cfuw 142: limbo.

[cfuw_shepherd]

[you are locked in a small room underground with no air conditioning and several TVs with video feeds to the game.

enjoy.]

Comments

[keytoexilellence]

[A few of her formative years have been spent with the crews of flying war ships... But they probably don't let her play anymore because it's embarrassing to lose to a little girl]

[Nods!]

[runstowardsfire]

[Oh well, she learned to play poker when she was your age anyhow.]

Who is Claudia?

[keytoexilellence]

Who--? It is valuable ore. You exchange it for goods or services and most ships use it as fuel.

[runstowardsfire]

I see. And were they card games?

[Learned a new thing. Probably won't remember it. Bugger.]

[keytoexilellence]

[head shake]

It's what you had to pay if you lost the round. But sometimes people don't have Claudia -- they have eclairs or magazines or taking on extra chores or being the person to bring a complaint to Tatiana.

[runstowardsfire]

I meant to ask if you used Claudia as stakes in card games. Different worlds might have different card games.

[keytoexilellence]

[Oh... She nods then!]

[runstowardsfire]

What sort of card games? Anything like poker?

[keytoexilellence]

Yes, poker!

[And she names off one or two other Last Exile gambling specials]

[runstowardsfire]

[It is confirmed--the under 18s are all secret card sharks or something.]

And it needs more than two people to play?

[keytoexilellence]

[nod nod!]

[But now no cards Shepherd is a jerk]

[runstowardsfire]

[Nothing new there.]

Maybe you can explain the rules when we've got nothing to do. I'm afraid I'm going to forget most of it when the game is over though.

[The fact that her necklace was not actually splattered with blood is not helping because THEFT.]