I WOKE UP SO LATE OOPS: Dealer quest

[fullhoused]

[WELL WHATEVER you're all in the casino now. Dealer has put you all in either a butler, maid, or sheep outfit.]

Are you all ready?

[exploradora times! weee might jsut have one giant thread instead of one thread for each person.]

((ACTUAL QUEST STUFF

eta: we done here!))

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[femmefailtale]

...Yeah, that too.

[folding_cranes]

[...takes her hand?]

Alright.

[femmefailtale]

[...okay yes you can have my hand.]

[goddamit I'm a sucker for the nice cute ones.]

At least there's some bright side to being on a team nobody likes in the middle of a place where I'm going to die a million times.

[folding_cranes]

[squeezes]

I can't say it's going to be good, or even alright... But you won't be alone.

[femmefailtale]

[Squeezes back. ...I don't know how much you can pick up but there's a lot of pent up fear/panic buried deep beneath a million layers of snark and bluster.]

'Course not. I have a team, don't I? ...And you, I guess.

[folding_cranes]

[that stands to reason for anyone in this place, so can ballpark this much]

That's right. So there are plenty of people to lean on, if you need to. Or even if you don't.

[femmefailtale]

[...Okay you are getting another kiss.]

[Chastely. On the forehead.]

Thanks. You're a good girl...

Hey. JD's kind of a nickname--you can call me that or Meliora or Mel or whatever.

[folding_cranes]

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Meliora... It's pretty.

[femmefailtale]

Yeah. One of the few good things I got from my old man.

[folding_cranes]

You weren't particularly close?

[femmefailtale]

Dude was a raving douchebag who decided to teach me everything I needed to learn the trade but refused to actually ever bother thinking that maybe I would like a 'hey good job' every now and again.

And then he'd always show up beaten to high hell and expect me to just take care of him like a nurse or some shit. And it's like--how unreasonable is that?! I'm eight! The fuck am I doing dressing your damn injuries?!

[folding_cranes]

[...squeezes back more tightly; offering support, but not necessarily interrupting if she wants to continue]

[femmefailtale]

[Just sighs and squeezes back.]

Anyways. Moral of the story is dad was a douchebag and totally sucked.

[folding_cranes]

I see...

But he did have good taste in names.

[femmefailtale]

Even a blind squirrel finds a nut sometimes.

[folding_cranes]

...I suppose so. At least if it's kept somewhere with trees.

[femmefailtale]

...You're right. He probably looked it up on the web or something.

[That bastard.]

[folding_cranes]

--Either way, he found it. The method is less important, right?

...Is there a meaning to "JD"?

[femmefailtale]

Cardinal has a booze thing going on, and I always wanted to try a pseudonym. So I had 'em call me JD for Jack Daniels.

[folding_cranes]

Oh, I see. What sort of liquor is it?

[femmefailtale]

It's a kind of whiskey. The really good type.

[folding_cranes]

That doesn't sound bad, then. On Sage, we use plant names... I wonder what sort of name I'd have on Cardinal...

[femmefailtale]

No way to know for sure...

My vote would be for Chi-Chi. s'a variant on the classic Pina Colada, and it sounds cute.

I could even call you Chi for short.

[folding_cranes]

Pina Colada? Chi?

[femmefailtale]

The pina colada is a drink that mixes vodka or dark rum with cream of coconut and pineapple juice. A variant on it is the Chi-Chi.

And yes. Chi. It's a cute name.