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toongoon
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 		I've been trying to play catch-up for the last two days but I assumed (perhaps incorrectly) the Gun was used to kill the Nazi war criminals that got away...The trail map from the last week says that Maurice was "the last person to kill a man with the Gun." This links to Maurice's profile and the first link is the Paraguay/German killing.

Again, I suspect that the gun may be linked to a lot of conveniently unsolved "murders" perhaps.

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Phaedra wrote:
As far as the Gun...he says something about an "old debt." So it looks like it's somehow connected to his old war days with Lucky. I don't think it has supernatural powers. Wink

I am just wondering how we're able to play poker with dead peeps, then.

This gun seems pretty freaking special. Unless the bullet chambers have some GPS coordinates etched inside leading to buried treasure, there's got to be something about it that is beyond the ordinary.

Perhaps Teh Gun is scratch 'n' sniff, and smells like bubblegum when you fire it.

That would rule.
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krystyn wrote:

Perhaps Teh Gun is scratch 'n' sniff, and smells like bubblegum when you fire it.

That would rule.


No, krystyn... YOU rule.

/me refrains from making "krystyn-having-scratch-n-sniff properties" jokes...
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 		wild and not so wild spec
Vic has info stashed about some documentary he was making about Holocaust survivors that incriminates someone

In a final showdown, cigarette guy has a total collapse trying to decide if he should kill Maurice or not.

Spider is the daughter of Jerry (or Lucky.)

Benito Rojas is fish00k . He was setting up Matt to get to Tony's credit card and other scams.
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Rose... um... you rock.
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 		Nothing new here but a summary/variation of other peoples' ideas (particularly CombatEagle earlier in this thread), so blow on past if you want. Apologies for not properly crediting those with the original ideas, but there are too many to dig through:

SPEC:
Week 1 trail is the first 3 pockets in a game of tombstone poker.

The first path is Clay's pocket. He's mentioned more than anyone else. There are 2 tomstones/cards there if you take away the one that covers the 8 characters in the story (nope, don't know for sure what any of the cards are and never wrote dates down for the entries).

The 2nd path is that of wtf616, Matt Viet. The Kid. There's only one card here, but the path appears to go off the page as it crosses the river.

The bottom path is that of Maurice Pikar (The Banker? The Half-Breed?). At this point, there are 2 cards, but only one identified death. I'm guessing our other card in this hand lies with finding out more about who Maurice killed last with the gun (and when he did it). Possibly the sepulchre instead of the tombstone along with the open grave is letting us know we don't have the card yet, but that this is where it belongs when we get it.


Moving forward, perhaps next week's trail will show a path coming in from the east with one marker/card, completing Matt's pocket along with two more independent paths. So, if I'm guessing anywhere near correctly, we should have 2 more weeks of character introduction and development before the real interaction between the archetypes begins. I'm also thinking that the living are going to play out the hand while the dead send us down the path.
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 		Re: wild and not so wild spec
rose wrote:

Spider is the daughter of Jerry (or Lucky.)


Her mother is German, named Lena. Is Ed her real dad or stepdad?
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Omnie wrote:
Rojo is red, and rojas would be the plural feminine version.


I plead ignorance via high school French (not Spanish) and a faulty BabelFish translation! Embarassed Although I guess not completely off base...

konamouse wrote:
Is Ed her real dad or stepdad?


My guess is stepdad, just based on the way she talks about him - calling him Ed - plus the bit about her mother (probably) not wanting to share Ed with anyone - extra creepy if he's her biodad!

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 		Spec:

The name FishH00ks is poker slang for pocket jacks
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 		[WILD SPEC] Why is all of this happening?
What the heck is up with this poker site where all of the players are dead people? Why did Lucky set this up to happen after his death? What about that monster poker game he played after World War II? How much money did he really "win big" in that game? Or was it really money?

Be ye forewarned, as shown in the title this is some seriously wild speculation that I in no way expect to pan out:

Lucky was a young man when he went to war and his soul was fairly untarnished. He fought valiantly during the conflict and was much heralded for his assistance in liberating the concentration camp called Buchenwald. That liberation also begat a dark secret for Lucky, however. And unfortunately, Lucky wasn't slated to make it out of WWII alive. Shortly before he was to ship home, he was clipped by a bullet and expired.

After he died, Lucky found himself neither welcoming amaranthine bliss in Heaven nor facing endless torment in Hell. Instead, he arrived in Purgatory, his soul holding a perfectly equal balance of virtue versus sin. Purgatory was exceedingly lame, with every single bit of it, including the avatars, rendered solely in grayscale. It was all curves and no sharp edges, and the only music that played was easy listening and slow jazz. Lucky had no idea what any of this stuff was but he knew it was boring as shit. Plus, to top it all off, even though there was no rule against people "doing it," no one seemed to have more than an intellectual interest in "it" anymore, not even Lucky.

Lucky knew he shouldn't have been sent here, he should have been in a better place than this. After all, didn't he fight for his country against icky nasty evil over in Europe? Didn't he help liberate Buchenwald? Well, sure, there was that sad matter of he and his fellow liberators taking matters into their own hands when they found some of the Nazi officers that had run that camp, had their own little instant trial, and found those bastards guilty. Maybe they shouldn't have appointed themselves executioners too, and shouldn't have hung those curs from the trees by their wrists to give them a taste of their own medicine, or later left them to suffocate in the cellars under the camp ovens, hanging by their necks from meathooks in the walls, as those very same Nazis had left so many innocents before. Yeah, that was bad, but it was for a good cause, right? Lucky was pretty sure there was no saying that those guys weren't evil, or that they hadn't deserved what they got. Well, he'd been pretty sure anyway until he found himself here.

Unlike most of the inhabitants of this monotonous place, Lucky had no discernable way to correct the balance of his soul. Some might be able to coax a finish to some earthly task by still-living brethren or kin, in order to win or lose their way out of Purgatory in one direction or another, but Lucky's only unfinished business had been due to his life being cut short a bit prematurely. So, rather than face an eternity of boredom, he challenged Death, the keeper of this place, to a game of poker. If he won, wagered Lucky, he'd be returned to Earth to live a full and natural lifespan, given the means to never want for anything during that lifetime, and in so living he would inevitably decide his soul's fate one way or another. With a twinkle in his eye, Death accepted the bet.

Lucky and Death anted up, and the weary denizens of the place gathered round, and the two of them played hand after hand, stacks of chips growing and shrinking, migrating across the table and back. Finally, at long last, Lucky won the deciding round and Death acknowledged his just defeat at the hands of a superior player. Lucky would be returned to his body in the same instant as he had left it, as if he had never died, and have his chance at redemption.

But of course there was a catch, as there generally is in these matters, and Death was not at all hesitant to snicker a bit as he revealed it to Lucky. To be sure, everything Lucky had demanded he would get, but at the end of his second life, he would not immediately earn a ticket to his final destination. Because when Lucky had challenged and defeated Death, he hadn't just been playing for his own life; according to the rules of this place, Death's had also been on the line. No, after Lucky passed away a second time, he would not step into Heaven or Hell, but into Death's shoes, to become the new, enduring ruler of Purgatory unless Lucky, too, were defeated in some future challenge.

When would that be? Lucky wondered, and was somewhat disappointed to find his reign could well last the very same eternity from which he'd thought he'd just freed himself. Then, just to be a dick, Death told Lucky when, where, and how he was going to die again, too. Ha ha! said Death, and, Neener neener!

Well Lucky was a gambler through and through, and he wasn't going to take this blatant trickery lying down. He spent his whole second life playing his cards conservatively, stacking the deck in his favor, and setting up his final hand with great care. He knew you couldn't play straight with a cheater and he was bound to see that he wasn't completely screwed forever by this calamitous turn of events.

Everything was in place by the time Lucky died again. Upon his arrival in Purgatory he was whisked immediately to his coronation, the former Death bid him adieu and disappeared in a sulphurous cloud, and Lucky ascended his new throne. Holy crap, this place sucks, he thought.

Lucky used his new Deathly powers to monitor Midgard, and when he saw his testamentary online poker site up and running, he was overjoyed. So much so, that he infiltrated the server and started mucking about on it before it was ready to go public, thus bewildering the tech admins who'd been running and testing it. This site would be Lucky's ticket out, oh yes.

He imbued the site with a bit of his power and it became a supernatural place. Some of the unceasing inhabitants of Purgatory began to drift over and populate it because, hey, free poker. Some of them noticed while they were there that their opponents didn't seem to hang out in Purgatory at all, but they really didn't pay it much mind because in Purgatory it was really hard to concentrate much. That was Lucky's new little secret, though: in setting up this place and bringing to it a bit of his ol' black magic, Lucky had created a supernatural bridge between Purgatory and Earth, and those earthlings were trickling in as well because, hey, free poker.

This then was Lucky's final play, a mysterious website that would be both a conduit through which he could continue to right any earthly wrongs he had left behind and a method for soliciting another challenge in order to speed along the termination of his own tenure as the Keeper of the Afterlife. So be careful when you play The Dealer, for the stakes may be higher than you think. Take care as well when you play with his friends, as they may have anted their very souls.

Spoooky, eh? BOO! Razz
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Great story whether or not it has anything at all to do with LCP!
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Phaedra wrote:
He's not non-practicing anymore.


You are correct. I'd meant he was non-practicing during WW2. Later on it's said he came late to observance, or something like that...

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 		Wow, great story spec SpaceBass. If they never go into more detail about Lucky, I for one will accept that as canon.

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 		very cool story Razz time to go do some research...
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