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And We Danced (Masquerade Overflow!)

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_{[ It would very well be a factor, but who even knew if Atroma had the
capacity to understand something like 'attractive'. ]}

Well, so long as you don't use any of your online poker tactics, I think you won't find to many angry people here tonight.

_{[ He stepped into the room and looked around, finding them a less
populated table to sit at. ]}

Consider it practice for if we ever get to a pleasure planet.

[ statistically, winn would say they already have scientific proof that they do. ]

Are you implying I cheat?

[ it wounds him to his very core. or it would, if he weren't a hacker. it's actually a fair accusation, if wrong. he doesn't cheat, he doesn't have to, he's just a really good strategist. ]

Pleasure Planet? [ have a raised brow there, as he follows along. that sounds...very creepy. ]

_{[ Possibly, but attractiveness was a subjective thing - like your
aesthetics in art. A rather hard thing to quantify. ]}

Hardly, I'm just saying that maybe the cards turn up right for you more than a computer algorithm would normally allow.

_{[ He smirked at him, because he had not been thinking that til just
then, but he hardly blamed him. After all, Kirk had cheated on more than
one occasion himself. ]}

Yeah, you know, a planet that is.... think like a tourist city like Vegas or Miami back on Earth, but make it a whole planet.

[ normally, winn would quantify it as 'anything that isn't him', but that doesn't seem to fly here, thankfully. maybe it's laying off all the saturated fats and sugars. ]

Winning streaks are a statistical fact.

[ smirking right back. maybe he should be defending his honor, but that's boring.

he makes a face at the explanation though. vegas and miami both sound pretty gross to him, in general. ]

So basically like here but with a lot more sequins. [ in the there's-no-going-out sense. he's not the biggest fan of the great outdoors, but he prefers ignoring it for the sake of the comfort of his apartment, or a fun night out with friends, not a crowded casino with angry security that doesn't take kindly to strategists. ]

_{[ Quite possibly. Thankfully space tends to be short of fast food and sweets. They just don't travel well through the void. ]}

Perhaps, but there is a point where you have to wonder if the math works in one man's favor quite so often. That in itself is a statistical improbability.

_{[ See? He knows math too. Or not, because the mun may be talking out her ass. ]}

Heh, hopefully less sequins, but actually yes. Those types of planets survive mostly off trade and tourism, sometimes because they were colonized for just that reason with special permissions from the governments within that star system.

_{[ He wasn't quite sure that was entirely ethical, but so long as there were no sentient species being encroached on, governments could do as they wished in their systems. Star Fleet was, as much as they could be, a neutral force. ]}

There aren't many, but there are some.

[ thankfully, it's-the-worst-thing-about-it, poteto, potato. ]

Improbability's not an impossibility.

[ ~~so's this mun, it's all good~~ ]

So, yeah, space-Vegas. I could go without. What's your game?

No, but it does make for suspiciousness.

_{[ He chuckled. ]}

I dunno, I think you'd find one that you like. As for game - chess, poker... and pinball.

There's just no trust anymore.

[ he sighs and shakes his head. ]

OK chess and poker I can beat you at on board -- let's pinball it up!

Beat me? My, someone's confident.

But pinball it is.

_{[ He makes for the machines, cool as you please, whistling when he saw
the machines. ]}

Wow, these are totally retro.

It's literally in my name.

[ he nods with a smile. but for all his grandstanding, he wouldn't actually be upset to lose. it means he got a good and interesting game from a worthy opponent and a friend! so really, he wins anyway. he's always winning.

it's just fun to have some teasing every once in a while not be about him. ]

Oh my god they are - [ he runs a hand over the side of one of the machines: hello, childhood! ] wonder if they're retro for here too, or an import -

_{[ He snorts at that. He sees what you did there Winn. Cheesy. Very cheesy. But he's not one to talk - at all. Cheese ball right here.

He grins a little at the way Winn touches the machine, Kirk moving to lean over it. It seemed the machine had been fit for endless play, no coins or credits or anything required. ]}

Who knows? It's interesting they have one at all, considering that pinballs are an Earth form an entertainment. It's not impossible they would come up with the same sort of game, just... a touch unlikely.

But, hey, means we know how to play, right?

[ hey - cheese is delicious! ]

A distant moon inventing pinball, Earth-type gravity and oxygen levels on the ships bothering no one even though we're most of us from completely different dimensions, some from different planets - if we list everything that's unlikely we'll be here all year. Let's play!

Point to you.

_{[ He chuckled and stepped aside for the other to go first. ]}

So you get the honor of going first ~

[ rubbing his hands, he steps right up to the machine with a childish grin ]

Don't worry, baby, you're in great hands - [ starting up the game, he plays with so much energy and enthusiasm, it's practically exercise. ]

Do you talk like that to every machine you get your hands on?

No, that'd be crazy -

[ he doesn't talk to the toaster, ok. ]

Please don't tell me this is the way you talked to women.

_{[ He thinks it is, Winn. He thinks it is. ]}

No, that includes a lot of words that don't serve a purpose.

[ are you trying to distract him from the game, jim? he will win all the same!!! ]

Really? Like what?

_{[ Come on, you gotta share Winn. ]}

Like -- whatever pops into my head at the moment, and telling me to pretend you're a woman isn't gonna change my mind on the kiss thing, sorry, dude.

[ cuz that's totally where jim was going with this, right. ]

Yeah, you made it clear you don't like men - I remember from the first time.

_{[ He rolled his eyes. ]}

But come on - what pops in your head? Whatever it was, it worked on Kitty so it can't be that bad.

-- we talked about slinkies.

[ nodding. and childhood trauma, but he doesn't really think that's party appropriate subject matter. and besides, that was the second time they met. ]

And superpowers.

Slinkies and walking through walls? Scintillating.

Slinkies man, they're irresistible.

[ nodding ]

Plus, she likes my voice. [ she called him especially to tell him, so she must like it a lot! ]

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