Eevee shadow bacon
Your Choices Don't Matter
Should I advance and head out as a scout?"Alright, I've decided what I'm doing."
"Mirror, Eevee, and fred, feel free to move on. Fred, here's 4 Million 900 thousand dosh, don't worry I still have enough dosh left over for me and somno."
I'm obviously not going to try to win more money. I have enough, the other players have a bunch left over, and its not worth the risk.
first, I sacrifice all my skill ranks in knowledge (rock paper scissors) to bring somno off cooldown, along with a full action.
talking is a free action though, soo....
"Star, do you think the tall guy you want is eliminated a plant by the owners here to keep people from winning?"
after they answer that...
"Alternatively, are you a plant by the "owners" here, especially one who'll roll through the competition and takes the money? the answer is yes if your a plant by the owners, regardless of the kind."
Somno. cut through the lies if they say yes or no. if they start to say "No Comment", cut through the lies on the no. if they remain fully silent, then if they said yes about the tall guy, use cut through the lies on that. if they said no about the tall guy and where silent, use "seen through their eyes" with the following target prioritys. highest priority: "reason for people like JOE to be rightfully suspicious.", with lower priority's being assorted ways to say "reason i'd be considered bad/ reason joe shouldn't team up with me" and if none of those work, do "thing that would convince me another person is trustworthy and I should help them as much as I can without requiring them to reciprocate in the near future if they told me it".
if the results of all this convince me that the mysterious gambler is the plant/ is bad and that star is good and innocent,I inform fred about this development (full transparency yo.), thenotherwise, I turn and ascend the elevator, paying appropriately.cast portable hole, pulling out a bit of powder of truth (forces any who drinks it to tell the truth and they have to answer), put it in a pitcher of heavily food-colored lemonade , walk up to the mysterious gambler and offer him a drink of lemonade. I then trip by accidentally-on-purpose before he can answer, spilling the lemonade on the two of us. the pitcher is plastic, so it didn't break.
the lemonade had a lot of food coloring on it. we'll both be dry soon from the awesome heaters, but all his hidden cards will be clearly fake due to the purple color the normal cards don't have.
he will realise this and likely be very angry. if he trys to attack me, I use subtle telekinesis combined with decent skill at dodging to make him fail each time. I then ask why he's so angry, since it was an accident and hes already dried off. he has no way of answering without admitting to the hidden cards, and he swallowed some of the truth-powder-lemonade (I telekinisized some into his mouth and kept mine firmly shut), so he has to answer that question in a truthful way. I then turn and go, ascending the elevator.
Final note: when you make a bet in rock paper scissors, where does the extra money come from? does it just appear? if so, could I play rock paper scissors with somno, each of us betting 500,000 each match, then sharing the spoils of 1,500,000, rinse and repeat? if this is possible, then I replace all the spoilered actions with betting 8,000,000$ against somno in rock paper scissors and having him bet the same, and repeating that 3 times to increase our total dosh by 24,000,000. because if thats possible, why the [chocolate thing named after an old word for mistake] not?