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SO. I’m not off hiatus yet, but… if you missed my post on the CR Meme last month, Tonegawa’s staying true to his word and holding that poker game after all. I just thought I should gauge interest again and see if people are still up for it.

FOR THE NIGHT ITSELF: He’s going to be keeping things low-stakes to try and keep the peace a little, so there’ll be no minimum bet. That said, as I mentioned before, Tonegawa will be cheating towards the end of the night. He’ll be using his powers (convincing people that whatever he says is true for around fifteen seconds) to make people believe that the trash hands he claims to win on are actually of a much higher value, then reshuffling the cards before it wears off. The more he does it, though, the weaker its effects will be, so anyone and everyone are free to call him out after a few rounds!

If anyone else wants to pull something off as well, you’re very welcome to! Just say so here so anyone who could figure it out/ who would like to be tricked/ whatever can know about it.

ALSO: any idea of how to set things up? I’m not sure how to go about it without everyone having to play through a whole game. Sub-headed threads, maybe, with different things happening? Or like a pre-post mingling thing?

If you didn’t say anything before but want to get in on this now, you’re very welcome to just sort of turn up. So long as you aren’t obviously just trying to start trouble and call him up before hand, Tonegawa’ll probably let you in. I’ll be putting up a log on Wednesday or Thursday!

EDIT: I totally forgot about the outbreak, so I'll be pushing this forward to early June. Sorry about that!

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GO FISH

- When the cheating starts Claire will likely cotton on to it sooner or later (definitely to the fact that cheating is happening, possibly to how it's being done). His eldest stepbrother has a bad habit of cheating at cards so he has some experience with it...

- After that he's unlikely to sit back and let it happen, so he'll either be playing card sharp to even things out a little or just getting lippy/table flippy about it.

- He could also be given a reason to go in cheating. He doesn't have much incentive to now, but I gather that certain parties he knows are predisposed to antagonise the host.

QUESTION: is this going to be set during the guilt outbreak or dated to before/after that?

WOW KAIJI IS BANNED YOU HEAR ME, BANNED

But ahhhh I'd completely forgotten about that. Damn you hiatus! IN THAT CASE, I'LL PUT IT FORWARD TO JUNE. Thank you very much for letting me know. I'm dumb. ♥

Is Chane banned too? Claire is a magnet for people who hate Tony-san...

HAH NO WORRIES ♥ this gives me more time to learn how card games with more than three types of card in them actually work...

She is allowed unless she is fired/ resigned by then obvs. Which is... looking increasingly likely sob sob

I only learned how to play poker recently myself! Shut up I only play games with tiles. .__.

ALRIGHT WELL I GUESS IT'LL JUST BE MUGGINS HERE THEN. aw chane. I'm sure her and Tony will continue to find ways to antagonise each other outside of work! :c

sob I only play games with buttons. No chance of convincing Tonegawa to hold a classic Smash Bros tourney? ~~Actually I'm kind of looking forward to learning poker.~~

CLAIRE ALL ON HIS LARRY, BLESS. but djsak yes. Nature always finds a way and all that.

oh oh I can play button games. If the buttons are related to tiles. BUT LOL to be fair to him, Mario Kart is more his era.

Yessssss. I think early June is a good time, Raul is planning another NPP fundraiser type thing once the Outbreak begins to clear up, so he'll be able to talk about it to his fellow Poker buddies. Which sounds so awesome, god, yes.

WELL. Once the effect starts to weaken, Raul might take notice. And he'd be pissed. Mostly because he's not that great at poker, and if someone starts cheating, he'll really lose a lot of money.

As for setting it up, I think having sub threads would be good? Sort of like how we did the NPP meetings.

Sorry about the confusion there! I took my hiatus before the Outbreak plot started, so I completely forgot that it even existed, haha.

He doesn't have to worry about losing money, btw, unless he's really going to be betting a lot? After making an ass of himself with the whole Pride thing Tonegawa's going to be keeping his own bets relatively low.

BUT YEAH that would work for sure! I wasn't sure if it was going to be big enough, but awesome. B)

It's okay! I keep forgetting it's going on for awhile, so I needed to rearrange a lot of plans, too.

BUT YEAH UH. Raul would bet a lot. Unfortunately. He'll be losing a lot of money by the end of the night.

CAN VESPER DISTRACT WITH HER BEAUTY?

I mean - she played a part in a super high-stakes Texas Hold 'Em game in her canon where she and James Bond stopped funds from reaching a terrorist organization.

But she'd be interested in watching the game if for a bit of nostalgia. She knows all poker games well so she wouldn't just be sitting there, looking pretty :]

LOL SHE IS VERY WELCOME TO. ♥ Obviously what the game needs is more eye-candy ~~Tonegawa just isn't pretty enough~~. As Chane-mun suggested, there'll be a general mingling thread for during the game.

Hiiiii! Chane here will be bodyguarding/part of the security at the event-- can I collect Vesper for a kind of quiet-observing-ladies group watching the poker table? If that's okay!

Yeah sure!

I'm not sure if she'd play, but she'd totally stalk the tables and generally hover uncomfortably close to people!

OH WOW hi TARDIS. Tonegawa seriously needs to catch up with her anyway.

I AM ALL SORTS OF SORRY for falling off the face of the Earth orzorzorz BUT YES she will want to catch up with him, too

\o/ \o/ \o/ boss you jerk /all over this

A pre-game mingling log would be good to kick it off, maybe both a thread for outside the building (smokers...? security?) and one indoors just before the game. Is there anything you want to enlist Chane in specifically, other than just making sure nobody reacts violently to him cheating? |D Or- specific orders? There is a possibility she would catch on to the cheating using her power and talk to him, although she wouldn't say anything to anybody else, so if he wanted to prevent that (or you wanted to enable that!!) let me know. /vaguehands

(also judging from all the ladies here there should be a Sitting Here And Looking Pretty With Occasional Verbal Commentry thread. should this be organised alongside the game threads or can everyone just-- interfere/give commentary on the games?)

Like hell Tonegawa's going outside to smoke. You will breathe in his second hand smoke and you will like it. >( As for Chane- general security and personal safety stuff, yeah! He'll just want her to keep an eye on things and make sure no one's a sore loser. She is also very welcome to catch him and say something in his head, though in all likelihood any telepathy will probs make him flip his shit again orz

(AND YES that is a very good idea. I think it might get a bit hectic if it ends up in the same thread, depending on how many people end up watching, so a separate thread might be a better idea.)

:U Lee Chaolan is totally going to play.

Eeexcellent. Even if Tonegawa will have to avoid catching Lee's eye for the first hour purely from awkwardness over being such an ass to him. B)

Late reply, but I'm definitely still in. :D

ALSO LATE BUT HI :D he's still very welcome!

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