High Roller's Lounge

[cenizasquedaran]

[Today, just outside and in broad daylight--a veritable casino! Slot machines, roulette tables, blackjack, craps, all run by purple gorillas in gorilla suits (by which I mean tuxedos, of course). Manny is dressed in his dinner jacket, smoking and looking nonplussed.]

Slot machines, huh...

[Does anyone have any spare change to play or things to barter

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[fomicrymeariver]

[* Jade has acquired the title Gambler at Heart!]

[what the hell did he put in the slot machine?]

[cenizasquedaran]

[...Curious... something about this guy pings me in the grim reaper]

[fomicrymeariver]

[hint: it was something with tentacles and is making a bunch of squick-squick-squick noises]

Forgive me for being so brazen to a stranger, but it's my opinion that tobacco is rather damaging to your health.

[cenizasquedaran]

Oh, it's fine--I'll try not to blow any smoke your way.

[fomicrymeariver]

I was expressing concern at yours, dear sir. [was he? REALLY? probably not.]

But no matter.

[cenizasquedaran]

Gracias, but I don't have any health to damage, anymore.

Enjoying yourself?

[fomicrymeariver]

[nonchalantly shoving the tentacled blob that is climbing out of the coin slot back up it]

Ah, so it's like that--oh, do forgive me. How rude of me not to introduce myself.

[doesn't. instead, continues to shove the tentacle monster (which is clearly protesting) harder]

[cenizasquedaran]

...Having trouble, señor?

[fomicrymeariver]

Do call me Jade.

[cenizasquedaran]

Señor Jade, then.

They aren't my machines, you know. If you're trying to cheat, you're cheating against Camp.

[fomicrymeariver]

My--I'm hurt. To accuse someone you've just met of such a thing like cheating--I never.

[tentacle monster slides out onto the floor and lets out a the saddest cry]

[cenizasquedaran]

I've done worse. So have you, by the looks of things.

[fomicrymeariver]

Oh dear. I did forget to feed you this morning, didn't I, Gailardia?

[nudging at the blob with his toe]

[cenizasquedaran]

Is it dead?

[fomicrymeariver]

[blob moannnns.]

Hardly. She merely enjoys the dramatics.

[cenizasquedaran]

"She."