Action: Open.

[vagabond_code]

Who: Clint, Kate, and Kara || OR YOU
Broadcast: No broadcast.
Action: Iskaulit.
When: Tonight.

(CLOSED TO KATE AND KARA)

[When Kate Bishop says, 'I want to introduce you to a friend', get suspicious. Have a beer, find a pack of cards from where it had been stashed behind Varric's bar, deal yourself a few hands of Solitaire and park your butt. Dress in your best purples. They'd recently been discussing their respective romantic prospects, so he was primed for one of two equally unpleasant scenarios. Had Kate found him a date? Had Kate found someone for her own dating purposes? Was this some sort of weird thing where she wanted Clint to like the guy? A permission thing? Have another drink, consider upping and leaving, check the time like a billion times.

But they're weren't late, not yet. He was early. Because, what if he wanted to make a good impression? You only get one chance.]

(OPEN TO EVERYONE)

[Before this anxious meeting, and probably after it, Clint will be on what he has come to think of as the ship-with-the-bar-on-it. Hit him up there, or bump into him while he gets bored and takes to broadening his understand of what this place has to offer. Expect him to be nervously fiddling with a pack of cards - performing feats of accuracy that defy the laws of fluid dynamics. In the gardens chopping off the heads of this or that flower with edge of a rapidly spinning card or curving another one gracefully through the air from one end of the hallway to another. He even stands for a fair while looking at the mural. Anywhere else, he'll at least pop his head in.]

Comments

[vagabond_code]

I don't know, here.

[He tosses one over at the guy, but just before it gets in range of him he says--]

Careful!

[Buuuuut no. They're normal-style playing cards.]

[goldenglasses]

[Vash could dodge the card. He could catch it between two fingers. He could do all these cool things.]

Ahhhhhhh!!!

[Instead he whimpers like a baby and ducks away from the 'scary' card so it bounces harmlessly off him and onto the ground.

Why? Playing coward was more fun.

He blinks down after he's "hit". Leaning over and picking it up off the ground. No comment about his cowardly display and seemingly already forgetting he just looked like an idiot.]

Huh, looks like any playing card I've seen before. That's a great arm that you have there!

[vagabond_code]

[He knows that whole bit. It's Barton's bit, actually, only dialed up to 11.]

Can you play? Uh-- blackjack? Actually that's terrible with two players.

[But Clint is already shuffling.]

[goldenglasses]

Blackjack, a few different versions of poker, gin rummy, and even go fish are only among the few games I know. I think the rules of my planet were pretty similar to Earth's. If you're from Earth of course.

[vagabond_code]

Any of those good with two players? And, can you teach me the rules?

[See? Clint could play dumb too.]

[goldenglasses]

[Let the idiot Olympics begin!]

They can be played with just two but are more fun with more people. I could teach you any of them.

[vagabond_code]

Yeah okay, you pick.

[After a pregnant pause he gives a stern look.]

And no cheating.

[Because, remember the flowers? Yeah.]

[goldenglasses]

Well, most people I've run into on the fleet who likes card games seem to favor poker of some sort. Five draw and tavern--er, or most called it Texas Hold'em seems to be two of the more popular styles. How about I teach you one of them?

[Vash laughs and holds up his hands in mock surrender.] No sir. No cheating here. I'd like to keep my head! In fact learning g these might help you avoid getting swindled later is someone dishonest talks you into a game. Of course they wouldn't know what you could do with an ace up your sleeve.

[vagabond_code]

[ Was that his game? Swindling people out of credits? ]

Texas Hold'em, okay. I think I've heard of that one. It's the one they play in casinos, right? How does it start?

[goldenglasses]

[Only against people who are also cheating or if he really needed a bit of cash to get by.]

Yeah! At least on my world they do. Usually you start with more than two people with a set amount of money. The person who has all the money at the end wins it all. And to win you have to get a certain type of card groups that are better than someone else's group. Sound familiar?