savetheearth | Casino Trip [Closed]

Who: Thomas and Hajime
What: Thomas takes Hajime out to a casino and things go south from there
Where: The nearest casino
When: Night of the 22nd

There were certain benefits to a large bugman almost killing you. Thomas had managed to learn that recently as Hajime had finally broke down and agreed to go to the casino with him after he got a random pain in his side while talking to him. It had nothing to do with the attack, but hey. What works works. Since it worked, the duo now found themselves on the highway, on their way to said casino.

"I'm telling you Hajime, it'll be fun and it'll help you relax. This is what we do for eachother. You make sure I don't get myself killed and I make sure you loosen up. It's a beautiful symbiotic relationship. Anyway, we're almost there so no weaseling out now."

On queue, the appropriate exit came up and Thomas pulled the garish Prius off to the side before pulling up to the front of the casino. Oddly, the car was swarmed with more than just a valet as they exited, a few men in suits offering to shake their hands and welcoming them. The two of them being offered some complimentary chips as they're ushered into the casino's lobby.

"... See? It's already going great!"

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Hajime had been complaining, albeit in a quiet, almost sulky way, the entire trip to the casino. He had too many work responsibilities to run out on like this, he was a monster anyway, this would probably not end well, and so on and so forth. But he still felt unspeakably bad about what he'd done, and so he let Thomas drag him to the casino.

"What did you do?" This treatment wasn't normal. Something here was very wrong. Hajime was polite and shook the hands that were offered for the shaking, but still. He didn't think Thomas was the sort to show up with nearly enough money as what it would take to get a casino worked up this badly.

That was when he saw the sign: "INTERNATIONAL ADVERTISING EXPO." That couldn't have anything to do with it, could it?

"I literally did nothing." Thomas said with a shrug, counting the chip he had been given before looking around. "I have no idea why they did that, but lets not look a gift horse in the mouth."

Reaching out, Thomas grabbed Hajime's arm and dragged him further onto the casino floor. He noticed the sign, but clearly that had nothing to do with them, so who cares? "Look at it this way, the universe has given us a gift for once. We can gamble a bit without spending, the staff all seem pretty nice. It's perfect!" Meanwhile, two normal people in a normal car get turned away by casino staff for impersonating marketing execs.

"But..." Hajime stared at those chips. "Something's not...I mean...you don't have one of those club card things here, do you?" He'd seen ads for those things. Sign up for a membership card, get perks. "And I've had enough of the universe's 'gifts' lately."

Still, if he had to be in a casino, spending money that wasn't his did seem like the way to go...but there had to be a catch. There just had to be. He kept trying to read that sign. It just seemed important to their current situation somehow.

"Nope. I haven't really been here before actually. They seem really friendly. Must be how they still have so much business even with all that stuff in the news." With how friendly they were here, Thomas was considering a membership now that Hajime mentioned it. Might be worth it and make these trips a regular thing to help Hajime unwind.

"Anyway, come on! We got some free chips, we might as well use them. Not much of a gambler though. What do you think about cards?" The question came over his shoulder as Thomas was already walking toward a near by table with or without Hajime.

"What do I think about cards?" Hajime echoed. "They called me Joker and I'm getting playing cards out of nowhere, I think they need to leave me alone." He followed after Thomas anyway, mostly because Thomas seemed to have a better idea of what he was doing here than Hajime did. Even though the casino had been right there this whole time, Hajime had never been. "I'm pretty sure I shouldn't be allowed near cards in case something happens."

"Oh come on. It's not like they put jokers in the decks." Thomas was about to ahead to the nearest card table until Hajime mentioned the possibility of an incident. "... Ok, maybe some roulette then? Maybe the slots? I hear they have a karaoke area by the bar. I've been wanting to hit one of those with you for a while." Thomas was willing to rule out cards for Hajime's sake, but he wasn't going to take any more excuses since he'd bet that Hajime would then make an excuse about even coming here.

"Not the karaoke area. Or at least, you can sing, and I'll just sit and watch." There was no way he was going to get up there and sing. No way, no how, not happening. "But I guess we could try the roulette table?" That seemed safe enough. What could go wrong playing roulette?

"Lets do some roulette first. Then karaoke!" Thomas raises a fist into the air in excitement before dragging Hajime with him to the nearest roulette table and setting some chips down on red. "Might as well use these while we can. Who knows, we might even win some money back." He was enthusiastic, but not confident in their chances.

"But--" Hajime wanted to protest about the karaoke, but no, it was too late. He looked down at the chips Thomas laid down on red and tossed a couple onto black. "There. Now we have to win something."

"Ah good idea." Thomas said with a node as the wheel spun and the marble dropped. Thomas closed his eyes and clasped his hands, praying for a lucky spin. The marble spun around the wheel and begun to slow. It was seemingly about to fall into Black 17 before it almost seemed to gain speed and instead landed in Red 34. "Ha! Looks like I win this one Hajime." Of course, winning on a 50/50 just earned you your amount back, but it was the principal of the thing.

Hajime stared at the marble, which seemed to have defied all forms of physics. And logic. "How did that even happen?" It should have landed on black by all rights, but no, it had hit red again. Was it those powers Thomas kept going on about? He tossed another chip onto the board. Maybe this next time would be different.

Thomas leaves the chips on red, letting them ride before setting another on the spot for 'the first 12'. "I don't know, but it's looking like today is my lucky day." A few more people join the table and set their bets before the wheel spins again. It looks as though it is going to land on Black 10 for a moment, but once again, the ball acts strange and instead lands on Red 5. "Sweet! I actually won some chips this time."

Hajime did not want to tip off casino staff that there was some likely cheating of some sort going on there, but he also couldn't just sit there and do nothing. "How are you doing that?!" It was all he could do to keep his voice down.

He looked at his chips again. "You put yours down first." And then he'd pick the same square. Because it seemed as though that was currently the only way to win at this mess.

Casino Trip [Closed]

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