Ten Forward, Open

[callmegambit]

Personal Log, stardate 44195.79851598155...

After recording his log, Remy looked around the expanse of Ten Forward, smiling, as his hands almost automatically drew out a new deck of cards, opened them, and then started shuffling them. But not normally.

Remy was fond of games. He liked games especially if they were skill games, ones requiring an expenditure of effort, not just to win the game, but to show you had some skill in some area. He had played many such back home, from roofrunning to thievery, and he had never backed down from them. He liked them, and what each one brought to his mind new ideas and new variations of old skills and abilities.

Coming up with new ways to shuffle cards was one such thing, and as he watched the room, he began using one new technique after another. Side shuffle, flip the tip, run the line, and more were added to a normal shuffle, then made more complex by card being flipped in the air, and caught, sometimes slowly, and sometimes faster. He wasn't being flashy about it, or trying to catch attention, he was just working on being busy.

For the moment.

(ooc: The thread with Elizabeth has entered into nsfw territory.)

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[whereishe]

"Sounds similar to my magic." Yuna sighs softly looking down at her drink. "Maybe you can learn more here?"

One thing that Yuna had while she's been here was time and finding ways to fill it proved to be difficult at times.

[callmegambit]

"Maybe. If I want, I might." He had never really cared enough to, also.

"Research can be fun with friends." He waggled his eyebrows at her.

[whereishe]

"If that's an invitation then I'd be happy to." Yuna laughed softy. She loved to discover be it in books or in adventures.

She took a sip of her drink almost finishing it and setting it to the side.

[callmegambit]

Remy grinned at her and poked her lightly. "Then we can do it together, maybe in a few days?"

He grinned at her and nodded. "How have your adventures been going?"

[whereishe]

"Yeah." She paused with a nervous grin trying to figure out what to say. "Adventures? I suppose well. I've learned about a lot of new things. Recently."

Her cheeks blushed faint, the hue covered by her wide smile.

[callmegambit]

"Good. Nothing wrong with that. Finding your own way and learning things means you are enjoying life." Remy nodded.

Her blush made him grin. "Those kinds of things, eh? Good for you."

[whereishe]

She felt her cheeks burn a little brighter even while she tried to stop them. "Not like that... I mean.. like that but.." Yuna put her head in her hands as she tried to figure out what she had wanted to say.

This shouldn't be so embarrassing but there was something about Remy that made it hard for her to keep her cool.

[callmegambit]

Remy chuckled, then reached out to grip her shoulder gently and squeeze. "It's okay. Good on you. You deserve a good life and lots of fun." He nodded, approving.

[whereishe]

She looked up, her two toned eyes meeting his with a smile. Her cheeks aren't so red but she was still a little flustered.

"Thanks. I'm not really used to it." which was obvious by her reaction.

[callmegambit]

Eyes met eyes, and he grinned. She was definitely getting better at this. "But you are seemingly getting better about that." He nodded to her.

"Good."

[whereishe]

"I guess so. It's still really strange. I'm sort of used to just doing what I wanted but.. I don't know. I hadn't really expected to be around this long." She sighed letting her head rest in the palm of her hand. She wasn't the type to over think things but being on this ship had given her to much time to think lately.

[callmegambit]

Remy smiled at her and nodded. "No sure I like being around this long either. But for now, I'm stuck, and you're stuck, and we have to try to make the best of it, I'll wager."

He had been having his own adventures.

[whereishe]

She smiled. "I guess so. What have you been up too?" She took a sip from her drink watching him as he spoke. She was sure he was having fun of his own, he didn't seem the sort to sit around and be idol.

Yuna sat back in her seat finishing her drink and setting it to the side.

[callmegambit]

Sparring in the holodeck with a friend, teaching dragon poker and Fizban Proper to some crewpeople, as well as Cajun Spin, and other games that this time apparently doesn't know." He chuckled. "Greeting a few old friends who showed up, and mostly staying out of trouble, for now."

[whereishe]

Yuna paused and looked at him slightly confused. "Dragon poker, Fizban Proper and Cajun Spin?" She repeated the words carefully unsure what to make of the names.

She hasn't heard of anything like that though her world didn't have many games.

[callmegambit]

"All games. The first two are card games, the last one is a party game without cards for people who don't mind sexual situations." He grinned at her. "I'll show you how to play them sometime." He would enjoy teaching her. Even if the last one might make her blush a lot.

[whereishe]

Her mind wondered what he meant about sexual situations but she supposed at some point she will be able to ask and find out about them.

"Alright, that sounds like fun." She pointed to the cards he had been playing with. "Do you play cards a lot?"

[callmegambit]

Remy grinned at her. "Whenever you want."

He took the cards, effortlessly shuffling them in complex patterns. "I used to, but I don't as much any more." He chuckled. "When you've played as long as I have, it stops being as much of a challenge after awhile."

[whereishe]

Yuna's finger lightly pressed against her lips. "I've only ever played poker and it was before I was on this ship." It had been an interesting game, though Loki had threatened Yuna was strip poker because she played so poorly. Then she learned to cheat which she didn't much care for.

"Why not show me a game?"

[callmegambit]

"Poker, eh? Not a bad game. Some of it's variants can be fun." Remy grinned at her. "Surely. What would you like to learn?"

He was willing to help her learn all she wanted.

[whereishe]

Yuna laughed softly. "I don't know the names of any of the games. Besides poker. Why don't you pick one?"

Her tone was light and playful. It was obvious that she was having fun. She didn't grow up with a lot of games and so learning new ones was always a little exciting.

[callmegambit]

"Sure." he smiled at her. "How about Dragon Poker, then." He nodded and pulled out a set of cards that were bright green on their backs and started to deal. "Dragon Poker is a game of skill and surprise."

He began to deal. "In most ways it is like poker, but several cards change how the game is played." He went on to explain slowly each card and how to changed things, from the Hunter to the Dragon itself.

When he was done, there was a small pile of cards at her side, and a small pile at his side.

[whereishe]

Yuna watched and listened carefully leaning forward as he explained the cards. It was close enough to poker that she thought she could pick up all of the rules. Her fingers pressed against her cards before moving to peek at them.

"So this is my hand then?"

[callmegambit]

"Exactly. Now you pay attention to every card laid down and in what order, because..." Remy nodded as he told her, and then began to show her, how to play, laying down a card, then explaining how it worked and how it interacted with other cards in the game. Step by step he showed her, the steps slow since with Dragon Poker everything changed depending on which cards were actually showing.

And which ones weren't.

[whereishe]

Yuna listened closely letting him step her through the game. She would stop him and ask questions and then let him continue his explanation once she had made sure she understood. After a while she was smiling and talking more than he was.

"This is really neat. Do you think I can win against you?"