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Rules: This is a gambling game!

- Your kin, in a 50 word or longer post, offers the pair a treasure– living animals, familiars, and bugs are not accepted!

- In exchange, they write down their name on a stone, and get to throw it into the pot for a chance at great winnings! You must design or post a copy of your kin's name in order to participate (please resize large images down to a max of 250x250 pixels). Fictional kin may also participate, with a fictional written name. Kimeti writing conventions can be found HERE!

- At midnight EST, winners will be rolled for AS PER THIS TABLE and quoted! All remaining tokens will be saved for an end-of-event raffle for the rest of the tokens.

- Kin may enter once per day, though I encourage you to have different kin enter if you have multiple kin!

Maize Maze, of course, knew exactly what he'd bring to the gambling pool. If he was to sacrifice a treasure, it'd be his favorite thing- a nice, plump, ripe ear of corn, still juicy from last fall's harvest. It was wrapped in its green leaves and looked simply delicious. He flipped a stone with his glyph, a highly simplified ear of corn, into their prize pot and wished for luck.

"You can have this laurel branch," said Lily, who flicked it off her tail, where it'd been hooked. She pushed her stone forward, her name marked on it carefully - she had to admit that it was a fairly large stone. Hey, she had delicate, ladylike hooves, but they were still hooves. She wasn't a squirrel!

Once did not have a name glyph. But he figured it should be pretty easy, right?

Ah. Well, he had gotten the body part right. But there wasn't really any room underneath that glyph to write his name? What was his name, anyway? Well, Once - he could just slash his hoof across the stone once, right?



That'd been pretty easy, he thought. He stepped forward to turn it in, before - "Oh, treasure," he said vaguely. What treasure could he submit? Here, a flower from his mane. "That's all right, right?"

Sings of Sunlight wandered up to the booth, he'd heard word from his brother, that this was the sort of thing for him!

"Greetings beautiful kin!" sings pranced up and gave a flourish and a bow, truly the two were beautiful, and what was that thing on the does shoulder? "Now what sort of game is this, luck, skill, a gamble?" A gamble..Sings was willing to try his luck today. Especially in exchange for fabulous prizes.

"If it's treasure you want, then I can certainly deliver. The best treasure ever even!" Sings boasted. "No ordinary treasure either. No, the treasure I offer you, is an idea." Sings smirked, after all, what was more valuable in the swamp than ideas! Need was the motherfather of invention, and the greatest tool of survival, in Sings opinion. Need created ideas!

"Picture this! A way to keep your long flowing manes silky and soft as rabbit fur; glowing as the sun!" Sings began scratching the image out in the dirt beneath his hooves. "I hear that all the Acha use it, well, the prettiest ones at least. What Acha doesn't love to preen?"

"You'll need river silt, the juice of an exotic fruit, and one of that rise and shine groups eggs. A shell or husk to keep the mixture in..you see?" Sings eagerly described using the mixture to rinse with once a week. "You might also be interested in finding a boar..or at least a boars hide..Trust me, once you get the stink off the beast those bristles can do wonders for mane care!"

Sings ended his grandiose tale, and tossed his stone into the pile.

Echo and Cave Yell looked at the modest pile of treasures they'd accrued, picking through them with some interest. They'd take what they could get! The corn was very pretty, and dried out, would make for a nice decoration– as well as the small flower and the laurel branch that they'd been given. A flaky, pretty stone, a pelt, and that was it– except for a couple small bits of tribute that had appealed to their vanity– and they had a humble number of individuals to choose from.

"All right, all of you, gather 'round!" one twin crowed, while the other tried to get kindred around to see what prizes they could.

The doe-twin was the one to stick her nose into the pile, nosing around with closed eyes until she'd found what she was looking for. After a moment of choosing, she held the stone up, letting her brother do the examining, and letting him remember which kin it belonged to. "Maize Maze! You win a glorious prize pot of four tokens, and if you seek us out later, you might walk away with a glorious familiar, too." The doe smiled, putting the stone aside.

"All right... time for the next one," she said.

1. Breaks Bones (iStoleYurVamps)
   
2. Lily (thyPOPE)
   
3. High Frost (Mika_Yumi)
   
4. Once (thyPOPE)
   
5. Hollow Reprise (Shiningamisgirl)
   
6. Sings of Sunlight (Shiningamisgirl)