Jean-Louise Reece (notafailure) wrote in marvel_nextgen,
@ 2012-10-25 18:42:00

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Concession Stand in the Middle of Knowhere.
Jean-Louise made two kinds of rock candy. The kind with sugar and the kind made of mineral quartz, because some of the silicon-based lifeforms would get their hopes up when they saw the first kind. She was careful to keep the two separate so she'd always sell the right one.

Business was pretty good. In a place this diverse, she didn't have as much market-targetting to do, but she still tried to pay attention to possibilities.

She'd also fixed some pizza and was having a break to have a slice herself.

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	cosmic_son 2012-10-25 11:56 pm UTC (link)
	"I almost gave it up, misunderstanding the point of the game.Mr. Trump has been very kind though. We stay there whenever we go to Las Vegas. Otherwise, I don't play often." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	notafailure 2012-10-25 11:59 pm UTC (link)
	Jean-Louise cants her head -- not about the Trump part. Iason was so calm about everything it was reasonable he'd be blase about being friends with Donald Trump or wahtever. "What did you think was the point?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cosmic_son 2012-10-26 12:08 am UTC (link)
	"It was introduced to me as a game of odds. It wasn't until I realized that it was really primarily a game of deception that my previous experience playing Skrull games helped shift my experience and skill somewhat." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	notafailure 2012-10-26 12:21 am UTC (link)
	"Ah, yeah. Cardcounting's for blackjack. Poker's for equipoise." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cosmic_son 2012-10-26 12:25 am UTC (link)
	"Precisely. Though as part of my deal there, I'm limited to low stakes games only now." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	notafailure 2012-10-26 12:31 am UTC (link)
	"Can't say I'm surprised." She smiles. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cosmic_son 2012-10-26 12:33 am UTC (link)
	"I was... not quite aware I'd won so much." he replies, seeming a bit genuinely embarrassed. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	notafailure 2012-10-26 12:36 am UTC (link)
	Jean-Louise tries to suppress a giggle and grin more sympathetically. "They say the best players are the ones who aren't counting their money. Probably why my whole family is so terrible at it." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cosmic_son 2012-10-26 12:46 am UTC (link)
	"I suppose. I had mostly done it out of curiosity, when we were there for a non-wedding." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	notafailure 2012-10-26 12:49 am UTC (link)
	She blinked for a moment, then "Oh. A Wedding that didn't happen. Makes sense. Don't think I could do anything in Vegas. Too much of a skinflint." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cosmic_son 2012-10-26 01:19 am UTC (link)
	"People thought there was going to be one. It wasn't the case." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

notafailure
2012-10-26 01:21 am UTC (link)

"So you were putting your impressive minding-your-own-business skills to work and got into high stakes poker. Makes perfect sense." As she talked, Jean-Louise checked the oven. Yeah, needed cleaning. She checked the bottle of cleaner. Almost empty. So she filled the bottle with water and basically just bit her lip in frustration until the color and chemical pattern changed.

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	cosmic_son 2012-10-26 01:28 am UTC (link)
	"More or less, yeah." he agrees, watching her doing the transmuting. "That's impressive. Almost moreso than the ship repairs, really." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	notafailure 2012-10-26 01:31 am UTC (link)
	"Thanks. It gets easier with practice. Sort of. The ship repairs are tough because I don't know what's wrong. Here I know what's wrong. 'it's water instead of what I need, and I don't want to shell out the cash for more.'" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cosmic_son 2012-10-26 01:42 am UTC (link)
	"That makes sense. Mostly just the fine control needed to alter chemical composition on that level." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	notafailure 2012-10-26 01:47 am UTC (link)
	She nods. "Yeah, that's where the practice comes in. After a lot of headaches, stuff falls into place." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cosmic_son 2012-10-26 02:01 am UTC (link)
	"Practice, and I'd imagine a lot of study, to know what proper molecular compositions of different things should be, unless your powers include intuitive understandings of molecular chemistry." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	notafailure 2012-10-26 02:06 am UTC (link)
	"There's some intuition to it, but we've learned better than to trust it. So plenty of library chemistry books and Dad's Guide to What's A Bad Idea, yeah, and then enough staring at the stuff to get a feel for it. Chemistry's easier than physics. I don't know how you guys do the warp gate trick." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cosmic_son 2012-10-26 02:08 am UTC (link)
	"To be perfectly honest, neither do I. Not the physics of it, anyway. It was something I learned more in application than in theory." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	notafailure 2012-10-26 02:10 am UTC (link)
	She smiles. It was kinda nice that the remarkably-on-top-of-things people weren't necessarily on top of everything. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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