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Roch had dug up a round table. It had actually involved going to the maul and finding a really cheap one, but he had one. That was the important part. He set it up in the middle of the common room and dropped a couple of snack bowls in the middle. He'd move them when the game started, but he didn't care about that right now.

Music played in the background, compliments of his eyephone and a set of cheap speakers. He grabbed the really stupid green plastic visor and pulled it on. Then he pulled a couple of unopened card packs from a plastic bag, and a thing of plastic chips to keep track of bets out, dumping it all on the table as well.

Five chairs were hauled around the table, mismatched and quite questionable. He'd searched the entire form for them, and was happy he'd actually found enough.

"Alright," he said, surveying his work. "Let's get this started!"

((OOC: this is just a laid back rp, chat, play what cards you want, but don't make it outrageously stupid. No full houses each hand, etc. We're just here to play!))

"Not bad, Bandit, not bad," Roch said, grinning at the other boil. "Although Shun skipped out on us, but I think Danny should be coming. And I'm pretty sure Rikki and Demi should be showing up soon, too. Like the hat?" he asked, tugging on his extremely cheesy visor. "I found it on sale!" In fact, he'd been GIVEN the hat by the Skelly at their favorite (or his, at least) store.

"So, ready to lose all your seeds?" he teased the gambler, pulling out one of the chairs and dropping down on it. "I got new cards just so everyone knows they aren't tagged. But I can open the chips now, ain't like those can be used to cheat," he said, pulling the roll of plastic chips over and opening them.

Mot hummed a bit. Danny? Hm. Well, maybe he just had a bad first impression of the ghoul.Maybe she would prove to be fun to hang out with?

"I approve of most if not all head gear." Mot smirked, nodding at Roch's choice of hat. It was fitting for the occasion.

"Not a chance, Punk. Your seeds are mine." He grinned at the threat. Mot hadn't been concerned about cheating for the most part. They were here for fun, after all.

The reaper turned as he heard an unfamiliar voice. Oh, he'd never met this one before. Mot gave a wave, smirking at the boil's confusion. "Clearly, he's the dealer. It's his official dealer's headgear."

Demi was glad that the little alarm on his skellyphone went off, being face deep in books on Mold for his sex-ed homework assignment. He didn't really mind the project, or even reading but after a few groaning sighs and a dramatic sweep of his arms across the table to clear it off.

It was just getting too boring.

But the little howling reminder he had set up took care of that, as he dashed out of the room carrying a box of spookies from the bakery near the maul and an oversized messenger bag over to the reapers common room.

He didn't enter long after Nyyrikki did and threw them both down onto the crude table and picked up one of the chips to place on the edge of his nose with a smile. "You might as well fork over your seeds now, just to save you all the time." he teased with as much bravado he could muster before staring at the boil with the shades on and flicked a spare chip at the odd solid material.

"Ugh, I'd tell you that those shades look horrible, but your face is even worse, keep them on."

Xiu's intention that evening had been to visit Shun and confess about her impromptu dream-diving a few nights ago. She had also brought her camera--filled with pictures from when she, Shun, Lizzy, and Mitsu had had their arcade outing--as a backup plan if she ended up chickening out last minute. Considering that she hadn't told him that she was coming beforehand, Xiu simply had to hope that Shun was actually in.

On her way to the reaper's room, she noticed that one of the other doors down the hallway was open. It was the door at the very end of the hallway, and as she neared it, she thought that she heard...voices? There was one that stood out in particular though. Puzzled, she decided she could spare a few minutes to take a quick. Camera dangling around from around her neck, she made her way towards the room and poked her head in.

"Roch? I thought I heard your voic--!!" Xiu immediately froze as she realized that...well, there were other people in here. She recognized all of them, but that's wasn't the problem. The problem was...had she just walked in unannounced to some kind of...private boil party? There were no other ghouls in sight. Immediately, an embarrassed flush rose on her cheeks. "S-sorry!" She squeaked, holding up her hands in front of her, "I'll just be leaving now--what are you wearing, Roch."

Her expression immediately became blank as she stared at the thing perched on her friend's head. Very slowly, with the blank look still on her face, the Baku raised her camera and snapped a picture. With that done, she silently turned on her heels to start down the hallway again.

As per usual, Danny was running down the hallways of the reaper dorm. She was searching for- wait for it- Roch. She had never actually been to his dorm, so find it was a bit hard. She had already ended up in someone else's room by accident- so far the search wasn't going well. Why did the reaper dorms have to be so damn huge?!

Voices from her left caught her attention though. Maybe they could help her find his room? Wait a second, she knew those voices. That was Demi talking. Riri too! Was that ... Xiu? Danny didn't know anyone else with such a softspoken voice. They were all Roch's friends... Were they having a party without her? Wait that was Roch's voice too! They were having a get together without her.

Well it's not like anyone was stopping her from crashing the party right? Turning the corner she saw the group sitting around a table. Were they having some cult gathering? Danny knew lots of cults, but she wasn't aware there were any at Amityville.

On the plus side, Roch's back was to her. This was advantageous. Quietly, she held up her finger in front of her mouth for everyone that could see her. Hopefully they'd get the picture.

Quietly, she tiptoed over to where Roch was talking with Xiu (of course, quietly wasn't really how anyone else would describe it. Danny was a bit of a tank). She slipped her arms over his shoulders, intertwining her fingers and then set her chin on his shoulder, so she could just whisper into his ear like a creeper to freak him out even more. This would freak him out so much- best plan ever. "Roooch," she said it innocently, but there was something sinister behind it, "Why wasn't I invited to your paaarty~" Her tail was flicking back and forth to the side of him- it wasn't in front of him, but close enough so that he could feel the heat. He was gonna get it.

Roch went still, his mind going straight to how close that tail was to his pants. "Dannnnyyyyy," he said. "How goes? Glad you could make it." He wanted to protest Xiu leaving, but these were his last pair of unburnt pants, and he had to work quick to save them! "I figured you'd show up sooner or later, y'know, since there's food!"

He was in such deep s**t. "Not the pants?" he asked, finally.

"No, not until now." Mot eyed the hooded reaper with a shadowy gaze. Mot said no more for now. The grumpypuss seemed to have a thing against hats...

He was so on the list.

Mot lightened up, seeing a face he hadn't seen in a while show up. He smirked at Demi, chuckling. All the boils seemed to think they were coming out of this with full wallets. "You're in over your head, Demi."

More faces showed up, Xiu was there for a moment and then she was gone. Darn.

Mot sat down for now, watching Danny and Roch 'interact'.