[Aurora] Common Living Area
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				Title: <strong>[Aurora] Common Living Area</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Cynadea</strong> on <strong>10-03-2013, 05:14:15</strong>
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				<hr><div align="center"><span style="font-size: 18pt;" class="bbc_size"><span style="font-family: comic sans ms;" class="bbc_font">COMMON LIVING AREA TAGS</span></span></div><hr><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Living room</li><li>Kitchen &amp; dining room</li><li>Game room</li><li>Shower stalls room</li></ul>
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				Title: <strong>Re: [Aurora] Common Living Area</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Cynadea</strong> on <strong>13-03-2013, 23:35:17</strong>
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				<div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="floatleft">(http://i393.photobucket.com/albums/pp12/aysande/Elliqyi/bluehairgirl_zps8ed2904b.png)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Room:</strong> Game room<br><strong>Tag:</strong> Carson<br><strong>Continued from:</strong> Helm, Pilot station<br><hr>“I don’t have a deck of my home world’s game. I sort of left in a hurry and a deck of cards wasn’t the first thing on my mind.” Sybella said. She had in her hand her dull grey tea cup, which she seemed to never go anywhere without, and in the other a thin electronic notepad and a pen to write on it. She was a quite intelligent woman, but being told for most of her life that she was dumb because she happened to be born female, Sybella had not much faith in herself regarding that particular aspect. She had brought the notepad to take notes, so that she’d remember all the rules of the game Carson wanted to teach her.<br><br>“Besides, I’d most likely have to teach you our numbers and symbols so… it’s easier for me to learn a game with the standard deck of cards. Someone taught me solitaire, on the previous ship I was on.” She continued and&nbsp; sat in one of the chairs around a round table. Knowing solitaire, she was familiar with the standard 52 cards deck, along with the 2 jokers that were useless in the game. She put her notepad slightly to the left and her tea cup near it. She turned her direct gaze to Carson.&nbsp; She was still trying to make an opinion of the man, but she was pretty sure he was a decent guy. She tucked a few blue strands behind her ears, and drank some of her scalding hot tea without much of a grimace.<br></div></div>
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				Title: <strong>Re: [Aurora] Common Living Area</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Oldknight</strong> on <strong>14-03-2013, 04:47:55</strong>
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				Room: game room<br>Tag: sybella<br><br>Carson looked at her and gave her a smiled as he looked at the blue haired young woman. He found her to be most interesting, her ways were different, he could tell this but he could tell she was a good person w itch a good heart. He too could read people decently ell but not due to special skills, just because he had known a lot of different people over time.<br><br>Taking the deck and shuffling he thought about the first game to play opposite this young woman."most people find these games about luck and chance and they are to a degree. Yet to be good you have to be good at reading and understanding others," he commented as he put the deck in front of her,"a game, split the deck and show me the card on the bottom and I will take the card on the bottom, higher value card wins."
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				Title: <strong>Re: [Aurora] Common Living Area</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Cynadea</strong> on <strong>15-03-2013, 04:17:11</strong>
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				<div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="floatleft">(http://i393.photobucket.com/albums/pp12/aysande/Elliqyi/bluehairgirl_zps8ed2904b.png)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Room:</strong> Game room<br><strong>Tag:</strong> Carson<br>&nbsp;<hr>Sybella smiled and tilted her head, observing. She fidgeted with some of her layers and managed to pull the sleeves of the middle one out and over her hands. “Cards are about statistics, the luck is just in which percentage of the statistics you end up.” Bella said and she chuckled softly. Math went way over her head, never mind statistics. She left that to the android who actually had all the computing abilities to come up with percentages and such. She just couldn’t, not matter how hard she tried. She rested the tip of her fingers on the warm cup in an attempt at warming her hands.<br><br>Bella took the deck and split it, and after a look at it, turned it to Carson. “7 of hearts… Is this ace high or does ace equal one?” She asked with an eyebrow raised, and wondering what her odds were. Seven was a rather even chances, high or low, and the aces were what tipped the balance… or at least that’s what she thought. All these maths would be giving her nightmares, and she wanted to laugh about it, but kept quiet and her amused smile right where it had been for a while now.</div></div>
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				Title: <strong>Re: [Aurora] Common Living Area</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Oldknight</strong> on <strong>15-03-2013, 04:42:30</strong>
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				<br>Room: game room<br>Tag: sybella<br><br>Carson nodded his head as he listened to her comment about statistics, "yes, that is true, a lot is based on being able to calculate odds, but you are also playing against a person, and if you can read them, then, you can figure out what type of hand, they most likely have. The ones whom are really good, are pretty much never surprised by the hands of the people they play again," he explained with a smile as he didn't even bother to look at his card, "Well for this game they are the high card," he replied to her second question. As he lifted up his stack and showed the 9 of clubs that was his card, "well, I guess I win the first match, now for the first game."<br><br>He took the cards and passed them out, "here aces are one or eleven, you get two cards one that is showing one that is not, face cards are all worth 10. The goal of the game is to get to 21 without going over. If you go over 21 you lose the game, this is a really simple game, and a good one to start with," he said as he passed out the cards for the first hand between them. He figured starting easy with Sybella would be the best bet, and would be the most enjoyable thing for her to play with at first.
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				Title: <strong>Re: [Aurora] Common Living Area</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Cynadea</strong> on <strong>17-03-2013, 00:57:44</strong>
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				<div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="floatleft">(http://i393.photobucket.com/albums/pp12/aysande/Elliqyi/bluehairgirl_zps8ed2904b.png)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Room:</strong> Game room<br><strong>Tag:</strong> Carson<br>&nbsp;<hr><br>Sybella nodded her head when she heard that she had lost that particular game. This one was truly one of chance, as there were no real decision made with the brain other than to cut the deck in two. She gave Carson the cards and watched him pass the cards one face up, one face down and listened to her mentor.&nbsp; Sybella jotted down the rules on her pad in her native tongue that had something quite similar to Japanese Kanji but definitely different. It was faster for her to write this way, more natural, than using standard alphabet.<br><br>Sybella looked at her card that was face down, did the quick math. The queen, face up, and the six, face down, was a rather low score. Getting something below a value of 5 was also statistically unfavorable. The blue-haired woman pondered and then asked. “What happens when people get 21 right from the start? Do other players try to reach 21 too, or does it end the turn with an automatic win?” Not that she had anywhere near 21, but she figured it was a question worth asking, in case it happened.<br></div></div>
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				Title: <strong>Re: [Aurora] Common Living Area</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Oldknight</strong> on <strong>17-03-2013, 01:06:24</strong>
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				<br>Room: game room<br>Tag: sybella<br><br>Carson blinked and thought about it, and then nodded, "Well the odds of you winning that hand are high, you can sit on the hand, and see what the other person does. If the other person does manage to get a 21 then it is a draw and the prize on the table goes onto the next hand. Also though one thing, if a person gets 5 cards and they add up to a number 21 or lower, they win automatically," he explained as he looked over at her with a calm look on his face.<br><br>He pulled up his hand and looked at it quickly a pair of 8's in his hand. He knew the odds of winning with this hand were very low, but the odds of getting something else were very low as well. Yet on his face he smiled and tried to think happy thoughts to convence himself he infact did have a good hand. He looked over at her and put his card that was down, down and smiled, "I don't need any other cards, do you want any, and how about a opening bet, say next time doing dishes, loser does them for the winner?"
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				Title: <strong>Re: [Aurora] Common Living Area</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Cynadea</strong> on <strong>18-03-2013, 20:12:51</strong>
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				<div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="floatleft">(http://i393.photobucket.com/albums/pp12/aysande/Elliqyi/bluehairgirl_zps8ed2904b.png)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Room:</strong> Game room<br><strong>Tag:</strong> Carson<br><hr>Sybella noted some more on her pad, but the rules seemed to be easy enough to remember. “How about you let me get a hang on this game before we bet? Let’s play this one, and you won’t be able to blame beginner’s luck when you’re stuck washing the dishes…” She answered with an amused smile. She wouldn’t be taken advantage of so easily. There was a lot of possibilities here and she decided that she would brave the odds and take another card. “One card” She requested.<br><br>Sybella loved playing cards in general. Only, she wasn’t quite competitive in nature and neither was she the kind to gamble, but right at this moment, it mean spending time with one of the crew whom didn’t make her feel like a freak or like she was just barely above the dirt under the foot of their boot.&nbsp; A three, now that put her at nineteen. Out of twenty one, it was decent, the blue-haired woman thought to herself. It certainly beat the odds of getting a card with a value lower than three.<br></div></div>
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				Title: <strong>Re: [Aurora] Common Living Area</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Oldknight</strong> on <strong>19-03-2013, 01:06:15</strong>
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				&nbsp;<br>Room: game room<br>Tag: sybella<br><br>The blonde looked at her as she made her suggestion and smiled, as he thought about it for a moment, "sounds like a good idea, beginners luck is a dangerous thing, for both the beginner and the non-beginner," he replied with a nod of his head as he heard her request handing her the card. He figured he might as well sit on the hand he had, as he continued to smile warmly at waht was going down. He was having fun, getting to play with a most interesting person such as Sybella, was always a good time in his book.<br><br>Carson looked at his hand and turned it over looking at his hand and then at Sybella's hand, and smiled, "well it was a really good thing that I decided to let this game slide," he said as he rubbed the back of his neck laughing a bit as he knew that he had lost the game, and he knew that it was cause she had taken the risk on the 3 and gotten in. He smiled as he played a few more hands, of good fun, none of them counting, but wanting to help her have fun, learn a game, and spend time with a friend as well. 
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				Title: <strong>Re: [Aurora] Common Living Area</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Cynadea</strong> on <strong>20-03-2013, 08:47:48</strong>
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				<div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="floatleft">(http://i393.photobucket.com/albums/pp12/aysande/Elliqyi/bluehairgirl_zps8ed2904b.png)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Room:</strong> Game room<br><strong>Tag:</strong> Carson<br><hr>Sybella won some, and lost some. Overall, she was having fun. She knew she wouldn’t be gambling her credits away though. There was more to do with her hard earned cash than to waste it away on cards. Chores were a completely different matter though. Finding herself free of some of those pesky chores would make her all the more happy. Sybella took a sip of her tea and tilted her head. She wanted to talk, she tended to be rather talkative all the time, it was no secret. Or if it was one, she had a way to let it out.<br><br>“Any idea what this rogue ship is about? I spent my day in medical supplies over my head, doing an inventory of things so I can keep you guys alive… I didn’t quite pay attention to the comm.” That last was an understatement. She rarely ever paid attention to the comm, but her ear was trained to catch words like “medical emergency” or “someone’s hurt”. Any technical chat between the ship’s AI and the different engineers went way over her head and bored her to sleep. She put her cup back onto the table as she took a look at her cards. She raised a hand with only one finger up, indicating that she needed one more card.</div></div>
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				Post by: <strong>Oldknight</strong> on <strong>21-03-2013, 01:04:12</strong>
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				<br>&nbsp;<br>Room: game room<br>Tag: sybella<br><br><br>Carson enjoyed the games, they were not for money, but games could be very much fun without that. Especially when you had someone fun to play the game with. He noticed Sybella's love of tea, she always was drinking it, he figured it was just something to do with her culture, but he found it to unique and it kind of set her apart from pretty much anyone else he had ever meet in his whole life. He wondered if that was a common thing in her people, or if it was something she would do, to remember the days of her late people. <br><br>"The rogue ship, uses its skills most likely to sneak in and out supplies, they are most likely either pirates or smugglers or both, I figure. You have a ship be like a ghost ship, when you don't want someone to find you when you don't want them to find you, if that makes any sense at all," he said as he kept his eyes on his cards, but decided that a conversation on this was fine. "Think of it this way, if you can choose when and how people see you, and don't see you, it would give you a lot of freedom of movement right, you could go where ever you needed. This ship can do that, and why would it want to do this, is the same reason a person could, to avoid those whom you don't want to find you, anyhow those are just my two cents, I think it might be a old modified ship cause it moves not super fast, but it moves fast enough to be a pain to catch up to."<br><br>He handed over the card keeping a calm looking face on, "well now, do you want to start gambling a bit on this hand, it is okay if you don't want to, I don't mind," he said with a calm tone, he played it calm despite having a 21 with a hidden ace and a king of diamonds. 
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				Title: <strong>Re: [Aurora] Common Living Area</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Cynadea</strong> on <strong>21-03-2013, 20:59:26</strong>
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				<div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="floatleft">(http://i393.photobucket.com/albums/pp12/aysande/Elliqyi/bluehairgirl_zps8ed2904b.png)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Room:</strong> Game room<br><strong>Tag:</strong> Carson<br><hr>“Hmm… so I guess I should stand on alert while the guys are scouting the ship then. I mean, if there’s someone on board, the chances that they surrender right from the start might be… low.” Sybella said, and she bit her lower lip, reacting more to the fact that someone might get hurt than to the number at which her card added up, which was… twenty four. There was just no way she could have win with fifteen, she had to take another card, just got the wrong one.<br><br>“Maybe next one, this turn’s over, no matter what you’ve got. And somehow, I feel you were not going to be on the losing end anyway…” Sybella admitted with a blye eyebrow cocked, and she flipped the five of spade, to her jack of club, having just received the 9 of the same suit. “I think the first offer you’ve made was something along the line of… the loser take the winner’s place the next time they have to do the dishes, right?” Sybella said, grabbing the deck holding out a hand for him to hand over his cards.</div></div>
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				Post by: <strong>Oldknight</strong> on <strong>22-03-2013, 03:26:57</strong>
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				Room:game room<br>Tag:Sybella<br><hr><br>He nodded his head at her statement about being on alert. "Most likely this group has been avoiding getting caught for a darn good while. I am sure they won't go own without a very hard and dangerous fight. He hoped they wouldn't have to deal with lose or troubles but the odds were someone would at least get hurt in the fight to take the rogue ship over. Maybe odds would be on there side but that was just very much unlikely <br><br>His attention which for a second split was then all in his own cards as he heard her and smiled as he showed his hand of 21. "Sounds good this hand we start are little game for choirs and other such stuff," he commented with a smile. He passed out the cards. He had a 8 showing and he gave sybella her own w itch a 9 showing as he looked at her and not at his cards reading her the best he could.
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				Title: <strong>Re: [Aurora] Common Living Area</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Cynadea</strong> on <strong>25-03-2013, 18:27:10</strong>
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				<div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="floatleft">(http://i393.photobucket.com/albums/pp12/aysande/Elliqyi/bluehairgirl_zps8ed2904b.png)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Room:</strong> Game room<br><strong>Tag:</strong> Carson<br><hr>“Maybe I should learn to handle a gun properly. My ways to take a life are a little more subtle than that, I’m afraid. Besides, I’m a medic… it’s not inflicting wounds that I aim to do, but rather heal them.” Sybella said and she shrugged her shoulders, as if to her that was it and there would be no real change to that. She had a certain respect for life, being able to feel both the emotional side of it from sentient beings and to feel the physical side of it no matter the species.<br><br>“I’ll keep tabs.” Sybella pointed at her tablet with her finger and then wrote something on it, it was the current wager.&nbsp; She was glad to have refused the hand. It seemed to her that he was taking advantage, to offer to bet after he saw that he had an instantly winning pair. She looked at her hidden card, trying to remain impassive as she saw the ace underneath. Her mind instantly went to a value of ten and she knew she’d have to risk it to get as close to twenty one as she could, but when she was about to request a card, she remembered that the ace could also have the value of eleven. “I’ll stay put.” She decided.</div></div>
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				Title: <strong>Re: [Aurora] Common Living Area</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Oldknight</strong> on <strong>26-03-2013, 01:25:59</strong>
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				Room:Game Room<br>Tagging: Sybella<br><br>He looked at his hand, a 8 and a 2, he would win or lose most likely on the first card, and knowing she had a 9 and two cards, odds were good she had a good number. He couldn't but help to raise the bet just a bit higher before he would get his next card and see what would go from there, but after a moment decided not to, to wait, and save that for the second game. He picked up a card, as he smiled, "good keep track, that will be the best way to remember how many days of dishes you will have to do for me," he said teasing her with a smile on his lips.<br><br>He picked up the card, and smiled as he got a jack of spades, and put down his cards, "20, do I have you beat," he asked curious as to what she had in her hand, and if he had won the hand or if he had lost the hand, with hsi hand. He looked at her for a moment trying to read her reaction. He couldn't read emotions, but people had ways of expressing themselves, habbits, that once you knew a person, you could pick up a lot on their non-verbal forms of communication without them having to say a word out loud. 
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