The weirdest kind of game

[urnotafraid]

Who: A gangster urnotafraid and an assassin kendonobara and a bunch of NPCs
What: A not-so friendly card game for the sake of a piece of the Slums
When: Remember the alcohol event? Sometime around then, probably right near the end.
Where: A place in the Slums where mob bosses hang out and try to be all mob bossy
Warnings: Swearing, blood, guts, shootings, NPCs getting

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[kendonobara]

This set up was elaborate, and in the end it all wouldn't even matter. Whoever won would end up getting into a brawl. To Aya, it seemed pretty pointless, but telling either of them that would be fruitless.

Not one to gamble, he simply stood to the side, watching. The game is unfamiliar to him, especially with that chess board involved. What the hell was that for? And where did Sho get such valuable items like that?

[urnotafraid]

Of course there will be fighting. It's what bosses do when they think they are being cheated or stiffed or they just want to show someone who is the boss. Sho finds it utterly amusing that they brought out this game of all games. Did the aliens think he had never played this kind of poker before? If he was a different sort of man, he would have been insulted

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[kendonobara]

[Even Aya can see that Sho isn't winning. Chess isn't that hard, but maybe Sho is just terrible at it. And poker.]

[The other boss looked rather smug. Or so Aya believes. With all those nostrils, it's distracting to really tell.]

[Why would he move that pawn? Sho should have let Aya play.]

[urnotafraid]

Well yes, it does look like that was true, but this was a game designed to work on five dimensions. The game mediator shuffled the pieces around and then switched the pawn over to the queen. Even with that piece, he was outnumbered, a fact that the alien boss pointed out with a curl of it's upper lips and a raspy kind of coughing laugh.

All Sho did was blow a smoke ring while the alien traded out two more cards. The game mediator then placed the deck down face-up on the pile of loot, signaling the end of the round. Sho glanced over at Aya before facing the alien boss again.

[kendonobara]

[Aya catches the glance and just wonders if Sho really has this under control. It doesn't show on his face. Keeping it stony as ever. He does, however, glare at the alien boss. The round ends, but are they ahead or not?]

[urnotafraid]

The alien boss tossed it's cards down and it's a decent enough hand with three of a kind, one that give it enough speed to knock out the last of the guarding pawns and set Sho's king in check. Sho arched an eyebrow and casually flips his cards over. A royal straight flush.

With that, he easily moved the queen into attack mode, taking out the alien's guarding rook and setting him into a check mate thanks to the king's own barricading pieces. Reaching over, he knocks the stuff piled up and picks his ring back up.

"Nice game, but you really need to keep an eye on your king a little bit better."

damnit I keep using action, not prose /fixes

[kendonobara]

...what just happened?

Aya stepped forward, looking to Sho's hand that was now on the table in controlled awe. Something told him that Sho knew more about this game than he let on. Either that, or dumb luck.

He cast his eyes to the board. Sure enough, the king wasn't that well protected. Another glance was given to the boss, and he could see that the other was about to blow a gasket. Maybe literally. Aya could never tell with these aliens.

/patpat and I am backu

[urnotafraid]

Sho did know more about it than he acted. That was one of the things that he always found funny - people looked at him with his fancy clothing and never really saw that it took a lot of calculations to be a loud mouth punk like him.

He rubbed his wedding band and smiled, reaching a hand over in a totally nice and non-threatening manner. Of course, this gave the alien boss reason to yell at his guards to attack.

woohoo!

[kendonobara]

Of course they attacked. Why wouldn't they? Aya didn't think this game would go down with out a fight, so here he was, defending himself by grabbing the hilt of sword.

There were way too many laser guns around, and they had little time to plant things around for a distraction. They need a plan, or do what they always did. Go crazy.

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[urnotafraid]

Sho just sighed. Why did these kind of people feel the need to have a game if in the end all they were going to do was attack? Oh yeah, right. It was all about face. As the guns came out, Sho went down, grabbing the edge of the table and flipping it up, scattering pieces and cards all over the place. The mediator yelled and hit the floor while goons crowded in to get at Sho.

[kendonobara]

The table was a good place to start. He managed to roll the table on its side to act as a shield for them both while rolling it to the side. He broke free from the rolling table and dashed at one goon, gutting him while a laser beam grazed his shoulder. Adrenaline would act as a temporary morphine to block the pain. The newly acquired meat shield worked nicely as Aya took out a few other members with the laser gun.