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[King Zultan]

Check out the gambling house!

+1 Gambling time!

[Naturegirl1999]

Check out the gambling house!

+1 Gambling time!

I must have missed a fair bit, how is gambling going to help us.l.what are we trying to do?

[King Zultan]

If we're good at it we can get money from it to buy more things to help us on our quest.

[Devastator]

As a brief summary, Naturegirl, the party made it to the city of Tulia ahead of the oncoming armies of the Concordat.

Since they made it there with a little bit of extra time, they spent some time shopping, buying skill upgrades, and discovering another dragon form.

Sooner or later there will be the big fight.

[syvarris]

It's useful because there's not much better to do, and it's adventure!

[NJW2000]

Wandering into the gambling house it is!

[Devastator]

Gambling!  This can't possibly go wrong!

The address leads to an ordinary-looking stone building in lowtown, a three-story townhouse sort of thing.  In the space of a minute, though, you see two people enter and one person leave, so you probably have the right place.

When you enter, you definately have the right place.  Inside is a large room with several card tables, some sort of horizontal wheel thing, and another game involving a vertical pole thing that shoots out sparks.  There's a couple of doorways leading into other parts of the building, so there's more going on than just this room.

There's also a couple of thug-types near the door, but all they want to see is your slip of paper, with that, they let you through.

It all looks so good.. the card tables have some card games and some dice games.  The wheel looks interesting, and the pole is just crowded with a half-dozen people shouting out numbers.  Also, most of the people seem to be playing with these little tokens, not money.

..and you don't really have enough money to play properly.  I mean, you can get like six tokens, and there are people with hundreds.  You need more money!

Restraint Roll, 2.  Item chosen, --> 1

Fortunately, the person handing out the tokens is happy to give you some for other things, not just cash, and you can buy them back when you're finished.  So you hand your sword over, and the kind lady gives you 300 tokens, so you can go play now!  The only question is what game you want to play..

Card games!
Dice games!
The wheel thing!
The pole thing!

You can't leave, you just got here!

[King Zultan]

CARD GAMES!

[NJW2000]

CARD GAMES!

+1

[syvarris]

Fortunately, the person handing out the tokens is happy to give you some for other things, not just cash, and you can buy them back when you're finished.  So you hand your sword over, and the kind lady gives you 300 tokens, so you can go play now!  The only question is what game you want to play..

So you hand your sword over, and the kind lady gives you 300 tokens, so you can go play now!

you hand your sword over

[EXTERNAL SCREAMING]

[Naturegirl1999]

Why would we give our weapon?

[Devastator]

You have no money and poor impulse control.

[King Zultan]

Shame on us!

[Devastator]

It takes a few minutes for you to get a seat at a table, but on the plus side, it gives you a few minutes to scope out the game.

..There are sixty cards in a deck, arranged into six suits of ten cards each.  Each one has a picture of an adventurer or a monster on it, along with its value, all printed in ink the colour of its suit.

There's a suit for each main element.. Red for Fire, White for Cold, Blue for Water, Gray for Wind, Yellow for Lightning, and Brown for Earth.  Fire, Water, and Lightning have adventurers on them, and the other three suits have monsters.

You draw five cards at a time, and glance at them, and bet or not bet.  Then you are given two chances to discard cards for new cards, followed by betting or not betting one time each.  At the end, the goal is to have the best party at showdown.. that is the best team of five cards.

The basic rule is you add the values of each card into one total, but there's some special bonuses that make it more complicated.

Having one card and another of the suit it beats, ie, one fire and one cold, means the beating card (cold) counts for two extra points.

This is arranged into chains.. if you have a fire, a cold, and a water, the water gets +4 from a chain of two.  The cold also gets +2 for a chain of one.
If you have, say, one fire, two colds, and a water, the water gets +4 for one chain of two, and +2 for one chain of one.  Each water card has a chain of one, for +2 each.  10 points are scored for the chains.

If you have more than one of a suit, you get +1 points for two cards, +3 points for 3 cards, +6 points for 4 cards, and +10 points for five cards of that suit.

In addition, having two or more cards of the same value gives you extra points.  A pair is worth two points.  Three of a kind is worth nine points.  Four of a kind is worth 20 points, and five of a kind is a whopping 35 points.

There is a caveat to this rule.. it doesn't apply to tens.  Tens don't work together, you are warned, and will lose points for groups instead of gaining them.

Huh.

To be continued.

[Devastator]

You do sit down, and have to pay the price just for being allowed to take your seat.  You hand over 5 tokens, which are called 'chips.'

-5 chips

..and recieve your first hand.

There's the 2 of Cold, which is a Lesser Icebird, heh.
The 9 of Lightning, which is a magic user, lightning crackling between her outstretched hands.
The 9 of Cold, which is some big fur-covered bipedal thing, with black, hidden eyes, glowering at you.
The 5 of Fire, which is a young archer in light armour, ready to fire a flaming arrow.
and The 5 of Cold, which is a horse-monster, pawing at an invisible snowbank, in a snorting pose

Play goes around counterclockwise, and the first player doesn't bet, discarding his hand.

The second one does bet, and puts out 25 chips, then it's your turn.

What do you do?  You have 295 chips, and if you want to play, need to bet at least 25 of them.