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Tweak says, "You love him don't you?"

Ikeda Kiriko | 池田妃凛子 (apathyisboring) wrote in disappear_rpg,
@ 2010-02-27 23:34:00

Entry tags:

beachthread, kiriko, kou, kozue, misaki, open thread, toru, toshimi

A little gambling
Who: Open.
What: Poker Night.
Where: The beach.
When: On the trip. Second night? Third night?
Why: 'cause you can't read her poker face.

"Alright, ante up. Newbies, too, I'll walk you through the first round." Leading by example, Kiriko plucked a few multicoloured chips from her plentiful pile and tossed them haphazardly into the center of the plastic table. She'd set it up (or rather, had someone else set it up for her) out on the sand, not too far from the snack bar, not too close to the shore. The sun had set - bug lamps and tiki torches were lighting the table, that and the full moon that hung too low and too large in the not-completely-black sky. That would remedy itself before long, but it was quite a sight in the meanwhile, and Kiriko watched it contentedly while waiting for the rest of the table to bet. There were still empty seats and stragglers along the shore. She'd shouted at them earlier to come and play, and was debating doing it again.

"Oh yeah, and this is the practice round. We're not betting anything valuable... yet."

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Re: A REPLY TO ALL THREE OF YOU AT ONCE.

pinksunbeam
2010-03-02 04:31 pm UTC (link)

Misaki stared at Toshimi, was this the same girl that normally had a overly ambiguious smile plastered on her face? She rubbed her eyes some and blinked, using the excuse of the smoke from the tiki lamps. Looking at her cards then at kiriko and Toshimi she smiled some commenting.

"Well, you seem really confident Toshi-chan, that's all." not wanting to add, 'normally you can't tell what emotion you're going through at the time.' She looked at the pile of chips and laughed. "It's a good thing this is a practice round, you wouldn't want to loose too much money right?"

Looking over at Kiriko she rubbed the back of her neck, "Are you sure 200 is okay? Are we talking dollars or yen? Because if we're talking american dollars then I'm out, I don't have that sort of money on me."

She sighed at the converstation between the two girls, "Even so there are rules of play though, you don't want to be seen as cheating right? So is this like one of those poker tournement shows? Er...which version of the game are we playing Kiriko-chan? I know there's like four different kinds that they mentioned on the show. Ah...what were they...Straight, Stud, Draw...and something called community poker?"

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Re: A REPLY TO ALL THREE OF YOU AT ONCE.

apathyisboring
2010-03-02 10:27 pm UTC (link)

"Huh? It's just points, Misaki-chan. Nothing to do with money."

She didn't answer right away, given that she was still preoccupied with staring slack-jawed at Toshimi. Um, okay. Somebody probably got her drunk or something. That was unpleasant... and come to think of it, she probably wouldn't have much to bet when they got to the real game. Well, maybe she'd leave after the practice round and sleep it off and be back to her normal, still-vaguely-freaky self in the morning.

"We're doing five card draw for now. Anyway, I put in my bet, so now you have to see it or fold."

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Re: A REPLY TO ALL THREE OF YOU AT ONCE.

pinksunbeam
2010-03-04 04:58 pm UTC (link)

"Oh sorry, sorry. When my brother plays with his friends they play for money so that's why I was a bit suprised when you threw in two hundred. I think the blues are a hundred the greens are seventy fives, reds are fifty and whites are twenty five, if I heard Yoshi-san right. Though he's a bit weird I can never tell if he's behing honest or not." Misaki explained and pulled out the chips.

"How are these divided Kiriko-chan?" nodding some she looked over her cards again trying to decide if she was okay with the hand or not. Shrugging she played with the chips, then threw in a few, "I'll see the two hundred."

Misaki looked at the other players and smiled, "Who's going next?"

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Re: A REPLY TO ALL THREE OF YOU AT ONCE.

anthesphoria
2010-03-04 08:50 pm UTC (link)

Kozue furrowed her brow, looking back and forth between Toshimi and Misaki. Did the beach make people crazy or something? It was Misaki she responded to, first, though, because at least Misaki's brand of crazy was, well, expected. "Even if we were playing for money now, why would we be using American money? I mean, we don't exactly have a money exchange up the street or anything. There's nothing up the street." And that was a fact that Kozue had already lamented, if briefly; no clubs, no boardwalk, no external excitement. No cute stranger boys.

She slid her own bet in without actually looking particularly hard at her cards; the calculations and math and hard thinking of this kind of game was not where Kozue shone. Pretending not to know the rules at all until she had a hand that even she knew was killer, and could sweep the table once? That was much more her style. "I'll see two hundred and raise fifty. I, uh, can do that, right?"

After betting, she regarded Toshi again. What had the girl been saying about... well, all of it? Kozue wasn't actually sure that she'd heard Toshi string together that many words, recently.

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	Re: A REPLY TO ALL THREE OF YOU AT ONCE. pinksunbeam 2010-03-05 01:42 am UTC (link)
	"Ah well, probably because it's what I've seen them use on TV some of the time." She shrugged. "No we don't, doesn't mean that when we get back we can't exchange it and have more money to use when we get home." Misaki glanced at Kozue and laughed lightheartedly, "Going to try to make us raise to match you, huh Kozue-chan?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Re: A REPLY TO ALL THREE OF YOU AT ONCE.

thrown_to_winds
2010-03-11 01:28 am UTC (link)

Toshimi pushed another random amount of chips into the betting pile without paying it much attention, examining her hand and re-organizing the cards. "Mmm, yes, you can learn some fascinating things about the world from television..." she remarked in a somewhat detached voice, glancing only briefly above her cards.

Finished with whatever it was she was so interested in about the order her cards were in, she smirked at the others. "Ladies, have I ever told you how life is exactly like a game of cards?" This time, her tone was dead serious and fully engaged. She met any looks with a piercing stare straight back in the eye.

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Re: A REPLY TO ALL THREE OF YOU AT ONCE.

pinksunbeam
2010-03-11 04:48 pm UTC (link)

Misaki blinked a bit suprised at the change of tone in Toshimi. She laughed lightly, more of a forced laugh that came about from suddenly being nervous. Something in the way Toshimi spoke gave her the creeps, though she didn't want to outright say that and offend the older girl.

She looked at Toshimi and then quickly darted her eyes down then up again and asked softly, "No, no you haven't Toshi-chan."

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Re: A REPLY TO ALL THREE OF YOU AT ONCE.

apathyisboring
2010-03-11 05:48 pm UTC (link)

Kiriko evaded Toshimi's eye. This was quickly surpassing the kind of weird that could be explained away by alcohol, but the other kind of weird didn't fit either, did it? They were at the beach, after all - not at school. Someone was throwing people into Paradise, right? But that hadn't happened with Sonozaki... Or at least, so she claimed. But maybe it wasn't. Maybe Toshimi was just kind of a psycho bitch when you got her away from school.

Kiriko glanced upwards long enough to see her staring creepily at someone else at the table, then looked back down to her cards. She cleared her throat.

"Alright, this round, we show. Whoever has the best hand wins. Last chance to fold 'em, now."

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Re: A REPLY TO ALL THREE OF YOU AT ONCE.

thrown_to_winds
2010-03-12 10:50 pm UTC (link)

"Toshi-chan," she repeated contemptuously, turning her attention to Misaki. "If you think you've earned it to call me that, you grossly overestimate our relationship. Of course, I can see how you would make that mistake; it's not your fault that you have no understanding of the workings of society in the real world. Someone like you would never have that opportunity; I understand. You may address me as Nawanaka-san or, more properly, senpai."

After a moment, though, she shrugged. "Of course, whether or not you understand the purposes of conforming to societal norms is really of no consequence to me or anyone else. You'll still die alone, so call me whatever you want...Misaki-chan." Toshimi accompanied the sharp edge to this statement with her sweetest, most innocent smile.

She turned her focus back to the game. "You see, in a game of poker, you have a few rounds to try and improve, but in the end, nearly all of the determination of who can win and who can lose is made from the moment the cards are dealt. And although you can try to change your hand, whether or not you'll be provided with the right cards all depends on the order of the same deck from which you were dealt your hand in the first place." She gestured towards the rest of the cards. "In turn, the order of the deck is determined by however it was arranged before it was shuffled from the way it was in the last game, and so on. Any gambler with a little know-how can keep track.

In other words, you may think you're playing a game of chance..."

She placed her hand of cards on the table: a royal flush.

"...but in reality, everything is predetermined. And life is exactly the same way. You have to accept the hand you're dealt."

She stood up. "Of course, there is one difference worth noting." She looked at the rest of them with something between a smirk and a scowl; a far cry from her usual mask. "In life, you're only dealt one hand. If you're going to play, you have to bet it all."

With that, she turned and left the table, disappearing into the night.

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