route_1065 | this may not be my lucky day

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this may not be my lucky day

Who:

reimprovise
Where: Goldenrod Game Corner!
When: February 20 ; afternoon.
Summary: Fuji and Daisuke go to the game corner! Shenanigans will ensue.
Rating: G? No higher than a PG.
Log:

This... is the Game Corner, right? Doesn't look too different from a casino. [He meekly looks around, looking over the card flipping games, voltorb flips, and the slot machines.] It says we need to have coins here.

[Well, the Game Corner doesn't look too busy and there are some kids there too! ... Too bad their lucks are pretty bad. Their faces don't look so good when they try any of the three games.]

... Are you sure we should be here?

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[Fuji, for one, is a little put off by all the fancy flashing lights and shenanigans. However, he had been curious, and he was the one who dragged them, on a whim, to a place like this, so he merely chuckles.]

The PG version of a casino, maybe. [Amusement, it's radiating off of him.] Have you ever been to one? A casino, I mean, back in your world.

Ah, no... I haven't. [He looks around a bit more.] Is it supposed to be more flashy than this one--

Hello! Are you newcomers to the Game Corner?

[Daisuke is mentally flailing because WHERE DID SHE COME FROM?!]

W-We--

Here are the coin cases! You'll need them for this place. Please have fun during your stay~ [And the woman walks off after shoving a coin case to each boy.

Daisuke, however, just stands there. What a pushy woman.]

[He blinks twice and chuckles under his breath.]

Definitely more flashy, and not anywhere near PG. [However, he takes the coin case and opens it with consideration.] It doesn't seem like she left us with any coins, though. For a coin case, it's a little empty.

Let's go buy some.

W-We're actually going to go play?

[He signs in resignation anyway and just... tries to focus on the matter at hand.]

How much are the coins anyway?

We're definitely not here for the food.

[But man is he cheerful. He drags Daisuke over to the counter to peer curiously at the signs plastered around like neon decorations.]

... funny, it doesn't say. Hang on--

[And he wanders off into the crowd with a backwards wave.

Approximately five minutes later, he reemerges, shaking a jangling coin case and wearing a smile of utmost innocence.] Well, that takes care of that. Thirty should be enough between the two of us, right?

[He was looking over at the instructions on some of the games...]

The slot machine uses up three coins per round and I think I remember seeing the card games took four. [He nods.] It should be enough.

Knew I could count on you to take care of all the complicated math. [/teases]

It says so on the bulletin board over there!

[He fusses a bit, subtly pouts, and makes his way to the slot machines.]

[He follows, amiably. Upon reaching the machines, he scrutinizes it.]

Have you ever used one of these before?

No, but it looks easy from how the other people are doing it. [He sneaks a glance at the man playing next to him, taking mental notes on how to play and how fast the roulette is.]

[Fuji, in response... jams in the coins and gives it an experimental tug. Humming, he glances at the resulting uneven rows.] A little faster than I thought it would be, though.

I wonder how often do you have to play, to get proficient with this sort of thing.

It would depend on the person, right? [He sits down in front of the slot machine, inserts some coins, stares at the roulette with INTENSE FOCUS-- although he didn't get any matching ones when he tugged on the lever.]

[He shrugs, and tugs on the lever again. Uneven rows, huh.] Maybe. I thought there'd be something universal to it, though, with the way that a lot of people tend to get addicted.

Maybe they just want to believe that they'll be lucky someday.

[He pulls the lever again. No luck.]

... Someday.

[Matching luck for luck, huh. His third throw doesn't yield any better results.]

Or maybe the marketing campaign for it is just too successful.

[He shrugs, and gets up, already more or less bored of the machines.] I'll go take a look at the card tables. Let's meet up again after, say, an hour?

Sure. We can meet up again in an hour. [He looks at the card tables and then back to the slot machine. He could get a bit better, right? Hm...]

How many coins should we get anyway?

[He throws a glance over to the prize table in consideration.]

Oh, I don't know. 'Enough' sounds like a good number, doesn't it?

[He wouldn't know what would be "enough" for a PG-rated casino since he hasn't even looked at the prize table... but Daisuke would do his best!]

I guess so. Good luck on your part.

Thanks. You too.

[Aaaand he wanders over to the card tables to do what he does best -- swindle people when they least expect it.

Timeskip to an hour later! He'll just be wandering the game corner in search of you, Daisuke, since they never really picked a place to reconvene.]

[Fuji, you are just in time to see six coin cases on the floor with the seventh case collecting the coins that just dispersed from a 777 result. Yeah, those are 300 coins Daisuke is putting into the coin case. He doesn't seem to notice Fuji or the time, really...]

[When he sidles up to Daisuke and glances over the winnings, he gives an incredulous laugh. Coming up from behind the other, he grins, amused.]

Planning on clearing out the store?

Wha-

[OH GOD DID SOMEONE CATCH ME--]

O-Oh-- [He looks at Fuji, sighing in relief a bit.]

Well, no... I think I'm done. I think I have... [He counts the coin cases.] ... over three thousand.

... What exactly did you do to those machines?

N-Nothing! I didn't do anything to the... machines...

I just got lucky!

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