Tangled Currents - Vexboy, Stormy Waters subthread Options

[adamu]

Tuesday, 19 November, 2075, 1400; University District, Downtown Seattle

Vexboy rolled out of his room with very little to do. He just needed to get out in the air after a seventeen-hour One Piece marathon. it was pouring down rain, so no one much was around in the vicinity of his leaky hovel - the U District was generally pretty nice, the place where society housed its up-and-comers in relative comfort disguised as shoestrong accommodation designed to add a certain romance to the whole thing. But down under the I-5 flyover you could still find a few blocks of moldy apartments that would do Redmond proud. One was Vexboy's.

The hood of his lined jacket covering his head, he hadn't been splashing through puddles long when he noticed lively activity in a nearby alley. There was a gathering of men, a mix of homeless and slumming students, gathered under a spot where an overhang provided modest shelter. There was laughing and cheering and other exclamations, and approaching Vexboy found a slovenly looking dwarf at the center of the group, cash nuyen clenched in one hand, a pair of dice in the other. Mr. Mouse, taking all their money and somehow convincing them they were having fun losing it.

For just a split second the dwarf caught Vexboy's eye, making it clear he was not hanging around this sorry hood for no reason.