summer has come and passed, the innocent can never last | open, with starters

[wrathfulkhan]

Characters: Eyebrow Squad Gene, Jackie, Deon, and you!
Date: Throughout September 15 days late with Starbucks
Location: Keeliai and the rest of the shell
Situation: September interactions for Eyebrow Squad.
Warnings/Rating: None initially, but subject to change.

A. [Gene] House Iron Dragon | September 15 | closed to Pepper
So this has been a long time coming, and things have come to the point where Pepper and Gene need to - gasp! - talk their problems out. Gene's sensed this coming for a while. He's made tea, and is sitting at the table, waiting for Pepper.

B. [Jackie] Dove's Place | early September | closed to Dove
Jackie is in an unusually good mood today. Yunxu seems to be ignoring him for now, so he's not sure what to do with himself...aside from hang with his Snake brothers. He's still itching for something more than gang life, and talking to Dove usually seems to make him chill out; while he is in a good mood, there's some anxiety lingering about him for sure.

C. [Deon] China's Place | early September | closed to China
Deon's been avoiding China ever since Erskine had accused him of being a spy. Confrontation is not his style. But learning sigils from her had been fascinating, and he'd been wavering between continuing his studies while keeping his head low, and telling her exactly where she could go shove her information requests. Perhaps if Deon had been taken a week or two before, he might have gone with the former; now, he's more inclined to opt for the latter. But he'll hear her out. She deserves a fair shake.

He takes a deep breath, and knocks.

D. [Gene] Fire Sector | throughout September | open
Gene is keeping a weather eye on the Chihuelans as they make their way through the city. And not a particularly kindly one, either. In fact, it could be read as a downright stink-eye, if they ever took notice of him.

E. [Jackie] Sky Sector | throughout September | open
Jackie can be found in the Sky Sector this month, slumming it with his Snake buddies, gambling in alleyways and generally being a hooligan and a layabout.

F. [Deon] Metal Sector | throughout September | open
Of course, Deon isn't Deon if he's not working on some ridiculous project or other. He's going around the Metal Sector in his off-time, picking up bits and pieces to tinker with. He might even find something worthwhile.

G. [Deon] Deon's Room | early September | closed to Tom
Deon's been sitting in his room all day, working on cracking the security of the laptop that he'd come upon in the market. It's been a side project more than anything - current events had kept him busy - but he's still interested in breaking in. It's not his laptop, but it's Tetravaal, so that makes it a little something of home.

H. [Gene] House Iron Dragon | early September | closed to Tony
Mail wasn't something the occupants of House Iron Dragon were accustomed to getting, so the pair of letters shoved under the door while Gene and Tony were out were a surprise.

"What, is Pepper leaving us notes now?" Gene asks, stooping to pick them up - and stops when he sees the name scrawled on one envelope, in what's unmistakably his handwriting.

铁木真.

I. [Deon] the Morrigan | early September | closed to Shay
Deon has gotten to know the former Assassin's ship (not a boat) passably well, and he knows it's here he can go to find Shay when he needs him. He knocks gently on the cabin door. "Shay?"

Comments

[stubbornlittleshit]

There's a certain satisfaction in that that Arno's enjoying, a smirk slipping across his face at the yelp. Right, he probably shouldn't go around showing off like that, but it's been a while and it's worth it and he feels, you know, slightly alive again, for half a second, or however long this is going to take.

"Interested in some kind of wager?" He repeats the offer. "You were pointed out to me as being...pretty good for it."

[jinzhong]

"I guess," Jackie says, and he's incredibly wary about it. He'd do well to be wary of strange men jumping down behind him and asking him about wagers, really. "What kind of wager?"

[stubbornlittleshit]

"Do you play Pharoh, by chance? Any other games of skill or dumb luck?" Arno asks him, and then, he might as well be honest here, right? "I...may need some kind of a distraction and I've heard you're good at them.

[jinzhong]

"I have no idea what Pharaoh is, aside from like, dead Egyptian kings," Jackie said, shrugging. "I like mahjong, but I don't have tiles or anything. I think someone's got dice, though, if you like that kinda thing."

[stubbornlittleshit]

"It's a modified sort of version of..." And then Arno stopped, looking amused as he could under the circumstances, which sort of involved a little snort. "Never mind. This is the first time I've ever had to say it, but suddenly I feel old. I've seen them playing...poker...in some of the establishments here. That seems like Pharoh's slightly more legal bastard cousin."

And then Arno thought about two of those words together, right next to each other in the same sentence. "Right though. Dice would be good. Better than trying to work out all the rule evolutions that have happened, probably."

[jinzhong]

Jackie nodded. He was rubbish at poker - he had no poker face whatsoever - but dice he could do.

"Yeah, okay. Batul, gimme your dice," Jackie said, gesturing to one of the other Snakes, who handed over some carved bone dice.

He turned back to Arno and grinned. "You game?"

[stubbornlittleshit]

"I'm game." Arno returned the grin, not TOO bothered by it yet. He was only rising losing juulan after all, and those didn't matter when it came to the grand scheme of, well, anything right now. He needed the distraction more.

"Actually, what's standard dice etiquette?" He wondered now. "Sorry, yes, I brought it up, but my mind's a little...let's just say I can use distraction and something minor to be annoyed about if they come up badly."