Conning is an Art [OPEN]

[Tobias Perderau]

Tobias glared up at him, dizzy from the exertion. The Birth Buster lay abandoned on the ground. He stumbled to his feet and leant against a slot machine, accidentally pulling the lever and finding a growing mound of coins at his feet.

[Adam Jonas]

"That's right. I'm a Rider." Adam replied, gasping from having just been punched in the gut. "And I'm guessing you're with the Museum. Who else could supply you with Masquerade Dopants?"

[Kenneth Frost]

~In this world it's really, really, really easy to get Gaia Memories they're basically the equivalent of cocaine but a bit more expensive and with higher penalties for using them~ Cross

The man looks at him and raises an eyebrow.
"Any one of the seventy groups operating within Vegas alone?" He suggests "But, guess how much I paid for these memories and my own personal one. Go on, guess,"
"Nothing." Kenneth guessed "You're a professional gambler aren't you?"
The man smiles and puffs his cigar.
"Quite right, I'm Martin Ferodo, and I'm offering Kenneth Frost, Adam Jones, Tobias Perderau and the Greeed a chance to play a game for the ultimate stakes, what do you say!?"

[[Kaisu] Elizabeth Clarke]

[Museum doesn't exist in this world, either.]

[The Greeed]

"I say this is a load of bull." Ankh spat back as he returned to his human form, hanging off a chandelier with his legs. Kazari's Yummies stopped lumbering around and stopped on the spot.

"I'll cash in for now." Kazari smirked, holding his arm out. A huge stream of Cell Medals flew into his hand, throwing Uva aside as one of his antenna stuck to it before snapping off, having the incestoid Greeed falling to the ground as his body healed. "So, a gambling session between all of us?" He asked.

"Bring it on." Tobias spat as a Dopant grabbed him and held him up before roughly throwing him to the ground, Birth Buster taken.

[Adam Jonas]

(Oh yeah. derpy me)

Adam contemplated for a moment before drawing a conclusion. "You'll probably kill us if we refuse, so I'll accept that offer, Mr Fedora." It was a bad joke, but then again he was calling him Jones. Fair's fair.

[Kenneth Frost]

Mr. Fedora Ferodo glared at Adam and then snapped his fingers. Quick as they could his masquerade dopants started running around and picking up cell medals before passing them to each of the humans/ orphnoch. Meanwhile another three of the suited figures brought out a large round table which Ferodo sat down at.

The chubby figure dropped some ash into the tray being held by one of his dopants and then smiled.
"So, you all know how to play poker don't you?" He said "Minimumbet is 5 cells, a core medal is worth ten cells, additional weaponry worth 25, belts and gaia memories are worth 100," That was the point where his henchmen handed out their owners respective belts, guns and other equipment while another group placed a small glass of brandy in front of each player..

"Shoot me and the table is rigged to explode, my men will annihilate you and this entire casino will crumble like the lair of a B-Movie supervillain," He warned "Now, let's play,"

~Right, feel I should say here and now: I don't know how to play poker~ Cross

[Tobias Perderau]

[Let's do Texas Holdem.]

"Let's go then." Tobias shrugged as Kazari glared at the Masquerade Dopants as they collected his medals but took a seat at the table. The other Greeed followed suit and Tobias warily sat down.

"I'll deal." Tobias announced, snapping his fingers. He didn't need lackeys for several shoes of cards to fly onto the table. This was his domain. He chose a random shoe and placed down three cards in the centre of the table. He switched to a second shoe and gave himself two card, switched to another and gave the next person two cards and so on until everyone had two cards in front of them.

"Let's play." He smirked.

[Okay, next person can either make a bet or check. If everyone checks, the cards in the centre are revealed and a fourth card is dealt. If someone bets, everyone has to either match or raise it to see the next card. Alternatively, you can fold and give up.]

[Kenneth Frost]

Kenneth looked at his cards and then looked around at the faces.
"Check," He said.

[Adam Jonas]

Adam kept his cool as he looked at his cards. These men, and coin monsters, were obviously much more experienced gamblers than he was.
After a bit of deliberation, he decided to "Check."

[The Greeed]

"Don't make it so boring." Mezool purred before stacking two Cells on the table. The other Greeed met her bet, Gamel putting down a Gorrilla Medal.

"Seriously?" Kazari smirked as Mezool told off the bulky Greeed. He placed ten Cells on the table.

Damn, they had an advantage... You couldn't really read faces like that...

[Kenneth Frost]

Ferodo smiled and pushed ten cell medals into the table. Kenneth rolled his eyes and placed five cell medals and the Gorilla medal he'd been given by Thomas into the middle of the table. This wasn't fair, they had tons of medals and ... He smirked, leaned back in his chair and transformed into his goat orphnoch form. There. No mouth, unblinking eyes and he couldn't look stressed. The ultimate poker face.

That was the point where Ferodo pointed at the monsters with his cigar.
"Human forms please, let's keep this game fair,"

A scowling Kenneth turned back into his human guise and glared at Ferodo.
~That's in the Kiva net movies isn't it? Where Riki turns in to Dogga so that Wataru and Jiro can't tell what cards he has?~ Cross

[Adam Jonas]

Adam stared at Kenneth for a few seconds in shock. And I thought I was different. he thought, wishing that Kenneth couldn't read minds.

[Kenneth Frost]

Kenneth caught his gaze.
"What?" He asked in that aggressive tone he used for intimidation.

[Adam Jonas]

"What do you mean "What"?" Adam asked tentatively. "It's just...I wasn't expecting you to turn into a gray...um...what are you, exactly?"