Feb 20, 2016 1:42 am
Yongap demonstrates the gambling game Whellak to a number of the crew, taking three dice, everyone betting on the outcome, and then rolling. At first he demonstrates how poor bets on unlikely combinations mean adding more yules to the pot, but then he adds the rules about doubles to the patter - doubles add the capability of placing a second, side bet on a reroll of the odd die being higher or lower than the doubles - which is enough to fascinate the Jaspians. Renno and a human named Vex in particular get particularly hooked on "just one more roll" after the muadra lets them win a couple of big pots in the beginning, so much so that Yongap is able to lightly fleece the crew to the tune of 2 links, 6 yules by the end of the night. Sadly, what he gets from the crew during this gambling between Miniri's clearly hilarious stories (although Renno doesn't find the bit about woffen armpits all that funny, he guffaws with the rest when she describes her broken arm and dung fur) is a lot of political gossip and rude jokes about various kesht and keshtia back in Jasp, rather than anything particularly interesting. Still, the money is a nice addition.
Wen is unexpectedly delighted with Miniri's entertainment. Apparently he once had a lover himself who was a learsis working in a trauma center, and your story has made him nostalgic for past days. In the coming days, he has much softer work for Miniri. Every time he comes near, she fears that he's going to change his mind, but invariably it's only to awkwardly ask for details about Miniri's muadra lover. The crugar is able to walk the line of tact and lurid detail that the muadra first mate seems to want. Miniri doesn't identify with the awkwardness of muadra mating customs (or human, for that matter), but she realizes that, in the span of weirdness encompassed by all the sentients of Jorune, they're not all that different. At least they're mammals, after all.
Wen is unexpectedly delighted with Miniri's entertainment. Apparently he once had a lover himself who was a learsis working in a trauma center, and your story has made him nostalgic for past days. In the coming days, he has much softer work for Miniri. Every time he comes near, she fears that he's going to change his mind, but invariably it's only to awkwardly ask for details about Miniri's muadra lover. The crugar is able to walk the line of tact and lurid detail that the muadra first mate seems to want. Miniri doesn't identify with the awkwardness of muadra mating customs (or human, for that matter), but she realizes that, in the span of weirdness encompassed by all the sentients of Jorune, they're not all that different. At least they're mammals, after all.