The Cereal Box:Log/Session 9

Session 9

Monday, March 23th, 2010

5 AM, Alana, Hesita, Nikolai, April and Ernie managed to stagger out of the Hedge and make their way home. Evie and Sephie skipped work to stay at the Hedge party, one to party and one to care for Billy.

Tuesday, March 24th, 2010

In the wee hours of the morning, the party ended. Two days of perpetual partying complete, Billy prepared to reward his faithful with their own luxury accommodations, but the motley was less than thrilled with the offer and agreed they needed a house near the hospital and the college.

Billy met with Smith and discovered that his options were to either to wait to get cash (not credit, which is readily available, but untraceable physical cash for more than about $500.00 a day) or leverage his marker credit at the Firekeeper's Casino, which he decided was the best approach. Billy said that he could make a deal with the Wyrd to ensure that he would win at the Casino, and that he would just need to "make it a story that the Wyrd wants to hear!"

Billy reunited with his girlfriends Helen, who was turning tricks for drugs in an attempt to recapture the magical experience of Ensorcellment, and Lydia, who had returned to college (and was enthusiastic about the fact that it was not all delusion).

They traveled to the Casino to meet the Autumn and Winter monarchs there. Ernest acquired a pair of shoes that had the power to make him look like he belonged somewhere - barely - and April wasn't carded when Billy explained "she's with me." Each played some table games, with only Nikolai doing poorly (and April inexplicably doing exceptionally). Granny Lovett spoke with Ernest and told him that she had found his father in Oklahoma, but still did not know where his sister was, and believed that she would be able to find her if he could bring her an item that had belonged to his sister.

At midnight, Billy brought them to the high limit craps table where, with one mighty roll of the dice, he threw a hard eight to secure victory for himself and $50,000 walking cash. They cashed out quickly after that, as the motley spotted someone watching them in the high limits room (a nondescript looking man) and a conspiracy of white cats watching them as they left. They found out that the Autumn monarch stayed at the casino by himself for a while before leaving, but that he had gotten safely back into the cereal box. He seemed melancholy, and had been playing penny slots for hours ("I'm up almost $15!").