Ocean's 11 Plotline PART 1: CASINO NIGHT! YAY! [And, for no apparent reason, the lobby of NFPDR has suddenly been turned into a casino, with an adjoining set of rooms being converted into offices and the main cashier]
[A large banner with "Grand Opening" is hung over the lobby, pretty lights decorate the ceiling, and every table is open! Drinks are served to players, comped by the house]
[As Baird wanders in, very pretty ladies in rather, ahem, "minimal" skirts warmly greet him. His eyes wander over them as he starts grinning and walks into the casino, quite happily in fact! Baird has lived in a world where anything even remotely fun (that doesn't have the possibility of creating more slaves for the regime) is banned, so he can't wait to blow some money!]
[And Baird sits down at the 6:5 Blackjack table. All other rules are liberal Vegas Strip rules (Resplit all pairs including aces to 4 hands, double down on any 2 cards including after splits, late surrender allowed, dealer stands on soft 17, 6 deck CSM). Unfortunately for Baird, he doesn't know that normally, BJ is meant to pay 3:2 since the only other blackjack he has ever played (in the Strip Blackjack room) paid 1:1 on BJ]
"Six to Five! Man, that's better than before!"
[and he sits down, colors up his Seran money (its not like he actually needs it here), and starts gambling]
[As the comp'd drinks start flowing, he gets hammerred. And he's playing mathematically perfect strategy too... he ran some calculations after the Strip Blackjack room]
[BUT Baird ends up losing. A lot. Again, Seran money means nothing here but, come on, its the principle of the thing! He played perfectly and got wiped out! Quite quickly in fact! FUCK THIS PLACE!]
[And Baird stumbles out of the casino in, well, a grumpy mood. He hangs out in a lounge room set outside the casino and writes a nice sign on the front door: "Loser's Lounge"]
[And, unknown to Baird, or anyone outside casino management, the games aren't truly random . The casino is literally cheating here. The CSMs are rigged to withold 10-cards and only put them back in the shoe occasionally. The Zero on the roulette wheel is magnetized slightly to attract the ball to it. THIS CASINO IS EEEEVIL!]
[OOC: OCEAN'S 11 CASINO NIGHT! EVERYONE THAT WANTS TO JOIN IN HAS TO GO TO THE CASINO, LOSE A LOT OF MONEY, JOIN BAIRD IN THE LOSERS LOUNGE AND GET CONSPIRING!!! VAMP, CID, SANDER, FALCON, WOLVERINE ARE EXPECTED TO ATTEND. AND PLEASE, MARI, BRING TRAIN ALONG! SNAKE AND, OF COURSE, GAMBIT, WILL BE JOINING IN SOON!!!!]
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