Casino Arc 1/?

Upon entering the casino, we were forced to surrender our clothing and weapons. In exchange, they gave us new clothes and a promise we wouldn't be attacked. I don't believe that, but I don't need a dagger to take blood.
 
Day 1:

Roulette: lost 22 chips, not good at this

The Contagion:

The dive bar swirled with color as blaring punk music filled the air. We found Alloy again (he'd disappeared in the lobby) and he'd won 200 chips playing beer pong and other drinking games. While there, we spend 50 chips to enter a drinking competition (toga is our champ) and he wins even more chips.

Untold Fortune: Toga won the rock-paper-scissors, so he got his fortune told. His creation was a mistake. whatever that means

Sauna:

Found Captain Oshiro doing sumo wrestling, but weren't able to challenge him bc papa don't play for less than a rack. Instead we relax and Brilli and I detox from the Don's Delight
 
At the end of the day, we go to our rooms. Alloy and I get a double room, and the quasit gets a bed made by all the robots. We also realize there's no mention of check out
 
Afterwards,
Day 2:
 

garden tour

a magidrone leads us around the greenhouse and tells us about the plants. grass, tree, cockroach.. he's not very knowledgeable. This was originally an outdoor area, but it was put indoors when the building transported realms. A spell is used to make it seems like sunlight is streaming through the glass walls and ceiling, but it's literally indoors. The grass speaks "i am the enchanted grass of siddvari. I am not at liberty to say more" I try to ask it more questions, or get it to repeat itself, but it only moves around. Cedric tells me not to waste my detect thoughts on it, he thinks it only knows how to say those two things. There's also a tree with a face on it, "I am Oberon, ask me a question. "That grass is,,, grass. long ago a student of siddvari played a prank on the freshman and made the grass speak."
 
+5 to int checks
 

trivia night

wooden picnic tables all around the room, magidrone at a podium. 100 chips to enter as a team, we got all the answers right since we had that +5, then answered an arcana trivia question. We win 400 chips.
 

the surge

nightclub on the third floor of the casino. we hear from a random person that alloy is there. ceiling is lit by magic staves that are casting faerie fire and dancing lights. it's JAM PACKED with guests. In the center of a dance circle is a fishman and alloy going crazy on it. The crowd chants their names: Alloy and James.
 

the perfect pitch

the whole ceiling is an aquarium and in the middle of the room is a row of four seats. a human, a gnome, and two magidrones sit there. a magidrone called barry booze is on stage introing the Perfect pitch, which seems to be a televised shark tank dupe. The human judge is Mark Cuban. We pitch Musical Chaireoke and the judges lovve it. Mark Cuban explains what equity is, and wins the deal, giving us 600 chips, 75% equity, and an annual profit of 400. I accepted the deal and Mark Cuban makes eye contact and I watch as a strange metal carriage crashed through the door and hits Mark Cuban-- killing him instantly.
 
We go back to the rooms and get a family style feast of ohio food: skyline chilli, deviled eggs, and buckeyes. which gives us +5 to con for the rest of the day.
 
day 3:
 
We talked the night before about cashing out, and why we didn't have to pay to get here. It seems really implausible that this business runs at all, but we can't figure it out. We ask about cashing out at the front desk in the morning, but they say we can spend the chips at the novelty counter.
 

novelty counter

a bunch of prizes all around the room. a ship in a bottle with a blue orb as a cork for 40k. a 40k ticket to VIP. bag of holding. I recieve a vision^1 he tells us we can cash out at the armory.
 
we leave the novelty counter and i ask Daeren privately if he knows the imagery from the vision, but he doesn't so I explain it to everyone. No one knows.
 

Janitorial closet

theres a sign that says don't go in, but we knock and no one answers so we go in. There's mostly just cleaning supplies and perfumes. Cedric finds a trap door and pulls out something weird. it's like a magidrone part. he says that when he casted see invisibitity, something was there. I feel like... something is muddled in my brain. Like static ringing after an explosion. We all feel like something is wrong... missing from our perception. We try out alter self and it works. We walk out. I look like Mark Cuban and Cedric looks like Don BOmble. but a magidrone comes to us and asks Cedric (as don bomble) to connect to the system and Cedric gets caught impersonated him. Cedric turns into James Pond and gives the 220 fee for impersonating Don Bomble.
 

Book Club:

A magidrone in the center of the room with a bingo tumbler. it's got a bunch of chairs and table. the floor creaks as we walk over it, which is on purpose. there's also drinks on a table and a tapestry that depicts a girl reading a book. Beneath the tapestry, a book club discusses a book (Kelvin 270) and the weird ending. a foreign man escapes the flash freezing of a city and a gathering of worshippers of the flame accept them as their own. Katya Gatnem, head of the book club, announces the next book is a detective novel. this is the bookish woman I tried to rob in the contagion on the first day. She isn't the lady on the tapestry. The new book is called *A Night in Megacarpolis*. She's been on the boat for six months. She came to the casino to learn how to play poker, just like her favorite spy James Pond. Now, she's super good at playing poker. We ask about history, and she says that the Oberon theater is working on a pay about the history of this place. We also look around the bookshelves. Cedric finds some books. Toga and I want to help, so he puts me on his shoulders and I find a book that looks relevent. It's a students guide to Siddvari.
 
We decide to go play poker with Katya. also Toga rolls a 54 on luck (idk wht that do)