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calescent

Kiri's up early the next morning, restless with various low-level simmering concerns, and wanders out of her room.

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From:

pyrophyte

"I'm not sure I understand what it's like to be used to people having elements well enough to explain the opposite," he says.

From:

salt_of_the

"Oh, well, so much for that idea." She flops into a chair. "How are you liking Welce?"

From:

pyrophyte

"The search for a card game I can't cheat at remains engaging."

From:

salt_of_the

Patience laughs. "Oh, I hadn't even thought of that - that's funny. I wonder what else you could make cards out of?"

From:

calescent

"I haven't come up with any alternative card materials yet. I suppose I could cheat at cards too, but it's easier to avoid."

From:

calendarofcrime

"There are few among us who couldn't," Sarelle says dryly. (She has previously observed - and subsequently proved - that while her advantage of memory is not quite as automatic as Ekador's, it is equally powerful when she chooses to exercise it.)

From:

liakoura

"I dunno how Patience or Loel would do it," comments Aleko. "Also me, I cannot cheat at cards."

From:

free_flowing

"I know tons of ways to cheat at cards, are you kidding? I can probably even think of one that takes magic," says Loel.

From:

liakoura

"Okay, well, maybe you can teach me the kinds that don't and I can compete on a level playing field? Game full of cheating."

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salt_of_the

"That actually sounds kind of fun, but I wonder if it'd balance, me and you and Loel cheating by not-magic and Kiri only knowing half the other players' hands plus how we're cheating while Ekador knows everything and - what is it you're doing, Sarelle?"

From:

calendarofcrime

"I have an excellent memory and an abnormal capacity to pay attention to things."

From:

pyrophyte

"And I have a perfect memory, at least visually," volunteers Ekador. "I can avoid reading all the cards by magic if I don't want to read all the cards, but I can't avoid remembering the ones I've seen."

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salt_of_the

"Huh. I think there are games where counting cards doesn't help? Or at least not very much?"

From:

pyrophyte

"Apparently so," he says. "I've been taught several."

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salt_of_the

"Cool. Hey, does your magic work on - leaves? Like, they grow out of trees but they aren't wood. I don't think they'd last long but if it really mattered you could probably write card names on them and have them last long enough for one or two games."

From:

pyrophyte

"Hmm. But leaves have distinctive shapes," he says. "Much more so than paper rectangles. I'm not sure I could avoid learning which were which."

From:

free_flowing

"Not to mention," says Loel, "can you imagine trying to shuffle that?"

From:

calescent

"Sarelle could probably shuffle it, but getting it into a tidy dealable stack would be another thing entirely."

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liakoura

"Maybe instead of playing with cards we should invent a game that uses blessing coins. None of you works on metal, right?"

From:

free_flowing

"Not me!" says Loel.

From:

pyrophyte

Ekador shakes his head.

From:

calendarofcrime

"I can tell different metals apart by smell but I do not think that is the sort of thing you meant."

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liakoura

"Yeah, they'd all be copper or whatever. Does this house have a chapel?"

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salt_of_the

"I don't know for sure that I don't work on metal, but I probably don't. I mean I could tell where ore is but that might be more because it'd have earth around it."