[Teffa]

She nodded at that point. "That's a good question but how many Jedi are usually just wandering about, keeping an eye on a sabacc table to make sure nobody was pretending to be a Jedi? Other than here, of course! There's a spirit of the game about talking big, probably part of a long-term bluff that pays off later in the game when the supposed reputation is worth more than the chips on the line. Showboating is pretty common, I guess. Playing against a Jedi is probably a fearsome thought to us laymen and probably even more fearsome is winning against one, liable to lose a hand if he whips out his lightsabre afterwards. More than a simple gift, I think."

[Galen Sol]

"People say many things, whether they make sense or not." Galen shrugged. "I wouldn't be surprised if that story were true."

[Aran Enfas]

Aran gave a small smile to Galen, and then to Teffa. "Well, you have shown me at least one thing that I might not have believed if you had merely told me... And you, Teffa? Do you showboat?"

[Teffa]

Teffa smirked at the question and shrugged in the middle of a riffle of cards. "I...don't do it by default but when you're rubbing shoulders with some of the elite and rick of the planet, you can't just be a simple girl from the Ascendency. You've got to be the second daughter of a planetary governor and engaged to a vid-celebrity, THAT vid-celebrity with the secret wedding date and the fiance from parts unknown. No harm done when I'm around the status-quo. As a habit, I only up the stakes when the situation calls for it, so to speak!"

[Aran Enfas]

Aran stared at her briefly. He had no visible eyes, but the effect was similar to a blink. "Are you telling me you're not going to be married to Vera Hawke?" he deadpanned.

[Galen Sol]

"Does that mean you're available?" Galen added with a grin.

[Teffa]

Teffa raised her brows at the questions posed by both men and gave them alternative glances. "What? When I mention...and no way! Also, I guess that would mean I am..." she chuckled anxiously on that note.

"So! Who's ready for some cards?" She said right after an audible riffle of the cards in her hands.

[Galen Sol]

The hunter chuckled. "Let's play."

[Teffa]

"Great!" She nodded enthusiastically and started to deal out the cards for everyone at the table. "Despite some of us might have played this game already, I'll try to keep things clear. Don't want to push you off into the shark tank just for humouring our request. It's only a few credits on the line, I guess maybe enough to buy a nice dinner on one of the worlds here."

"Let's see now..." She murmured as she set the deck aside and picked up her hand of cards.

[Aran Enfas]

Aran had several things going for him in the sabacc game: a firm grasp of the rules, a moderate amount of experience, an ability to read people's tells even without the Force, and a face partially concealed with his sun-shades and schooled to a fairly consistent affect. However, he had no particular sense of how to combine all of these things into any sort of strategy, and tended to chase longshot hands at least as eagerly as solid bets. The last one made him unpredictable in a way that could wrong-foot experienced players expecting him to be more thoughtful, but it was not statistically sound.

Win or lose, he remained cheerful and focused on keeping the table talk going. "Ah, I'm out. So, Teffa, what's the most eventful game you've played?"

Lost in the Shuffle fluff sabaac roll, cool: 1eP+1eA+1eF 1 success, 3 advantage, 1 Dark Side


One DS becomes a failure and a threat, so, 0 successes, 3 advantages!

[Teffa]

Teffa admittedly was playing with a slightly self-imposed handicap. Her usual style of play was forgone for one of deception and going for plays that were more risky than advantageous. She wasn't too sure about the Jedi's experience or if Galen potentially might have trained his pet to spot cues where he couldn't. In the end, she might have tried put on a strong play, even if unintentional. The story of her card seemed to say much, despite the fact that it might have been a pitiful one in reality.

Day 11 - Funsies roll for Sabacc, Deception: 2eP 2 successes, 1 Triumph


You mean the most eventful game where I didn't have a blaster pointed to my face? "It all depends on what sort of eventful you're talking about," she said with a coy smile. "Sometimes an eventful sabacc is one that has gone wrong, bets get escalated past the point of being reasonable and things get lost. Not just ships either! I guess on one of these galas where I was supposedly attached to a celebrity, I found myself facing against a gas-giant mining typhoon, this heavy-weight gran with more arm candy than you can count. He was rather determined to walk away from the casino an undefeated winner of the night. I perhaps was a bit at fault of playing myself off as a first-timer who didn't know what she was doing...getting by with just beginner's luck..."

[Galen Sol]

Galen chuckled. "Well, I certainly don't have beginer's luck."

The hunter was out.

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[Day 11 - Early Afternoon] Lost in the Shuffle, For Fun, Cool: 2eA 1 success, 1 advantage

[Aran Enfas]

Aran listened engagedly to Teffa's story. Perhaps it was because he was used to having few to no personal possessions in the course of his life, but he didn't seem to sweat the pot, a little over a hundred credits, crossing the table to the spacer over a few rounds of cards. "It sounds like the Gran suffered from pride -- in many ways the root of all failings, to think oneself the center of everything. So what did you do?"

[Teffa]

Teffa smiled shyly at the other players as she slowly raked in the credits from the game. "Sorry...I guess I must have gotten some pretty crazy cards by luck. I mean, that was a practice game! I'd be more than happy to rack up the pot here and divide it out evenly so that we could have another game. This time, this game will be real. How about it?" She looked to them for their opinions on another game.

"When it comes to these games, pride is often the first bet cast before the credits are even offered. I suppose I probably say the bigger stack and decided to call him out on that. To be fair, there was some goading on my part, pretending to now know what I was doing but for some strange reason, getting extremely lucky at the same time where I could win games. I supposed he might have clued in eventually and got really serious, and really intense. I won practically everything he came in with and he was determined to get it back. So, I guess I might have humoured him and given him another game. He for sure didn't have much to lose...although I did. What happened afterwards might have been a bit of karma and proceeded to wring me out of all my winnings. I suppose I thought I had the upper hand but figures he didn't earn his business, but won it."

She chuckled anxiously. "I had a lot plans for that money too..."

[Aran Enfas]

Aran nodded in understanding. "Swoop racers are very similar, becoming too invested. The additional adrenaline does not help, and the stakes include your bike and your body." He idly collected the cards and began shuffling with nimble hands. "I would stake in again! Galen has the most claim to having needed the practice..." he said, deferentially.

[Teffa]

"Swoop racing is never something I could get into," she said with a slight grimace. "I barely can back up the ship without getting a graze on the hull, hah! It seems far too intense and too soon. I'd rather take my intensity slowly and by instalment through each game. At least, I get to hash things out and see things go wrong than just crumble in my face without warning. By comparison of my wipeout, I got laughed out of that casino instead of crashing my swoop, at least!"

She chuckled that off with a shake of her head as she picked up the cards to shuffle once more.

[Galen Sol]

"It's fine." he nodded. "We can go again. So, do you have exciting swoop racing stories, Aran?""