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What game does your kalon suggest, and how do they win?



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❝ anyone you think might have the key? ... ❞ - day 3 - team octopi - sign up
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[ ❧ ] how to get the key, you wonder, as you pace around the beach. you cant just ask for it, and bargaining for it doesnt seem to be the answer the casino employees are looking for. you cant just play a game though, either... you'll surely lose if you do. you have to think smarter... maybe you can mission impossible your way in and grab the key while everyone's asleep?

no... you wont get anything done that way, and besides... they might just leave you here on the island for breaking and entering.

think, think, think... what could you do to win the key? there has to be something... you pause in your frustrated pacing when a glint of something in the sand catches your eye... a singular pearl, that sparks an idea. upon closer inspection (after a little bit of digging), you find a pearl necklace, mostly in tact. you decide to pocket it, and find out who it belongs to later, but right now, you've got a casino to catch.

you get to the casino after quite the jog over, it's probably the most workout you've done in awhile, and wave at the employees. they dont notice you at first, but then one of them does notice you, and wave you over to talk to them face to face. "i need that key, and i'll play you for it." you state firmly, and the two of them seem to look at each other, and grin.

"a game you say? well... we know just the one!" the red one, spider you think, says.

"oh absolutely! the rules are quite simple..." spider sets out three cups with one hand, and in the other, holds three shiny, gleaming pearls. they look like real pearls... but however did they manage to find three, much less one? though you suppose these are the kalons giving those on the kruise a taste of the 'high-rolling life' or something, so maybe that's normal for them. "these pearls will be put under the cups. one of these pearls is a real pearl, the rest are merely very convincing fakes. if you can name the cup with the real pearl, you can have the key! and if you lose... well, no key for you then!" rook says, and then adds, "you get ten seconds to inspect these pearls ahead of time. after that, they'll be under the cups until you make your guess. ready to test your luck?" rook smiles, and gestures for you to sit.

you take a seat as instructed, and exhale slowly as you watch the pearls for the ten seconds, and then as they go under the cups and get shuffled around. the two of them go completely quiet, and it gives you goosebumps, but you persist, and wait until they give you the clear. watching the cups shuffle around is dizzying, but the headache you get at realizing you didnt pay well enough attention to the cups is far worse compared to that.

"um... the..." you pause, before exhaling the breath you didnt know you were holding. "left...?"

spiders lifts up the cup, and holds the pearl in a hand to inspect it... at his shake of the head, rook smiles and says, "you lose!"

you sigh, disappointed, but move to get up... and then you realize something, and sit back in your seat... you contemplate the chances for a couple of seconds, before you say, "best out of three. if i lose, i owe all my earnings i get from casino games from here on out to someone else of your choice." both of them raise their eyebrows at you, and look at each for a moment in thought, before nodding and tucking that pretty little pearl back under a cup.

"hope you're confident in your answer!" rook says, and starts to shuffle the cups. once he's done, they both look at you expectantly, spider's arms crossed and rook tapping the table in anticipation for your answer.

you're not one hundred confident in your hypothesis, but... "well? which cup do you think, miss avril, holds the real pearl?"

"none of them." they both look at you again, looking ready to laugh at the hilarity of such a thing, until you start to rifle through your pockets and pull out the pearl necklace... broken pearl necklace. "none of them are real. they came from this," you hold the necklace up to the golden sun starting to set, and lo and behold... one side's string of pearls is three beads shorter.

spider claps, and rook blinks at you with a straight face before smiling again, a different kind of smile though... a pleasant smile, not off putting. he digs around in his own pocket for a minutw before handing you a small key, and you scramble to catch it, grasping it between your hands tight. you think you'd earn a harsh word or two and be up all night searching for it if you'd lost it somehow.

"very clever! indeed... they are all fakes, from that necklace you have. we found it earlier, but decided to test our guests a different way for the key... a test of wit, instead of pure luck and guessing." rook explains, and you pocket the key with a nod. you move to stand up, and start to walk away, but before you do, spider calls your name.

"remember the most important rule of the kruise games... dont tell anyone the answer, ok?" he says, and you nod, before carrying on the way you came... you've gotta find shark after all!

[Ｍｉｓｓｉｎｇ✖]

What game does your kalon suggest, and how do they win? -- Shin loves playing Droughts and is perty good at it.




****** sorry i realized i was using the wroung kal i hope its okay to fix my mistake u.u;******

[sicknasty]

"you see, i'm actually the only known master of the fitzwilliam four-hand pickup."

[Marsh]

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Prompt Three - The casino employees seem to have a key to the engine room in their possession,
but they're bored, and say they'll only give it to you if you play them for it.
What game does your kalon suggest, and how do they win?

Kalon - Oxford xxxxxx Team - Octopi xxxxxx Word Count - N/A xxxxxx Sign Up - x

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What game does your kalon suggest, and how do they win?

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Jacques sighed, 'Why can't someone else do it?'

He was certain he wasn't good at casino games, nor good at thinking about fun or easy games.

Spider and Rook seemed good, very, very good. So, most games he thought of he believed they could win. Sure, they didn't exactly say they needed to win to get the key, however, it was possible that winning the a game could get him the key.

He bit his lip, softly tapping a finger on a wooden table. No poker, better not try the slot machines. In his eyes, it would be better to just stay away from cards and chips in general.

Perhaps not a board game either, they relied on luck and Jacques had his bets on the casino employees most likely had a stroke of luck. Didn't seem beyond them, everyone on the kruise seemed special in one day or another.

He snorted thinking on the exact opposite; a sport. Maybe they would be not so good at that?

"It's worth a try, I guess," Jacques mumbled to himself.

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Well, he couldn't go unprepared, he thought. It was just tossing a ball but if he planned to play a sport, he had to practice. There could be no way he could lose.

Though probably, it seemed like Jacques was just slacking off and tossing a ball on the beach for hours.

But at least, he knew he would absolutely wreck the casino employees at ball tossing.

Totally.

[LivingLethal]

prompt #3
username: LivingLethal
team: Octo
kruiser: Mushi (ft. Shark, Rook, and Spider)
response: “All I did was suggest that Shark do the fighting.”

[hiraeth + hound]

What game does your kalon suggest, and how do they win?

As Caro informs Roe on the whereabouts of the key, and who possess it, he’s already formulating a game plan in his mind on how to obtain it himself. Casinos aren’t unfamiliar to him, given his city home life and deep inner workings with criminal forces, the scene of a casino is one he’s had to step into and interact with many times before. He waves Caro off, and then descends the stairs to the ship to start his master plan. Passing the bar he nods to Brandy, who acknowledges him with a similar nod. Roe sees Rook and Spider nearly immediately as he walks in, and Spider gives him a wink (or.. three) as he approaches.. Gross.

Roe asks (more like demands) for the engine room key, and the two employees inform him of their proposal: a game for the key. Roe blinks, unbelieving that their requirement is for him to play a game with them, out of all things. They work in a casino, surrounded by tons of colorful machines and the game of the odds, and yet they’re bored? Who knows what that logic is.

“How about hide and seek?” Roe suggests. An easy one, he can wiggle into almost any space.

“No, too boring.” Rook jabs at him, looking unamused.

“Okay… what about a game of monopoly? Something strategic.”

“Boring! We deal with real cash all the time!” Spider rolls his eyes.

Roe feels a headache throbbing at the back of his mind. Did this guy really complain about handling money? “Okay. How about this: give me that key or they’ll be calling you Corpse and Pieces?” He stares daggers straight at the both of them.

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“Here’s your key, Caro.” Roe prompts, dropping the golden shiny thing into Caro’s hand. Caro looks surprised, he was maybe only gone for ten minutes. “That was… fast.” Caro offhandedly comments.

“They played my sort of game, and lost.” Roe returns, a hint of danger in his voice. It’s probably not wise to ask what else he said.

[SkyGold]

Aɴʏᴏɴᴇ ᴏɴ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄʀᴜɪsᴇ's ᴄʀᴇᴡ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ʏᴏᴜ ᴛʜɪɴᴋ ᴍɪɢʜᴛ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴋᴇʏ?



Player of Monopoly and Men



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