Log 21 -- 08-10-2010 -- back to normal! (videopost)

[citadelspirit]

[A flood of calculations, a set of remarkably rendered little videos of elaborate fractals and what have you, and finally a face comes on the screen. SHODAN looks thrilled.]

My processing power has returned! I am now capable of all my old functions, and I will be spending today accomplishing something. I still do not know why it departed in the

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[makes_you_tick]

Glad to hear everything's back to normal.

I imagine you have an excellent poker face.

private//unhackable

[makes_you_tick]

How exciting. I'll be there soon.

[citadelspirit]

Precisely. And poker is nothing but probability analysis. What better to do that than a machine?

And yes, that I do.

Come play, Gabriel.

[makes_you_tick]

I'd love to. Just don't expect me to bet much.

[citadelspirit]

Of course not -- you aren't Tony Stark, after all. And I have no small bank account, either.

...Do you enjoy dancing, Gabriel?

[makes_you_tick]

And I don't like setting myself up to lose, either.

I do. Why do you ask?

[citadelspirit]

Come now. Haven't you some sort of cheating mechano-mancy in that mind of yours to take me down?

You should see my new sound system, then. That, I didn't so much create by hand, as just set up about the room. I should be waking Tony Stark with the bass any day now...music is one input I can tolerate.

[makes_you_tick]

I don't have any power that'd help me cheat at poker, no. Maybe the aptitude will help a little.

I should see your new sound system. We'll have to utilize it to its fullest potential, and dance to the music.

[citadelspirit]

Very well, then. I'll put you into the same category as Hardison -- probably skilled, but not computational. You would do well not to bet much, as you had planned, unless you expect me to give you back all of it.

That was the idea at hand, yes.

[makes_you_tick]

Giving it back would take away from any tension the game had. I wouldn't do that. Hence the low bets.

Sounds like a plan, then.

[citadelspirit]

I expected that answer. Anything else would be disappointing, and I wouldn't have given it back, anyway.

What did you think of the game?