revivalproject | [Open] Carpentry And Making The Bucks

WHO: Reeve Tuesti, Open
WHERE: Gridania, Gold Saucer
WHAT: Learning Carpentry, Gambling on Chocobos, Playing Triple Triad
WHEN: Throughout Event
WARNINGS: CW: Gambling
NOTE: Unless otherwise noted, Reeve will be wearing this while in Eorzea, and Mini will be following him silently.

I. Hands On Work | Gridania - Carpentry Guild | [Open]

Investigations were something Reeve had only passing skill with. Mostly he was the sort of person who knew how to trust in the sorts of people who were good at it. Perhaps it came from knowing Turks. And sure, perhaps he was capable of being a spy at times through Cait Sith, but...

Well, this wasn't a place that Reeve was quite sure he knew how to spy on probably. There was so much cultural weight and context that was needed in a good spy or information seeker, that much he was pretty sure of, even if he didn't know just what that information might really entail. Either way, he wasn't going to be good at that, so he might as well learn something, right? Right.

Gridania. It was a beautiful place, one that Reeve and Mini liked from the word start, and shortly after arriving... Well, he knew what to do. Which was why Reeve was here now, humming to himself as he worked on an early project of building a table. Did he need a table? No. But was knowing how to make one useful? Yes. Very much so. The basics can always be scaled up, and it was more about learning the work with his hands, to further what he'd learned in the Iteration.

Still, he was pleasantly surprised to see a familiar face enter. Another He Row. He offered a nod, and a hopefully unremarkable gesture meant to beckon them closer without seeming strange for an apprentice to be calling to someone else.

II. Betting On The Birds | Gold Saucer | [Open]

The Gold Saucer. Reeve had only first come to the place because of the name. Because of how that name evoked the idea of home. He wasn't expecting, though, that the place would be so familiar. So similar. There had been games he'd seen before through Cait Sith's eyes, and decorations, and chocobos.

In a way, this was the closest he'd felt to home in two and a half years. Perhaps that was what brought him here, to the Chocobo races, to sit there and watch with a smile, as the birds raced around.

"You know," he said, sipping at a glass of something vaguely fruity with a pleasant bubbling sensation, "this reminds me of my friend Cloud. He breed champion chocobos. Everyone wanted a bird from his breeding lines. Never understood why he moves from that work to deliveries instead."

III. It's All In The Cards | Gold Saucer | [Open]

Being at the races only served to make him think of people and places he could not easily get back to, so maybe it was easier to walk away. That was what Reeve had done to justify his wandering the Saucer. In the end he'd found himself here, looking not at the words of games he might have toyed with back home, but contemplating a starter set of Triple Triad cards.

"Alright," he said to the young employee who had just finished explaining the rules. "And you say this tournament has a prize to it?"

That sounded like something worth looking into.

"I guess I just need to find my first match against another registered player then. Who knows, maybe I'm a natural."

And speaking of another player, he turned away from the employee and registration desk, and his eyes set upon another of the Agrii's guests.

"Don't suppose you've taken to this card game."

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“Heads,” he decides, because that is usually the easiest side of a coin to tell from the other. And if his eyes were also already on his cards as he considered how to play them, that was fair he though.

Noctis flipped the coin and then placed it on the back of his hand. He looked at the results and handed it back. "Heads it is, you go first."

“Good to know,” he said, setting a card in what he feels is a secure corner. “Let us see if we can’t get ourselves up to a worthwhile level of skill.”

After all, he wants to win some points here, try and see what he can win.

"Uh..ya." Noctis replied, looking at his own hand of cards. He watched Reeve and looked back at his cards. He still wasn't sure what was going on and laid a card down next to his friend's.

And then he reached for the rules.

Reeve reached as well, watching for the information. Only to find that his card flipped on its own, its color changes to match Noctis's cards too.

"Ah. It seems there is some form of enchantment going on."

Noctis turned when he heard Reeve mention enchantment. That earned the other a puzzled look. "What the hell?" And then he turned his gaze to the other man directly. "That wasn't supposed to happen, right?"

"Or perhaps it was. I think that means you 'took' my card successfully. Quite interesting magic, and very elegant," he said, looking very captivated by this. He played another one of his own cards, clearly eager to test this. His took Noctis's, and the colors changed again.

Which of course led to Reeve chuckling in delight.

Noctis stared at the cards as if something else was going to happen, but what it was, he had no idea. He continued in fascination as the cards seemed to magically change when Reeve played another card.

"What the hell..."

Pulling another card, he laid it down, but nothing happened and the king shook his head.

"We don't have magic like this at home," Reeve chuckled before placing another card. This one also isn't meant to have a capture, so it shouldn't change colors. And it doesn't.

"Oh I'm delighted to see this all."

"We don't either. Our playing cards aren't this awesome." Noctis replied, as he waited to see if Reeve's card did the magic thing.

It didn't.

Noctis took another card from his hand and placed it beside Reeve's. Once it did the magic thing, he felt like a little kid on his birthday at first. Realizing he should probably have more of a 'poker face' that Ignis would call it, he cleared his throat and attempted to look more serious.

"They are awesome," Reeve agreed with a wide smile.

"We're enjoying this too much," he chuckles as he puts another card into a vulnerable position.

The king shook his head and tried to manage a slight laugh. "This is unlike any card game I've ever played."

He took another card and set it next to Reeve's and it did the magic thing. After a quick look at the man across from him, his blue eyes blinked a few times. "We really need to get these cards back home."

Not that he personally would be able to play them.

"The same. I mostly know power and bridge," Reeve admitted with a chuckle. Yes, it did the thing again.

"I don't think I can join the tournament. I am too pleased with what is going on here. I'll lose just for the chuckles."

"Power and bridge. I don't know those games." It crossed his mind that Ignis might but that was never discussed. The advisor always knew a great many things and the king was sure he didn't know the half of it.

But as he went to play a card, Noctis halted. "Lose for chuckles?" That was a foreign idea to him somehow even if he wasn't trying to win here.

"Yes, just to see the delight of these cards changing," he laughs. "The enchantments are so beautiful. AS for bridge, well, we'd need four people for it."

If the boys were here, Noctis would have a completely different attitude regarding the whole losing thing. And he wouldn't let them live it down at all. But this was Reeve and things were different.

The king looked around for a moment before turning his gaze back to the cards. "Not sure we can scare more people up for it."

Not that he knew how to play that game.

"There's a tournament happening, I think most of the players are involved with that instead," Reeve said with a shrug.

So they will have to content themselves with the company of each other.

"So you're trying to get good enough with this to do a tournament?" Noctis asked, impressed. That was kind of odd since the other statement had puzzled him but he wasn't about to let that bother him because this game was fun regardless.

"I was originally," Reeve admitted, but now... Now he shakes his head. "I don't believe I shall be able to drive myself to such an end."

Noctis half laughed. "Well this game seems to be going pretty well, so I don't think there'll be a problem."

He looked at his hand. "I'm running out of cards here."

"Well, it looks like there's only two spaces left, so we're just about done," Reeve said, playing his final card. He really looks likely to lose here.

Noct looked back at his cards and placed one down. Nothing interesting happened and the king puzzled over it.

"Do you want to play another game after this?"

Oh, well, that sounds wonderful. Reeve looked up at Noctis and offered him the warmest smile.

"I would truly be delighted to."

"Great." Noct replied, gathering everything up.

"Let's do it again."

[Open] Carpentry And Making The Bucks

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That should have been poker, but fuck it, I hereby declare there is a game called power.

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wrap up soon?

Sure we can wrap here!