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Constable George Crabtree ([personal profile] 19centconstable) wrote2012-06-04 07:13 pm

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.
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[personal profile] scentbombed 2012-06-07 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
Not really.

...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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[personal profile] scentbombed 2012-06-07 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
You're getting over it better than I did, then. [All right, she might be a bit jealous about that. When she died, it wiped her out for what felt like ages. Bloody Satsuki.] Maybe it's not as bad when it's natural causes, do you think?
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[personal profile] scentbombed 2012-06-07 02:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[Captain -- he's better at this than she is, still with the titles, she thinks. Which is good, really. It's easier to think that way.]

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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[personal profile] scentbombed 2012-06-08 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
You should be. Gods know, with Satsuki... [...that it will be a miracle if she even graduates ever, much less wardens.] Well, good job, anyway.

[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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[personal profile] scentbombed 2012-06-08 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
As in discard, George. For better cards, hopefully. [She tugs the corners of her own ten up enough to glance at them, raises a brow, and sets them back down.]

Have you met her?
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[personal profile] scentbombed 2012-06-08 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
Higher numbers, generally. Things that add up to 21 are good, picture cards are good, aces are good, and sixes, sevens, and eights are good.

[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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[personal profile] scentbombed 2012-06-08 06:40 am (UTC)(link)
Oh.

[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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[personal profile] scentbombed 2012-06-08 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[George, that was a power move, and she does not like it. Or the fact that it worked. She squints at him, frowns, then clears her throat and goes back to dealing without another word, handing over three more cards, then laying out five, face-up.]

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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[personal profile] scentbombed 2012-06-09 02:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[Let her have her cynicism, George. It makes her life easier.]

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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[personal profile] scentbombed 2012-06-10 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
Because that's how you win. I suppose it's a slightly mean-spirited game, at that.
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[personal profile] scentbombed 2012-06-11 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
I've seen the sort of things they come up with on their own. [And that could not be said more darkly.] This is Where's My Cow? compared to some of the stuff that goes on in the Shades.

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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[personal profile] scentbombed 2012-06-11 07:12 am (UTC)(link)
All right, so you've got... that three-card Onion and a four-card flush, with the 3-4-6-7 of coins, there.

[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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[personal profile] scentbombed 2012-06-12 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
[Damn you, Crabtree.]

... I'll think on that.

[And she's just going to deal again quickly la la la.]

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