The rather... unhappy Pax Humanis members, after letting the officially diagnosed lucker depart in peace with their winnings, which was legally gotten since the person didn't KNOW they were a lucker until now and, therefore, had not been breaking any rules, went to find the casino owner and teach them a lesson about judging others the wrong way. And about trying to get innocent people harmed.
@internutter/challenge-03446-i158-lucky-you -- Anon Guest
[AN: That first sentence is too long and if I allowed myself to rewrite it, it would end up not being yours, Nonny. The ideal maximum for concepts per sentence used to be two when I was a kid...]
Yoshioka had stared at the test placard and at the lines as they formed. "I'm a Lucker. Huh. Should I give the money back?"
"Oh, you won it fair and square," Brutus patted hir on the shoulder and nudged Yoshioka just a little further away from the casino. "Just... don't gamble any more and you're good."
"Deadly habit," added Jack. "Ruins a lot of lives." Coming out of a member of Pax Humanis, that statement was gospel.
Yoshioka ran. It was hir lucky day. Possibly even more so.
As for Eniola Khan... Ze was about to get an object lesson in elementary guest testing. Security parted before Jack and Brutus because only an idiot would get in the way of two people from Pax Humanis. They were able to bypass everything that prevented the more normal people from interfering with Mx Khan's leisure time.
Which was rolling in a tub of Year Notes[1], mostly unclothed. Some Deregger habits never die, no matter how bad the papercuts get.
Brutus and Jack each took an arm, and hauled Mx Khan out of hir pleasure tub.
"Hey! What the hell?"
"You almost got an innocent killed," menaced Jack, showing the test placard to Khan.
"We don't like it when people do that," added Brutus.
"We really don't like it when people do it twice," added Jack. "This is your only warning."
"Pax Humanis is watching you." Brutus squeezed some blood through Khan's papercuts and showed hir the stain on one meaty hand. "Try it again, and we take more than you can give."
Khan's casino tested all visitors for the Lucker gene henceforth. For free.
[1] Time is literally money in the Alliance. It must be spent, and cannot easily be hoarded. Once the denominations slide into Hours and Days, the notes are far more convenient than coins.
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