StarGate: Traditions

[Kemrain]

Level 22, Mess.

"I'd be glad for the break, Thanks."

"It seemed like an interesting device, and I'm curious about where it was found. Maybe I can give you some tips to use when writing the official version. He smiles, entending a hand, "I know you've been on base for a while, but we've never really had a chance to meet. Major Paul Davis."

Ashley will smile and shake his hand when offered.
"Ca..." She stops, still used to her rank in the N.I.D.
"Specialist Ashley Wolfe," she'll tell him, adding, "It's a pleasure to meet you."

"You play cards at all?" Taking a card deck from his pocket, and performing a flourish, moving them from one hand to the other in a short arc.

She sits down across the table from him and sets down her coffee, holding out a hand.
"May I?" she asks, and when she recieves the cards she repeats his flourish before drawing a card and palming it, withdrawing it from her other arm's sleeve.

"I'm better at playing with cards than playing at cards," she admits with a grin and a slight blush, "But I've played before."

OOC: She'll take 10 on a Sleight of Hand check, granting a 17. He might see how she's doing it, but she'll do it with no issue.

 

[RandomUsernamehmimo71]

{{OOC: You can only make one crypto check per day, per document. Since that's in place, I'm assuming that Julian tries everything he can think of the first time. For story, he keep trying, but for game effect, it won't work.}}

"Are you sure?"

"Ahh, I see.. Have you tried..." "What about.. Oh, that too, huh?"

"Well," Dr Felger seems to hang on the word for a few seconds, as if deciding his next thought, "That's great news, then! I mean, sure, we don't have the code, but at least we know that we don't know. I'm impressed. It might have taken me a week to be sure. As Edison once said, God rest his soul, we now know for sure something that it isn't."
As he mentions Edison, his eyes light up, and he looks almost as if he's getting ready to salute.

"I'm closing up the lab for the night. I'm sorry. If you want to keep at that, I'd take your laptop back to your quarters... Or the mess, I suppose, since you have roomates."

{{ OOC: Yes, the Mess. Where I have run Ashley playing cards with Major Davis. Two PCs in one room. How quaint.}}

 

[Jaeden]

Julian sighs, slamming his laptop closed. Without a word to Felger or Chloe, he slings his bag over his shoulder, his laptop tucked under his arm, and storms off toward the cafeteria. He couldn't bring himself to call it the mess, even though that's what the menu looked like most days. Grabbing two hot dogs from the line and drawing a halfway-cold Mountain Dew from his backpack, he drops heavily into a seat at one of the few occupied tables, a few feet away from where a woman and a man are playing cards.

Pressing the POWER button on his laptop, Julian grimaces as his Windows Whistler Alpha startup sound echoes loudly throughout the cavernous room. Seems he'd forgotten to turn it down, and wasn't using his headphones. He looks around with an exasperated blush, hoping he didn't interrupt anything important with his PC's outburst.

 

[RandomUsernamehmimo71]

Raising an eyebrow, Major Davis will be suitably impressed with her card tossing.

"Not bad at all, Ms Wolfe. It looks like I'm going to be losing some chips tonight. He puts his briefcase up on the table, opens it, and pulls out a 4inch cylinder, sliding a stack of chips out from inside of it, and starting to devide them.

"What's your game?, extending a hand to take the cards and starting a shuffle. "Any good at Seven-card stud?"

He'll start dealing the cards, first to her, then himself, giving each a nice toss, but not seeming amazingly proficient, until Ashley realizes that he's coming across this way intentionally. {{OOC:Ashley rolls a 17 + 1 = 18 on sense motive, which beats his bluff(conceal skill) roll}}

 

[Kemrain]

Level 22, Mess.

Ashley will take her cards, playing a few hands, having a hard time reading Major Davis, but giving him a harder time reading her. While he seems luckier with his cards, she can get him to misread her fairly reliably. She slowly gives him some fo the details of the Hadante device while they play, in an effort to distract him.

After a few rounds Ashley will be dealt a great hand, but be unable to determine what Davis has. As they slowly raise each other, unsure of what the other's cards are, they watch each other intently, their eyes locked, waiting for the other to flinch.

The Windows startup sound blares through the mess hall, wrenching their attention away from their game, and letting Ashley see through Davis' bluff.

"I'll raise you," she'll say, sliding most of her chips into the pot, smirking at the Major and the Seargant blushing at the end of the table.

 

[Jaeden]

Julian winces, hiding behind his laptop screen and hoping he didn't just cost the pretty specialist at the far table a ton of money. He eats his hot dogs, refusing to bite in as long as he's being watched, and wishing he could melt into the floor.

 

[RandomUsernamehmimo71]

Major Davis looks back at Ashley quickly, raising an eyebrow.

"A daring move, Are you sure you've got the cards for it?"

He looks over his cards a few times, then presses a large number of his chips forward, matching her bet.

"I call," he says, laying down two pair, "What've you got?"

As ashley lays down her three twos, he winces.
"Alright," he smiles, letting himself smirk "Nicely played."

Looking over at the man at the computer, "Sergeant, why come on over here and give me a chance to win back some of the money I just lost. Pull up a seat". He pats a seat next to him at the table.


Amoung the few other people trying to get some work done, or just get a little rest is Hinda Rampal. After she applied for a SG-team position, she's returned to her normal duties working to categorize and detail a small number of artifacts recently brought back that seem to be of a Japanese lineage. There are two Satsuma vases, one depecting a great battle against an armada of boats, and the other with cranes looking up into the sky.
There are a few other small objects, such as an insense burner in the shape of a bird, but not one that Hinda recognizes, and an egg shaped container, which may have once held rice. Finally, there is an oilpainting of a fishing village, with the sky aflame above it, with men diving from the clouds into the sea, clutching tightly to their spears.

As she entered the room, she had seen Dover Bishop, whom she'd met a few times before. He had worked at the pentagon, and been trying to get a transfer onto an SG-team for the last few recruiting cycles. He was a quiet enough man, and seemed interested in finding new ways to acquire needed technology. Hinda might get the impression that his motives were more nationalistic, and less planetisic- As if his primary goal in acquiring new technology wasn't beating the Go'auld, but the Russians and the Koreans.
As she worked to fill out the form that Colonel Johnson had given her the day before, a loud Windows startup sound would echo through the room at full volume.

Looking up briefly, she'd see Major Davis playing cards with a woman she'd met before, but never spent more than a minute with, and the sergeant with the laptop looking embarrased.

 

[Jaeden]

Julian rises with a sigh, closing the display of his laptop. He smiles sheepishly at the young lady, walking over to the table. "I guess... I'm not a big cards guy, though..." He slides over, next to Ashley as opposed to the seat offered to him by Major Davis. He looks around, grimacing as he sees the other people in the room staring at him as well. "So.. what are we playing?"

 

[RandomUsernamehmimo71]

"Seven card stud," the Colonel says, shuffling and starting to re-deal. "Since Ashley's got all the chips, she can afford to split to give you some."

"Julian.. Anderson, isn't it?" He'll finish shuffling, and hand them to Ashley to deal. "Let me introduce, Ashley Wolfe. She's helping in our Science department, you might have seen her. I've heard she's also recently applied to be on an SG-team."

He'll wait for a second while Ashley introduces her self, and spreads cards, taking a look at his own.

"The white chips are 1, the reds are 10, and the blues are 25. 1 to ante, but this isn't a cash game, so don't worry too much."
Looking at his cards, ""I'm in for 2 cards," laying two of the cards face down on the table, "Julian, I think you're next up. What've you thought about the SGC?

{{OOC: To read his facial response, I rolled a 16 for Ashley (+1 = 17), and a natural 20 (+0 = 20) for Julian. Julian, that's a critical success. Stargate allows those on skill checks, too. You can spend an action point to make it a critical success. That would give you "all major factors" influencing his bid. You get 4 action points per "game session", but since we don't really have game sessions, I'll reset these after a signifigant amount of time has gone by.

You'll use the same roles for the gambling checks for the first round. That gives Julian an 20 +3 + 0= 23, Ashley a 16 + 8 + 1 = 27}}

Both Julian and Ashley can tell that he's confident of his hand, but he's trying to downplay it for now.

 

[Kemrain]

Ashley slides some of her chips to Julian, smirking as she shuffles, dealing around the table, starting with Davis.

"Pleased to meet you, Sergeant. Welcome to Area 52.You don't look like a grunt," she observes, "So what do they have you doing with the government's biggest money sink?" she asks, still smirking.

She takes her cards and frowns, swapping out 1 card when her turn comes around and frowning more.

Pity you don't get bonus points for having a 6 card flush, she muses to herself behind her frown.

She'll keep up with the pot, not wanting to beat the others too badly on this round.