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st_ratagem ([personal profile] st_ratagem) wrote in [community profile] strangetrip2019-02-13 07:13 pm

[EP] your game is weak

Loki had bolted almost the moment he heard about a door opening to a new world. Yes, he knew it was temporary, that on previous such openings there was no more chance of escape than there was from the Inn. It was a new place, that was enough to disappear in for... as it turned out, roughly two minutes. It wasn't exactly small, but it was certainly limited.

Fortunately, the festival-like atmosphere was entertaining enough to walk through, and the various games were... interesting. About half of them, he thought, were very clumsily rigged to bilk players. It was obvious enough that Loki rather thought people expected the cheating, that it was meant to be part of the experience. Still, the clumsiness was offensive when there were any number of ways to get the same result without being so obvious.

Naturally, he un-rigged a few of those in passing, and on a couple of the un-rigged games he set a few spells to ensure a higher winning percentage for players than they might otherwise have. Subtly, of course.

He paused briefly at a sort of shoot-the-duck game, pondering what if anything to do to it.
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[personal profile] st_everybodylives 2019-02-14 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
River was a very good shot. And a very good thief and con artist. As such it only took a few rounds with the rifle at the duck shoot game to confirm that it did in fact have real ammunition and then to adjust her aim to the way the sights had been misaligned.

Then she laid down enough money to play for a while and by the time Loki got there had amassed a tidy pile of stuffed animals which she was systematically trading in as she had enough of them to get larger stuffed animals. She set another medium sized stuffed animal on the pile, and noticing Loki she winked and turned back to the ducks.

There was a truly massive bear to be won.
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[personal profile] st_everybodylives 2019-02-14 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
She didn’t exactly feel the way time shifted, actually if she had to describe it, it was almost like she caught the scent of it. The way that pocket of time space was slightly out of sync.

Time lord DNA, the gift that never stopped giving.

She smiled, and picked off the entire row winning another medium stuffed animal, then handed over three more of that size to upgrade to a large stuffed animal and while it was being retrieved she turned to Loki and tilted her head.

“Thank you,” she had zero issue with cheating in this instance, or really ever.
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[personal profile] st_everybodylives 2019-02-14 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
“Going to fix it?” She asked soto voce as she handed the gun over. “I was just getting used to how it’s rifled to pull left.”

She didn’t mind if he did fix it, she’d had her fun confounding and annoying the man running the game now there was just the goal to be met.

“I never had a stuffed animal as a child. At least I don’t think I did.” She said toying with one of the large stuffed animals she’d already amassed. Large parts of her life were, hazy and not altogether something she fully remembered.
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[personal profile] st_everybodylives 2019-02-14 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
“They’re an earth thing, my mother had a raggedy doll she’d made herself that looked like her imaginary friend.” Sort of. In the right light.

She slid the right money across the wooden counter, then tested her aim with the gun before taking out another row of ducks, paused then did a second, then a third.

“One more set and I should be able to trade all the way up.” The man running the game took her money with a sigh and she did it all again.

Soon she was being presented with a bear that was taller than she was.

“I don’t think I had a plan for transporting it back to the inn,” she told Loki with a laugh as she hefted the thing in a massive plastic bag to test the weight. Luckily she was stronger than she looked even if both hearts might get a workout.
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[personal profile] st_everybodylives 2019-02-14 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)
"Handy," she wasn't even being sarcastic. That did look handy. "But I'll manage."

Then with another wink at him she picked a pair of twenty something men from the crowd, approached with the bear, purposefully stumbling so one of them had to catch her. Then after a few moments of teasing banter she'd handed the bear off, and the young men were carrying it away.

"They'll make sure I get it back later," and that it got back to the inn.
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[personal profile] st_everybodylives 2019-02-20 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
"Practice," she laughed and shrugged. "I don't really have a plan, but I'm sure I'll come up with something."

It had been more about the winning, than what she would do with the bear later.
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[personal profile] st_everybodylives 2019-02-20 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
"Jump off the building, build your wings or call your ride on the way down."

Her tone implies that this is something she has actually done.

Because, it is.
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[personal profile] everybodylives 2019-03-05 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
"More like grow your wings then." She said with a smile, glancing around the midway. "I dated a shapeshifter once. Tricky. But never boring."

[ooc: Sorry for the delay, life and illness got in my way. Feel free to fade if you'd rather not continue due to how long its been.]