"You did WHAT?!"

"Mmph mmhm hnnmm."

"Oh.  Right.  You need to breathe to talk."

Wheeze—wheeze—wheeze.

"Now: what did you do, Gourry?"

"I met these three nice guys.  They asked me to play a card game with them."

"For money."

"Um, yeah.  They said it would be more fun that way."

SMACK!

"Oowwww."

"What game did you play?"

"One I'd never played before, po—"

THWACK!

"Then WHY did you play??"

"They asked..."

BONK!

"So??  And just how much did you lose?"

"Fifty gold coins."

BASH!

"But Lina, I had to say I'd play for money or they'd wouldn't teach me to play poker."

"You didn't know how to play POKER??"

"No.  Just Old Maid.  I bet you know how to play tha—"

WHAM!  WHAM!  WHAM!  WHAM!  WHAM!

"Hmph."

".....ouch....."
 

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