Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Team Luck

"Is the name supposed to be ironic?  Do you have any 4's?"
"No, the name is serious.  There's a reason the Kondor's men don't fear death.  It's because they've seen it once before.  In the face of Jack Avery."
"Do you have any 4's, though?"
"Um, no, I don't."
"So we just sit at the table and play games until he shows up?  Doesn't that seem counter-productive to you?"
"Well, most of the entrances are sure death-traps, that's the thing.  He has to go after the West, South-West, or North-East entrance to have a chance."
"Yeah, no, but that's what I mean.  Most of the ways in are heavily-guarded.  But why not have them all heavily-guarded?"
"Look, the Kondor can have this place on lock down if he wanted, but like, what would the challenge be?"
"The challenge?"
"Yeah, like, it challenges Avery to find the right entrance--"
"There're three of them--"
"--and it challenges us by trying to catch him off guard."
"How are we catching him off guard if we're playing fucking Go Fish?"
"Maybe he'll think we're civilians at first glance."
"We're civilians in uniform playing cards in a military facility?  We literally have Kondor emblems on our caps."
"I mean, not everyone is playing cards, you know.  Chuck is reading in the monitor office--"
"WHY?!"
"--and a few other guys are playing poker in the North-East quadrant--"
"WHY IS CHUCK NOT WATCHING THE MONITORS?!"
"Because it's boring!  But that's what I'm talking about, see?!  We act like there's nothing big going on here, Avery steps into the hallway like, 'Hey, you guys seen anything suspicious around here?'  And BAM!  We shoot him with a tranq!"
"Okay, see, there's my other problem.  Why would we shoot him with tranquilizers when he's using an actual gun?"
"He doesn't belong to us.  He's the Kondor's to kill."
"So he just runs around shooting up the faculty while we try to get him to take a nap?"
"He won't always shoot to kill.  Sometimes he like, knocks you out or just caps you in the leg or something."
"...Do they call us Team Luck because we're lucky to be alive?"
"It's because we're lucky to have the opportunity to--"
"Oh fuck it.  Never mind.  It's your turn."
"Do you have any Kings--?"
"It just pisses me off that the guys in North-East are playing poker while I'm stuck with an ignorant bastard that never learned!"
"My parents were never around.  Shit, man, that's kind of why I'm here."
ALERT!  AVERY HAS BROKEN THROUGH!  HE'S IN THE NORTH-EAST QUADRANT!  ALL STAFF ON THE 10 O'CLOCK SHIFT ARE TO RESPOND IMMEDIATELY!  ALL THOSE WHOSE SHIFTS END AT 9:50 ARE APPROVED FOR OVERTIME!  PLEASE SEND ALL REQUESTS TO STAFFING!
"Jesus, he's actually here."
"Well, time for the chase."
"Just happy he didn't try coming in through our access tunnel."
"Yeah well hey, makes you feel pretty lucky, doesn't it?"

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