Constable George Crabtree (
19centconstable) wrote2012-06-04 07:13 pm
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Case #53: Video
[George is in the infirmary. He looks slightly green around the gills (not that he has gills), but otherwise well.]
That was quite unpleasant. I don't believe I like myself when I am angry.
And I hope I didn't put anyone out too much, particularly you, Captain Angua. And Dick: I do of course trust you completely with any of my bodily fluids.
That was quite unpleasant. I don't believe I like myself when I am angry.
And I hope I didn't put anyone out too much, particularly you, Captain Angua. And Dick: I do of course trust you completely with any of my bodily fluids.
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...Trolls are smaller.
[She shrugs sheepishly and takes a seat, eyeing him over with a concern that she will swear is professional. It's different, over the network and in person... She remembers that from her death toll, too.] Seriously, you're..?
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Oh. Yes. I really do feel fine. Just a bit tired. As if I've just gotten over a chest cold.
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You may have something there, Captain. Also, there wasn't any part of me that needed repair, necessarily.
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Just a good bout of recovery, Constable. You've earned your R&R with Hoffman, anyway. [She pulls over a rolling medicine stand and starts to lay the cards out, as if proving her point.]
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I'd certainly hope so. I'm very proud of him for remaining on as a warden.
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[She puts five cards facedown in front of him, and ten for herself.] All right, take a look at those, throw out up to four. [The cards are numbered like Earth cards, but the suits are completely different: staves, swords, cups, coins, octograms, elephants, terrapins and crowns.]
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[George glances down at his cards.]
Throw...out? For what reason?
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Have you met her?
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[He shakes his head.]
I don't believe so. What is it that's troubling you?
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[She waits, drumming her fingers against the little table with a frown.] Nothing, exactly. She's just... moving slowly. A bit glacially, actually. It's hard to know if I'm doing anything.
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I'm sure that you are. And that she's very lucky to have you.
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[Later on, she's going to really, truly hate herself for the look that she knows is on her face at this exact moment. And she already hates herself for every second that she doesn't pull her hand away... But she keeps not doing it anyway.]
...Well.
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Alright. I will discard three. And now?
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So as I said, you want things that add up to twenty-one. The five, nine, and seven here, that's good. That's a three-card Onion.
[Angua is not actually a very repressed person -- but boy, can she fake it when need be.]
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A three-card...Onion?
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Because they add up, you see? If it had been an ace and a ten, that would be a two-card Onion, and so forth. Groups of any three numbers are good, as are groups of suits. You know, ten terrapins, say.
[She's moving her hands a great deal, now, keeping them busy on the cards, even though it's not really necessary.]
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So why does one cripple him?
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Right, so what have you got? Really, you're supposed to look for yourself and figure it out, but this is the tutorial round, so... just turn them over, I suppose.
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[She turns over her own cards, showing them to him.] And I've got a Royal -- these three sevens -- and a Double Onion with these two aces and the Jack and the King. So I win this round, George, I'm sorry to say. What are you going to give me? We forgot to bet.
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Well, what would you like?
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... I'll think on that.
[And she's just going to deal again quickly la la la.]
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