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[tomodachi]

[Good afternoon Luceti, how are you? Do you like having nice, clean buildings or houses that don't have childish graffiti drawn on the sides? Well too bad because today, you may find Crow writing or drawing things on the sides of different buildings, whether it's a shop, one of the community housing buildings, or heck maybe even your house, once he thinks he's used up the sides of his own house. (Sorry, Seto and Firo...)

He's bored and this is something he likes doing...but he's not entirely aware of how much this might bother the people who own whichever building he's using as a canvas. (Not like it matters, it'll go away like how damage to most buildings do here, right?) They range from words, to drawings of birds, ferris wheels (it's been a year since he arrived, he's feeling a little nostalgic for home), or even people. Mostly either people he knows, or...pirates. Why not, today felt like a good day for drawing pirates with their ships and treasure and stuff. However, they are not exactly masterpieces, and he's not exactly using just paint (more like that and crayons or markers or whatever else he got his hands on), but at least he tries and that's what matters!

He'll be at this all day, so you can catch him drawing stuff at any time, anywhere. Feel like telling him to go away, or are you the deviant sort that wants to join in and draw some stuff too?]

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[tomodachi]

A game? [Well it gets his attention at least.] Like what?

[foundafamily]

Like those card games we played before. Remember?

[tomodachi]

Oh, yeah, I remember those. Those games were kinda fun.

[But art or card games...art or card games...]

[foundafamily]

So? You up for it?

[Come on, don't you want to hang out with your least favorite pal?]

[tomodachi]

[squints at that strike-through]

...Depends, are we betting anything like the other times we played those games? [You know, like those shiny screws and coins and stuff.]

[foundafamily]

[He blinks, wondering why that's so important. They're not using real money or anything of value, so why does it matter?]

I dunno. You got any more of those knick knacks you had last time?

[tomodachi]

"Knick knacks"? [What are you, forty? But Crow digs into his pockets anyway, taking out a few things--more crayons, some of them broken. A few scraps of random objects that he pushes aside until he finds what he's looking for. A couple of rusty screws.]

Yeah, I've still got some stuff like what we used last time.

[foundafamily]

[Hey, he was born in 1912, cut him some slack.]

We could use those. If you want to.

[He's more hopeful than he sounds. Much as he'd like to hang out and keep Crow from vandalism, he doesn't want to force anything.]

[tomodachi]

Okay, then I will. [He pockets everything else except for those screws.

Good job Firo, it seems you successfully distracted him from further vandalism for now.]

[foundafamily]

Really?

[He grins, masking his surprise.]

[tomodachi]

Yeah--come on, let's go before I change my mind.

[And you wouldn't want that, right? Lead the way back into the house, Firo.]

[foundafamily]

[He rolls his eyes, but laughs as he turns back to the house.]

Yeah, yeah, you're busy guy and yadda yadda. Don't rush me.

[He props the door open for Crow once they reach it.]

I could teach you a new game, if you want. Or we could go with what we did last time.

[tomodachi]

A new game? Like what? [He knows like...basically the ones you taught him last time, and maybe an easy game like go fish or something like when playing with Seto once or twice.]

[foundafamily]

We played blackjack last time, didn't we? We could try poker. That one's really popular back home.

[tomodachi]

"Poker"? How do you play that game?

[foundafamily]

There's a few different ways to play it, actually. But basically you try to get the highest hand of seven cards so that you win the pot. You start out with three, then you bet each time a card is dealt. Simple enough.

[tomodachi]

Huh... [It...doesn't really sound that simple to him, so you should definitely do a demonstration for him.]

[foundafamily]

[Firo laughs at the pause and sits down at the kitchen table. He gestures for Crow to join him and takes out a deck of cards from his jacket.]

Sit down, I'll show you.

[He lays out three cards, two face down and face up, and taps the tabletop near them.]

First, I'd deal us both in like this. Then we'd do our first bet--whoever has the lowest card showin' goes first. After that, we keep on dealing and betting until we've both got seven cards, or until everybody but one person folds.

[tomodachi]

[Crow frowns at that laugh (it's not our fault that we don't know a lot about card games!!), but he watches Firo dealing the cards and does seem to be trying to pay attention and memorize the rules for this.]

"Folds"? ...That's when you decide to quit playing, right? [At least he thinks that's what Firo means, since it sounds like something he might have said previously when teaching him a different game before this one.]

[foundafamily]

[He smiles brightly, pleased that Crow remembered.]

Exactly! If you know you're losin', it's a good idea to do that do cut down on your losses.

[He sets down four more cards beside the three already on the table. He waves his hand over them.]

This'd be your final hand; we'd compare it to mine to see who won. There's a few different hands, and then if neither person has one, you just see who has the highest card. Sound easy enough?

[tomodachi]

...Sort of, but I still think some of these "card games" of yours have a lot of rules to them.

[Nonetheless, the cards do have his attention and he's willing to try this game at least once.]

[foundafamily]

Of course they do. There'd be no challenge if there were no rules.

[He shuffles those cards back into the deck and re-deals, this time setting down three cards for both him and Crow. He probably should have asked first, but who passes up a game of poker?]

Of course, that doesn't stop some people from tryin' to break the rules. And that's when things get messy.

[tomodachi]

[That's okay, he doesn't seem to mind since he reaches out to poke at his cards.]

"Messy"? How?

[foundafamily]

[He pauses to point to Crow's two face-down cards before he answers that.]

These're your hole cards. You can look at 'em, but don't show 'em to me.

And "messy" because that means I gotta teach someone a lesson. Never cheat, you got that?

[tomodachi]

"Teach 'em a lesson", huh? [That gets a slight roll of the eyes--he clearly doesn't believe that he should be afraid of any repercussions from Firo if he cheats. But for now he picks up the two cards Firo indicated: a two of hearts and a jack of spades.]