakes as the default way to meet another adult and she shakes his hand with a smile.

"I'm Tsunade. New arrival, right?"

She knows just about every face, keeping records on most of them for the times when things went to hell. She's already filing away information so she can update her records later and account for the new arrivals.

[gesta_danorum]

He lets go of her hand after a firm shake, he can be a bit exuberant sometimes.

"Yep! Written all over my face right?" He shrugs, taking another drink. "Can't say I'm thrilled by th' whole thing, dunno who would be. But hey, this is a good way t' make the best of it!"

Gestures widely to the table, card deck, snacks and drinks all included, and then pauses. "Where did all this come from, anyway? I only saw water and uh, those really terrible food bars."

[slug_sannin]

"I've just been here a long time, I know most of the faces." She leans back in her chair with a drink of her own, relaxing and letting her more professional demeanor fall to the sidelines. This was more her speed, adults, cards, and drinks.

"After you've been here for awhile you learn to stock pile whenever something else comes along."

[gesta_danorum]

He smiles, looking curious. "What have you got stockpiled?"

And then a beat later. "And where do ya keep it? Our rooms aren't that big." He gave her a sideways look, a teasing smile playing on his lips.

"Unless you bein' here longer means you've got a room a bit larger than a grave."

[kingroadie]

"Come aboard, man. We don't bite round here," Eddie's smiling back at Denmark's arrival, glad to see some new faces amongst the usual crowd that frequented his parties.

"Unless you ask real nice that is, I know a few folks who'll oblige ya," He spares Jack a side glance at that bad dog. "M'guessin' you're new round here?"

[gesta_danorum]

"I'll be sure t' remember that," he replies cheerfully, making himself comfortable. It was nice to know that quite a few people here were proving to be really friendly.

He liked friendly people.

He breathed out a gusty breath, shifting back to relax in his chair. "Sure am, shiny and new and not happy to be here at all!" He laughs then, which kind of goes against his claim. Truth is it's just not something he wants to mope about. "But what can ya do, right? Hearin' no one has ever managed t' escape before." But he's really hoping he'll hear something contrary to that claim.

[kingroadie]

Eddie gives a small snort at Denmark's second comment as the man relaxes into his chair. Eddie just shuffling his hand of cards idly before giving up on them. Due to Jack & Tyki's cheating, no one is getting a decent hand during any of the rounds. "If you were drunk, then you could go round contradictin' yourself like that," Is the roadie's eased joking response back as he moves to deal Denmark a few cards as well.

"There've been a few good attempts, got us to upper levels 'fore. That rarely ever lasts long though,"

[gesta_danorum]

Denmark moves his hands over the cards as they are placed before them, scooping them up easily and glancing at them before returning his attention to the other man.

"That so? Goin' with 'just 'cause it hasn't been done yet doesn't mean it's impossible'?" He grins, wide and momentarily feral. "I like that!"

[kingroadie]

Eddie's more or less hoping his hand somehow gets better. With the cheating going on, the cards will probably be shuffled soon enough.

"Ey, anythin' is possible, if they can do weird experiments on us, s'more than likely we can find our way out."